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Could someone direct me to a Society publication or scan where the WT claims God picked them out of all the religions to be the truth? What year did this supposedly take place in?
Thanks. I'm prepping someone on how to talk to a JW they are in contact with.
I hope the following helps and I believe the date you are looking for is 1919.
*** sl chap. 8 p. 134 A Spiritual Paradise on a Polluted Earth ***
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"WAY OF HOLINESS" TO THE SPIRITUAL PARADISE11
In earlier publications of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society it has been Scripturally proved that the "presence of our Lord Jesus Christ" began at the end of the Gentile Times in 1914, when God’s Messianic kingdom was brought to birth in the invisible heavens. (Revelation 12:1-10) At that time the newly enthroned Jesus Christ became like God’s ancient anointed "servant," Cyrus the Great, the conqueror of imperial Babylon and the liberator of the captive Jews and their loyal non-Jewish companions. Acting that part in modern style, Jesus Christ liberated the anointed remnant of his faithful followers who had been taken captive by Babylon the Great and her worldly paramours during World War I of 1914-1918 C.E. Breaking the power of that world empire of false religion, he brought about the restoration of the remnant of spiritual Israelites in the year 1919 C.E. This astonished and chagrined the entire religious world of that time.—Revelation 11:7-13.
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It may well be asked by many of our readers, Why and how does it come that Jehovah’s anointed remnant of spiritual Israel entered into the spiritual paradise first from 1919 C.E. forward?
BTW, "sl" stands for "Man’s Salvation Out of World Distress at Hand!"
It is a book.
AuldSoul
*** Isaiah Prophecy-2 chap. 27 pp. 396-397 Jehovah Blesses Pure Worship ***
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Isaiah prophesies: "There is a sound of uproar out of the city, a sound out of the temple! It is the sound of Jehovah repaying what is deserved to his enemies." (Isaiah 66:6) In the original fulfillment of these words, "the city" is Jerusalem, where Jehovah’s temple is located. The "sound of uproar" implies the tumult of war, which is heard in the city when the invading Babylonian armies assault it in 607 B.C.E. What, though, about the modern-day fulfillment?
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These words in Isaiah harmonize with two other prophetic utterances, the one recorded at Ezekiel 43:4, 6-9 and the other at Malachi 3:1-5. Both Ezekiel and Malachi foretell a time when Jehovah God comes to his temple. Malachi’s prophecy shows that Jehovah comes to inspect his house of pure worship and to act as a Refiner, rejecting those who misrepresent him. Ezekiel’s vision depicts Jehovah as entering the temple and demanding that all traces of immorality and idolatry be removed. In the modern-day fulfillment of these prophecies, there was an important spiritual development in 1918 in connection with Jehovah’s worship. Jehovah and Jesus evidently made an inspection of all of those claiming to represent pure worship. That inspection led to the final casting off of corrupt Christendom. For Christ’s anointed followers, the inspection meant a brief period of refinement followed by a swift spiritual restoration in 1919.—1 Peter 4:17.
*** Revelation Climax chap. 6 p. 32 Unlocking a Sacred Secret ***
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Time of Testing and JudgingJesus was baptized and anointed as King-Designate at the Jordan River about October 29 C.E. Three and a half years later, in 33 C.E., he came to Jerusalem’s temple and threw out those who were making it a cave of robbers. There appears to be a parallel to this in the three-and-a-half-year period from Jesus’ ‘sitting down on his glorious throne’ in the heavens in October 1914 until his coming to inspect professed Christians as judgment began with the house of God. (Matthew 21:12, 13; 25:31-33; 1 Peter 4:17) Early in 1918 the Kingdom activity of Jehovah’s people met with great opposition. It was a time of testing earth wide, and fearful ones were sifted out. In May 1918 Christendom’s clergy instigated the imprisonment of officials of the Watch Tower Society, but nine months later these were released. Later, they were completely exonerated of the false charges against them. From 1919 the organization of God’s people, tried and refined, moved zealously forward to proclaim Jehovah’s Kingdom by Christ Jesus as the hope for mankind.—Malachi 3:1-3.
