![]() His command to build both Beth Sarim and Beth Shan in San Diego to house the ancient patriarchs of the Old Testament, as indicative of closeness of the end times, is perhaps his most noteworthy blunder. Rutherford was equally a prolific writer, as well as false prophet. In fact, because of his renaming insistence, and shift from the biblical study that Russell stressed to a more missionary outreach, Zion’s Watchtower ended up splitting between The Dawn Bible Students and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The man who gave the current organization its current title, the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, and its followers their name, Jehovah’s Witnesses, was Joseph F. ![]() ![]() Perhaps the most influential of his teachings involved the prediction of Armageddon and the end of the current world order in the year 1914. Russell was a prolific writer and used the written page to propagate his new religion, which not only was a composite of old Arianism, but the failed prophecies of William Miller and Seventh Day Adventism. Dissatisfied with his Congregationalist upbringing, particularly over the doctrine of eternal torment, Russell started his own Bible study group, The Dawn Bible Students, which he would later incorporate into Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society in 1884. The Jehovah’s Witnesses originally started under the leadership of one Charles Taze Russell in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870.
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