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The Cult That Predicted The Apocalypse (And Still Exists)
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Jul 1, 2025
#watchtower #cults #kingdomhall #falseprophet Keeping with the theme of the week on cults and antichrist religions, I've made a mini documentary on the dark history of Jehovah's Witnesses. I hope that you'll watch the video and share it with anyone you know who's a Jehovah's witness or you think will benefit from seeing it.
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man nobody preaching hell anymore instead even some Christians are caught up in materialistic things still even in
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addiction not living as a new creation as he called us to be and still people of the world are choosing to deny Jesus
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as the Son of God not facing the reality if their consequences are going to put them in hell if they don't turn away
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from their sin and put their trust in him in Psalms 1 it says blessed is the
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man that walth not in the counsil of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of Sinners nor sth in the seat of the
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scornful but his Delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law do he meditate day and night and he shall be
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like a tree planted by the rivers of water bringeth forth his fruit of season whatever he do will prosper you see The
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Godly are not so but I like the shaft which the wind driveth away therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
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Judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly Shall Perish
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hello my brothers and sisters this is the remnant
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Warrior and following our documentary and expose on Mormonism yesterday we are
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having a short documentary and expose on
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the Jehovah's Witnesses and and the history of that
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organization and I hope you will share this with anyone that you know who is
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Jehovah's Witness all right without any further Ado we are going to jump right into
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today's program
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William Miller had begun a movement that became known as the Adventist movement or millerite movement around the early
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mid 1800s and predicted the return of Christ visibly on three occasions during
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the year 1844 after this disappointment the group split up into several new movements two
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of those are known as the 7th Day Adventist Church and the Advent Christian
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Church in 1871 Nelson H Barber who had previously been a associated with the
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millerites published his view on the matter stating that Christ would return visibly in
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1873 when this failed he pushed the date to 1874 when Christ failed to appear once
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more instead of admitting his error he began teaching that his return had been
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invisible he purportedly based his new conclusion on his findings in Benjamin Wilson's the emphatic dblock translation
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of the New Testament noticing in it that at Matthew 24 the word the King James
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version rendered coming is translated presence Charles Tas Russell was born on
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February 16th 1852 in Old alag Pittsburgh Pennsylvania he was the
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Second Son of Joseph L Russell and Aaron Risa Bernie he was originally raised
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Presbyterian when Russell was 16 years old and a member of the Congregational Church in 1868 he found himself losing
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faith he had begun to doubt not only the church Creeds and do but also God and the Bible itself at
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this critical jump Shure a can's encounter restored his faith and placed him under the influence of second
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Adventist preacher Jonas Wendel for some years after that Russell
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continued to study scripture with and under the influence of various Adventist laymen and clergy notably Advent
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Christian Church Minister George W stitson and the Bible examiners publisher George
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stor from 187 70 he met locally on a regular basis with a small circle of
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friends to discuss the Bible and this informal study group came to regard him as their leader or
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Pastor in January 1876 when he was 23 years old Russell received a copy of the
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herald of the morning an Adventist magazine published by Nelson H Barber of
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Rochester New York one of the distinguished features of Barber's group at that time was their belief that
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Christ returned invisibly in 1874 war and this concept presented in the herald
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captured Russell's attention although the idea appealed to Young Charles Taz Russell the reading public apparently
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refused to buy the story of an invisible second coming with the result that Nelson H Barber's publication The Herald
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of the morning was failing financially in the summer of 1876 wealthy Russell a Barber's way to
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Philadelphia and met with him to discuss both beliefs and finances
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Russell became the Magazine's financial backer and was added to the Mast head as an assistant editor he contributed
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articles for publication as well as monetary gifts and Russell's small study group likewise became affiliated with
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Barbers together Russell and barber jointly published three worlds and
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harvest of this world Russell and barber believed and taught that Christ's invisible return in 1874 would be
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followed soon afterwards in the spring spring of 1878 by The Rapture the bodily
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snatching away of Believers to heaven when this expected Rapture failed to occurred the herold's editor Mr Barber
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came up with new light on this and other doctrines like the rejection of the ransom sacrifice Russell however
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rejected some of the new ideas finally Russell quit the staff of the Adventist
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magazine and started his own he called it Zion's Watchtower and Herald of Christ's presence and public its first
