2009 "Keep On the Watch!" Convention Preview (page 6)

ex-nj-jw

Don't Forget Your Relatives”

Does that mean harass your non-jw, faded, inactive, don't want $%^& to do with the cult relatives? *note to self* "call JW family and tell them not to even try it!"

nj

yadda yadda 2

Since 1969 only two Conventions have had a "end is near" type theme; 2006 and 2009!! I can smell the cool-aid being mixed!

2004 " "Walk with God" District Convention

2005 “Godly Obedience” "District Convention

2006 "Deliverance at Hand!" District Convention

2007 “Follow the Christ!” District Convention

2008 “Guided by God’s Spirit” District Convention

2009 “Keep on the Watch!” District Convention

marcopolo

schemes of the discourses, not have anybody????

Black Sheep

Here is outline for the main talk, Marco.

“KEEP ON THE WATCH”

Jesus emphasized the point of his parable with timely words for anointed Christians living at the “conclusion of the system of things.” He said: “Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.” (Matt. 25:13) Those who wish to be like the five “discreet” virgins must shine continually with an active Christian personality. They dare not compromise with those who would take away some or much of their spiritual “oil.” Their faith in the Bridegroom’s arrival and presence must continue bright, and they need to remain in the shining procession that follows his steps until he brings his bridal congregation completely home.

The long delay in the Bridegroom’s arrival has ended. He is here, in his glorious presence. The time for drowsiness and sleep is past! Now is the time to shine in his honor and to rejoice with him in the joy his heavenly Father has set before him, that of taking his spiritual “bride” to himself and celebrating this with a marriage feast. Spirit-anointed Christians, therefore, must keep on the watch, for they do not know the day or hour when that “door” of opportunity will be shut, never to be reopened. But such vigilant and discreet ones will not be shut out because of any fatal spiritual illuminating-oil crisis.

[Footnotes]

Man’s creation was placed in 4128 and sin’s entrance in 4126 B.C.E. Such chronology followed an incorrect manuscript rendering of Acts 13:20 in The Emphatic Diaglott, which said that God gave Israel judges “about four hundred fifty years, till Samuel the prophet.” A footnote stated that this was at variance with 1 Kings 6:1, where the Hebrew letter daleth (thought to represent the number 4) supposedly had been mistaken for the similar character he (5). Hence, it was suggested that 580 (not 480) years elapsed between Israel’s exodus from Egypt and the time that Solomon began building Jehovah’s temple. But the oldest manuscripts spell out all numbers. So a transcriber’s visual error could not have occurred at 1 Kings 6:1, which gives this period correctly as 480 years. This harmonizes with a correct reading of Acts 13:20, which indicates that the period of “about four hundred and fifty years” there mentioned preceded the era of the Judges.

In 1943 the Watch Tower Society’s book “The Truth Shall Make You Free” did away with the nonexistent extra 100 years in the period of the Judges and placed the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence in the 1970’s. It also fixed the beginning of Christ’s presence, not in 1874, but in 1914 C.E.

That was from the 15 August 1974 Watchtower.

Cheers

Chris

jgnat

Any word on the new release?

Badger

I prefer to think of the last convention I went to. I showed up two hours late each day, left early Saturday (and watch the hilarously sacreligious "Dogma" that night), and spent most of the talks writing in my notebook and ended telling an elder off.

2009 "Keep On the Watch!" Convention Preview