JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Prophesied
"Armageddon ... will come in the twentieth century" (Investigator 155, 2014 March) "The 20TH CENTURY IN BIBLE PROPHECY" Awake! magazine 1961 (February 22, pages 5 to 8) has an article titled The 20th Century in Bible Prophecy which states:
The
title "The 20th Century
in Bible Prophecy" along with the first paragraph above are repeated in
Awake! 1963 March 22, p. 32 in an advertisement.
PREVIOUSLY
JWs
began to forecast
Armageddon for the 20th century in 1945 under the heading The
Sabbath In Shadow And Reality in:
• The Watchtower 1945 February 15, pp 51-60 Investigator
publicized the 20th century date for Armageddon and suggested the
prophecy is false in the articles:
• The WTS Separates "Sheep" and Goats #27, November 1992 "THE NATIONS SHALL KNOW…"
Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom. (The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah—How? 1971, p. 216) The "Day
of Jehovah" is
Armageddon when all people worldwide who are not Jehovah’s Witnesses
(JWs) are slaughtered.
The same book also states: Revelation, chapters seventeen and eighteen, forecasts the events of our present century. Regardless of whatever the symbolic harlot, Babylon the Great, may say in her heart she must suffer the punishment of loose women… (p. 255) Revelation
17 & 18
describes the end of "Babylon the Great" which JWs interpret as all
religions excluding their own. Notice when this occurs — "our present
century".
And again: Similarly down here in our twentieth century. If Christendom must go in the approaching "great tribulation," so must all the rest of false religion. (p. 113) MORE 20TH CENTURY REMINDERS
The JW Governing Body continued to stir JWs as follows: But in 740 B.C.E., without a liberator and no longer able to battle for existence, the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel ceased, perished.
The 1989 Yearbook
of
Jehovah’s Witnesses (page 3) refers to Revelation Chapter 7 which
tells of a "great crowd" from all nations getting salvation. JWs
believe the "great crowd" are JWs and are being gathered through their
door-door work. The Yearbook says:
In plain language
this says
the JW preaching will be finished, the entire "great crowd" gathered,
in the twentieth century. And
every JW knows that the finish of their preaching means Armageddon.
CHANGED
When did the JW leaders postpone Armageddon? The Watchtower for January 1, 1989 stated: The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our twentieth century. (w1989 1/1 12)This prediction was in the single issue copies of The Watchtower i.e. the copies distributed door to door. In the bound volume reprints of The Watchtower for 1989, which were published in 1990, the sentence is altered to: In 1990, therefore, the JW leaders, the Governing Body, got second thoughts regarding Armageddon in the "twentieth century". The
revision in the bound
volume was surreptitious, neither announced nor publicized. The
Governing Body use prophecy as "a spur" to make JWs spend more time
going door to door and they probably wanted their prophecy for the
"twentieth century" to keep on spurring.
When the
bound volume
reprints of The Watchtower for 1989 were published many JWs
would
have thrown their single issue copies away. They will have thrown away
the evidence. The 1989 Watchtower for January 1 on the
Watchtower
Library CD likewise has the revision "in our day".
(BS)
The
truth about the predictions of the Governing Body of JWs is revealed on this
website:
https://ed5015.tripod.com/
https://investigatormagazine.net Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses at: https://ed5015.tripod.com/jwdictionary/ |