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issue July 1879 at this point Charles Russell continued to view William Miller and
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Nelson Barber as instruments chosen by God to lead his people in the past the
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formation of a distinct denomination around Russell was a gradual development his immediate break was not
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with adventism but with the person and policies of Nelson H Barber Russell
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traveled about speaking from the pulpits of Protestant churches as well as to Gatherings of his own followers in 1879
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the year of his marriage to Maria Francis akley and also the year he began publishing Zion's Watchtower Russell
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organized some 30 study groups or congregations scattered from Ohio to the New England coast each who class or
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Ecclesia came to recognize him as Pastor inevitably Russell's increasingly
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Divergent teachings forced his followers to separate from other Church Church bodies and to create a denomination of
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their own beginning as he did in a small branch of adventism that went to the
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extreme of setting specific dates for the return of Christ and the Rapture Russell went farther out on a limb in
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1882 by openly rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity his earlier Mentor Nelson H
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Barber was a trinitarian as was the herald of the morning's other assistant John H Hatton who joined Russell in
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leaving Barbera start Zion's Watchtower the writings of Barber and patton that Russell had helped publish or distribute
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were trinitarian in their Theology and the Watchtower itself was at first fig and non-committal on the
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subject it was only after patent broke with him in 1882 and ceased to be listed
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on the Mast head that Russell began writing against the doctrine of the trinity in 1881 William Henry Conley was
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the first president of Zion's Watchtower track Society at that time the operations were situated at 101 5th
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Avenue was used until 1884 in 1884 they moved to 151 Robinson
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Street earlier designated at his 44 and then 40 Federal Street alany
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Pennsylvania in December 15th 1884 the society was incorporated with Charles
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taas Russell as president and became a legal Corporation used by the international naal Bible students in
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1886 Russell went on to publish a series of books called studies in the scriptures in which he taught his
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beliefs and strange Bible chronology using pyramidology and the inch perear
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rule in which he measured the interior passages of the Great Pyramid in pyramid
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inches to predict dates of future and past biblical events in 1896 the society
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was renamed watch our Bible and trapped Society in 1889 a four-story brick building at
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5860 Arch Street alagan was completed valued at $34,000 it was known as the
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Bible house it served as the society's headquarters for approximately 20 years
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Russell also believed in phenology a theory which claimed to be able to determine character personality traits
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and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head by reading bumps and
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Cavities he CLA claimed that at the restoration of all things when God's kingdom would be established on the
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earth people of Darker skin tones would be restored to a lighter skin tone which
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was originally intended by God at the creation in 1906 he claimed to be God's
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mouthpiece and went as far as pretending that if he did not speak the very Stones
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would cry out in 1909 the headquarters were moved to the
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Brooklyn Tabernacle in Brooklyn New York in pre-1910 editions of the third book
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of his studies in the scripture series thy kingdom come Russell predicted that the Rapture of the church would happen
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in 1910 this date was also taken from the measurements of the Interior passageways
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of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt in 1912 he claimed that appendicitis and
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typhoid fever were caused by biting worms in the colon in 1914 Russell and his associates
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produced a movie on the Bible History in which he added many of his strange beliefs it was called the photo drama of
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creation and lasted up to 8 hours in only 1 year 9 million people around the
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world had viewed it a book with the same title was also published by the time of his death
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Charles Tas Russell had traveled more than a million miles and preached more than 30,000 sermons he had authorized
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Works totaling some 50,000 printed pages and nearly 20 million copies of his
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books and booklets had been sold followers have been taught that Russell himself was the faithful and
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wise servant of Matthew 24:45 and the leoan messenger God's
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seventh and final spokesman to this Christian church but by 1928 the society
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applied that to its leaders they taught that the scripture was a prophecy and that by 1919 they had
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been chosen blood Jesus Over All that he ha since they believed Jesus was ruling the world invisibly they claimed for
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themselves a position as God's channel of communication with mankind Russell had preached that 1914
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would see the end of the world as we know it as he stated in his book the time is at hand 1914 will be the
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farthest limit of the rule of imperfect men as a result many farmers refused to
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plant their crops in the spring in The Firm belief that the end was nine when
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1914 failed it was pushed forward to 1915 but the end only came for pastor
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Russell when he died at the age of 64 on October 31st 1916 near Pampa Texas while
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returning to Brooklyn by train of complication caused by cystitis he was
