Jehovah Witnesses Predicting the
End—Again
The following is from
OpinionJournal.com, June 27, 2006.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Jehovah's
Witnesses are going door to door with more urgency than usual:
It's a scene that's playing out
across the county and across the country as Jehovah's Witnesses, in an
unprecedented effort, seek to invite as many people as
they can to their annual convention.
The yearly gathering of Witnesses,
a Christian faith founded in
The signs are everywhere, Mr.
Hickok said.
“World wars have ruled the current
generations. Fear is dominant, especially with the rise of terrorism. There is
a breakdown in family structure. The magnitude and frequency of earthquakes is
growing. There is an increase in pestilence, such as AIDS.”
If deliverance is at hand, why are the Witnesses holding a
"yearly" convention instead of a "final" one?
Editor’s note: Back around 1972, I had an
intensive discussion with Jehovah’s Witnesses in which one of them confessed to
me that they had been taught that the end of the world would be in 1975.
I asked him about previous predictions, and he said that it was too late for
errors now and that those making these prophesies had
now matured, and they could not be wrong. I asked him if I could meet
with him after 1975, and if we met in 1976, would he still hold to his faith in
the Watchtower Society? He said that he could not even entertain that
thought. When people get to the point that they cannot even entertain the
possibility that their prophets could be wrong they are without hope – this
even if their prophets happen to be right. Is your faith in man or in
God? -- Dave Brown