Revelation - It's Grand Climax Adjusted

by Jeffro 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  logic

  The good ol watchtower society, they speculate, speculate and speculate and then call it the truth.
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  Jeffro

  'scholar':

  The changes that you have listed are minor or technical in nature serving the need for clarity and accuracy so that we can be so ever grateful for the pure biblical research of the celebrated WT scholars.

  Are you still alive? How's that list of Neo-Babylonian kings coming along then? And your proof that the Jews could not have returned to Jerusalem in 538BC? Still waiting.
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  Jeffro

  Or to put it another way...

  Protecting organisation from liability:

  • removed almost all references to “Watchtower Society” and “President of the Watchtower Society”
  • changed references to cited publications “published by Watchtower Society” to “Jehovah's Witnesses” (or “Bible Students” pre-1931)
  • retains 1 reference to NH Knorr as WTS president, and *adds* “of Watch Tower Society” to related footnote (removes all other references to “Watchtower Society” or “President”)

  UN references:

• changed “It [successor to League of nations=UN] expelled nations” to “League of Nations”

Modernisation:

• footnotes citing Watchtower and Awake refer to newer articles
• footnotes about 1914 replace Kingdom Come with Bible Teach
• footnotes about Daniel replace Your Will with Daniel's Prophecy
• various statistics updated
• changed “20th century” to “our day” or similar

Pointless edits:

• uncapitalised “serpent” (Satan) (but becomes capitalised in chapter 27, 28 and 40)
• capitalised “Witnesses”
• changed “Judea” to “Judaea”
• removed reference to Jeremiah 17:5

Changes in doctrine:

• Moving fulfilments to a future time:
• changed “goatlike group described by Isaiah” to “those”
• changed “goatlike people” to “opponents”
• removed “nations and people being judged”
• removed “Satan is now maneuvering nations towards saying "Peace and Security"”
• changed “there will be a significant cry of "Peace and Security" before sudden destruction” to ‘the prophecy will not be understood until after it happens’
• Moving fulfilments to an earlier time:
• changed “river flows after the destruction of Satan’s world” to “river flows during the time of the end, and thereafter”
• Scriptural application to current events:
• removed most references to Luke 21:24-26
• removed most references to Matthew 25:31-33
• Roles of Jehovah or Jesus:
• changed “the Lamb will wipe out every tear” to “Jehovah”
• Attitude toward judgement:
• removed “justice tempered with mercy”
• Altered chronology
• changed placement of ‘42 months’ from “October 1914 into 1918” to “December 1914 to June 1918”
• changed “outbreak of first world war” to “December 1914”
• Change to bible translation:
• changed punctuation of quoted Revelation 9:1-3 to include “And the smoke from her goes on ascending forever and ever” as part of the spoken statement following “Hallelujah”.
• Anointed alive in great tribulation?:
• changed “No doubt, anointed who survive will soon enter heaven” to “If any anointed survive…”
• added “if any of the anointed are still alive”
• Changes in symbolism:
• changed “trees may picture 144,000” to “include”

Revisionist history:

• changed number of errors identified in 1919 regarding 1918 trial
• changed “10000 imprisoned in Nazi camps” to “12000”
• inserted “change of government policy on non-Catholic religions”
• changed “in the 1870s” to “by”

Removing exaggerations:

• changed “hundreds executed” to “200”
• changed “many early missionaries” to “some”
• changed “world has been rocked and shaken by JW warnings” to “put on notice”
• changed “thousands died” to “2000”
• changed ‘Pope made no mention of Christ” to ‘very little attention’
• changed “more than 5000 solidiers were killed” to “as many as 5000 people”

Ambiguity:

• inserted “judgment evidently began in 1918”
• inserted "anointed might still be remaining"

Bizarre edits:

• changed “modern astronauts” to “human”

Altered scaremongering:

• changed ‘threat’ from “nuclear holocaust” to “terrorism”
• changed “accidental nuclear war mathematically certain in next 25 years” to “possible”
• removed “diabolical nuclear age”

Changes that previously contradicted their own doctrines:

• changed “in 539BC” to “after”