by Kool Jo 37 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Sarajevo, 1914.
"Aw crap! We're stuck down here on the earth now guys! Man they kicked our BUTTS up there! ... So , what do we do now? Hey I know! Let's um, somehow set it up so that a major political figure gets assassinated, triggering a war of unprecedented scale! BWAHHAHAHA! are you guys in? Let's do this!!"
Satan, the original Allstate Insurance mayhem guy
Thanks for the feedback...the article mentioned that even though Jesus was appointed as Judge in 1914, but his time to judge/rule won't begin until in the future...wtf??? So why appoint someone to be a judge/ruler if it's not time for action to be taken yet?
Kool Jo
It has to be honestly realized that the WTS. talks out from both coroners of their mouths.
But hey its a publishing house they are under constant pressure to write BS for its readers.
No 1914= no 1919 choosing of the FDS= GB2 is a fraud.
You think they dare drop it soon ?
Phizzy: Did you not read any posts on the first page? I and DATA-DOG explained exactly how they could drop 1914. It's a great myth on this forum that 1919 is *based* on 1914 in any concrete way. I try to point this out every time the topic comes up, but no one ever responds to my posts, or seems to even see them.
Apognophos:
I and DATA-DOG explained exactly how they could drop 1914. It's a great myth on this forum that 1919 is *based* on 1914 in any concrete way. I try to point this out every time the topic comes up, but no one ever responds to my posts, or seems to even see them.
Won't happen any time soon. The would need to change several details in their current eschatology to separate 1919 from 1914, and even then their claims that we are in the 'last days' would become even more tenuous than they already are. They desperately cling to 1914 because something significant happened in that year. Sure, it was the wrong thing in the wrong month, but it was something.
It is not merely a 'myth on this forum' that 1919 is derived from 1914. The Watch Tower Society applies the periods of 42 months and 1,260 days (both 3½ years) at Revelation 11:2-3 to their preaching work during World War I from December 1914 to May 1918, after which they apply the 3½ days of Revelation 11:11 figuratively to the period of imprisonment of the Watch Tower Society directors in 1918. They believe that after their release from prison in 1919 that they were approved as Jesus' 'slave class'. This is part of what they call the 'plagues on Christendom' starting from Revelation chapter 8, which they explicitly link with Jesus' 'enthronement' in 1914.
See Revelation—Its Grand Climax at Hand!, chapter 25.
The entire July 15th premise is to maintain 1914 as a significant date
The great trib & Armageddon were already pushed out as future events decades ago, so why the change?
1914 was a hundred years ago...what the heck is Jesus waiting for?
well by splitting Matt 24:45 into two fulfillments they keep 1914 as significant but give purpose to the past 100 years.
Now Jesus is not "arrived" and just waiting around holding back the 4 winds, rather he is fulfilling the time period of Matt 25:45 before the "happy is that slave who's master arrives finding him doing so" part
really, NOTHING has changed. The WTS has just made the R&F feel better about a hundred years of nothing
does anyone know where I can download the latest Watchtower CD ROM?
If you want a good read on 1914 then take a look here:
http://meletivivlon.com/discussion/1914-2/apollos-vs-jw/
I just posted about the a new article on the same site regarding the blood policy:
http://meletivivlon.com/2013/09/10/jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-no-blood-doctrine/
They are both long reads, but well worth it.
Sorry, I don't know how to post clickable links so you'd just have to copy and paste into your browser, unless someone can do the links for me.
The whole religion is based on 1914. It is core to every doctrine.
It's also based entirely on 607 BCE as the date for the destruction of Jerusalem which we all know is totally wrong.
George
