Sigh I wonder if those such as yourself have anti-JW's secret decoder rings too. Jehovah's Witnesses do not proclaim that Jesus' presence (parousia) was on earth, His invisible presence (parousia) as the ENTHRONED King of God's heavenly Kingdom was noticed and is noticed ON EARTH by his true followers due to the VISIBLE composite "sign" he told us to look for, which has been in evidence worldwide since 1914 and becomes more noticeable to us as the time for the foretold Great Tribulation and Armageddon get ever nearer. We have been living in the royal presence (parousia) of Jesus Christ since the Bible revealed year of 1914... THAT is what Jehovah's Witnesses proclaim: http://tinyurl.com/2cq9tdy When Jesus Christ threw Satan and his angels out of heaven and BEGAN his Kingdom rule, it meant that the end of Satan and his wicked system was near.
(Rev 12:7-12 http://tinyurl.com/4nan3ys ) Notice the 10th verse of Rev 12:7-12 shows that upon the ousting of Satan and his demons from heaven BEGAN the power of THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD and the AUTHORITY of God's Christ? Revelation is about the times we are NOW living in. But how could Christ’s followers ON EARTH know for a certainty that this event in heaven, UNSEEN TO THEIR EYES, had really taken place?
How were we to know that Christ was INVISIBLY present in Kingdom power and that “the end of the world” was near? We could know by checking to see if the “sign” that Jesus gave was being fulfilled. Shortly before Jesus’ death, while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, four of his apostles came to ask him for a “sign.
This is the way their question has been read, in the King James Version, by millions of people... and I quote: Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3 http://tinyurl.com/4vclb76 ) But what do these expressions, “thy coming” and “the end of the world,” really mean? The Greek word that's translated as “coming” at Matthew 24:14 is PAROUSIA, and PAROUSIA means “presence”.
When Jesus died for us he returned back to heaven with his father, Jehovah God. 1914 was a significant year in Bible Prophecy. During 1914, that was the year a war broke out in heaven.
Jesus became king in 1914. Here is a verse in the Bible that shows you... Revelation - Chapter 12: 7 And war broke out in heaven: Mi´cha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. 9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Here is another verse as well... Luke - Chapter 1: 32 This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High; and Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his father, 33 and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom.
According to Jehovah's Witnesses, only they saw with "spiritual eyes of understanding" that Jesus' second "presence" took place in October 1914 invisibly. That's because they believe they are Jehovah's chosen earthy organization and nobody else understood what is supposed to have happened in heaven. They have allegorized Revelation 1:7 which says: ‘Look, he is coming with the clouds,’ and ‘every eye will see him, even those who pierced him’; and all peoples on earth ‘will mourn because of him.’
So shall it be! Amen.” This verse brings together two other passages: Mark 14:16, in which Jesus tells the Sanhedrin they will see the Son “coming on the clouds of heaven”; and Zechariah 12:10, which says that Jerusalem’s inhabitants will mourn when they see “the one they have pierced.
Some have tried to allegorize Revelation 1:7 by assigning various figurative meanings to the “clouds.” But there is no need to look for hidden meanings here, for the passage means just what it says, as do the two passages it quotes. There is nothing more to make of the statement that “He comes with the clouds.”
It simply means that Jesus will appear to all people as He comes to earth out of the heavens. After Jesus gave His disciples the Great Commission, “he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight” (Acts 1:9). As the disciples stood there, gazing after the Lord, two angels appeared and told them, “This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (verse 11).
A cloud is mentioned at His ascension, and the clouds are mentioned at His return. Visualize an aeroplane taking off from the airport and watching it disappear from sight into the clouds. Now think about when an aeroplane descends and comes in to land.
Guess what? As it drops below the clouds, you can see it! Everybody can see it!
Well, that's what will happen when Christ Jesus returns, in power and accompanied by all the angels (including Michael the Archangel). Every eye will see and every knee will bend because Jesus' second coming will be witnessed by every person on the planet. Boy, are those 8 million Witnesses in for a shock!
Bible states: “Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief because of him.” (Revelation 1:7) This coming refers to Jesus’ appearing in the future to reward the just and punish the wicked. When Christ comes to destroy Satan’s world system, the fact of his presence will be overwhelmingly manifest to all.
It is then that every eye will see him. Even Jesus’ opponents will be able to discern, to their dismay, that Christ’s reign is real. The time will soon come for Christ to execute such wicked ones.
They have been warned in advance about this. When this execution takes place, they will see or recognize what is happening. Christ’s return does not mean that he literally comes back to this earth.
Rather, it means that he takes Kingdom power toward this earth and turns his attention to it. He does not need to leave his heavenly throne and actually come down to earth to do this. Job, being spoken to by Jehovah “out of the w In hearsay I have heard about you, but now my own eye does see you.
(Job 38:1; 42:5) This, too, must have been by perception of mind and heart rather than the literal eye, in view of the clear Scriptural teaching that no man has seen God at any time.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.