In modern times such eagerness, commendable in itself, has led to attempts at setting dates for the desired liberation from the suffering and troubles that are the lot of persons throughout the earth. With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God, and its comments as to how appropriate it would be for the millennial reign of Christ to parallel the seventh millennium of man’s existence, considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. There were statements made then, and thereafter, stressing that this was only a possibility. Unfortunately, however, along with such cautionary information, there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones and contributed to a buildup of the expectation already initiated.
In its issue of July 15, 1976, The Watchtower, commenting on the inadvisability of setting our sights on a certain date, stated: “If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.” In saying “anyone,” The Watchtower included all disappointed ones of Jehovah’s Witnesses, hence including persons having to do with the publication of the information that contributed to the buildup of hopes centered on that date.
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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OUTLAW,
Jesus is in full control, His God has given him all authority in heaven and earth,
that is according to my bible and what I have learned from the Witnesses, if you think I shot my self in the
"foot" (let's clean it up)...........
¿What relationship does waiting on Jehovah God have with weather Jesus is in control or not? -
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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THEFINGER,
Jehovah witnesses and the WATCHTOWER, have never claimed to be recipients of new prophecy, The witnesses work with what is written there
THe problem with 1975 was that it was an article in awake and people got carried away with it but the watchtower never
Wrote that Armageddon wld come in that year. Just too much information that caused people lots of grief, people are desperate for a change, especially those who respond to the message of Christ and His kingdom.
Focusing on the wrong thing, we have lots of people that need bible studies, in the preaching work here where I live , they stop us on the street and ask for the latest mags and a bible study -
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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If someone got kicked out it was not for following the bible, it seems to me it was not necessary to kick people out they left, they left because their goal was not the kingdom and God's sovereignty, people were looking to the future, to a world much different than this, people got exited, But against ones that sat quietly and read their biblical knew that all this wld bow over.
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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Sebastious, Rebellion is black and white, yr either with us or against us
30 He that is not on my side is against me, and he that does not gather with me scatters.
Mat 12:30
If you are at work and rebel against the boss yr gone, this applies to all groups, they are formed for people w something in common, if you disagree with the group you no longer have something in common with the group, you will either try to change it or accept it as it is no other choice -
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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Chalenge, no no chanlenge, we are brothers no enemies, we are all looking 4 the same thing
The truth, and to obay Jehovah God.
No need to chalenge our brothers, study and discuss yes. humbly and with a good motive at heart
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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6 I marvel that YOU are being so quickly removed from the One who called YOU with Christ’s undeserved kindness over to another sort of good news. 7 But it is not another; only there are certain ones who are causing YOU trouble and wanting to pervert the good news about the Christ
The apostle Paul wrote with strong conviction about the provision for salvation that God had made through Jesus Christ. He declared that if anyone was to declare to the Galatians something beyond what they had learned, something that was actually a different teaching, “let him be accursed.” Then, pointing to the source of the good news that he declared, Paul stated: “Neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, except through revelation by Jesus Christ.” (Ga 1:8, 11, 12) This strong declaration was necessary, for even then there were some who were trying to overthrow the true faith by preaching ‘another good news.’ (2Co 11:4; Ga 1:6, 7) Paul warned of an apostasy to come and stated that ‘the mystery of lawlessness’ was already at work; he admonished Christians to remember the purpose of the good news and to stand firm and maintain their hold on the spirit-guided traditions they had learned through the apostles.—2Th 2:3, 7, 14, 15;Faithfulness in holding on to and continuing to proclaim the good news was counted by Jesus as more important than one’s present life, and Paul recognized that faithfully declaring it was vital.
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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JWFACTS,
It is not that easy to disfellowship one of our brothers, and specially just because he is asking a question about doctrine,
now in any group, if you don't agree with them, after discussing the matter you can either try to change everyone opinion right away or wait be patient, Jesus is in control.
Obviously if you rebel and try to have it yr way yr going to get ousted -
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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VILLABOLO, u need to chill big time, We should all go sell our houses end dedicate ourselves to preaching,
but not everybody can do that, but IT'S a good goal to have, on the post the I answered before, the gentleman said that 1975 and Armageddon was their focus, the focus should be on Jehovah and not us or the end, I just got out my bible it says that not even the son knows the date
¿Why would you think that the watchtower WOULD have knowledge Jesus does not have, end of story, case closed on that, no one can say any different.
So basically, because people did not stick to the bible and its message it all got out of control for some, not for the ones that relied on the scriptures -
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I'm a very happy witness of Jehovah
by ELPIRO ini kinda figured i would read many negative things concerning jw, i was not disapointed............ i say if you ae not happy not just in the jw, but anywhere, life it too short move on.. .
i myself am a wittness, an anointed witnes .
there is no shame is sharing yr hope and i am varry happy with mine.
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I am sorry I could not reply sooner but I just signed in as a new member and am only allowed 10 postings, we could designate the medical profession a false prophet, it advances with time, it gains knowledge, ¿who could have known? Progress……..
All of the anointed are far past the 1935 date, we all knew tat was wrong but we did not make a fuss, we partook because we knew what was up. We obeyed God.
We knew that the time would come when the matter would be resolved, if I would have left I would not have seen the correction.
The Watchtower is not the Vatican, where they are infallible. We all make mistakes.
The Watchtower never said that the end was coming in 1975. and if they had I would have believed the bible which states no one knows the date of the end.
The Organization has brought us the truth that we know today, the history of the organization shows a dedicated group of people trying to do god’s will. That is all.
I am very happy and very honored to be one of JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES-.
Another thing I wish to point out is that it seems to me that some of you quote the WATCHTOWER and what it says as it was the bible, it is not, it is written by a group of imperfect men. Bible FIRST, Then the WATCHTOWER. The bible does not make mistakes, the Watchtower Does
Abledbodiedman, The witnesses are Christian, salvation gained by accepting Christ as lord and savior, and recognizing the authority that has been given to him by his God and father JEHOVAH, I am sure you will share but as far as I know, the WATCHTOWER HAS NEVER, claimed that salvation can be obtained without Christ. Now you will either agree or show me I am wrong.
Thetrueone: We never hear of those people that oppose war, they would have been imprisoned with the witnesses, check history, there is no mention of any other organized religious org that taught to obtain from killing, some may have been imprisoned for political reasons but it is well known that Christendom has fornicated with the kings of the world.
SLAVE PLURAL-SINGLE: “Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?”—Matt. 24:45.
“Domestics” are house servants or slaves. As members of God’s household, such would be fed as a group, working with one another, knowing, associating with and helping one another. We will note, as we consider Jesus’ illustrative statement, that the term “slave” (singular number) here considers all the house servants together as a body, and that the expression “domestics” (plural) views them as individuals.
This view of a group of people, yes, even of a whole nation, as a slave or servant, was not new to Jesus’ disciples. Jehovah God himself had spoken several times to the nation of Israel as his servant. He said: “You, O Israel, are my servant, you, O Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend; you, whom I have taken hold of from the extremities of the earth, and you, whom I have called even from the remote parts of it. And so I said to you, ‘You are my servant; I have chosen you, and I have not rejected you.’” (Isa. 41:8, 9) Making clear that this composite “servant” is made up of many individuals, the Creator said to the nation of Israel : “‘You are my witnesses,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘even my servant whom I have chosen.’ . . . And now listen, O Jacob my servant, and you, O Israel, whom I have chosen. This is what Jehovah has said, . . . ‘Have I not from that time on caused you individually to hear and told it out? And you are my witnesses.’”—Isa. 43:10; 44:1-8; also 42:19; 44:21; 48:20; 49:3; Jer. 30:10.