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Last Generation
The
Watchtower's newest light that points to
the end by the year
2005
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- The Watchtower's newest
light that points to the end by the year
2005
Are we the last
generation?
- If we are to believe the
doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses this is a
question that is of utmost importance. How so?
The last generation is the only generation that
has a choice. On page 255 of the Watchtower's
book
You Can Live Forever in
Paradise on Earth; they present the choice that
needs to be made by the last generation. They
say, Really, there are but two choices. Christ
compared it to the choice of either one of two
roads.
One road, he said, is "broad
and spacious." On it travelers are permitted
freedom to please themselves. The other road,
however, is "cramped." Yes, those on that road
are required to obey the instructions and laws
of God.
The majority, Jesus noted,
are taking the broad road, only a few the narrow
one. Which road will you choose? In making your
choice, keep this in mind: The broad road will
suddenly come to a dead end--destruction! On the
other hand, the narrow road will lead you right
through into God's new system. There you can
share in making the earth a glorious paradise,
where you can live forever in
happiness.
How is the last generation
different?
- How is the last generation
different from every other generation according
to Watchtower teaching? For every other
generation the two roads are reversed. The broad
road is now the one that leads to paradise earth
and almost every single person that lived and
died was on that broad road leading to paradise.
Everyone on the broad road qualifies for a
resurrection on paradise earth. It matters not
whether the person lived for God or if they
exercised their free will to live for
themselves, as long as they lived and died
before the last generation they will find
themselves following the broad road into
paradise - no questions asked!
But what of the narrow road?
How is the narrow road different for all
previous generations than it is for the last
generation? This narrow road for past
generations became the road that leads to
eternal destruction and only a few in number, in
comparison to the billions on the broad road,
found their way onto the narrow road. Those who
found it will never experience a resurrection.
They will never get a chance to see paradise on
earth. They are wiped out from God's memory and
will never receive a second chance for life as
everyone else receives.
Who are the ones who are
lost?
- Who are the unfortunate
souls who found themselves on that dreaded
narrow road that leads to destruction? They were
people who became Jehovah's Witnesses from the
time the Watchtower first started preaching the
end of the world message. These formerly
faithful Jehovah's Witnesses originally believed
the message of the Watchtower that the end was
just around the corner, but after living through
one failed prophecy after another, they
abandoned their faith in the Watchtower
organization. The Watchtower brands such ones as
apostates and deems them unfit to receive a
resurrection. Since 1879 anyone who became a
Jehovah's Witness but who left the Watchtower is
on that narrow road to destruction. They are the
only ones from previous generations who will not
receive a resurrection.
What a shame! Since everyone
who was preached to by the Watchtower from 1879
to the very early 1900's is dead and gone, the
only lasting effect the Watchtower managed to
have for that generation was to create a way for
some to lose out on paradise. If you take the
Watchtower's doctrine to its logical conclusion,
the generation of the late 1800's and early
1900's would have been better off never having
heard the message of the Watchtower. Everyone
who didn't hear the message is guaranteed life
in paradise. But for those who heard and
believed but who became disillusioned, the
Watchtower became to them a stench of
death.
- Who is 'in' and who is
'out' of paradise earth?
Now let's summarize from the
Watchtower's teachings to find the three groups
of people who will be 'in' paradise and the
three groups who are 'out'
Those who will receive
life, the 'in' group are:
1. Every person who never
became a Jehovah's Witness and who dies before
Armageddon will receive a second
chance.
2. Every current Jehovah's
Witness who is worthy enough to merit
everlasting life will go into
paradise.
3. Every practicing Jehovah's
Witness who dies before Armageddon will receive
a second chance no matter how worthy they
are.
Those who will not receive
life, the 'out' group:
1. Every non-Jehovah's
Witness living at the time that Armageddon
occurs will die. They will not receive a second
chance for life.
2. Every Jehovah's Witness
alive at the time that Armageddon occurs but who
is not considered worthy enough will be killed
and will not receive a second chance at
life.
3. Every Jehovah's Witness
who has left the organization and who
subsequently dies will not receive a second
chance for life.
The difference between the
will's and the will not's, according to the
Watchtower, is dependent on when you were born
and when you died. If you lived and died anytime
up until 1879 you are in. If you lived and died
after 1879 you are probably in - as long as you
didn't subscribe to the Watchtower's message.
That way you didn't have a chance to become an
apostate and end up on that dreaded narrow road.
If you live in the last generation, you are
almost certainly out. Only a relatively small
number of worthy Jehovah's Witnesses will go
into paradise alive.
When will the last
Generation be over?
- Are we finally in the
Generation of the end? The Watchtower says "yes'
and is now pointing to 2005 as the end of the
Generation of the Anointed that started in 1935.
1935 was the year that the Watchtower announced
that the final number of the 144,000 anointed
class was completed. 1935 was also was the start
of a class of Jehovah's Witnesses who had the
hope of entering into the new paradise earth
alive without dying. In the Watchtower October
1, 1997 page 23 they say, In 1935 we came to
understand that the "great crowd" was not a
secondary heavenly class. We learned that it
instead represents a class that survives the
great tribulation and has the opportunity of
living forever in Paradise on earth. (Revelation
7:9-14) With this new understanding, some who
had partaken of the Memorial emblems realized
that theirs was an earthly hope, and they
discontinued partaking.
