For New Lurkers - The Great Tribulation Myth

by The Fall Guy 11 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  The Fall Guy

  The WTBTS/"faithful slave" have been promising/warning Bible Students & JW's for over 100 years that the great tribulation of Matthew 24 was imminent. This fear-factor is also used annually to "motivate" inactive JW's into attending the Memorial.

  Does the Bible teach that the tribulations of Matthew 24:21 & Revelation 7:14 are one and the same?

  The great tribulation spoken of at Revelation 7:14 cannot be the same one Jesus spoke of at Matthew 24:21 - for two reasons:

  a) The great tribulation at Revelation 7:14 is a reference to the same great tribulation mentioned five chapters previously by the angel at Revelation 2:22.
  

  This tribulation would be instigated by Christ himself - against those who were corrupting the congregations. The angel was describing a distinctly different tribulation in Revelation, one which was future - not one which had already occurred almost 30 years previously.

  b) At Matthew 24:21, Jesus said "....no, nor will occur again".

  Can something which Jesus said would never be repeated, have another fulfilment?

  It is nonsensical to insist that different scriptures are discussing the same topic simply because they contain similar expressions.

  Example: Acts 7:11 speaks of a "great tribulation," but even JW's would see that the surrounding verses and context eliminate any connection to Matthew 24:21.

  JW's - Use the same logic & reasoning when trying to connect Matthew 24:21 with Revelation 2:22 & 7:14.

  They don't & cannot connect - because they are entirely different scenarios.

  Use the scriptures to readjust your thoughts & fears regarding the org's "impending" great tribulation.
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  hoser

  The elephant in the room great tribulation. The one no one talks about. Acts 7:11
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  Beth Sarim

  The GT myth. Nothing more than a high control mechanism to whip JWs F.O.G. into high gear. A control mechanism.
  
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  Finkelstein

  The ancients told stories of how great and powerful their gods were, the GT mentioned in the book of Mathew is just another example of that, its fictional mythology.

  But hey if incites fear into people's minds and creates attention to literature by selling religious charlatans than it may have its usefulness.

  " The Real Truth " is far away from most religions but they do stir up people's emotions and that's enough to control people, religious provocateurs like the WTS know that.
  
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  waton

  In the great tribulation of Rev 7, The great crowd is coming out of it. yet wt writers speak of the great crowd of "other sheep" now. You cant come out of something that does not exist, yet, and

  Crowd maximus interruptus is old light.

  All these are failed wt prophecies from the moment they are published. beware publishers!.
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  blondie

  Until 1970 the WTS taught that the great tribulation started in 1914 and lasted until 1918 when it took a hiatus to start up in the near future.

  See page 4, paragraphs 3 and 4, and 9

  w13 7/15 pp. 3-8

• “Tell Us, When Will These Things Be?”
• 7. What adjusted understanding about the great tribulation has been provided?

  7 However, The Watchtower of January 15, 1970, reexamined Jesus’ prophecy, especially the coming great tribulation. It showed that in view of what happened in the first century, the modern tribulation could not have an opening part in 1914-18, a decades-long interval, and later a resumption. That magazine concluded: “The ‘great tribulation’ such as will not occur again is yet ahead, for it means the destruction of the world empire of false religion (including Christendom) followed by the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty’ at Armageddon.”