Don't tell me.
Armageddon is closer now than ever before!
LEAKED ANNUAL MEETING VIDEO :EXPECT SUDDEN CHANGES: JEFFREY JACKSON
by raymond frantz 42 Replies latest jw friends
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Ding
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Beth Sarim
Armageddon is as ""soon"" as its always been.
Generations have been victims of this. Lives taken away.
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blondie
Armageddon is "very soon now" per WTS.
2023
Very soon now, that day will be here, and Jehovah will destroy every part of Satan’s world.
2013
Very soon now, that day will be here, and Jehovah will destroy every part of Satan’s world.
2008
Very soon now, what Jesus called the “great tribulation” will occur. (Read Matthew 24:21.)
Back to 1951
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Beth Sarim
There was some WT publication circa 1950s that the ""end is coming immediately"".
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Vanderhoven7
Sigh...Armageddon was in 70 A.D.
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blondie
Beth Sarim, I find quotes saying the end is not immediately. But a word often used is "threshold" we are the threshold of the new world. I'll keep checking
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blondie
https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/quotes/end-soon.php This is more in-depth of the various words and times the WTS has said the equivalent of very soon.
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Beth Sarim
Except that this ""threshold" is perpetually pushed back.
Moving the goalposts.
But good work Blondie !!!
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careful
It's interesting that they are hanging on to quite a bit of Fred Franz's theology here with Revelation & with the end coming in general, while jettisoning a lot of his other stuff, like his subscribing to some dumb Fundamentalist-oddball theory of Hebrew verbs ("proceeded to ask ..."), "torrent valleys," transliterating Sheol/Hades, as well as his complex type-antitype interpretations.
It makes me wonder just what the criteria are and are not. Maybe Jackson just went thru Freddie's NWT and other WTS theological doctrines and decided whether he liked it or not, similar to Splane's comments in an earlier WTS AM, "We like this idea!"
It seems that little to no real research is going on with GJ and his buddies, beyond looking at how "Christendom's" Bible translators rendered the Hebrew and Greek texts and adopting many of their translations. At least Freddie, oddball that he was, did some sort of research.
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KerryKing
I think the people of Gaza would say that Armageddon is already here 😥