BIBLICAL THEMES - VOLUME II (Documentar teologic)

BIBLICAL THEMES - VOLUME II

Do you think about what you read in the Bible?

I greet you with greace and peace from God, Yehowah, our Father Almighty, the awesome and glorious Creator of Universe, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our King!

Teachings, Church History and Bible Prophecy

The origin of the teachings of Bible Students and Jehovah's Witnesses groups

This article is not against this groups, is about the origin of their teachings.

There are some religious groups who say that they have obeyed the commandments below and therefore only they have divine guidance, only they have come out of Babylon the Great and thus only they are God's people. Among these groups are such a group are Jehovah's Witnesses. They have a specific teaching about the seven times of 2520 years and say that this doctrine is from God. Obviously, if the doctrine of the seven times is not from God, then it is from the Evil One (Satan the Devil) and so they have not strayed from all that is unclean and are not out of Babylon the Great. Therefore, "Come out from among them and be separated from them," says the Lord, "do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you." (2 Cor. 6:17) Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not partake of her sins and be struck with her plagues!" (Rev. 18: 4)

Jehovah's Witnesses are taught by their staff that their religion and teachings come from God. But Charles Taze Russell, their founder, claimed that he looked in the garden of the various cults and picked the flowers he preferred, from which he made a bouquet (see the testimony in the book The Finished Mystery). Obviously, flowers represent the teachings and the gardens, the Christian churches.

That is why certain flowers picked by Russell are not found in the Bible, but in the garden of certain churches existing in his time. Such a flower is the doctrine of the seven times (of 2520 years), smelled in various Adventist and pre-Adventist ways (groups). By smell is meant its interpretation. So how can we discern which smell comes from God and which does not? How did they check if the 2520 year theory is from a man or from God’s spirit?

The Witnesses know that Russell's idea of the seven times (to be understand his vision of the 2520 years) no longer corresponds to what Witnesses now believe about this interpretation, but still believe in some parts of it, see the research on http://www.607v587.com/

The basis of this doctrine was taken from the Adventists, and in turn they took it from others. Whoever wishes can examine what this doctrine sounds like in the Adventist view.

Here is the article, but NOTE that I not support this view:

http://www.prophecyhelps101.com/Bud's%20SEVEN%20TIMES.pdf
By Bud Alavezos, 2008-06-29

BudLCarolA@aol.com
The 2520 year by William Miller

Other sources

William Miller's 2520 Prophecy: A comprehensive and detailed research exposing the errors of the 2520 prophecy Paperback – June 19, 2016

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William Miller's 2520 Prophecy: A comprehensive and detailed research exposing the errors of the 2520 prophecy Paperback - June 19, 2016.

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The 2520 year by William Miller from www.amazon.com

The 2520 - Bible Picture Pathways

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Years later, in 1875, James White published a book on William Miller and was still promoting the 2520 prophecy - proving that it was not him that wrote the anti ...

2520 Year Prophecy

https://www.2520yearprophecy.com

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A major climate change, William Miller being challenged by his diest friends takes two years off to prove and study the Bible during this same time period, what ...

The Angel Gabriel and William Miller - No. 2520

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Now who was “His angel” that God sent to William Miller? ... detail to show that the 2520 is not valid the very year we formed our God ordained church.

2520 Prophecy Reaveled - Broken Adventist Ministry

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The 2520 is actually the fisrt prophecy given to William Miller. It represents the time in which God raised the SDA church. The 2300 days really is representing ...

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Adventist Pioneers of the 25202 677 B. C. -1844 A. D. - William Miller (1782 -1849) ... 2520 Years 677 B. C. 457 B. C. 220 Years 2300 Years A. D. 1844.

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2520 Prophecy. 344 likes. Featured book - William Miller's 2520 Prophecy. ... Where in the Bible does it say that Manasseh was captured in his 22nd year?

After the failure of the Millerite expectation in 1843-1844, the Adventist preachers George Storrs and Nelson H. Barbour of the George Storrs’ Adventist branch still preached the 2520 year, and they gave this view to their new associated pastor and disciple Charles Taze Russell.

So, Bible Students and Jehovah's Witnesses have this view from William Miller, through Nelson H. Barbour and others. But today JW’s believe that Adventist are from Babylon the Great, but they not.

Another connection with the origin of the so-called 2520 years, the Times of the Nations are related not to God, but to a man, Joshua Spalding

It is very interesting how certain people take different doctrines formulated by people and place them "in the mouth of God."

