Why did Russell asked to be dressed in a toga on his deathbed, which is the preferred method of Freemasons? And why do so many of JW beliefs and interpretations match that of Masonry?
Charles Taze Russel Was A Freemason, and his 1914 prediction of the return of Jesus Christ Was based upon numerology using the Egyptian Pyramids, with Egyptology being a big teaching in freemasonry.
Russel Is Buried Under The Freemasons Pyramid, With The Sun Burst Cap Stone.
When you click on the burial site link you will see Russel's grave stone that reads "The Laodicean Messenger"?
When you read Revelation 3:14-19 below, you find the Laodicean church was wretched, miserable, naked, lukewarm, and God was going to Spue this church out of his mouth, as he called it to repent?
Why would any Christian want to put "The Laodicean Messenger" on his grave stone?
Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Founder of the Watch Tower Society which became the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931. ... Virtual Flowers have been disabled because of abuse. ... Allegheny County.
Burial: United Cemetery Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Oct 1916 (aged 64) Pampa, Gray County, Texas, USA
Revelation 3:14-19KJV
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Wikipedia: Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or
Pastor Russell, was an American Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement.[1][2] After his death, Jehovah's Witnesses and numerous independent Bible Student groups developed from this base.
Pyramidology. Following views first taught by Christian writers such as John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth and Joseph Seiss, Russell believed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the Hebrews (associated to the Hyksos) under God’s direction, but to be understood only in our day. He adopted and used Seiss's phrase, referring to it as "the Bible in stone". He believed that certain biblical texts, including Isaiah 19:19–20 and others, prophesied a future understanding of the Great Pyramid. He believed that the various ascending and descending passages represented the fall of man, the provision of the Mosaic Law, the death of Christ, the exultation of the saints in heaven, etc. Calculations were made using the pattern of an inch per year. Dates such as 1874, 1914, and 1948 were purported to have been found through the study of this monument