Soon™... In use since 1879!!

by ILoveTTATT 13 Replies latest jw friends

  • ILoveTTATT
    ILoveTTATT

    I wondered how fast the WT publications used the word "Soon"... as in expectation of some prophecy or fulfillment...

    EIGHT PAGES INTO THE FIRST WATCHTOWER... July 1879...

    "Our design has been to present to THE BODY of Christ, "The Chaste Virgin" Church, which expects soon to go in to the marriage and become Christ's Bride, a selection of Sacred Songs especially adapted to her condition and expressive of her desires and hopes."

    The expectation? 1881

    http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php

    The JW's should really trademark the word... = P

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    Wow, this is a fantastic point.

    i imagine it will be helpful to be able to ask a JW, when did WT start using the term 'soon'?

    1879 is a suprising and eye opening answer, 135 years of saying 'soon'. Kind of puts the 'they waited 30 whole years outside of Jerusalem' into perspective!

    Great thread, great research !

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown

    Ah yes the "soon" dilemma.

    How many peoples live's have been ruined because of that one very small, very dangerous (in the wrong hands) word.

    And if I membah correctly every decade since 1881 " it" has been "soon ".

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    I use 'soon' with my JWs whenever I agree to do something they know I am never going to do.

  • LoisLane looking for Superman
    LoisLane looking for Superman

    Hahaha ...

    Apparently, evidently "Headquarter's"™ does not expect anytime "soon", people like you ILoveTTATT, to use the Devil's tool (the internet) to look up in their own literature words like "soon" and post that WT "soon" spans 135 years! lol

    Your "soon" word research is even more ridiculous than over lapping Generations. lol

    Thank you ILoveTTATT and jwfacts.com

    LoisLane

  • carla
    carla

    I'm like Blacksheep, I used to use the word 'soon' simply to annoy my newly converted jw years ago. Sometimes he got it and most times he didn't. New converts are so gung-ho they rarely get out of cult mode. Now the word would not have as much meaning unless they are in high gear for the 'end' or perhaps with the annual reject Jesus memorial.

  • suavojr
    suavojr

    Good one

    When I saw the list of people setting end of the world dates really made me think

    http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

  • Still Totally ADD
    Still Totally ADD

    Thanks suavojr that was very interesting chart you found. Still Totally ADD

  • Splash
    Splash

    I think Blondie first posted this - apologies if that's not accurate.

    Splash

    DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND (AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER 130 YEARS)

    *** w08 5/15 p. 15-16 par 20 *** (6 years ago - as of 2014)
    May you experience great joy in your ministry as you declare this good news and help those " rightly disposed for everlasting life " to realize that deliverance by God’s Kingdom is at hand! – Acts 13:48

    *** g 6/06 p. 32 Millions Will Be Going—Will You? *** (8 years ago)
    The morning program will continue with a talk that introduces a convention highlight, the full-costume drama based on chapter 13 of the Bible book of First Kings. The convention’s final session Sunday afternoon features the public talk "Deliverance by God’s Kingdom Is at Hand!"

    *** w97 4/1 p. 11 Take Courage as Deliverance Draws Near *** (17 years ago)
    Deliverance Near—For Whom?
    12 The increasingly difficult conditions on earth are striking evidence that a vast change—indeed, a grand deliverance—is near at hand! For whom? Deliverance is nearing for those who pay attention to the warning signals and who take appropriate action.

    *** w82 10/1 p. 28 par. 14 Be as Men Who Are Facing Har–Magedon Unafraid *** (32 years ago)
    14 … .The "deliverance" that is now at hand for persons of such faith is not initially the heavenly glorification of the remnant of the spirit-begotten disciples of Christ and their being taken away from the earthly scene of tribulation, although that is in store for them finally.

    *** w72 04/15 p. 233 *** (42 years ago)
    Mankind desperately needs a Liberator from these ruinous demonic heavens. Jehovah God has raised up the needed Deliverer! Jehovah’s marked time for the desired deliverance is at hand!

    *** w54 10/15 p. 624 Why Prayers Go Unanswered *** (60 years ago)
    They rejoice because they know deliverance to a new world is at hand, that this present evil world must end in that "great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again," namely, the war of Armageddon. This is Jehovah’s decree.

    -- The Watchtower, October 1st, 1941. page 303 (73 years ago)
    As his witnesses these faithful ones the great Jehovah God bids to go and tell the glad news to the sorrowing world, and to advise mankind that Jehovah is God, that Christ Jesus is the King of kings, and that the day of deliverance is at hand.

    -- The Watchtower, September 15th 1930 page 281 (84 years ago)
    God has now given his people an understanding of The Revelation which he gave to Jesus Christ to show unto his servants. The publication of the two books called Light, giving the explanation of The
    Revelation, will greatly anger the Devil and all who have not the spirit of Christ. We may therefore expect the opposition to the kingdom to quickly become stronger than ever. It will be of short duration, however, because the day of deliverance is at hand.

    -- The Watchtower, January 1st , 1921 page 13 (93 years ago)
    Behold, the evidence daily increases that the old world has ended! The kingdom of heaven is here! Let the saints look up and lift up their heads. Let them sing aloud for joy because the day of deliverance is at hand.

    -- Zion’s Watch Tower VOL. XXXI June 1st No. 11 1910 R4627 p. 188 (104 years ago)
    Through his lie our race has gone down into sickness, mental, moral and physical, and is going down rapidly to the tomb. Thank God for the great Deliverer; thank God also, for his great day of deliverance, the Millennial Age, now nigh at hand!

    -- Zion’s Watch Tower November 15th , 1892 page 326 (R1464) (122 years ago)
    It is therefore his will rather that we should suffer injustice than that we should spend our strength in fruitless efforts to interrupt the present order of things. And so the kingdom of heaven suffers violence now, but such will not always be the case; for the time of her deliverance is at hand.

    -- Zion’s Watch Tower December , 1881 page 3 (R302) (133 years ago)
    Let us, dearly beloved, see to it, that we not only bury ourselves and our wills in Christ’s, but also keep our bodies under–dying daily until fully delivered into the blessed kingdom –which deliverance we believe to be so very nigh at hand.

    -- Zion’s Watch Tower September , 1880 page 2 (page R134) (134 years ago)
    Let us, dearly beloved, live up to our covenant, and not only bury ourselves and our wills in Christ’s, but also keep our bodies under–dying daily until fully delivered into the blessed kingdom–which deliverance we believe to be so very nigh at hand.

  • ILoveTTATT
    ILoveTTATT

    What others would be interesting to research? "Around the corner"? xD

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