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WATCHTOWER'S MANY FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT "THE GENERATION OF 1914"http://www.jwstudies.com/2010_change_to_generations.pdf
2014 - ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY
As we near 2014 expect to hear more and more about 2014. Many Jehovah's Witnesses quit after 1975 did not turn out to be the year when Armageddon hit earth bringing in paradise. Similarly more will be quitting as we approach 2014 and then go past it.
Watchtower has already stopped printing its own 1914 prophecy on the inside cover of every Watchtower magazine as used to be done. That prophecy is namely that those people who lived in the generation that had their lifetime in 1914 would see Armageddon followed by paradise on earth.
Watchtower has now begun saying that, instead, the generation that lived in 1914 did not see The End but rather saw "the beginning of the End."
Also, instead of predicting The End via Armageddon for a specific year date, Watchtower representatives are saying it is expected any second now.
Of course, all such false date predicting is mentally unbalancing and destructive of the lives of Watcthtower's now some 7,300,000 members around the earth, but Watchtower is a faceless corporation that could care less.
Watchtower's real concern is that its image be protected. However, since it published about 1914 for nearly 100 years, it's going to have a tough time doing so.
Although the Watchtower magazine may no longer mention 1914, memory of the misprophecy or misprediction is thoroughly ingrained into the brains of almost all Jehovah's Witnesses except some of the very young.
Yes, 2014 lifts the veil, exposing the Watchtower as being what it has long name-called competing religious organizations, namely an spiritual adulteress, an entity controlled and manipulated from behind the scenes by the ruler of the world of darkness.
All good persons who put God and Jesus Christ first need to be exiting Watchtower. If you can't do so immediately and directly, then at least cut out donations of money and cut way down too on donations of any time and energy. Instead shift those, for example, to taking better care of your family.
Who can blame people for feeling burnt, betrayed by an organization that has come to believe its own lies.
As we move toward 2014 one of the most noteable occurrences has to do with the young people in the Watchtower Society: WHY YOUNG PEOPLE AREQUITTINGTHE WATCHTOWERSOCIETY It's no secret that young Jehovah's Witnesses are quitting the Watchtower Society organization over them as fast as possible. Ask and they say the main reason is that it’s become intolerable, so restrictive as to be unlivable. And h ow so? Well, young people are made to feel guilty by Watchtower because they are unable to attain the unattainable, that is what Watchtower deems to be perfection. Besides the in-built guilt-tripping, they feel deprived of countless opportunities to enjoy a normal life with normal fun activities. They don’t get to go out to non-JW dances, bowling parties, attend a school-sponsored summer leadership conference, join a YMCA for non-religious recreation etc. Nor can they join Scouts, be a cheerleader, participate in birthday celebrations, go to the prom, enjoy Christmas, Valentines Day etc. Young Jehovah's Witnesses have their entire lives ahead of them. The sooner they can make the break the sooner they can start enjoying normal lives with joy. Even when JW young people have married they have been irked to find that Watchtower bedroom laws are applied, a perverting by outsiders even of their state of matrimony. True, JW family and any friends who stay JWs will shun them, but the Watchtower way of life is too rigid, harsh and unnatural, so they see they must get out and the sooner the better. Instead of constantly be reminded of impending Armageddon and preaching at door after door, they would rather be making friends, having some normal fun and normal lives. Happily, many, and no doubt more than many with the passing of time, rightly blame the Watchtower for its fruit-cakey, hypocrisy of rules and regulations, not God who has caused Galatians 5:22 to state that the fruits of the Holy Spirit include love and joy. The highly respect Pew Forum report said, speaking generally without reference to a particular age group, "Jehovah’s Witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition. Only 37% of all those who say they were raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses still identify themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses." |
Jehovah's Witnesses, The Watchtower Society, Why I Speak Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G262ssDvOU4 |
This is good news!!!
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