The Cry of Peace And Security

by jwfacts 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    That's the thing about prophecies, they are always true. So when the bad thing eventually happens, the prophets can say "I told you so".

    There was an article a few days ago about the scientists warning about coronavirus. The article mentioned they've warned about this since the 70s and SARS a few years ago, and how bad and evil it is to not be completely prepared for this eventuality. They will eventually be right but we can't have firefighters stationed in every house or ambulances follow every car just in case.

    The hospital I work at had protocols for massive outbreaks for decades. They didn't apply because they were for things we know about like Ebola, not for a virus that spreads through the air because every airborne virus we knew about prior including SARS wasn't nearly as deadly and transmissible (which makes some people believe it was engineered after all).

    The Bible prophecies in the NT are likewise intentionally vague and have been fulfilled in Nero burning down Rome, the fall of Jerusalem and every large conflict since. Pestilence and food shortage and calls for peace following war has been true since time memorial, only in the last 100-200 years has the world been made rich enough for certain aspects of that to no longer be true the way it was before. This makes the JW prophecies less and less relevant. Iraq didn't have food shortages and pestilence like they would've had in the past after a war because as the US was fighting, they also brought with them the tools of rebuilding a free and democratic civilization which are the precursors to wealth and wellness. As war gets more and more "humane", the effects will diminish as well.

  • BoogerMan
    BoogerMan

    "Christendom's" religions generally don't preach about Armageddon etc., thereby adhering to the Bible which tells Christians that the timing of the end is none of their business. (Matthew 24:36 & Acts 1:7)

    (Matthew 24:44) "...because the Son of man is coming at an hour that you [Christians] do not think to be it."

    If you believe that you know the "times & seasons", then Jesus says you're wrong!

  • jwleaks
    jwleaks

    Paul, you wrote: “ When the United Nations recognised 1986 as an International Year of Peace, Watchtower cautiously aligned this with 1 Thess 5:3.”

    The WT also hedged their spiritual bets on 1986 with the JWs only book ‘Worldwide Security Under the “prince of peace”’ and the ‘True Peace and Security-How Can You Find It?’ books released in 1986 just in case.

    Fred Franz was the president of Watch Tower Pa.

    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/publication/r1/lp-e/ws

    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/publication/r1/lp-e/tp



  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    The belief in the cry of Peace and Security as the precursor to Armageddon is still very large in Witness minds . I hear it whenever world events favour the idea......less when things go back to normal.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    I sometimes wonder if the anxious eagerness certain JWs display over the impending End is due to an unconscious desire to actually be free of the WTS...

    ...as though they think that once Armageddon is finished, their servitude to the Org will be over.

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