ARMAGEDDON It is this coming conflagration in the Middle East that is the focus of the prophecies of the “witnesses” in our generation. Jesus has already come, in their thinking. What is next, is judgment and destruction, during which...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Annihilation" , continued from 1-12-17 Q= Questioner, JWA= Jehovah's Witness Answer, CA= Christian Answer. Luke 23:43. “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Or is it, “Truly I tell you today, You will be...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
ANNIHILATION Bodies and souls are annihilated at death. All souls die, even the soul of Jesus. The soul is merely the immaterial part of man, his life, the function of his brain and heart, etc. It is not a separate entity. Notice how this teaching...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
144,000 This is a number lifted from Revelation 7 and 14, which, there, is the total of the remnant of Israel. In “witness” thought, the 144,000 are the anointed saints, Jew and Gentile, and largely Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What’s a “Kingdom Hall” meeting like? Witnesses are meeting-oriented. In the 110,000 congregations worldwide, you will of course find cultural variations, but generally speaking, this is what you might expect... Weekend...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
And what else is going on now? The Jehovah’s Witnesses are still a financial Empire. Billions of copies of publications are distributed for a donation. That adds up. Worldwide, in 2001, there were over 6,000,000...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Frederick William Franz. 1977-1992 The next Watch Tower President, Frederick Franz, the lone “scholar” of the New World Translation (though officially anonymous), hailed from Covington, Kentucky. Born in 1893, he was 84 years old when...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Russell and Rutherford. The foundation is now laid. There will be additions and subtractions and variations and expansions, even contractions, but there it is, the organization formed by man, 1800 plus years after Jesus began His church, claiming...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
...continued... Final portion of Judge Rutherford's History Farewell to the cross and to many people It was Rutherford also who introduced the idea of Jesus having been crucified on an upright stake, and not on a Roman “cross.” The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
...continued from 12-21 blog... More and more power Rutherford’s star continued to rise. The time came when, to oppose him, was the same as opposing God. He in fact claimed to be the mouthpiece of Jehovah, since Russell had departed. In a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
