Nope, "Just as in the Day of Noah", we have JWs spending more time at Coffee Shops, Donut Palaces and MacDonalds than Ministering to the Needy, life is the same! No sense of urgency to pretend their decent people because they are not! I have seen their hatred and it's ugly!
World Events bring about A Renewed Zeal!!!
by jk-ton 40 Replies latest jw friends
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jwfacts
JW's need to read Pinker's books. We are in a period of the greatest peace ever. Pinker does note that it only takes a couple of news items a night for people to live in their fantasy that violence and war is worse than ever.
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Magnum
Ask them whether they were at the district convention in the summer of 1985 when it was announced very seroulsy at the end that the UN was recognizing 1986 as the "International Year of Peace". It was indicated by the speaker that this could be significant. This was only the second time in all my JW experience that everything got quiet enough to hear a pin drop. JWs talkied about it for a while afterward, but it just fizzled.
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Finkelstein
Its old trick the WTS. uses to signify yes mankind is indeed living in the last days.
They did it many decades ago such as 1914 , 1939 , the Vietnam war , the Gulf war etc.
Of course they don't mention the many wars that happened before 1914, that would be too honest and revealing.
Next it will be a huge devastating earthquake or hurricane ....... and so on and so on.
Fear and insecurity is exploited by the WTS. for its own appealing self supporting reasons.
Its almost like it's a corrupt deviously operated publishing house that acts dishonestly to proliferate its own published goods.
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scotoma
Blondie,
You are correct. I conflated the two scriptures.
There is a need to distinguish between the many reminders that we don't know the day or the hour and the scriptures that tell us to stay awake.
1 Thess. 5:6 So, then let us not sleep on as the rest do but let us stay awake and keep our senses."
At some point there will be enough evidence that Christians will be able to "raise themselves errect because their deliverance is getting near".
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steve2
I was at the international convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Christchurch New Zealand in 1973 where the public address whipped up to a fever-pitch heralding the on-the-edge nearness of the Great Tribulation. 1975 loomed large and undeniable.
The packed crowd's thunderous applause proved the public address was swallowed without any trace of indigestion. We were humming, drunk with religious confidence. Screeds of Witnesses left that convention having made a commitment to quit their jobs to pioneer. Some even went on to sell their homes and used the funds to support themselves in the preaching work. While we were suckers for fevered speech, we were not slackers nor like the modern breed of cruise-n-cafe witnesses who are way more comfortable finding their way round an ipad than a Bible.
The end was then so much nearer 40 years ago than it is today - but it had been closer still in 1939, and before that an astonishing whisker away in 1925 and the very closest it would ever be 100 years ago in 1914.
End-times religions are like that: The fervor cannot be long maintained. In retrospect, the end is always closest when the group is young. Later, the end hovers like an embarrassing anticlimax or a bad dream in which the faster you run, the further you get from the safety of Divine intervention.
Wave goodbye to your new world, darling Witnesses. You were the closest to achieving that fanciful dream 10 decades ago. You've missed your turn. Focus your energy now on your purple JW.org icon and announce your slick website throughout your bored terrritory. I expect you may visit me to hand me a tract on JW.org so I can visit your website to request a visit from you. That makes sense. Not. Your back has become your front. The nearness of the end has gone full circle to become the end of the nearness. With each year, your irrelevance grows in direct proportion to your shrinking zeal. You tell us the end is near...if that's the case, how come you don't go? You're always here...the coffee stains tell me as much.
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stuckinarut2
1986 The international year of peace!
Oh didnt the masses of witnesses get excited then!?!?
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Bugbear
It looks like many of you have fouled up yourselves in the believing that the Bible could predict anything about Gods behavior towards humanity. The Bible has long time ago been proven to be absolutely incorrect in both facts, moral ethics, and other issues, that humans could possibly be interested in. To interpret our future and end with the bible, its like reading coffee grounds. It is absolutely a dead end….. the only thing you will get out of it is confusion. (and not only that sometimes, it could cause mental problem)
Bugbear
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stuckinarut2
bugbear, I reckon you are spot on.
It is just hard though for many to come to this understanding, as we spent our entire lives being taught to beleive that the bible was the word of God.....
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sir82
Increased zeal?
In our congregation, the "worldwide historic super-special campaign" is going over with a thud so far.
Saturday afternoon meeting for field service attendance: 0
Sunday morning meeting for field service: 5 adults, 1 child.
I.e., "out of the usual" field service support (any time other than weekday or Saturday mornings) is just as dismal as it is for any other month.