Posted by Proplog2 [proplog2] on April 08, 1999 at 12:15:20 {vxsc0.TBNk/CPYT8orz2lJ4aSwVkqg}:
In Reply to: May 1 Watch. New but dim light posted by proplog2 on April 08, 1999 at 12:01:27:
Part 2.
Basically the same thing was repeated in Aug 15 1996 "Will You Be Saved When God Acts"
P. 20 "We can rest assured, though, that God's chosen ones and their associates will not be in the danger zone, at risk of being killed. Oh, they WILL NOT HAVE FLED TO ONE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION. First-Century Christians in Jerusalem could flee from that city to the mountainous region, such as Pella across the Jordan. In the future, however, God's faithful Witnesses will be located all over the globe, so safety and protection will not be based on geographic location."
Now that they have the correct understanding that the flight isn't a symbolic change in religion do they now conclude that the flight, in reaction to seeing the "disgusting thing standing in a holy place", is going to be a geographical flight? Amidst the "new light" is the same muddled thinking.
Here is the latest take on the type of flight meant: Paragraph 22 page 19 Watchtower May 1, 1999 "We cannot presently have full details about the great tribulation, but we can LOGICALLY CONCLUDE THAT FOR US THE FLIGHT JESUS SPOKE OF WILL **NOT** BE IN A GEOGRAPHICAL SENSE."
Why do they keep insisting that the future flight will NOT be geographical? Is there any other kind of flight than a change in location? If you are in harms way and you flee so that you are no longer in harms way aren't we talking about a physical-geographical- movement away from the "dangerous place" to the "safe place"? There are only three ways that you can conceive of flight. (1.) You can flee symbolically which is to say you change your mental space. (2.) You can flee spatially which means an actual geographical flight. (3.) And you can conceptualize a temporal flight. If the flight isn't mental or symbolic, and if it isn't geographical that leaves temporal flight - flight in time. So are they suggesting some sort of time warp?
They continue in that same Paragraph 22 "God's people are already around the globe, virtually in every corner."
So they think this is the premise for them to "logically conclude that for us the flight Jesus spoke of will NOT be in a geographical sense."
To be continued in post 3...