New 16 page WT & AWAKE available on jw.org
by St George of England 54 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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bennyk
[A]ny mistaken expectations about the end do not alter the unmistakable features identifying these as “the last days.”—2 Timothy 3:1. (The Watchtower, 15.01.2013, p.7)
Alrighty, then. Russell's 37 year prophecy regarding the End coming in 1914 did not alter the unmistakable (and indisputable) features identifying those as part of "the last days" (which [according to the Watch Tower Society] ran from A.D. 1799 - 1914).
THE ''Time of the End," a period of one hundred and fifteen (115) years,
from A. D. I 7 9 9 to A. D. 1914, is particularly marked in the Scriptures.
(Thy Kingdom Come, p. 23)THE careful student will have observed that the period
designated "The Time of the End " is very appropriately
named, since not only does the Gospel age close in it,
but in it, also, all prophecies relating to the close of this age
terminate, reaching their fulfilments. The same class of
readers will have noticed, too, the special importance of
the last 40 of those 115 years (1874-1914), called "The
End" or "Harvest." (Thy Kingdom Come, p. 121)Could someone please ask the Writing Department to do some thinking before printing?!?!
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St George of England
I wish I had the annoucement letter, so happifying.....
Atlantis put the letter on here a couple of weeks ago.
George
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stuckinamovement
Hey in light of the new format, I thought they were going to rename it the "half awake"?
Siam
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00DAD
Good one, SIAM!
What do you call 1/2 a tower?
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bats in the belfry
Whoa! The font for the Awake! has gotten awfully big - as if they don't have to communicate much to the rest of mankind anymore.
Nor do they bother to align the text left and right to the margins for the public reader - pure sloppiness.
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processor
Actually, the content dropped by much more than 50 %. A quick analysis:
- Awake! January 2000: ca. 61000 characters
- Awake! January 2011: ca. 58000 characters
- Awake! January 2012: ca. 50000 characters
- Awake! January 2013: ca. 22000 characters
The actual content is ca. 1/3 of what it was a decade ago.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
It's only 16 pages, yet it still seems too long to get finished in 1 month. Maybe they should just make it a 16 page quarterly.
And maybe they should make the pictures a little bigger and use simpler words.
...wait, is it even possible for them to insert bigger pictures and use simpler words?
Glad to see they finally got around to complete WT-style coverage of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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processor
They should make a simplified Awake! in the style of the "Listen to God" brochure.
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processor
I made some more statistics - from the German edition, but should be around the same for the English one:
