Oct 8 1966 Awake! PDF-- pushes 1975 date (page 3)

LongHairGal

JEFF T:

I know this is a fourteen year old thread and this is now 2022 and you might not be on the forum anymore.

As for what you say that the “organization issued a correction in 1980 or 1982 setting everything right” and “only apostates make a big deal out of this”:🙄..are you aware in the last decade or so a new bumper crop of gullible people repeated the SAME mistakes of pre-1975 ‘selling houses and insurance policies’ to go ‘serve where the need was greater’ as mentioned in your post??

If the 1975 embarrassing fiasco and the foolish behavior you mentioned in the JW religion was not hidden and swept under the rug..than maybe more people wouldn’t have repeated the same stupidity recently.

Foolednomore

Only dumb, gullible people are or still remain as Jw's. How my family got hooked on this is hard to believe? Both parents are well educated. One side of the family is in the other side is out for good. With the flow of information how can anyone be A Jw with a straight face? It's just crazy.

Fisherman

Jesus and the angels would have known the day and the hour.

Angels in heaven do not understand prophecy even if they knew the creation of Eve. It is one thing to know this and another to understand and figure out how it applies to the Messianic kingdom. For example: “ A Revelation of JC that God gave him…” So even in heaven, God gave him that information although he had other information like the creation of Eve for example that he could make use of to figure out events destined to take place. Also, what did JC mean by that “day and hour”?

blondie

Fisherman, that concept of not knowing the day and the hour and Jesus and the angels, and the numbers the WTS developed based on when Eve was created, was adjusted in the Aid to Bible Understanding from 130 years after to Eve being created just after Adam, because time was running out, it didn't look like by even doing that, 1975 would come and go and no "end." Then when people were disappointed and many left during 1977 and 1978 posting a negative increase, the WTS blamed members for "running ahead." In 1980 the WTS finally said perhaps the WTS and been too definite about 1975. Perhaps...

Fisherman

Hello Bondie! Didn’t know that my dumb posts and presence again here would bring you back. Happy to see you.

Don’t forget the Eternal Purpose and Freedom sons of God but the Scriptures Inspired said creation of Eve was an unknown variable off the top of my head. There are two versions of the Scriptures Inspired Book, one after 75.

Like length of generation, 75 convinced JW that “the end” was going to come—and we still believe the end is “imminent” as long as wt teaches it. Even if wt didn’t it is hard to let go anyway.

The way 75 was presented in the literature, people had to conclude that the end was coming. If 75 was presented in the literature back in that time the way it is presented now, people wouldn’t have been convinced in their minds and hearts back then about 1975 that the millennial rule of christ would begin around 1975 as the end of 6000 years including Eve would converge with length of 1914 generation prophecy filling the gap for the time Eve was created. How could you conclude otherwise using these 2 valid dates based on irrefutable Bible chronology which is based on empirical archeological evidence, the fall of Babylon. But nothing happened, now what?

JW faith in God and Bible prophecy ( not its interpretation) is more solid than the belief in scientific realism am empirical science regardless of any falsification of wt interpretation of the Bible.

extj.co

TonusOH

From the most reliable investigations of Bible chronology

Just a reminder: someone wrote that with a straight face.

dozy

There has been a degree of revisionism of the 1975 frenzy in recent times , culminating in an astonishingly misleading video on Jw dot org. which condemns "people who were looking to a certain date".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGs300U2FQE

Oct 8 1966 Awake! PDF-- pushes 1975 date

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