8.The Watchtower, August 15, 1980, pp. 14-20 (Note particularly the summary chart on the bottom of page 15.)
9.Hebrews 8:5; 9:11-12, 23, 24; Revelation 11:19; 14:15, 17; 15:5-6, 8; 16:1,17
10.Matthew 21:12; Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45; John 2:14-15. (Note the expression “divine habitation” for the Greek word naos does not appear, but instead the word “temple” for the Greek word hieron in The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures.)
11.Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (Seventeenth edition, 1966). p 115. (Note definition of the word HIERON.)
12.The Watchtower, August 15, 1960, p. 493.
13.Matthew 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-3 and Luke 21:5-6. (Note in The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures the word used is hieron, not naos)
14.Matthew 27:5. (The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures shows the Greek word naos [accusative form−naon] or “divine habitation” does appear in this verse.)
15.Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon (Harper & Brothers, 1889), p. 422 (Note definition of word naos.)
16.The Anchor Bible by W. F Albright and C. S. Mann (Doubleday & Co., copyright 1971). Observe use of “toward” in translation of Matthew 27:5
17.The Interpretation of St. Matthew’s Gospel by R.C.H. Lenski (Augsburg Publishing House. copyright 1961) pp. 1079 and 1080 (See comments regarding Matthew 27:5.)
18.The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus translated by William Whiston. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York) Antiquities of the Jews, Book XV. Chapter XI, sections 5 & 6.
19.Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2, p. 1079. (Note second paragraph under section entitled “The Temple Rebuilt by Herod.” or see same paragraph on page 1584 of Aid To Bible Understanding.)
20.Der Temple Von Jerusalem by Th. A. Busink (Leiden, E. J. Brill. 1980), page 1081 Comments on Josephus’ use of word naos to include “whole inner sanctuary.”
21.The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (copyright 1962), p. 551. paragraphs 1 - 3 under “Josephus references,” and p. 552. paragraph 4.
22.Antiquities of the Jews, Book XV. Chapter XI, section 3
23.Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, p. 382. (Reference to length of Nero’s emperorship from 54 C.E. to 68 C.E.)
24.The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston. Wars of the Jews, Book V, Chapter I, section 5. (Note also the second footnote at the bottom of page 774.)
25.John 2:20 in The Jerusalem Bible, An American Translation by Goodspeed and Smith, Young’s Literal Translation and the translations by Moffatt and Lenski. (Note how these translations use the word “sanctuary” in this verse.)
26.Chronological Aspects of the life of Christ by Harold W. Hoehner (Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Ml, 1977), page 42.
27.The Handbook of Biblical Chronology by Jack Finegan (Princeton University Press, 1964), pages 279, 280.
28.Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ by Harold W. Hoehner (Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Ml, 1977), page 41.
29.The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (1986 edition), Volume 3, p. 784. (See definition of naos.)
30.Then Is Finished The Mystery of God (Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, 1969), page 260. (Note comments on naos in discussion of Revelation 11:2.)
31.The Watchtower, December 1, 1972, p. 722, paragraph 22. The Watchtower, July 1, 1996, p. 20, paragraph 4
32.Revelation 11:2. Note how translations like The New English Bible, the King James Version and that of James Moffatt use the word “Gentiles” when discussing outer court of the temple.
33.Barnes Notes on the New Testament (Tenth Printing, 1978), p. 1643. (See comments on Revelation 11:2.)
34.Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, commentary on The Revelation of St. John by Leon Morris (1979 edition), p. 146. (Comments on Revelation 11:2.)
35.The Interpretation of St. John’s Revelation by R.C.H. Lenski (Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, copyright 1961) p. 330, paragraph 1.
36.Light, Book One by J. F. Rutherford (The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, 1930), page 189. paragraph 1.
37.Revelation 22:18-19
38.The Finished Mystery (The Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, 1924), p. 289. (Note how “Great Company” of Rev. 7:10 is associated with heavenly group of Rev. 19.1)
39.Revelation 7:9 (Compare Revelation 5:9-10 and note both groups come from all tribes and peoples and tongues)
40.Revelation 7:9, 15 (Compare Revelation 1:4; 4:5-6, 10; 7:11; 8:3; 9:13: 11:16; 14:3 and consider how expression “before the throne” is illuminated by these verses. Notice also how comments on this expression on page 123 of Revelaion—Its Grand Climax At Hand!, do not take into account how “before” [enopion] is used in context throughout the book of Revelation.)
