Should A
Christian
Ask A Jehovah's Witness
For A Date?
The peskiest cult in America, these Jehovah Witnesses over the years have consistently predicted the date of the Second Coming; consistently predicted it wrong, that is. They predicted he'd come back in 1914, when that didn't work out, they changed it to 1925. That year came and went, and eventually they pegged their hopes on 1975. As far as I recall, the only big news item that did a "return" that year was President Nixon returned to normal life having resigned the presidency.
You would think that due to all these FALSE PROPHECIES that there wouldn't be any JW's left around anymore. You would think that people would have enough common sense to know they've been lied to, deceived, and then do something about it. You would think... but then again, the operative word here is THINK. YOU would think, religionists DON'T- and that is why JW's have ignored the failed prophecies in their own literature just as much as regular Christians have ignored the myriads of failed prophecies within their own New Testament.
There are dozens and dozens of crystal clear, and some not so clear, prophecies within the New Testament that predicted Jesus would return before the end of the 1st century- within the lifetime of Jesus' Apostles. Yet in spite of these FALSE PROPHECIES the religion marches on.
The lesson in all this? Never underestimate the ability of religious people to blind themselves to faults within their own religion.
| 1972 |
So does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come? These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? ...Jehovah's Christian Witnesses... of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a prophet of God. It is another thing to prove it.1 |
| 1889 | The "battle of the great day of God Almighty" which will end in A.D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth's present rulership is already commenced.2 |
| 1918 | Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old.3 |
| 1922 | The date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated by the scriptures than 1914.4 |
| 1923 | Our thought is, that 1925 is definitely settled by the scriptures.5 |
| 1925 | The year 1925 is here. Christians should not be so deeply concerned about what may transpire this year.6 |
| 1925 | It is to be expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated the thought that 1925 should see an end to the work.7 |
| 1926 | Some anticipated that the work would end in 1925, but the Lord did not state so.8 |
| 1931 | There was a measure of disappointment concerning the years 1914, 1918 and 1925... and they learned to quit fixing dates.9 |
| 1966 | ...and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history (i.e. the millennium) will begin in the fall of 1975.10 |
| 1968 |
True, there have been those in times past who predicted an "end' to the world, even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened! They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? Missing from such people were God's truths and the evidence that He was using and guiding them.11 |
From the Jehovah Witnesses' Own Translation of The Old Testament}
However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak... that prophet must die. ...How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken? When the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak.12
1)Watchtower, 4/1/72, p. 197 2)The Time Is At Hand, 1908 edition, p. 101 3)Millions Now Living Will Never Die, p. 89 4)Watchtower, 9/1/22, p. 262 5)Watchtower, 4/1/23, p. 106 6)Watchtower, 1/1/25, p. 3 7)Watchtower, Sept. 1925, p. 262 8)Watchtower, 1926, p. 232 9)Vindication, p. 338 10)Life Everlasting In Freedom of the Sons of God, 1966, p. 29 11)Awake, 10/8/68 12)Deuteronomy 18: 20-22, from the Jehovah Witnesses' own translation.