Remember the Kingdom Increase district convention - "The Increase is On" was the catch cry. We were expecting a ten fold increase in publishers just before Armagedon. Stories were being told of congregations growing so quickly they split several times, only had a MS as the PO and there was standing room only at the public talks. Building KH's was the emphasis - Congs of 20 - 40 pubishers were building 250 seat KH's - How many of those halls are empty now?
Kingdom Increase District Convention
by hippikon 6 Replies latest jw friends
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rocketman
I wonder if that convention came just before a prophecied or implied date for the end, like '75 or maybe '89 or '94? I can't seem to recall.
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Matty
The Kingdom Increase District Conventions were held in 1984. We kept being quoted the scripture in Isaiah 60:22 time and time again:
"The little one himself will become a thousand, and the small one a mighty nation. I myself, Jehovah, shall speed it up in its own time."
We thought "Wow, we ARE a mighty nation, in number we are almost the size of Belgium!" -
hippikon
No one I knew would talk about dates but the generation thing was strong and some would talk about 1975 marking 6000 years since adams creation. The end of Gods creative day was the creation of Eve. So the realy big question on everyones mind was "How long was adam alone in the garden of Eden befor God made a helper.
About the same time the Watchtower can out that predicted the end "before the turn of the century" (which was changed in reprints to "this generation")
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DFWnonJW
I don't keep up with all things dubby but I was just curious, do you think they'll be having a Kingdom Decrease Convention or a Kingdom Stagnation Convention any time soon?
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hippikon
Well it would apear that "Kindom Increase" is Watchtower speak for "Kingdom Stagnation" because thats exactly what happend.
"Not a single word that goes from my mouth will fail"
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rocketman
lol @ DFW, good one!