As Jesus began his inspection in 1918, the clergy of Christendom no doubt received an adverse judgment. Not only had they raised up persecution against God’s people but they had also incurred heavy bloodguilt by supporting the contending nations during the first world war. (Revelation 18:21, 24) Those clergymen then placed their hope in the man-made League of Nations. Along with the entire world empire of false religion, Christendom had fallen completely from God’s favor by 1919.
* w83 11/15 p. 28 Abound in Hope! ***
Indeed, in a spiritual way since the postwar year of 1919, Christendom’s religions have become a dead thing, a desolation, from the viewpoint of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.
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w67 2/15 p. 107 Jehovah Makes Full Might Abound ***And it appears to have been "from Jehovah" that, in the years from 1879 to 1919, "wheat" Christians mingled freely in the paganistic church systems of Christendom, with a view to finding and releasing sincere persons entrapped therein.
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re chap. 21 p. 137 Jehovah’s Plagues on Christendom ***This fall from the spiritual heavens became apparent in the year 1919 when, rather than Christendom’s clergy, the small remnant of anointed Christians was appointed over the Kingdom interests. (Matthew 24:45-47)
*** Paradise Restored chap. 8 pp. 138-139 Mercy to the Persecuted but Judgment to Persecutors ***
Does the religious disorganization and deterioration of Christendom today overwhelmingly prove that back there in the postwar year of 1919 she was the choice of Jehovah of armies? Do the facts of today prove beyond all contradiction that He has filled her "cities" with His goodness to overflowing? Does his spiritual temple stand rebuilt within her as a house of worship, that is to say, is she through her hundreds of religious sects worshiping Jehovah as God at his spiritual temple? Who will come forward as the witnesses of Christendom to offer the unequivocal answer Yes? In the absence of such witnesses we look elsewhere.
*** Know Jehovah chap. 11 p. 207 Disappointment in Store for Overconfident Ones ***
The total destruction of Christendom along with the rest of Babylon the Great does not take away one iota from God’s true Christian religion in the earth; it does not leave Him without his pure, undefiled religion in the earth. The fact is, the annihilation of Christendom will leave a live, flourishing true Christianity, standing forth in glorious purity under God’s protection. This Christianity has been flourishing in the earth more and more since the year 1919 C.E. Among whom, if not in Christendom? Among the dedicated, baptized, anointed remnant of Jehovah’s worshipers. It is these who were prefigured by the exiled prophet Ezekiel himself.
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w89 4/15 p. 7 The Infamous Harlot—Her Fall ***" By 1919 it was apparent that Jehovah had passed judgment on Christendom—and indeed on all false religion. Babylon the Great had fallen, condemned to death!
Elementary, my dear friend.
Everyone knows that was 1919, the magic year. ;)
You're fodder for Armageddon if you don't believe that.
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What is the scriptural proof that there would be one true religion during the end times?
1919, coz God took a whole year to judge Christendom - he had been sleeping for the previous 1800 years!
Not to mention that they still celebrated birthdays and Christmas, and Rutherford loved his booze and cigars - maybe he dried out in prison, and fooled Christ for long enough, before getting back into his wild ways on his release...
The WTS bases their interpretation on this"
(Malachi 3:1-4) 3
"Look! I am sending my messenger, and he must clear up a way before me. And suddenly there will come to His temple the [true] Lord, whom YOU people are seeking, and the messenger of the covenant in whom YOU are delighting. Look! He will certainly come," Jehovah of armies has said. 2 "But who will be putting up with the day of his coming, and who will be the one standing when he appears? For he will be like the fire of a refiner and like the lye of laundrymen. 3 And he must sit as a refiner and cleanser of silver and must cleanse the sons of Le´vi; and he must clarify them like gold and like silver, and they will certainly become to Jehovah people presenting a gift offering in righteousness. 4 And the gift offering of Judah and of Jerusalem will actually be gratifying to Jehovah, as in the days of long ago and as in the years of antiquity.
They apply this to Christ's second coming. The anointed before 1919 are even called the Elijah class. The temple inspection is said to begin in 1918 but the final judgment is not made until 1919. This scripture is the basis of almost every book Rutherford wrote.
Blondie
