Another failed date -- 1928?

by Fatfreek 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Fatfreek

  From online Investigator Magazine No. 51
  
  JW prophecies are known to have failed for many other dates.
  
  These include 1878, 1881, 1906/1907, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1928 , 1930s, 1935/1936, 1942,1940s, 1970s.

  Then, a different source:
  TIME magazine March 31, 1930: "...An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm -- "Nations will battle; the dead will be dung on the earth -- upset considerably the Bible Students' calculations, but the major tenets of their belief are as yet unshaken."

  Other than those references, I haven't been able to find anything verifiable -- no WT scans, no source month / year.

  Anyone else find anything of substance?

  Len Miller
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  Leolaia

  Maybe a prediction by another Bible Student group than Rutherford's? Or an error, the press getting 1925 wrong as 1928?
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  Fatfreek

  Thanks, Leolaia.

  Yes, that issue of TIME may have been the very reason for Investigator's claim. I agree that TIME's reference must've been a mistake. It was 1930 and so fresh on the heels of the failed 1925 resurrection.

  Surprising, actually, that a mainstream journal (TIME, though only 7 years old at the moment) would make such a blunder.

  Len
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  Burger Time

  I believe Penton speaks about 1928 in his history of JW's. If memory serves me correctly they briefly predicted 28 to be a year of great tribulation. This was right after 25 if my memory is correct.