Kings of the
North and King of the South
(Another Failed
Prophecy.)
By B.J. Kotwall
The Watchtower Society
(WTS) has recently again been proven false.
Daniel chapter 11 (in
the Bible) is about "the king of the south" and "king of the
north".
Scholars generally
agree that the "king of the south" refers to the Ptolemies of Egypt
and the "king of the
north" refers to Selucids of the Selucid of the north and east of
Judah. Daniel chapter
11 to the wars between Ptolemies and Selucids for control of
what had been the
land of Cannan. (The New Bible Commentary Revised 1970;
Dictionary of the
Bible 1965 J.L. McKenzie; The Companion Bible; Matthew
Henry Concise Commentary
on the Bible).
The WTS in contrast
had concluded that the "king of the south" is fulfilled in present
day Britain and America,
and the "king of the north" in the Soviet Union. (Your Will
Be Done on Earth
1958
pp. 263 & 278).
The WTS in their Your
Will book said :
...the
Soviet Union, the Communist power, that since it seized power in
Russia in 1917,
has held world domination as its aim to this day. (p.
278)...Down to
the time of the end at Armageddon there will be
competitive coexistence
between the 'two king' (p. 297)...Jehovah's
angel foretold
further aggressions by the Communist king of the north
before his end
in Armageddon. (p. 300)
Despite predictions that
the Soviet Union will competitively exist until Armageddon,
and will fall at that
time after aggressions against the rest of the world, the Soviet
Union is now defunct
since 1991 and has fragmented into a Commonwealth of
Independent States
and other former Soviet republics.
Additional outrageous
nonsense in Your Will book includes:
The Soviet Union will
gain control of most of the world and its wealth and resources
including oil! (pp.
297, 303). The Soviet Union will then be terrified by reports issued
by the WTS and initiate
an attack against Jehovah's Witnesses. (JWs) (pp. 304, 305).
Finally the Soviet
Union and America will join forces to attack the JWs which leads
to the annihilation
of both America and the Soviet Union. (pp. 306, 307) Billions of
people who are not
JWs will at that time be destroyed. (p. 347)
In a previous WTS book
called The New World (1942) " the king of the north" was
quite different and
"included the Central Powers, or imperial Germany, Roman
Catholic Austria-Hungary,
Roman Catholic Italy and Vatican...Japan..." (p. 324) An
even earlier WTS book
called Thy Kingdom Come (1891) applied chapter 11 of
Daniel to the Napoleonic
period in 1799!
More recently after
the failure of their above prediction The Watchtower of
November 1, 1993,
had further eleven pages speculations on the subject! The failure
of their previous
prediction was not mentioned in the article! Instead we
read:
So who
is the king of the north now?...we cannot say. One thing we do
know. Soon, the
king of the north will conduct an offensive campaign
that will be triggered
by "reports that will disturb him ..."... This
campaign will immediately
precede his "end" (p. 21)...Hence the
reports 'out of
the north' may well be Satan's propaganda inciting the
king of the north
and all other kings to attack Jehovah's people...
Alternatively,
the report "out of the north" could prove to originate
with Jehovah...
(p. 22)
How close are these events?
the article says :
We are
in the homestretch in the race for life. (p. 23)
In spite of WTS's repeated
prophetic failures they keep promulgating their
speculations as if
God was responsible for them, thus bringing God in disrepute!
Expressions such as
"Jehovah provides his loyal servants with advance knowledge
about this system's
end " (The Watchtower 1984 July 1, pp.8-9) are common in WTS
writings.
The prophets
of the WTS have once again proven themselves false. (Deuteromomy
18:21-22)
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