We thought it might be Armageddon when... (page 2)

themaccauk11

There is no Armageddon revelationwas asymbolic book most of the quotes taken from the old testamant prophets.It was all about the destruction of jerusalem, the temple,, the old jewish system,the law, the old covenants,.See myyoutube channel seekchristonly

Londo111

Agree with themaccauk11.

But, yeah, when 9/11 happened, I thought for sure it would like to the Great Tribulation. 9/11 most likely forstalled the Watchtower's decline like no other event in our generation.

DesirousOfChange

we had an obsessive idiot of a PO who endlessly banged on about the impossibility of the "old system" going into the new millenium.

And where might he be these days? Wouldn't you like to have a face-to-face and call him out on it!

I have not idea who he was, but I suspect he's probably dead. The impossibility was that HE would make it into the new millenium, so Armageddon just HAD to come.

Doc

suavojr

1986 for my dad and 9/11 for me

suavojr

I do know that if anything happens after the GB moves upstate, they will use it for their advantage

exwhyzee

I saw a bumper sticker that made me laugh " I Don't Want To Brag But This is Like The 5th End Of The World I've Lived Through "

Besides what everyone else has already mentioned. I remember coming out of the meeting one Sunday morning and the spring time sky was eerily darkened...all the street lights were on and there was rumbling in the distance. The Kingdom Hall parking lot and all the cars were covered with grey powder. Mount St. Helens had erupted and the sun was blocked out by the ash plume. To us, ever-so-watchful JW's, it was like a localized version of how things would be at Armegeddon.

Another time was when they dumped crude oil into the Persian Gulf and then lit on fire or when Bagdad was rained down upon with SCUD missles. Overnight we all became experts on the middle east and everyone thought this was the start of the Trubulation. Now I can't even remember name of the crazy Dictator who orderd this to be done.

Vidiot

Oddly enough, I can't recall a time when I ever genuinely thought "this is it".

I suspect this might be because - even as far back as my teens - I had a passing grasp of contemporary geopolitics, and therefore had a difficult time visualizing the WTS's (i.e. Fred Franz's) eschatology as truly immenent; there just seemed to be too many steps, variables, and obstacles to get from "here" to "there" for it to be able to happen "any day now".

I guess I was an exception.

Xanthippe

In 1988 the UN kept going on about peace and security, it was all over the newspapers. None of the JWs we mentioned it to were even remotely interested. Which we thought was odd We left the following year.

BluesBrother

I have always been a fairly stoical individual who figured that "we will wait and see" . I can remember several things that brought bro's to a pitch of excitement though:

1] the 1967 Israel war.....& fear of nuclear weopons

2] The whole time of the sixties with young men with hair "like women" & girls wearing skirts "so short you could see their ....."

3] A violent storm of hurricane proportions that hit South England in the '80's .. One bro said that his wife wife woke him in fear saying " It must be Armageddon" He asked whether she had any secret sins? She said "No, of course not!" . He then told her she had nothing to worry about then......and went back to sleep.

You cannot blame the people for being jumpy. They just react to what they are taught

joyfulfader

In 1990 right before Desert Storm. I was in nursing school and there was so much going on in the middle east and the fall of the Berlin wall had occurred only a few months before and I was sure it was Armageddon. I even made a bet with a "worldly" classmate that it was and even gave her a "timeline" of what was going to happen next. Still feeling stupid 24 years later...

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