Where is the evidence for this? What about their widespread persecution in Western countries during WW2 when they truly believed the end was imminent and their growth was exponential.
Steve, as I mentioned in my post,
There's a saying on Wall St. "past performance is not an indicator of future results"
In other words, just because, in the past, it worked like that, is no guaranty that it will work that way now.
Also, dubs do "expect persecution to increase leading up to the end" as you say, however, their ability to tolerate it is not the same as it was in yesteryear, when the WT teachings seemed to 'make sense' ...sorta', and had a sense of believability. The "generation teaching" seemed to add up and dubs put confidence in it.
Not so much anymore. The organization, and the hearts of the dubs, has been hallowed out, this being hard to quantify but it is palpable.
Today, dubs are going door to door and not knocking, faking service. This is a huge thing.
I see dubs faking all aspects of dub life. The sincerity level is way low.
I do not see dubs tolerating opposition similar to our granpa's generation.
No sir.
And the persecution they 'expect', according to WT dogma, comes after Christendom goes down in flames. Not before. Dubs today expect a fluffy ride. Their GB exalted ones cannot fail them. Until they do.
No, I think that the common dub knows about all the persecution during WW2 and their thinking is that it was a phase, one that is finished, in the rear view mirror. And today, dubs are headed toward Panda Town.
Today's dubs are like "rice Christians", they got sold the nice panda tract at their front door and joined thinking it's all good.
Nobody had a dub come to their door and say 'hey, want to be persecuted'??
