Category: End Times (page 5 of 11)

Being Tactful in Discussing Righteousness

Discussing people’s standing with God requires a great deal of tact. Because the Watchtower has trained them to expect persecution, Jehovah’s Witnesses are often easily offended.

In order to personalize the issue without giving offense, I recommend that you ask questions such as these: Continue reading

Dealing with the Watchtower’s “Last Days” Proof Texts

Bible teach Ch 9

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Citing Matthew 24:7 and Luke 21:11, paragraphs 6-9 (pp. 88-90) of Chapter 9 of “Bible Teach” list four developments which it claims are happening now and prove that we are in the last days:

  • Wars between nations and nations, kingdoms and kingdoms
  • Food shortages
  • Great earthquakes
  • Pestilences

People tend to think that the problems they face are worse than ever before. That these things are happening isn’t in dispute. That it’s happening in unprecedented degrees now can be challenged by studying history. Continue reading

Christ in the End Times

Bible teach Ch 9

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Today, we’ll discuss the second and third main topics in Chapter 9 of “Bible Teach”:

  • Christ’s “presence” and “the conclusion of this system of things”
  • The teaching that Jesus is Michael the archangel

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Does God Know the Future?

Bible teach Ch 9

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Chapter 9 of “Bible Teach”—”Are We Living in ‘the Last Days’?”—leads us into six main topics:

  1. God’s knowledge of future events
  2. Christ’s “presence” and “the conclusion of this system of things”
  3. The teaching that Jesus is Michael the archangel
  4. Proof texts that we are in “the last days”
  5. Significance of and praise for the work Jehovah’s Witnesses are doing
  6. The urgency for you to become an active and faithful Jehovah’s Witness

Today, we’ll discuss the first of these six subjects. Continue reading

Was the Watchtower Right About 1914?

Bible teach Ch 8

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The Watchtower has changed its end times chronology many times, but you would believe the opposite if your only source of information were “Bible Teach.”

Watchtower Teaching #4: The Watchtower correctly foresaw what would happen in 1914 Continue reading

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