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Posted by Rational [trw] on November 01, 1999 at 14:54:58 {2gTL9dbN6kYgCUWv3.1cm0FN8UzOHE}:

In Reply to: ********Discussion summaries posted by Friend on November 01, 1999 at 12:40:40:

Friend,

:: BINGO!!! That is what I have said from the beginning!

You agree, then, that this is a correct statement:

The writer felt it would be a serious mistake to apply the parable ... to any time later than the present 'time in which we are living' and which was "fast running out".

Yet you insist:

The time period after which the application of the sheep/goat/judgment would be a mistake is “time in which we are living”, “the conclusion of the system.” That means as long as the Society’s application is within the “time in which we are living”, “the conclusion of the system”, then they have not made the supposed “serious mistake”....Please note that the post-1995 understanding has the sheep/goat/judgement occurring after the outbreak of the “great tribulation” with sentence carried out at Armageddon. That period remains part of “the conclusion of the system.”

Your mistake is in equating the expression "the time in which we are living" with the expression "the conclusion of the system of things." They are not equivalent. The writer did not use them equivalently; he used the expression "the time in which we are living" as a subset of the "conclusion of the system of things," a fact proven by the addendum "and it is fast running out". The time period in question would not still be "running out" when the separating of sheep and goats takes place, now would it? It would have already run out, a point which I have made repeatedly and which you have repeatedly ignored. You would have the writer saying, in effect, that at Armageddon "time will be running out." Is this new light? Will there still be opportunity to repent even as Jesus is separating the sheep and goats?

Rational

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