Keep the Math, Scrap the Pyramid!

So, JW's still to this day believe that 1914 marked Jesus' time to set things in motion for Armagedon. You'd think with having their own danged literature contradicting them left and right, they'd have abandoned that notion. Not so, Peggy Sue. The typical response you'll get from a Witness explains why.

Normal Person: So, what's with all the differing beliefs? I mean, at one time you people celebrated Christmas, and now you say it's wrong. And didn't you say the world was going to come to an end in 1975? What's up with that?

Indoctrinated Witness: Well, firstly, you're a "worldly" person, so you wouldn't get it. But see, as the time of the end gets closer and closer, the "light gets brighter and brighter", as the Bible says. So that means God just revealed newer and better information to the lawyers in Brooklyn.

Normal Person: Oh. You're crazy, you know that?

You'd think they'd be blind with as much bright light as they've gotten over the years. Maybe that's why my mother looks at me like she does. Hmmm... Anyhoo.

For some reason they keep to themselves, JW's are intent on maintaining the 1914 date as a founding doctrine. Maybe it would just cause too much panic if they abandoned it all together. There was a major push to make the question fit the answer, since we have to abandon the Satanic Pyramid Scheme. Henceforth, the fuzzy math was based on a prophecy in the book of Daniel, which was supposed to predict the overthrow of Babylon and serve as a metaphor for the overthrow of Satan. Still with me? I'm sorry to hear that. What's even sadder? You can find this shit in Wikipedia!

1. Daniel 4:17 says that the dream that God gave to King Nebuchadnezzar deals with the Kingdom of God and God's promise to give it to " the one whom he wants " or " the lowliest one of mankind." The Bible says that Jesus Christ was indeed "the lowliest one of mankind." (Phil. 2:7, 8; Matt. 11:28-30) Then Jehovah's Witnesses believe this dream also fulfilled to Jesus Christ.
2. Rulership over mankind, as represented by the tree and its rootstock, would have "the heart of a beast." (Dan. 4:16) As Jesus showed in his prophecy pointing to the conclusion of the system of things (end of the world), Jerusalem would be "trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations (gentile times)" were fulfilled. (Matt.24:3; Luke 21:24) According to Jehovah's Witnesses, "Jerusalem" represented the Kingdom of God because its kings were said to sit on "the throne of the kingship of Jehovah." (1 Chron. 28:4, 5; Matt. 5:34-35) So, the Gentile governments, represented by wild beasts, would 'trample' on the right of God's Kingdom to direct human affairs and would themselves hold sway under Satan's control. (Dan. 7:2-8, 17, 23; 8:20-22; Rev. 13:1, 2; Luke 4:5, 6)
3. Revelation 11:2, 3 and 12:6, 14 clearly states that 42 months (3 1/2 years) in that prophecy are counted as 1,260 days. "Seven times" or Seven years would be twice that, or 2,520 days. Bible shows that a day is counted as a year in calculating prophetic time in two of its many prophecies (Ezek. 4:6; Num. 14:34), then prophetic "seven times" means 2,520 years.
4. According to Jehovah's Witnesses, the counting of the "seven times" begin after Zedekiah, the last king in the typical Kingdom of God, was removed from the throne in Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Ezek. 21:25-27) Jehovah's witnesses believe that this took place 70 years before 537 B.C., the year in which they believe the Jews returned from captivity; that is, it took place by early October of 607 B.C. (Jer. 29:10; Dan. 9:2) Counting 2,520 years from early October of 607 B.C. brings us to early October of 1914.

What's sadder than that? Wikipedia got it right!! Unfortunately, Brooklyn Lawyer Scholarship, which cherry picks actual historical records and pairs them with biblical interpretation, suggests that their start date (607 BC) is about 20 years off. So 1914 should be 1894.

Whoopsy.

Coming up...blood!! There's so much blood!!

-- Virgil