Let's go down a checklist of worthwhile accomplishments through the history of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
1. Self styled "Pastor" C.T.Russell used Dispensation charts, Pyramidology and his own scripture interpretations to locate the date in the flow of time when Jesus Christ would return and begin ruling over mankind.
Was Russell successful in correctly identifying Jesus' return? No.
Were his charts and computations accurate or embarassingly wrong-headed? Wrong-headed.
2. Russell continued "adjusting" his dates up until he died. Armageddon was supposed to have been 1914. WWI happened instead.
Did Russell ever get his facts straight? No.
3.Successor, Joseph F. Rutherford, began a series of high-publicity public talks titled MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE pointing to the return of resurrected men of faith (Moses, David, Abraham, etc.) emphasizing 1925 as the date certain.
Was Rutherford's sermon in any way factual, true or divinely guided? No. Rutherford made an ass of himself.
4.Nathan Knorr followed Rutherford as President of the Watchtower Society. The Watchtower of December 15, 1971 was the first to unambiguously capitalize the term "Governing Body of Jehovah's witnesses" as the defined group leading the religion, with a series of articles explaining its role and its relationship with the Watch Tower Society. Under Knorr's presidency 1975 was "proved" to be the end of 6,000 years of human existence and the starting date of the 1,000 year reign of Christ. A worldwide preaching effort convinced others this was true.
Was Knorr's presidency successful in promulgating true facts about 1975? No. Nothing predicted or taught happened at all.
5. Fred Franz followed Knorr into the Presidency. (Franz had authored the chronology "proving" 1975 to be a significant date in human history.)
Testimony of Fred Franz of the Watchtower Society at Trial in Scotland:
QUESTION: So that what is published as the truth today by the Society may have to be admitted to be wrong in a few years?
ANSWER: We have to wait and see.
QUESTION: And in the meantime the body of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been following error?
ANSWER: They have been following misconstructions on the Scriptures.
QUESTION: Error?
ANSWER: Well. error.”—Douglas Walsh Trial, 1954, p. 114
6. Milton Henschel followed Fred Franz into the Presidency of the Watchtower Society. Under his leadership the
so-called "generation" doctrine was stamped out and watered down to avoid embarassment. A re-organization and split between Governing Body and Directors took place in the 8th year of his office. Henschel stepped down as President and became "Governing Body" member. He was followed by
7.Don Adams into the Presidency.
Under Adams, a crackdown on ex-JW's has been escalated while demands for Loyalty for the GB leadership has ramped up. Former members who speak out have been labeled as "mentally diseased."
MEANWHILE--BACK IN HEAVEN.....
What has the so-called RETURNED Jesus Christ been doing all this time? Has Jesus spent all of his time correcting and adjusting the endless stream of false dates, wrong prophecies, changing doctrines and shining NEW light into this quirky religious madhouse of Jehovah's Witnesses?
Or....
Is Jesus such a slacker this last 100 years that even a bumbling cult represent his father Jehovah's interests has had to "step up" and take over Christ's duties and fill in for his incompetence??
Is it just barely possible....just barely....that Jesus did NOT RETURN in 1914?
Wouldn't that expalin the malfeasance of Russell, Rutherford, Knorr, Fred Franz and the rest?
Instead of proclaiming the Kingdom and the King, Jesus---Jehovah's Witnesses are just doing their own thing! Badly.
Didn't Jesus tell his faithful disciples that both Wheat and Weeds would grow together until harvest?
If Jesus had truly returned in 1914 wouldn't that harvest have begun by CUTTING DOWN THE WEEDLIKE ORGANIZATION called
the WATCHTOWER SOCIETY?
Either Jesus has been slacking or
the Watchtower is just another weed in the garden until Christ actually DOES return!