matthew 24:14 and this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.. ________________.
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Hope you don't mind Terry but I re-posted your opening post on two Delphi forums giving full credit to you of course.
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matthew 24:14 and this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.. ________________.
north americaninformal.
noun.
Considering how 'recent' this event was, we should be flabbergasted at how easily Jehovah's Witnesses have been able to escape unscathed from such publicity.
We can surely state this with confidence: if it had happened in the age of the Internet, it would have made the Organization a laughingstock on a scale 100 times greater.
As it is, this is the best possible true propaganda to use against them.
The claims made in the"Truth" book were outrageous exaggerations which didn't stand up to the falsification of a mere eight years!
Entire paragraphs were rewritten or replaced.
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"By 1975 civil disorder, anarchy, military dictatorships, runaway inflation, transportation breakdowns and chaotic unrest will be the order of the day in many of the hungry nations."
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Compare all of this nonsense with what was said in 1955:
"The very fact that, as part of Jehovah's secret, no one today is able to find out how much time Adam and later Eve lived during the closing days of the sixth creative period, so no one can now determine when six thousand years of Jehovah's present rest day come to an end."
matthew 24:14 and this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.. ________________.
north americaninformal.
noun.
Matthew 24:14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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In 1968, Jehovah’s Witnesses published a little blue book, The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life.
Inside the book, a controversial claim was made about the year 1975.
Specifically, it was stated 1975 would be “The end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on Earth.” _________
For the next 8 years, Jehovah’s Witnesses distributed 65 million of those books worldwide (for a contribution of .25 cents. (That’s about 16 million $$ dollars worth.) https://news.google.com/newspapersnid=1346&dat=19741218&id=caROAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0PoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7210,5306041
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HOW MANY people were actually warned about this phony boondoggle event?
For those 8 years of “warning” about the impending doom involving worldwide famine and overpopulation, the best Jehovah's Witnesses could do was sell 65 million books, with millions of people yet to be born even while the parents of those babies still were reading them!
18,144,000 babies were born while Jehovah's Witnesses were "warning" about 1975.
WE NEED TO ASK a logical question at this point. Since the majority of Earth’s population weren’t reached:
HOW EFFECTIVE was this ‘warning’?
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Let’s create a “best case” scenario just for the sake of a thought experiment, shall we?
Currently, we’ll say there are 8 million JW’s worldwide, each spending 10 hours a month.
The current population of Earth is 7 BILLION!
How effective can Jehovah’s Witnesses be failing to reach the other 6 Billion each month?
But wait--there’s more!
Women are pregnant all over the world. Every day women are getting pregnant and giving birth.
There are 9 months worth of babies on the way at any moment in time, or (5,013,000 pending).
Each day = 216,000 babies born
Each month = 657,000 babies born
WHAT’s WRONG with this PICTURE?
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The obvious conclusion is this: it is mathematically impossible to fulfill Matthew 24: 14 If God truly was using Jehovah’s Witnesses!
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Note: The little blue book, when reprinted, no longer contained doomsday predictions! Why? Not only was 1975 not the year of worldwide famine and overpopulation, it wasn’t marked by the commencement of the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ! All those man hours were spent on FALSE PROPHECY!
The entire 8 years spent by every member of Jehovah’s Witnesses contacting as many people and baptizing them as quickly as possible was ALL FOR NOTHING unless you count the $16 million dollars made off the contributions for the books or the increase in membership under false pretenses. Honestly, this was all an enormous waste of everybody’s time, energy, and efforts.
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Who set this worthless activity into motion? Where else could such an embarrassing historical failure be rewarded like this? It was the leadership of Jehovah’s Witnesses under Nathan H. Knorr and Fred Franz. Subsequently, Knorr died and Franz was promoted to the Presidency of the Watchtower Organization.
If you ask any member of Jehovah’s Witnesses today about these events they’ll give you a blank stare and shrug it off as mere propaganda created by former members lying and exaggerating.
But, we know who the real liars are and how feckless their activities are, don’t we?
it's interesting to me anyway to see what the bible says the timeline of mankind is in relation to reality.
abraham was born roughly 2000 bce .
let's think about this for a moment.
