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Russell believed that God's design for mankind was a restitution or restoration to the perfection and glory lost in Eden. This depended on God providing a ransom for all mankind to release them from the inevitability of death. Christ became that ransom sacrifice. [72] [73] Paradise to be restored, humans to live forever. [74] [75] [76]
Paradise Restored To Mankind—By Theocracy! (1972), commentary on Haggai and Zechariah Religion (1940), commentary on Joel Preparation (1933), commentary on Zechariah Isaiah's Prophecy—Light for All Mankind, 2 volumes (vol. 1: 2000; vol. 2: 2001), verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah Worldwide Security Under the "Prince of Peace" (1986)
Jehovah's Witnesses believe their denomination is a restoration of first-century Christianity. [144] They believe that mainstream Christianity departed from true worship over time, that groups such as Cathars attempted to restore some aspects of it, and that the Protestant Reformation "did not go far enough". [ 145 ]
The kingdom is viewed as the means by which God will accomplish his original purpose for the earth, [99] bringing about a world free of crime, sickness, death and poverty, and ultimately transforming the earth into a paradise. [100] The kingdom is said to have been the focus of Jesus' ministry. [101]
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The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is a non-stock, not-for-profit organization [4] headquartered in Warwick, New York.It is the main legal entity used worldwide by Jehovah's Witnesses to direct, administer, and disseminate doctrines for the group and is often referred to by members of the denomination simply as "the Society".
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).
Disregarding Russell's rejection of 1925 as a year of importance, [131] Rutherford announced in 1920 that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in 1925, bringing the restoration of an earthly paradise and the resurrection to earth of the ancient Jewish prophets referred to as "the ancient worthies" [132] such as Abraham and Isaac.