Posted by followthelamb on March 22, 1999 at 14:49:32 {MWH0S6qlrAjTg}:
In Reply to: *New light in w 5/1/99 posted by followthelamb on March 22, 1999 at 04:29:07:
The magazine has three study articles. What I was able to notice was a few things:
1) The wicked generation of Jewish opposers of Jesus' day who could observe the "sign" being fulfilled would also experience the end. This seems to me that the Society might then change the present understanding of "this generation" to one that actually lives to see the "end", not the current view that is so meaningless.
2) The "disgusting thing" (United Nations) will "stand in a holy place" concurrent with the "great tribulation", not "standing" as of now but future. I could've guessed that by just reading the Bible.
3) In the parable of the "ten virgens", the "arrival" of the groom is placed as future, no mention of that "arrival" as having already occurred in 1918-1919. Seems funny how the Society is catching up to what "apostates" have been saying all along.
We all should focus on what the Scriptures say without the Watchtower filter and we
would come to conclusions that the Society would take years to come to.