Jehovah's Witnesses and the Jews

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

The gravesite of Jehovah's Witness founder Charles Taze Russell, a Jewish immigrant and Knights Templar. The pyramid and headstone lie in a Masonic graveyard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Across the graveyard is a Masonic temple. See second photo with temple at bottom of article.

The B'nai B'rith Finances Russell
Fritz Springmeier (Bloodlines of the Illuminati)

The B'nai B'rith (Jewish Masonic Lodge in the U.S. and Canada) was behind Russell's start. Before explaining whom the B'nai B'rith is and why they supported Russell let's see some of the evidence of the cooperation.

Edith Starr Miller, a researcher into international politics and the causes of social unrest, managed to position herself amongst various important people. By rubbing shoulders with the right people she came upon "irrefutable evidence" of a bewildering drama of a conspiracy between various organizations. She found out that the B'nai B'rith was responsible for getting Russell started.

Frank Goldman, both a member of the Order (as B'nai B'rith is known) and a Mason, escorted Pastor Russell by car to the Hippodrome for Russell's two hour talk. Jewish financiers had by the way rented the Hippodrome for Russell. After Russell finished his talk, the Zionist anthem "Rosh Hashanah" was played. Frank Goldman went on to become president of the B'nai B'rith.

Interestingly, the B'nai B'rith points out in their Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger their close affinity. "The Jews themselves are Jehovah's Witnesses. In due time, according to prophecy, Jerusalem will be the capital of the world and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and other 'Ancient Worthies' will be resurrected and form the nucleus of God's Kingdom on earth. This was the understanding of Pastor Russell from his studies of the prophecies, and he so taught during his long ministry."

Zionism actually encompasses Russell's vision for the establishment of a universal Israel, with Jerusalem as world capital. For instance, Yigal Aldon at the United Nations on Sept. 30, 1975 speaking for the nation of Israel (and therefore in a sense Zionism and Jews worldwide) defines Zionism, "Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the Prophets of Israel." A national homeland is not enough, the universal kingdom the Talmud says is to be Israel's millennial kingdom is their goal.

The Watchtower Society distributed a Yiddish periodical Di Stimme (The Voice) all over the world. They especially attempted to place it Russia, to motivate Russian Jews to emigrate to Palestine. Because the paper was ostensibly Christian its distribution came under less restrictions than Jewish literature.

The Watchtower Society offered to supply the Di Stimme periodical to anyone "in any quantity—free." There seems to have been no bottom line to the financial backing of the WT Society.

The same year that the offer was made to supply the Yiddish paper to anyone "in any quantity—free," the WT Society's account books claimed a $22,415.93 deficit. "We doubt not this indebtedness will soon be cancelled; nevertheless the fact that it is nearly double the shortage of last year cautions us that we must to some extent put on the 'brakes.' "

So how does the Society show caution and put on the brakes? Does it stop printing and distributing millions of pieces of free Zionist literature? No. They have subtly bilked their readers for more donations, but the pace of the free giveaway of Zionist literature worldwide doesn't abate. The reason for this is given away in the WT of Jan. 1, 1911 p.4, which quietly reveals that funding came from Jewish sources. The distribution of Di Stimme was aided "...by Jewish Journals interested in the message..."

Secret backers have always been the secret to Russell's success. In 1882, Russell tells readers, "...a brother who has already contributed largely guarantees any debts incurred, to the amount of one thousand dollars in excess of receipts."

Although there are reports of anonymous donations every now and then of amounts like $9,000 and $1,000, the real underwriting must have been almost a blank check when one examines the WT Society's activities.

Further, the ease with which Russell visits, works with, and writes Jewish leaders indicates a close relationship.


Evidence of Russell's Jewish Help Stand In Court

Isn't the evidence that the B'nai B'rith helped Russell's Watchtower Society circumstantial? It wouldn't hold up in court would it?

Indeed, it has held up in court.

A Swiss physician, Dr. Fehrmann, at a public meeting on Jan. 21, 1924 upset some people by asserting the B'nai B'rith and the International Jews had contributed large financial sums to the "Ernst Bibel Forscher" (that is in Swiss German the Earnest Bible Students, the followers of the Watchtower Society—were know as.) R.G. Binkele of Zurich charged Dr. Fehrmann with slander on this particular point, and the Dr, in a libel court of law successfully defended his statement.

