Does anyone know ANY Watchtower bible prediction that has come to pass?

by Elsewhere 21 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  ???
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  mkr32208

  Everyone turning against the watchtower is one that is about to come to pass!
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  the_classicist

  Well they've made so many predictions, I think that there might at least be one (statistically speaking). Although the King of the North (USSR) and the King of the South (USA) never went to war (I forget which book that was in).
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  Neo

  One of their prophecies is being fulfilled!

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  Paradise Restored to Mankind By Theocracy 1972, Pages 353 & 354 ***

  Jehovah, the God of the true prophets, will put all false prophets to shame either by not fulfilling the false prediction of such self-assuming prophets or by having His own prophecies fulfilled in a way opposite to that predicted by the false prophets. False prophets will try to hide their reason for feeling shame by denying who they really are.

  Neo
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  orangefatcat

  " whats the disgusting thing causing desolation in the Holy place?" The WTBS with the UN.

  Ofc.
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  one

  A real hard question.

  But what can you expect from a delusioned religious leader such as Freddy Franz? (the latest wt real tacit official prophet)
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  IP_SEC

  That the Leage of extraordinary Nations would rise again? Opps that one was common knowledge by the time ruthy gave that talk.

  Oh I got one, 1914 Christ would begin ruling as king of the kingdom... Well not THE kingdom because THE kingdom lasts for a thousand years past the big A... What's that you say? 1874? What you mean the 1914 kingdom wasnt a prediction? After the fact? What are you talking about? You must be an apostate.

  Sorry I have MPD

  IPSec
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  Neo

  Yeah, there's actually a WT prophecy that has actually "come to pass", the "rising" of the UN.

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  w89 4/15 p. 14 The Infamous Harlot?Her Destruction ***

  John here sees in vision a combination of such rulerships?"a scarlet-colored wild beast." This is the man-made League of Nations that appeared on the world scene in 1920 but plunged into an abyss of inactivity when World War II erupted in 1939. What, though, is "the mystery of the woman and of the wild beast"?

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  By divine providence, Jehovah?s Witnesses received enlightenment on that mystery in 1942. World War II was then raging at its height, and many thought it would escalate into Armageddon. But Jehovah had a different thought! There was still much work for his Witnesses to do! At their New World Theocratic Assembly of September 18-20, 1942, with the key city Cleveland, Ohio, tied in with 51 other locations in the United States, Nathan H. Knorr, president of the Watch Tower Society, gave the public talk, "Peace?Can It Last?" Therein he reviewed Revelation 17:8, which says of the "scarlet-colored wild beast" that it "was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss, and it is to go off into destruction." He showed how the League of Nations "was" from 1920 to 1939. Then the "is not" stage was reached because of the League?s demise. But after World War II, this combine of nations would ascend out of the abyss. Was that Bible-based forecast fulfilled? Truly it was! In 1945 the international "wild beast" emerged from its abyss of inactivity as the United Nations.

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  kc chap. 17 p. 166 The King Fights at Armageddon ***

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  What composite "beast" has appeared in these "last days," and what has been its performance on the world stage? At an international convention of Jehovah?s Witnesses in 1942, the public talk entitled "Peace?Can It Last?" called attention to the prophecy at Revelation 17:7, 8. The speaker, Watch Tower president N. H. Knorr, identified "the wild beast that . . . was" as the League of Nations?brought forth in 1920. But now, in that wartime year of 1942, he stated: "The League is in effect in a state of suspended animation, and needs to be revived if it is ever to live again. It has gone into the abyss of inaction and ineffectiveness. It ?is not.?" President Knorr went on to show that "the wild beast that . . . was, but is not, . . . is about to ascend out of the abyss, and it is to go off into destruction." True to the Bible prophecy, that "beast" was revived in 1945 as the United Nations.

  Big deal. Foreseeing the UN's appeareance was not a hard prediction to make back in 1942.
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  IP_SEC

  He [Roosevelt] moved to create a "grand alliance" against the Axis powers through "The Declaration of the United Nations," January 1, 1942, in which all nations fighting the Axis agreed not to make a separate peace and pledged themselves to a peacekeeping organization (now the United Nations) on victory.

  http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html

  Mr Roosvelt was talking about the UN by Jan of 1942 was he not?

  What was the date of the talk?
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  Mary

  The only one I can think of is in the late 1800's, Charles Russell predicted that the Jews would one day return to Palestine. The Booze Rutherford came along and decided to change it. As we know, the Jews did return to their homeland in 1948. So technically they got one right, but they discounted it before it came to pass, so they screwed themselves there too.............