<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post8899437228716238841..comments</id><updated>2011-12-18T16:10:15.892-05:00</updated><category term='Epistemology'/><category term='Tetragrammaton'/><category term='Theistic Evolution'/><category term='False Teachers'/><category term='Disfellowshipping/Shunning'/><category term='Watchtower'/><category term='preterism'/><category term='Olivet Discourse'/><category term='Presuppositional apologetics'/><category term='heaven'/><category term='Textual Criticism'/><category term='Faithful and Discreet Slave'/><category term='updates'/><category term='Annihilationism'/><category term='Age of the Earth'/><category term='Liberal Theology'/><category term='Open Theism'/><category term='Pentecostal/Charismatic'/><category 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term='LDS'/><category term='Atheism'/><category term='theodicy'/><category term='Big Bang'/><category term='Teleological Argument'/><category term='Transcendental argument for God&apos;s existence'/><category term='Monotheism'/><category term='1919'/><category term='premillennialism'/><category term='Misc.'/><category term='postmillennialism'/><category term='144 thousand'/><category term='New World Translation'/><title type='text'>Comments on THE APOLOGETIC FRONT: Are the Watchtower's predictions "hollow?"</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/feeds/8899437228716238841/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html'/><author><name>Mike Felker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01974482615713418707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fklH4nhtVhw/SoG0mUYZ9kI/AAAAAAAAADs/gWBZ1A1-wk8/S220/main.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-7408574174632501108</id><published>2011-12-18T16:10:15.892-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T16:10:15.892-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The fact is that there are many many religions all...</title><content type='html'>The fact is that there are many many religions all claiming they personally have the &amp;#39;truth&amp;#39; shows that, like a patient reading an ink blot, everyone sees something different in the ink blot. If all JWs are obliged to believe one particular interpretation does not make it right.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/7408574174632501108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/7408574174632501108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1324242615892#c7408574174632501108' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1010701999'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-2020032793223061323</id><published>2011-12-18T13:43:38.604-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T13:43:38.604-05:00</updated><title type='text'>All of this in its complexity is all very well. Wh...</title><content type='html'>All of this in its complexity is all very well. What has it got to do with whether the WTBTS is a true prophet of Jehovah?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is, the Bible only has infallible prophets. The continuous and various predictions have had a deleterious effect on those in the congregations, often robbing them of goals in life and this has been passed on to their children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s all pointless in the light of the confusion now felt by those still being badgered with an&amp;#39;updated&amp;#39; &amp;#39;understanding&amp;#39; of the Generation. If the basic &amp;#39;prophecy&amp;#39; is incorrect, how can any of what you say matter?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/2020032793223061323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/2020032793223061323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1324233818604#c2020032793223061323' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1010701999'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-2395625709922306813</id><published>2011-12-16T07:19:38.643-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T07:19:38.643-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As far as &amp;quot;predictions&amp;quot; we have analysis...</title><content type='html'>As far as &amp;quot;predictions&amp;quot; we have analysis, and we speculate a little, but never make outright predictions, we study the word to see where the patterns are unmistakable, such as the development of the understanding of Rev13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As everyone knows Jehovah had to be the one who developed that understanding, as Rev13 has gone through some significant refinements, but today even apostates and other schisms know Rev13&amp;#39;s analysis as true prophecy concerning clear developments from British hegemony of the 1800s, to the partnership with the American power system which is a clone system of it&amp;#39;s colonial father system, 1914, clearly have led to the globalist UN network of power we see clearly today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heaviest of all enlightenment regarding the subsequent march of this multi-national &amp;quot;gathering&amp;quot;, rev16:13-16, has been pioneered in understanding by Jehovah&amp;#39;s witnesses as God promised to open these things in his own end period of the ministry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev13, and it&amp;#39;s tie ins to Daniel&amp;#39;s benchmarks for these &amp;quot;beast&amp;quot; developments are the heaviest of divine proclamations leading to GT and Armageddon, far from &amp;quot;hollow&amp;quot;, they are in real-time final developments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these great understandings of Rev13, were ascertained AFTER the beginning of the wildbeast2, rev13:11, rise in 1914, in an unmistakable &amp;quot;dual horn&amp;quot; partnership in WW1 and before, of the extension of the British global domination empire engine, now attached to America by common finance engine (central bank), common globalist goals in super-geo-politics, and a common Global NATO war machine formulated like the League and UN, from the ashes of the world wars which pocketed Europe as well into this Anglo-American power system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now they are at stage 3 of this quest for global domination, since this &amp;quot;union&amp;quot; of the UK and US systems have been bound. (1914)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The birth of the Federal reserve is but one example, of America running British