Both the October 1 & November 1 Watchtowers avoid discussing the 2,520 years!!!

by Alfred 11 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Alfred

  Sab, Sir82 and Mad... so true... and to add to your comments... it's interesting that the October 15, 2011 Study Edition Watchtower contained an article advising JWs that they will no longerrespond to questions on things that JWs can find on their own in the Society's publications... (there was an excellent thread on this recently)... so you're right... these articles exist solely for the purpose of stopping all the questions on chronology (especially the ones that severely diminish the WT's credibility)...

  Lost Generation... you're right... they're just a bunch of copycats... but they are so quick to take credit for this 360 X 7 calculation... For example, in their DVD Faith In Action -Part I (2010), Anthony Morris makes the following completely FALSE statement: "The fact that they (the Bible Students) were able to pinpoint that year is just phenomenal"... when he said that, I noticed he was really struggling to keep a straight face...
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  Doug Mason

  The WTS's "2520-year" theory relates to their ideas on the "Seventy years". However, they do NOT start the "Seventy Years" with the destruction of Jerusalem, which is the subject of their article.

  If the WTS were to actually write an article on their derivation of 1914, their article (book?) would discuss

  • Daniel 4 (the prophecy being Neb's madness, not the dream);
  • Ezkiel (year-day, including their inconsistent application of Revelation, and ignoring what the Bible says ended the 70 Years);
  • how the WTS calculate the year when the first Returnees assembled at the temple site (impossible to prove);
  • the year they start the 70 Years (they need to ignore the destruction of Jerusalem); and so on.

  This of course would make the destruction some years earlier than 607 BCE.

  Doug