In the News: Jehovah's Witnesses: 'End is near'

by Elsewhere 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  Once again... same old, same old.....

  http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story/Jehovahs-Witnesses-prepare-believers-for-the-end/HO63h5Z-q0akZMfqhmRWvw.cspx

  Jehovah's Witnesses: 'End is near'

  Reported by: Eric Glasser Email: [email protected] Photographer: Tom Special Last Update: 1:07 pm

  WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- If you feel like the world has been crumbling down around you lately, the Jehovah's Witnesses say - you're right. It is.
  
  In fact, beginning this weekend, they'll be holding a series of public lectures entitled "How to survive the end of the world".

  "It's imminent. It's at hand," says local Jehovah's Witnesses spokesman Travis Telfair.

  Local Witnesses will be holding 14 consecutive 'conventions', as they call them, at their convention center on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard - formerly the West Palm Beach Auditorium.

  They hold such gatherings each year, but this year's theme is, admittedly, far more alarming. Spritually surviving an imminent apocalypse! When?

  "No one knows the day or the hour," says Telfair, "but we know we're in the last days of this system of things."

  Jehovah's Witnesses believe the beginning of the end started around 1914 with World War One.

  Since then, there have been plenty of natural and man-made threats to contend with. But the bible, they say, offers specific events to "keep on the watch" for. An escalation in natural disasters, crime, war. Even diseases like Swine Flu.

  "These are all things Jesus said would be increasing in intensity in the last days," says Mario Beltrami, also a Jehovah's Witness spokesman, "and we're seeing that. I think most people agree that these are probably the most critical times we've seen."

  Sure, the prospect of a cataclysm may sound a bit - terrifying. But witnesses say it's not their intention to scare people. Rather, it's to provide believers with a revelations roadmap. A spiritual survival guide to emerge from Armageddon intact.

  "They will be hearing things as far as how they can avoid Satan's snares. Because we know that the goal of Satan is to hamper people from surviving," says Telfair.

  The lectures begin this Friday, and they're open to the public. There's no admission fee. No collection plate being passed. Just an analytical approach, they promise - to let people know why they believe the end is near.

  For more information about the conventions, you can call (561) 491-5300.
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  cognac

  bla bla bla bla bla - same old, same old... At least the entire world can see there nuts, lol
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  daniel-p

  "Just an analytical approach, they promise - to let people know why they believe the end is near."

  This is a terrific comedy piece. That last line does it.
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  VIII

  "How to survive the end of the world".

  "They will be hearing things as far as how they can avoid Satan's snares. Because we know that the goal of Satan is to hamper people from surviving," says Telfair.

  "A spiritual survival guide to emerge from Armageddon intact."

  That and a few dollars will get you nowhere.

  I gotta admit, I laughed really, really hard.

  Negative press, is good press!!
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  restrangled

  The end was near when I was 15.......I am going to be 50......becareful, it must be damn close, cough, cough, ...I'm not holding my breath.

  r.
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  Sunspot

  By the way things are going with the economy, and with all the terrible and frightening events that make us uneasy concerning just about everything we can think of...."the end" may very well BE quite near. The big difference is....that being out of the WTS cult....we no longer live in fear of "not doing enough" for a book publishing company to survive "the end", and we are not required to put everything in our lives on hold in order to deliver WTS literature until "the end" does arrive.
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  musky

  "No one knows the day or the hour," says Telfair, "but we know we're in the last days of this system of things."

  Contradictory statements
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  Mary

  "It's imminent. It's at hand," says local Jehovah's Witnesses spokesman Travis Telfair.

  ZZzzzzzzzzz................

  1952: 12/1p.709 Walking Blamelessly Through the Last Days: But now, by occurrence of every detail of the great sign Jesus gave, we know that we face the imminent end of the present world system.

  2003 9/15 p. 25 "The Law of the Wise One"-A Source of Life: For example, we know that God's new world is imminent.

  1973 tp73 chap. 7 p. 89 par. 30 When Will the Foretold World Destruction Come? There is yet one more definite event to come that serves as an unmistakable signal that world destruction is imminent.

  1975: 10/15 p. 628 "Divine Sovereignty" Assemblies Demonstrate Reality of Kingdom Rule: At Cleveland, Ohio, 57,027 gathered for the assembly. Afterward, the Cleveland Press headlined an editorial "Welcome, Witnesses," and commented: "Never has the city had such an orderly convention." It added: "The Witnesses believe the end of the world is imminent. We're glad they chose Cleveland while there was still time."

  1977 go chap. 11 p. 175 par. 1 The Passing of a Divided World: The "great crowd" of persons who are now preparing themselves for God's incoming world government rejoice that the passing away of the present divided world is imminent.

  1984 10/1 p. 11 par. 8 Why We Must Be No Part of This World: without question the execution of divine judgment upon apostate Christendom and the rest of Satan's world is imminent.

  How many more decades are they going to be foolish enough to keep repeating this crap?
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  Scarred for life

  How many more decades are they going to be foolish enough to keep repeating this crap?

  As long as people keep attending those assemblies and meetings and raise their children in this farce of a religion and keep putting money in the contribution boxes.
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  leavingwt

  "Just Around the Corner....Since 1879!"