From Bethelite BIL Last Week: "Armageddon May Be Only Weeks Away"

Hopscotch

I'd like to give you a little background to this event first. I hope it's not too long.

My husband and I were active JWs for 40 years and started fading about 4 1/2 years ago. My husbands widowed mother and only brother became JWs about 40 years ago also. His brother went to Bethel over 30 years ago and has been in the writing dept in Brooklyn for the last 12 years.

4 years ago my MIL became ill and no longer able to care for herself so she moved into our home and I became her carer. The fact that we were no longer active JWs and she was a staunch 'faithful' one didn't matter, as long as it meant my bethelite BIL didn't have to leave his 'privileged position' and take care of his mother. A token phone call to her every 6 - 10 weeks and a visit of a few hours when he came back home was his contribution to her care in the last couple of years.

During these 4 years my husband and I completely faded and about 18 months ago my own family started shunning us completely.

As there was only my husband (who works full time) and I to take care of my MIL it was quite challenging and very tiring and at times we needed a break. So as we usually did a couple of times a year, last December we put her into a nursing home for 4 weeks so we could have a rest. While she was in there she fell and broke her hip. She had surgery and spent weeks in hospital and rehab and eventually in April it was decided she would not recover enough to come back home and we had to put her into a nursing home permanently. And as is understandable she was not happy about this at all but there was no other choice.

On a side note - during these last 6 months since her fall my BIL never called me once to enquire after his mother, instead got ones in the congregation to ring me or visit her and pass the message on to him.

Now that my MIL is in the nursing home my BIL rings her more frequently. (My cynical side says that he has to appear to be a good JW son now that there are 'worldly' people taking care of her).

Last week my MIL told my husband that his bethelite brother had rung and told her that "Armageddon may only be weeks away now". My husband told her that the society had been saying Armageddon was just around the corner the whole time he had been a JW and it's still not here.

Anyway when he was visiting his mother yesterday she told him that she won't have to be in the nursing home much longer as "Armageddon is only weeks away". When my husband asked her how the ones in Bethel know that her reply was that they keep a very close eye on world events and they can see how close Armageddon is now. "It's definitely only weeks away".

So even when a JW is in the last few months/years of their life the carrot and stick of Armageddon is still used on them. It's disgusting.

Hopscotch

notverylikely

The great thing about tomorrow is that it never gets here.

serenitynow!

Wow Hopscotch, your BIL sounds like a retard. Good for you to be loving enough to take care of your MIL, esp when you don't get any acknowledgement or help from the family. It is sad that your BIL would say something so irresponsible to your MIL. Why do they keep trying to predict the end?

Your BIL had alot of nerve to ignore you while his mom was living in your house and being taken care of. It kills me how they don't see such behaviour as unchristian. His behaviour is bad by "worldly" standards if you ask me.

OUTLAW

Armageddon is so close.....You should`nt buy Green Banana`s..

............................. ...OUTLAW

mentallyfree31

In 1908 and 1909, the brothers were writing letters to Charles Russell and wanting to know if Armageddon could really hold out until 1914, or could it possibly come earlier. They said the way world conditions were at that time, they suspected maybe it would come in 1910 or 1911.

-mentallyfree31-

crazyblondeb

Do we have the same mother?? LOL

flipper

HOPSCOTCH- I feel very sad for your mother in law. My JW mom and dad are now 85 and 83. Both have been active witnesses since 1951 . They seem so forlorn sometimes like they never expected to live to this old of an age in this system. My mom has told me that before in those words.

Your brother in law is programmed to tell her such false promises- but he still sounds like a dickhead for not showing her the proper attention all these years. I too get saddened seeing all my JW family still in having this " Armageddon carrot " dangled in front of their nose. It's sad and ridiculous. And very deceitful on the WT society's part. Just as the " generation overlap " theory is. Hang in there

Nathan Natas

Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?

"...30 Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man’s existence coincides with the sabbath-like thousand-year reign of Christ. If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Why not? Because after his creation Adam lived some time during the “sixth day,” which unknown amount of time would need to be subtracted from Adam’s 930 years, to determine when the sixth seven-thousand-year period or “day” ended, and how long Adam lived into the “seventh day.” And yet the end of that sixth creative “day” could end within the same Gregorian calendar year of Adam’s creation. It may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years."

-- The WATCHTOWER, August 15, 1968 page 499.

Nathan Natas

If it is so damned close, why did the farty and incontinent slave decide to re-define the meaning of the "generation"?

Your BIL will never live to saee his "great day." It's a HOAX.

Hopscotch

The WTS seems to have no qualms about using and abusing their members through their whole lives and then still applying the carrot and stick when they're nearly on their deathbed.

notverylikely: I'm sure the WTS knows the tomorrow they predict is never coming

serenitynow: Thanks for your nice comments. I agree about the retard bit! And yes they are so unchristian.

Outlaw: Thanks for the advice - I'll make sure I stick to buying yellow bananas! lol

mentallyfree: The thing is the absurdity of all this doesn't seem to register to JWs

crazyblondedeb: Maybe we do. lol

flipper: I've thought for some time that the WTS is very guilty of abuse of the elderly. The way they have mind controlled and manipulated their members all through their lives and then at the end give them these types of false hopes is disgusting. Just like my MIL is sitting in her nursing home waiting for this miracle of Armageddon to save her at the last minute. JWs have never been mentally prepared to face old age and death which is so sad. And yes I agree about the dickhead bit!

Nathan Natas: I had forgotten about that article - thanks for posting it. Yes the WTS is a master of HOAXES.

Hopscotch

From Bethelite BIL Last Week: "Armageddon May Be Only Weeks Away"

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