predictions/prophocy in the name of the lord? It is common knowledge that from pre 1914 up to the year 2000 that predictions have been made about when something should happen according to time scales/lines used dating back to 607 B.C.E . I have read that The January 1, 1989 Watchtower clearly pointed to the year 2000 as the farthest limit of Christian missionary work and thus the beginning of the thousand-year reign of Christ. It stated, "The apostle Paul was spearheading the Christian missionary activity. He was also laying a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century."If that missionary work was to "be completed in our 20th Century" then the door-to-door missionary activities should have ceased no later than December 31, 1999. When the missionary work has ceased, Jehovah's Witnesses know that Armageddon begins followed immediately by the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth. Those who more accurately measure the 20th Century can give the Society twelve more months - to December 31, 2000. Either way, in 1989 the Society was clearly limiting the remaining time before the end of missionary activity to eleven or twelve years at most.About a year later, however, the Watchtower Society altered the article in the bound volume version of the publication removing the time limitation. the Society published contradictory statements ten months later and then quietly changed the article itself (without annotation) in the more permanent bound volumes. Thus the Watchtower can have its cake and eat it too - make clear statements about the future while maintaining some measure of deniability. Unfortunately this seems to have become a bad habit for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. The year 2000 is one of the latest in a long list of dates for "the end" which the Watchtower Society has either strongly implied or explicitly stated. For example some of the dates the Society has given for Armageddon or related apocalyptic events include 1914, 1918, 1925, and 1975.

If Jw's preach about there being false prophets and to watch out for them and that those who make false predictions will die and that only God knows the hour-and God will come as a thief in the night (thiefs pretty unpredictable usually )etc.. etc why do JW's follow the watchtower when it clearly has false prophets behind it?