SUMMARY OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESS HISTORY:
“International Bible Students” – started by Charles Taze Russell, 1872, ~ age 20 in Pennsylvania
He was attracted to the Adventist movement, which developed from the Millerite movement. Russell studied Pyramidology, disavowed eternal hell-fire, the trinity, the deity of Christ, and the personality of the Holy Spirit.
He [ublished a magazine that he ultimately named the Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom; founded Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society., now headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. The publishing house produces about over 100,000 booklets per year. (The Watchtower, Awake!)
Russell published many articles, ultimately naming the compilation Studies in the Scriptures.
Predicted Christ’s “invisible” return in 1874
Russell and his succes...
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