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Charles Taze Russell, a prolific writer and founder of the Bible Student movement, viewed himself as a "mouthpiece" of God and later as the embodiment of the "faithful and wise servant" of the parable of Matthew 24:45-47. [3] The Watch Tower Society is now the legal and administrative arm of Jehovah's Witnesses.
JW.org Official website of Jehovah's Witnesses; Pastor-Russell.com Archived January 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Pastor Russell website; Faith on the March, A. H. Macmillan, (1957) Biography of Charles Taze Russell from Zion's Watch Tower obituary issue, December 1, 1916
The eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses is central to their religious beliefs. They believe that Jesus Christ has been ruling in heaven as king since 1914, a date they believe was prophesied in Scripture, and that after that time a period of cleansing occurred, resulting in God's selection of the Bible Students associated with Charles Taze Russell to be his people in 1919.
The beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Bible teachings of Charles Taze Russell—founder of the Bible Student movement—and successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Nathan Homer Knorr.
In 1931, the group under Rutherford's leadership became known as "Jehovah's witnesses". A later Watchtower described the outcome of the 1917 leadership dispute as the removal of "a class of insubordinate ones who rebelled against the ways of the Lord" before Christ's inspection and approval of the "faithful and discreet slave class" in 1918 ...
Ex-cult watchdog John Bowen Brown II [68] and Knocking producer Joel P. Engardio also reject the assertion that Jehovah's Witnesses is a cult. [69] [70] The encyclopedia Contemporary American Religion stated, "Various critics and ex-members in recent years have wrongly labeled Jehovah's Witnesses a 'cult'." [71]
Jehovah's Witnesses: A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group that branched from the Bible Student movement. [107] 1943 Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true. [106] 1947 John Ballou Newbrough
Jehovah's Witnesses' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).