History channel show on antichrist uses witness dating techniques!

by mkr32208 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  mkr32208

  I flipped to this show on history while I was doing my homework. It was on in the background I was half listening to it then at one point they started talking about dates and end times prophecy. They said that the israelites were released from bondage in 539 and using the dates in Daniel we come up to some date in the early 40's. Experts agree that nothing happened on those dates...

  Did anyone see this or get the exact info? I only half heard it and by the time I got around it was already past that point.
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  5go

  I am quite suprised a lot of Christian aren't backing 607. A lot of you forget Daniel's prophecy of the coming messiah that Christians use to point to Jesus being that messiah is screwed up as well with out it.

  Dubs weren't the only to come up with 1914 as a year for the end. Though, all of them were equaly wrong.
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  Nathan Natas

  I never cease to be amazed at the low-quality bilge presented on such apparently prestige media outlets as The History Channel and others that mislead their audiences into assuming that the fantasies they present are authoritative and accurate. They are NOT.

  It would be interesting for you to get the precise name of the "presentation" you had on (by the way, you get extra credit for using it as background noise and NOT paying rapt attention to it). I'll bet the producers of the show was not any scientific or historical research organization, but some dogma-monger.

  In my opinion, this program sounds like it belongs in the same dumpster as flying saucer exposés, Loch Ness Monster research, Ancient Astronaut baloney and investigations of hauntings -- they are fantastical entertainment that too many people accept on face value as representing some aspect of reality. I know, I have the Jersey Devil chained to the wall of my basement laboratory, and he confessed.
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  tula

  Boy howdy! You sure had me fooled!

  When you said "witness dating techniques", I thought this was going to be a thread about courting.

  I was wondering if JWs had unique pick up lines....

  or strict and formal rules about chaperones ...

  I was expecting to hear about some bizarre maneuvers. I am disappointed.
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  Gopher

  They said that the israelites were released from bondage in 539 and using the dates in Daniel we come up to some date in the early 40's. Experts agree that nothing happened on those dates...

  Something DID happen in 539 -- the Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great. I don't think there's any disagreement on that . And so Cyrus did let the exiled Jews go free.

  As far as some prophetic date in the early 40's -- you mean the 1940's? Nothing specific happened then. However, some believe the establishment of the modern nation of Israel in 1948 somehow fulfilled Bible prophecy.
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  B_Deserter

  The Daniel eschatology didn't start with the witnesses. Russell picked it up from the early 7th-day Adventists and it even took him a couple tries to come up with 1914.
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  B_Deserter

  I feel the same way about the History channel. They have a new Nostradamus program coming on and it just makes me want to puke. The whole premise of his predictions defy logic and no real scientist takes it seriously. Of course, you have to remember that the History Channel is just like any other TV station and is about one thing: ratings. The reason they show these mind-numbing programs is because they'll attract larger audiences. Unfortunately most of the people in this audience don't realize that the debate has already been settled on Nostradamus, the Loch Ness monster, and Bigfoot. They're going to watch these programs and still think these matters are still up in the air. They're not.
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  JeffT

  I like watchting the History channel for two reasons: to see if they have film I haven't seen before, and to pick apart all the mistakes they make. The 539 date is well established, and actually doesn't mean much to JW's except to count backwards to 607. The year for a day intrepretations run back to the middle ages and have yielded a large number of dates for various things, all of them wrong.
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  5go

  In my opinion, this program sounds like it belongs in the same dumpster as flying saucer exposés, Loch Ness Monster research, Ancient Astronaut baloney and investigations of hauntings -- they are fantastical entertainment that too many people accept on face value as representing some aspect of reality. I know, I have the Jersey Devil chained to the wall of my basement laboratory, and he confessed.

  I saw it and I agree it only interviewed Christian or Jewish clergy for the most part with barely a mention of the secular world's view of anything.
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  5go

  The only shows on the history Channel I even watch anymore are modern marvels and ice road truckers.