“Stay Alive till 75”
Watchtower’s Charles Sinutko Jr.
Assembly Speech on 1975
Recommended Reading . . .
Author, M. James Penton
The subject of Apocalypse Delayed is exactly one of the reasons that the study of New Testament prophecy and its proper contextual intent, understanding, and application is important for Christians to determine and grasp. Such a field of studies is not merely an academic exercise; it transcends the personal and extends to the interpersonal, social, and commensal. It dictates whether or not one will chose to elect into continuing education, marry and have a family, enter ministry, expect to ever grow old; expect to ever die, etc., etc.
The subject of eschatology as it is presented in the New Testament is objective, imminent, and evidential but in popular studies it is abused as a subjective, propositional, and hypothetical tool with which to manipulate the Bible to pinpoint dates and, failing again and again, an effortless mechanism to justify moving the goal post further and further away from the first and second centuries when those august events were supposed to happen in the first place.* Now, although the author of this book may not understand the validity of Realized Eschatology, it is a highly readable and valuable glimpse into the inner workings and fanciful logic of a sect that has made itself prominent and notorious for always setting and resetting dates for the end of the world and proving, again and again, that something basic and serious was terribly awry in their assumptions and premises about what this important subject is really all about.