Recycling. A very ‘green’ way of promulgating false prophesy.
LOL! Classic.
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Here we go again. Dan 4 and 1914
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AnnOMaly
I cannot deduct was it seven years including Jesus ministry or seven years after his death.
1881 - The 7 year period from 1874 to 1881 was something to do with how long it took to build Solomonic temple in the OT.
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Finkelstein
Russell was a delusional idiot who imagined many things from himself as well others from that special magic book the Bible.
A real amateur theologian who was so delusional in his concepts that it evetualy drove away the first President of the WTS.
and biggest financial supporter W Conley.
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Unfortunately he left behind a printing manufacturing plant with a good amount of cash, that individual mistake ending up being
a precarious blight on humanity in the hands of man who wanted to circumvent his own personal power and control
over people and it still exists today as the JW organization.
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kaik
I am trying to decipher the diagrams regarding to 1881 nonsense. Russell wrotes:
- The harvesting of the wheat of the Jewish age lasted for several years, beginning with our Lord's ministry, though all the special favor ceased three and a half years after the death of Christ.
- And the three and a half years following the Spring of A.D. 1878, which ended October, A.D. 1881, correspond to the three and a half years of continued favor to individual Jews in the last half of their seventieth week of favor.
- That "seventieth week," with all the particulars of the testing of Fleshly Israel, not only accomplished the purpose of testing that system, but it also and specially furnished a typical representation of a similar testing of the nominal Gospel Church or Spiritual Israel, called "Christendom" and "Babylon," during seven corresponding years, which began the harvest of the Gospel age--the period from October 1874 to October 1881.
- The last half of Israel's covenant week (3 1/2 years, from A.D. 33 to 36) was not a period of national or sectarian favor, but of individual favor, granting the Israelites (not as formerly through the channels of the nominal Church, but individually, if they would receive it) all the favors and special privileges of the Abrahamic covenant, down to the end of those seventy symbolic weeks, the limit of their favor, marked by the sending of favor to Cornelius and Gentiles in general. So in the parallel, here: the 3 1/2 years from April, 1878, where so-called Christendom, or "Babylon," was rejected from favor, to October, 1881, was the closing period of the favor of the high calling to individual believers. Thus, the general "call" (the favor of this Gospel age) ceased with October, A.D. 1881, just as the corresponding date, October, A.D. 36, witnessed the end of Jewish favor.
- Prof. Smyth found the first of these measures (a) to be 1874 Pyramid inches, the second (b), 1881 Pyramid inches, and the third (c), 1910 Pyramid inches ... The Pyramid thus says to us, "Seven years before the close of the high calling [before October, 1881] the great One from the heavens will enter."
So, I have read several dozen pages, but I have not seen anywhere in Russells writting that would derive 1881 from biblical scriptures, as there is no any reference to biblical text. On the end he mentions that he came to this conclusion from his pyramid measure.