Revelation Climax book - what are the most ridiculous claims in it?

by RayPublisher 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  RayPublisher

  I got to thinking about all the strange interpretations in the old Revelation Climax Book now that I have perused it again on PDF. (Thanks Atlantis!)

  Does anyone care to toss in their two cents on what are the most outrageous and/or ridiculous claims in it?

  I remember some of these statements being really "out there" to me even when I was a hard-core JW, and I had to conduct the congregation book study the last two of the three times we studied this crazy book. Anyways, here are some of the weird things I found:

  • The Cedar Point Ohio District Convention held in 1921 A.D. by the Bible Students is supposedly talked about in Revelation, written almost 1,900 years earlier. The book refers to this "historic" convention EIGHT times, and claims it was the trumpet blast mentioned in Rev 8:7.

  • The two witnesses die but are resurrected in Rev 11:11,12 symbolize Rutherford and his buddies getting out of jail in 1919.

  • The child's face hidden in the outstretched hand of Jesus on page 159.

  • The demon claw hand and arm on one of the angels on page 52.

  • The "Serpent opening its mouth" (Rev 12:14) is persectution of the Bible Students in 1922 and into the 1940s.

  And on and on it goes. I can't imagine them ever studying this book again with the new crop of JWs...perhaps they will make a new and improved book on Revelation again?? Who knows....
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  FadeToBlack

  I always thought equating the trumpet blasts to the old conventions you mentioned and the release of their resolutions was the most bizarre interpretation. It was really hard to get through those studies with a straight face.
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  zed is dead

  Freddy must have been on peyote when he wrote that.

  zed
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  Phizzy

  It claims that the "John Class", who it claims are already resurrected to Heaven members of the 144,000, are communicating with the FDS still on earth.

  In the light of the July WT, even the most fervent JW can see this claim is ridiculous.
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  Vidiot

  That at the drop of a hat, the United Nations would marshall a global campaign to eliminate organized religion and somehow succeed, despite the fact that...

  A) the very structure of democracy in the Developed World makes any such action monumentally difficult,

  B) any such resolution would be immediately vetoed by the U.S. (one of the most religious countries in the developed world), and

  C) the Security Council doesn't even have the clout or manpower to enforce resolutions that defend religious freedoms, let alone supress them.
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  Londo111

  Cedar Point was 1922. Advertise! Advertise! Advertise!
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  RayPublisher

  @Phizzy - Yeah "new light" invalidates that one...and this is from the REVISED version of 2006 not the original of 1998.

  @Londo - oops :)
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  rocketman

  For me, it was the trumpet blasts being tied to those early conventions.
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  BluePill2

  That there is some old dude in the sky. He created the universe and shit.
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  Las Malvinas son Argentinas

  They were doing their best Joseph Smith impression when they directly tied a vision someone wrote about on Patmos circa 95-6 AD to an event and location in America. I skipped over those parts. I couldn't comment on something so blatantly ridiculous.

  Freddy must have had a huge bromance with the Judge if he thought to include him in the prophecy of the apocalypse.