Bridge of Reason

  In their Watchtower No 2, 2021, we read: 'The Bible describes the time period just before the end as “the last days.” (2 Peter 3:3, 4) Second Timothy 3:1-5 states that the last days would be marked by a steep moral decline. (See the box “ Just Before the End of the World.”) Do you see people who exhibit selfish, greedy, fierce, and unloving traits today? This too is evidence that we are living very near the end of the world.’ They go on to ask, ‘How long will the last days be? According to the Bible, only “a short period of time.” Then, God will destroy “those ruining the earth.—Revelation 11:15-18, footnote; 12:12.' This teaching keeps Jehovah's Witnesses tied to the organisation for fear today might be the day. We've all heard their leaders speak on this, especially Anthony Morris, who seems to take particular glee in describing the end and its suffering. Bleak seems to suit the man's character and demeanour. It seems we should know what the Bible says ...

Image by  Pavlofox  from  Pixabay The Watchtower Society are up to their old tricks again. I visited their website and the landing page i showed a giant clock and a man in a state of alarm. The caption ran, ‘Are we Running out of Time?’ How many times have they got this wrong, yet it’s as though they just can’t help themselves? It’s another year so let’s have another doomsday campaign. The world, of course, is in an alarming state right now, and you might be forgiven for thinking these really are ‘the last days,’ or as I have heard some say, ‘the last of the last days.’ It is a subject we might come back to at some future time. I live with the understanding, of course, that the Lord could come tomorrow...tonight! In light of that I keep my lamp filled and the wick trimmed ready for the arrival of the bridegroom. That said, I am also conscious of the fact we must live until then, and live as he would have us live. Nobody can do that if they are paralysed with fear, and ...