DESTRUCTION of THE WORLD in1915
(Investigator
153, 2013
November)
The
Russellites — the
sect that gave rise to Jehovah’s Witnesses — announced the end of the
world for 1914/1915 not only in their printed publications but also at
their conventions.
One
speaker whose speech
is quoted in the Bible Students’ Convention report for 1906
told the audience:
So we
start
with the death of Jacob, the founder of the Jewish age, and measure to
the death of Christ, and find the period to be 1,845 years. Therefore
we have simply to add 1,845 to this year 33, and we get the year 1878
as the end of the Gospel age.
Some
are apt to say,
"Well, surely the Gospel age is not finished yet; 1878 is a long way
past." No, dear friends, it is not finished yet, because there is
something more. You remember that in the year 33 A.D., about five days
before his death, Jesus said, "Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate." There the system, the nation of Israel, was cast off, but we
know further that the nation was not dead right there and then; the
fall began at that time, but the fall was not complete until the year
70 A.D., when Jerusalem was destroyed and the Israelites were scattered
over all the earth, and since then they have been a nation no more.
There was the end of the 1,845 years, and then the fall occupying 37
years. The harvest ended in October 69, and the next year, 70, the
nation was destroyed.
And so
we expect then,
seeing that this was a typical people, that from the death of Jesus
there was a period of 1,845 years, at the end of which Christendom was
cast off; and since that time the spring of 1878, there has been a
gradual fall of Christendom, and the end of the harvest being October,
1914, and the next year, 1915, seeing the destruction of this "present
evil world." And all the signs of the times point to that, as you are
well aware. (Page 65)
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