NEW WATCHTOWER - Study Edition Searchable PDF !!

AlphaOmega

With many thanks and credit to fokyc who provided the scans.
I've merged them into a PDF and made it searchable.

So, JWD brains... let's see what's inside.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tlhed2

Leolaia

Beautiful scan job!

Notice the discussion on the 144,000 on pp. 22-23:

"It seems, however, that not all who have been called to a heavenly hope since the 1930's are replacements for ones who have fallen away. Jehovah has evidently made sure that we will have anointed Christians among us all through the final days of this system of things until the destruction of "Babylon the Great." (Rev. 17:5) And we can be confident that the full number of 144,000 members will be completed in Jehovah's due time and that all will eventually take their place in the Kingdom government."

And I love this bit from p. 24:

With the passing of the last member of the anointed from the earth, whenever that will happen, God's heavenly government will be complete. What a cause for joy that will be—both in heaven and on earth!

No time frame at all, just "whenever that will happen". It could be three billion years in the future for all we know. There is no sign here that the call to the heavenly hope has ceased; Armageddon will be postponed as long as people are still called to the heavenly hope.

Leolaia

Here is a particularly despicable statement:

Still, Satan is eager to use any means at his disposal to break our integrity. For example, he may tempt us to follow a materialistic lifestyle, to choose unwholesome entertainment, or to engage in immoral sexual behavior. He may also use associates at school or at work and unbelieving relatives to pressure us into pursuing to the full all that this world has to offer in schooling and careers. (p. 32)

So ..... got a relative who urges you to go to college or a counselor at school encouraging you to develop your talents? They're tools of Satan! Beware!

RisingEagle

Thank you for posting this so quickly. My jw relative had a teaser picture of the cover only that, with the kind assistance of ErynW, was posted last night. I knew if that was making the e-mail rounds of the jdubs the full version was not far behind.

I can't read very much of the publications without massive doses of Maalox on hand, but I'll post this from the first article:

"It can also be a challenge to maintain our zeal in territories where people are rarely at home or where there is little response to the Kingdom message. What can we do in such circumstances?" Quit. Think. Ask yourself why there is little response.

Holy handgrenades, that's some big font!

GermanXJW

Thanks for the scan. Great job!

nicolaou

UNBELIEVABLE!

10:34-38—Is the Scriptural message to be blamed for family rifts? Not at all. Rather, rifts are caused by the position taken by unbelieving family members. They may choose to reject or oppose Christianity, bringing about divisions in the family—Luke 12:51-53.

Excuse me but, bullshit! I'm the one working hard to maintain family contact, it's my JW christian fundamentalist family that are causing all the divisions and leaving me out in the cold. Sorry but this has made me fucking angry! I'll be dealing with this fallout for months after my Mum and sisters get this obscene hate rag!

GermanXJW

You notice that this is an internal edition: they abbreviate the Bible books again as they used to before 1982. ;-)

Merry Magdalene

Nice work!

I don't know why this made me choke on laughter but it did:

Finally, the study edition and the public edition of
The Watchtower are not two different magazines. They are both The Watch-tower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom. They have on page 2 identical paragraphs explaining the purpose of The Watchtower.

(Sorry. I tried to decrease the font but couldn't.)

~Merry

dust

Thanks to AlphaOmega and fokyc!

The number 144.000 is been mentioned four times in this WT.
The word "anointed" is mentioned 49 times.
The word "sheep" is mentioned 14 times.
Interestingly, the word "generation" is not mentioned at all.

This WT, especially the study article "Counted Worthy to Receive a Kingdom", seems to sum up the most important doctrinal change from 2007, and spells it out in clear so the JWs can learn it and understand the new light: 1935 is not important anymore, there are replacements, and (even newer light!) some new anointed ones are not even replacements, as the number 144.000 has not yet been reached. I can certainly understand why they didn't want to print this in a public WT. The WTS is in effect fastening their grip on the minds of the JWs.

Paragraph 16 in the mentioned article is particularly daring in stating:

Jehovah has evidently made sure that we will have anointed Christians among us all through the final days of this system of things until the destruction of "Babylon the Great."

In other words: We will always have a GB of anointed Christians, that's why we need to make all these adjustments. Armageddon isn' coming THAT soon.

So how can one divert the attention of the reader to avoid this aspect of the understanding? I asked myself: "I wonder what the question about paragraph 16 sounds like." And there it was: The focus is being shifted from the doctrinal change to gratitude:

Regarding the anointed, for what are we grateful, and what can we confidently believe?

Reading (or rather: skimming) this article also made me wonder why God would have to replace the anointed at all. I'd understand it if replaced anointed ones were really false anointed that never really made it to the little flock anyhow. But the WT talks about replacing them (which is kind of bold, considering that a WT earlier in 2007 told that the dead anointed ones began waking up in 1914). So, didn't God know in advance that these were not anointed afterall? -- Still, it would of course be even more daring to claim that the replaced ones really were "false anointed ones". Not necessarily more daring in a doctrinal perspective, but in a rhetorical and didactic/pedagogic one.

ninja

alphonso....you came through for us bud....cheers for that....ninja

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