Never before had the
Watchtower given this earthly hope. This
generation of people, starting with the
Watchtower's announcement in 1935, was the one
designated to survive Armageddon and walk into
the new earth alive. It has now been well over
60 years since the anointed class has been
preaching to this special generation of
Watchtower survivors. The September 15, 1997
Watchtower page 14 and 15 says, And for over 60
years now, God has been using these anointed
ones to spearhead the work of making disciples
of people to whom he has given the wonderful
hope of life eternal on a paradise earth. The
Watchtower's anointed class is preaching its
last message to a generation which is quickly
coming to a close. No wonder Jehovah's Witnesses
who have longed for the end for so long have
accepted this message with a renewed excitement.
This is the end of a long line of predictions
from the Society and the last chance for the
1935 generation of Watchtower survivors to enter
into paradise alive.
The June 15, 2002 Watchtower
page 3 says boldly, "A New World Within a Single
Generation". They go on to pose this question,
Can we realistically expect to see the hoped-for
"new world within a single generation"?... The
Bible points to that prospect... And from pages
6 & 7, His appointed time for direct action
to rid the earth of all oppression and injustice
lies in the near future... Soon, on a cleansed
paradise earth, they will experience complete
freedom from all injustice and suffering..."
Many stunning steps forward" have been made in
humanitarian efforts to help oppressed
humanity... Yet, the most stunning step will be
the imminent intervention by Christ Jesus and
his associate rulers in the heavenly Kingdom
government.
When will this generation of
the end be over? The Bible points to a 70 year
period of time that is considered the maximum
span of a Biblical 'generation'. Since The
Watchtower is now pointing to 1935 as the start
of the final generation, 1935 plus 70 years
equals 2005. New Light? In 1935 the final
countdown began!
The Watchtower is betting one
last time that the Generation of the
Anointed the end of the chosen ones whose
numbers were completed in 1935, and the great
crowd which also started in 1935 will be the
last generation. The Watchtower Jan 15, 2000 pg
13 says, Most of the remnant are quite elderly,
and over the years the number of those who are
truly anointed has been getting smaller. Yet,
referring to the great tribulation, Jesus
stated: "Unless those days were cut short, no
flesh would be saved; but on account of the
chosen ones those days will be cut short."
(Matthew 24:21,22) Evidently, then, some of
Christ's "chosen ones" will still be on Earth
when the great tribulation begins.
And pay attention to the
Watchtower's words concerning how the great
crowd can be considered worthy to survive
Armageddon: Those who do good things for Jesus'
"brothers" because these anointed ones are his
followers have the hope of surviving "the day of
Jehovah." See the Watchtower, September 15, 1997
page 17.
Let's summarize these
statements and give our conclusions:
- Some of the anointed will be
on the earth when Armageddon begins. You qualify
to have the hope of surviving Armageddon
depending on how you treat these anointed ones.
The anointed class ended in 1935. The great
crowd class that is to go into paradise earth
alive after surviving Armageddon started in
1935.
Those born in 1935 will be 70
in 2005. Those born in 1935 will be 70 in 2005.
And of the anointed class - a young anointed
individual 20 years of age in 1935 will be 90 in
2005. The generation of the anointed runs out of
time by the farthest stretch of the imagination
by 2005 and the youngest of the generation of
the great crowd who were given the new hope of
surviving Armageddon will be at least 70 years
old in 2005. Time is quickly running
out!
Jehovah's Witnesses are even
taking the Watchtower's reasoning and expanding
on it to argue that the 70 years from 1935 to
2005 relates to the creation of Eve.
The Watchtower says that we
don't know how long Adam lived prior to the
creation of Eve. The delay in the date of Eve's
creation was the Watchtower's reason for why
Armageddon didn't occur in 1975. Jehovah's
Witnesses are now speculating
that since the Society draws a parallel between
Adam and Jesus, and since Jesus started to
prepare his "wife" (the 144,000 Anointed class)
at the age of 30, there is a possibility that
Adam also received his wife at the age of 30.
Since 1975 marked 6000 years from the creation
of Adam, that would point to 2005 as the end of
6000 years from the creation of Eve. The seventh
1,000 years is Jehovah's rest day and is just
around the corner according to the Watchtower's
calculations.
The Generation of the
Anointed is about to expire
- Are we really in the last
generation that will terminate by 2005? Every
one of the previous expiry dates given by the
Watchtower has already gone bad, and we can be
sure that this date too will come and go. Soon
the Watchtower will once again be forced to
change the 'due date' of the last
generation.
Did God make a mistake
or did the Watchtower insert themselves into God's
Word?
- Did you ever wonder why God
sent the message of the last generation to the
Watchtower a hundred years too early? Why did he
send it to a people who were all going to make
it into paradise anyway because they were all
going to die? Did he really send the Watchtower
with this message for a dead generation? Or is
it possible that the early Watchtower leaders
were wrong about themselves being part of the
last generation, wrong about a God who
discriminates between the living and the dead
and wrong about being picked in 1878 and again
in 1919 as the only faithful and wise servant
dispensing spiritual food? If they are wrong
about these things, what else are they be wrong
about?
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