The interpretation of Bible prophecy is subjective in nature and is updated as more information is understood.
JW’s do not hold him to be a prophet, inspired, or idolized in anyway. We don’t follow any human as our leader, but view Jesus Christ as the head of our congregation.
Here are a few things to ponder. Biblesteve (many times people on this forum when addressing somebody instead of using the full name will just use initials of the name but I would rather not use the initials for biblesteve even though his replies & the JW’s are full of it) (Hope I don’t get banned for this) says that Jesus Christ is the head of the JW congregation.
Well according to the WS 1/15/59 it states “Who will be Jehovah’s prophet? Who will be the modern Jeremiahs? The plain facts show God has been pleased to use Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
The WT on 10-1-1964 states “God has on earth today a prophet like organization and then again on 4/1/72 it says ““This ‘prophet’ was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses.”
So we must gather from this that the JW organization is Gods prophet on earth.
But then again on 4/1/72 it counters with “Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a ‘prophet’ of god. It is another thing to prove it. The only way that this can be done is to review the record.”
Well lets review of record (and these are only a drop in the bucket)
First what does the WT NWT Bible have to say about prophets “DT 12:20-22…the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak**…that prophet must die.** And in case you should say in your heart: “How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?” When the** prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah**
and** the word does not occur or come true,** that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it.”
Biblesteve now says “The interpretation of Bible prophecy is subjective in nature and is updated as more information is understood.” That is a cop-out. In other words when things don’t turn out the way this supposed prophet organization gets out of all there errors is that all those prophecies are just being developed as more information is understood.
But the WT claims their organization is controlled by Jehovah. Jehovah must be doing a lousy job if he cant communicate the right thing time and again.
Here are some prophecies from the WT for the record
WT 10/1890 PG 1243
“…the Scriptural declaration that the Millennium of peace and blessing would be introduced by forty years of trouble, beginning slightly in 1874 and increasing until social chaos should prevail in 1974.”
WT 1/15/1894 PG 1355
“The date of the close of that ‘battle’ is
definitely marked in Scripture as of October, 1914. it is already in progress, its beginning dating from October 1874.”
WT 7/15/1894 PG 1677
There is no reason for changing the figures:
they are God’s date, not ours:
1914 is not the date for the beginning, but the end.
WT 9/15/1901 PG 2876
The trouble in October 1914 is
clearly marked in Scriptures: the severe trouble to start no later than 1910, with severe spasms between now and then.
Then they backed off by saying this
WT 9/1/1914 PG 5527
“Armageddon may begin next spring,
yet it is purely speculation to attempt to say just when.”
WT 11/1/1914 PG 5565
“
We did not say positively that this would be the year.”
HUH??? Look above!!! What does “…clearly marked in scripture” mean?
When nothing happened they changed it to 1925 with these
WT 7/15/1922 PG 217
“This chronology is
not of man but of God…of divine origin…Absolutely and unqualifiedly correct.”
WT 9/1/1922 PG 262
“1914 ended the Gentile Times…The date 1925 is
even more distinctly indicated by the **Scriptures…**By then the great crises will be reached and probably passed.”
WT 4/1/1923 PG 106
“1925 is
definitely settled by the Scriptures…The Christian has much more upon which to base his faith than Noah had (so far as the Scriptures reveal) upon which to base his faith in a coming deluge.”
WT 7/15/1924 PG 211
“The year 1925 is a date
definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914.”
They backed off again by saying this
1975 YEARBOOk PG 146
“The year 1925 came and went. Jesus’ anointed followers were still on earth as a class. The faithful men of old times–Abraham, David and others–had not been resurrected to become princes in the earth. (Ps. 45:16) So, as Anna MacDonald recalls: ‘1925 was a sad year for many brothers. Some of them were stumbled: their hopes were dashed…
Instead of its being considered a “probability” they read into it that it was a “certainty.” HUH AGAIN??? But they use the words “clearly” and “definitely” and “more distinctly”.
Is this what Biblesteve now claims as “… Bible prophecy is subjective in nature and
is updated as more
information is understood.”
Of course they changed it to 1975 but nothing has happened but I believe they are getting ready to do their thing again as I have seen pamphlets by the JW’s claiming that the “end is coming soon”. Let’s see what “new information is understood” when nothing happens.
