Judge Rutherford couldn't admit wrong, so he invented this stuff....

by OnTheWayOut 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  OnTheWayOut

  Judge Rutherford had this massively successful campaign called "Millions Now Living Will Never Die."
  That's very appealing. In that campaign, the end was 'right around the corner' just as it had been for
  C.T. Russell. He made some promises in that campaign.

  "The date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated than 1914."
  Watchtower, January 1922, page 22

  "....the great jubilee is to begin in 1925. At that time the earthly phase of the kingdom shall be recognized."
  Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J.F. Rutherford 1920
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  OnTheWayOut

  The promise was that men of the bible- Abraham, Joseph, Moses, etc. would appear on the earth as princes.

  They didn't.

  Rutherford claimed that Jerusalem would become the capital of the world. It didn't.

  Well, Rutherford had to admit wrong, or explain how he was right. He explained.

  The Society replaced Israel as a spiritual Israel. You see, the Jews rejected Jesus. We didn't.
  We are God's chosen people.

  Those princes in the earth, he never actually admitted to being wrong, but started teaching that the secondary
  class (other sheep) were to remain on the earth, and the elders among them would be the princes.
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  OnTheWayOut

  Rutherford, as the Charismatic leader of the cult, was able to tell people that
  he, and his other HQ buddies, were going to heaven, but the rest of you, well...

  Some will, some won't. But you all have to listen to the laws that issue forth from Zion.
  Zion is now WTS, though. If you question the WTS, you won't go to heaven or live forever
  on earth.

  The princes on the earth. Notice this quote in Jehovah's Witnesses and the Divine Purposewhich highlights an announcement at an international convention:

  Because of the understanding of this text that had prevailed for so long, many of Jehovah's
  Witnesses expected at every convention to greet Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and the others,
  welcoming them back from the dead. You can imagine then, the electrifying effect on the audience
  this statement of the speaker made: "Would this international assembly be happy to know, HERE
  TONIGHT in our midst, there are a number of perspective PRINCES OF THE NEW EARTH?"
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  OnTheWayOut

  The wonderful blessing of ordinary "other sheep" being made princes, this
  distracted from the wrong doctrine that faithful men of old would be appearing
  by now. By this time, replacing "Old Light" with "New Light" was a science.

  Rutherford could never admit being wrong about anything, so he was going to
  explain everything. That's the way it continues to today.

  Sorry for breaking it up, when I use the laptop, sometimes I lose my typing if I
  hadn't submitted it right away, so I sent it in pieces. DONE.
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  Pahpa

  The extraordinary irony of it all his how the Watchtower tries to justify these errors by saying that even though these things didn't turn out as expected it did demonstrate how devoted to God Jehovah's Witnesses were. Yet, if other religious organizations did the same thing they would be branded as "false teachers" or "false prophets" by the Watchtower leaders.

  Jehovah hates two standards of measurement. "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. Use honest scales and honest wieghts...." Lev. 19:35, 36)
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  LongHairGal

  OnTheWayOut:

  It is sickening, really. Nothing but assumptions based on assumptions.

  What is worse than hearing that "....prospective princes are in the audience..." (ugh) is the fact that some will see themselves as being these "princes" and start acting the part now!

  LHG
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  AK - Jeff

  What is worse than hearing that "....prospective princes are in the audience..." (ugh) is the fact that some will see themselves as being these "princes" and start acting the part now!

  Yep! I called 'em elders usually. But sometimes I called them SOB's [for variety, pitch, pace and power].

  Jeff
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  Honesty

  The Watchtower, under Rutherford, built Beth Sarim because Rutherford wrote in "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" on pages 89-80 "Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly those named by the Apostle in Hebrews chapter eleven, to the condition of human perfection"

  If that isn't a prophesy, I don't know what is.

  Deuteronomy 18:20-22 deals specifically with false prophets and how to deal with them. This is how it is worded in the New World Translation: 20 “‘However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. 21 And in case you should say in your heart: “How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?” 22 when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at him.’ **

  The Watchtower Society has two problems that arise from their prophecy.

  Has anyone seen Abraham lately?

  How about Isaac?

  Rutherford prophesied, and the Watchtower Society agreed with him because they devoted funds to building Beth Sarim.

  Even if one denies the "Millions..." passages, it's pretty hard to deny a house.

  Deuteronomy is pretty clear. False prophets must die.

  I'll settle with keeping myself clear of them.
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  greendawn

  It was just a marketing ploy to expand the WTS just as they did coming up to 1975. What amazes me is the ease with which they can get away with it how quickly their members forget. These JW leaders must know something about persuading and controlling the masses. "The Devil got some members thinking the end is near" Rutherford explained to the disappointed dubs in 1925. As if he had nothing to do with it.