by berrygerry 6 Replies latest watchtower bible
Received "Thy Kingdom Come" in the mail today.
(I had told my wife about Russell using Pyramid measurements to come up with 1914. She essentially called me a liar, so I bought the book on Ebay)
"A few year's (sic) after Prof. Smyth's return, came the suggestion that the Great Pyramid is Jehovah's "Witness.""
(Probably old news on this site, but new to me)
He led the change in the "group" name, to Jehovah's Witnesses replacing the earlier name, Bible Students. Besides, the name was drawn from the book of Isaiah in versions of the Bible that render YHWH as Jehovah, itself a bastardization.
I'm more interested in your wife's response to what you show her in the book about Russell and the pyramid measurements. Please keep us informed.
I still can't believe there are so many JWs who know so little about the history of JWdom (including my family members).
Measuring the Great Pyramid of Egypt reveals exact prophetic dates.
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That was the crackpot theory of so-called PYRAMIDOLOGISTS.
Among the men who promoted this silly idea was the founder of the Watchtower Publishing Corporation, Pastor C.T.Russell.
He did not originate pyramidology, but he copied the work of The Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth
as well as another fellow named John Taylor (The Great Pyramid (1859) and built a grand bit of humbug theology
around it published and distributed all over the world.
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Two of the most "significant" dates in all of human history were sourced in these pyramid measurings:
1874 (the exact return of Jesus Christ invisibly) and 1914 (Armageddon).
What modern day Jehovah's Witnesses do NOT know and will never acknowledge is this:
pyramid dates as the TRUTH was believed, published and taught from 1876-1928.
Another thing modern JW's will never admit: the name JEHOVAH'S WITNESS was first set in print about the GREAT PYRAMID as well.
Here is the quote. Write it down along with the reference below:
"A few years after Prof. Smyth's return, came the suggestion that the Great Pyramid is Jehovah's "Witness."
Russell (1891). Thy Kingdom Come. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. ISBN 0-9728243-2-4. (p. 320)
C.T.Russell (1891). Thy Kingdom Come. pp. 309–376. ISBN 0-9728243-2-4.
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Here is a last bit of delicious irony.
In 1924, Judge Rutherford published an article referred to the Great Pyramid as "the Scientific Bible" and added that measurements on the Grand Gallery inside the Great Pyramid confirmed the dates 1874, 1914 and 1925.
1925 was the famous blowout date for the return of "ancient worthies" about which the Judge said, "I made an ass of myself."
Just four years later, Rutherford did one of his famous about-face reversals.
Wheras previously the Watchtower had taught that the Great Pyramid was probably built by Melchidek, Rutherford now said the Great Pyramid was constructed "under the direction of Satan the Devil."
November 15, 1928 Watchtower, p 344
Magnum: I still can't believe there are so many JWs who know so little about the history of JWdom
It's precisely this ignorance, along with a morbid fear of investigating what is in their own literature, that keeps JWs completely (and voluntarily) in darkness.
Researching WT literature was singularly the greatest factor in waking me up to what this religion (cult) is all about and my immediate exit.
I read in one CTR book that he thought Leviathan was a train from Hoboken for goodness bloomin' sake.
That's as nutty as the pyramid crud.
Let's review: the organization's current crackpot interpretations (e.g., overlapping generations, Gog of Magog, etc) are part of a very long tradition of crack-pottery that goes back to when it was first incorporated as a legal company in the 1870s.
