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<P> <P> <center><font face="Verdana,Arial" size=5>OOOOOOOOH ARMAGEDDON!!!<BR>How Jehova's Witnesses have been predicting <BR>the "End of the World" for over 100 years</center></font>
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Here is some humor [Jehova's Witnesses] quotes from
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their material and the Watchtower and Awake! Magazines:
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1877- THE END OF THIS WORLD...is nearer than most men suppose
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* from the book: "Three Worlds and the Harvest of this
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World" Jehova's Witnesses and Prophetic Speculation;
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1877
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1889- In subsequent chapters we present proofs that
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the setting up of the Kingdom of God has already
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begun...And that the "battle of the great day of God
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almighty [revelation 16:14], which will end in A.D.
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1914 with the complete overthrow of the earth's present rulership, is already commenced. [The 1915
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edition of this book changed "A.D. 1914" to "A.D.
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1915."]
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*from the book "The Time is at Hand; 1889
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July 15th 1894- We see no reason for changing the
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futures- nor could we change them if we would. They
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are, we believe God's dates, not ours. But bear in
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mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the
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beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble.
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1904- The stress of the great time of trouble will be
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on us soon, somewhere between 1910 and 1912- culminating in the end of the "Times of the Gentiles,"
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October 1914.
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*from the book "The New Creation" 1904
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May 1st, 1914- There is absolutely no ground for bible
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students to question that the consummation of this
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gospel age is now even at the door...The great
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crisis...that will consume the ecclesiastical heavens
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and the social earth is very near.
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*Watchtower reprints
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When the 1914 events did not occur, they were rescheduled for 1918-1925
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The book "The Finished Mystery" Armageddon was to begin "in the spring of 1918" There was to be "worldwide all-embracing anarchy" in the "fall of
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1920." The 1917 edition asserts that Revelation 11:13
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would be fulfilled "early in 1918" ["the earthquake"]
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and in the "fall of 1920" [the fire]. The 1926 edition
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is again altered.
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The Watchtower- Sept 1st, 1922: "The date 1925 is even
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more distinctly indicated by the scriptures because it
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is fixed by the law of God to Israel..."
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Watchtower- April 1st, 1923: "Our thought is that 1925
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is definitely settled by the scriptures."
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So what happened when 1925 arrived??
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Watchtower- Jan 1st 1925: "With great expectation,
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Christians have looked forward to this year. Many
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have been confidently expected that all members of the
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body of Christ will be changed to heavenly glory
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during this year. This may be accomplished. It may not
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be. "
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What happened at the end of 1925??
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Watchtower- Sept 1925: "It is to be expected that
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Satan will try to inject into the minds of the
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consecrated the thought that 1925 should see an end of
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the work, and therefore it would be needless for them
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to do no more."
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<I>**All of a sudden Satan, not "God" is the one
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prophesying.</I>
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1930- "The great climax is at hand"
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1931- "God's kingdom has begun to operate. His day of
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vengeance is here and Armageddon is at hand."
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1933- "The overwhelming testimony of the prophesy and
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of the supporting facts shows the cleansing of the
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sanctuary has been accomplished and this indicates
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that Armageddon draws nigh.
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1939- "The battle of the great day of God almighty is
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very near"
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There were 44 more predictions; 42 from the
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Watchtower, from May 1940- April 1943.
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Sept 1, 1944- "Armageddon is near at hand."
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1946- [After WWII] "The disaster of Armageddon...is at
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the door."
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1950- "The March is on! Where? To the field of
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Armageddon for the 'war of the great day of God
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almighty.' "
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1953- "Armageddon is so near at hand, it will strike
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the generation now living"
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*The year 1954 was thought by many Witnesses to be
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"The Year."
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1955- "It has become clear that the war of Armageddon
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is near its breaking out point."
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1958- "When will Armageddon be fought? Jehova the
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great time keeper has scheduled Armageddon to come at
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the close of the "time of the end." That time is near.
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How hear?...No man knows the date but we know it will
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be very soon. How do we know it will be very soon?
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Because the time left for the Devil, now that Christ
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has hurled the Devil down to earth, is called 'a short
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period of time' [revelation 12:12]
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Awake! October 1968:
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Stated that "certain persons" had falsely predicted
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the end of the world, and what they lacked was "God's
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guidance."
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*But now, supposedly, this false prophesying is over:
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1971: They have "all the evidence" and that God is
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"guiding them." and "it is overwhelming." Now
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Armageddon will occur in 1975.
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1972: "In the mind of the average Witness, there is no
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doubt that the 1975 date is correct."
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1976 Watchtower:
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March 15th- "Reconciliation through God's mercy before
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Armageddon"
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September 22nd- "a global disaster unparalleled in
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human history, is very near."
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December 15th- "Hold on, the promise nears
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fulfillment"
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1979 Watchtower:
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June 15th- "A day of reckoning at hand"
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Oct 15th "Take courage, the millennium is at hand"
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November 1st- "Christian neutrality as God's war approaches."
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<P>A psychiatrist remarked that there is a psychiatric hospital they refer to as "the watchtower" as it is full of so many Jehova's Witnesses.
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