I talked with a JW young kid about half a year ago and one thing he said sent me looking for info to verify what he claimed.He said that prior to 1914 there where times of peace when no one was at war while after 1914 there have either been only a handful or no days of peace. Can anyone explain what the actual position is for the JWs with regrad days of peace and their justification for 1914 being a pivotal point in history.
As such does the following website provide a good enough rebuttal or does the WT provide evidence of periods of peace so I can look it up?
http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html
Days of peace
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Doug Mason
Qcmbr,
To try to answer such questions is to be like the dog who keeps chasing after the stick that its master has thrown. They are leading you away with unnecessary distractions.
The fact is that never did Jesus mention size of wars, number of countries involved, length of conflicts, number of casualties, types of weaponry. Nothing.
What he said is that deceivers were coming, and his Disciples could already hear them, who were pointing to such events. But Jesus protected his followers by telling them that these people were deceivers, claiming to come in his name, the Anointed One. Jesus said that wars are going to happen because nations and kingdoms were going to fight one another. End of story.
Jesus did not use conflicts as portents of God's Kingdom. Rather, he used healing, raising the dead, and parables about a man quietly sowing seed or catching fish.
And the Great War started two to fourteen months before the deadline set by CTR (October 1914 or October 1915). He expected peace to be ushered in thereafter.
Doug