by RunningMan 18 Replies latest jw friends
Rubadub: You're right! I went back and reread those books, and I hereby recant my earlier post. Jebus really did arrive invisibly in 1914. How could I have missed it?
I'm just trying to understand if it was pride or materialism that made me do it. Perhaps I have had a brush with demonism.
Chronology is alive and well !Rubadub, I believe you are correct in this statement.
I ve been studying with an elder for over a year and recently re-visited 607,539, 455, 33CE,1914. This elder holds to these dates because he has to. Ive shown him from the NWT the way Jeremiah statements coinside with 2Kings which interlocks with 2Chronicles and ties in with Daniel.
But it just doesnt matter. I can tell in his expresions he just does not want to deal with this subject when pushed.
I keep assuring him I want these dates to work for him. He continues to press me in that I should move on and just accept these dates given by the society.
So yes chronology is alive and well. So sad.
They're banging away at it again in the March Watchtower.
RunningMan
Do not despair for the Socie'ty'"s chronology is as sound as a bell. The dates for the Fall of Jerusalem as 607 and 1914 for the beginning and end of the Gentile Times are verifiable. It is well pleasing that the faithful slave continues to advance these biblical and prophetic dates despite great opposition from apostates and those who do not love God's Word.
scholar
BA MA Studies in Religion
If their idea of chronology had been right then Armageddon would have been and gone by now.
Instead they keep moving the goalposts. First it was people old enough to understand the events of 1914 who would still be alive at the end. Then it was children. Then it was babies. Now the generation of 70 - 80 years no longer applies. Now subtly they are hinting at 120 years for a generation, because an end-time cult needs a 'date' to keep the rank and file in order.
This chronology is no more. It has ceased to be. It is a stiff. Bereft of life. This is an ex-chronology.
I sure am glad that scholar came to the rescue on this topic. He is the best person on this board to fully represent the Watchtower position. He constantly searches the board for any post that has ?607? or ?destruction Jerusalem? in it and then tells everyone that the Watchtower has proven beyond a doubt that the date is correct and all apostates are from Satan.
I would like to think that chronology is dead, but with the comments of 2034 at one of the recent meetings I would think that it might rear its ugly head once again. There have been recent topics on this new date, on this discussion board, and I have followed them. I have, however, noticed the enthusiasm of the dubs when they talk about the new date and the short amount of time for this wicked system. It is something of a rejuvenation of their beliefs and gives them something tangible to look forward to, but time will tell if it will work or not. I think that some have come to the conclusion that 607 BCE might be a bad date and that might become the undoing.
I am encouraged by Elsewhere?s comment that fewer people are listening to the message because of the saturation level of families and people who have been hurt by their destructive methods. I have run into people who have been shunned by the org and now freely talk about their methods.
Very interesting post Running Man!
Interesting Post, Runningman.
To a non-JW, all this chronology is just one more wacky, oddball thing about the Watchtower.
All those dates makes my head spin!