41.Revelation 7:9 (Compare Revelation 5·8 and note common expression “before the lamb.”)
42.Revelation 7:9 (Compare Revelation 3:4, 18; 4:4; 6:11 and note references to being dressed in white.)
43.Revelation 7: 10 (Compare Revelation 19:1 and note how this “great crowd” [NW] also attributes salvation to God.)
44.Revelation 7:14 (Compare 1 Peter 1:2, 18-19; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Rev. 22:14; John 1:7; Ephesians 2:13. Notice who is cleansed by blood of the Lamb.)
45.Revelation 7:4-8. Note how comments on these verses on pages 117 and 118 of Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!, establish this is not a reference to “literal, fleshly Israel.” Showing 12,000’s are not literal would indicate their total (144.000) is not literal.
46.Revelation 22:18-19
47.The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, edited by Frank E. Gaebclein and J. D. Douglas (Zondervan Publishing House, 1984), “Notes” on page 566.
INDEX
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2,300 days, of Daniel, 122, 205–206
2,520 years, 37, 204, 207–208, 229, 259, 270, 293, 302
144,000, anointed, 53, 329–330, 378, 394, 445
A
A History of Christianity, by Paul Johnson, 431
A Question of Conscience, by Charles Davis, 450–451
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be resurrected by 1925, 20, 244–246, 262–264, 379
Abrahamson, Richard, 173, 184
Accomplishment, sense of, 464
Accusations, Accusers, anonymity of, 343–349, 411
Acheson, Dean, quotation re 1975, 276
Adam, time of creation, 275
Adams, Don, 440, 447
Adams, Joel, 393
Adams, Karl, 29, 31–33, 35–36, 447
Organization manual, 96
Writing Department Authority, 85–86, 89–90, 96
Administration, changes in, 53–93, 95–130, 440–441
Adultery, issue re definition, 55–56, 65–67
Africa, zone trip, 322–325
Aid to Answering Branch Office Correspondence, 134, 409
Aid to Bible Understanding, 10, 29, 32, 38–39, 95, 203, 326, 380
Jerusalem’s fall re, 203
All Scripture Is Inspired and Beneficial, 273
Allen, Malcolm, 99, 375
Alternative service, 173, 176, 178, 184, 186–188, 191, 452, 507–508, 510–513, 516, 520, 522–523
author’s memorandum on, 471–474
Branch letters re, 147–156
issue re, 145–164
Watchtower 5/1/96, reversal of policy, 146, 158–159, 470–471, 496
Amnesty International, 158, 509
Anarchy, worldwide, in 1914,
predictions, 213, 225, 227
Anderson, Willie, 425
Angulo, Benjamin, 362–363, 367
Anointed, 53, 329–331, 337, 375, 445–446
144,000, 53, 329–330, 445
Biblical teaching re, 329–331, 383
Christian Scriptures directed only to, 336–337
closure, 445
direction of work, 53, 90, 118
‘Faithful and disc
reet slave class,’ 90, 92, 448
Governing Body, 445, 448, 476
how to know, 330
Jesus mediator only for, 322, 324
Memorial participants, 375
prophet, 200–201
remnant, 53
resurrection, 212, 216, 235, 238, 242, 250
royal priesthood, 446
“this generation,” 292, 301–302, 476
“witness of the spirit,” 330, 383
Anonymity, in accusations, 411, 431
Apology, Plain Truth magazine, 309
Apostasy, Apostate, 301, 308, 318–319, 377–379, 388, 394–395, 405–406
accusations of, 43–44, 46, 114, 253, 345–346, 351, 364–365, 367, 369, 372, 374, 397
Chairman’s Committee memo re, 361, 378–379
disagreement with Russell’s teachings equated with, 250–253
forming own religion, 365
Service Department letter re, 391–392
true signs of, 387–389
Watchtower articles on, 389–390
Apostles, 51
