I GATHER FROM A POST ABOUT RUSSELL AND 1914 THAT GATHERING OF 144,000 FINISHED IN 1914.
NOW IF GATHERING FINISHED IN 1914, HOW COME 1935 IS WHEN RUTHERFORD SAYS GATHERING OF144,000 FINISHED?
GATHERING OF 144,000 FINISHED IN 1914?
by badboy 2 Replies latest jw friends
-
-
deaconbluez
Russell taught that the 144,000 (or what was left of them on the earth) would be instantly zapped to heaven on October 7/8, 1914. When that didn't come to pass, not much was said of it until Rutherford predicted 1925 as the year it would happen, along with the resurrecting of King David, Noah, Abraham, and others, to oversee the work on earth.
The 1935 teaching is that the number was sealed around that year, and that the only new annointed ones that would appear after that year would be ones that were to replace other annointed that didn't remain faithful. The "Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy" from 1999 really emphasizes this teaching. They have since abandoned it, saying that no date can be attached to something of that significance.
Another shifting doctrine to add to the list. Of course, they would have you think that they are given false predictions and innaccurate date setting providentially, which is the ultimate insult to a God of truth.
-
badboy
AMEN,BROTHER DEACONBLUEZ!
HOW DARE THEY INSULT GOD!