how did J W's arrive at end of time in 1975[who misled who?]?

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j w[jehova witnesses]

Answer 1

to be fair the organisation has made efforts to acknowledge the errors of the past.they are a lot more upfront about it now than previously.
they DID believe and teach that 1975 was the end of the age,anyone who claims otherwise is mis-informed.
they are quite at ease with the realisation,these days,that mistakes were made - they speak of the organisation today as "closer to the light of Jehovah" than before.
they aint the only ones,though.
perhaps it's just a bit of holy enthusiasm,i've heard similar from ultra-evangelicals in the past.

Answer 2

A book was released in the 60's, I think, which included a table of the chronology of the Bible. It was calculated that 1975 would be 6,000 years from the creation of Adam.

Some witnesses thought this would mean that Armageddon would come in 1975, though this was never stated for a fact at Jehovah's Witnesses conventions or in their literature.

I must add that Jehovah's Wintnesses do not believe in the end of time or the end of the world. They believe that all righteous people will live on a Paradise earth as per the Bible and God's original purpose. Armageddon is often confused with 'the end of the world', but this is simply God's war were he destroy's the wicked not planet earth.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses never pretended that 1975 represented the "end of time" or "Armageddon", but merely seemed to culminate 6000 years of human existence. They wondered "aloud" (but without insisting) whether it was natural for Christ's thousand year reign to immediately follow for a nice round 7000 years to the end of Christ's reign.

Anti-Witnesses recycle this particular "controversy" from time to time, pretending that Jehovah's Witnesses taught 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.

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Answer 4

Wasn't 1975 6,000 years from Adam's creation?


what's all this about the end of whatever

Answer 5

They FIRST made the claim in the 1800's. They finally said officially they would no longer make such predictions, but it had happened falsely SEVERAL TIMES before that... So the organization is obviously a FALSE PROPHET.

Answer 6

The JWs aren't the only group who have predicted and then missed the end of time.

Lots of people have embarrassed themselves in that way. You'd think they'd learn, huh?