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watchman
06-30-2007, 02:02 PM
Hello Friends

As of the last day of June it looks like e-watchman.com will have had slightly over 30,000 visitors for the month. That averages out to just over 1,000 individual visitors per day. Typically traffic drops off during the summer months but 30,000 is the most traffic e-watchman has had since we started with a new web counter about 8 months ago.

Roughly 45% of the traffic comes from search engines. The rest from external links and bookmarked clicks. Besides drawing traffic from all the English speaking lands and a consistently disproportionate number of visitors from the Netherlands, e-watchman is now attracting a modest number of visitors from Mexico. Unfortunately, I felt compelled to drop the links to the Dutch and Spanish versions of e-watchman since the translators of those sites apparently lost interest in their work. But, obviously, English is essentially a universal language or is fast becoming one.

Jehovah Himself Has Become King continues to see modest interest as well. For the month of June the electronic book had over 1,000 downloads. The total number of downloads since September, 2005, when the book was published, is now over 67,000. Those who download a copy of the book presumably have more than a casual interest and are not mere web surfers. Assuming those who downloaded the book were all Jehovah's Witnesses that means that roughly 1% of Jehovah's Witnesses globally have been exposed to the thoughts presented concerning Jehovah's judgments. And, of course, a much larger percentage also have some familiarity with the main website but have not downloaded the book. But given the inter-connectedness of the organization and the power of email and the Internet even 1% represents a vast potential to reach virtually all of Jehovah's Witnesses in a short period of time.

I expect that the outbreak of international war and global financial collapse in the near future, perhaps detonated by a new 9-11, will bring about the circumstances that brings the Watchtower down; causing Jehovah's Witnesses to re-think their presently held beliefs concerning the outworking of prophecy and the entire 1914 doctrine. When people start asking questions it is an opportunity to present answers. Hopefully, Jehovah willing, e-watchman will serve that function when the time arrives.

Watchman

DoubtingThomas
06-30-2007, 04:39 PM
Yes Watchman, when things start happenning, and sincere honest hearted ones in Jehovah's organization start questioning long held beliefs such as 1914, we can be certain that our loving heavenly Father will not leave the sheep hanging without answers. You may very well be a tool in God's hands that He is using to help teach such honest hearted sheep the true meanings of what are (and will soon be) happenning. If I were in your shoes, I would consider it an honor indeed to be used by Jehovah in such a marvelous way. That would be a privilege indeed to be used by God in such a way. I for one appreciate what you are doing and the unselfish sacrifice of your time, energy and resources for helping us here understand some of these deeper things of God's Word.

DT

Candace
07-03-2007, 12:31 PM
Many thanks for all the work you do in helping us to understand the scriptures. I find this to be very valuable when listening to talks from the platform to determine what is accurate and what is not.

Interestingly, I heard a discrepancy during the last talk of our DC last Saturday. An elderly brother gave the talk and attributed the 2nd Psalm to the time period of 1914. Several months ago I heard a public talk in Helsinki, on the subject of Armageddon, where the brother correctly applied the 2nd Psalm to the time period of Armageddon. If it weren't for your site, which clears up all the confusion, I may have never noticed the discrepancy.

Apparently, most of the listeners that day were blissfully unaware of the discrepancy. I really appreciate being able to discern truth from falsehoods, thank you for being a tool in Jehovah's hands. May Jehovah continue to bless your efforts and continue to draw honest-hearted people who are sighing and groaning over the current conditions to your site to find peace.

watchman
07-03-2007, 12:49 PM
Interestingly, I heard a discrepancy during the last talk of our DC last Saturday. An elderly brother gave the talk and attributed the 2nd Psalm to the time period of 1914. Several months ago I heard a public talk in Helsinki, on the subject of Armageddon, where the brother correctly applied the 2nd Psalm to the time period of Armageddon. If it weren't for your site, which clears up all the confusion, I may have never noticed the discrepancy.[/b]

Hi Candace. As you probably know the WT officially teaches that the 2nd Psalm was fulfilled in 1914. I am not sure what accounts for the Helsinki talk. Maybe from time-to-time commonsense prevails or perhaps the Society is quietly trying to introduce some "new light."