Five pages of Kool Aid....That is how I see this article. It is designed to dull any reader's thinking ability, make him push any doubts away from his mind and just keep on keeping on with The Ministry trusting that what he learns is from God, when in fact it is the distorted excuses of a bunch of men who are themselves victims. It hardly mentions their failed predictions and makes it seem as though it is the reader's fault if he wavers.
We open with two clumsy enhancements of Jesus' parable ...Jesus said it better.
Par 3 refers to Matt 25 and the parable of foolish and wise virgins. " He emphasized his point by saying: “Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour”—that is, when Jesus would actually execute God’s judgment on Satan’s world. (Matt. 25:13) "
Is that the first time they have applied this to Armageddon? It used to apply to Jesus' coming as in Parousia
Wt 04 3/1 p15
"21 Thus, although these two parables shed light on events in 1919 or thereabouts, they apply in principle to all true Christians throughout the last days. In this way, while the exhortation that Jesus gave at the end of the parable of the ten virgins applies in the first place to anointed Christians before 1919, in principle it still applies to every Christian. May all of us, then, take to heart Jesus’ words: “Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.”—Matthew 25:13"
Am I behind the times or is it a subtle beam of new light?
Para 4 suggested that some activities cannot be set out by a timetable...Hmm we see where they are going here!
Para 5 tried to make us feel guilty for expecting the end sooner. The high moral tone would be true if they had not made predictions. We would not mind if God's purpose was far off, we just expect that somebody claiming to speak for God tells us the truth! The argument is not with God, Watchtower . The argument is with YOU!
Para 11) contains what I call lies. " Although the anointed had for decades looked to 1914 as a marked year, they did not clearly understand what would happen. When things did not take place as they expected, it could have looked as if the Bridegroom were delaying. One brother later recalled, “A few of us seriously thought we were going to heaven during the first week of that October [1914].”
The old mags and books clearly show that they predicted the end, officially as WT policy. Perhaps it was not necessarily to be that week or month but they forecast the end and their "calling" at that time. They are clever nowadays at massaging their history.
Para 10 " The passing of time is relative. When we are busy and involved instead of watching the clock, time seems to fly by.
Yes ..Life can pass you by and you are old before you know it. Years have flown by and you are still in this world having banked on a future that never came.....Can you still have faith in those leaders who sold it to you?
That is enough of a rant.....Karl Marx said that "Religion is the opium of the people" Whatever he may have meant by that, I believe this article is a stultifying drug to dull the senses and reasoning power of the r & f....The sad thing is that it seems to work, judging by those that I know