Appeal committees, 356, 367, 424–426, 485
Appeal, of disfellowshipping,
authors, 423–427, 430, 478–489
not granted, 350
René Vázquez, 352–356
Ark, as figurative of organization, 16
Armageddon, 16–17, 21, 23, 267–268, 285, 304
Attorneys, Witness, meeting, 320
Authoritarianism, 7, 10, 51, 81
creates climate of fear, 370–371
Authority 6–7, 11–12, 145, 187, 312, 387, 453, 455, 461, 494, 523
1914, foundational date of, 202–203, 289, 449
appeal to human, 76
basis for, 111–114
central, 79, 87
Christ’s headship, 113–114, 129
God-given, 50–52
Governing Body supreme source, 54, 87, 113, 126, 129–131, 136, 289, 306, 396–397, 405, 424, 447, 449
Knorr, 90, 92, 106
Organization, 158, 180, 185, 192–193, 432, 435, 439, 447, 449, 451, 496
presidential, 68, 74, 78, 90, 92, 97–98, 102–103, 106, 116, 121
Russell, 75–76, 78, 90, 92, 109, 439
Rutherford, 34, 74, 78, 90, 92, 126, 439
Scripture re, 69, 269, 456, 517
Authorship, of several Watch Tower books, 317
B
Babylon the Great 30, 196, 235
fall in 1878, 213, 217
destruction predicted for 1914, 217 revised to 1919, 213
Banda, Dr. H. Kamuzu, 168, 185
Barber, Carey, 157, 173, 187, 293, 318, 444, 522
confusion as to teaching, 319
Barbour, N. H., 207–209, 211–212, 229, 250
Barnabas, 111–113, 116
Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament, 389
Barr, Jack, 188, 293, 318, 340–341, 444
Barry, Lloyd, 97, 105, 119, 123, 125, 128, 157, 293–294, 296–297, 318, 321, 327, 340, 374, 444, 510, 514, 521–522
1914 and “this generation,” 294
1975 failure, 284
alternative service, 172–173, 187
commentaries and private study groups, 388–389
Edward Dunlap, 340, 344, 348, 381–382
signing of Watchtower articles, 321
replaces Swingle in Writing Department, 380
“unnatural sex” policy, 65
Beast of Revelation and UN, 196–197
Beers, Diane, 349–351
Belgium, 146–147, 188, 512–513, 519, 523
Branch committee letters, 148–149
Bell, George, predictions, 206, 212
Benner, Wesley, 406–407, 414–415, 419, 422, 425, 485
Beth Sarim, 22–23, 117, 266–267
Bethel elders, 99–101,
meeting, 387–390
Bible study, commentaries, lexicons, 30–31, 66, 373, 384, 388–389
context’s importance, 30–31
enhanced appreciation of, 311
James, 10, 119–121, 317, 329, 346
Mexico, use in, 189–191
understanding, 461
Bible students, 14, 234, 493, 499
Bigotry, religious, 20
Bitterness, freedom from, 397
Blood, policies re, 134, 136, 141–142, 146, 452, 506, 519
Board of Directors, corporation, 33, 39, 68, 70–71, 73, 81, 85, 87–90, 115, 121
Body of Christ, 80, 220, 232
membership in, 456
Bonelli, tapes, 357, 360, 362–364, 376
Books, Watchtower, authorship of, 317
Booth, John, 97, 101, 110, 157, 350, 444
corporation re, 127
Branch Committees, 54, 128, 139, 156, 159, 162, 297, 319, 394, 396, 510–514, 517, 519–520, 523
Belgium, 148–149
Brazil, 517
Canada, 150, 515
Denmark, 173, 184
Mexico, 173–174, 176–177, 180, 183, 188
Nigeria, 296, 515
Spain, 512
Sweden, 516
Branch Office Procedure, 128
Branch Oversee also, 23, 95, 105, 107, 128
Bribes, 173–187, 191–193
“Bride class,” 1881 and 1918 dates in relation to, 216, 445
Brotherhood, Brotherliness, 313, 373, 419, 439, 521
Brown, John Aquila, 250
1844 and 2,520 years, 206–209
Bryant, Edgar, 422
C
Campbell, Merton, 60, 285
Carlton, Dr. Jack, 314
Cedar Point Convention, 212, 259, 261
Chairman’s Committee, 343–344, 410
attitude toward accused, 357, 360–362, 371, 374, 376–377, 382
author’s trial, 372–380
members, 297, 299, 301
