648 B.C.E Was it near?
Zephaniah 1: 14-18: “The great day of Jehovah is near. It is near, and there is a hurrying [of it] very much. The sound of the day of Jehovah is bitter. There a mighty man is letting out a cry. 15 That day is a day of fury, a day of distress and of anguish, a day of storm and of desolation, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick gloom, 16 a day of horn and of alarm signal, against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. 17 And I will cause distress to mankind, and they will certainly walk like blind men; because it is against Jehovah that they have sinned. And their blood will actually be poured out like dust, and their bowels like the dung. 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s fury; but by the fire of his zeal the whole earth will be devoured, because he will make an extermination, indeed a terrible one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.”
61 C.E. Was it near?
Acts 1:6: When, now, they had assembled, they went asking him: “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”
Matthew 24:44: On this account YOU too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming.
1914, 1975... were only "hours" that we thought that the great day of Jehovah was near.
So, we fufillied the prophecy!
We were ready as we are now...
2 Peter 3:3, 4: For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”
Habakkuk 2:3: For [the] vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie. Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it; for it will without fail come true. It will not be late.
WE DON'T SAY 2012...