help compile a 'must be jw' to survive/ or for salvation list?

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  carla

  Anybody care to help me compile a list of wt quotes which suggest (outright say) that one must be a jw to survive the big A, or must come to 'them' for salvation? Here are a few to begin with. Thanks, carla

  Wt 1981 Nov 15----Any person who wants to survive into God's righteious new order urgently needs to come into a right relationship with [Jehovah's] earthly organization now.... come to Jehovah's organization for salvation..... *** Watchtower 1989 September 1 p. 19 Remaining Organized for Survival Into the Millennium ***

  7 Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil. 1990 KMIN NOV ----"identifying themselves with Jehovah's organization is essential to their salvation.

  *** You Can live Forever (1982, 1990) p.255 ***

  Do not conclude that there are different roads, or ways, that you can follow to gain life in God's new system. There is only one. There was just one ark that survived the Flood, not a number of boats. And there will be only one organization — God's visible organization — that will survive the fast-approaching "great tribulation." It is simply not true that all religions lead to the same goal… You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life…

  *** Watchtower 1989 September 1 p. 19 Remaining Organized for Survival Into the Millennium ***

  7 Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil.

  Watchtower, December 1, 1999, p. 18: Be Happy Readers of the Book of Revelation The message is clear: If we want to survive Armageddon, we must remain spiritually alert and keep the symbolic garments that identify us as faithful Witnesses of Jehovah God. From The Watchtower, July 15, 1958, p. 439: Find Your Place in the New World Society Jehovah God has a place for each one of us in his organization, just as he has a place for the two hundred million times two hundred billion stars of space. Under Jehovah and Christ Jesus, for those of the remnant and those of the "other sheep," for appointed servants and for congregation publishers, for those old and those young in years, for part-time and for full-time ministers--yes, indeed, in this highly organized New World society there is a properly assigned place for each and all. It is therefore most important for every living individual to find his appropriate place quickly in this association. It is not less important either, as the following article shows, that, having found one's place in the constellation of the New World society, one should faithfully remain in it if one hopes to survive Armageddon and live forever in eternal peace and happiness. From The Watchtower, August 15, 1953, pp. 500-1: Living Now as a New World Society If we refuse organization instructions, if we forsake the gathering of ourselves together to avoid organization and its obligations, where could we go after Armageddon? Will there be separatists after Armageddon who will each make himself his own society and live as a hermit in a spacious earth, avoiding human contact and preferring animal society? For anyone to forsake the organized congregation of those who are destined to survive Armageddon means for that one never to get past Armageddon into the New World and its theocratic system. Like Noah's family, we must now get into the ark all together!

  here are a few suggesting the big A in the 20th century

  Shortly within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern anti type of Jerusalem, Christendom.
  The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah - How? 1971 p. 216

  The Watchtower 1989 January 1 p. 12

  The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be concluded in our 20th century. See the scanned copy of 1/1/89WT (bound volume changed '20th century' to 'day')

  Shortly within our twentieth century, the “battle in the day of Jehovah” will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom.
  The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah - How? 1971 p. 216

  The Watchtower 1984 March 1 pp. 18-19
  Some of that “generation” could survive until the end of the century. But there are many indications that “the end” is much closer than that!

  1980 WT Oct 15 p31--"If the wicked system of this world survived until the turn of the century [the year 2001?], which is highly improbable ........

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