oath (confession) of faith, eight points, 361, 372, 374, 378–379
role in heresy trials, 299, 301, 343–349, 357–362, 376
tapes, and correspondence regarding, 372, 382, 397–403
“this generation,” 1957, 297–301
Changes, 439–440, 444, 448, 450–451
Channel, 76, 440, 449
Chief, re Rutherford as, 82–84
Childbearing, discouraged, 17
Children, book, 20, 21, 268
Chitty, Ewart, 97, 119, 123, 157, 188, 381
Choosing the Best Way of Life, by Reinhard
Lengtat, 317, 346
Christ Jesus,
headship, 110–114, 354, 504
“invisible presence,” 211–213, 247, 250, 289, 304
mediatorship, 322–325, 456
time of reign, 213–214, 260–261, 269, 379
Christendom, predicted destruction of, 216, 238–239, 240–242
Christians, two classes of, 329–331, 341, 378, 383, 448
Christmas at Bethel in 1926, 79, 497
Chronology, 36–38, 236, 270
predictions, 199–234
made test of faith, 228, 251–254, 378–379
pyramids, 257
Watch Tower claims re, validity, 250–261
Church of God, doctrines, 308–309, 449
Cole, Marley, 88
Commentary on Letter of James, by
Edward Dunlap, 10, 119, 121, 317, 329, 346
Committees, of Five, 101–102, 105–106, 109, 114, 123–124, 127–128
Dunlap, his judges, 383, 387
Compulsory service, in Bible times, 159
Concept, organizational, dominant
effect, 395–397, 448–449
Concern for numbers, 460
Connersville, Indiana, 17–19
Conscience, 41, 317, 412, 415, 506, 509, 523
friendships affected, 457, 459–460
genuineness of, 5–12
organizational dominance of, 384, 395
Conspiracy, claims of, 93, 322, 334, 366
Conversation, private, subject to judicial inquiry, 320, 364, 366, 371
Couch, George,
296
Covington, Hayden C., 18, 20, 117, 118, 509
Cultural organization, Mexico, 189–195
Cuneiform tablets, 37–38
Cycles, Jubilee, 261
parallelisms, 270–271, 280
D
Daley, Mrs. Robert, 420
Daniel, 37, 122, 191, 204–207, 209, 229, 442
Dates,
history of speculation, 199–234
predictions, 213–215, 235–236
shifting interpretations, 211–212, 261, 269–270
Watch Tower claims of certainty, 222–223, 226–229, 249–261
Dates, specific:
606 B.C., 208, 270
change to 607 B.C., 269–270
607 B.C., 37–38, 203–204, 270, 293, 302
1799,
last days began, 206, 212, 217, 221, 247, 249–251, 254, 259
replaced by 1914, 212, 269
1844,
speculations re, 206, 255
Adventist, 10, 207
1874,
Christ’s “invisible return,” 80, 210, 212–214, 221, 230, 247, 250, 254–255, 260, 353
Barbour, 211–212
“indisputable facts,” 251
prominence over 1914, 214–217
replaced by 1914, 221, 227, 269
six thousand years of human history, 270
start of 40-year harvest, 214
start of last days, 233, 247, 250
still taught in 1929, 212
1878,
Christ’s rule begins, 216–217, 230, 232 replaced with 1914, 261
Babylon falls, 213, 217
resurrection begins, 212, 217, 250
replaced with 1918, 269
1881,
“bride class” gathered, heavenly calling closes, 214–217, 230, 445
Russell’s divine appointment, 250
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society formed, 70
1914,
Adventists, originated date re, 207–208–209, 211, 229, 295
beliefs, 36–38, 202–233, 289–305, 444, 449
Christ taking Kingdom power, now “present,” 36–37, 74, 202–203, 212, 227, 233
connection with 607 B.C., 37–38, 203–204, 270
difficulties with, 37–38, 293–294, 302, 475–476
disbelief in, equals apostasy, 301, 341, 378–379
failure of predictions, attempts to cover over, 220–223, 226, 229–230, 233, 235–261, 305
formula to arrive at, re 607 B.C., 37–38, 204–208
foundation date, 202–204
“Gentile Times,” 37, 204–205, 207–209, 226–227, 229, 230