Hey there,
Was doing a little research for a paper I am writing and came across this statement on the WT CD:
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In 1914 the time came for Christ to accept invisible Kingdom power over the world. (Dan. 4:32) This fact was widely announced by Christians at that time.
As some of you will no doubt immediately recognize, this statement is a bald-faced lie! In 1914, JWs were still 'announcing' that Christ had accepted invisible Kingdom power in 1878 - not 1914. As I recall, the WTS held this view until the 1930s.
Check it out in some publications from the era:
Since that time it has been emphatically manifest that the time had come in A.D. 1878 when kingly judgment should begin at the house of God. It is here that 'Rev. 14:14-20' applies, and our Lord is brought to view as the Reaper crowned. The year A.D. 1878, being the parallel of his assuming power and authority in the type, clearly marks the time for the actual assuming of power as King of kings, by our present, spiritual, invisible Lord--the time of his taking to himself his great power to reign, which in the prophecy is closely associated with the resurrection of his faithful, and the beginning of the trouble and wrath upon the nations. --The Time Is At Hand, 1907, page 239.
Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present, since October 1874, AD, according to the testimony of the prophets, to those who have ears to hear it: and the formal inauguration of his kingly office dates from April 1878, AD: and the first work of the Kingdom, as shown by our Lord, in his parables and prophecy (the gathering of "his elect") is now in progress. --The Battle of Armageddon, 1913, page 621-622.
The WTS all too frequently resorts to this tactic of outright lying to support their claim to being God's prophet and watchman on the 1914 scene.
Regards,
TS.