Dr. Fehrmann brought forth a number of proofs. One letter entered as evidence was a Masonic letter from high Masonic sources dated 27 December, 1922. The letter was of unquestionable genuineness and stated, "We give them (the Earnest Bible Students), in the usual indirect ways, much money through a number of brothers, who during the war made a pile. It won't hurt their fat pocket books. They are Jews."



The Masonic lodge in the background.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

The Masonic Watchtowers
Fritz Springmeier, Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Pages 334-335

Enochian Magic

The Masonic Lodges are usually given a number and then are named after the location they are at. For instance, in Oregon something like 9 out of 10 lodges are named after the town that they are in. However, some of the lodges are named after famous Masons such as Franklin, Lafayette, and Washington. Others are named after Masonic themes Mystic Tie, Mystic Circle, Rising Sun, New Jerusalem, and Mizpah. Mizpah? What is Mizpah? The Watchtower Society tells us in the issue of the Godlen Age 3/26/24, p. 387, that Mizpah translates Watchtower. The Hebrew word Mizpah (also spelled Mizpeh, and Mitspeh) occurs only once in scripture. And the use of the word Mizpah among the Masons is interesting.

This author has located 4 Masonic chapters so far in the world that are named Mizpah, and three of these are in C.T. Russell's area of Pennsylvania. These are all York Rite (R.A.M.-Royal Arch Masons) lodges like Russell belonged to. They are Mizpeh Chapter No. 288 R.A.M. of Allegheny, PA, Mizpah Chapter No. 252 R.A.M. Mahonoy City, PA, and the Mizpah Chapter 96 of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of PA.

What could be important enough to Masonry to call their lodges Watchtowers? The highest Masons, who get cryptic and mystic, are exposed to Enochian magic, where the use of the magical watchtowers is the key, the heart so to speak, of Enochian magic.

It is interesting to note that several of the Masons who founded new cults were fascinated in the name and person of Enoch, for instance Joseph Smith Jr. and Charles T. Russell.

Joseph Smith (Founder of Mormons LDS) gave himself the name Enoch, called his first community the City of Enoch, and created communal Order of Enoch. Further, Joseph Smith, following the Jewish pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch's story, purports to narrate Enoch's experiences in the Book of Moses. (Joseph Smith, as the reader remembers, wrote the Book of Moses.) Joseph Smith in fact believed that Freemasonry went back to Enoch. In Joseph Smith's day it was popular for Masons to trace Freemasonry back to Enoch. It is not so much in vogue now.

Freemasons believed that the correct pronunciation of the sacred name of the Tetragrammaton had been revealed to Enoch. In Enochian magic the Tetragrammaton plays an important part. Each letter represents a different element.

"...Enoch may be considered as representative of that class of mankind which in the future will be in harmony with God and have eternal life—the ones who will be brought to perfection during the Millenial Age."—Charles T. Russell, 1907.

Russell was careful not to exceed what he could appear to back with scripture, and he was not about to break his Masonic oath of secrecy and blab about Enoch and Enochian magic. However, Russell can still be recognized as having put an inordinate amount of emphasis on Enoch. For instance, Russell says what happened to Enoch "seems to be one of the secret things which Moses says belong unto God. Deut. 29:29" WT Apr. & May 1884. Russell pointed out on numerous occasions that Enoch was the 7th man from Adam, and that this means he was the perfect man. This view was still coming out in the Watchtower as late as 1941. The WT Society has been fascinated by Enoch's transformation, but have been variable in their explanation of it. In 1943, the WT Society tells us that "Enoch was put into a trance" That 'God gave him a final vision of the New World..." and that when Heb. 11:5 says God "transferred him" that it meant God granted Enoch a vision of the New World. This was a change from Russell's belief (based on speculation or something else?) that God likely too Enoch to another planet. Also that year, the WT Society tells us that Enoch was the first man to prophesy of Christ.

This is just a glimpse of Russell and the WT Society's fascination with Enoch. Now we will discover what Enochian Magic is about.

The Magical Watchtowers

Twice a month, a magazine called the Watchtower goes out in 105 languages in about 13 million copies per issue. (Actually minor foreign language editions lag behind the English editions, so that the 13 million copies are not issued simultaneously.)

