So, I'm downtown quite early the other morning while still dark and I see a man holding an Awake. So, I pull over and wave him over. After a few words of cordiality, I ask him why Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus returned invisibly in 1914 when Jesus himself said this:in Matthew 24:
25 "Behold, I have told you in advance. 26 "So if they say to you, `Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, `Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them. 27 "For R895 just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming R896 of the Son R897 of Man be.
He responded by telling me that I didn't know enough about Daniel's prophecy and that I was only wanting to argue and that he didn't want to do that. I assured him that I did not want to argue but just wanted to know how he could justify his teaching in light of the Master's own words who was surely greater than Daniel. He rambled a bit, but in the midst of the ramble he he said in a low tone that I was lying. I confronted him and asked him directly if he was calling me a liar? He said sheepishly, "Well, yeah"
I told him I was shocked at someone calling me a liar for asking a simple question. He knocked on my car in a friendly sort of way and said that he had to go.
As I drove away, I just couldn't get over the fact that it took the man only a few seconds to call me a liar. But, then again my own dying JW mother will not see my two children who are under 2 before she dies.