Preparing to "flee to the mountains"?

NanaR

Okay, IE didn't work so I'll try this on Chrome. My apologies for the blank posts.

Has anyone heard of local congregations recently telling people to buy backpacks and be prepared to leave on very short notice to "flee to the mountains"? I am told that this is happening and I have a hard time believing it. Sounds like a disinformation plant to find a link.

However, if this is happening in other places, I would be worried that the org is heading over the edge into a Jim Jones scenario.

Could the recent money troubles (lawsuit settlements, property frozen) have pushed things over the edge?

NanaR

mrsjones5

Have fun! I just came from the mountains. It was great.

NanaR

DesirousOfChange

It just has to do with emergency preparedness.

Tornados. Hurricanes. Storms. Floods. Etc.

Doc

Kojack57

NanaR: I've heard the same thing. Jwtalk Website for the strictest of the strictest brainwashed Hovie Jovies were talking about a 3 day survival kit that they were urged to put together in preparation for the END OF TIMES. Why just 3 days? Maybe they are going to be told by the G.B. that they will need to meet together at another assembly site and given poison kool-aid to bring on the great tribulation.

Who knows, these are some wacky assed people that the normal human being will never be able to understand.

Kojack

stillin

I'm sure that the official quotations will be nothing at all like the hype that the desparate, drooling, want-the-new order-now! witnesses will translate them to be.

Maybe something like, "Wouldn't it be a good idea, Brothers and Sisters, if we had an extra can of beans in our cupboards, just in case something were to happen...? (long pause, suspense...then nothing)

Bobcat

Like others have said, it probably has to do with emergency preparedness which has been officially discussed in the congregations.

Some may have interpreted these instructions as having a hidden meaning for the great tribulation. In a way that is understandable. The Society encourages the idea that the GB and the (so-called) FDS have special insight into the future and so I could see some thinking, 'Hey, this isn't about hurricanes, this is what was foretold ...!'

At any rate, its interesting that in the 1st century not all Christians were supposed to flee. Only "those in Ju·de′a ... those in the midst of her (Jerusalem) ..." (Luke 21:21) And there were no instructions from Jesus about having a travel kit ready. Instead, "Let the man on the housetop not come down to take the goods out of his house; and let the man in the field not return to the house to pick up his outer garment. . ." (Mt 24:17, 18) If the ones described here had a travel kit packed, then, at least according to the instructions Jesus gave, they would have had to leave it behind.

Quendi

Some of this hysteria may arise from past statements made by the WTS that Jehovah would alert the organization when the Great Tribulation was about to burst onto the world and the organization in turn would give proper instructions to the faithful. Witnesses are required to believe that the WTS is the sole channel of communication God is using, so if they hear talk about preparing for some emergency, many will link it with their expectation of the End even if that isn't the organization's intent.

Quendi

Finkelstein

Since the WTS. pushes and exploits fear to attract attention to its literature and make people submissively obedient to also distribute their litature..

I wouldn't be surprised but realistically I think its second hand hearsay from something that might have been said regarding being prepared

for any natural disasters. The way the JWs are indoctrinated to think concerning the great day of Armageddon coming very soon,

its doesn't come surprising that someone started rumors and it spread around as such..

Anony Mous

I wonder where they would have time to move in 3 days. Pretty much all of the US has other people in it and it's even worse in the EU nor can you get from anywhere to any other specific place in 3 days. Having 7M people in a central location (or even just a couple of thousand) would be pretty noticeable.

If anyone has any knowledge of Jim Jones style agenda's, please let me know asap.

Preparing to "flee to the mountains"?

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