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buried at Rosemont United Cemetery Pittsburgh the grave site is marked by headstone nearby stands a 7t tall
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pyramid Memorial emblazened with the cross Crown Masonic symbol erected by
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the Watchtower bible and track Society of 1921 right next to the cemetery stands a
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masonic temple his disciples however saw the world war then raging as reason to
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believe the end was still imminent according to instructions Russell left
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behind his successor to the presidency would share power with an editorial committee and with the Watchtower
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corporation's board of directors whom Russell had appointed or life but Vice
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President Joseph Franklin judge Rutherford soon set about concentrating all organizational Authority in his own
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hands a skilled lawyer who had served as Russell's Chief legal adviser he
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combined legal prowess with what opponents undoubtedly saw as a maavalan approach to internal corporate politics
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thus he used a loophole in their appointment to init the majority of the watch to directors without calling a
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membership vote and he even had a subordinate summoned the police into the society's Brooklyn headquarters office
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to break up their board meeting and evict them from the premises Fate on the march by ah macillion page 78 through 80
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in early May 1918 us attorney general Thomas Wyatt Gregory condemned The
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Finnish mystery as one of the most dangerous examples of propaganda a work
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WR in extremely religious language and distributed in enormous numbers warrants
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were issued for the arrest of Rutherford and seven other Watchtower directors who were charged under the 1917 Espionage
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Act of attempting to cause insubordination disloyalty refusal of
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Duty in the armed forces and obstructing the Recruitment and enlistment of service of the US while it was at War on
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June 21st seven of them including rer bir were sentenced to 20 years
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imprisonment in March 1919 the directors were released on bail after an appeal
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sport ruled they had been wrongly convicted to escape his prison sentence
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judge Rutherford made a deal with the government it was agreed that Bible students should cut out Pages 245 to 254
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being defensive from the finished mystery and that society would cease printing them
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after securing the headquarters complex and the sex corporate entities retherford turned his attention to the
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rest of the organization by gradually replacing locally elected Elders with his own
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appointees he managed to transform a loose collection of semi- autonomists democratically run congregations into a
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tight-knit organizational machine run from his office some local congregations
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broke away forming such russellite Splinter groups as the Chicago Bible students the dawn Bible students the
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Layman's home Ministry movement all of which continued to this day most Bible
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students remained under his control and rord renamed them Jehovah's Witnesses in
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1931 to distinguish them from these other
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groups in 1919 the Watchtower began publishing a magazine called the Golden
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Age a publication filled with strange medical declarations and wild various teachings
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it was renamed consolation in 1937 and awake in
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1946 since Jesus had lost his personality as part of the trinity in the godhead during the wrestle era he
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needed a new identity so he became Michael the Archangel in 1920 under Rutherford Michael had previously been
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talked to be the pope of Rome in The Finnish mystery published in [Music]
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1917 under Rutherford's leadership several changes were in order joining
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the Armed Forces became a disel shipping offense the pyramid teachings once coined God's Stone witness in Egypt
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became Satan's Bible no more celebrating holidays or birthdays saluting the flag
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became idolatry wearing a beard became nonprofessional since the cross was a
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pagan object in origin Jesus was transferred onto a state which is somehow not Pagan according to Jehovah's
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Witnesses today meanwhile he sh the sex emphasis from the individual character
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development Russell Fess to vigorous public witnessing work Distributing the
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society's literature from house STS by 1927 this door door literature
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distribution had become an essential activity required of all members the literature consisted primarily of
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Rutherford's unremitting series of attacks against government against prohibition and can speak business and
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against the Roman Catholic Church he also fored a huge radio network and took to the airwaves
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exploiting populist and anti-catholic sentiment to draw thousands of additional converts his vitriolic
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attacks blaring from portable phonographs carried to people's doors and from the loudspeakers of sound cars
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parked across from churches also Drew upon the witnesses mob violence and government persecution in many parts of
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the world like Russell reer tried his hand at prophecy and pushed forward the fear
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of Armageddon hitting around the time of World War I the period of 1918 to 1920
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was first Advanced later on he predicted that the biblical Patriarchs Abraham Isaac Jacob
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and others would be resurrected in 1925 to rule as princes over the Earth they failed to show up of course but he held
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on to the story and in 1929 the society built a mansion called Beth serim to
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house the resurrected prophets who were expected to arrive suing when the resurrected prophets did
