At the convention, a brother gave the following exerpt within the talk "Do Not Follow - after false stories"
MP3 here... http://www.savefile.com/files/914842
Sensational tales or experiences received via e-mail could be "false stories".
So when you receive an e-mail, you know where it comes from because it tells you does't it... it's printed out on the piece of paper.
... but if you are sent and experience or a doubtful story, can you find out what the origin is of that account or that experience?
Or do you know whether is actions are exaggerated or whether it's distorted and is it even be possible to confirm it's accuracy.
Well, that sister, she might be here today said to me on the ministry... "errr.... is it true that the Governing Body has said that the work is finished?"
...mumbled...
Not likely that they've said that, but on making enquiries, it seems that one of the Brooklyn staff has been giving a talk which has been about THE FACT THAT OUR WORK HAS BEEN SUCESSFULLY PREACHED IN MOST COUNTRIES.
That's a lot different to "The work has been completed", you see a change of wording can give the ..i... wrong idea.
But we here all KNOW the talk that he was referring to, It is the talk from the 2006 -2007 Special Assembly Day given by James Rayford re Matthew 24:14 !
In which brother Rayford said...
I’m going to put these notes down here for a minute and just say something to you.
I’d like for you to listen to this very carefully…
For those of us at Bethel we have the privilege of working with the faithful and discreet slave - the governing body - and I would like for you to know how the governing body - the faithful slave - feels about the way things are right now in this system of things, the time period in which you are living.
The faithful slave feels that that have fulfilled Matthew 24:14. This good news has been preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness.
What does the next part of that text say, after?
(a couple of people mutter in the audience)
Yes. The end will come.
Do you know that there are only three countries in the entire world where there are no Witnesses today?
Only three countries. They are Somalia, North Korea, and Afghanistan. That doesn’t mean that the literature is not in those countries, there’s no Witnesses there.
And I mentioned this yesterday to some of the friends, and they wanted to know why, and I will tell you why.
Jehovah does not send his people to any environment where they will be killed.
That’s why there’s no Witnesses there. Those two (sic) countries bear community responsibility. But the good news of the kingdom has been preached.
Matthew 24. Luke 21. Mark 13. Revelation 6. Those scriptures are having their fulfillment. They’re being fulfilled.
So where are you in the stream of bible prophecy?
What is the next prophecy to be fulfilled - the next one?
Do you know?
(silence)
I’m going to read it to you. Turn to Revelation. Revelation 17. Verses 15 through 17.
And he says to me, the waters you saw where the Harlot is sitting means people and crowds and nations and tongues. The ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked and will eat up her fleshly parts and will completely burn her with fire, for God put it into their hearts to carry out His thoughts - or His thought, even to carry out their one thought - by giving their kingdom to the wild beast until the words of God will have been accomplished.
The words of God will have been accomplished.
The anointed - the faithful slave - is waiting for God with this one thought in their hearts.
That’s the next bible prophecy to be fulfilled. For those who know what that means, that triggers the Great Tribulation.
Once that starts, all of you will be locked into where you are now.
Whatever you’ve done, you’ve done. There won’t be any more “well, you know I could have, I thought of, that I might do this, if I had the time.”
This is the time.
What will you going to, what will you do about the time in which you, we, are living?
Be at it urge..urgently. Be quick about it.
The time left is reduced.
The audio for that talk can be found on this thread... http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/127219/1.ashx
The above transcript from the Matthew 24:14 talk came from... http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/tag/James-Rayford
So... is just me, or is the contrast astouding ??? Not only does Brother Rayford state several times that scripture has been (past tense) fulfilled, but he blatantly states that the GB are "waiting".