Yet no one has explained why Charles T. Russell chose the Watch Tower as the name and central idea of his new religion, many return-to-the-Bible movements, for instance, Campbell's Church of Christ churches, have eschewed being associated with any symbology. The idea of the Watch Tower must have been very important to Russell for him to have situated it as the central symbol for his movement. Was he thinking that a tower towered him above others? Or was it because ancient Watch Towers could view approaching armies and thereby warn of approaching battles? Or was it chosen because Masons have been associated with building castles and cathedrals?

Each of these explanations put forth, has some merit. But there is another explanation. One that seems bizarre, in fact so bizarre that this author dismissed it until such time as he was able to confirm C.T. Russell's Masonic membership.

C.T. Russell's membership records in the Masonic Knights Templar are kept in Ireland. The Blue Lodge records belong to the Grand Lodge of PA. Lady Queensborough in her book Occult Theocracy published in 1933 notes on page 737 C.T. Russell's Masonic membership. His Masonic membership must have also been common knowledge to those associated with him, and those  acquainted with the prominence Russell gave to the Knights Templar logo. While there were no Adventist magazines prior to Russell's 'Watchtower' magazine that used the word Watchtower, it appears that the Masonic magazine Mizpah could have served as example to Russell. The Masonic Mizpah magazine, and a Masonic article in an early Masonic Review with the title "Watchman what of the night" do prove a similarity here between that Masonic thinking and Russell's magazine.

Evidence shows C.T. Russell was not only a high freemason, but prominent in their schemes, in other words he was a key player. Watchtowers are very important to the very highest Freemasons. The highest secret knowledge of many Masonic rites including such rites as the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Memphis, the Rite of Mizraim, etc. is concentrated in a high level group of Illuminati. One group of the Illuminati is the O.T.O. The initials O.T.O. can stand for several names, one being Ordo Templi Orientis (The Order of Oriental Templars). Its esoteric name is Order of To Ov. Its members also have been referred to as the Great White Brotherhood or Atlantean Adepts, and have worked with the B'nai B'rith. There are four separate groups of OTO lodges, each contains hard core occultists.

The OTO Illuminati teach their select group of initiates Hermetic Science (occult knowledge), magick (called Holy Magick of Light), Mysticism, and Yoga of all forms. The OTO during C.T. Russell's lifetime established in every important metropolitan area, including New York, a secret hidden centre (Collegium ad Spiritum Santum) where members could carry out their "great work" concealed without interference.

However, each Illuminatus is nothing if he is not able to practice the Magick that gives him a knowledge of the Watchtowers and the ability to enter the four Watchtowers.

Is this bizarre? Why doesn't C.T. Russell mention any of this in his writings?
This author must without reservation remind the reader that C.T. Russell would never have mentioned anything of his higher esoteric Masonic knowledge to anyone. The penalties for revealing such higher secrets are harsh. This author knows of some cases where men who talked were killed. Obviously, without presenting any proof on that point, the reader is simply advised that the higher echelons in the esoteric group of Illuminism rarely lose their initiates, because they are so sold out/and trapped in their allegiance to the occult world.

C.T. Russell was in the public eye. Everything he published was with the public eye in mind. No one should expect to find any notes or slips about Masonic activities or beliefs in Russell's writings. As with all occult organizations a veil of secrecy is maintained by requiring initiates to take secrecy oaths on penalty of death. As in Witchcraft, Masonry repeatedly demands secrecy oaths at every new level.  Charles T. Russell began participating in this secrecy when he took the Entered Apprentice (first Masonic degree) oath on penalty of mayhem and violent death, "I...do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will always hail, ever conceal and never reveal any of the arts, parts or points of the secret arts and mysteries of ancient Freemasonry which I received, am about to receive, or may hereafter be instructed in..."

C.T. Russell followed a policy of backing everything he said with Bible verses. If he could not establish a point by twisting Scripture in some fashion, or using some type of reasoning, then he would generally avoid publishing the point. What needs then to be looked for are occultic strains of thought that seeped into his bible explanation, because they had a possible Scriptural explanation. There are a number of statements by Russell that are clues and evidence of ties to the magic of Watchtowers.

WHAT ARE THE MAGICAL WATCHTOWERS?

Watchtowers are regions of the Magical Universe. The tope of Magic that uses these regions is called Enochian Magick.

