Jehovah’s Witnesses still calling on God to smite the rest of us 150 years later
Ready to drive your call - 6 months of bible study and Codey Bramley is A NEW MAN: one of 28 people to be baptized at the 3-day Jehovah's Witness conference in New Zealand
Unlike the Catholic Church which has amassed gold, paintings and buildings in the current world, Witnesses are hoping we all die soon. They want to take our SUV’s and houses.
Good luck Codey with your new life that took only six months of bible study and a dunking.
You and 7 million Jehovah’s Witnesses are in line to collect the earthly goods of all 7 billion members of the human race alive today.
“Souls were saved by the masses in Palmerston North this weekend. More than 3000 Jehovah’s Witnesses packed into the Arena Manawatu Pascal St Stadium to learn how to survive the end of the world.”
“Spokesman Rick Delmarter said the planet will not be destroyed, but like Noah and his Ark a new system on Earth will be established which will see some left standing and others not. Manawatu Standard
Jehovah’s Witness’s have got to be the most selfish and materialistic religion going, in a forward thinking way.
They even beat the 70 free virgins promise to Muslim Jihad martyrs, as if any man could handle 70 virgins without going crazy. Ask any guy who has tried juggling two girl friends, wives, even daughters at once knows.
Did you ever watch Sister Wives? That guy has four or five wives but look at the effort it takes. First he has to pretend to like them all. Then there’s the crying and he loves her more arguments. The cops are looking out for him. And he has no time for Captain Morgan runs with his buddies.
I used to worry that Codey and his Witness friends would get my SUV when God smites me down at Armageddon. My Witness brother has been stealing my stuff since we were little.
I sold the SUV and don’t own a car. I’m not trying to save the planet, well that’s part of my idea. Mainly I want to have a small footprint so Witnesses won’t pick over my bones after Armageddon. They’ll find a few guitars and out of date computers.
Codey seems like a nice guy. If he can make it from New Zealand after all the planes, trains and automobiles stop running good luck to him. There will be no one to drill, refine, ship and sell gasoline let alone fly the planes, trains after Armageddon. We’ve seen World After People.
Codey can have my prize Martin D35s guitar, if he can get here from New Zealand. But Codey, please don’t pick my bones. Keep my grave clean.
Please see that my grave is kept clean by Gary Davis (son of actor Ossie Davis)
Don’t be greedy Codey, drop the ukelele off at my 93 year old mother’s in Halifax on your way home. She could use a new one.
History buffs
For those with the need to know, Jehovah’s Witnesses are a Millennial religious cult that takes the part in Revelation and Armageddon deadly seriously. You and I will be dead after Armageddon and they will be picking your bones, unless we sell Watchtower’s from door to door.
The whole idea comes from a French Catholic monk who added up the years in the Bible (Adam beget and lived and he begot etc.) He calculated that 6,000 years from Adam would end sometime in the 1830’s.
Ellen White in 1899
A group formed around a protestant revivalist Ellen G. White took the Catholic conjecture and turned it into exact predictions about the second coming of Christ.
The Seventh Day Adventists made numerous hard and fast predictions about the end of the world starting on October 22, 1844
Post Revolutionary United States was flexing its Manifest Destiny as a young, vigorous nation in more ways than territory. That was a rich time for uneducated people to read the bible and form new religions.
The obvious failure of Adventists didn’t dissuade many of their adherents.
Charles Taze Russell founder of the Witnesses
Charles Taze Russel modified those teachings, added Congregationalist populism and a WatchTower printing factory and created the beginnings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
There’s a sucker born every minute said P.T. Barnum. Despite failing to deliver the end of the world after dozens of published dates in the Watchtower, Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to grow. Some memorable Armageddon dates God was going to smite everyone but Witnesses were 1886, 1914, 1918, 1934, and 1954.
When I was growing up JW, it was all supposed to come to an end, one more time, in 1975. I hung around to see the show but nothing happened obviously.
I lit out for the obscurity or rural PEI and some peace and freedom the next month. I quit the Witnesses a few years later and life has never been better.
Codey and his friends Fixin’ you and me to die
So there we have Codey and 27 of his friends hanging around to watch us die. 7 million Witnesses repeat this ritual week in and week out.
While Old Charles Taze Russell was preaching the end of the world, he was building a large printing company called WatchTower Bible and Tract Society. He was also doing ith with the upstairs maid. Russel’s wife sued for divorce claiming she caught him noogling the maid in Allegheny. “I float all around,” said Russell in his defence ” and touch this one and that and if they respond I embrace them.”
With story and photo from Manawatu Standard, Palmerston North New Zealand. Updated from 2009.
Danny Haszard
Jehovahs Witnesses apostate belief system.
A) They are at your door to recruit you for their watchtower society corporation,they will say that *we are just here to share a message from the Bible*… this is deception right off.
B) Their *message* creed is a false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming in 1914.The problem with this is it’s not just a cute fairy tale,Jesus warned of the false prophets who would claim *..look he is here in the wilderness,or see here he is at the temple*.
C) Their anti-blood transfusion ban against *whole blood* has killed thousands.
D) once they recruit you they will *love bomb* you in cult fashion to also recruit your family & friends or cut them off.
