Im Wachtturm vom 15. März 2015 hörte die Organisation damit auf, prophetische “Gegenbilder” zuzuweisen, außer dort, wo die Bibel selbst es tut, und räumte ein: “Humans cannot know which Bible accounts are shadows of things to come and which are not.”

The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers”

15. März 2015 · pp.17-18 · pars. 4, 9 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Many years ago, our publications stated that such faithful men and women as Deborah, Elihu, Jephthah, Job, Rahab, and Rebekah, as well as many others, were really types, or shadows, of either the anointed or the “great crowd.” … The clearest course is this: Where the Scriptures teach that an individual, an event, or an object is typical of something else, we accept it as such. Otherwise, we ought to be reluctant to assign an antitypical application to a certain person or account if there is no specific Scriptural basis for doing so.”

The answer explains why the publications had stopped assigning prophetic “antitypes”, conceding that “Humans cannot know which Bible accounts are shadows of things to come and which are not.”

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