Desert Blossom
10-04-2009, 06:42 PM
I have been puzzling over the fact that when Fred Franz announced in 1969 that the great tribulation hadn't started yet that the org. didn't go back and re-write everything based on that erroneous assumption. I mean, I know why they didn't, because they would lose their power and authority of being appointed as the faithful and discreet slave, so I guess the real question is, why did the whole religion not fall apart when this "electrifying" announcement was made? Any old timers on here who were around when this took place? What was the reaction of the brothers and sisters when this monumental announcement was made? Was there a falling away?
*** w99 5/1 p. 16 pars. 11-12 “Let the Reader Use Discernment” ***
However, in later years we have come to see things differently. On Thursday, July 10, 1969, at the “Peace on Earth” International Assembly in New York City, F. W. Franz, then vice president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, gave an electrifying talk. In reviewing the previous understanding of Jesus’ prophecy, Brother Franz said: “The explanation was given that the ‘great tribulation’ had begun in 1914 C.E. and that it was not allowed to run its full course then but God stopped World War I in November of 1918. From then on God was allowing an interval for the activity of his anointed remnant of elect Christians before he let the final part of the ‘great tribulation’ resume at the battle of Armageddon.”
12 Then a significantly adjusted explanation was offered: “To correspond with the events of the first century, . . . the antitypical ‘great tribulation’ did not begin in 1914 C.E. Rather, what took place upon Jerusalem’s modern antitype in 1914-1918 was merely ‘a beginning of pangs of distress’ . . . The ‘great tribulation’ such as will not occur again is yet ahead, for it means the destruction of the world empire of false religion (including Christendom) followed by the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty’ at Armageddon.” This meant that the entire great tribulation was yet ahead.
Does anybody know of a thread or an essay or commentary that lists all the things that haven't happened yet? It would be great to have a list, in chronological order, of things that haven't happened yet.
*** w99 5/1 p. 16 pars. 11-12 “Let the Reader Use Discernment” ***
However, in later years we have come to see things differently. On Thursday, July 10, 1969, at the “Peace on Earth” International Assembly in New York City, F. W. Franz, then vice president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, gave an electrifying talk. In reviewing the previous understanding of Jesus’ prophecy, Brother Franz said: “The explanation was given that the ‘great tribulation’ had begun in 1914 C.E. and that it was not allowed to run its full course then but God stopped World War I in November of 1918. From then on God was allowing an interval for the activity of his anointed remnant of elect Christians before he let the final part of the ‘great tribulation’ resume at the battle of Armageddon.”
12 Then a significantly adjusted explanation was offered: “To correspond with the events of the first century, . . . the antitypical ‘great tribulation’ did not begin in 1914 C.E. Rather, what took place upon Jerusalem’s modern antitype in 1914-1918 was merely ‘a beginning of pangs of distress’ . . . The ‘great tribulation’ such as will not occur again is yet ahead, for it means the destruction of the world empire of false religion (including Christendom) followed by the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty’ at Armageddon.” This meant that the entire great tribulation was yet ahead.
Does anybody know of a thread or an essay or commentary that lists all the things that haven't happened yet? It would be great to have a list, in chronological order, of things that haven't happened yet.