*Wolves in sheep’s clothing*
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My family was spiritually and financially swindled by the apostate Watchtower society,3rd generation Jehovah’s Witness Danny Haszard
FMI dannyhaszard(dot)com
ResLight
Russell did not believe as the JWs; indeed, his main message was almost the opposite of that which the JWs preach. I could not find that anyone was expecting the “end of the world” for 1886; Russell’s belief about the “end of the world” or “end of the age” was that it had begun in 1874; his earlier view, which he adopted from Barbour, was that the time of trouble was to end in 1914, and that then the kingdom blessings would begin. In 1904, however, Russell came to realize that the end of the Gentile Times would be time when the “time of trouble” (Armageddon) was to begin, not when it was to end, and that thus it would be some time after 1914 before the kingdom blessings would begin. Russell did not believe in the JW kind of Armageddon that is alleged to destroy all unbelievers; indeed, he believed that Armageddon was a period of time in which the nations would be chastised in preparation for their blessing. He stated several times that he did not know how long the time of trouble was to last after 1914. Russell never gave any prophecies, although he did give his conclusions regarding study of Bible prophecies.
Stephen Pate
That’s simply revisionist history. CT Russell found the WTB&TS which changed its name to International Bible Students and later during the 1930s to Jehovah’s Witnesses. At the corporate level they still use WTB&TS.
There was a group of dissenters called Russellites who splintered off from the main group after Russell’s death since the new President Judge Rutherford started to modify the doctrine after the world didn’t end in 1919. They were known as the “evil slave class” by those who stayed loyal to the WTB&TS. My great aunt was a Russellite.
The JW doctrine has changed somewhat over the years but the core is the same. Each time the world didn’t end on the announced date some new twisted logic was formulated that would give adherents a rope to hold onto.
davidl7
Reslight you are right, Russell openly stated that he was not a prophet and that he did not have the “gift of prophecy”, and that the End of the World may come 100 (or more) after 1914. He did not, as some mistakely state, teach that Armaggedon will occur in 1914. . He also wrote in a 1908 Watchtower: “we do not
aver that there is no mistake in our interpretation of prohecy and calculations
of chronology.” (Zion’s WatchTower, Jan. 1908, page 4110). Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses have pointed out that fact also. While they have modified some of teachings, also based on Russell’s viewpoint that the light of the truth or the understanding of Bible truth will continue to get brighter and brighter (Prov. 4:18), they still hold to most of the basic or fundamental Bible teachings Russell held, including that God’s name is Jehovah, Jesus Christ is his only-beggotten Son, the power of God is his holy spirit, the soul dies, we are asleep in death until awaken by the ressurrection, earth will be converted into a paradise, etc. Stephen Pate repeats the error the Witnesses predicted the end of the World several times, including 1975. But anyone carefully reading the WT publications will see that that is not the case. For instance, regarding 1975, the WT merely stated that 6,000 years of man’s will be reached that year. A check of the WT literature shows they believed man would reach 6,000 of
exisitence in 1975, but that did not mean the end of the age was to occur that
year. On page 14 of the Oct. 8, 1968
Awake! ,for instance , it clearly said that “no man can say” that
1975 will be the end of this system of things since the Bible does not say that.
Stephen Pate also repeats the false allegation that Russell committed adultery. Again, in the court document regarding his separation (not a divorce), Maria Russell testifies that she was NOT accusing Russell of adultery, specifically answering “NO” when asked if Charles was adulterer. Stephen Pate is simply writing false history.
Stephen Pate
This is revisionism – rewriting history to make it seem better in retrospect.
My great aunt was one of the 144,000 long before 1914 and she told me they believed from the Watchtower it was the beginning of God’s Kingdom on earth. They forgot to invite God.
I read all the original Watchtowers before they were destroyed. I had the complete volumes from the 1870s at one point.
I was there through the 50s until 1979. They sure did believe the world would end or Armageddon would start on or about October 1, 1975.
People quit their jobs, sold homes and waited. Of course, it didn’t come so the Watchtower tried to weasel, yeah weasel out of what they prophesied with weasel words.
Ah, oops, God didn’t get the invite from Brooklyn and this old world keeps turning. Many of the Witnesses from that time either left, developed amnesia or died. The one’s I know are in a state of denial.
Fringe religion is a series of delusions and “world view think”. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are frauds but everyone inside is afraid of displeasing the thought police and getting kicked out. God bless you.
davidl7
Actually the only ones who say the that the JW’s taught the end of the world was coming in 1975 are Ex-Witnesses, those who copy and paste info from Ex-Witness apostate site, those who willfully misrepresent the Wtinesses and those who are not aware of the facts and have been misled. You are just repeating the myths and falsehoods spread by others as fact. My mom was a Witness prior to 1975 and the person who gave her a Bible study said man will reach 6,000 years of existence in 1975, but that “no man knows when the end will come. The fact is the vast majority of the Witnesses that carefully read the WT literature did not come to the conclusion that the end of this system WAS coming in 1975. The “Truth book” which was used prior to 1975 to introduce potential converts to the basic Christian teachings did not say the end of the world was coming in 1975. The 1968 Awake I quoted earlier clearly indicates that the WT did not say the end WILL come in 1975. The May 1st, 1968 issue of the WT (pages 272-273) which also discussed the year 1975 said: “Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon?
No one can say with certainty what any
particular year will bring. Jesus said: “Concerning that
day or the hour nobody knows.” (Mark 13:32)” And the August 15th, 1968 issue of the Watchtower (pages 500-501) also stated ” Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin
by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man’s existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ. If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology,
however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Anyone reading those can easily see that the WT did NOT teach the END was coming in 1975, but that only that humankind will reach 6,000 years of existence and it was not known weather that ran parallel with God’s rest day. That is why the vast majority of the Witnesses remain in the Christian congregation, being loyal to Jehovah and his Son, Jesus.In recently published works by George Chryssides, scholar and researcher on new religious movements, has concluded that Jehovah’s Witnesses never officially taught that 1975 was the end of the world and expresses a similar opinion on the other alleged predictions made by the WT.