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DECEIT
ON THE INTERNET (Investigator 70, 2000 January)
The Watchtower
Society
–
the legal corporation
of Jehovah's Witnesses – has launched a second web site for the benefit
of the media.
A page titled Jehovah's Witnesses and the Year 2000 says in part: Jehovah's Witnesses do not point to the year 2000 as the specific year in which God will act…This is superficially correct but deceitful – an example of WTS doubletalk. How so? Investigator
No.
51 had an article
titled Armageddon By 2000 AD Says Jehovah. Yes, Armageddon By 2000 AD. The WTS
prediction,
taught since 1946, is
that Armageddon would occur by 2000 AD but not necessarily in the
"specific
year" of 2000 AD. But now that 2000 AD is here, it means
Armageddon
should occur this year. Not mentioning these points makes the
Internet
page misleading.
The Investigator
No. 51 article gave
some WTS quotes regarding Armageddon in the 20th century. For example:
Shortly within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom. The article also
showed
that the JW leaders
claim to get all their "interpretation" from "Jehovah God". For
example:
Jehovah God is therefore the only Supreme Court of interpretation of His inspired word… He merely uses the "servant" class to publish the interpretation after the Supreme Court by Christ Jesus reveals it. (The Watchtower 1943 pp. 202, 203)The Investigator 51 article went on: …it follows that if Armageddon by 2000 AD fails to occur the "Jehovah" of the JWs will be exposed as a liar. (p. 45)The article concluded: JW prophecies are known to have failed for many other dates. These include 1878, 1881, 1906/1907, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1930s, 1935/1936, 1942, 1940s, 1970s. Since 2000 AD is
the
final
year of the 20th
century and since the WTS web site denies Armageddon will occur in 2000
AD, we seem to have an indirect acknowledgment that their "twentieth
century"
prophecy is false.
Therefore it
follows
that the "Jehovah" of
the JWs – but not necessarily the "Jehovah" of the Bible – is a
liar. "Jehovah" is in effect therefore a collective term for the men who invent the JW doctrines. The JW book Paradise
Restored to Mankind
By Theocracy (1972) says that prophets who dream up false dreams
and
preach them in God's name are thieves:
Since the commandment against thievery was given over God's name Jehovah, the thieving person is disregarding God's name and assailing it as being of no force or importance…
The prophecies of JWs involve numerous prophetic
dates and all have turned out false. Since the interpretations are
attributed to "Jehovah", the "Jehovah" of the JWs is a liar and
is
merely a collective term for the JW leaders who invent the doctrines.
As judged from
words
in
their own book such
leaders are "thieving persons" who "steal the name of
Jehovah…for their deceptive purposes."
(BS)
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