What to you is the most important event in Watchtower history? Hint, it's not the memorial. What do you think it is and why?
Blueblades
Watchtower Theology,2
by Blueblades 3 Replies latest jw friends
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IP_SEC
Oct 31 1916 Rousells death. Without the Rudderford take over we wouldnt have this big of a printing cult.
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blondie
Of course, this is their opinion.
1919
w90 3/15 p. 14 ?The Faithful Slave? and Its Governing Body ***
In 1918, when Jesus Christ inspected those claiming to be his slaves, he found an international group of Christians publishing Bible truths for use both inside the congregation and outside in the preaching work. In 1919 it truly turned out to be as Christ had foretold: "Happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so. Truly I say to you, He will appoint him over all his belongings." (Matthew 24:46, 47) These true Christians entered into the joy of their Master. Having shown themselves "faithful over a few things," they were appointed by the Master to be "over many things." (Matthew 25:21) The faithful slave and its Governing Body were in place, ready for a widened assignment.
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Cameron
I feel that the most Important event in Watchtower history is the appointment mentioned in Matthew 24:47.
According to the Society's interpretation, in order for it to even have a chance of being God's organizaiton today, they had to have received the appointment mentioned in verse 47 in 1919..
According to their interpretation, in order to have received that appointment they had to have passed Jesus' food-at-the-proper-time examination that they say he gave them in 1918-1919.
According to their interpretation, in order for them to pass that examination they had to have been teaching the right things at the righit time from 1876 to 1919.
The only way to know if they could have passed such an examination is to make the same examation they say Jesus made.
Most who who do make it end up concluding the same thing Ray Franz concluded once he finally made in the late 1970s...
"It would be an insult to Christ Jesus to say that he selected [i.e. 'appointed'] this organization on the basis of what it had been teaching as of 1919." - In Search of Christian Freedom, p. 145
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