When I was studying I was told that from as early as the late 1890's etc Bible Students were walking around with plackard boards on stating 'Repent The End is Nigh' & that 1914 was a marked year. I was also made to believe that they had correctly prophesied this date & as evidence World War I broke out. This alone made the JW's look like Gods Chosen People. I was even told that the Catholic Church had also apparently acknowledged 1914 as the end of the Gentile Times (and a newspaper announcement had published this), but Catholics had chose to brushed it off as nothing. All this made the JW's look awesome because of their ability to Prophesy Accurately..
Unfortunately for the WBTS many JW's came in during the 90's and were also taught the same as me. Now if suddenly 1914 was dropped & brushed under the carpet it would have a huge impact on its worshippers, because many only joined the JW's because they thought they had seen spectacular evidence of their ability to fortell the future. So like me others also adopted the belief that they must be Gods Visible Organisation based on the evidence that they had been given - Remove the belief, removes the so called evidence making the WBTS clearly False Prophets !
