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oompaRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
tag...this is a keeper........oompa
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BabaYagaRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
Oh, yes, Oompa... I agree, this is a keeper...

thank you V and Leolaia!
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ElivelethRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Absolutely one of the best explanations of the "end times" prophecies in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and Revelation.

You have outdone yourself Leolaia!!!  I also appreciate that you explained the scholar's terms you used for us laymen.

Thank you so much for this.  And V for posting it.

Love and hugs,

Velta

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civicsi00Re: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Excellent work!

I'm really gonna miss these Comments... Looking forward to the videos, though!

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granhermanoRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
Look what I found doing some simple WT Library research in the Watchtower 1 of november 1995 (the same about the generation change) Questions From Readers At 1 Peter 2:9, the “King James Version” calls anointed Christians “a chosen generation.” Should this affect our view of Jesus’ use of “generation” recorded at Matthew 24:34? [...] As discussed on pages 10 to 15, Jesus condemned the generation of Jews of his time, his contemporaries who rejected him. (Luke 9:41; 11:32; 17:25) He often used qualifiers such as “wicked and adulterous,” “faithless and twisted,” and “adulterous and sinful” in describing that generation. (Matthew 12:39; 17:17; Mark 8:38) When Jesus used “generation” for the last time, he was on the Mount of Olives with four apostles. (Mark 13:3) Those men, who were not yet anointed with spirit nor part of a Christian congregation, certainly did not constitute either a “generation” or a race of people. They were, though, very familiar with Jesus’ use of the term “generation” in referring to his contemporaries. So they logically would understand what he had in mind when he mentioned “this generation” for the last time. The apostle Peter, who was present, thereafter urged Jews: “Get saved from this crooked generation.”—Acts 2:40. [...]Consequently, when the apostles heard Jesus refer to “this generation,” what would they think? While we, with the benefit of hindsight, know that Jerusalem’s destruction in the “great tribulation” came 37 years later, the apostles hearing Jesus could not know that. Rather, his mention of “generation” would have conveyed to them, not the idea of a period of great length, but the people living over a relatively limited period of time. The same is true in our case. How fitting, then, are Jesus’ follow-up words: “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. . . . On this account you too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that you do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming.”—Matthew 24:36, 44. They're using the same argument from 1927 and later discarded in 1995, now in 2008...It's just unbeliavable.
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studierRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
V thank you for this last hurrah at a text version! Leolaia your insightful thoughts are incredibly enlightening as always! Thank you both. studier
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HortensiaRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
I am so impressed with Leolaia - I wish I knew more about her. I don't care much about the Bible, but the explanation she gave is fascinating. So the WTBTS isn't the first to try to explain the delay in Christ's coming - it's been going on practically since the beginning of Christianity. Interesting!
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XOCORe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

marked...thanks

XOCO

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watsonRe: Re: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

It's going to take me a while to study this "study."

As usual, wow, Leo.

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Eyes OpenRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
Thank you - it's great to have this. Will read over the weekend.
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boyzone  Re: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Excellent work Leolaia and V. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into doing this. Its been a fantastic help to me and my family. You are so appreciated!

A hearty WELL DONE

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LittleToeRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Very nicely done!!!

The only urgency the article inspires is that of wanting friends and family released from the clutches of a destructive doomsday cult!  If the Governing Body of the WTS is the "generation" then it truly is a wicked generation.

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WTWizardRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

I think most of the article in the Washtowel magazine is a waste of time.  They put it there to back up the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger's return to the original viewpoint about the Generation, while confusing people and leading them to disjointed scriptures in an attempt to make it look valid.

And no wonder the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger likes wasting time with such things as the "classes" and various agreements and deals, and the trivial differences among them.  This commentary gets into the true deeper things, which the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger wants to draw attention away from.  The true deeper things disprove almost everything that the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger is trying to say.

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uninformedRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Leolaia,

 

thanks again.

 

brant

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DoomVoyagerRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Holy crap, this is amazing.

I wonder what would happen if Dubs ever called on Leolaia's house...

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Doubting BroRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

Leolaia,

Thanks so much for your time & effort. V - thanks for making this a pdf. Printing right now and will review later.

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MaryRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA

I am absolutely in awe of Leolaia and the fantastic summary she's done here and she deserves a big round of applause: bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217bravo.gif picture by sam3217

That is without a doubt, the best summary I've ever seen and I hope whoever it is from Crooklyn who monitors this site is crapping in their spiritual pants as they read how their ridiculous interpretations of the scriptures is shown to be built on sand and absolutely without any foundation.

This doctrine is one of the very first things that got me thinking. Even at the ripe old age of 14, I simply could not grasp how they could get "invisibly present in 1914" with the scripture in Matthew 24 that says "every eye will see him". And when re-reading Matthew 24:3 I thought to myself "...Are we really being asked to believe that Jesus' disciples were asking when he'd be returning invisibly in the future???"

This one is a keeper and I just might include it in the package I'm putting together. Leolaia, my hat's off to you for doing this fantastic summary.

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mouthyRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
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TuesdayRe: Watchtower Comments THE GENERATION CHANGE Featuring LEOLAIA
I don't think the people who wrote this article studied the subject this much.  I'm going to have to clear my afternoon to read this.
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