What do Jehovah's Witnesses Make of Raymond Franz's confession that the Year 607bce is incorrect?

Raymond Franz was a GB member for nine years, he was the author of the guide book; 'Aid to Bible Understanding'. He himsef admits in his book ;Crisis of Conscience' that upon being given the task of writing the bible aid, he realised, through his research, that the year 607bce was incorrect as the year of Jerusalem's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar..

"Months of research were spent on this one subject of 'chronology' and it resulted in the longest article in the 'Aid' publication. Much of the time was spent endeavoring to find some proof, some backing in history, for the date 607bce, a date so crucial to our calculations for 1914.......We found absolutely nothing in support of 607bce, all historians pointed to a date twenty years later" - Raymond Franz, former member of the GB of the JW;s.

This man was a member of the GB, the " Faithful and discrete slave"

How do you explain this? and how does it affect the claims of the GB to be the only prophet of Jehovah.?

I suspect it will be explained away by the line "the light keeps getting ever brighter the closer we get to the end of this wicked system of things."

Answers from Jehovah's Witnesses to previous questions about chronology, the significance of 1914, when 6,000 years will have elapsed since Adam & Eve were created, etc., have been met with a nonchalance that beggars belief. Aparently the current intake of JW's don't think there is any problem with having got the dates wrong in the past! And as to the claim that they are Jehovah's prophet, well they now deny any such thing! How things have changed since the 1940's.

Raymond Franz was not a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, he was the nephew of Brother Franz.

Your information is incorrect.

Brother Franz died faithful to his God Jehovah.

As for his nephew Raymond, he is a liar like the god he worships, Satan.

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the only possible explanation is that the watchtower is using naive folk to push their publications and gain a vast amount of wealth through lying to them and making them believe that they are working for Jesus, when they are really working for the greed of the committee and its president. They should wake up and realize that they are being used.

The prophecy failed big time, yes the bible states if it does not come about as that prophet has spoke it then that is a false prophet. you can find that scripture at Deuteronomy 18; 22, notice also it gives no out for mistakes.