Between Beliefs with Carder Price
Sep 16, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
What goes on inside the head of Jehovah's Witnesses? After the reveal that our JW guests Rob and Sharon are NO LONGER JWs, but Christians: they give commentary on our original conversation. How did…
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So with the predictions of the end of the world, that's one thing that obviously in character, you're gonna give the uniform answer or a very broad answer, but how many times have they predicted it and how have they walked it back when the end of the world obviously didn't happen?
They've made numerous predictions regarding dates, and time would fail us to go through all of them.
So we'll focus on some of the key ones.
So 1914 was supposed to be the end of the system of things, and Armageddon was supposed to occur.
The Jehovah's Witnesses literally put on white robes and stood on the Brooklyn Bridge looking toward heaven, waiting to be raptured up.
in 2014 well that failed and so they pushed it to 1918 that they thought that would be the end time for the gathering that also failed then under uh rutherford he thought 1925 would mark the return the resurrection of the ancient worthies Abraham, Moses, and other faithful men of old that would be resurrected to live on the earth.
And that was supposed to be another conclusion.
They also alluded to 1942.
And then for Sharon and I, 1975 was the most... important or the largest hyped uh date for the end of the system of things that we both um experienced firsthand and lived through and um we both uh recalled how going to door to door we would tell the people at the door it's so important that you study with us learn the bible get baptized and become a jehovah's witness because in 1975 this system is coming to an end it will mark the 6 000 years since god created adam that creative day would end and it would mark the 1,000 year reign of Christ beginning in 75.
You would tell people that first time, I mean, knock on a door and tell them that.
We're getting to more of your story at the end of the last episode in the series, but you guys were kids when that, you were with parents when that was going on.
Wow.
you grew up in it, you came a little later into.
Yeah, from about the time I was five years old.
Yeah, okay.
So, wow.
And so what do they do now looking back? I mean, I'm sure it's just not talked about, right? But when you have, you've named four or five bold predictions of specific years where public gatherings were happening and proselytizing at doors of strangers were happening.
So when they look back, when the average witness looks back, what do they do with those false predictions?
They really don't look back.
They try not to.
The organization kind of weakly acknowledges some of the failed predictions, saying that basically our hopes were set a little too high.
So with the predictions of the end of the world, that's one thing that obviously in character, you're gonna give the uniform answer or a very broad answer, but how many times have they predicted it and how have they walked it back when the end of the world obviously didn't happen?
They've made numerous predictions regarding dates, and time would fail us to go through all of them.
So we'll focus on some of the key ones.
So 1914 was supposed to be the end of the system of things, and Armageddon was supposed to occur.
The Jehovah's Witnesses literally put on white robes and stood on the Brooklyn Bridge looking toward heaven, waiting to be raptured up.
in 2014 well that failed and so they pushed it to 1918 that they thought that would be the end time for the gathering that also failed then under uh rutherford he thought 1925 would mark the return the resurrection of the ancient worthies Abraham, Moses, and other faithful men of old that would be resurrected to live on the earth.
And that was supposed to be another conclusion.
They also alluded to 1942.
And then for Sharon and I, 1975 was the most... important or the largest hyped uh date for the end of the system of things that we both um experienced firsthand and lived through and um we both uh recalled how going to door to door we would tell the people at the door it's so important that you study with us learn the bible get baptized and become a jehovah's witness because in 1975 this system is coming to an end it will mark the 6 000 years since god created adam that creative day would end and it would mark the 1,000 year reign of Christ beginning in 75.
You would tell people that first time, I mean, knock on a door and tell them that.
We're getting to more of your story at the end of the last episode in the series, but you guys were kids when that, you were with parents when that was going on.
Wow.
you grew up in it, you came a little later into.
Yeah, from about the time I was five years old.
Yeah, okay.
So, wow.
And so what do they do now looking back? I mean, I'm sure it's just not talked about, right? But when you have, you've named four or five bold predictions of specific years where public gatherings were happening and proselytizing at doors of strangers were happening.
So when they look back, when the average witness looks back, what do they do with those false predictions?
They really don't look back.
They try not to.
The organization kind of weakly acknowledges some of the failed predictions, saying that basically our hopes were set a little too high.
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