elitist DNA systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that led to the founding of the industrial complex under this also shared military interest:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Power Seeds of World War 3&lt;br /&gt;http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/T23OBVNK3ES4763K8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the sovereign emptying of the nations into this 8th King of Revelation system is completing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revelation 17:12-14: They Sold Their Sovereignties&lt;br /&gt;http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/TKTQPE25H2PUL4K7S&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this in tangent with a globalist war machine attaching to the UN for it&amp;#39;s empire expansion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN-NATO Wildbeast Just Grew 10 Horns - Babylon the Great Horning Near? Rev 17:16&lt;br /&gt;http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/TIV51AUTEC8RCPQ5P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;======&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By this elite Anglo-American free roaming wildbeast and &amp;quot;image&amp;quot;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Wild Beast&amp;quot;: Custom Built Revelation (13:11; 13:14)&lt;br /&gt;http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/TGC759GQDVTMGR6Q6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is all fulfilling:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Revelation 16:13-16) And I saw three unclean inspired expressions [that looked] like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 “Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments, that he may not walk naked and people look upon his shamefulness.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luke21:25-28 - Global Protest (roaring of the &amp;quot;sea&amp;quot;) as Symptom of Sovereignty Transfer&lt;br /&gt;http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/TM68FBS8256VEQBQJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this is a solidly demonstrated progression that Russell and Rutherford began exploring many years ago, and that &amp;quot;prediction&amp;quot; is now world history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armageddon is where this must all lead.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/2395625709922306813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/2395625709922306813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1324037978643#c2395625709922306813' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1276764215'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-4685019289682871749</id><published>2011-12-11T16:08:56.778-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T16:08:56.778-05:00</updated><title type='text'>While it&amp;#39;s difficult to take anything seriousl...</title><content type='html'>While it&amp;#39;s difficult to take anything seriously being toted by the WTBTS nowadays (confusion over the Generation etc, almost no mention of 1914 in latest publications etc) I feel their reputation could be turned around if they gave up their non-Biblical policies - no more chronology, stop shunning those who disassociate themselves from the Organisation and proper respect for Caesar&amp;#39;s God-given authority in matters such as child abuse and the tendency to keep it &amp;#39;in-house.&amp;#39;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/4685019289682871749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/4685019289682871749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1323637736778#c4685019289682871749' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1010701999'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-4978622700250265397</id><published>2011-12-11T06:50:49.223-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T06:50:49.223-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sadly the Watchtower Society has been hijacked by ...</title><content type='html'>Sadly the Watchtower Society has been hijacked by &amp;quot;the man of lawlessness&amp;quot; their history indicates  this first occurred in 1916 when JF Rutherford usurped authority and became president. Since that time wolves in sheep clothing  (the GOVERNING BODY ) and their minions (ELDERS)  have controlled the membership , deceiving and being deceived, how long God allows this to continue remains to be seen ...</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/4978622700250265397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/4978622700250265397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1323604249223#c4978622700250265397' title=''/><author><name>Kyle</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1619662650'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-7341387286656655263</id><published>2011-12-09T22:26:21.405-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T22:26:21.405-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In much the same vein, the December 1 issue of the...</title><content type='html'>In much the same vein, the December 1 issue of the Watchtower claims: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;When will this occur? No human knows...Jehovah&amp;#39;s Witnesses do not try to predict when God will destroy the wicked.&amp;quot;- Will the Earth Survive 2012?, p.10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice here that this statement is in the present tense. What makes me so angry is that there is no acknowledgement of their past culture of escatological cock-ups. It&amp;#39;s all very well being wise after the fact, but their past eccentricities have cost a lot of people, in many case, lost dreams and a comfortable future while they constantly awaited the &amp;#39;imminent&amp;#39; war of Armageddon!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/7341387286656655263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/8899437228716238841/comments/default/7341387286656655263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html?showComment=1323487581405#c7341387286656655263' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.theapologeticfront.com/2011/12/are-watchtowers-predictions-hollow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28227207.post-8899437228716238841' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/28227207/posts/default/8899437228716238841' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-490712774'/></entry></feed>
