wasn't studying the revelation book "wonderful" (page 2)

Dagney

1st time = kinda interesting...pictures kinda cool...like the giant pearly gates...

2nd time = WTF??

3rd time =

Thankfully, out for the 4th.

"The Revelation Climax book turns 20-years-old this year."

Oh my goodness! You just reminded me how old I am getting by making that statement, and how now-so-very-long-ago I was in WT-Land... we did that book the 1st time around 1988-1989 (did the WT really make the dubs "study" it FOUR times? Horrors!)

It was such a mind-bender... this means that, that means this. organization, organization, organization seemed to be on every other line... it was the FIRST WT book, after 11 years in, that actually made my guts hurt, even tho I liked "prophecy" always, but there was something about it, as if they were FORCING the interpretations... it just didn't sit right... their explanations just didn't "jive"... and I began "drifting"... and feeling guilty/"disloyal" (which had never happened up to that point), and dared not tell a soul that the word "organization" was getting under my skin big time.

It would be over a decade later before I would learn the phrase "cognitive dissonance" right here at JWD...

Seeker4

abbagail,

Yes! That section where the bowls poured out by the angels or whatever being equated to the resolutions from the conventions in the 1920s or 30s was as pathetic as anything the WTS ever tried to dream up. Not even the JWs themselves took any note of those resolutions!!

S4

dawg

I've read that "Climax" book, I never climaxed! Freaking ripoff!

undercover

That section where the bowls poured out by the angels or whatever being equated to the resolutions from the conventions in the 1920s or 30s was as pathetic as anything the WTS ever tried to dream up. Not even the JWs themselves took any note of those resolutions!!

I know I never paid any attention...

It wasn't until I was out that I actually paid any attention to that chapter. The hubris of the WTS to actually print that is amazing...

Jeremy C

L. Ron Hubbard could not have produced a more delusional piece of religious fiction. The Revelation Climax book wooed the Witnesses with its seeming esoteric revelations and exposition on the mysteries of John’s visions. It’s quite an epoch tale of angelic messengers, wild beasts, lightening, scrolls, trumpet blasts, and new light - all with the Watchtower organization at the center of the great narrative.

All in all the book is nothing more than a collection of typical Fred Franz nonsense that will have to be shelved and put out of print within a matter of time. New geo-polictical developments and the passage of more time will require this light to be replaced by new light ( a flimsy paperback no doubt ). The only thing that this kind of material accomplishes within the organization is to add some excitement to an otherwise dull and uninspiring JW life.

rebel8

One of the best things that ever happened to me was to study that book. It is really eye-opening and holds no craziness back. It made me start on the right path.

rebel8

Instead of that strange tree drawing (linked in OP), maybe they should have used something that would be easier to remember, like singing "seven swords a-swinging" to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas. (swords? i don't remember any of the prophecies)

abbagail

WATCHTOWER MEETS L. RON HUBBARD...

LOL.

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abbagail,
Yes! That section where the bowls poured out by the angels or whatever being equated to the resolutions from the conventions in the 1920s or 30s was as pathetic as anything the WTS ever tried to dream up. Not even the JWs themselves took any note of those resolutions!!
S4
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HAHAHA! Ya'll's memories are so much better than mine... been away too long. I so forgot about the bowls = 1920s Resolutions. What a joke. I hate to tell WT but the book of Revelation is yet FORWARD in TIME, NOT BACKWARD.

wha happened?

Looking back now to the pouring out of the bowls is quite fanciful. The Bible describes a momentous event and the WT attempts to equate it to a meeting with a bunch of loons sweltering in the sun.

There were so many updates that I could not believe they were dusting it off for a 4th run. I was so glad not to be in anymore for that study

wasn't studying the revelation book "wonderful"

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