2012 Memorial Season Special March Edition Awake!

The special talk given on the weekend after the Memorial is entitled "Is It Later Than You Think?"

Publishers will again have the option of a 30- or a 50- hour requirement as an auxiliary pioneer, this year for the month of March.

Here is a scan of the special edition Awake! magazine that will be distributed in line with the theme of the special talk.

http://flic.kr/p/br2Det

Lol! I just got coffee up my nose!

Very funny.

Lmao! Some special edition that is!

I guess the retro look is still in.

Kool-aid, sweetened with pure sugar, no high-fructose corn syrup!

DOC

A couple of mustachiod gay cowboys slow dancing underneath a disco ball and it would be perfect....

"Oh yes... It is much late than I think, LAST CALL!"

I thought that was last year's "special talk".

That's cool. So what was the date that issue was ORIGINALLY published? 

It looks like '60s or '70s. Imagine, 40-50 years later and Armageddon is still coming "soon"!

Original was posted on this thread (thanks for the idea).

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/221623/1/Anyone-have-the-outline-for-the-2012-Special-Talk

October 1968

btt - :)

WBF: Who called it! 

Thanks for the entertainment! 

Good photoshopping too!!!

this is real? I thought it was a joke

this is real? I thought it was a joke

Real? Yah it's real.  As real as the Governing Body is Jesus' appointed representatives.

Figured out how to make it show up here.

You got me LOL

smiddy

Lol!

I like the idea on the other thread of a flyer with that cover on it.

I wonder if they will have a special push to invite we who are "inactive" along to the "Special" talk ?

I do hope not, I hate being rude to people I know.

*** yb99 p. 238 Uruguay **

*In 1949, when Brothers Knorr and Henschel visited for the second time, 592 persons met in Montevideo to listen to Brother Knorr’s talk “It Is Later Than You Think!”

*** km 4/91 p. 7 par. 3 Encourage Others to Read The Watchtower ***

“Is It Later Than You Think?” is the thought-provoking title of one of the articles in the April 1, 1991, issue of TheWatchtower.

*** w91 4/1 pp. 4-7 Is It Later Than You Think? ***

THREE days before his death, Jesus had a very busy day in Jerusalem, a day that turned out to be of the utmost significance for Christians living now. He taught in the temple, turning back many trick questions with which the Jewish religious leaders tried to trap him. Finally, he leveled at the scribes and Pharisees a scathing denunciation that tagged them as hypocrites and vipers headed for Gehenna.—Matthew, chapters 22, 23.

As he was leaving the temple area, one of his disciples said to him: “Teacher, see! what sort of stones and what sort of buildings!” Jesus, unimpressed, said to him: “Do you behold these great buildings? By no means will a stone be left here upon a stone and not be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1, 2) Jesus then left the temple for the last time, descended into the Kidron Valley, crossed over, and climbed the slopes of the Mount of Olives.

As he sat bathed in the late afternoon sunlight there on the mount, with the temple in view on Mount Moriah across the valley, Peter, James, John, and Andrew came to him privately. Heavy on their minds were the words he had uttered about the temple’s being thrown down. They asked: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?” (Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3, 4) The answer he gave to their question that afternoon on the Mount of Olives is of vital importance to us. It can keep us from waiting too long before thinking about “the conclusion of the system of things.”

Their question was twofold. One part was about the end of the temple and the Jewish system; the other concerned Jesus’ future presence as King and the conclusion of this present system of things. Both of these questions were covered in Jesus’ answer, as given in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21. (See also Revelation 6:1-8.) Regarding the conclusion of this present world, or system of things, Jesus described several features that, taken together, would be a composite sign identifying the last days. Is that composite sign being fulfilled? Does it put us in the last days spoken of in the Bible? Does its fulfillment warn us that it may be later than we think?

One feature of Jesus’ composite sign is: “Nationwillriseagainstnationandkingdomagainstkingdom.” (Matthew 24:7) In 1914, World War I started. Jehovah’s Witnesses of that decade were immediately on the alert. And why? In December 1879, some 35 years earlier, the WatchTower magazine had said, based on Bible chronology, that 1914 would be a pivotal year in human history. Could this war, the first war on a truly worldwide scale, in which 28 nations were eventually involved and 14 million persons were killed, be the beginning of events fulfilling Jesus’ composite sign of the end? Would the other features of the sign follow?

In “a revelation by Jesus Christ,” this same bloodbath is foretold. Here a fiery-colored horse and its rider “take peace away from the earth.” (Revelation 1:1; 6:4) That certainly happened from 1914 to 1918. And World War I was only the beginning. In 1939, World War II followed. Fifty-nine nations were sucked into that conflict, and some 50 million people were killed. During the 45 years following World War II, more than 125 wars have been fought, killing more than 20 million people.

Another feature of the sign is: “Therewillbefoodshortages.” (Matthew 24:7) There was widespread famine during and after World War I. One report lists more than 60 major famines since 1914, costing many millions of lives. Moreover, even now 40,000 children die each day from malnutrition and preventable diseases.

"In 1919 there were 4,000 Jehovah's Witnesses preaching this good news"  WRONG! There were no JWs in 1919 only the Bible Students. No wonder the JWs have such a screwed up perception of their History when the GB blantantly lie.

There were no JWs in 1919 only the Bible Students. No wonder the JWs have such a screwed up perception of their History when the GB blantantly lie.

No, witnesses of Jehovah have been around since faithful Abel ...

*** w50 10/15 pp. 386-387 par. 8 Riches of the Full Assurance of Our Understanding ***
8 In the King James at Hebrews 12:1, why the writer should suddenly introduce the word "witnesses" has led to a variety of interpreting, many thinking he means spectators witnessing an athletic race. But the new version shows that the related verb meaning "to bear witness" is used four times in the preceding chapter where he discusses faith and where he says: "By means of this the men of old times had witness borne to them." He specifically names Abel and Enoch as having had this witness, and ends the chapter, saying: "And yet all these, although they had witness borne to them through their faith, did not get the fulfillment of the promise, as God foresaw something better for us." He then opens the next chapter, saying: "So, then, because we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also put off every weight and the sin that easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race." (Heb. 11:2, 4, 5, 39, 40; 12:1, NW) So we awake to the fact that the writer means the witnesses of Jehovah from Abel on to John the Baptist. By this we know that Jehovah's witnesses did not have their beginning first in 1931, when that Scriptural name was publicly confessed at our international convention in Columbus, Ohio, to distinguish us from the hundreds of sects professing to be Christian.