by Bubblegum Apotheosis 75 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Would someone please explain the current interpretation of the Generation. This topic is one that is causing alot of confussion and turmoil. JWN, you
would not believe how many youth and other pre-40er's don't accept the current explanation of this confused JW doctrine. Thank you for taking the
time to consider this, and how I can use it to help younger ones, see how foolish it is.
This should clear it up for you ....
*** w10 4/15 pp. 10-11 pars. 13-14 Holy Spirit's Role in the Outworking of Jehovah's Purpose ***
Jesus' anointed followers, both in the first century and in our day, would be the ones who would not only see the sign but also discern its meaning-that Jesus "is near at the doors."
14 What does this explanation mean to us? Although we cannot measure the exact length of "this generation," we do well to keep in mind several things about the word "generation": It usually refers to people of varying ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period; it is not excessively long; and it has an end. (Ex. 1:6) How, then, are we to understand Jesus' words about "this generation"? He evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation. That generation had a beginning, and it surely will have an end. The fulfillment of the various features of the sign clearly indicate that the tribulation must be near.
"Evidently."
That definition of generation sure wasn't EVIDENT to the GB in the days of Russell, Rutherford, Knorr, or Franz, was it?
I seem to remember them stressing how SHORT one generation was.
Now the GB is stressing how DEFINITELY LIMITED it must be.
Let's see.
An "anointed" baby born in 1914 is "on hand" when World War I breaks out.
She lives to be 99, same as Fred Franz.
That takes us to 2013.
Her life overlaps that of another anointed baby, this one born in 2013.
That baby lives to be 99.
That gets us to 2112, a hundred years from now.
Plenty of time for someone else to figure out new light that will extend it beyond then...
you would not believe how many youth and other pre-40er's don't accept the current explanation of this confused JW doctrine.
I don't qualify as "youth" or "pre-40er" but I agree this overlapping thing is a bunch of crap. Everyone that I have the comfort level to address the issue with, also are rolling their eyes on this one. . . . . waiting for some New Lite (again) on it. Hopefully the Bethel elites that read this site will have the balls to tell the GB-2.0 what a laugh it is to even the "faithful" ones. [I think the WT QFR was right about the "younger" ones who are now partaking being mentally ill or delusional, I'd say. This overlapping concoction was freaking delusional.
Doc
Its aka 'Leap Frog'.
The WatchTower cover of 1984? with a picture of elderly people, 16? with the caption "The Generation That Will Not Pass Away". All of those souls were born at different times over a period of a number of years ,lived for a varying number of years,and died within a number of years of each other .
By their own definition that" overlapping generation" died without the WT prediction coming true.
smiddy
Yea we all love that cover don't we? It scared the crap out of me when I was studying back in the 80's. It's so soon I really really gotta study, and go to meetings, and cut my hair and buy a suit, and go out in service, and join the school aaaaaahhhhhhh!
Oh I feel better now we have another hundred years.
Wannabefree covers it. It really isn't any clearer than that article. And Ding has how they will eventually stretch it out until so many who remember them even saying such a silly thing are dead.
When my mother tried to explain it, fresh from the convention that covered it after the article was released, she couldn't do it. I tried to add that she was saying that my great-grandmother, whose life overlapped with mine into my adulthood, would be of a single generation with me by that definition. The "adulthood" part isn't even necessary, but I was trying to go along with their current misrepresentation of how the anointed of 1914 were colleagues of the anointed of "the last days."
Each teaching from start to finish is like a dot on a trash can label.
Connect the dots with pointing arrows, including the last one to the first.
You find out that you've been running in circles; it's a recycling symbol!
Buy then, you've dedicated the best of your years and life these unloving lier's.
But the real purpose of the teaching of the generations is to entrap the next one!
A self perpetuating teaching that survives the end of one, into their children, and so on...
Exact current interpretation of a generation:
It is a specific length of time that began when the Watchtower began preaching that Armageddon was coming soon and will continue until Armageddon actually occurs, which will be really really soon, I mean like almost any day now. So far this time period has lasted 135 years or so. Presumably, when it ends, we'll all know it.
