by isnrblog 5 Replies latest jw friends
I was always taught the following:
Watchtower, 7/1/69 pg395:
“People who were only just old enough to understand what was happening to the world in 1914 are now approaching seventy years of age. Yes, the numbers of that generation are dwindling fast, but before they all pass away this system must meet its end in the war of Armageddon.”
I now understand this is not the case. There is "new light".
Can someone elaborate?
Fred www.isnrblog.com
Hi there,
See Changes to the Generation Teaching
Oh, and they've just modified it again: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
In a nutshell, the new understanding is that the anointed of today are / is the generation that will not pass away before all these things occur.
How many lights are going to go off before they change this new understanding.
The 1914 date is very hard for them to remove even though it has no foundation in scripture.
Recently they printed that the anointed have no special knowledge, no more than the great crowd has. Now they have new special knowledge, which is it, they do or they don't?
Blueblades
1914 used to have PIVOTAL importance to the teaching on the WT.
The generation that was not only ALIVE, but CONSCIOUS of what was really happening (the Kingdom being established in the invisible heavens),
was THE GENERATION that would NOT have died out before the END arrived.
Due to the NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS in this thinking, 1914 now has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GENERATION TEACHING.
Quite a reversal of CENTRAL DOCTRINE!!
Changes to this teaching began in 1995. More changes just lately.
Brant
It will not surprise me when 1914 is totally out the window as an important JW date.....They used to have 1874 as a very important date too...saying THAT was when Jesus came invisibly. If they changed it once...they can change it again............oompa
Like Carey Barber himself even admitted at morning worship one time when I was there at HQ, if there's one thing permanent about this organization, it's change. He was right about that....especially changes to central doctrines.
