# *"Serious Mistake"

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Posted by Friend [Friend] on October 27, 1999 at 10:32:20 {dPkPwxsNJEePXjHnUl.IOgnjR4Br/g}:

In Reply to: "Serious Mistake" posted by nimrod on October 27, 1999 at 02:22:47:

nimrod

> The WTS said in 1984 that it would be a "serious mistake to reason" that Jesus’ parable of "Sheep and Goats" could not apply now, i.e. since 1914:

No, that is not what your citation says. In fact it says just the opposite. It says, “It would be a serious mistake to reason that, … the parable could not apply until later on, perhaps during the Millennial Reign of Christ.”

Your citation goes on to say that Jesus parable will have fulfillment in "the conclusion of the system of things”, which is still the understanding of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Besides 1914 to present, the period called the “conclusion of the system of things” includes the great tribulation leading to and including the final end of “the system.”

Pre-1995 it was taught that Jesus separating of “sheep” from “goats” began in 1914, supposedly the beginning of the “conclusion of the system of things.” As of 1995 it is taught that Jesus has not yet begun separating “sheep” from “goats” but that he will do so nearer the end of the “conclusion of the system of things”, after the great tribulation begins but prior to the final end of “the system.”

Your presentation pits one citation against another as if one directly contradicts the other. Contradiction is not hard to find in Watchtower publications but in this instance there is no contradiction but rather a narrowing of a previously broader view. Constriction is not necessarily contradiction.

Friend

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