the sheep and the goats31 when the son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 he will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.. .
A google search has provided the following article
http://www.watchman.org/articles/jehovahs-witnesses/watchtower-society-redefines-1914-generation/
Apparently the Society feels that the judgment period has stretched too far. Its been over 80 years since the judgment began in 1914. They are now saying the Bible, "does not show that such judging would continue over an "extended period of many years" (Watchtower, 15 October 1995, p. 22
i actually got a bucket close by and read some of the study ed.
july 13 w.t my first reaction was amazement at how very muddled the whole thing was, i think if i had all those months to write articles since the noo lite was presented at the agm i could make a much better job of arguing the new ideas, and our very own sd7 could do even better !.
for instance, it is claimed in the chart, and the 2nd article i think, that the harvest began in 1914, by whom ?.
Yes, the IF point is really good and I agree that they have made the whole thing confusing even though they had plenty of time to 'prepare' it but that is probably on purpose.
is it true what we're hearing?
it's been reported to us that two elders burst in to a sda church service about a month ago seeking to trap a witness man there.
the man, a witness for 14 years, had become disillusioned with the affairs of the wts in australia after viewing the "sunday" program on channel nine which exposed the cover-up of paedophilia in the witness movement.
Given that one of those shows calls themself a CURRENT Affair, I don't think they would be interested in something that may have happened 8 years ago.
if cedars and simon had a debate about how to run a website and lady lee were the moderator, who would win this debate?.
Yes, no contest. We already had what could be viewed as a debate right here on JWN. Cedars walked away with no further comments to make.
this is literally hot off the press as in from about half an hour ago.. we have a friend from nz (who is wavering and knows our situation) and he is on holiday in japan at the moment.
today there was a zone overseer talk that he went to in nagoya (southern japan) and it has just finished up.
straight after the song and still in the stadium he emailed us the info below.
"Are there Apostates in Japan?"
Possible Sans posts here and is Japanese. I think he/she translates their posts from Japanese into english.
the text i used in my analysis, "the truth changes: watchtower july 15, 2013" comes from the "study" edition of that magazine.. it is still available at: http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes.pdf.
i have now used the text from the "simplified" edition, and it is available at:.
http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes_in_the_simplified_watchtower.pdf.
Watchtower 12 1/15 has this to say regarding the anointed on earth and their role
Where would those in the new covenant serve? On earth, where, as a group, they would serve as a priesthood, representing Jehovah to people by ‘declaring abroad his excellencies’ and providing spiritual food. (Matt. 24:45; 1 Pet. 2:4, 5) After their death and resurrection, they would serve with Christ in heaven as both kings and priests , fully carrying out the functions of both offices. (Luke 22:29; 1 Pet. 1:3-5; Rev. 1:6)
It would appear that the the majority of anointed on earth are a part of the priesthood whose only role is to spread the good news but it makes no sense as the other sheep also have this role.
hahahaha!!!
i predicted this 4 years ago!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyjca1-q60.
Well done, you were right to question the teaching back then, time has shown they were preaching falsely back then. The problem is that the new teaching is even more questionable.
I enjoy your video's and find you clear and direct with your presentations, you have all the makings of an excellant teacher.
now that i am really "awake" at the assemblies i pay more attention to what the borg's traveling enforcers say and the talk he gave was some "new light" on 2 thess.
1:8 (probably his opinion).
paraphrased " there is a thinking that has crept in somehow in the minds of some brothers over the years that because jehovah is a merciful &loving god he will not destroy those who have not been reached with the good news in different parts of the world or my family or bible studies need just a little more time, well they need to read this script.. .
"because the GB tells me to report my time!"
That was quick. It was only a matter of time before they used they're newly created interpretation of the FDS to weild their power.
No doubt they believe that as they are the only ones who have ever been appointed as the FDS (from 1919) there is no precedent set by any biblical character/s as to how they are to carry out their governing. But they conveniantly forget that they have only approved themselves to carry out spiritual feeding, nothing more.
i caught yet another revisionist history deception in todays wt lesson.. .
here is a quote from paragraph 4 of the 2/15/13 study edition.
"decades before 1914, jehovah's worshippers declared to the nations that the end of "the appointed times of the nations" would come in that year and that the world would enter into an unequaled period of trouble.".
Good on you Sahs for making that comment at the Watchtower study, no doubt it went over a many people's heads.
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Eden one
"I find really strange that the GB presents the understanding of the start of the 'Great Tribulation' being a future event as "new light", when the "old light" it supposedly replaces has alreaby been abandoned for well over 40 years and the understanding of the start of the "Great Tribulation" as a future event has been around for decades already."
It is strange and makes reading their articles all the more difficult. It has to be deliberate and it is probably to stop the flow of free thought. I think they've done a similar thing with the idea of when the bible is talking about Christ's presence as opposed to his coming.
How is a JW able to understand the 'deeper spiritual things' if they've got to go back over old teachings and work out how the new changes differ and on what basis.
