# ***"Serious Mistake"

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Posted by nimrod [nimrod] on October 28, 1999 at 01:59:42 {BrTq3yWfsYzgQRPel3DwYlrZ1MnHis}:

In Reply to: **"Serious Mistake" posted by Gedanken on October 27, 1999 at 17:04:47:

Thanks, Gedanken.

Very well put.

Here is some more information on the "sheep and goats" mainly for the enlightenment of "friend"!

The "separation" teaching was one of the most stressed doctrines of the WTS from the time it was revealed to them, apparently as a "flash of light", in 1923. (United in Worship 1983 p. 103-104; Watchtower Publications Index 1930-1985 p. 228).

The separation supposedly was being achieved, by Jesus and his angels, since 1914, by peoples' response to the WTS's preaching - whether they accepted the message and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses or not. The parable was of course made to fit WTS's scheme of things i.e. the 1914 date of return of Christ which date was also the beginning of the generation that would see the end of the world.

It was maintained that:
• Jesus' "coming in glory" (Matthew 25:31) marked the beginning of his reign. (Children 1941 p. 85).

• Jesus' main "assignment" given him by God (or, as it now appears, given him by WTS) was the "separation" work.(WT 1984 March 15 p. 17).
• All persons of the world, including children, were subject to the judgment. The children would also be condemned as "goats" due to their wayward elders. (WT 1951 .May 1 p. 286).
• Although, before 1905, WTS believed that the judgment would start during the millennium, it was definitely not so now. (WT 1984 February 15 p. 17; God's Kingdom of a Thousand Years has Approached 1973 p. 262).

• The judgment and separation work by Jesus was proof of his presence since 1914. (Reasoning from the Scriptures 1989 p. 344).
• The purpose of Jesus' arrival in 1914 was for the judgment of sheep and goats. (The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived 1991 p. 111).

• The time came when angels also got involved in the separation work. (WT 1992 June 15 p.20).

• Separation of sheep and goats is a glorious fulfillment of the prophecy of Matthew 25:31-33. (WT 1993 January 1 p. 19).

The above clearly shows the tangled web of nonsense which the WTS has woven by their rash speculations. The WTS, completely contradicts the above assertions in its WT of October 15 1995.

It makes me wonder what Jesus was doing since 1914
considering that his main assignment from God was the separation work which the WTS now maintains he was not doing at all!

nimrod

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