A list of failed predictions of Christ's Return

by fulltimestudent 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  fulltimestudent

  Someone associated with Wikipedia has compiled this list of the many failed predictions of Christ's return. The predictions seem to come from many believers across a spectrum of various religions. it does however, miss one that we would be aware of, Freddy Franz's 1975.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming

  And for good measure, it also lists some dates in the future. predicting Christ's Return, Armageddon or the RAPTURE.

  I predict these dates will also be found to be FALSE. Will that make me a SUCCESFUL prophet?????
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  fulltimestudent

  
  

  The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final judgement of all people on Earth.

  Another list (also from Wikipedia) can be found at:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

  The comments are informative and you may find them interesting to read, it's referenced so you may be able to follow up on some points.
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  Rattigan350

  1975 was not about the second coming. It was about God's rest day. Starting the 7th 1000 year period of the 7th creative day was the concept. And that existed before Franz. He just refined some calculations.
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  Disillusioned JW

  Jesus never was resurrected and never ascended to heaven and thus never left Earth (despite what the Bible says). As result Jesus will never 'return' to Earth since one can't return to a place he/she/it never left. As a result all predictions of a future date for the return of Jesus will fail and it explains why all predictions of earlier dates for the 'return' of Jesus have failed.

  Atheism is truth.
  
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  fulltimestudent

  It was August/September 1975, and nothing much had happened in the world, in spite of Jw expectations. But it seems there must have been a lot of discussion in Brooklyn because Nathan Knorr and Freddy Franz were travelling to various centres to explain why 'nothing much was happening.'

  When it got to Sydney's (Aust) turn, the meeting was held for elders at the Greenacre Assembly Hall, Nathan kicked off the meeting by saying, that by this date, it did not seem that there was enough time left in the year for all the things to happen that the bible said would happen.

  I noticed the way Nathan spoke, of course he was already a sick guy, but there was something else about him, a kind of resignation, as he spoke. He introduced Franz, to explain why that might be. Franz regurgitated some of the points he'd already made in some book, about the difficulties of calculating timelines in the bible etc. Which made it difficult to understand why they had decided to nominate 1975 as the YEAR in which it would all happen.

  But, as we see from a 2022 viewpoint, 1975 etc is just another failed prediction of an event that is unlikely to ever happen - because it foundation is based on myth and superstition.

  But it remained important for me. Why? because I saw firsthand Knorr's own sagging disappointment and experienced an awakening insight into christian rubbish.

  Whatever the jargon used, 'End of world', 'Armageddon' 'Rapture' to encapsulate some biblical idea the fact remains that it's all based on fake information,

  And it will never happen
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  TonusOH

  God's rest day was right after the creation. The stuff about a "7th 1000 year period of the 7th creative day" is made up nonsense from Franz. He used it to imply that 1975 would mark a specific point on God's timetable, making it seem as if Armageddon had to occur at that time. He would occasionally insist that he wasn't setting any dates, knowing how much trouble Rutherford created with his 1925 predictions. But JWs understood what he meant, just as they "understood" the revised claims that were made after the fact.
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  Rivergang

  the meeting was held for elders at the Greenacre Assembly Hall,

  No wonder the rank-and-file JWs were not invited to attend!

  Also, no wonder that tape recordings of this talk were not circulated around the congregations, as were tape recordings of Crazy Fred's spiel about 1975, which he delivered in February of that same year.

  (Those that heard both talks agreed that what he said at the Greenacres Assembly Hall was 180 degrees different to what he had said six months earlier).