The 2520 years Gentile Times are from God or from Joshua Spalding?
If this man was a man of God, why did not the Witnesses and the Bible Students take up all his doctrine? William Miller, George Storrs, Nelson Barbour and other Adventist preachers are connected with this teaching.

From the book Nelson Barbour: The Millennium's Forgotten Prophet (available at lulu.com):

"Barbour is indebted to John Aquila Brown for the 2520 year computation. Brown in turn owes the calculation of the “seven times” of Daniel’s prophecy as 2520 years and the association of it to The Times of the Gentiles to Joshua Spalding.

Spaulding wrote Divine Theory; A System of Divinity in 1798, though it seems not to have been published until 1808. Spalding, writing of the seven-times of Daniel’s Great Tree Vision, said:

Seven times, or one full week of years, upon the great prophetic scale, is 2520 years. This supposition is much strengthened by the consideration, that the continuance of mystical Babylon is said expressly to be for a time, times, and a half; and as the times allotted for this division of the empire, is the half of a week, three times and a half, it is natural to conclude, that the whole of the times, called the times of the Gentiles, is a whole week, or seven times."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses_doctrine

Some questions about the 2520 years and 1914 dogma

Our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Son of God, now is a spiritual being, and he have a spiritual body. So, it is logic, that this body is like his Father’s body, and man can not seen this spiritual glory: John 3:13,16, 4:24, 17:5 and 1Timothy 6:16. Human world can’t see our Lord Jesus spiritual body. But, all of this is not a problem to admit his manifestation behind on the perceptible signs, when he will come, compare with Matthew 24:33, Revelation 6:15-17.

The first problem:

The starting point of the dogma leading to 1914 is the reinterpretation of a prophecy fulfilled one hundred percent from Daniel chapter 4. This is a dangerous game. Behind this scenario is not God, but the Evil one.

The second problem:

Even if such a reinterpretation were possible - which I doubt - if he come in 1914 to receive royal power and authority, what about Matthew 28:18-20? He received all the authority in heaven and earth long time before 1914.

The third problem:

The 1914 JW’s theory say our Lord Jesus come BEFORE the signs, but the Bible say he will come AFTER the signs: Matthew 24:27-33

The fourth problem:

"Jerusalem oppressed till the end of the gentiles time", so the Gentile Times not ended:

Luke 21:24 (KJV) - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
The fifth problem:

The background of this doctrine is through Bible Student Movement, Wendelist and Barbourite Adventist Movement, William Miller's Movement, Joshua Spalding, John Aquila Brown's and other speculators. Not from God’s spirit, was from the spirit of Babylon The Great speculators who’s forget the teaching “to watch”:

See also Battle of Waco"

Millerite Adventist Splinter Groups:

Adventist Church Reform Movement

Branch Seventh Day Adventists

Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church

Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Association

People's Christian Church

Promise Adventist Church Brazilian Pentecostal Adventists

Seventh-day Adventist Church

Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement

Sabbath Rest Advent Church

And others.

Other Millerite Adventists:

Christian Nations - Eagle Warriors

Church of God (Reinersten)

Kingdom of God on Earth Within Man

Remnant Church

Restored Israel of Yahweh

Shiloh True Light Church of Christ

Star of Truth Foundation

True Church

Church of God World Mission Society

Sunday Millerite Adventists:

Advent Christian Church of Christ

Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith)

Church of the Blessed Hope (Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith)

Primitive Advent Christian Church

And others.

Resources
http://www.seanet.com/~raines/offshoot.html
http://www.southbear.com/Denominations.html

Charles Taze Russell early view about the Adventist Nelson H. Barbour as "the chosen vessel of God", was it real?

Adventist pastor Charles Taze Russell early view about Nelson H. Barbour as "the chosen vessel of God"

(Time and Prophecy, by David Rice, page 9)

"Bro. Russell says of him: "A brother, Barbour of Rochester, was we believe, the chosen vessel of God through whom the 'Midnight Cry' issued to the sleeping virgins of Christ, announcing a discrepancy of thirty years in some of Miller's calculations, and giving a rearrangement of the same argument (and some additional), proving that ... the morning was in 1873, and the Bridegroom due in that morning in 1874." (R288)

"Other Adventists adopted these views also. Bro. Russell wrote "I recalled certain arguments used by my friend Jonas Wendell and other Adventists to prove that 1873 would witness the burning of the world etc. -- the chronology of the world showing that the six thousand years from Adam ended with the beginning of 1873 -- and other arguments drawn from the Scriptures and supposed to coincide." (R3822)8"

http://2043ad.com/timeandprophecy.pdf

Nelson H. Barbour as "the chosen vessel of God" is confirmed in another place, "The Finished Mystery", from 1917, in which is stated:

"Pastor Russell took the place of Mr. Barbour who became unfaitful and upon whom was fulfilled the prophecies of Matt. 24:48-51 and Zech. 11:15-17".

So, who knows if CT Russell had other wrong teachings or not? Certainly, God! And his words make it clear.

BS-JW's tree>

Russellite Groups

Bible Student Groups:

Christian Believers Conference

Christian Bible Students Association

Christian Prophets of Jehovah

Dawn Bible Students Association

Epiphany Bible Students Association

Jehovah's Witnesses

Independent Bible Students:

Christian Millennial Fellowship

Laodicean Home Missionary Movement

Layman's Home Missionary Movement

Lord Our Righteousness (Life Support)

Pastoral Bible Institute

Philanthropic Assembly

Back to the Bible Way

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Bible_Way

Goshen Fellowship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses_splinter_groups#cite_ref-Willis.2C_Tony_2007._p._268_1-1

Free Christians

http://bijbelonderzoekers.multiply.com/j....Fjournal%2Fitem

But was this man "the chosen vessel of God"? No. Not at all. He was just an Adventist linked speculator. We are commanded to beware of this kind of people>

Col 2:18. Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

A new brand of the Second Adventists and the appearance of a false Bible Study movement

THE BIBLE STUDY MOVEMENT

IN THE DAYS OF C. T. RUSSELL, BEFORE 1874

The false Adventist movement before the 1874 year

A false beginnings and a false witnessing

In 1870 at Allegheny (now Pittsburgh, northside), Pa., Charles Taze Russell and others (perhaps about ten) beginning to meet in studies of the Bible. Among these early ones were William Imrie Mann, who was

subsequently to help him for many years; A.D. Jones, a clerk in the Russell haberdashery; W.H. Conley, an older man; his father Joseph L. Russell, and his sister Mae. It was in the year 1872 that he first

concluded the scriptures taught that Jesus gave himself as a substitutionary atonement for Adam’s transgression, and that as a result all mankind “must come forth from their graves and be brought to a clear knowledge of the truth and to a full opportunity to gain everlasting life in Christ.” (These doctrines, called "ransom" and "restitution," were subsequently the foundation and basis of all Russell’s teachings.)

It is said the three Russells were immersed in 1874.3 Then in 1876 October, Charles T. Russell was elected pastor of the Allegheny Bible class. They were greatly assisted by the Adventist George W. Stetson of Pittsburgh (1871-1873) and then 100 miles to the north, at Edinboro, Pa. (1873-1879), and by Adventist George Storrs (1796-1879) of Brooklyn, editor of the Bible Examiner until 1879.

It was also in 1876 that he met the Adventist Nelson H. Barbour, editor of The Herald of the Morning (b. June 1875), then of Rochester, N.Y. (previously The Midnight Cry and Herald of the Morning in Boston), and his colleague John H. Paton, from Almont, Mich. Barbour and Paton were much older than Russell.

Russell learned from Paton and Barbour the chronology and time features of the Second Advent, indicating the Lord had already returned invisibly in 1874 Autumn. In turn, he contributed to them

information on the "ransom" doctrine and on the object and manner of the Second Advent. Thereupon, in 1877,6 Barbour and Russell published a 196-page booklet, “The Three Worlds and Plan of

Redemption,” combining the ideas of restitution and time-prophecy. The Herald of the Morning was then revitalized, with Russell providing the finances and becoming an assistant editor. Barbour

continued publishing from Rochester, while Russell and Paton traveled and contributed articles. They were joined in this work by Arthur P. Adams, a young Methodist minister in Beverly, Mass. These four and A.D. Jones constituted a zealous team promulgating the doctrines of the ransom and the Lord’s invisible presence.

In 1877 Russell called together all the Protestant ministers of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pa., to show them the Lord had already returned and was invisibly present. Perhaps one-third attended the meeting, but none agreed with him. Also, in the spring of 1877 Russell wrote a pamphlet, “The Object and Manner of the Lord’s Return,” covering invisible presence, a rapture, restitution, and a suggestion that the return of favor to Israel would be due in 1878.

It seems likely the Russells were among those immersed by the Adventist George Storrs on his June 1874 visit to Pittsburgh

(reported in the Bible Examiner).

Some detail is given in the Present Truth 73, 5, p66-79 (Sep.-Oct. 1991).

