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[This is not so much a post as it is an open discussion topic. While I am sharing my opinions here with all the readers of this forum, I sincerely welcome other viewpoints, opinions, and the insight…
We had a visiting speaker from an overseas branch office give our public talk this past weekend. He made a point I'd never heard before regarding Jesus' words, "Who really is the faithful and…
I wasn’t going to write about this, but sometimes it is just too hard to let something go. It concerns this sentence from yesterday’s Watchtower study:
(w12 7/15 p. 28 par. 7)
Although Jehovah has…
One of our forum contributors stumbled across this. I thought it was an interesting insight into our position on the holding of contrary opinions on matters of a speculative or interpretive nature…
Admittedly, this is a pet peeve of mine. For decades the Watchtower has used anecdotes to prove a point. We do it a lot less than we used to, but we still do it. I remember many years ago an anecdote…
The comment that Apollos made to our post, 1914—A Litany of Assumptions, shocked me. (If you haven’t read it already, you should do so before continuing.) You see, I was born in the 1940s, and I’ve…
Chapter 16 of the Revelation Climax book deals with Rev. 6:1-17 which reveals the four horsemen of the Apocalypse and is said to have its fulfillment “from 1914 up to the destruction of this system…
[For the original treatise on the whether 1914 was
the start of Christ's presence, see this post.]
I was talking with a long-time friend a couple of days ago who served with me many years back in a…
Continuing our analysis of the Revelation Climax book for date-related prophecies, we come to chapter 6 and the first occurrence of the "messenger of the covenant" prophecy from Malachi 3:1. As one…
This is the first in a series of posts investigating the impact of removing 1914 as a factor in the interpretation of Bible prophecy. We are using the Revelation Climax book as the basis for this…
Sir Isaac Newton published his laws of motion and universal gravitation in the late 1600s. These laws are still valid today and scientists used them to achieve the pinpoint landing of the Curiosity…
In paragraph 13 of today's Watchtower study, we are told that one of the proofs of the Bible's inspiration is its unusual candor. (w12 6/15 p. 28) This brings to mind the incident involving the…