Funny thing is that Charles Taze Russell was the one who came up with the whole 1914 thing by means of prophecy...
So if Charles Taze was not of the Faithful and Discreet Slave, why would Jesus or Jehovah give him the understanding of such deep prophecy?
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This thinking is patently false. If you read the Proclaimers book (Jv), the WT openly admits that Russell detested end time chronologies. It was only after Barbour convinced him of certain chronologies that Russell changed his mind. The 1914 date and everything associated with it was not thought up by Russell. WT never admits this because it undermines the very foundation WT uses to establish itself as the one true religion.
Please note: NOT ONE thing Russell predicted would occur in 1914 actually happened. A 100% failure rate. WT retained the 1914 date, but everything associated with it has been re-worked or minimized to conceal the facts of what Russell and the WT taught.
from www.reslight.net
The 1914 date wasn't original with Russell. J. A. Seiss pointed to 1914, though on a different basis. He had read Seiss's Last Times. It entered his thinking as accepted doctrine during his association with Barbour.
The forthcoming book Nelson Barbour: The Millennium's Forgotten Prophet contains this bit of history (used by permission):
Barbour and his associates did not immediately reconsider Gentile Times. The issues of an invisible parousia and other chronological speculations came first. We also do not know who among them initiated the discussion. In the absence of other claims, it is probably safe to suppose that Barbour was responsible for concluding Gentile Times ended not in the 1870s, but in 1914. The first mention of the 1914 date as the end of The Times of the Gentiles is in the September 1875 issue of The Herald of the Morning. In passing Barbour remarked, "‘The time of the Gentiles,’ viz. Their seven prophetic times of 2520 years ... which began when God gave all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, in 606 B. C.; do not end until 1914."49
Barbour is indebted to John Aquila Brown for the 2520 year computation. Brown in turn owes the calculation of the "seven times" of Daniel’s prophecy as 2520 years and the association of it to The Times of the Gentiles to Joshua Spalding. Spaulding wrote Divine Theory; A System of Divinity in 1798, though it seems not to have been published until 1808. Spalding, writing of the seven-times of Daniel’s Great Tree Vision, said: "Seven times, or one full week of years, upon the great prophetic scale, is 2520 years. This supposition is much strengthened by the consideration, that the continuance of mystical Babylon is said expressly to be for a time, times, and a half; and as the times allotted for this division of the empire, is the half of a week, three times and a half, it is natural to conclude, that the whole of the times, called the times of the Gentiles, is a whole week, or seven times."50
