In the book "The Nations Shall Know that I Am Jehovah" they prophecied the end to come in the "20th Century". There is also a page where they claim to be prophets but I cannot find it. Does anyone know what page this is on? I have a friend coming to visit and I want to show her this. She is a believing walkaway and I want to help her get free. Thanks
The Nations Shall Know False Prophecy
by bluesapphire 5 Replies latest jw friends
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nicolaou
Hmmmmm.
Not sure about the 'Nations' book bluesapphire - I'll check it out.
However, the Jan' 1st 1989 Watchtower, page 12 made an almost identical point.
Just click the link below. (I couldn't get the image to appear here which is why this post is edited.). http://communities.msn.co.uk/altJehovahsWitnesses/sitephotos.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=25
Nic'
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peterstride
In many past WTS publications, from magazines, to books, to KMs, the WTS had at one point or another said that the world wide preaching work would be reaching its conclusion during the 20th Century and that Armageddon would certainly come during the 20th Century.
Hmmm....maybe if we show the "faithfull" JWs those quotes, they might decide that they don't have to go out in the door to door service anymore! Just a thought. LOL
Peter Stride
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gsark
Chapter 15, par 35 page 291
They may be disturbed by the cry of Christendom that Jehovah's Christian witnesses are "false prophets!" They may not be fully convinced that these are true spokesmen for Jehovah the Sovereign Lord.
Chapter 4
Here, then, since 1914, and particularly since the year 1919, after World War I had ended, we should look for the modern-day counterpart of the prophet Ezekiel.
Who, then, are the group of persons who, toward the beginning of this "time of the end," were commissioned to serve as the mouthpiece and active agent of Jehovah? In order to determine this, check the history of 1919, the first postwar year after the first world war.
Certainly, then, back there in the postwar year of 1919 there were none among the war-guilty religious elements of Jewry and Christendom who qualified to be commissioned as the modern-day counterpart or antitype of Ezekiel. Was there no one, then, whom Jehovah could raise up to serve in a way that corresponded to that of that ancient exile in Babylon? Whom could the real "chariot" of Jehovah's organization roll up to and confront that He might bestow upon this qualified one the commission to speak as a prophet in the name of Jehovah? Ah, there was a group whose members had suffered religious persecution during World War I at the hands of Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, and whose members had, in fact, come out from the religious organizations of Babylon the Great. In fact, they had refused to be a party with Christendom and with all the rest of Babylon the Great in actively taking part in carnal warfare during World War I. Who were they?
Likewise it was a trying mission upon which the modern Ezekiel class was sent, to religious people of the same type as those in Ezekiel's day. But regardless of how Christendom views or regards this group of anointed witnesses of Jehovah, the time must come, and that shortly, when those making up Christendom will know that really a "prophet" of Jehovah was among themAnd lest we misunderstand, the point is made in the review question...
Who were disregarded in the appointment of Ezekiel to be prophet and witness, and from whom do Jehovah's anointed witnesses of today recognize their appointment as coming?
Chapter 5
Certainly, then, the prophetic work that was foreshadowed by the prophet Ezekiel long ago was being carried on by his modern-day counterpart toward the antitypical rebellious "house of Israel."Life is a roller coaster. Get in, sit down, shut up and hang on!
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bluesapphire
Thank you soooo much for your help!!
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Francois
I hope this isn't too late. If you have access to an old copy of the WT index bound book, you can simply look up the word "prophet." One of the sites is to a statement in the WT that flatly states the WTB&TS "...acts as a prophet."
I looked this up about two or three years ago, when I was still welcome in my Dub parent's home. Alas, that's no more, or I'd zip down there and find it for you. But it's there alright. She and I were, um, discussing, whether the GB claimed to be prophets and she was adamant that was not the case. So I drug out the subject index and the referenced bound volume, and BOOM - there it was. End of argument.
Hope that helps.
Franc
Where it is a duty to worship the Sun you can be sure that a study of the laws of heat is a crime.