elderwho, You asked >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. Jw Ben: the article is talking about the end of 6000 years of mas excistance on earth. Well then did man continue to exist on earth, weeks or months after that statement?? 8/15/68 )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) No where in that article did they say, as you infer, that man kind would cease to excist. They simply said that it was most likely the aniverasry of mans creation within nonths not years of '75. They do not say man will ever stop existing.
When is the world going to end?
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*** w68 8/15 p. 499 Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975? *** Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man?s existence on earth.
Jw Ben....... No where in that article did they say, as you infer, that man kind would cease to excist. They simply said that it was most likely the aniverasry of mans creation within nonths not years of '75. They do not say man will ever stop existing.
So then, the passing of 1975 means we are now in mans seven thousand years of existence.
Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God 1968 :
To give aid today in this critical time to prospective sons of God," announced President Knorr, "a new book in English, entitled ?Life Everlasting?in Freedom of the Sons of God,? has been published." At all assembly points where it was released, the book was received enthusiastically. Crowds gathered around stands and soon supplies of the book were depleted. Immediately its contents were examined. It did not take the brothers very long to find the chart beginning on page 31, showing that 6,000 years of man?s existence end in 1975. Discussion of 1975 overshadowed about everything else. "The new book compels us to realize that Armageddon is, in fact, very close indeed," said a conventioner. Surely it was one of the outstanding blessings to be carried home!
The fact that fifty-four years of the period called the "last days" have already gone by is highly significant.It means that only a few years, at most remain before the corrupt sustem of things dominating the earth is distroyed by God.
Awake! 10/8/68, page 13.
In 1968 the WTBTS cited a 1960 report which said " the world would be too dangerous to live in" in how many years?? Look at the following quote:
Many men who study world events are convinced that a great change is definitely in the making. The famous writer Walter Lippmann said: "For us all the world is disorderly and dangerous, ungoverned and apparently ungovernable. Everywhere there is great anxiety and bewilderment." He added that all this "marks, I believe, the historic fact that we are living through the closing chapters of the established and traditional way of life." Also as reported back in 1960, a former United States Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, declared that our time is "a period of unequaled instability, unequaled violence." And he warned: "I know enough of what is going on to assure you that, in fifteen years from today, this world is going to be too dangerous to live in."
WT 9/15/1968 page 551.In 1981 the same Watchtower cites the 1960 report and said "the world would be too dangerous to live in" when????? Look at the following quote:
Many men who study world events are convinced that a great change is definitely in the making. The famous writer Walter Lippmann said: "For us all the world is disorderly and dangerous, ungoverned and apparently ungovernable. Everywhere there is great anxiety and bewilderment." He added that all this "marks, I believe, the historic fact that we are living through the closing chapters of the established and traditional way of life." Also, as reported back in 1960, a former United States Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, declared that our time is "a period of unequaled instability, unequaled violence." Based on what he knew was then going on in the world, it was his conclusion that soon "this world is going to be too dangerous to live in."
Truth Book 1981 Chapter paragraph 9
According to the individual copy of the WT 1/1/1989 The apostle Paul laid a foundation to be completed when?????
But the bound volume of the Watchtower 1/1/1989 says this work will be completed when?????? About 47-48 C.E., God, through holy spirit, indicated a decisive move for the expansion of the missionary work. The record at Acts 13:2-4 tells us: "The holy spirit said: ?Of all persons set Barnabas and Saul apart for me for the work to which I have called them.? . . . Accordingly these men, sent out by the holy spirit, went down to Seleucia [the seaport of Syrian Antioch], and from there they sailed away to Cyprus." How thrilling that must have been for Paul and Barnabas?sailing to their first foreign assignment! The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our day.8 About 47-48 C.E., God, through holy spirit, indicated a decisive move for the expansion of the missionary work. The record at Acts 13:2-4 tells us: "The holy spirit said: ?Of all persons set Barnabas and Saul apart for me for the work to which I have called them.? . . . Accordingly these men, sent out by the holy spirit, went down to Seleucia [the seaport of Syrian Antioch], and from there they sailed away to Cyprus." How thrilling that must have been for Paul and Barnabas?sailing to their first foreign assignment! The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century.
JwBen can you explain these shifting sands.