Jehovah's Witnesses were built out of the scattered rubble of many ruined 2nd Advent predictions reusing the same stones.
The problem with insisting on contradicting the scripture about "No man knows the day and the hour. . " leads to some
fancy razzle-dazzle footwork.
DOES JESUS COME BACK, RETURN, ARRIVE, or just turn his head and look while remaining in heaven?
This muddle of a doctrine has more patches than a patchwork quilt!
WHAT DOES THE PHRASE: THE RETURN OF CHRIST MEAN?
Where is the actual DEFINITION?
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Watchtower"definitions" crowd out the defining process diverting attention to indoctrination.
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". . . In the Bible the Greek word er’kho -mai (meaning,“to come”) is also
Used with reference to Jesus’ directing his attention to an important
Task at a specific time during his presence, namely, to his work as
Jehovah’s executioner at the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”
Coming? Presence? Return of Christ? These are tossed in willy-nilly for a reason.
Watchtower teaching requires confusing these terms with their own doctrine of invisible return=2nd coming=1914 followed
by an excuse for JW's to go door to door for an extended period of time, to be followed by Armageddon.
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NOW IT GETS REALLY TRICKY!
Will the Watchtower publication tell us WHERE it is Jesus RETURNS to at his second coming?
Remember, Jesus departed and promised to RETURN. When Jesus departed he was ON THE EARTH.
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RETURN--verb--To come or go back to a place or person
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Throughout the history of Christianity on Earth there has never been any confusion about what the phrase
"The Return of Christ" actually means. But, the doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses seek to destroy and replace
the obvious meaning with an unnecessarily complicated teaching. This teaching became complicated for a reason.
1. False date of Christ's return failed to produce the actual return of Christ! First, 1874 and later 1914.
2. To cover up the failure of prediction, a silly"invisible presence" argument was tacked on to save the day.
3. Once the invisible returned Jesus was argued, there had to some reason given for NOTHING HAPPENING beyond the
unrest of WWI. Why did things go back to normal?
4. The preaching work and door to door ministry was invented to fill up the deafening silence and inactivity of a returned King Jesus.
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The entire doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses rests on one tiny point.
JW's must try very, very hard to distort the meaning of 2nd COMING.
The Greek word "parousia" can mean either COMING or ARRIVAL, or PRESENCE depending on the CONTEXT.
Jehovah's Witnesses ignore context and ignore "coming" and insist on PRESENCE to foist the "invisible" rescue argument into it.
Why?
Remember, for Jehovah's Witnesses, if Jesus did NOT return when they PREDICTED IT--they are obviously FALSE PROPHETS.
To avoid being identified as such--they must insist JESUS RETURNED, but the reason you could not see him was (insert invisibility here.)
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Let us ask an important question here.
IN THE DAYS OF NOAH the flood was coming.
When the flood finally arrived (parousia) . . . WAS IT INVISIBLE WATER?
No.
With that understanding in mind, read this:
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MATTHEW 24:39
“And they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood
Came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming
Of the Son of Man.”
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The Watchtower religion is built entirely on an ERROR in predicting the 2nd COMING.
The doctrines are silly, contradictory, and illogical because they must bend everything to make that work.
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Think of the burden JW's must carry around lugging the heavy anchor of 607 B.C.E when it is easily refuted.
607 "proves" 1914 or it refutes 1914. The Watchtower has to insist, no matter what, this date is true.
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In the Bible, the SIGN of something comes BEFORE the event itself, but using Watchtower style reverse-definition
we find in REASONING FROM THE SCRIPTURES:
“Following Christ’s return, some persons show faith; they recognize the
Sign of his presence. Others reject the evidence, but when Christ goes
into action as God’s executioner of the wicked, even they will discern
From the manifestation of his power that the destruction is not from men
but from heaven. They will know what is happening because they were
Warned in advance. Because of what is overtaking them, they will ‘beat
their selves in grief.’”
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WHY does the Watchtower put the SIGN of Jesus' return AFTER he arrives?
Because they have to cover up the fact JESUS DID NOT return in 1914.
