From The Watchtower 11/15/80, page 30: “The Bible shows that there will be only seven world powers in this sense, to correspond to the seven heads of the wild beast. (Rev. 13:1) There is rivalry and competition between the Anglo-American world power as the “king of the south” and the socialistic “king of the north,” but there is no indication in Scripture that the latter will replace the former as an eighth world power before both come to their end.—Daniel 11:40-45.”
The Witness contend that there the seven world powers of Bible history are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the Anglo-American or England and the United States. Notice the mention of the socialistic “king of the north,” and the statement that “there is no indication in Scripture that the latter will replace the former as an eighth world power before both come to their end”.
The Watchtower further elaborates:
The Watchtower, 12/1/74, page 718: “This “scarlet-colored wild beast” is an eighth “king,” an eighth world power. Since it “springs from the seven,” it is not the Communistic bloc of nations. Also, unlike the Communist bloc, ‘it was (for a while), then was not; it ascends out of the abyss (of inactivity) and goes off into destruction.’
Ok, so now the Jo Ho’s have an eighth world power which “springs from the seven”, but is not the Communistic bloc of nations.
So what does all this crazy bullshit mean? As per usual the Jo Ho’s have their multitudinous,intertwining prophesies, where they fit the square scripture in the round Witness belief hole.
Simply put, there were seven bible world powers, as named above. We are living in the time of the last, the Anglo American world power and Armageddon will come while this world power still dominates. Again note the Witness statement that “there is no indication in Scripture that the latter will replace the former as an eighth world power before both come to their end”.
So, the US will dominate the world until Armageddon comes.
Interestingly, we have this, from the Economist, of 4/1/2011 entitled “Overtaking”:
“NEARLY three-quarters of Americans wish China would “just hurry up and overtake America already,” according to a new survey by The Economist Simulation Unit, published on April 1st. Constant worrying about exactly when the superpower will fall into second place is causing anxiety throughout American society, the survey found. “Will it be 2015? 2020? 2025? I wish it would just happen, and then we could all stop agonizing about it and get back to dentistry,” said Adam Barnes, a dentist from Iowa. The report examines in detail the relationship between the two countries and finds that in some important fields, China has already surpassed America. A summary of the findings is presented below.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/united_states_and_china
As a matter of fact, the Drudge Report Headline today is “Rise of The New World Power (Without the US)
So, it looks like the Anglo/American World Power, the United States/England are about to be usurped. But wait! That can’t be! The Witnesses say that there will not be an eighth world power, so Armageddon is upon us.
It’s about damn time. I mean they predicted it seven times in the 20th Century, three times in my lifetime during my tenure as a Jo Ho and it didn’t happen.
The eighth time might be the charm.
Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, each time hoping for a different result. By that definition, because of believing the Witnesses, I’m insane by three times.
So, I’ll be sitting here, sipping my Crown and Seven Up or maybe some Corona, waiting for our Chinese masters to show up at my door and give me my orders. Based on past history that’s a far more likely scenario than Armageddon.
“Oh yea” says the incensed Jo Ho “Just wait!! You’ll be destroyed like all the others!!”
Been there, said that. Have a beer and chill. How do you say “Jehovah” in Chinese? You better learn.
