JWs and false prophesies...

[DustinsDad]

The Witnesses “prophesies” time and again, have failed to come to pass. When we look at Scripture, it seems that false prophesies are not a good indication that something is from God…And if you say in your heart, `How may we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ – when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:21-22)

Now with this understanding, are the following quotes from JW authoritative teachings false? Are they lies and fabrications? Or are they actual “prophesies” that have indeed failed to come to pass?

• In this chapter we present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the Gentiles, i.e., the full end of their lease of dominion, will be reached in A.D. 1914; and that that date will be the farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men…That at that date the Kingdom of God…will have obtained full, universal control, and that it will then be ‘set up’ or firmly established, in the earth …It will prove that some time before the end of A.D. 1914 the last member of the divinely recognized Church of Christ, the “royal priesthood,” “the body of Christ,” will be glorified with the Head. (The Time is at Hand, volume 2 of Studies in the Scriptures, 1889, pages 76 and 77)
• 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 A.D. 1914. (The Time is at Hand, volume 2 of Studies in the Scriptures, 1889, pages 99)
  Also,
• 1891 - “With the end of AD 1914, what God calls Babylon, and what men call Christendom, will have passed away, as already shown from prophecy” *(Studies, Vol. 3, 153). *
• 1894 - “The end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble” *(WT Reprints, 1-1-1894, 1605 and 1677). *
• 1897 - “Our Lord is now present, since October 1874 AD” (Studies, Vol. 4, 1897 edition, 621).
• 1916 - “The six great 1000 year days beginning with Adam are ended, and that the great 7th day, the 1000 years of Christ’s reign began in 1873”* (Studies, Vol. 2, p. 2 of foreword). *
• 1917 - “Scriptures…prove that the Lord’s Second Advent occurred in the fall of 1874”* (Studies, Vol. 7, 68).*
• 1918 - “Therefore, we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the faithful prophets of old”* (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 89). *
• 1923 - “1925 is definitely settled by the scriptures. As to Noah, the Christian now has much more upon which to base his faith than Noah had upon which to base his faith in a coming deluge”* (WT, 4-1-1923, 106).*
• 1925 - “The year of 1925 is here…Christians should not be so deeply concerned about what may transpire this year” (WT, 1-1-1925, 3).
• 1939 - “The disaster of Armageddon is just ahead”* (Salvation, 361).*
• 1941 - “Armageddon is surely near…soon…within a few years”* (Children, 10).*
• 1946 - “Armageddon…should come sometime before 1972” (They Have Found a Faith, 44).
• 1966 - “Six thousand years from man’s creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E” (Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 29).
• 1968 - “The end of the six thousand years of man’s history in the fall of 1975 is not tentative, but is accepted as a certain date”* (WT, 1-1-1968, 271).*
  Hmmm,

DustinsDad