Critics of Jehovah's Witnesses pretend that this issue of Awake! taught that Armageddon would come in 1975. Is that the way Jehovah's Witnesses themselves understood the matter?
In 1975, there was a peak of 2,179,256 active Witnesses preaching from house to house. Did they quit in 1976? No.
By 2005, there were 6,613,829 actively preaching Jehovah's Witnesses, more than THREE TIMES as many!
Even in the United States, Jehovah's Witnesses have almost doubled their numbers since 1975. The articles of Jehovah's Witnesses which mentioned 1975 did so because it seemed to represent 6000 years since mankind's creation; no connection was made between that year and Armageddon.
Jehovah's Witnesses have long taught that not even Jesus knew the day and hour of Armageddon.
(Matthew 24:3-36) .The disciples approached [Jesus] privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?” 4 And in answer Jesus said to them: “Look out... 10 Then, also, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another. ...13 But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. 14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come. ...36 “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.
It is sad when the enemies of truth work to spread misinformation regarding this peaceful Christian religion.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/article_09.htm
2006-12-20 06:51:20
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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You could go to a Kingdom Hall and ask them how to get it. Or you could look at eBay.com.
I bought an old german New World Translation, and english NWT and a Jehovah witnesses song book on eBay.
2006-12-20 07:56:06
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answered by KaeMae 4
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