It is well known that, starting in 1918, Watchtower publications under the direction of Judge Joseph Rutherford had prophesied the forthcoming resurrection of ancient biblical worthies such as Abraham, Moses and David. That prophecy is generally thought to have been unsuccessful. However, secret Watchtower files tell a very different story.
The truth is that Abraham, Moses and David did come back to life in the twentieth century, in 1933 to be more precise, and came to live at Judge Rutherford’s Beth-Sarim mansion in San Diego, California. That fact was never made public, though, as the return of the three “princes” ended up in complete fiasco.
Upon their resurrection, Judge Rutherford had decided to give the three men six months to adapt to their new environment before announcing the fantastic news to the world. Sadly, less than four months later, Rutherford was forced to conclude it had all been a mistake.
As it turned out, Moses is the one who caused the police to come see what was going on at Beth Sarim. On Saturday May 20, 1933, a neighbor had called the San Diego Police Department. As that man was mowing his lawn that morning, Moses had hurled a small stone at him, threatening to continue with bigger stones if the mowing was not stopped at once.
What the police then discovered at Beth Sarim has remained a well-kept secret to this day, not just because of the Watchtower Society’s embarrassment, but also at the request of representatives of the local Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.
More than a hundred Mexican immigrants, men, women and children, were kept in a state of slavery on the property. One of the women, whom Abraham used as a sex slave, was two-month pregnant. All of the men and boys, including two babies, had suffered sexual mutilation. A boy was found in an extreme state of shock. It appeared Abraham had attempted to kill him in sacrifice.
Abraham was not the only one arrested that day. The police found that twenty-six of the women at Beth-Sarim were all married to the same husband, David. Such an extreme case of polygamy had never been seen in the history of the State of California. The worst was unraveled later, though, when Moses admitted being the murderer of a homosexual couple two months earlier.
Abraham and Moses were discretely judged and sent back to death on the electric chair. David took five years, and then disappeared. Compensation to the former slaves cost the Watchtower Society a fortune. Rutherford admitted having made an ass of himself, and promised to be more cautious when inviting anyone to his winter mansion in the future.