Posted by nimrod [nimrod] on April 07, 1999 at 01:55:15 {HTWDI6pmYgzgQRPel3DwYlrZ1MnHis}:
In Reply to: **Panic - World Panic! posted by jimmyjames on April 06, 1999 at 18:18:36:
Not so jimmyjames!You Know and his ilk can't quite say that!
Please read the following:
Does our more precise viewpoint on "this generation" mean that Armageddon is further away than we had thought? Not at all!
(WT 1995 November 1
p. 20)
Moreover, the prophecy of Armageddon by 2000 AD began in 1945 in The Watchtower (February 15 pp. 51-60) in the article The Kingdom Sabbath and Its Lord. This was before the "generation" concept which started first in 1951. The "generation" speculations went hand in glove with the WTS�s chronological calculations which resulted in their 1975 fiasco.
Virtually the same material was repeated in the two editions of Let God Be True (1946; 1952) in the chapter The Sabbath: In Shadow and Reality.
Chapter 7 of Let God Be True (1946) says that each of the seven days of creation was 7,000 years long.
In particular:
Man being created toward the close of the sixth day, he was put on earth toward the end of 42,000 years of earth�s preparation. (p. 155)
God�s "seventh day" of rest continues 7000 years. (p. 165)
Also the 1,000 year reign of Christ (the Millennium) corresponds to the last 1,000 years of the 7,000 years of God�s rest. (pp. 167-169) So when did the 7,000 years of rest begin?
On page 165 it is claimed that the 7,000 year rest, "began applying over 4,000 years before Christ."
Ignoring the minor question of there being no year "0" it follows that 6,000 years will be completed by or before 6,000 - 4000 = 2000 AD.
Page 166 says that the 1,000 year reign of Christ will start "immediately" after Armageddon. Therefore Armageddon will also have to be over by/before 2000 AD, not withstanding the WTS's backtracking on their "generation" concept.
nimrod