Vuoden 1975 episoodi : Kiinnostava tiivistelmä englanniksi

Ohessa esimerkkeinä käyttää vähä jäljellä oleva ika "a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world’s end.” :

“Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way toward its finish, if not actually gone!” —Awake!, May 22, 1969, p. 15

“Yes, the end of this system is so very near! Is that no reason to increase our activity?… Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world’s end.”—Kingdom Ministry, May 1974, p. 3

Sitten jälkeenpäin seuraa vastuunsiirto :

“…some who had been service God have planned their lives according to a mistaken view of just what was to happen on a certain date or in a certain year. They may have, for this reason, put off or neglected things that they otherwise would have cared for. But they have missed the point of the Bible’s warnings concerning the end of this system of things, thinking that Bible chronology reveals the specific date… Did Jesus mean that we should adjust our financial and secular affairs so that our resources would just carry us to a certain date that we might think marks the end?… This is not the kind of thinking that Jesus advised.” —The Watchtower, July 15, 1976, p. 440

“But some of their time calculations and the expectations that they associated with these gave rise to serious disappointments. Following 1925, meeting attendance dropped dramatically…. Again, in 1975, there was disappointment when expectations regarding the start of the Millennium failed to materialize. As a result, some withdrew from the organization…. Although these tests resulted in a sifting… others remained firm. Why?… ‘Those who had set their confidence in Jehovah remained steadfast and continued their preaching activity.’”—Jehovah’s Witnesses — Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 1993, p. 633

Jehovan todistajat kieltävät voimakkaasti milloinkaan ennustaneensa maailmanloppuja ja nimeävät ne vääräksi tiedoksi, väärinkäsityksiksi, "joiden" innokkaiden henkilökohtaisiksi odotuksiksi, vastustajien vääristelyksi ja valheiksi, sekä luopioiden panetteluksi.

Ohessa pari otetta jotka todistavat miten esimerkiksi vuosien 1914 ja 1915 ennustukset ovat todellakin todellisuutta.

Ote Russelin kirjasta "THE TIME IS AT HAND" & 1914:

"And though the Bible makes no direct statement that the 7th thousand will be the epoch of Christ's reign, the great sabbath day of restitution to the world, yet the venerable tradition is not without reasonable foundation."

"In view of the strong Bible evidence concerning the times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the Kingdoms of this world and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God will be accomplished by the end of AD 1914."

"The battle of the great day of the Almighty which will end in 1914, is already commenced."

"Just so it has been in this harvest our Lord's presence as Bridegroom and Reaper was recognized during the first 3 1/2 years from AD 1874 to AD 1878."

"1914-and that date will be the farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men."


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Pyramidin mitoista ennustaminen : Ote Russelin kirjasta "THY KINGDOM COME" & 1915 :

This ancient structure being thus repeatedly referred to in the scriptures, we cannot doubt that, if questioned, this "witness" of the lord in the land of Egypt will bear such testimony as will honor Jehovah, and fully correspond with his written word.

So, then, if we measure backward down the First Ascending Passage, we shall have a fixed date to mark upon the downward passage. This measure is 1542 inches, and indicates the year BC 1542 as the date at that point. Then measuring down the Entrance passage, from that point, to find the distance to the entrance of the "Pit," representing the great trouble and destruction with which this age is to close, when evil will be overthrown from power, we find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date BC 1542. This calculation shows that AD 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years plus 1915 years equals 3457 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation...