Jehovah’s group to get new home in Blackburn (From This Is Lancashire)

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  ResLight wrote:
  

  Margarett wrote:
  Russell was on a quest for truth.
  
  This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR.
  
  Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man.
  
  Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards

  Although these comments are very clear, it appears to be saying that the Bible Students were expecting Christ's arrival in 1914? If by "arrival" one means the beginning of Christ's parousia, I don't know of any of the Bible Students who were expecting Christ's parousia to begin in 1914. One of the things that Russell was expecting was warfare either in 1914 or soon thereafter; he was expecting God's kingdom to be established in Jerusalem and that it would soon spread out all over the world. Yes, much (not all) of what he was expecting is gradually taking place, and is taking a lot longer than he expected.
  
  However, the JW leadership has rejected most of what Russell taught about 1914, retaining only the "seven times" prophecy of Daniel 4, although their explanations of what happened in 1914 are different from what Russell taught.
  
  In 1938, Rutherford introduced the idea that all outside of his organization would be eternally destroyed in Armageddon, almost the opposite of what Russell taught about Armageddon.
  
  Russell, however, never spoke for an organization such as the Jehovah's Witnesses; his conclusions were his own, and he did not assume authority over his fellow servants so as to try to force everyone to accept his conclusions, as did Joseph Rutherford.

  I stated: "Although these comments are very clear." I meant to say "Although these comments are NOT very clear.""
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