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I recently got an e-mail from one of the forum members about a problem we've all observed.  Here is an extract from it: --------------------- Here's an observation of what I believe is an endemic…
If you have read the article on the Two Witnesses of Revelation 7:1-13, you’ll recall that there is strong evidence to support the idea that this prophecy has yet to be fulfilled.  (Our current…
Granted, this is a very minor point, but in the interests of accuracy, in next week’s Watchtower (w12 8/15) the following statement is made on page 14, par. 10: “Web sites that promote pornography…
[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…