The fonts don't reproduce when you copy and paste, so go to the link:
http://www.millingtonumconthefox.org/oldtest_files/oldtestrev7.html
the kingdom of god is already begun, which is pointed out in prophecy as due to begin the exercise of power in a.d. 1878, and that the "battle of the great day of god almighty" which will end in 1914 with the complete overthrow of the earth's present rulership, is already commenced.. i just did the math....and russell was right.
christ returned invisibly in 1874 and took rulership (restored kingdom reign) in 1878.. 2520 years minus 607 when jerusalem was destroyed = 1913 (accounting for no year zero) = 1914. that`s 2520 - 607 = 2014. but wait, that`s 2520 prophetic years of 360 days, not solar days of 365.25 days.
to convert to solar days then one must multuiply 2520 x 365.25 which gives us 2,484 actual years.
Pastor Russell pointed to 1799 as the beginning of the “time of the end,” not 1914. For Russell 1914 was the end of the Gentile Times and the end of the time of trouble.
in 1879, he started publishing Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (not coming).
The rapture was to take place in 1878. When it failed to transpire, Russell split with Barbour and went off on his own.
(http://pastorrussell.blogspot.com/2010/06/pastor-russell-and-henry-dunn-1801-1878.html)
Russell believed that Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and that he had been ruling from the heavens since that date.
He predicted that a period known as the "Gentile Times" would end in 1914 and that Christ would assume power of Earth's affairs at that time. He interpreted the outbreak of World War I as the beginning of Armageddon.
there are more jws than scientologists.
jws shun their ex-members, too, and have beliefs just as weird.
we also have had our celebrities .... michael jackson, prince.
Before there was a Lafayette Ron Hubbard, there was a Joseph Franklin Rutherford, to be sure! Each in his own way was a nasty piece of business.
If we (all of us today) were living during the Rutherford era, the Judge could easily have been exposed as a cult leader. However . . . the modern concept of a cult has been slow to develop and it takes the era of the internet and World Wide Web and Television to reach enough people with such an expose'.
The newspapers were the only tool in the toolbox way back a century ago for exposing reckless, crooked, pathology in organized religion.
The newspaper, The Brooklyn Eagle, led the charge against Russell and Rutherford. You can visit the archives and dig out all sorts of remarkable revelations about these hucksters.
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Today, the tolerance of the public at large for wacky religious racketeering is rather high and it is difficult to shock anybody with revelations of malfeasance. TV evangelists and their money-mongering is old news.
Child molestation by priests is old news.
Doomsday cults with failed predictions are old news.
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What makes Scientology such an interesting subject is as others have commented here.
Science Fiction writers don't often invent religions based on Gnosticism and pure imagination.
Religious practitioners don't usually employ gizmos with galvanic skin response detectors to uproot and expose hidden demons.
Religious leaders don't usually hide from the limelight like Howard Hughes or make war against the I.R.S. and win!
Religious dissidents aren't usually imprisoned by their leaders for years at a time voluntarily!
How many religious centers in big cities have successfully co-opted the local police department?
Top box-office stars aren't usually spokesmen for religion.
And on and on. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk7ertncbsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhcparuzpc
The most iconic conspiracy theorist on Earth, David Icke shares his views on Prince:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhcparuzpc
And the hits just keep on comin'
" Carver County judge sealed the search warrant in the investigation of Prince’s death.
The request was made by County Attorney Mark Metz. He stated in his request that the premature disclosure of the details contained in the warrant may compromise the law enforcement investigation by causing the search or related searches to be unsuccessful. He added the release of the information could also create a substantial risk of injury to an innocent person or persons or severely hamper the ongoing investigation.
“Due to Prince’s status of having been an iconic popular music superstar, there is and will be continued intense media scrutiny upon the manner and circumstances of Prince’s death,” Metz said in his argument to seal the warrant, and any related documents.
District Judge Eric Braaten ordered the document remain locked up until commencement of any criminal proceedings or 180 days from the date of Thursday’s order."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhcparuzpc
I said I would NOT post this until I saw it on DRUDGE REPORT.
Well, I just saw it.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/prince-dead-aids-cause-of-death/
