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it is significant that Woodworth, who is strident in his polemic and who would not hesitate to accuse Salter of lying, concedes Salter's claims but justifies Rutherford's frequent use of alcohol by (1) comparing Rutherford to Jesus, and (2) giving a medical reason for the alcohol use. He calls...

The Olin Moyle trial made frequent reference to drinking at Bethel. In his testimony to the court, Moyle described new Bethelites being broken into the habit of drinking beer (p. 359) and the frequent use of beer and "stronger stuff" by the factory staff in the evening (p. 360). He mentioned an...

I became a JW in 1971 and was told about JW's having a tendency to drink and that one of the past presidents of the WTBTS was an alcoholic or most believed he was and that was Judge Rutherford.

In his letter, dated April 1, 1937, Salter complained of Rutherford’s excessive drinking, and of the fact that he bought large quantities of alcohol using Society funds. He bemoaned the fact that Rutherford “sends us out from door to door to face the enemy while he goes from ‘drink to drink’ and...

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4. Did God’s favor return to Israel and did this indicate the soon return of the “princes”? Yes: “Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and the prophets will be brought forth and be made leaders of the people. We may expect their return soon, because the favor of God has begun to return to Israel.”27...

THE “PRINCES” Repeatedly, Watch Tower publications and representatives stressed that, according to the Scriptures, the “princes” were due to return shortly. As already stated, two large residences and their grounds were prepared and held in trust for their use upon their return. The Consolation...

The Bomb Shelter Betty Gillies and Fred Eason both speak of the bomb shelter, separate from the house, which the Witnesses had constructed on the Beth-Shan property. Fred Eason, who saw it shortly after the Watch Tower sale of the property in 1945, explains that about 250 feet from the house...

“FALSE REPORTS”? “We Trust in the Lord for Protection.” Under the heading “FALSE REPORTS,” the June 1, 1940 Watchtower (see figure 4) declared untrue a rumor that the Society was enlarging Beth-Sarim “as a place of security.”15 In fact, during Heath’s testimony before the County Superior Court...

“A Great Famine Is Certain…in the Very Near Future” The Watchtower of November 15, 1941, communicated a warning of impending disaster: “A great famine is certain to afflict the many nations of the earth in the very near future. The United States is also in line for much suffering….The United...

Heath and his wife resided in the house mentioned in the deed. Preparing the Beth-Shan Property During the construction of the Beth-Shan house and other improvements in 1939, 20-year-old Fred Eason, while searching for Young’s Cave (which was on the property),8 made his way into the area and...

MORE PROPERTY FOR THE “PRINCES” By citing Watch Tower publications and the deed to the property, it can be shown that Beth-Sarim was built and held in trust as a residence for the soon-to-be-resurrected “ancient worthies” or “princes.”5 While not generally known, the Beth-Shan house and the...

[The] new location for interment was in almost the center of the property known as Beth-Shan, which is roughly 75 acres of canyon and mesa land, adjoining Beth-Sarim but separated by a half-mile width of canyon. This property, also belonging to [the] WATCHTOWER, has one small and one large...

Beth-Shan and the Return of the Princes Summary Beth-Shan, named only once in Watch Tower publications, gives another significant insight into the history and teachings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Predictions made concerning the resurrection of the pre-Christian “princes” failed, and the...

"In July 1939 Olin R. Moyle, legal counsel for the Society, wrote an open letter of resignation to the president, in which he complained about behavior of some members of the Watch Tower Society, including Rutherford himself, that he considered excessive and inappropriate. Moyle mentioned...

As a human the Father gave him de jure authority. However, he had the authority before creation, which we know from his roles in creation. " Who Christ is, and what he has done 15-20 Now Christ is the visible expression of the invisible God. He existed before creation began, for it was...

Brother before coming to earth, I think he was called son of God.

Well known Greek Scholar A.T. Robertson wrote, " Baptism in (\eis\, not _into_) the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the name of the Trinity. Objection is raised to this language in the mouth of Jesus as too theological and as not a genuine part of the Gospel of Matthew for...

Tartarus, the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld. As such it was the opposite of...