If I understand your answer to me correctly, there is nothing a person can do physically or financially to prepare for the upcoming financial tribulation that you are predicting.
I am not saying that necessarily. It would be wise to get out of debt and that kind of thing, maybe buy some gold and silver. I think it's wise also to have some food stored up in case of storms, earthquakes, that kind of thing. But what we are facing is not just a depression, or something like that, but in the liklihood of a total global financial blowout, everything goes, even the governments will apparently be brought to their knees, and afterwards take some real draconian measures to try and perpetuate their system a little longer. So there is nothing that has ever occured that can really approximate what will happen when God pulls the plug on this old world. By far then the best preparations are spiritual ones. People are just going to go nuts because they never imagined that the system could so completely and utterly fail, so the spiritual readiness is what Christ advised. Then we will be able to withstand the blow when Jehovah begins to rock the heavens and the earth as a prelude to their total annihilation.
As I understand it, you do not attend meetings and have not gone out in service for many years.
I don't know where you could have gotten that idea. I am a regular meeting attender and am also a high hour publisher and frequent auxillary pioneer. I regular pioneer for a year at a stretch from time to time. I have brought a dozen or so people into the truth and am working on a few right now.
Furthermore, you believe that the WT has misinterpreted the Bible and that you have a better interpretation of prophesy.
I don't at all think that the Watchtower has misrepresented the Bible. Their doctrines are irrefutable. Where they have gotten into problems is when it come to interpreting prophecy. There is a difference. But, even at that, largely their interpretation are just premature. They have laid the foundation necessary for Jehovah to complete the task, which he will do through Christ at his arrival. The reason we are disadvantaged in that regard is because Jehovah only reveals prophecy when it suits his purpose. What I have endeavored to do, is present to those with doubts a Scriptural basis for why God would allow those who are otherwise his servants to get it wrong. The apostasy plays upon the presumption that if those who claim to speak for God misunderstand prophecy that they are automatically disqualified as being the true servants of Jehovah. What I have presented over the years debunks that false idea.
Doesn't all of this comprise apostasy?
You have a wrong idea about my being inactive. As for the prophecies, just recognizing that there is a wrong interpretation doesn't make one an apostate. A true apostate would use such wrongs, whether real or imagined, as a pretext for leaving the truth and drawing others away. My purpose is the opposite. I would point to the judgments of Jehovah hidden deeply within his word, regarding how Jehovah conceals his secrets from his own servants, as a means of persuading some not to so hastily abandon their faith. My pointing to the impending financial blowout is just a means to try to get people to more soberly look at what the world is facing and recognize that all is not as it seems. There are a number of prophecies that I have never, and will never, present in this forum that are why I am convinced that what we see developing is going to ultimately lead into the great tribulation.
Of course apostates have always tried to hang the "apostate" tag on me, but they are not able. It is interesting in our weekly Bible reading in Job, Bildad inferred that Job was an apostate (8:13)and that God was punishing him. I can relate to that accusation.
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