Jehova's Witnesses...Is it true about your false prophecies?

Question

I am NOT a troll or athiest!!!

I'm interested in the subject and I want to hear it from a JW's point of view...

How do you explain the "false prophecies?"

catalyst, thats why I used "quotation" marks.

Answer 1

Theres been some false predictions, not false prophecies.

The only Biblical calculation that was correct was the one of 1914. However, at the time, it was still uncertain what was going to occur on that date.

As for the others such as 1925, 1975 ect. you can goto this site below.

http://www.jehovah.to/exe/general/prophetic.htm

This site discusses false "predictions" with the Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Baptist, ect.

What I find funny is that the Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones viewed as making this mistake. Facts shows many predictions have been made throughout Christianity, and none of them are act of a false prophet in this sense.

People often use Deuteronomy 18:20-22 as proof of a false prophet. But what the scripture is actually talking about is if someone claims to receive a prophecy from God directly.

Answer 2

JW's haven't been going around making false prophecies....the group as a whole anyway.

The only time they did expect things to happen at a certain date was the rapture to occur at the end of the 7 gentile times (as they still had christendom's teaching of that).

1975 was only the 6,000 year since Adam's creation by the Genesis geneologies.

When I was becoming a JW, I looked up a lot of such supposed references that apostates and opposers "quote" as gospel from our literature. I did not find one of them was telling the truth.

At the end of each year, the years' WT and Awakes are put into a bound volume (encyclopedia like book) and anyone interested can use the Kingdom Hall library to check any supposed references wherein others make these false prophecy/date of the end claims. Same with any other claim, you only have to check the KH library.

So it is a lot of mere babble and hot air on the part of people who dislike or oppose JWs. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

Debbie

Answer 3

Thank you for the respectful question.

I think you should specify one so that we can respond.

I know that one was the year 1914 and the mistaken belief that it would bring the end of this system of things. They were wrong and acknowledged they were wrong. 1975? I was around for that. There was the impression by some that it marked the end of this system fo things because it marked the end of Jehovah's rest period. That is still the case. The fact is no one has ever claimed that the organization is perfect. But what is more important to you a humble course correction or stubbornly sticking to dogma in the face of evidence that the dogma is wrong?

Capri, 1907 has NEVER been a year mentioned with any significance. And yes there is more scriptural and anectodal evidence that 1914 marked the invisible return of Christ than can be written here.

Answer 4

The autumn of the year 1975 marks the end of 6,000 years of human experience, 6,000 years from his (Jehovahs) creating. Nobody can pinpoint the exact date that the Great Tribulation will break out and then Armageddon to follow thereafter. But we (Jehovahs Witnesses) knew that the year of 1975 was something significant. We do not claim to know everything, as Jehovah lets his people know things according to HIS will. We just knew that something was significant with this date. This is not to say that some JWs independantly thought this year (1975) might be the end and thus was severing Jehovah out of selfish and this is why they left shortly thereafter 1975. The same with 1914. We knew that this year (1914) had some siginificance also. This is the year Jesus was enthroned as King. JWs as an organization has never published that the end of the world was coming at any date. That would be out of harmony with what the Bible says when it says "nobody knows the day nor the hour"

Answer 5

Was Jesus Christ a false prophet?
He spread the "truth" of God's Kingdom as the only hope for mankind, and then he laid down his life for all who would accept that sacrifice.
He also taught his followers, then AND now to continue to speak about and teach the Kingdom of God until the conclusion of this system of things........who are the ONLY people that you know who are following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ by spreading the "good news" and making disciples?
Jehovah's Witnesses, without a doubt!
False prophets...........I think not!

Matthew 24:14 Matthew 28:19-20 1 Peter 2:21
Read your bible, it contains a storehouse of information.
Peace.

Answer 6

The Jehovah Witnesses are trying to backtrack, just like the Catholics from the so-called prophecies of the so-called Virgin Mary. There is no proof in the bible that Christ became king in 1907, or that the world was ending in 1975. But they said so. Just like the pope said many years after being shot that the so-called Virgin Mary predicted it, saying she saw a man in white falling down. Yet he didn't say it at the time, because they were still waiting for the "big one" the devil appearing as the so-called Virgin Mary told them to expect. (II Corinthians 11:14)

Answer 7

1. Learn how to spell 'Jehovah'
2. If you actually were interested in their perspective about their 'false prophesies', then you wouldn't have already decided that they were false.
3. Smells like an anti-JW fire.

Answer 8

And that would be?

People, like some on here, claim all sorts of things, so you've got to help us here by clarifying exactly what you are referring to.

Answer 9

Tell me what you mean and I will explain.

Answer 10

They won't. Another way to get rid of the JW's on Saturday mornings.