The WTS has been cast into "spiritual darkness" by Jehovah and this is just more evidence of this.
That's because, though Israel did disobey and had to fulfill the punishment, Jehovah said he would redeem 1/3 of them in the end and they would be like a "log snatched out of the fire". Two thirds would pass into the fire though. Thus the two-thirds of the nation that was lost during the "great tribulation" was fulfilled at the time of the Holocaust when two-thirds of the Jewish nation settled in primarily Eastern Europe were killed. But after that, they would be redeemed and restored to their homeland and their exile would end. Sure enough, that was fulfilled also in 1947 when the Jews were restored to Palestine.
The scripture about the two-thirds during the Holocaust is below, but note that the prophetic Jubilee was for the Jews in the modern era. The Jubilee was a time for returning to the homeland and for coming out of exile. The "70 weeks" represents 10 jubilees. We can fix the 70 weeks via 36CE which ended the 70th week, since the 70th week began when Christ got baptized. The jubilees are the 50th week following 49 weeks but also the first year of the next 49 years.
Thus, note that the FIFTIETH jubilee from 455BCE, the beginning of the first 70 weeks, falls in 1947!!! This is hardly an accident.
Just for the math, you have 10 jubilees for every 490 years. 10 jubilees ended in 36CE. Another four 490-year periods would give you 50 jubilees. 4x490 is 1960. Add 19690 to 36CE and you get the last 490 years ending in 1996. The jubilee would be the first of the last 49 years and thus subtract 49 from 1996 and you get 1947. That would be the most significant jubilee of all since it would signal God's forgiveness of the Jews after the Holocaust which is the prophesied "great tribulation", something else the WTS do not understand.
Here's the prophesy that the Holocaust would wipe out two-thirds of the Jews and the third remaining would be restored:
Zech. 13:8 "And it must occur in all the land," is the utterance of YHWH, "that two parts in it are what will be cut off and expire, and as for the third part, it will be left remaining in it. 9 And I shall certainly bring the third part through the fire, and I shall actually refine them as in the refining of silver, and examine them as in the examining of gold. It, for its part, will call upon my name, and I for my part, will answer it. I will say, "It is my people, and it, in its turn, will say, "YHWH is my God."
Now when did "spiritual Israel" lose two-thirds of it's members? And why would God destroy two-thirds of spiritual Israel? It makes no sense.
God forgave the nation of Israel after the Holocaust and they were restored to Israel and actually were to be blessed by God. Look at the State of Israel now?
But...also, yes it is true there would also be a "spiritual Israel" and they're public appearance is via the faithful anointed ones with Jehovah's witness. But like the Jews, the leaders would also prove unfaithful and be cast out. In the case of spiritual Israel though, while Christ does abandon the religion as a whole, he does go in and separate the "wheat from the weeds" and the "sheep from the goats" and he joins this "little flock" with "other sheep" he has not of this fold; and obviously, a bigger fold.
By the way, as a final note, the "covenant" with the Jews and Christian spiritual Israel, Jehovah's witnesses, would only last through the final 70th week. So after 1996, neither Jews nor Jehovah's witnesses have any special covenant with YHWH as a group.
Sorry for being so wordy, but I hate it when the WTS contradicts the scriptures.
Canon