According to occultists, Magic is merely the use of hidden laws to bring about the will. Every person has a spark of divinity—a inner God, also called an angel or Holy Guardian Angel. The Magician is to get in touch with his Angel—his divinity. This is where his knowledge of the Watchtowers is helpful. Enochian Magick claims for itself two unique elements: an original language and the map of the indivisible worlds. The Indivisible worlds are known as the Magical Universe. The map of this Magical Universe contains 4 Enochian regions called Watchtowers. These are the Watchtower of Fire, the Watchtower of Air, the Watchtower of Water, and the Watchtower of Earth. These 4 regions are often symbolized in ancient esoteric manuscripts. The following are the 7 planes and their regions on the map.

Occult planes         Enochian Regions

Divine...
Spiritual.....            Table of Union
Casual.......            Watchtower of Fire
Mental.......            Watchtower of Air
Astral........            Watchtower of Water
Etheric......            Watchtower of Earth
Physical...


Should all the bodies of the planes (except for the physical) be collectively taken together, the Magician calls this the Body of Light. New Age, Masonic, and Rosicrucian Magicians will then speak in terms of leaving their bodies and entering into the Watchtowers (the Body of Light). To be an advanced magician, you must be able to enter the Watchtowers.

It is an established fact the Illuminists all learn this Magic and practice it.

An example of how esoteric knowledge then became associated with the royal house of Guise and Lorraine (which is part of the 13th Illuminati bloodline) is that the first edition of Corpus hermeticum (pub. In 1549) was dedicated to Charles de Guise, the Cardinal of Lorraine and brother of Marie de Guise, who married James V of Scotland and who bore Mary Queen of Scots.

Under the cover of being zealous Catholics, the house of Guise and Lorraine spread esoteric knowledge. Men like Sir William Sinclair (of the 13th Illuminati bloodline) imported the esoteric knowledge into Scotland. Another figure was the Scotsman, James Beaton, the Scottish ambassador to France, who was also the former Archbishop of Glasgow and who worked with the house of Guise and Lorraine.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Some prior research on this as well:

President Eisenhower Raised as Jehovah's Witness
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Zionism

Pastor Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society, was a Zionist. He was strongly against converting Jews to Christianity and actively involved in encouraging the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine. Benjamin Netanyahu, the ninth prime minister of Israel, when he was the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations stated "A recognition of Pastor Russell's important role as an early American Christian advocate of Zionism is long overdue."1

Russell wrote:

"There are now in the world more than ten million Jews, about three-quarters of whom are in Russia, Poland, the Balkan States, and Turkey. If the movement toward Palestine should get the impulse that the Hirsch committee is able to give it, an imaginative person can conceive of the country's doubling or trebling its Jewish population before the close of our century, and of its having a larger Jewish population fifty years hence than it had in ancient times, when its census ran up to three millions. Should the restoration be accomplished, all hail to the New Jerusalem!" Watchtower 1892 November 1 p.329

"The more closely we investigate the New Covenant, the more we must be convinced of this fact - that it belongs to Israel alone." Watch Tower 1909 January 15 p.28

"That the re-establishment of Israel in the land of Palestine is one of the events to be expected in this Day of the Lord, we are fully assured by the above expression of the Prophet [commenting on Amos 9:11, 14, 15]. Notice, particularly, that the prophecy cannot be interpreted in any symbolic sense" Studies in the Scriptures Series III - Thy Kingdom Come p.244

