by sacolton 6 Replies latest watchtower bible
Did the Watchtower claim that the scripture at Luke 21:24 had been fulfilled?
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
1914 ... what a year! Not only was it the End of the World, Christ's invisible presence to His Heavenly throne, but it was also the End of the Gentile Times?
Yes Sacolton...originally it was prophecied that in that year everything would be completed. When it failed they simply said it had been accomplished...invisibly....
Yep, Gentile Times ended, according to them. But then God supposedly organized a group of people on Earth to proclaim that the Kingdom had been established in heaven.
They also split the scripture in two and say the first line was a 1st century fulfilment, whereas the second line was fulfilled in 1914
Paul
You got to admit it though it was darn good marketing in support of their literature.
One of their most focused marketing tools, it was a plagiarism from the Adventists just further commercialized .
The already established bible believers ate it up.
The ingenuity of Russell to pull this off is apparent, but then again he was a professionally trained salesman at heart and did in fact
surround himself with other businessmen and lawyers.
You might look at it as a self constructed Kingdom of his own devise.
The date of the close of that 'battle' is definitely marked in Scripture as October, 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874. Zion's Watch Tower, 15 January 1892, page 1355
We see no reason for changing the figures--nor could we change them if we would. They are, we believe, God's dates, not ours. But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble.
Zion's Watch Tower, 15 July 1894, page 1677
There are more quotations out there, as to what they were saying prior to 1914.
Paul
In this chapter we will present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the Gentiles, i.e., the full end of their lease of dominion, will be reached in A.D. 1914; and that date will be the farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men…
Firstly, That at that date the Kingdom of God, for which our Lord taught us to pray, saying, "Thy Kingdom come," will obtain full, universal control, and that it will then be "set up," or firmly established, in the earth, on the ruins of present institutions.
Secondly, It will prove that he whose right it is thus to take the domination will then be present as earth’s new Ruler…
Thirdly, It will prove that some time before the end of A.D. 1914 the last member of the divinely recognized Church of Christ, the "royal priesthood," "the body of Christ," will be glorified with the Head…
Fourthly, It will prove that from that time forward Jerusalem shall no longer be trodden down by the Gentiles…
Fifthly, it will prove that by that date, or sooner, Israel’s blindness will begin to be turned away…
Sixthly, It will prove that the great "time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation," will reach its culmination in a world-wide reign of anarchy…
Seventhly, It will prove that before that date [italics in original] God’s Kingdom, organized in power, will be in the earth and then smite and crush the Gentile image (Dan. 2:34) - and fully consume the power of these kings.
Fairly clear cut to me.
Paul