In December 1873, N.H. Barbour of Rochester, N.Y., began publishing The Midnight Cry, a monthly journal teaching from Biblical chronology that the Second Advent would occur in 1874. The circulation soon reached 15,000. But then many separated in wariness of time prophecy. Then 1874 came and nothing visible occurred. They were false witnesses of the Lord.

According to the Bible, what should he have done?

God does not take into account the times of ignorance and now commands all people everywhere to repent; (Acts 17:30)

But I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, in all Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God and do deeds worthy of their repentance. (Acts 26:20)

But, with the hardening of your heart, which does not want to repent, you are gathering a treasure of anger for the day of anger and of showing the righteous judgment of God, (Rom. 2:5)

I gave her time to repent, but she doesn't want to repent of her fornication! (Rev. 2:21)

A new split of the Second Adventists and the appearance of the Bible Student movement with some bad Adventist influences

THE BIBLE STUDY MOVEMENT

IN THE DAYS OF C. T. RUSSELL, AFTER 1874

The false Adventist movement after the 1874 year

A false teaching and a false witnessing

Russell old and new associates continuing to preach a false teaching and giving a false testimony

After 1874

After re-checking the chronology, and after re-examining the prophecies, it was concluded that the Lord had returned invisibly. Then this 16-page monthly changed its name to The Herald of the Morning ca. 1875 June.

Its distribution

in 1878 was probably around 5,000 to 6,000. Two others who helped the studies were George W. Stetson, wellesteemed in the entire Christian community, and George Storrs, one of the four prime movers of the Adventist movement of the 1840s, and later a founder of the Life and Advent Union group of Adventists.

Cf. Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 2, p.223: “Many of these parallels, and other truths, were seen from prophecy, and were preached as here presented, several years prior to A.D. 1878 - that year being announced as the time of returning favor to Israel, before it came, and before any event marked it so. The author of this volume published these conclusions drawn from Scripture, in pamphlet form, in the spring of A.D. 1877.”

The Allegheny population was around 75,000 (and growing) – about half that of Pittsburgh.

Compare Martin Luther's wrong conclusion: “When the Turk beginneth a little to decline, then certainly the last days will come.” Miles Grant, “Positive Theology,” 6th edn.; Boston: Advent Christian Publication Society [ca. 1895], p. 402; quoting “Table Talk,” ch.

58, 1st edn., p. 479.

Based on chronological parallels, all were expecting a rapture of the saints in the spring of 1878. But when that spring came and nothing visible happened, a parting of the ways was at hand. Russell reinterpreted the date to mean that only sleeping saints were raised, and that it had been invisible, in accordance with a prior suggestion by G. Storrs (see Appendix A). Barbour instead renounced the

ransom doctrine and published an article in The Herald of the Morning saying so. Russell and Paton continued until the end of the year to publish articles reaffirming their belief in the ransom doctrine, but they were unable to convince Barbour. Then they both left Barbour, leaving the Adventist Allegheny ecclesia of pastor Barbour.

What was the reason and why they saw certain so-called data, which would have been predicted in the Bible (which most Christian preachers did not see)?

Well, they believed that the Bible has hidden messages that only those initiated by God fully understand. But such a thing does not exist in the Bible, but this thought comes from a vain and self-aggrandizing thought, just as in the case of the Gnostic movement that has long passed.

We are warned not to be deceived by such people:

so that we are no longer children, floating hither and thither, carried by every wind of learning, by the cunning of people and by their cunning in the means of deception; (Eph. 4:14)

Take care that no one steals you with philosophy and vain delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the beginning teachings of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:8)

Russell’s Zion’s Watch Tower

A propaganda for fake End Time news, mixed with the defense of the faith

The Russell’s started a big propaganda for a fake End Time news about the end time in 1914 and mixed it with the defense of the faith.

The devil would not be successful if he did not make (falsely, of course) the apologist of the faith. This is the case with many characters - behind whom is none other than Satan, who erects himself in the defenders of faith and the Bible, so that he can then justify his personal, extremist points of view. This is how Russell and his group attract supporters, presenting themselves as defenders of the faith.

“And it is not surprising, because even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” (2Cor.11:14)

Russell proceeded to edit and publish his own monthly from Pittsburgh, Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence. The purpose was to promulgate the doctrines of the ransom, restitution, invisible second presence, and other truths as they might become more clearly understood.

In this effort J.H. Paton, Almont, Michigan; Wm. I. Mann, Allegheny, Pa.; and B.W. Keith, Dansville, New York; H.B. Rice, West Oakland, Calif.; and A.D. Jones, Pittsburgh, Pa., were listed as regular contributors.

