Predicted Armageddon would come when?

by Marvin Shilmer 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Predicted Armageddon would come when?

  Today I added a new article to my blog highlighting Watchtower’s play-toying with predictions of Armageddon. The organization’s Governing Body apparently knows how to cry “Wolf! Wolf!”

  As Watchtower says:

  “THE shepherd who repeatedly cried “Wolf!” when there was no wolf found that his subsequent cry for help went unheeded. Similarly today, many disregard the imminence of Jehovah’s day because they have heard countless warnings that have proved to be false alarms.”—(The Watchtower, June 1, 1998, p. 5)

  My article is titled Predicted Armageddon would come when? and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/03/predicted-armageddon-would-come-when.html

  Good advice: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

  Watchtower is in the market looking for fools.

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com
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  Phizzy

  Coincidence is a funny thing, I happened across an old copy of Watchtower as I was going through some family papers this morning, it was dated September 1st 1948, and I smiled as it said on page 267, "The righteous new world of God's creating is just ahead of us now".

  That was over 60 years ago, before I was born.
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  sir82

  Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

  Fool me repeatedly and continuously for 130+ years = ?
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  notjustyet

  It amazes me to see just how many times they make damning statements that they themselves are the most guilty.

  I truly wonder if this is not some type of known diversionary trick, ploy, to divert the attention of the Jw reader.

  I'm thinking that the Jw mind reads this and subconsciously thinks " why would the WTBTS bring to light things nth at they tthe lev are guilty of?" And this might prevent their minds from ever clicking to the point where they take a look inward at the WTBTS.

  NJY
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  Finkelstein

  The organization’s Governing Body apparently knows how to cry “Wolf! Wolf!”

  As well as the past leaders of this religious organization and religious leaders before the creation of the WTS. ( William Miller )

  Is it just a coincidence that there were books being published right at the same approximate time Christ was to return or Armageddon was to occur ?

  Taking a retrospective look back at all the writings of the WTS. to even C T Russel days and you can see the clear and apparent answer to that question.
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  Splash

  Can they really then print this?

  *** g93 3/22 p. 3 Why So Many False Alarms? ***

  THE story is told of a boy who watched the sheep of the villagers. To stir up a bit of excitement, one day he cried out, “Wolf! Wolf!” when there was no wolf. The villagers rushed out with clubs to drive off the wolf, only to find that there was none. It was such great fun that later on the boy repeated his cry. Again the villagers rushed out with their clubs, only to discover that it was another false alarm. After that a wolf did come, and the boy sounded the warning, “Wolf! Wolf!” but the villagers dismissed his cry as another false alarm. They had been fooled too often.

  So it has become with those who proclaim the end of the world. Down through the centuries since Jesus’ day, so many unfulfilled predictions have been made that many no longer take them seriously.

  Gregory I, pope from 590 to 604 C.E., in a letter to a European monarch, said: “We also wish Your Majesty to know, as we have learned from the words of Almighty God in Holy Scriptures, that the end of the present world is already near and that the unending Kingdom of the Saints is approaching.”

  In the 16th century, Martin Luther, progenitor of the Lutheran Church, predicted that the end was imminent. According to one authority, he stated: “For my part, I am sure that the day of judgment is just around the corner.”

  Concerning one of the first Baptist groups, it is reported: “The Anabaptists of the early Sixteenth Century believed that the Millennium would occur in 1533.”

  “Edwin Sandys (1519-1588), Archbishop of York and Primate of England . . . says, . . . ‘Let us be assured that this coming of the Lord is near.’”

  William Miller, generally credited with founding the Adventist Church, is quoted as saying: “I am fully convinced that sometime between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844, according to the Jewish mode of computation of time, Christ will come.”

  Does the failure of such predictions to come true convict as false prophets those who made them, within the meaning of Deuteronomy 18:20-22? That text reads: “The prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. And in case you should say in your heart: ‘How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?’ when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak.”

  'Hypocrisy' is not a big enough word.

  Splash
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  Finkelstein

  The WTS has always been a publishing house at its core operation, its established doctrines were more inspired out of attracting attention

  to published literature, as the WTS. still does to this very day.

  Its acquired sales representatives the JWS are stringently trained on those commercialized doctrines and there after closely watched for any

  signs of dissension or non-support.

  When they do find ones who criticize the doctrines which the WTS. established, they are quickly removed from the selling initiative and duly

  separated from the rest of the associated sales reps.

  Being baptized in this religion is really pledging an oath of allegiance to the WTS. and its opertive expressed doctrines, even though they

  impose the thought that your pledging an oath directly to god and his will and purpose.
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Can they really then print this?

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  'Hypocrisy' is not a big enough word.

  Splash,

  Watchtower measures itself by a different—much lower—standard than it does other organized religions.

  On that inequitable basis Watchtower can and does beat its own chest while speaking despairingly of religious competitors for doing what Watchtower does aplenty.

  Marvin Shilmer
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  DATA-DOG

  Wow. Two sayings immediately come to mind.

  1) In the abundance of words there is transgression.

  2) The Pharisees praying in public ," Thank you God, that we are not like the rest of these sinners.." ( paraphrasing ) Or " Thank you Jehovah, for making us better that Harold Camping. He did not have the full measure of your spirit like we do."
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  DATA-DOG

  Wow. Two sayings immediately come to mind.

  1) In the abundance of words there is transgression.

  2) The Pharisees praying in public ," Thank you God, that we are not like the rest of these sinners.." ( paraphrasing ) Or " Thank you Jehovah, for making us better than Harold Camping. He did not have the full measure of your spirit like we do."