So I sat thru another brain mushing session for the sake of family. It is no myth by now that the more time you spend awake the harder it is the accept that people just take all of this in without asking. A computer has more reasoning abilities than your average JW at this point. You can load and compile new code into a computer. By itself the computer will never know if it is being loaded with a virus but at least the compiler will find syntax errors or dependencies that can't be fulfilled. In the same fashion a JW may not be able to tell if they are in "the truth" without consulting an outside source but you would think they would be able to tell when they are being deviated from the scriptures. Such does not seem to be the case.
1 Timothy 2:4 speaks of a God who wishes everyone would be saved and come to know him. This isn't one of the many little known scriptures that JW so conveniently ignore. No, this is a well known text and its significance has been the subject of entire wt articles in the past.
Yet, this past Sunday, the one paragraph often used to drive witnesses to be at the forefront of neighborhood annoyances was utterly dismissed. In summary, the article explained that we should not expect the signs of the end to be so obvious that everyone would se them. If not, the article said, it would cause everyone to believe. See paragraph bellow
But do you expect conditions to become before “the great tribulation”? (Rev. 7:14) For example, do you expect that there will be a war in every country, no food on anyone’s table, and illness in every household? Under those conditions, even skeptics would likely feel compelled too admit bible prophecy was undergoing fulfillment. However, Jesus said that most people would take no notice of his presence, carrying on with life’s normal activities until it is too late. (Read Matthew 24:37-39.) Thus, the Scriptures indicate that world conditions during the last days would not become so extreme that people would be forced to believe that the end is near”
In other words, God does not really want everyone to be saved. He is afraid that if he makes the signal too obvious, the prophecies of revelation would not be fulfilled? What happened to Rev 1:7?
Most JWs don't realize the kind of God they are portraying when they support this teachings. From the stand of a believer, one who loves of people and worships a god who truly wishes for everyone to be saved, such statements don't make any sense. The reality is that the bible speaks of signs that are indeed obvious and that will truly show who would be in expectation and who is not. One of the MS's made a comment saying that being in expectation was like picking someone up at the bus station back in the days when cell phones did not exist. You show up at the bus station in or around the time the bus is supposed to show up. If it doesn't show up on time, you keep looking and waiting. Unfortunately the article makes it sound exactly like the emperors new clothes. Only he would see the bus, everyone else will not.
another funny thing I noticed while typing this. The bellow statement was added automatically when a copied and pasted a piece of the wt article
Excerpt From: WATCHTOWER. “The Watchtower, August 15, 2015.” Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. iBooks.
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