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not show judge Rutherford moved in the Great Depression hit hard but
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retherford lived like a king as he summered in Europe and wintered at Beth sering he also owned two luxury
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Cadillacs during the early 1930s retherford began claiming that the Holy
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Spirit had been removed and that God gave him inspiration for the writing of the Watchtower Publications directly to
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his mind through angels from 1931 until 195 2 all
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vaccinations were banned as being in violation of God's Everlasting Covenant with
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Abraham in 1935 the society presented some new lights and taught that
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1935 not 1881 as Russell had taught marked the final year one could become a
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part of the elect class of anointed Christians who had a Heavenly hope so two Destinies were invented the great
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crowd or great company coined Jon adeps were to spend eternity on a paradise
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birth while the remnant the 144,000 or little flop were to go to heaven and
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Rule with Christ over the great crowd in 1935 the title Kingdom Halls was given
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to the many Assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses reord also taught that World
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War II would see the coming of Armageddon but refrained from being too specific this time he published a book
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called children in which he encouraged witnesses to put off marriage and childbearing until after Armageddon many
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Jehovah's Witnesses remained childless and bitter until their death because of this false
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prophecy Rutherford kept on preaching the soon return of the princess until
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his death at bethine on January 8th 1942 at the age of 72 due to kidney failure
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caused by a cancer of the rectum vice president Nathan Homer no inherited the
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presidency upon Redford's death in 1942 but left doctrinal matters largely in the hands of Frederick W FR who join de
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under Russell and have been serving at Brooklyn headquarters since 1920 lacking the personal magnetism and
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Charisma of Russell and Rutherford nor focused followers devotion on the mother organization rather than on
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himself during the 1940s the society explained that all of the prophecies in Matthew 24 and 25 would take place
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within a single generation when the generations passed away in shame after stretching it up to 5 decades until 1995
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the society changed the meaning of the generation several times to eventually mean an overlap of generations in the
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hopes of escaping from another blatant false prophecy in 1942 they obtained the
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rights to publish the King James version and in 1944 the American Standard
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Version in 1943 the invisible presence of Jesus was officially changed from
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1874 to 1914 also in 1943 the Watchtower
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inaugurated the Gilead School in New York state to train the missionaries a superb administrator nor initiated
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training programs to transform members into effective recruiters instead of carrying a portable photograph from
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house to house the average Jehovah's Witness began receiving instruction on how to speak pervasively
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in 1945 the Watchtower officially began the worldwide genocide of its own people
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by Banning blood transfusions and blood products and in 1961 made it ages fellowshipping offense causing the death
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of many thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1950 the Watchtower published its own
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version of the Bible the New World Translation in which they refused to reveal the names of the Translating
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committee stating that they did not desire to take any Merit for their work strangely the new translations seemed to
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accommodate their peculiar doctrines which could not be found previously in the scriptures also the only New Testament
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found that had similar views to theirs was that of Johannes graver's translation a
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spiritist in 1962 the organization began quoting from G's new testament for
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support of their strange doctrines but they were exposed in the early 80s by counter cult movements for quoting from
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a spiritist from 1967 until 1980 the
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Watchtower banned all organ transplants causing the deaths of many more members meanwhile Fred France worked
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behind the scenes to restore faith in sex chronological calculations a subject largely ignored following Rutherford's
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prophetic failure in 1925 during the 1960s the society's Publications began pointing to the year
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1975 as the likely time for Armageddon and the end of the world in
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1974 Daren Jehovah's Witnesses who had sold their homes and businesses donated
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the money to the society were paraded on the platforms of Kingdom Halls no's training programs for prati
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plus France's apocalyptic projections for 1975 combined to produce rapid growth in
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membership the annual rate of increase peaking at 13.5% in
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1974 all of this pushed meeting attendance at Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls from around 100,000 in 1941 to
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just under 5 million in 1975 during the 1970s changes took place
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at Watchtower headquarters in regard to Presidential Power first it became accepted in theory that the Christian
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congregation should not be under onean rule but rather should be governed by a
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body similar to the 12 apostles the seven member board of directors of the Watchtower bible and
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track Society of Pennsylvania had previously been port trayed as fulfilling this role but in 1971 an
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expanded governing body was created with a total of 11 members including the seven directors the aim was to
