Under the topic of failed end of the world predictions, JWs 1914 date gets outed:
Http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mayan-apocalypse-2012--five-doomsdays-that-never-happened-143929918.html
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Yahoo News gives JWs a mention
by Splash 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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cofty
Thanks for posting.
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ prediction of the Second Coming, August 1914
The First World War – a conflict like no other before - was quickly noted as a watershed event in history.
But for Jehovah’s Witnesses at the time it was a little more important than just a particularly bloody war.
The door-knocking religious sect’s founder, Charles Taze Russell, predicted that the year would see the Second Coming of Christ.
The First World War, which began in August 1914, was interpreted as a sign of Armageddon and the end of days.
But 1914 passed without Rapture and the fighting between European powers lasted another three years and claimed 10million lives. -
kjw53
Mr Russell said peace would be taken from the earth in 1914--he was correct--- He saw the first ride of the white horse( rev 6) by Jesus who recieved his crown( 1914) he erred by putting a date on harmageddon, but was absolutly correct on the other two events. The rapture is a false teaching that is not found in Gods written word.
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mrsjones5
He actually said 1874:
Russell taught that Jesus invisible rulership began in 1874.
"Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present since October 1874, A.D., according to the testimony of the prophets, to those who have ears to hear it: and the formal inauguration of his kingly office dates from April 1878, A.D." Studies in Scriptures Series IV (1897) p.621
and when nothing happened he moved it to 1914. What a happifying cowinkydink!
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Scott77
The Watchtower is a criminal and false cult group with no place in this world of right thinking people. I do not care whatever the media say.
Scott77
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Poztate
This was a failed JW doomsday report from Mother Nature Network
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/7-recent-failed-doomsday-predictions
It almost sounds like one of "us" filed the report
1975
It’s been a good while since the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Brooklyn-headquartered Christian Restorationist denomination best known for eschewing holidays, rejecting blood transfusions and prolific doorbell-ringing activities, have unleashed an official Armageddon prediction. For a while there, particularly before the turn of the 20th century, forecasting the Second Coming of Christ was the Watchtower Society’s real bread and butter (the legal and administrative arm of Jehovah’s Witnesses seems more preoccupied with real estate transactions these days). Since its formation in the 1870s by minister and self-proclaimed “God’s mouthpiece” Charles Taze Russell, the Watchtower Society has fingered — and then revised — several specific Second Coming-centric predictions: 1878 (revised to 1881), 1914, 1918 and 1925. The most recent failed prediction came in 1975, a year, yet again, believed to be the beginning of Christ’s millennial reign. Starting in the late '60s and leading up to 1975, the church was mobilized by the “apparent” Armageddon (later cautiously downgraded to a mere “possibility”). Proselytizing activities increased, membership grew and many Witnesses went into full-on end days prep mode by selling property, cashing in insurance policies, etc. When 1975 came and went without incident, church leaders entered a serious period of denial, blame and regret (guess that’s what happens when you prophesize the end of the world and it doesn’t happen), initially claiming that the creation dates of Adam and Eve had been miscalculated resulting in prophetic error. Whoops.
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smiddy
It`s good to compare what jehovah`s witnesses of today claim the IBSA ( the precursor to jw`s) say they taught with the actual publications that were printed by the International Bible Students Associatioin of the time .
The dishonesty of todays jw`s become very evident.
smiddy
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trillaz
Too bad so many faithful to the WTB&TS died with bad old light.
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reslight2
cofty posted:
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ prediction of the Second Coming, August 1914 ***
The door-knocking religious sect’s founder, Charles Taze Russell, predicted that the year would see the Second Coming of Christ.
The JW organization did not exist before 1914 and thus there were no members of that organization at that time. I do not know of anyone associated with the Bible Students who was "predicting" or expecting the Second Coming in 1914.
http://ctr.reslight.net/?p=1556
As someone else has already pointed out, Charles Taze Russell believed Christ had returned in 1874; he was not expecting Christ to return in 1914.
http://ctr.reslight.net/?p=1174Russell did not believe in an organization such as the Jehovah's Witnesses; he certainly was not the founder of such an organization that he preached against.
http://ctr.reslight.net/?cat=64
From 1904 onward, Russell was expecting that the time of trouble was to begin in 1914, which I believe it did, and we have been in the time of trouble ever since 1914. Additionally, one of the things he believed that would accompany that time of trouble was to be "warfare". Not all that he was expecting has come to pass as quickly as he expected.
See:
Russell's Comments on "The Time of Trouble"Russell's view of "Armageddon", however, was not the same as that of JWs. Russell was not expecting that in 1914 all unbelievers would be eternally destroyed without ever having come to a knowledge of the truth. Indeed, he preached against similar ideas that were being preached by some of the Second Adventists in his day. He believed that Armageddon was a period of time in which the peoples of the nations were to chastised, not eternally destroyed, in preparation for the blessings of the kingdom.
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reslight2
kjw53 posted:
Mr Russell said peace would be taken from the earth in 1914--he was correct--- He saw the first ride of the white horse( rev 6) by Jesus who recieved his crown( 1914) he erred by putting a date on harmageddon, but was absolutly correct on the other two events. The rapture is a false teaching that is not found in Gods written word.
I cannot find anything in Russell's writings that supports all of the above; much of it appears to be later teachings of the JWs. Yes, the "rapture" is a false teaching.
In a few of Russell's very earlier writings, he used the word "rapture", but his use of it was not the same its usage as represented in the doctrine of the "rapture" that many speak of, thus he evidently, early in his ministry, stopped using that term as related to the "change" of the saints.
One can check Brother's Russell's thoughts related to Revelation 6 at:
http://www.mostholyfaith.com/bible/BibleXref.asp?xref=bible^Revelation^6You will need to click on the verse numbers to receive a listings of references to that verse. I do not necessarily agree with all of Russell's conclusions.
Although I could not find any specific statement from Russell in which he said "peace would be taken from the earth in 1914", many of his statements between 1904 to 1914 are in harmony with that thought.
As I mentioned earlier, Russell's view of Armageddon was not the same as that of the JWs. He was not expecting the kind of Armageddon that the JWs preach in 1914; he believed that Armageddon was a period of time -- however long it make take -- in which the peoples of the nations were fully learn the lesson of vanity, after which they were to be blessed in the coming blessings of the kingdom.