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PAGE
12
PASTOR
GENERAL'S
REPORT, DECEMBER
3 0 ,
1986
On page
11,
i n
t h e
paragraph above t h e
cha r t ,
t h e second s en t ence
reads:
"The
Bi b l e
ca l l s
it
'a whole day ' and s p e c i f i c a l l y says....
a
In
t h e
t h i r d
paragraph under
t h e
subhead,
on
page
15,
t h e
f i r s t
s en t ence
now
reads:
"About
4 2
y e a r s
a f t e r
t h i s
t h e J ewi s h
people
were
d r i v e n ou t
of
t h e i r
land."
0
"Who
or
What
Is
t h e
Pr ophe t i c
Beast?"
Thi s book l e t , brought i n t o p r i n t aga i n i n
t h e
e a r l y 1980s
was
expanded t o
i nc l ude
"The Mark
of
t h e
Beast"
as
pa r t
two.
Some
edits
i n t h e
l a t e s t
e d i t i o n , no t
made
when t h e
booklet
was
f i r s t
expanded, now occur t o avoid
r e p e t i t i o n and
t o
update
t h e
booklet .
The
second,
t h i r d ,
f i r s t
h a l f
of
t h e
f o u r t h , and
t h e
n i n t h pa r agr aphs have been
deleted
from
t h e
beginning
of
t h e
t e x t i n
pa r t
one.
The
f i r s t
two pa r agr aphs of
par t
two--"The
Mark
of
t h e
Beast"--have been
deleted
and
t h e
whole s e c t i o n
t i t l e d "Who
Is
t h e
Beast?"
on pages
30
and
31
is
deleted.
I n a d d i t i o n
a l l
r e f e r e n c e s
t o
t h e
"Roman
Ca t ho l i c Church"
or
"Roman
Church"
or
"great whore" have been
edi ted
t o
read
" t r a d i t i o n a l
Ch r i s t i a n i t y "
or
"woman r i d i n g t h e
beast"
a t
t h e
request
of our f o r e i gn -
language
off ices
and
t o
avoid n e e d l e s s
criticism
from t h e new t e l e v i s i o n
audience.
.
0
"Why
Were
You Born?"
The
c o r r e c t d e f i n i t i o n
of
Elohim
has
a g a i n been i nc l uded on
page
3
i n
t h e
l a s t
paragraph under
'Emp-
Answers."
The
corrected
s en t ence now
reads:
"The Eng l i sh
word
'God'
is
u s u a l l y t r a n s l a t e d from t h e
Hebrew
Elohim-a
noun, p l u r a l i n form,
b u t
w i t h
ei ther
s i n g u l a r
or
p l u r a l
usage.
The
d e f i n i t i o n of
Buddhism
i n l a s t pa r agr aph on
page
25
is
g r e a t l y
improved and now
reads:
"One r e l i g i o n b e l i e v e s
t h a t
t h e
end
resul t
of
human
l i f e
af ter c o u n t l e s s
r eb i r t hs
is
e x t i n c t i o n
of
i n d i v i d u a l
consciousness. .
On page
26
t h e second s en t ence
of
t h e
second
paragraph
under
subhead
"NOW
Understand Why..."
reads:
'Elohim i n t h i s and
similar
pas sages means one
God--not many
gods."
The
s en t ence before c o r r e c t i o n
fai led
t o
i nc l ude
t h e
t h o u g h t
t h a t
i do l
gods
are
a l s o d e s i gn a t e d
7
e l oh im
i n
Hebrew.
0
" L i f e
Af ter
Death?"
A
c l a r i f i c a t i o n seemed nece s s a r y on
t h e
middle
of
page
4 ,
where
t h e
word
"Millennium' occur red.
The s en t ence
a t
midpage now reads: "They, and
any such l i v i n g
a t
t h e end of t h e second r e s u r r e c t i o n ,
w i l l
t hen
d i e
t h e
second
death....'
Th i s
is
c l e a r l y a r e f e r e n c e t o
t h e
second r e s u r r e c t i o n
or
Great
White
Throne Judgment, n o t t h e 1,000 yea r s .
On page
7
t h e
t h i r d
paragraph under
t h e
subhead
"What
Is
t h e
Kingdom of
God?"
has been completely
deleted.
There
is
no need t o b r i ng
up
t h e
que s t i on
of
Esau and Turkey, which
is
n o t f u r t h e r exp l a i ned .
Some
of
t h e
descendant s do l i v e i n Turkey,
b u t
most are
Arabic
speakers, no t Turk i sh
speakers
.