It has been said all roads lead to Rome. For this book, it could be said all paths of investigation lead to the Rothschilds. Charles T. Russell, in a 1891 letter to Baron (Lord) Rothschild, mailed from Palestine, outlined possible courses of action that could be taken to establish the Jews in Palestine. Russell's letters praised the Rothschild's money which established Jewish colonies in Palestine. Russell writes Rothschild, ,,What is needed here, therefore, next to water and cleanliness, is a good government which will protect the poor from the ravenous and the wealthy. Banking institutions on sound bases, and doing business honorably, are also greatly needed " Russell continues, "May the God of Jacob direct you, my dear Sir, and all interested with you in the deliverance and prosperity of Israel, and blessed will they be who, to any extent, yield themselves as his servants in fulfilling his will as predicted."(14) When the Mormon Church needed financing in the late 19th century, they went to Kuhn, Loeb Co.15 To explain the Rothschild's control of Kuhn, Loeb Co. here is some background information. The method that the House of Rothschild used to gain influence, was the same that Royalty had used for centuries, marriage. The Rothschild children, girls and boys, have had their spouses chosen on the basis of alliances that would benefit the House of Rothschild, but since consolidating world power they generally have married cousins these last two centuries.'16 Jacob Schiff grew up in the house that the Rothschild's had at 148 Judengasse, Frankfurt. Jacob Schiff came to the United States with Rothschild capital and took over control of a small jewish banking concern founded by two Cincinnati dry goods merchants Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. He even married Soloman's daughter. In 1885, Loeb retired, and Schiff ran the Kuhn, Loeb Co. for the Rothschilds until 1920 when he died.17 During Russell's and Brigham Young's day, Lord Rothschild was considered the "lay leader of world Jewry."18 Edmund Rothschild was President of the Jewish Colonization Assoc,19 which was a major Zionist group. Amselm Rothschild indicated that his grandfather Amschel Mayer Rothschild had insisted in Clause 15 of his will to his children, "may they and their descendants remain constantly true to their ancestral Jewish faith."(20) However, the will has been secret and there is no way of knowing what it says.

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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Order of the Skull and Bones, the Order, Chaper 322, legal name, Russell Trust, and to members it has been called the Eulogia or Eulogian Club
Fritz Springmeier, Bloodlines of the Illuminati

Founding Date: Founded in 1832, by Illuminati members from Germany, working in concert with major occult leaders at Yale University

Records Show that the Russell family were German Jews who immigrated to Scotland, and then to Northern Ireland and then to Pennsylvania.

The Order of the Skull & Bones had been organized at Yale by Gen. William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft in 1833, and then legally incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856.

The Russell Trust later created the Wackenhut Security Companies, which are private Illuminatti armies which guard key installations. Wackenhut was involved in both the Oklahoma City bombing coverup and the Waco Branch Davidian massacre. The debris was hauled off and guarded by Wackenhut at local landfills.

Prominent Members: George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, Prescott Sheldon Bush, William F. Buckley, William Bundy, Henry J. Heinz, Taft family, William Huntington Russell (family started Jehovah's Witness),

Actual Founders: William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft

Control Mechanisms: Members take oaths.

Leaders: Patriarch of the Order meet annually on Deer Island (part of the Thousand Islands) in the St. Lawrence River a few miles NE of Alexandria Bay, NY. Apparently some other meetings have also taken place.

History: This is a secret order of the Illuminati. It looks at juniors within the students of Yale University and initiates each year exactly 15 men into the Order. In the selection process, they show preference to men from Bones families, or from other leading Illuminati families. They neophyte, once initiated in an occult ritual, becomes a Knight. Knights will ruse to become Patriarchs after their senior year. This Order has been extremely powerful and gets the best candidates at Yale. Its badge in the past was made of gold and was the face of a skull. Its pin was in the past called a "crab." Its building "the Tomb" is on High St. The Order has rituals. Initiation rituals begin at midnight with a coffin and a "new birth." A fish horn, muffled drum and a toiling bell are part of the ceremony. The Order has grips, but it is not known if they are used much. A new member receives a $15,000 gift for joining, with no strings attached. IN the 1990's, after being exposed by a number of researchers (incl. the author of this book), the Skull and Bones began to change. In the year 2000, more women than men were tapped for the Order. They are now tapping the heads of various identity groups, such as the head of the Black Student Alliance, or the Lesbians at Yale.

Ties to other organizations: The Order of the Skull and Bones was developed out of the previous cult fraternity at Yale the Society of Brothers in Unity. The film Order of the Bell with Henry Ford as the lead actor portrays a fraternal organization similar to the senior fraternal orders such as Skull & Bones, and Scroll & Key (legally know as Kingsley Trust).  Other Yale fraternities associated with the Illuminati are Scroll & Key, Book & Snake (Stone Trust Corp), Wolf's Head (legally known as Phelps Trust), Berzellus. At Princeton they have the Ivy Club & the Cottage Club. At Andover the Illuminati have the AUV. At Harvard they have the Porcelain (also called the Porc or Pig) Club, and the Fly Club. At Oxford it is the Group. Cornell also has a fraternal order. In 1869, a Spade & Grave Order was created, and its members were known as "Graves Men," and then later "Diggers." At Columbia College (now a Univ.) a fraternity was started called Ax and Coffin, and at Wesleyan one was started called Skull & Serpent. But these last two fraternities have lacked the caliber of men that Skull & Bones and Scroll & Keys have.

