What the Watchtower Actually Says

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - What Even Is the Watchtower?
2. Chapter Two - 1879–1914
3. Chapter Three - 1914–1925
4. Chapter Four - 1925–1945
5. Chapter Five - 1945–1975
6. Chapter Six - 1975–2000
7. Chapter Seven - 2000–2025
8. Chapter Eight - Heaven, Earth, and the 144,000
9. Chapter Nine - No Trinity, No Hell, No Soul
10. Chapter Ten - Shunning, Blood, and Judicial Control
11. Chapter Eleven - What the Watchtower Says the Truth Is

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE What Even Is the Watchtower? IT STARTED IN 1879 with a man named Charles Taze Russell and a magazine called the Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. He wasn’t a prophet. He wasn’t a pastor. He was a publisher. From the beginning, the Watchtower didn’t just teach. It predicted. It said Jesus returned invisibly in 1874. The old world would end in 1914. The righteous would survive. The wicked would die. And paradise would begin. That was the first prediction. It didn’t come true. So they updated it and kept publishing. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society became the core of a religion, what we now call Jehovah’s Witnesses. They follow the magazine. They call it...