the wt 1989 (page 3)

Finally-Free

Ah, it's nice to see those again. That's my mother's underlining. It has a kind of sentimental value for me.

I still recall the day we covered that article at the meeting. As usual, I hadn't prepared the watchtower so it was my first time seeing the statement. I thought that it was quite a statement, and that I'd file it away for future reference. If it turned out to be false I intended to leave the JWs. Unfortunately we used to throw out our magazines and keep the bound volumes.

Fast forward to 2000. I remembered the article, searched the bound volumes and CD and found nothing. I thought I was becoming delusional. Then, in 2003 I saw a reference to the article but no scan. I remembered my mother never got the bound volumes. She kept all her original magazines, so I went to her place and found that one. I kept it, took it home, scanned it and posted it. I don't have it any more. I sent it to another poster on this board.

For me that was the final nail in the watchtower coffin.

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KW13

yes, but not in the bound volume edition. it speaks about the ministry being completed in the 20th century. Add this logic to Matt 24:14 and voila.

the crafty trouts changed it in the bound volume from 20th century to 'in our day'

Alwayshere

Awake Nov.1986 pg. 78 "for the year 2000, I see a world transformed into a Paradise but I don't think the present world or rulers will live to see it. We are living in the last days." The Nations shall know I am Jehovah-1971 page 216 "Within our 20th century the battle in the day of Jehovah will begin with Christendom."