William Huntington Russell (1809-85)is a significant person. He is descended from Rev. Nodiah Russell who along with Rev. James Pierpont founded Yale. The Collins Illuminati family and the Unitarian Church were also involved in the founding of Yale University. Rev. James Pierpont's descendants went on to become Masons, Skull & Bonesmen, and marry into bloodlines connected to Princess Di. His daughter married  William Russell and the great granddaughter of Rev. James Pierpont married Illuminatus/financier John Pierpont Morgan's dad.

Meanwhile, Rev. Nodiah Russell, the other founder, went on to have his descendants become slave and opium shippers, as well as pirates. The most notable descendant being William Huntington Russell, the founder of the Order of Skull & Bones. This family's company, Russell & Company had the Skull & Bones as its company logo. It had as one of its top business partners Warren Delano, Jr. who was grandfather of FDR and chief of Russell & Company operations (opium) in China.

The Russell family and Taft family are closely related. These families have played a role within the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons. This author has also worked with a number of people who were participants in Illuminati satanic rituals performed by the leaders of Jehovah's Witnesses and also the leaders of the Mormon LDS church.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Zionism among past Watchtower leaders

COMFORT FOR THE JEWS

(Investigator 83, 2002 March)
 
 

COMFORT FOR THE JEWS – A SUMMARY

Comfort for the Jews (1925) was an official book of the Watch Tower Society – the legal and publishing channel of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The author, Joseph F Rutherford (1869-1942) was the president of the WTS at the time, hence the leader of JWs.

Rutherford claimed in Comfort For The Jews:

This volume...is the first unbiased presentation of the subject from the Scriptural point of view.
(Introduction p. 3)
The proof herein submitted...is based upon prophecy...as recorded in the Holy Scriptures and upon the physical facts in fulfilment. (p. 10)

The rebuilding of Palestine is now beginning and is well under way. This is being done clearly in fulfilment of prophecy uttered as promises from Jehovah. (p. 12)

The mere fact that the Lord said he would overturn it until a set time, is conclusive proof that it is God's purpose to restore Israel to his favor upon certain conditions. (p. 45)

Starting late in 1925 Israel would become: "...a mighty nation, even greater than in the past." (pp. 86-97)  And:
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the faithful prophets had the spirit of Jehovah... Those faithful ones shall come forth from the graves and be established in the land of Palestine. (p. 96)
Israel's restoration has the support of Jesus:
The testimony of Jesus therefore is a complete corroboration of what has heretofore been proven by the prophets of old and by the physical facts in fulfilment of those prophecies. (p. 73)
It is:
"in fulfilment of prophecy" (pp. 12, 67, 125)
"absolutely certain of fulfilment" (19)
"promised" (pp. 53, 55)
Why do some people disagree that Israel will be restored?:
Because the promises of God are not always fulfilled at the time when men think they should be fulfilled, many lose faith in his promises made. Let each one settle it in his own mind for all time that when God Almighty makes a promise that promise is absolutely certain of fulfilment in God's due time. (p. 12)
Finally:
It must be apparent to every Jew who has followed the argument herein set forth, which has been based exclusively upon the Holy Scriptures, that God intends Israel, the Jews, to have the land of Palestine; that he promised the land to Abraham and to his seed after him, and that he purposes to keep that promise... (p. 125)
 
LIFE (1929) OFFERS MORE COMFORT

A subsequent book by Rutherford was equally dogmatic:

LIFE (1929) says:

Have these things come about by chance? Can any Jew who is familiar with the history of his people, and particularly with God's dealing with that people, have any doubt about what the present activities in Palestine mean? The return of the Jews to that land...is but in fulfilment of prophecy. (p. 141)
It was exactly at the proper time, to wit, 1878, that the first favor toward the Jew was manifested. A short time thereafter there began in Russia, Roumania and Germany a great persecution of the Jews. Undoubtedly the Lord permitted this persecution to create in the Jews themselves a desire to return to Palestine. (p. 155)

 
GOD RENEGES ON PROMISES – COMFORT WITHDRAWN

In 1931, Rutherford changed the interpretation – what was previously of God and true became of Satan and false.

