ADJUSTING KNOWLEDGE A few days ago, JW published the following article on its front page: WE ARE ALWAYS VIGILANT! Global heat wave in 2023 What does the Bible say? It seems that for many your information has gone unnoticed, or at least, although they have read it, they have not understood that it was new adjusted knowledge. The slave asks the following question: "Was extreme weather conditions prophesied in the Bible?" And the answer they give is: YES. Heat waves and other forms of extreme weather fit the Bible's description of what would happen in our times. For example, Jesus said that we would see "terrifying scenes" or "terrifying phenomena." LUKE 21:11 "Other forms of extreme weather", can include many things, such as hurricanes and blizzards, floods and droughts, we could even understand wildfires caused by lightning, which are, of course, extreme.
Years ago, the slave, using the Watchtower, claimed that Jesus' words were fulfilled during World War II. This is what was stated in The Watchtower in 1997, in its April 1 issue: "The Second World War did the unimaginable: it dwarfed its predecessor, since tens of millions of people died in it. The immense aircraft carriers, true floating cities, plowed the seas sending bombers that dropped their deadly cargo from the sky on the enemy targets. Submarines torpedoed and sank enemy ships. And the dropping of atomic bombs claimed the lives of thousands with each explosion. As Jesus predicted, “dire scenes” have marked this era of warfare.—Luke 21:11.)" We note that the quote from Luke 21:11 had another understanding. The generation that lived through that period of violence is largely deceased. Almost 80 years have passed since the Hiroshima bomb ushered in the atomic age and since then the only nuclear weapons that have been detonated have been test ones. Now the slave has revised his opinion of Jesus' words. The last time the Watchtower commented on the above verses, especially Luke 21, 25 and 26, was in 2015. While the Watchtower used to claim that people were already fainting with fear, that part of the sign is now has adjusted to the future. Here is the 2015 revised interpretation: "Where will these signs occur? In literal heaven? We will have to wait and see. What is certain is that God's enemies will freeze in fear." So according to the slave, the terrible images that Jesus predicted are now being experienced by a prolonged summer heat wave.