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"New Light" on As the understanding of "this generation" and the Watchtower again contradict itself

If you are an avid reader of the Society's publications, and probably should be taking the first glimpses of The Watchtower, April 15, 2010 , in which "new light is revealed through the self-proclaimed "faithful and discreet slave," this new light, is about what Jehovah's Witnesses must understand that concerns about the "generation" of which Jesus spoke in Matthew 24:34, regarding the events of recent days. The first thing that catches my attention, is what is mentioned on pages 9 and 10 (paragraph 12, emphasis mine): (...)

Lord uses his mind to drive in the direction you want to organization, which has a of land and other celestial ... In Ezekiel's vision represents the latter as a carriage moving unstoppable through the air to fulfill the divine purpose. What drives this car to go either other? The Holy Spirit.

First they say that the Lord used his spirit to drive in the direction that it deems appropriate. And thus ends the holy spirit remain responsible for all the sway of changing teaching and deciduous . Note that at no time assume responsibility for those lessons to be false. The article then tells them to OBEY loyally these "instructions":

logically same guiding force to the other part of your organization , the terrestrial. So loyally obeying the instructions that this gives us we are moving to step out of the carriage of the Lord [your organization] and working with your spirit (Heb. 13:17).

then could not forget, we continue strengthening the reader to accept these "biblical truths" or "spiritual light" (paragraph 13) citing this Prov 4:18:

Third , the Holy Spirit progressively clear biblical truth (Prov. 4:18). For many decades, this magazine is the primary means used by "the faithful and discreet slave" to give us the spiritual light (Matt. 24:45).

And all that previously "loaded" in the mind of Witness, do the respective introduction or presentation of the new "truth"

Take for example the explanation of "generation" Jesus said (read Matthew 24:32-34). Who are its members?

Later, in paragraph 14, we find the answer

Although you can calculate how long "this generation" , we must bear in mind one fact: the word generation tends refer to people of different ages whose lives overlap for a period not too long and has so (Exodus 1:6). So how should we understand Jesus' comments about "this generation"? Everything indicates that the life of the anointed who were on Earth in 1914 "when it began to appear the sign of the presence" would overlap with other anointed ones who would be the beginning of the Apocalypse. This generation will have had a beginning and end.

The most curious of all is that even now say they "can not calculate how long" this generation ", that is precisely what they have been doing for decades, setting a time for a" generation "(See The Watchtower, June 1 1997, pg. 28; Awake, April 8, 1988, pg. 14).

But the point in question is the next generation now overlap each other, when the Governing Body itself (or should I say it was the holy spirit?) Had said it could not be understood in this way, see:

Beware of impatience

(...) However, signal "could be extended for many human generations? No. The signal occurs during a single generation in particular. The same generation that witnessed the beginning of the signal will also witness its culmination "a tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of creation." Three historians, Matthew, Mark and Luke recorded the assurance that Jesus gave it. (Mark 13:19, 30, Matthew 24:13, 21, 22, 34, Luke 21:28, 32.)
However, there is a danger that one is impatient. It's been 74 years since the outbreak of World War I in 1914. From the human point of view this may seem a very long time. But some Christians have eagle eyes and saw World War I are still very much alive. His generation has not passed.

- The Watchtower, October 15, 1988, pg. 4.

This statement or "truth" was given for almost 22 years ago, is now 96 years have passed (almost a century) since the outbreak of World War I and the generation to which the magazine referred to as all dead. [1]

first is how to sustain a position, given an argument, then, when this position expires, the argument (that they had given) ends up contradicting them, working as a sword of Damocles, ie first in one direction, then in a completely opposite, and often returning to the first position originally taken, and sadly, nobody seems to notice because they seed wrong idea in mind that they are moving in a carriage, which represents the organization, which carries an "unstoppable advance."

[1] Remember that the official position of the Company for decades was that "this generation" referred to "Those who remember the events of 1914 '(See the book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life, ed. 1981, pg. 95, para. 3, published in 1968 in English, Awake, April 8, 1969, pp. 13-14; The Watchtower, April 1, 1981, pg. 30, The Watchtower, 15 May 1984, p. 7.. See also page. 4 of the Awake between 1988 and August 1995 ) and for that, people should have at least 10 years (being optimistic) to see and perceive the events of 1914, that is, these people today have at least-106-years!