The Times newspaper, on 28th May 2008, has an article about a man named Gordon Ritchie, a member of the Jehovah's Witness splinter group The Lords' Witnesses, who claims he is the first horseman of the apocalypse. It says,
To be fair to Gordon, he doesn't go shouting about being the first horseman. It pops up only when we're discussing the Book of Revelation, the last chapter of the Bible so beloved of apocalyptic prophets. The second horseman of Revelation, says Gordon, is War and he is already up and running in the form of George W. Bush. The third horseman, Famine, is loose, too - in the body of the UN which is wrecking the world through its oil-for-food programme, and the fourth horsemen, Death, is in full tack and waiting at the stable door in the form of nuclear weapons.
It is his considered opinion that the world ended on March 21, 2008. Are you seeing the flaw in this yet? To be fair to him, he thinks March 21 was just the beginning of the end, Christ warming up for the Second Coming, so to speak, but he has a long track record of incorrectly prophesying all sorts of calamity.
“Admittedly, we have got it wrong before,” says Gordon. How many times? “Over 70 but just because we've been wrong in the past doesn't mean we will be wrong in the future. We've been right about some things. About one in ten of our prophecies are correct.”
If I remember my Sunday school teacher right, all false prophets were stoned to death, and didn’t Jesus saying something about no one knowing when he would return? Anyway, the article also includes some interest predictions from the past that didn’t quite come to pass.
March 25, 970: Logicians foresaw the End when Annunciation and Good Friday fell on the same day, believing that it was the day that Adam was created, Isaac was sacrificed, the Red Sea was parted, Jesus was conceived, and Jesus was crucified.February 1, 1524: London astrologers believed a flood would destroy the world; 20,000 people abandoned their homes.
October 1, 1914: The author and minister Charles T. Russell created the most hyped Armageddon date for Jehovah's Witnesses after an 1881 prediction didn't materialise, picking out quotations from the Book of Daniel and assigning them random numerical values to come up with this date.
Friday, February 13, 1925: Young Margaret Rowan predicted the End after having a dream of Angel Gabriel. A man then spent his life savings on advertising space for an eleventh-hour gathering. When nothing happened, he suggested that perhaps she meant Pacific time.
2006: A British cult filled caves in India with dry goods, believing the end was nigh.
The article was by Mark Barrowcliffe.
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Watchtower gospel of gobbledygook
The big difference between Jehovah's Witnesses and Christians is that the Watchtower Society's central core creed proclaims Jesus second coming in October 1914.
They sometimes try to obscure this today and say that he came 'invisibly'.Yes,all other Christains are awaiting Jesus return,the JW say he ALREADY came.
Jehovah's Witnesses door to door recruitment is by their own admission an ineffective tactic.
They have lost membership in all countries with major internet access because their false doctrines and harmful practices are exposed on the modern information superhighway.
There is good and valid reasons why there is such an outrage against the Watchtower for misleading millions of followers.Many have invested everything in the 'imminent' apocalyptic promises of the Jehovah's Witnesses and have died broken and beaten.
Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult because they try to cut you off from others who do not have the same beliefs, including family. Yes,you can 'check out anytime you want but you can never leave',because they can and will hold your family hostage.
The Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world.
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