3 Changes The Watchtower Made on Babylon The Great in the Last 6 Months

by raymond frantz 23 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  slimboyfat

  I think they say it was shortly.after 1914 or in 1918 not sure. 🤔
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  Duran

  I was under the impression that the WTS taught that the war in heaven happened in 1914, with the banishment of Satan being directly responsible for World War I. Do they still teach that?

  I think they say it was shortly.after 1914 or in 1918 not sure.

  [ws14 7/15 - In October 1914, Jehovah made Jesus King over mankind. At that time, the conclusion, or “the last days,” of Satan’s world began.​—2 Timothy 3:1.]

  [bh- 4The preceding chapter in this book explained that Jesus Christ became King in heaven in the year 1914. (Read Daniel 7:13, 14.) Soon after he received Kingdom power, Jesus took action. “War broke out in heaven,” says the Bible. “Michael [another name for Jesus] and his angels battled with the dragon [Satan the Devil], and the dragon and its angels battled.”a Satan and his wicked angels, the demons, lost that war and were cast out of heaven to the earth. God’s faithful spirit sons rejoiced that Satan and his demons were gone. Humans, however, would experience no such joy. Instead, the Bible foretold: “Woe for the earth . . . because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”​—Revelation 12:7, 9, 12.]

  [ w22 July - Why did world conditions take a turn for the worse when Jesus became King? Revelation 6:2 gives an important detail​—Jesus’ first mission as newly crowned King was to wage war. Against whom? Against the Devil and his demons. According to Revelation chapter 12, Satan lost the battle, and he and the demons were hurled down to the earth. Enraged, Satan began to vent his anger on humankind, resulting in “woe for the earth.”​—Rev. 12:7-12.]

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  chicken or egg?

  Satan ousted in Oct 1914 (Time when woe for the earth would begin as a result.)

  WW1 started June/July 1914 (Said woe for the earth.)

  
  
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  Journeyman

  EDIT: posted common in wrong thread - apologies!
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  blondie

  I can think of three changes to the identity of Babylon the great (is the GT the cutoff point to become jws and survive) Can you share the changes you have seen in the last 6 months in the publications, Publication name year month and page #?

  1879 C. T. Russell and his associates also realized that this infamous harlot was not merely the Catholic Church. Thus, while the Watch Tower of November 1879 identified Babylon the Great with the “Papacy as a SYSTEM,” the article added: “We must go further and implicate, (not the individual members, but the church systems) other churches united to the Empires of earth. Every church claiming to be a chaste virgin espoused to Christ, but in reality united to and supported by the world (beast) we must condemn as being in scripture language a harlot church.” Proclaimers Book Chapter 5 p.42 p. 70 par. 4

  1963 n 1963, The Watchtower clearly showed that “Babylon the Great” represented not only Christendom but also the whole world empire of false religion.

  2025 Some who witness the destruction of Babylon the Great might join us in true worship.