The "United" Watchtower Society

by Kenneson 23 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Kenneson

  "Now I exhort you brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fittly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought." 2 Cor. 1:10

  According to the Watchtower Society one of the characteristics of apostasy is that it leads to division and fragmentation. What they mean, of course, is all of Christendom's schisms are a result of apostasy. What they never tell you is that schism has often arisen from their own ranks. And never would they admit that it was a result of their own apostasy.

  Be that as it may, the following link gives all the breakaway groups from the Watchtower Society that belong solely to those who come under the auspices of Bible Students. See

  http://www.biblestudents.net/history/daughters_tower.htm#part42

  Since all the Bible Student groups are accounted for here, it would be interesting to make a list of all other groups that have arisen from Jehovah's Witnesses. I can think of at least five: the True Witnesses of Jehovah (in Romania) and the Kitawala (in Africa), the Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood (not sure if this is the exact name) and the group that uses the name Jah and E-watchman's group (I think they call themselves the New Wave Jehovah's Witnesses). If you know of others please include them.
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  Joker10

  The Kitawala sect was not started by JWs, but a man who used the Watch Tower publications and his own personal beliefs to attract followers.
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  Stephanus

  The Kitawala sect was not started by JWs, but a man who used the Watch Tower publications and his own personal beliefs to attract followers.

  Still counts as a spin-off.
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  lazyslob

  Oh, so he did the Russel thing then. "Own personal beliefs to attract followers."
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  Kenneson

  Joker10,

  The following link is my source on the Kitawala:

  http://atheism.about.com/library/world/KZ/bl_ZaireACKitawala.htm?iam=savvy&terms=zaire&religion
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  blondie

  I think the word should be "UNTIED" WTS.
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  Joker10

  Elliott Kenan Kamwana was the founder of the Watch Tower movement and a Christian separatist leader, one of the forerunners of the independent church movement.
  
  
  He began as a Scots Presbyterian and between 1899 and 1903 led a highly successful revival movement. On a trip to South Africa he met Joseph Booth, a peripatetic English missionary who founded many sects and had baptized John CHILEMBWE. Kamwana became an Adventist and then a Jehovah's Witness. Returning to Malawi in 1906, he established a branch church known as the Watch Tower, taking the name from the newspaper of the Witnesses, and within three years he had baptized 10,000 followers. Kamwana preached that Armageddon would arrive in 1914 and that at His second coming, Christ would abolish hut taxes and expel all Europeans. The British authorities deported Kamwana to South Africa (1909-1914) and banned the Watch Tower movement.
  
  During Kamwana's exile, his churches continued clandestinely. Without organization, the Watch Tower movement spread to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and the Belgian Congo (now Zaïre), continuing to preach the end of colonialism. Whole areas of western Zaïre converted to the new religion. Although it was pacifist, colonial authorities suppressed it whenever possible. The Watch Tower movement continued to follow Jehovah's Witness teaching, using its symbolism. It was often known as Kitawala or "Kingdom", a central Witness theme, and preached the imminent coming of Christ, although it was non-Christian in its focus.
  
  The failure of the millennium to arrive in 1914 as predicted by Kamwana did not deter the growth of the movement. Kamwana preached briefly in Mozambique but was promptly deported to Malawi. During the Chilembwe revolt (1915) he was placed in preventive detention and then deported to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean because his followers refused to enter the army. In 1937, Kamwana returned to Malawi to take charge of the movement, but it was much reduced by then. He quietly continued to lead it until his death.
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  mustang

  "The Institute of Pyramidology
  [192?- Present]

  Adam Rutherford....(no relation to Joseph) a pyramidologist started this group."

  Now this was worth the price of admission!!! Talk about poetic justice. Da Judge must be spinning @ about a 1000 RPM in his grave.

  Mustang
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  Kenneson

  There is little doubt that both Booth and Kamwana were, at one time, affiliated with Charles Taze Russell and the Watchtower Society.

  Zion's Watch Tower of July 1909, page 195 contains "The Good Tidings Spreading in Africa. Brother Booth Reports Favorably." Under "Persecution" the report is given of Brother Elliot Kamwana's arrest. Also the baptism of 9,126 individuals by Kamwana in the past year (1908).

  http://www.agsconsulting.com/htdbnon/r4421.htm

  And the following article on Joseph Booth is also of interest:

  http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/josephbooth.htm?FACTNet
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  Kenneson

  Thank you Mustang. I did some more research and found out that the American Institute of Pyramidology has over 500 paying members. You have to pay a $10.00 membership fee to join. You are also asked to be at least open to the possibility that the Great Pyramid is a divine revelation.

  http://www.members.aol.com/larrypahl/aip.htm

  Generally speaking, most Bible Students do not adhere to Adam Rutherford's teachings. While they still publish Charles Taze Russell's views on the Great Pyramid, one is not required to accept those teachings either. Anyway, those interested in Watchtower history will want to read the following chapter by Russell in the Studies in the Scriptures entitled "The Corroborative Testing of God's Stone Witness and Prophet: The Great Pyramid in Egypt":

  http://www.nsbible.org/sits_v3/v3s10.htm