TSSYF: " However, at that time they believed that Christ’s presence had begun in 1874, that he had begun to rule in heaven in 1878, and that the Kingdom would not be fully set up until October 1914. The harvest would extend from 1874 to 1914 and would culminate in the gathering of the anointed to heaven. Do mistaken ideas such as these cast doubt on whether Jesus was guiding those faithful ones by means of holy spirit?
The deeper intention behind this composition in the "k" book is, to imply, that there is real solid "truth" about 1914, that the witnesses just did not discover it in time. of course, the whole thing starting with the talking snake is a fabrication, and discussing all these possibilities is WT's way of mind control.
The creator of the mighty universe would have never let his reps mentally flounder about the event that exceeds in importance even the big bang creation , namely the beginning of the eternal rule of all he created.