Did the Watchtower borrow from the Mormons?
WATCHTOWER TEACHING
Dead leader still active though Pastor Russell has passed beyond the veil, he is still managing every
feature of the Harvest work.
-Studies in the Scripture, Vol. 7, p.144
Earlier Mormon Teaching
Dead leader still active Joseph Smith holds the keys of this last dispensation, and is now engaged behind
the vail in the great work of the last days.
-B. Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 289
Watchtower Teaching
Gods throne at star Alcyone Alcyone, the central one of the renowned Pleiadic starsfrom which the
Almighty governs his universe.
-Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 3, p.327
the group Pleiades. And the reasonable suggestion has been made that that
center may be the heaven of heavens, the highest heaven, the throne of God.
-The Watchtower, May 15, 1895, p. 1814
(Societys reprints)
Mormon Teaching
Gods throne at star Kolob
And I saw the stars that one of them was nearest unto the throne of Godthe
name of the great one is KolobKolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to
govern all those planets.
-Abraham 3:2, 3, Pearl of Great Price (1842)
Watchtower Teaching
Men will become Gods Now we appear like men, and all die naturally like men, but in the resurrection
we will rise in our true character as Gods.
-The Watch Tower, December, 1881, page 301
Mormon Teaching
Men will become Gods God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted manand you have got
to learn how to be gods yourselvesthe same as all gods have done before
youuntil you attain to the resurrection
-Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 305-306
Watchtower Teaching
Pyramid prophecies THE TESTIMONY OF GODS STONE WITNESS AND PROPHET, THE
GREAT PYAMID IN EGYPTCall to mind that the full end of Gentile power in
the world and the time of trouble which brings its overthrow, will be in the end of
A.D. 1914If the inches of the floor-lines of these passages represent a year,
each
-Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. III, 1891 (1903 edition), pages 313 (title),
362-363
Mormon Teaching
Pyramid prophecies a new witness that the Lord seems to have brought to light, by the opening of
the Great Pyramid of Egypt There seems to be a prophetic spirit running
through the construction of all that cast superstructure, pointing forward to the
very endAllowing one year to a cubit inch the generation that will close up
the times of the Gentiles.
-Orson Pratt, Fiftieth Annual Conference Report of the Mormon Church, 1880,
pages 86-87
WATCHTOWER TEACHING
Gods channel Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we
will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do.
-The Watchtower, December 1, 1981, pg.27
Earlier Mormon teaching
Gods channel Do we realize that this is the channel through which the mind and will of God our
Father is made known to us?and it is among the privileges of every man and
every woman to approach the Lord through this channel and learn his mind and
will concerning them.
-Journal of Discourses, Vol. 18, 1875, p.98
Watchtower Teaching
Generation prophecies Most important, this magazine build confidence in the Creators promise of a
peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914
passes away.
Earlier Mormon teaching
Generation prophecies We believe in these promises as much as we believe in any promise ever uttered
by the mouth of Jehovah. The Latter-day Saints just as much expect to receive a
fulfillment of that promise during the generation that was in existence in 1832 as
they expect that the sun will rise and set to-morrow. Why? Because God cannot
lie.
-Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, May 5, 1870, p. 362
Taken from David Reeds 1991 Spring edition of Comments from the Friends
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