A friend of mine said an elder in his congregation who attended gave a part on the service meeting lastnight about the upcoming campaign and one of the things he said was during one of the GB talks at the annual meeting I think he said it was Morris stated that "the governing body is CERTAIN that Jehovah's day is getting near" anyone go to that meeting or also heard this? can they verify? His reasoning for his part was no wonder the year text is Zepheniah 1:14 and we are presenting this tract "False Religion's End is at Hand"
Annual Meeting Quote
by XBEHERE 18 Replies latest jw friends
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95stormfront
"the governing body is CERTAIN that Jehovah's day is getting near"
Again !!!!!!!
Damn.......
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luna2
Aah, well if they're certain...
Its a bit like the 1914 thing isn't it? One of these years something will happen (a war, a larger energy crisis, a meteor hitting the earth) and, especially since they aren't year-specific any more, they will claim credit for being omniscient....even if it isn't exactly the end of the world.
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troubled mind
Their definition of near is a little different then any one else's .
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Moomin
Their definition of near is a little different then any one else's .
Just like their definition of most things
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sir82
Umm, wasn't Rutherford certain that the resurrection of the "ancient worthies" would begin in 1925? Wasn't Fred Franz certain that Armageddon would come within a few months ("certainly not many years") of 1975? Weren't they certain that the generation who were old enough to have seen & understood the events of 1914 would never ever die before Armageddon came?
Pardon me while I
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fullofdoubtnow
the governing body is CERTAIN that Jehovah's day is getting near"
Haven't we heard all this before?
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blondie
Umm, wasn't Rutherford certain that the resurrection of the "ancient worthies" would begin in 1925? Wasn't Fred Franz certain that Armageddon would come within a few months ("certainly not many years") of 1975? Weren't they certain that the generation who were old enough to have seen & understood the events of 1914 would never ever die before Armageddon came?
Pardon me while I
Pardon me while I Isn't it amazing how the ones who lived through it re-write history? I didn't know much about 1925 until the Proclaimers book....or Beth Sarim and the princes. It makes the accounts of the early 1950's conventions and the "update" more clear. Blondie
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What-A-Coincidence
can they verify?
That seems to be the gist of what an attendee told me.
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OnTheWayOut
"the governing body is CERTAIN that Jehovah's day is getting near"
NEAR- as in "close in proximity and time, imminent." That's what they want us to believe.
Later, when pressed as to why it did not happen yet, NEAR will mean "closer than it was before,
relative from Jehovah's viewpoint. Isn't 130 years a small percentage of Jehovah's DAY?"One of my favorite lines to work into any comment is "the end is right around the corner."
That's because my JW mother will say that until she dies. (She's retired now).
Another one I say is "I fell for this crap."