awhile back there was a reference to the older wt's abt league of nations please to help
league of nations
by buffalosrfree 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Gopher
Buffalos, was there a particular quote or idea that you were looking for?
In the meantime, here's one I found: http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm
In the May 1, 1999 Watchtower -- a study article titled "Let the Reader Use Discernment" quoted the 12/15/1929 issue of the magazine and what it said about the League of Nations:
8 Demonstrating the confidence of Jehovah’s servants that this prophecy would be fulfilled, The Watchtower of January 1, 1921, focused on it in connection with developments in the Middle East. Subsequently, in its December 15, 1929, issue, on page 374, The Watchtower definitively said: “The whole tendency of the League of Nations is to turn the people away from God and from Christ, and it is therefore a desolating thing, the product of Satan, and an abomination in the sight of God.” So in 1919 “the disgusting thing” appeared. In time, the League gave way to the United Nations. Jehovah’s Witnesses have long exposed these human peace organizations as disgusting in God’s sight.
13….This beast is supported by world rulers. Details supplied in the prophecy help us to identify this symbolic beast as a peace organization that came into existence in 1919 as the League of Nations (a “disgusting thing”) and that is now the United Nations. Revelation 17:16, 17 shows that God will yet put it into the hearts of certain human rulers who are prominent in this “beast” to desolate the world empire of false religion. That attack marks the outbreak of the great tribulation.
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buffalosrfree
what I believe i was referring to was the wt of feb 15 1919 pg 51
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Gopher
Here's all I could find for that article:
http://www.reachouttrust.org/articles/jw/jwrevhis.htm
Proclaimers, page 708 slams the churches for their attitude to the League of Nations, forgetting what it once said:
We cannot but admire the high principles embodied in the League of Nations... Truly this is idealistic, and approximates in a small way that which God has foretold that he will bring about after this great time of trouble. - The Watchtower, 15 February 1919, p. 51.
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Atlantis
(Credit goes to buffalosrfree) Watch Tower-1919-February-15th-p.51 (See par.2) "We cannot but admire the high principles embodied in the proposed League of Nations, formulated undoubtedly by those who have no knowledge of the great plan of God."
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chasson
If you want to examine precisely the path to the League of nation= bad in 1919, go here:
http://www.tj-encyclopedie.org/ONU#La_g.C3.A9n.C3.A8se:_La_Soci.C3.A9t.C3.A9_des_Nations
The text is in french but the Watchtower references are in english so you can understand the slowly move to the critic of the league by rutherford.
Bye
Charles