This Watchtower study article, published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society on jw.org, reviews the history of how Jehovah's Witnesses have understood this generation at Matthew 24:34, quoting the 1 November 1995 Watchtower's explanation that the term meant the contemporaneous generation of unbelievers who would see the sign of Christ's presence, before setting out the publication's own further refinement of the teaching.
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Reliability Tier1
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society's own published doctrinal explanation, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable institutional denominational doctrinal statements, used here for the exact wording and page numbers of the 1995 Watchtower's explanation, corroborated by George Chryssides's peer reviewed study of Witness prophecy. Citation
PublisherWatch Tower Bible and Tract Society
URLhttps://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/w20080215/Christs-Presence-What-Does-It-Mean-to-You/
Source TypeOfficial doctrinal statement
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- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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