There are at least TWO MAJOR RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS contained within the wtbts, as shown below. Probably evangelical as well. Seems the Pastor reached his hand into anything and everything he could, Terry and others have made a VERY good case for Russell's CHERRY PICKING. Can YOU think of anything else, that would add to the Cherry Picking of Russell? Lets see what WE can come up with.
Adventism is a
Christian movement which began in the 19th century, in the context of the Second Great Awakening revival in the United States . The name refers to belief in the imminent Second Coming (or "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ . It was started by William Miller , whose followers became known as Millerites . Today, the largest church within the movement is the Seventh-day Adventist Church . Protestants . [1] While they hold much in common, their theology differs on whether the intermediate state is unconscious sleep or consciousness, whether the ultimate punishment of the wicked is annihilation or eternal torment, the nature of immortality, whether or not the wicked are resurrected, and whether the sanctuary of Daniel 8 refers to the one in heaven or on earth. [1] The movement has encouraged the examination of the New Testament , leading them to observe the Sabbath .
The Adventist family of churches are regarded today as conservative
Dispensationalism
is a nineteenth-century evangelical development based on a futurist biblical hermeneutic that sees a series of chronologically successive " dispensations " or periods in history in which God relates to human beings in different ways under different Biblical covenants . As a system, dispensationalism is rooted in the writings of John Nelson Darby (1800–1882) and the Brethren Movement . [1] :10 The theology of sensationalism consists of a distinctive scatological " end times " perspective, as all dispensationalists hold to premillennialism and most hold to a pretribulationrapture . Dispensationalists believe that the nation of Israel (not necessarily the same as the state of Israel ) is distinct from the Christian Church , [2] :322 and that God has yet to fulfill His promises to national Israel. These promises include the land promises , which in the future result in a millennial kingdom where Christ , upon His return , will rule the world from Jerusalem[3] for a thousand years. In other areas of theology, dispensationalists hold to a wide range of beliefs within the evangelical and fundamentalist spectrum. [1]:13
With the rise of dispensationalism, some conservative Protestants came to interpret the
Book of Revelation as predicting future events ( futurism ), rather than predicting events that have taken place throughout history ( historicism ) [4][5][6] or predominantly associated to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 ( preterism