Jesus Christ would return in 1914 and set up a visible organization with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York????
Or could this be that the Watchtower's "GOOD NEWS" is "something beyond what the Galatians accepted" - placing Jehovah's Witnesses under God's curse for teaching another gospel??
2007-10-26 13:56:26 · 25 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Vot Ana: Jesus is God, He is truth. You do not have to accept it though, but please do not call yourself a Christian.
2007-11-01 11:37:14 · update #1
The whole purpose of Paul's writing this letter to the congregation in Galatia was to show them that the believer is no longer under legalistic restrictions but is under the new covenant of grace. That was the Good News (or Gospel) that Jesus came to preach and which his followers continued to take to the far ends of the earth after His ascension. Paul emphasized, in this epistle, that, no matter what, we are never to return to the bondage of legalism, such as the Judaizers were trying to bring these Gentile believers into.
What the WTS has done is to return its members to the same type of legalism--rules and restrictions by which a person must attempt to EARN salvation and which are diametrically opposed to the Gospel of Grace.
2007-10-26 15:42:33 · answer #1 · answered by Simon Peter 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I see you are really doing your research before you get into anything. Good for you!! One day you'll have satisfied your thirst for knowledge and I'll be seated right next to you at an assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses.
2007-11-01 17:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah , there was actually a big thing in the News reports/stories back around 28 to about 36 AD about this great place called the Big Apple ... it was all the rage back then and everyone knew what He was talking about.
... and also abotu this numbering system of counting the years which hadn't been invented yet!
2007-10-26 21:00:24 · answer #3 · answered by David F 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes Don, pointing out those who lie, does bring peace to those who will protected from being hurt by the liars.
No Paul did not teach that Jesus would return in 1914.
You would have to be very naive to believe that story.
Pastor Art
2007-10-26 21:24:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That Jesus Christ would return in 1914? That sounds like a joke. Here's what the Apostle Paul taught about the timing of Christ's return.
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Notice in verse 3 that Paul warns Christians not to let anyone deceive them. While that was written in the fist century AD one of the obvious applications for today is don't listen to the J.W.'s.
All of their backpedaling and nonsense about "getting greater light" is just a cover up for false prophecies from a religion started by a false teacher.
2007-10-26 21:03:39 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who is not preaching the Original Kingdom Gospel that Jesus preached is teaching "another gospel."
This may sound foreign to most Christians, but the original gospel is about a "treasure hid in a field."
2007-10-26 21:07:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish we could break the back of that annoying organization with the most gigantic prayer wheel of all time known to man. Like the super-awesome gundanium unobtainium titanium prayer weapon from Japan.
2007-10-26 21:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the apostle Paul's epistle to the Galatians doesn't seem to have specific clues to the year 1914.
Regarding 1914, the Scriptures do show that Jesus sat on the throne of the Messianic Kingship that year. In hindsight, most of humankind can see the historic upheaval that began with World War I. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that mankind in general has seen a wide range of specific signs since 1914, and that anyone can perceive these as significant without even opening a bible.
Yet the bible DOES comment upon it! Jesus foretold this specific collection of signs as evidence that his "presence" or so-called 'second coming' had arrived. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that "presence" to be Jesus' presence as the King of God's Kingdom. Citations are from both New World Translation (NWT) and Youngs Literal Translation (YLT).
(Matthew 24:3, NWT) disciples approached [Jesus] privately, saying: "Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence
(Matthew 24:3, YLT) the disciples came near to [Jesus], saying, 'Tell us, when shall these be? and what is the sign of thy presence...?
(Luke 21:7,24, NWT) Teacher, when will these things actually be, and what will be the sign when these things are destined to occur?
(Luke 21:7,24, YLT) Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what is the sign when these things may be about to happen?'
Amazingly, since the 1870's, Jehovah's Witnesses had recognized 1914 as a significant year according to the chronology indicated in bible prophecy. Decades before 1914, Witnesses noted that Jesus' discussion of his second "coming", or second "presence" specifically mentions "the appointed times of the nations", which Jehovah's Witnesses believe to be a centuries-long period of relative godlessness when God's rulership through the Davidic kingship was interrupted (the line of hereditary kings beginning with King David of Israel). Jehovah's Witnesses recognize that the Davidic kingship ended in 607 BCE when Jerusalem fell to Babylon, and would begin again during the fulfillment of the composite "sign" of Matthew 24 and Luke 21.
(Luke 21:24, NWT) Jerusalem [or 'Davidic kingship'] will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.
(Luke 21:24, YLT) Jerusalem [or 'Davidic kingship'] shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.
How long would "the appointed times of the nations" last? Daniel chapter 4 contains a prophecy in which God's rulership, through the Davidic kings is represented by a "tree". That tree is kept down for "seven times", which seems to be seven periods of 360 "days" (See Rev 12:6,14). So Daniel 4:15 seems to be referring to 2520 "days" when God's governmental rulership would not be seen.
(Daniel 4:11-17, NWT) The tree grew up and became strong, and its very height finally reached the heavens, and it was visible to the extremity of the whole earth. ...14 He ["a holy one"] was calling out loudly, and this is what he was saying: "CHOP the tree down... 15 However, LEAVE its rootstock itself in the earth... let seven times pass over it. 17 ...that people living may know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of mankind and that to the one whom he wants to, he gives it and he sets up over it even the lowliest one of mankind.
(Daniel 4:11-17, YLT) Become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land...14 He ["a holy one"] is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree...15 but the stump of its roots leave in the earth...and seven times pass over him; 17 ...that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men He doth raise up over it.
But in history, 2520 days is not a significant amount of time. Jehovah's Witnesses look to Scriptures such as Num 14:34 and Ez 4:6 and re-examine the history using 2520 YEARS instead. From 607 BCE to 1914 CE is 2520 years; so many significant things happened that year, and World War I was only one part!.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_09.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm
2007-10-26 22:03:12 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus set up a HIS HEAVENLY KNGDOM AND KICKED SATAN OUT OF HEAVEN AT THAT TIME!!! THE WITNESSES STARTED BEFORE THAT ( LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG BEFORE 1914) THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY CALLED BIBLE STUDENTS THEN WE TOOK ON THE NAME THAT BETTER DESCRIBES US - JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!!!
2007-10-27 00:21:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was mean Nina.
Is this productive? Will it bring us peace?
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-26 21:03:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