Any turbulent period of time will obviously serve the Watchtower society well, so we can expect a surge for them and a revival for them whenever this happens, but it is important to remember that the collapse of a super power is not something new and is normal in global societal and financial dynamics. EVERYTHING has a life cycle.
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If the WT was actually a Christian group (in it's top leadership) what you say is true. And they too have a "lifecycle" that now I feel they are actually planning to terminate by human means early, and vacate the entire system, while leading JWs to liquidation worldwide.
I say this due to evidence that is now 10 years trended in WT mental programming actually making sure the international aspects of world government are not understood clearly by JWs; even in te most basic aspects. What this does is leave the JW "herd" vulnerable to engineered premature expectations of an "end" that the globalization process itself ensures will not come for at least 7-10 years, based on JWs own 8th King understanding when updated to an international government meaning beyond the UN facade and clubhouse being viewed as the "end all" system of power.
The have JWs sort of "hypnotized", frozen psycholically in a time and space of another era.
The UN is NOT a true system of any true power but in theory. A true internationalized uni-polar world government structure fully controlling all physical nations is what an "end all" "8th King" would actually need to be. And like WW1, WW2, and cold WW3, a world war is required to birth and present each form of this international forum, and a final cycle is required to actually present a international government and the UN forum centerpiece as a unique whole, which is a UN now impotent without very real power from former national powers under it's full control.
And that process is not an overnight affair. And even novice globalists know this fact inside and out. The world war is the element that compels the final national subservience by debt or actual force. By debt in those actually already aligned for international power government, by force for all the rest. The worldwide national human resources must aid that transformation on both sides of the fence. So, there has to be a final war of some typical or unique nature of deployment and branding, to even get the real process going.
Peaople are not just going to finish up globalization on their own, they need a big push and massive incentive, but not the actual awareness of what they are actually empowering.
The final world war, already started in the uniquely branded "global war on terror" in effect a "world war" "on terror" with 12 years post-911 positioning, and maybe 200 trillion in new bases and supporting infrastructure and logistical systems in Global NATO alone, spreading worldwide and into space, is also required to provide the required world tribulatory fear and desperation (the incentive or persuassion) which by contrast, makes the international government "peace" and "security" hope and actuality, being then presented, all that more desirable and acceptable as the world war period concludes to birth a now widely accepted "world government" of supra-national worldwide actual infrastructural dimensions.
And again, that is going to take an approximate decade and some huge global obstacles to overcome.
So a WT "theology" stating "it can end any day now" is simply untrue, when all the supposed WT earmarks of the signals of a divine intervention "end" will take at the least 7 years to even be made publicly known in preliminary forms, as no international government is going to actually proclaim worldwide sovereign "peace and security" until ALL the nations are bridled and harnessed fully and reliably, taking some doing, not impossible, but requiring a final world upheaval and realignment of some years.
And these are things even researching high school kids interested in globalism and geo-politics are also coming to understand as simply the reality of a natural human governmental evolution that created nationalism, and that is merely evolving to globalism as the foundational concept of world government, way way beyond the theoretical scale of a UN control center not yet in full control of even the EU and US national components of it's own main supporters, and we are at the beginning of te final stage, NOT it's end.
So how can Bethel live in a 1980 mental state of world power awareness, act as if national power is some apex form of world power, act as if the UN is even now a true "8th King", and act as if "it can end anytime brothers", when in fact it cannot end "anytime", it must proceed to a true apex form of internationalized final power 8, and it has to make certain and assured worldwide claims of apex super-sovereign power, and it has to have control of the dominant national powers 100% to do so. And that will take a decade, plus minus.
These are globalism process basics.
Instead Bethel is priming JW loyalty not to God or Christ, but to the GB, elders and the "organizational arrangement" as the source of protection when the first global shockwave of this inevitable final cycle actually hits. (e.g. WT 11/15/2013. pg. 20, par, 17) And they are explicitly telling JWs to obey any and all directives of relocation. And yet, this is a period that MUST go on for years, so where are they actually going to lead JWs when the bombs of the first cycle, or whatever, start to blow?
What is Bethel REALLY doing here?
They are going to lead JWs to "Egypt", into proverbial worldwide King South hands subservient to international agenda, while they hoist up another King North national or terror group decoy as the attacker, while they and the actual 8th King (real internationalist King North) are going to capture all the WT billion in assets, already setup for this fall, and seize, remove or destroy all WT resources worldwide. Then they are going to vanish, and leave the JWs left bewildered to pick up any pieces left, while the international order will be like 5-7 years from first uni-polar super-sovereign actuality. Meaning this is all taking place in the first three years of the first required worldwide national upheavals preparing for the internationalization streamlining process. Meaning JWs are organizationally wiped out in two years at the start of the cycle.
That is what I feel the WT is actually up to, and their UN record and other dubious activities and cover-ups only adds to the evidence they really also do not believe their own ministry. Instead they full well know the internationalist cycle that MUST develop in this national engineered implosion, world war, and tribulatory cycle. Yes, there will be a tribulation, that is all they are accurate about. No, no "Armageddon" is going to come for some years, because that "tribulation" and it's world war must and will end to present an actual full bodied, worldwide supra-national complete world government and international system of uni-polar "8th King" rulership. (and all that by WT theology and various scriptures also ignored in this process of JW brainwash).
And the Bethel fakes at the top who engineer the JW mental world into a perpetual 1980 awareness and stagnant and overly simplistic brainwash, know all this as well. They are already part of the internationalizing process of the 8th King overall global process at the WT for 50 years, and the WT is one of the treasure troves that will aid the asset transference to fuel their part of this world government engine at start-up, and will iron out any possibility of even the peaceful dissension potential in JWs and as much as possible their former worldwide reach. JWs are just one wrinkle to be ironed out in the first 2 to 3 years of the internationalist overdrive cycle commencement leading to King 8, but are apparently on the top of the scheduled list with some other wrinkles to get ironed first.
That is why I believe, atleast in this current pattern of corruption and duplicitious WT "leadership" and obvious hidden agendas, the Watchtower and Bethel system of today is living on borrowed time, and worldwide it's days are now numbered. How successful that erasure will be I feel will not meet "8th King" expectations, JWs will arise from the ashes. Then they will finally actually teach, what the prophecies actually describe, while they are in the midst of that self-same progression to a full King 8 "world government". Like national powers, they will simply have a rude awakening, but will regroup as a tough wrinkle, a peaceful but incorrigible rebel crease that just won't go away.
At that time, years from now, "it can end any day now brothers" will actually be true. At that time the whole prophetic pattern is actually in full form and in final action, rather than today's premature and way incomplete Bethel illusion that neither affirms globalism logic or their own "theology". Today's Bethel is playing dumb on purpose to aid the first stage of this drama.