*ords do not come true, they should not be
viewed as false prophets such as thæe warned
against at C>uteronomy 18:20-22. In their hu-
man fallibility, thø misinterpreted nutters.•
Undeterred by previous failur—, some rem
to have been spurred on by the approach of the
year 2000 and have mæie further predictions
of the end of the world. TE Wall StreetJournaI
of Lkcernber 5, 1989, published an article en-
titled "Millennium Ever: Prophets Prolifer-
ate; the End Is Near." With the year 2000 ar
proaching, various evangeliæls are predicting
that Jesus is coming and that the 199Ts will be
"a time of troubles that has not been seen be-
fore." At the time of this writing, the lat-
est occurrenæ was in the Republic of Korea,
where the Mission for the Coming pre-
dicted that on 28, 1992, at midnight,
Christ would come and take believers to
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ficial journal Jehovah's Witz•, hz said: have not
the gift (January 1883, 425) —Nor would
we have as infallibk.—
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that the that have Je2xwah'5
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not urat the writing in magazix Watchtow—•
are and infallible and without (May 15,
1947, 157) claim to in-
spired in its utterama, is it (AugtBt IS, 199.
263) "The brothers publialions are
infallible. Their writing are not impir«l are Paul
otlær writer* (2 Tim. 3: 16) And w, at tilE.
it has ben nery. undemanding bcarne clearer, to
Views. (Prov. 15, 1981, 19.
en. Several other doomsday groups made sim-
ilar predictions.
The flood of fale alarms is unfortunate.
Thø are like the wolf-wolf cries of the shep-
herd boy—people soon dismiss them, and
when the true warning coma, it too is ignored.
But why has there bæn such a tendeng•
through the cnturiæ and dmvn to our day for
fale alarms to be sounded, as Jesus said th%'
qould be? (Matthew 24:23-26) I—us, after tell-
ing his followers about events that
uould mark his retum, said to them, as we
read at Matthew 24:3642: "Concerning that
day and hour nobody knows neither the an-
gels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the
Father. For just as the days of Noah were, so
the pr—ence of the Son of man will be..
Keep on the watch, therefore; beæuse you do
not know on what day your Lord is mming."
Thw were told not only to be on the watch
and to be but also to watch with ea-
gem—. Romans 8: 19 says: "hr the eager ex-
pectation of the creation is waiting for the re-
of the sons Of God." Human nature is
such that when fervently and yearn
for wmething and wait in expectation of
it, a powerful temptation arise within us to
see it at the door even when the evidenæ is
insuffcient. In our eagern—s false alarms may
be sounded-
What, then, will distinguish the true wam-
ing from the false ones? the answer, please
see the article.
Why —W I' Anke! is for the enlightenment of the entire Émiiy. It how to with
pr±lerns. It rems the news, tells in many lands, examinz religim and But it
It probes benæth the surtæe and pints to the bdlird current nnts, yet it always stays politically neutral
and does not exalt one ree ahe amther. Most important, this magazirz buiEs cmMence in
a Baæful and *cure new world before the generatim that
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