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demonstrate that the leadership derived Authority from a Apostolic Source rather
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than from Pennsylvania corporate law this new governing body was displayed as
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further evidence of the sex being one true church with carefully styled artwork in the Watchtower depicting the
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apostles as a government governing body after no's death in 1977 France
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inherited an organization troubled by discontent over the obvious failure of his Prophecies of the World's End in the
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Autumn of 1975 even at Brooklyn headquarters little groups meeting privately for
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Bible study were beginning to question not only the 1914 based chronology that
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produced The 1975 deadline but also the related teaching that the Heavenly calling of
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Believers in in 1935 the hitherto fastro sect actually
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began losing members for the first time in decades as people who had expected Armageddon in 1975 became disillusioned
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when membership loss grew into the hundreds of thousands if fat masked by new conversions in figures released by
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The Society president France and the conservative majority on the governing body took action in the spring of 1980
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they initiated a Crackdown on dissidents breaking up the independent Bible study groups at headquarters and foring
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judicial committees to have those seen as ring leaders put on trial for disloyalty and
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apostasy by the time this purge culminated in the forced resignation and subsequent excommunication of the
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president's nephew and fellow governing body member Raymond V Fran a Siege
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mentally took hold on the worldwide organization even Witnesses who left
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quietly and voluntarily for personal reasons were denounced as disloyal and were ordered shunn former friends
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forbidden to say as much as a simple hello to them thus although Frederick W Fran
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served as the sex Chief Theologian for some 50 years from the start of Norah's presidency in 1942 until his own death
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on September 22nd 1992 the fact that he outlived his Veil prophecies by more than 15 years
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required him to impose a mini Inquisition on the membership in order to keep his rinal and chronological
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framework in force for the remainder of his lifetime as for the explanation for the
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failure of the 1975 date they simply accused former members of starting and
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spreading the rumors in 1985 the baptism questions were changed by the leadership rather
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than follow the biblical example of confession to the father Son and Holy Spirit prior to baptism a witness must
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now prove they intricately know Watchtower doctorate and law and then
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devote themselves to a man-made organization Milton G hensel's selection
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as fifth Watchtower president on December 30th 1992 is truly significant
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for the 13 million now attending Kingdom Halls at first glance the choice of a
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staunch conservative for the Post may seem to guarantee a continuation of the status quo but a closer look reveals
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disappointment and the conservative Old Guard last Stam an indication that radical changes in the sex leaderships
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and doctrines were imminent at age 72 henel became the second youngest member
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of the governing body and he was selected to lead by men several years older than he was henel was no doubt
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chosen in part due to his having Vitality the others laughed obviously
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these aging leaders would not be able to hold their Reigns of power much longer The Men Who shared in building the
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Watchtower into it is today would soon leave it behind for others to run Adams
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became president of the Watchtower Society after governing body member Milton G henell stepped down from the
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position in 2000 by 2010 the governing body was now
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down to seven members in 2012 decision was made to enlist a new member who was
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born in 1965 Douglas M Sanderson in the past few decades many
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allegations of child abuse and pedophilia were claimed against the Watchtower Society before the corks with
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more and more victories by the victims against their former religion as the internet grows the many schemes lies and
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manipulations of the Watchtower organization are being exposed on YouTube Facebook blogs and websites in
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general many prisoners are being freed from the clutches of this fraudulent religion that claims to be Christian and
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has been ruining the lives of millions of individuals around the globe with its propaganda techniques and goal of
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gaining power and Fortune for over a century this evil organization with its
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corrupt leaders have broke it apart and destroyed entire families deceived many
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into false hopes of a fabricated Paradise brought many to insanity and suicide caused others to die out of
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refusal of Medical Treatments that would otherwise save their lives destroyed the lives of children by protecting
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pedophiles in their ranks ruined many financially by prophesying false States for the end of the world then accusing
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them for spreading false rumors use fear tactics of Eternal destruction by God to bring Benny to
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slave for a man-made organization caused useless persecutions and imprisonments of its members by
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imposing useless rules and dictates and discouraging higher education all this
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while turning them away from the true hope that is presented in the Bible through Christ Jesus alone who knows how
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long this organization will continue on its destructive path until its final demise hopefully sooner than later