How did you imagine Armageddon?

by JH 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  JH

  When you were a JW, how did you imagine Armageddon would be like? Did you imagine it would be short, long? I remember some saying that they would live in beautiful houses that God spared, just for them.

  Then, I imagined that it would last weeks, maybe months, at least like the 40 days of the flood. I imagined that God wanted people to suffer for a while so that they would know he was "Jehovah". Other thought it would last only an hour or so...

  I figured that it would take many years just to clean up the mess.

  How did you imagine it would be like?
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  sens

  Quik...Fireballs from heaven...and all that...earthquakes...the works
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  Gopher

  I thought of buildings falling over and people trying to hide in caves and mountains, and an angel surrounding each group of God's people to protect them from the mass destruction. And I thought/ hoped it would all be over with in 1 day. Like the scripture that said "go into your inner room for a brief time while I bring destruction on the wicked" or something similar. If it went on for days and weeks, it would be way too frightening, so I thought.

  And then afterward, the electricity wouldn't work. Cars would run out of gas. We'd go back to subsistence living, and the days of horse-and-carriage.
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  BluesBrother

  I tried not to think about it too hard - Typical dub "Wait on Jehovah, and leave it to him"

  If pushed, I would have said it would be as depicted in the Society's artwork , although I never would commit myself as to how long it would last. The latter re think about about Matt 24.30 "Sign of son of man appearing in heaven" made me believe it would take significant time.

  When I did get to really think about it, I realised that it just cannot be true, our Father would never do a thing like that . Thats when the penny dropped and I was on my way out
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  blondie

  I kept asking my mother how God was going to destroy the bad people and not the good people.

  Blondie
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  Brummie

  Sky changing colour, purple red, thunderous sounds, earth cracking and opening up, fire coming from within the gaps..just the usual really

  Brummie
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  Valis

  Talk about loco in the cabeza!

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  Stacy Smith

  I guess I was a born skeptic. I never imagined it at all. It sounded like a very negative minded fairy tale.
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  greven

  I imagined a huge finger protruding from the sky, a deep voice saying "Thy wicked folk, pull my finger!" followed by a huge thunderous fart and everybody choking to death.

  Greven
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  DanTheMan

  I imagined it this way:

  Some terrible episode in the middle east, combined with the collapse of the U.S. economy, the result of these combined events being world chaos and "anguish of nations". Then, the ascension of a now ruthless and dictatorial UN as a totalitarian socialist world government. The first action of this new government would be outlawing religion, forcing JW's underground while everyone else surrenders to the NWO without a fight.

  Then , once things have settled a bit, a big outcry of "peace and security" (I hate seeing those words in print because they are triggers for me)

  Then the big A, which I imagined as some sorta magic where everyone not JW would just die in an instant, but I tried not to think about that part of it too much.

  Nowadays, I just try to keep my mind on my own personal matters and hope against hope that somehow humanity will make it through this century relatively intact. Which almost seems like a laughable notion! But then again Chuckie Russell was saying the same thing around this time 100 years ago, so maybe my pessimism is unfounded. I hope so!