Pose the same question to 20 active JW's. Why ask us? Likely you will get 20 different answers as well. JW's can't explain their OWN doctrines. Why should we be asked to do it for them?
I am confused on the JW's 1000 year reign doctrine. Please explain it to me.
by booker-t 16 Replies latest jw experiences
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Nathan Natas
Please call your local Kingdumb Hall and request a Free Home Bible Study.
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Quarterback
It's for the future, when Satan and his Demons are in the Abyss. Since Satan is not yet Abyssed, it hasn't started yet. But, I can see that you are troubled about it. So, go to a store that sells chocholate and get some chocholate. Go home and consume those bars. After awhile it won't matter anymore.
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dozy
*** w68 8/15 p. 499 par. 30 Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975? ***
30 Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man’s existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ. If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Why not? Because after his creation Adam lived some time during the “sixth day,” which unknown amount of time would need to be subtracted from Adam’s 930 years, to determine when the sixth seven-thousand-year period or “day” ended, and how long Adam lived into the “seventh day.” And yet the end of that sixth creative “day” could end within the same Gregorian calendar year of Adam’s creation. It may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years.
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Quarterback
Yes, Dozy, that was printed in 1968. So was the dangers of dancing the Twist.
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3rdgen
Imagine the answers you'd get if you asked todays dumbed-down JW to explain that 1968 article?!
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prologos
Quarterback.The twist was (is) a better dance* than the wt writer's performance around this topic, no matter how they try to twist it. and
Do not forget
the overlapping generation has to play out before the 1000 years too.
over-lapp dancing anyone?
* good for your back, quarterback.