!914 End of the Gentile times, 2520 years had passed since the last King in Israel, Christ enthroned as king, "down the great dragon was hurled and his angels with him"
1975 was the end of 6,000 years of mankinds history (not the history of the literal, physical Earth)
Many thought that the end of the system was here. I was 13 and preaching and I was so excited because although "some" were thinking it would/could mean the end of this world as we knew it, the ones that were PREACHING and were Teaching kept talking them down saying, NO WE DO NOT KNOW THE DATE and TIME.
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Luke 12:40
New International Version (NIV)
40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect
I had some kind anointed regular pioneers that LOVED Jehovah and followed Jesus wherever he goes talking to my sisters and I at the time and they told us that many were going to be stumbled because this time DID NOT give people license to buy up all the "good life" and not worry about paying for it. Many were doing just that, they felt that the Watchtower society was saying it was the end of the system, but as usual they were just telling us to stay Awake to the times.
I watched people leaving and shouting "false prophecy" when they had to "pay the price"of all they "stored up" bought and didn't think they would have to pay for, homes and boats they had used for a year..
One in here said she was too embarrassed to preach after "the false prophecy?" well she should have been if she wasn't paying attention to what the society had said all along.
This time period as 1914 was a time of shake up, knock off the ones that were living in their hearts for this system and for it to end, you know "skate"...... they were living for a date.
When I got baptized in 1978 3 years after so many VERY angry people had left, I was more impressed with Jehovah's wisdom then ever before.
Today when people think someone has money they cozy up to it like it was their life.
When people think they can get away with something because the mob or crowd is (like looting after a strenuous time) they try.
When people think that they have had enough, or been duped they leave in a huff.
There are STILL some that made that mistake and are still VERY vocal about it.
Maybe like a disgruntled wife that the husband left her for a younger richer model or something.
I was there, the society NEVER duped anyone, they said heads up this COULD mean.
I will tell you this much, this time taught me that if you are to love and that love is real,
it will NEVER embarrass you out of the love because of your own limited reasoning.
If you love and treasure something, you stick with it.
Jehovah really showed WHO served him for what reason.
People weren't embarrassed because of what the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society said,
they HAD to be embarrassed for a different reason, like they THOUGHT they were going to get something MORE out of their few years of "love" or "service" to Jehovah.
That isn't what the Creator of dynamic energy is looking for he is looking for true love, true respect, truth..
I remember thinking when I was 13 why are these people thinking the time is NOW, the scriptures we are TOLD to look in to say, NO ONE KNOWS THAT DAY AND HOUR ONLY THE FATHER,
and "when they are saying "Peace and Security" and "when you think the hour to be, it will not"
Jehovah God the reader of hearts is no dummy. And I am impressed because you simply cannot pull the wool over his eyes..
These people that are still moaning and yelling and blaming, they are shouting fraud and hoax, cult and false prophet...
*sigh.... wow..
And here the rest of us sit, going wow.... We have learned Jehovah will take care of this.