Hmm. Listening to eggnog prattle on, justifying Russell's statement in The Time is at Hand, one wonders why his cult leaders felt it necessary to CHANGE WHAT RUSSELL HAD WRITTEN and RE-ISSUE THE BOOK.....
If Eggnog is correct in his assertion that Russell made no prediction about 1914 in this instance, if Russell's statement was (and is) correct, why oh why did the WT$ remove Russell's statement and re-issue the book?
The time for the Gentile nations' trampling God's Messianic Kingdom is over and now God's Messianic Kingdom is doing the trampling of these Gentiles nations whose rulership God had permitted until "the farthest limit," that is to say, at the full limit of the appointed times" to "gather all things together again in the Christ, ... the things on the earth."
At this point, I honestly hope you're a liar... The alternative, that you actually believe what you're saying, implies a life that is far too bizzare for me to consider.
Explain, if you possibly can, how "God's Messianic Kingdom", in all of its invisibleness, is now "trampling...these Gentile nations"
@peacedog:
"Every student of Watchtower history knows that Russell predicted the "parousia" for 1874 and the COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM for 1914."
Yes and yes. And you know what? The man called it! The Messianic kingdom of God was established at the end of the Gentile Times.
"Yes and yes"? "The man called it"?... Did he indeed?
Did the "parousia" begin in 1874 as Russell "called it" (and went to the grave believing)? Yes or No?
And since Russell predicted the "parousia" for 1874, what do you suppose he meant by his prediction of "the complete establishment of the kingdom" for 1914? He couldn't have meant the "parousia" (which jws NOW believe occurred in 1914) because he predicted that for 1874. He couldn't have meant the "establishment of the kingdom" and the beginning of Christ's rule (which jws NOW believe occurred in 1914) since he predicted those to occur in 1978:
April, 1878, marks the date of the establishment of the Kingdom, as shown in the same volume. --WT 8/1/1904 R3405
Actual Presence of the Lord as Bridegroom and Reaper--October, A.D. 1874. Power and Title as King Assumed three and a half years later--A.D. 1878 --The Time is at Hand, 1902, p.247
So what did he mean by COMPLETE establishment of the (already established since 1878) kingdom?
And when did those Gentile Times end? You tell me.
Wow. I better defer to the "experts":
[the nations] know not that their days of empire are limited to “seven times” or 2,520 years, which will end in A.D. 1915, giving place to the Kingdom of God in the hands of the Messiah... --WT 2/15/1892 (R:1373)
Starting from this, the evidently correct starting point, the 2520 years of “Gentile Times” will, without stretching or shrinking, end with September, 1914, A. D.... --WT 5/15/1896 (R:1979)
August 1, 1914, marked the end of the gentile times. It also marked the legal ending of the old world. There the ouster proceedings began, when he whose right it is took unto himself his power. --WT 1/1/1923 p.3
...they ended in the early autumn, or about October 1, of the year 1914 of our twentieth century. --WT 10/15/1958 p.634
So..... yeah.
His mission (like his cult masters) is to deceive people.
No, my mission is to save people for those of Satan's agents that would deceive and mislead them, transforming themselves into ministers of righteousness. (2 Corinthians 4:4) I am a minister of righteousness; God's righteousness, but whose minister are you?
"I am a minister of righteousness"... And I would expect no lesser claim from an agent of Satan who had 'transformed himself into a minister of righteousness'. Would you?
