WT June 2025: We Are Not Blind We Just Don't Know

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  • raymond frantz
    raymond frantz

    https://youtu.be/7XUMqjQ3ZFc?si=ivCG96T4dTgZE4Ft

    So this is from the brand new
    Watchtower Study Edition of June 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title:
    Modestly Accept What You Do Not Know, a
    Let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “Read Matthew 24:36. We do not know when the end of this system of things will come. Even Jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ He later told the apostles that Jehovah, who is the Great Timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority. (Acts 1:6, 7) Jehovah has scheduled the time for the end of this system, but we are not in a position to figure out precisely when that will be.”
    “Because we do not know when the end will come, how might we be affected? In view of what Jesus said, we do not know how long we will have to wait until the end comes. As a result, we might become impatient or discouraged, especially if we have already been waiting for some time for Jehovah’s day. Or we might find it hard to endure ridicule from family members or others. (2 Pet. 3:3, 4) It is possible to feel that if we knew the exact day that the end would come, we would be more patient and we would be able to endure ridicule more easily.”

    It is similar to a divine answering machine. “Thank you for your interest in the end of the world. Jehovah is currently unavailable. Timing is in His own jurisdiction. Please remain faithful and try your call again later.”
    Let’s take a moment to appreciate the poetic irony here. We’re now being told—*again*—that **Jehovah is the Great Timekeeper**, which is adorable considering this organization has spent over a century fumbling with broken clocks. From 1874 to 1914, from 1925 to 1975, from the infamous “generation that will not pass away” to whatever version we’re pretending not to remember today, their timing has been… let’s say, *creatively inaccurate*.
    Now they’ve downgraded their forecast from “We know!” to “Nobody knows—and that’s a good thing!” How convenient. If you can’t give people an ETA, just rebrand your uncertainty as virtue.
    And yes, we’re told Jesus himself didn’t know the day or hour (**Matthew 24:36**), which apparently absolves the Governing Body from ever having to know anything specific, despite their self-appointed status as Jehovah’s exclusive channel. If they know less now than they did in 1975, are we to believe that spiritual “light” works in reverse?
    Then comes the real jewel: **“Jehovah… keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction.’”** This phrase has become Watchtower code for “Don’t ask us. We haven’t got a clue.” It sounds like a divine bureaucratic office, where prophecies are stamped and filed away for later delivery—but only to the back office, not the reception desk. “Yes, Armageddon is scheduled, but it’s above your pay grade. Just keep distributing literature, please.”
    Now, imagine going to a doctor who tells you: "Well, we don’t know when the treatment will work. Or what the outcome will be. Actually, we don’t even know what stage your illness is in. But trust me—your healing is close. In the meantime, take these magazines, knock on doors, and keep showing up for appointments. Just don’t expect test results."
    That doctor would be sued for malpractice. But when the Watchtower says the same thing spiritually, it’s praised as “modesty.”
    And just to keep things emotionally manipulative, they acknowledge the psychological fallout: “We might become impatient or discouraged... we might find it hard to endure ridicule... we would be more patient if we knew the exact day...”
    You don’t say? Perhaps that’s because being in a state of chronic, unresolved spiritual suspense is not actually sustainable. People eventually tire of being told “soon” for decades while the world continues spinning and the Governing Body continues revising its timelines in spiritual white-out.
    But instead of taking responsibility for that fatigue, they turn it back on *you*. If you’re discouraged, it’s not because you’ve been fed a century of failed expectations—it’s because you don’t trust Jehovah enough. See how that works?
    Even more audacious is their implication that **knowing the exact date would somehow be too easy**. As if clarity is cheating, and uncertainty is the noble path. “If we knew when the end would come, we’d be more patient,” they say—as if that’s a problem. Isn’t that *exactly* what Jesus did for his followers in Matthew 24 and 25? Gave them signs, timelines, illustrations to prepare? But no—here, blind faith is repackaged as spiritual discipline.
    Meanwhile, we have **Matthew 15:14 (NWT)** reminding us with chilling clarity:
    > *“Let them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”*
    And the Governing Body wants to guide you—confidently, cheerfully, and perpetually—straight toward that pit, while proudly declaring they can’t see the path ahead. But don’t worry, they’ve got new literature for you in the meantime. You just have to believe harder.
    So what’s the takeaway here? The end is definitely coming—*eventually*. Jehovah knows when, but He’s not telling. Jesus didn’t know, so the Governing Body definitely can’t. Your discouragement is valid, but still your fault. Just keep going. Trust the Great Timekeeper… even though His alarm clock apparently runs on celestial mystery.
    Meanwhile, the Watchtower keeps resetting the countdown and handing out brochures like it's spiritual candy. All the while, millions sit in spiritual waiting rooms, hoping that someday, someone will actually call their name and say, “It’s time.”
    But spoiler alert: if the last hundred years are anything to go by, that call may not come until after the waiting room closes.

  • Sea Breeze
    Sea Breeze
    “Because we do not know when the end will come, how might we be affected?

    My answer: Some may feel let down, even manipulated that after predicting Christ's return on several occaasions, church leadership now says they havent got a clue.

  • NotFormer
    NotFormer

    Thanks for posting that preamble to the old editions of the Awake!, Seabreeze. It truly is a thing of beauty! 😍 😄😅😹

  • Balaamsass2
    Balaamsass2

    lol. After 100+ years of "knowing," they admit they are clueless?

    Blind guides and false prophets.

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    The J.W. org., along with many other sects, ignores the long agreed meaning of "Genea" or Generation, in Jesus words in Matthew and Luke, Vines Expository Dictionary explains that it means what we mean by the word in most instances, a group of people who inhabit together a time that lasts 30 or 40 years, and then the next generation comes along, Vines also explains that it does NOT mean "a time period of indeterminate length".

    By using Eisegesis, reading in to a Text what is NOT there, J.W. org. twist the obvious and plain meaning of Jesus words when he said " this generation", he meant those people standing and listening to him, who were of an age with himself.

    His prediction failed, but to look for a later fulfillment of a prediction that has already failed in a major feature of it is plain silly.

  • LongHairGal
    LongHairGal

    RAYMOND FRANTZ:

    This article had to have been released because of all the complaining of the tired and older JWs that are hanging on!…They didn’t expect to reach senior years in ‘this old system of things’. They feel they should have been in the promised ‘new system’ by now, growing younger by the day.

    I’m Glad I left many years ago after the 1995 Generation teaching. I rid my mind of the religion’s so-called ‘hope’…Even though it sounded nice, I never really bought into it.. Glad I prepared and I take one day at a time. It’s saner that way.

  • raymond frantz
    raymond frantz

    @longhairgal 💯

  • Gorb
    Gorb

    @longhairgal, samen to me, since generation change in 1995, my loyality to jw.org was gone at all, for ever.

    Since 2008, with wife and children POMO, better then ever.

    And still in good contact with jw family, nothing changed. We are lucky and happy.

    Gorby

  • nowwhat?
    nowwhat?

    Wish I had a quarter for every time they said imminent , on the threshold, around the corner, etc etc in my lifetime

  • BoogerMan
    BoogerMan

    Page 15, par. 7 - "We do well to focus on what we do know—that the last days began in 1914." 🤣

    111 years - and counting! (Spoiler alert: 2033 is the year!)

    Can the Borg point to the fulfilment of any of Revelation's prophecies/plagues occurring since 1914?????

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