question: what does the watchtower society's history of prophetic speculation prove?.
how would you respond to this answer provided by paul coom... yesterday on quora?.
"our organization has never been a prophetic speculator.
All the prophecies we have commented upon are scripturally based.
Yes but done so falsely to support the organization's agenda of literature proliferation.
The WTS created a Gospel of Jesus that wasn't scripturaly accurate or honest.
There was greater appeal to sell rather than be loyally devout to Jesus and his instructions for preaching his Gospel.
so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.
and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.
JWs are just stupidly delusional as they were before the Virus problem, they will be when they return, hype for zeal is a just wanting and appealing dream by the leaders of the JWS
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
Only a crook would legally title a lavish house to resurrected ancient worthies and then live in it himself.
Rutherford new and accepted there were stupid, gullible, naive people about to exploit
.......and exploit he did.
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
I see Rutherford as a opportunistic con man who lived the best life possible while being a money and power grabbing religoius charlatan.
His personal endeavors created a dangerous and harmful religious cult called the JWS.
What happens when people follow these kinds of men are now documented into history along with all the damage they caused.
pastor russell: follow the money.
charles t. russell, age of 13, joined the congregational church (dumped presbyterian).. he went (like girl scouts are sent out with cookies to sell) door to door to raise money for the church.. russell hated fundraising.
he had to ask poor people to part with their money.
Jws are just people who bought and accepted the delusions of the men running the WTS., delusions that were essentially fighting time and reality, time and reality eventually won.
i ran across a pretty early treatise.
we were all taught that "real" christianity was lost to history and was only restored once russell and then rutherford restored it so that the wt could be appointed as god's "mouthpiece".
but, aristides wrote to the emperor hadrian and gave a pretty good synopsis of core christian belief in 125 ad.
Of course the Org says that the " real " Christianity was lost, so that they could find it !
And so they turned it into a false prophet commercialized $$$ version.
How faithful and loyal to his word !
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
Regarding the claims posted by people on this site of Rutherford having
been a drunkard and sexually immoral, what documented proof (if any) is there of such claims?
Well its documented that he was separated from his wife right up until his death,
His live in female assistant which the name escapes me, claimed in court regarding a dispute over his will that she was very much his wife until his death.
As a result it doesn't take much imagination to connect the dots to their personal relationship..
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
Here's another example of what that car looked like, it sold for $6,900 back in 1930
The average yearly income back then was only around $1,800
So you can see only the super rich could afford one.
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
Actually Russell was the guy who sold the miracle wheat.
These men were both commercial salesmen at heart, its just that they immersed themselves in religious charlatanism, which eventually created the JWS religion which we have today.
The JWS religion has a very corrupt and tainted beginning, once you review and realize how it got started through these two men.
he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
The only reason the Watchtower Corporation succeeded and did what it did is because C T Russell left a good sum of money in it, Rutherford knew exactly how much.
All it needed was a corrupt devious opportunist to take over the publishing organization and put it use and operation, enter J Rutherford the rest is history.
