Part 2
As one traces the history of the beginnings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, two names are indispensable to the formation and development of this cult: Charles Taze Russell and his successor, Joseph Franklin Rutherford. In the 1830s, a Baptist minister from New York by the name of William Miller began sharing his new-found belief, that Jesus Christ was going to return around the year 1843. This belief began to gain momentum across denominations, and by 1840 it had become a nationwide campaign. This was the birth of what became known as Adventism and it was from this influence that the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society would emerge.
In this teaching, we examine the history of the Watch Tower cult from its beginnings until the present day. We review some of its teachings that have changed during this period and critique its peculiar version of the Bible, the New World Translation.
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The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall
1 Peter 3:3-8
The word “joy” appears in some sixty verses in the New Testament of the KJB, and that’s not including the 40 additional occurrences of the same root derivatives “joyful”, “joyfully”, “joyfulness” “joying”, “joyous” and “rejoice”. This simple three-letter word “joy” is like buried treasure, everyone’s searching to find it but they're looking in all the wrong places! The world you see deals in what is called “fool’s gold”. To the naked eye, it bears some resemblance to the real thing, but when you run it through a few simple tests, it’s shown to be a fraud! Happiness is just like this; a superficial counterfeit for joy. You say, what’s the difference? Happiness is, the agreeable feeling of pleasure that one experiences when circumstances work in one's favour!! When circumstances are not working in one’s favour? Then you have the opposite of happiness, sorrow!! Christ has a better way for His people, which is the way of JOY!!