Where did I find this?

Doug Mason

I have put a picture at http://au.geocities.com/doug_mason1940/Twenty_Time_proofs.pdf

It is a photocopy I made about 30 years ago at the Melbourne Library.

Stupid me never noted the source, and it might have been from CTR or from Henninges.

So I am wondering if anyone can tell me where it comes from and if they are able to provide me with a better copy.

It shows "Twenty Time Proofs for 1914 or 1915" and refers to Watchtowers of the 1890s and 1900s.

Thanks,

Doug

Nathan Natas

It is from the "Berean Bible Teachers' Manual" (published in 1908 written by Clayton J. Woodworth, co-author of "The Finished Mystery").

How many of these proofs are still taught by the WTB&TS?

Which is your favorite?

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TWENTY TIME PROOFS

That the Kingdom of Evil Will Cease And the Earthly Phase of the Kingdom of God be Established in 1914-1915

Gen 15:9 The ages of the animals offered by Abraham regated eleven years, which, applied prophetically, on the scale of a year for a day, equal 3960 years, the length of time from the date of the Abrahamic covenant, 2045 B.C., to A.D. 1915

Isa 40:2 One of the prophecies showing that the Jewish and Gospel ages would be of equal length and that the Gospel age would end therefore in 1914

Jer. 16:18 Another of the prophecies showing that the Jewish and Gospel ages would be of equal length and that the latter would end in 1914

Zech 9:12 Another of the prophecies showing that the Jewish and Gospel ages would be of equal length and that the latter would end in 1914

Num 9:11 The fact that Christ was slain at the full moon (symbol of Israel under the Law Covenant), typified that it was the turning point between two equal periods of Jewish history. This foreshadows Israels' rehabilitation in A.D. 1915

Gen 25:24 The fact that Esau, type of fleshly Israel and Jacob, type of spiritual Israel, were twins, typified that the length of the Jewish and Gospel ages would be equal. This would bring the full end of the Gospel Age in A.D. 1914

Lev 26: 18 The Jewish people were promised, under certain conditions, a special chastisement of "Seven Times" otherwise called "The times of the Gentiles". These "Seven Times", or 2520 literal years, began with the overthrow of Israel's typical kingdom in the days of Zedekiah, 606 B.C. and will therefore end in A.D.1914

Dan 4:16 Nebudchadnezzar's seven years of insanity, typified the times of the Gentiles, 2520 years, ending in 1914.

2 Chr 36:22 The decree of Cyrus, 536 B.C., 605 years prior to Israel's complete overthrow as a people, typifies Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 605 years after the transfer of the Papal residence from Rome to Avignon.

Ezra 4:24 Ezra's resumption of work upon the temple, 521 B.C., 590 Years prior to Israel's complete overthrow typified Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 605 years after the publication of Marsiglio's Defensor Pacis

Ezra 6:15 Completion of rebuilding of the temple, 521 B.C., 586 years prior to Israel's overthrow, typified Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 586 years after the death of Marsiglio

Ezra 7:7 Dedication of the temple, 467 B.C., 536 years prior to Isreal's overthrow, typified Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 536 years after the schism in the Papacy, when two popes were on the throne at the same time; Wycliffe's turning point

Neh 2:8 Nehemiah's commission, 454 B.C., 523 years prior to Israel's overthrow, typified Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 523 years after Huss became acquainted with Wycliffe's works and continued the reformation

Dan 9:25 The point 405 B.C., 474 years prior to Israel's overthrow, marked by Daniel's setting apart of the 'seven weeks' from the 'sixty and two weeks', typified Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 474 years after the invention of printing.

1 Ki. 12:16 The division of the kingdom of Israel into the ten-tribe and the two-tribe Kingdoms, 393 years prior to Zedekiah's overthrow, foreshadows Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 393 years after Luther's excommunication.

2 Ki. 20:1 The sickness of Hezekiah, 125 years before Zedekiah's overthrow, foreshadows Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 125 years after the French Revolution

2 Chron 33:15 Manasseh's reformation, 68 years before Zedekiah's overthrow, foreshadows Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 68 years after the formation of the Evangelical Alliance

2 Chr 34:3 The beginning of Josiah's seeking after God, 45 years before Zedekiah's overthrow, foreshadows Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 45 years after the editor of Zion's Watch Tower began the search for what is now "Present Truth"

2 Ki. 22:3 The finding of the book of the Law by Josiah, 35 years before Zedekiah's overthrow, foreshadows Christendom's overthrow in 1914, 35 years after the founding of Zion's Watch Tower

Ezek 21:25 the overthrow of Zedekiah, 3520 years after the fall in the Garden of Eden, foreshadows the complete wiping out of the fall 3520 years later in 2914 A.D., and since the Millennium is a period of a thousand years duration, this proves that the Millennium proper begins with the close of the year 1914.

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"The Harp of God" (by WTS president Joseph Franklin Rutherford, published 1921) offers these proofs that Jesus returned in the year 1874:

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"It was in the year 1874, the date of our Lord's second presence that the first labor organization in the world was created. From that time forward, there has been a marvelous increase of light, and the inventions and discoveries have been too numerous for us to mention all of them here, but mention is made of some of those that have come to light since 1874, as further evidence of the Lord's presence since that date, as follows: Adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery, artificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, barbed wire, bicycles, carborundum, cash registers, celluloid, correspondence schools, cream separators, Darkest Africa, disk plows, Divine Plan of the Ages, dynamite, electric railways, electric welding, escalators, fireless cookers, gas engines, harvesting machines, illuminating gas, induction motors, linotypes, match machines, monotypes, motion pictures, North Pole, Panama Canal, pasteurization, radium, railway signals, Roentgen Rays, shoe-sewing machines, skyscrapers, smokeless powder, South Pole, submarines, subways, talking machines, telephones, television, typewriters, vacuum cleaners, and wireless telegraphy."
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With incredible evidence such as this one must agree with the 1924 Watchtower that "Surley there is not the slightest room for doubt in the mind of the truely consecrated child of God that the Lord Jesus has been present since 1874."

Sarah Smiles

1915? I remember reading something about 1915,so last week I went through some of Russell's writing thinking he wrote it. But now I am going to have to look in some of the JW books.

It not what your looking for, but when I read the 1915 doctrine I busted a gut, in fact I told a few JW that Jesus was not enthroned in 1914 because he was enthroned in 1915. I think it was in an old Truth book.

So I know how it is when you have one of those old quotes stuck in your head with out the book.

Quentin

Man! I'm ready to go back....old light becomes new light. Why don't they revamp this and peddle it about? I can hear that train coming now...Bound for Glory.....

Nothing like an early Saturfay morning conversion eh?

Where did I find this?

Doug Mason

Nathan Natas

Sarah Smiles

Quentin

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