The most prestigious prediction of God which JWs missed several times
An organization that later claimed to be “Watchman” or spokesperson for this world should have easily noticed “tossing (salos) of the sea” (Luke 21:25, Greek Interlinear) even in their first publication in 1876 as it was already given as one of the signs of the Last Generation. The Greek word "σαλος (salos) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "tewh," to swell, from which Latin gets tuber, a hump, and protubero, to swell (hence the English protuberance)." (Theological Dictionary, Abarim) Swelling of the ocean is God's terminology with DEPTH, and modern term is "Sea-Level Rise." But JW.org missed it.
This was the side effect of “ruining of this earth” predicted in Revelation 11:18 which happens with pumping of global warming chemical agents such as CO2, methane etc into the atmosphere which started from the time of fossil-fuel use. The word translated as “ruin” is originally διαφθεῖραι (diaphtheirai, from diaballo and phtheiro, biblehub com) which is easy to understand from its parallel use in Luke 12:33 in the sense of what “moth” does to your assets. Such effect would happen to our environment which was discerned by Princeton climatologist Syukuro Manabe in 1960’s for which he won the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics. (Princeton edu/manabe-wins-nobel-prize-physics-modelling-climate-change).Thus JWs missed it again in 1960’s as link between presence of global warming chemical agents in the atmosphere and melting of polar ice-melting and “swelling of the seas” was easy to be noticed and should have appeared as an article in their Awake! Magazine.
Imagine the glory and electrifying effect on readers and the mankind if they had discerned it in 1960’s, that too, when such knowledge was available from studies of people like above mentioned Scientist and his fellow climate scientists such as Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. Jehovah’s Witnesses could have said “We were publishing “Sea-level-rise” from 1960’s and see now it has been fulfilled. They missed this opportunity too. Later when Jehovah arranged this knowledge in 2005, still they missed it, along with other important predictions for our generation. (Details here //www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1qpi2wa/jehovah_acted_too_strongly_against_organization/)
Posted Jan 30, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC