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Hi guys today im considering the second part from David Schafer's recent talk, where he goes through a few prophetic signs of the End and the most up to date understanding of the Watchtower, I did cover on my last video the most up to date understanding on the "Hailstone message" please go back and watch it and today im considering this very dangerous understanding the Watchtower has developed recently that things can not get any worse. Of course, that's what happens when you isolate yourself as leadership from the daily struggle of your membership and you live carefree life in leafy upstate New York eirh everything paid for.
This is another attempt from the Watchtower to lule you into a false sense of security.They say Don't worry things will not get as bad as you think, you can still have your Bible studies and return calls even during the time of the End, this is dangerous and reminds me the verse where the false prophets of Israel were crying "Peace,Peace but there is no peace".So let's hear it from the horse's mouth....
So here is the paragraph in question that David Schafer is referring to from August 15 ,2015. Watchtower:
"But how bad do you expect conditions to become before “the great tribulation”? (Rev. 7:14) For example, do you expect that there will be a war in every country, no food on anyone’s table, and illness in every household? Under those conditions, even sceptics would likely feel compelled to admit that Bible prophecy was undergoing fulfilment. However, Jesus said that most people would take “no note” of his presence, carrying on with life’s normal activities until it is too late. (Read Matthew 24:37-39.) Thus, the Scriptures indicate that world conditions during the last days would not become so extreme that people would be forced to believe that the end is near.—Luke 17:20; 2 Pet. 3:3, 4.
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This understanding is based on the Watchtower take that we're already living in the last days since 1914, if this true that raises a major question: If this is the "last days," why does the world still look like business as usual most of the time? Sure, we’ve seen wars, pestilences, and famines since 1914, but does that really measure up to the catastrophes described in the Bible? Not even close.
Let’s start with Matthew 24:37-39, where Jesus compares the last days to the time of Noah. He said people would be eating, drinking, marrying, and generally living life as if nothing unusual was happening—until disaster struck. The argument that world conditions won’t become extreme enough to wake people up is partly true. Many will be oblivious. But that doesn’t mean things won’t get unimaginably worse.
For example, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in Revelation 6:1-8. These symbolic riders aren’t just a mild inconvenience—they represent conquest, war, famine, and death on a catastrophic scale. Revelation 6:8 spells it out: these events will claim one-fourth of the world’s population
"And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth"Let that sink in. That’s over two billion people today. A few wars and food shortages in the past century don’t come close to this level of devastation.
Now let’s talk about those supposed "last days" since 1914. Have we seen anything resembling the scale of destruction described in Revelation 6:8? Not even during the two world wars. Sure, they were horrific, but they didn’t wipe out a quarter of humanity. And while we’ve had diseases like the recent pandemic and famines in some regions, they don’t compare to the apocalyptic conditions described in Matthew 24:21, where Jesus said, “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, nor will occur again.”
The Bible is clear: things will get much worse. In Luke 21:10-11, Jesus predicts wars, earthquakes, famines, and pestilence—not scattered across centuries as the Watchtower will have you believe, but escalating and converging as signs of the end. These events will be so overwhelming that people’s hearts will fail them "from fear of what is coming upon the earth" (Luke 21:26).
And what about sceptics? The idea that conditions will never get extreme enough to convince them misses the point. As 2 Peter 3:3-4 notes, scoffers will deny that anything has changed, even as the signs become undeniable.We read :"First of all know this, that in the last days ridiculers will come with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep in death, all things are continuing exactly as they were from creation’s beginning.”It’s not that the signs will be subtle as the Watchtower will have you believe—it’s that many people will stubbornly refuse to believe.
The Last Days never began in 1914 as the Watchtower will have you believe, this is a false teaching based on pyramidology, the last days are still ahead of us, the wars, the pestilences the famines are still ahead of us. So don't believe for one moment this is the worst it can possibly get, as David Schafer will have you believe.
So, let’s recap: Yes, things will get a lot worse. We’re not talking about isolated wars or temporary shortages but a global upheaval so severe it kills a quarter of humanity and leaves no corner of the earth untouched. The great tribulation (Revelation 7:14) isn’t just another rough patch in history—it’s the climax of human suffering, the likes of which the world has never seen.
To say we’ve already been living through the last days since 1914 is like claiming the warm-up act at a concert is the main event. The real "great tribulation" and the full fury of the Four Horsemen are still the future. Buckle up because when it comes, it won’t leave anyone guessing whether Bible prophecy is being fulfilled. Do not fool yourselves into the Watchtower’s false narrative of a mild version of the last days where as one brother in my congregation used to say, I will go to sleep one night and I'll wake up in the New system the following day. If you believe that or something similar, get ready for a rude awakening.