My last post: “Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Preparing the membership for a New Date for Armageddon”, was actually part one of a two part article. I became so engrossed in several related subjects that I have not fully finished part two. I like to completely research my posts. Please do not hesitate to point out where I am factually wrong.
I have been getting a lot of emails about my book, (work in progress) and about people with similar experiences as I had, growing up Jo Ho. I spend many hours answering emails, which is great.
The entire point of this blog, my forthcoming book and all the other associated efforts on my part is this:
I don’t know and neither do you.
I cannot say who God is, what He/She/It/Them want from us, if the Bible or any “ Holy Books” are, in fact Holy, in that they are from “God”. I can say, with certainty that I have not yet seen an Organized Religion that in any way, shape or form can present a minute amount of evidence or facts that prove that it and it alone represents ”God”, all though they all arrogantly claim to.
100% of the religions I have researched hang themselves by their actions or teachings. In all fairness, obviously I don’t know it all. But I do know a lot simply because I read about stuff all the time. Maybe I haven’t found the “true religion” yet. However to date, in multiple ways Organized Religion continues to show its true colors by inciting violence and sowing seeds of hate against “non believers”, exploiting in many ways their “flock” and hypocritically claiming to represent the God of love while their actions are deceitful, injurious and manipulative.
If you feel compelled to tell me about how you found the “true religion”, tell me what it is in less than 25 words and I will do my own reserach. If I have questions, I email you. If you are a Jehovah’s Witness, go fuck yourself. I most likely know more about your religion than you do. My life experience has been as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Jo Ho’s are the master number and date benders, misquotes, distorters of fact and making wild and improvable claims and prophesies that never come true. For example the Watchtower Society prophesied that Armageddon would come at six separate and distinct time periods and they were wrong on all six predictions.
1914 – “In view of this 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 1914.” (The Time is at Hand, 1902 edition, p. 99) Note: this same statement was contained in the 1908 edition of the same book.
End of WW1: “The present great war in Europe is the beginning of the Armageddon of the Scriptures (Revelation 19:16-20). It will eventuate in the complete overthrow of all the systems of error which have so long oppressed the people of God and deluded the world”. (Pastor Russell’s Sermons, 1915, p. 676) In the same year (1915),
1925 – “The period must end in 1925 . . . [This date] is definitely fixed in the Scriptures. Every thinking person can see that a great climax is at hand. The scriptures clearly indicate that the climax is the fall of Satan’s empire and the full establishment of the Messianic kingdom . . . Therefore, it can be confidently said at this time that millions now living will never die”. (Golden Age, January 4, 1922, p. 217)
1975 – Watchtower, October 15, 1969 pages 622 and 623:
“More recently earnest researchers of the Holy Bible have made a recheck of its chronology. According to their calculations the six millenniums of mankind’s life on earth would end in the mid-seventies…. Would not, then, the end of six millenniums of mankind’s laborious enslavement under Satan the Devil be the fitting time for Jehovah God to usher in a Sabbath millennium for all his human creatures? Yes, indeed! And his King Jesus Christ will be Lord of that Sabbath.”
Notice the use of the definite article “the”. It would be “the fitting time”, not “a fitting time” not “an appropriate time” but “THE FITTING TIME”, to the exclusion of all other times. “Yes, Indeed! And his King Jesus Christ will be Lord of that Sabbath”. Not “might be”, not “could be”, but “WILL BE”.
End of the 20th Century – Again in 1971, they said it would come in the 20th century: ”Shortly, within our twentieth century, the “battle in the day of Jehovah” will begin”. From: The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah – How? 1971 p. 216”
Within the life span of the 1914 generation: Watchtower, 7/1/69 pg395:
“People who were only just old enough to understand what was happening to the world in 1914 are now approaching seventy years of age. Yes, the numbers of that generation are dwindling fast, but before they all pass away this system must meet its end in the war of Armageddon.”
None of the above happened and as of 1995, the above 1914 thing is wrong.
So, “God’s Exclusive Mouthpiece”, as they claim? What do you think?