In three volumes titled VINDICATION (1931; 1932; 1932) the Bible prophecies of Israel's restoration were reinterpreted. Rutherford applied the prophecies to his own cult, the JWs.

In 1918 the Russellites – as the early JWs were often called – came close to disintegration when prophecies of world destruction around 1918 failed. Rutherford and seven supporters went to prison. In 1919 they were released and revived the movement under Rutherford's leadership.

This 1919 revival of Russellism and of the WTS under Rutherford's leadership is the fulfilment – claimed Rutherford – of the Bible's prophecies of the restoration of Israel.
 

This 1919 revival of Russellism and of the WTS under Rutherford's leadership is the fulfilment – claimed Rutherford – of the Bible's prophecies of the restoration of Israel.  
From the publication of VINDICATION in 1931 onwards, the JW interpretation of Old Testament prophecies about Israel can be summarized by two principles:

1 When the Old Testament refers to Israel and Jerusalem favourably as restored, or as otherwise approved of by God, it applies to the JWs;
2 When Israel is referred to negatively – as wicked, rebellious and facing destruction – it applies to 20th-century Christendom i.e. to all the Christian religions.


VINDICATION II, for example, says:

Heretofore even God's people have overlooked the fact that the affairs of God's kingdom with reference to the things of earth are of far greater importance than the rehabilitation of that little strip of land on the eastern side of the Mediterranean sea. The Jews have received more attention at their hands than they have really deserved. Therefore this prophecy must have its chief fulfilment upon the true people of God's kingdom which are now on the earth. (p. 258)
Thus the prophecies that Israel would be restored were thrown away and Rutherford predicted:
It therefore follows and the Scriptures conclusively prove that the nation of Israel or Jews will never be restored as a nation...
(Consolation November 29, 1939 p. 17, Australian edition)
"Never" lasted only nine years and became a false prediction in 1948 when the nation of Israel was founded.
 
 
REVISED INTERPRETATION FAILS

The post-1930 JW approach to the Old Testament prophecies of the destruction of Israel and Jerusalem by Babylon (in 586 BC) was that such prophecies would have a second fulfilment upon Christianity.

This approach, coupled with calculations that 6000 years from Adam and Eve terminate in the 1970s, led JW leaders to predict stuff like:

Shortly, within our 20th century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom.
(The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah – How? 1971 p. 216)
The "battle in the day of Jehovah" is, to JWs, synonymous with Armageddon. It is world destruction that starts with the destruction of Christendom and merges into the destruction of all other religions and all nations and all people who aren't JWs.
Anyone who looks around will observe that this prophecy is false.
 

JWS – NOT MUCH COMFORT

The JW leadership have, since the sect began in the 1870s, discarded, changed or reinterpreted every doctrine they call "major" and most of the interpretations they call "minor" – thousands of points and thousands of Bible verses.

It's as if the slander of the JW leaders against the clergy applies to themselves:

Few if any of those of the clergy class have real faith in the Word of God, because they have become wise in their own conceits, feeding themselves and not the people, and have repudiated the Word of the Lord... (Comfort For The Jews p.
Clearly, the JWs do not provide genuine "Comfort For The Jews" nor for anyone.

Source: http://ed5015.tripod.com/JwComfort83.htm

But what happened in the 12 years after writing his book that provoked Rutherford to change his tune?

Rutherford in his book 'Enemies' writes about Jews "ultra-selfish men called 'Jews' who look only for personal gain."(19)
In the same book he writes that the Jews "practice religion, of which the Devil is the author."(20) In another book he again writes about the Jews: "Be it known once and for all that those profiteering, conscienceless, selfish men who call themselves Jews, and who control the greater portion of the finances of the world and the business of the world..."(21)
Speaking at 'Bible Students'(22) convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1920's, Rutherford described a Jew as "the hooked-nosed, stooped-shouldered little individual who stands on the street corner trying to gyp you out of every nickel you've got."(23) We see here clear examples of vulgar and primitive anti-Semitism. In yet another book he wrote that Jews lost favor with God when they murdered Jesus.(24)

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford



Looks like his wife, Mary Malcolm Fetzer, was Jewish. Perhaps he was torn between his affection to her and the truth about the Jews