FYI Ping!
Just another Harold Camping-type prediction....
Interesting information. I always thought a generation was 20 years.
Pick a number, any number...
I love Jehovah’s Witnesses. I hate the Watchtower organization for enslaving them. It is yet another example of good people being deceived by an evil ecclesiastical body.
A little flexibility is allways good I guess sask intended
I wonder why they just built a new “Kingdom Hall” about 2 miles from my house when it’s just about to be taken out by Jehovah?
So I wonder exactly how does the Jehovah’s Witness “New World Translation” holy book interprets the teachings of Matthew 24.
How to witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses—see www.faithfacts.org, then go to the World Religions and Theology section for article.
the keep knocking on my door..The sad thing is that I first found out about the document “Donum Vitae” from a copy of The Watchtower that was given to me by one of them and did not ever read about it in my diocesan newspaper, to this day!
The statement is made that in 1889 Charles Taze Russell began teaching that Armageddon was to come in 1914; actually in 1889, Russell was expecting Armageddon to begin around 1910 or 1911 and that it would be over in 1914. Nevertheless, in 1904, ten years before 1914, Russell came to believe that Armageddon was to begin in 1914, and that would end some time after 1914. He died in 1916 with the belief that Armageddon had begun in 1914, although he did not know when it would end.
Russell, however, was never associated with the Jehovah’s Witnesses — no such organization existed in his day. Nor did Russell believe in the kind of Armageddon that the JWs preach. His view of Armageddon was that it was a period of time in which the peoples of the nations would be chastised in preparation for the coming blessings of God’s Kingdom; thus, his view of Armageddon was almost the opposite of that of the JWs.
I believe, and many of other Bible Students also believe, that Armageddon did begin in 1914, and that we are still in it, and may be for many more years. I do not know of any of the Bible Students who believe that Christ returned invisibly in 1914.
BTW, the Bible Students, as a whole — represented by the majority — did not become Jehovah’s Witnesses as it is often stated; by 1930, the greater majority of the Bible Students had rejected Rutherford’s new organization as well as his new gospel, thus they never became members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization.
I once had JW relatives who expected the end in October 1975.