Jehovah's Witnesses and False Prophecies

Like the Mormons, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society have made  many false prophecies. In fact, this seems to be the case with practically all cults.

The Jehovah's Witnesses, as they are now called, were founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a splinter group from the Adventist Church. He claimed that Christ did appear in 1874 but invisibly.

Russell's new church was called the International Bible Students Association. He also printed his own magazine called Zion's Watchtower wherein he proclaimed his errant doctrines.

For example, Russell used measurements of passage ways in the great pyramid in Egypt as the basis for his false prophecy of Christians being raptured and Christ's return in the flesh in 1914. That was supposedly when the battle of Armageddon should have taken place.

Russell also broke with the doctrine of the Trinity, claiming it was unscriptural. Because we mere mortals can't comprehend a triune being, he had the nerve to claim that God wasn't three beings yet  one in essence.

Russell's followers thought of him as that faithful servant mentioned in Matthew 24:45 which says, "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?" The context of the parable is that Christ meant each faithful believer, not one leader or a group of people.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford took over in 1916 when Rutherford died. He consolidated power and ran the sect from his office. He also changed the organization's name to Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931.

Among Rutherford's failed prophecies was that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be resurrected in 1925. He, a disbarred lawyer, died in 1941 and was succeeded by Nathan Homer Knorr.

The leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses issued many other prophecies and fiats which would take me too long to write here. I'll be writing more about the supposed rapture of the Witnesses in 1975 and other failed prophecies in future blogs. I also will expand upon these errant doctrines and bogus prophecies in my next book called You Think You're Going to Heaven? Cults like the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses twist the scriptures and block people's access to the Kingdom of Heaven. I wish nobody would fall for their lies so that's why I'm exposing them.