by digdeeper 23 Replies latest watchtower bible
Hello,
I am looking for a Watchtower study article from early in 2009. In one of the study articles there was inserted a small information box in which was admisssion that all of Matthew 24 was fulfilled in the 1st century...although they did continue with the unscriptural claims of waiting on a greater fullfillment. Anyway does anyone remember the article I speak of or more importantly where I can find a scanned copy of the article?
Thnaks
Searching the WTCD article scope for Matthew 24 fulfilled produces nothing.
Looked though my scans from Jan to April & no box resembled this.
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Chris
digdeeper, The Watchtower January 15, 1970 page 43 states
"All of Matthew chapter 24 was fullfilled in 70 C.E."
digdeeper, The Watchtower January 15, 1970 page 43 states
"All of Matthew chapter 24 was fullfilled in 70 C.E."
Link or scan would be cool.
*** w70 1/15 p. 50 par. 4 Peace with God amid the “Great Tribulation” ***
Moreover, there are features of Jesus’ prophecy that run from after his description of Jerusalem’s “great tribulation” down to his parable of the sheep and goats, and these features were not fulfilled at Jerusalem’s destruction in 70 C.E.
I don't know how to scan, but maybe Blondie will see this post and she can do it.
digdeeper, The Watchtower January 15, 1970 page 43 states
"All of Matthew chapter 24 was fullfilled in 70 C.E."
What paragraph? I'm not seeing it on the 2010 cd-rom
Jesus said at Matthew 24 verse 15-21 "when you catch sight of the disgusting thing......keep praying....for
then there will be a great tribulation such as NOT OCCURED NOR WILL OCCUR AGAIN."
So Jesus said there will not be a greater tribulation than the one at Jerusalem. The Watchtower says there will be.
I believe Jesus, not what the Watchtower says.
digdeeper,look on page 45 at the end of paragraph 17 and end of paragraph 18.
*** w70 1/15 p. 45 pars. 17-18 The Coming “Great Tribulation” Foreshadowed ***
17 However, these things were not to be the instantaneous forerunners of the destruction of the “city of the great King,” Jerusalem. After foretelling those things, Jesus added: “All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.” (Matt. 24:8) As far as they had a connection with Jerusalem, they were a beginning of distress pangs for her and the province of Judea. But they did not mean the immediate end of the holy city and the desolation of Judea. But the fact that those things were at least the beginning of distress pangs for Jerusalem should have been enough to stir the Christians to greater activity, instead of relaxing and taking it easy because “the end is not yet.” (Matt. 24:6; 5:35) There was an extensive work to do, and this required great effort and persistence in spite of religious persecution. So, in verses 9-13 Jesus went on to warn his apostles of the coming persecution by Jews and Gentiles and of the increase of lawlessness and of the need of Christian endurance, and then he added: “And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.”—Matt. 24:14.
18 Several weeks later, after his resurrection from the dead and before his ascension to heaven, Jesus commanded his disciples: “Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19, 20) Some days later, after the next festival of Pentecost, the faithful disciples proceeded to do this. What was the result? By about the year 60 or 61 C.E., when the apostle Paul was a prisoner in Rome, he could write to the Christian congregation in Colossae, Asia Minor, and say of their hope: “The hope of that good news which you heard, and which was preached in all creation that is under heaven.” (Col. 1:23) At that time Paul was wanting to carry the good news of God’s kingdom into Spain, as a pioneer evangelizer. (Rom. 15:23, 24) Such a preaching of God’s kingdom in the inhabited earth had already been given by ten years before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. The “end” could not come before this was accomplished.—Matt. 24:14.
