by berrygerry 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
Blondie posted in another thread the July 15, 2011 extra-simple WT.
Paragraph 12 has an amazing double-speak therein.
In other words ...This idea makes people think only about today. They do not care about the future or about pleasing God. We might start to think like them and then become “inactive or unfruitful” in our service to God. (2 Peter 1:8) The truth is that Jehovah will soon change things on the earth, and we must show by the way we live that we really believe this. (Matthew 24:44)
Context???
DD
Article was 3 lies of Satan.
This was one of them - that there is no future.
The 2 points I observed -
1. Worldly people are criticized for career-building, retirement planning, family planning, etc. (rearranging Titanic deck chairs, et al). Whereas the article says that they are only living for today, and not for the future.
2. (Worldy) people think only about today. We don't and we show it by the way we live - by living only for today.
There's that "soon" word again!
Don't they know they've been saying it for over a hundred years!
