For good or bad, every teaching is arrived at through some process. The following secret photographs show the inside story on how Watchtower’s Governing Body arrived at its latest “generation teaching”.
This is not as cartoonish as readers might think.[1-5]
Marvin Shilmer
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References
1. The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life, published by Watchtower, 1968, p. 95.
2. “Yes, in the initial fulfillment, “this generation” evidently meant the same as it did at other times—the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving Jews.”— The Watchtower, November 1, 1995, p. 31.
3. “Previously, this journal has explained that in the first century, “this generation” mentioned at Matthew 24:34 meant “the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving Jews.” ... Since Jesus did not use negative qualifiers when speaking to them about “this generation,” the apostles would no doubt have understood that they and their fellow disciples were to be part of the “generation” that would not pass away “until all these things [would] occur.”… So Jesus must have been referring to his disciples when he made the statement: “This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.”— The Watchtower, February 15, 2008, pp. 23-24.
4. [A Watchtower Governing Body member] made clear that the gathering would not continue indefinitely. He referred to Matthew 24:34, which says: “This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.” He twice read the comment: “Jesus evidently meant that the lives of the anointed ones who were on hand when the sign began to be evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.” We do not know the exact length of “this generation,” but it includes these two groups whose lives overlap.”— The Watchtower, June 15, 2010, p. 5.
5. Solving Its Generation Doctrine
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