Much of the initial distribution was, of course, the same as for The Herald of the Morning. Though, in addition, the Watch Tower filled out the subscriptions of Rice’s The Last Trump, which had had to be

suspended. Many of the recipients of the Watch Tower were already well acquainted with the editor, owing to his travels over the preceding three years from New England to the Midwest. From the first issue of 1879 July to 1880 January about 6,000 copies of each issue were sent, whether requested or not; thereafter it was sent for 50¢ per year, or free to those requesting it.

It seems worthwhile to interject that it was in January 1879 that Maria Frances Ackley9 responded to a meeting appealing to the public, and she commenced meeting with the Allegheny Bible study class.

Within three months, in March 1879, she became Mrs. C.T. Russell.10 She promptly became associate editor of the Watch Tower.

A considerable portion of the first several issues of the Watch Tower was written by Paton. These articles dealt mainly with the ransom, church, restitution, and to a lesser extent the invisible presence,

chronology, numerology, and the tabernacle.

Then, too, since “The Three Worlds” had been out of print for some time, Paton wrote a new 332-page book published in June 1880, covering the same essentials, called “Day Dawn.” Jones arranged for

the printing and binding, while Russell advertised it in the Watch Tower.

But then differences arose. The first hint of this was seen in 1880 October, when an editor’s note was appended to Paton’s article on the scapegoat. (The following month a note of praise was appended to Paton’s article on the covenants.) In 1881 Barbour published an article on Lev. 16 in The Herald of the Morning endeavoring to disprove the ransom doctrine. After studying Lev. 16, Russell came up with several new conclusions on the tabernacle. Before publishing the new ideas he called a conference with Paton and three others. Paton alone was unable to concur. Soon thereafter Paton began to alter his concept of the ransom doctrine. After 1881 June, Russell refused Paton’s articles altogether. Then Paton began his own publication, World’s Hope ca. 1882, and the split was complete. (It will be noted that although Paton’s view of the ransom varied from Russell’s, it was still different from Barbour’s.)

Resources from>

http://www.globallight.org.uk/downloads/Vertical%20Lines.pdf

When we see that a sect has dubious teachings, but at the same time defends the Bible, we can be sure that this intention is a plaster and a screen to justify its own ways. But if we put them to the test, we will be able to "catch" them and show what they are really after> money, fame and success "I know your works, your toil and your patience, and that you cannot suffer the wicked; that you put to the test those who say they are apostles, and they are not, and you found them liars. (Rev. 2:2 )

A.P. Pottle, "The Power of the Mind," The Golden Age

Unfortunately the followers of Charles Taze Russell or the early Bible Students has some “strange” believes.

"Strange" would be easy to say, if we think about who is behind the tours of false ideas>

But the Spirit clearly says that, in the last times, some will abandon the faith, to cling to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons, (1 Tim. 4:1)

And the great dragon, the old serpent, called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world, was cast down to the earth; and his angels were cast down with him. (Rev. 12:9)

Take a look in A.P. Pottle, "The Power of the Mind," from The Golden Age magazine, February 25, 19-25, pp. 332-334 – explained in this article below.

Quack Cures and Radionic

Ouija Boards

By Ken Raines

[From JW Research Journal, vol. 3, #2, Spring, 1996.

Updated August 27, 1999.]

In 1953, the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) ended their endorsement of the "electronic reactions of Abrams" or the E.R.A. They claimed that radionics, as it was now called, was medical quackery. In 1962 and 1963 they said the E.R.A. methods were psychic and spiritistic in nature. No mention was made in these articles that they had been heavily involved with this "spiritism" since the early 1920s.

Most of this the Jehovah's Witnesses were involved in. Radionics machines, colored lights to "cure" patients as they lay with their heads pointing northward, "uncanny powers" or spiritism, etc. I guess this made Bethel doctors such as Work and Howlett quacks who "were happy to separate sick people from their money." About lying with your head pointing north, The Golden Age suggested this for proper sleep. In a health article, The Golden Age in 1929 said:

Sleep on the right side or flat on your back, with the head toward the north so as to get the benefit of earth's magnetic currents.[17]

In Mae Work's 1930 Golden Age article on the E.R.A. in response to Roy Goodrich she said:

... the lines of magnetic force will go in the direction they prefer. It is for this reason that it is better to sleep with the head to the north, when that is possible.[18]

Conclusion

The Watchtower Society's leaders traditionally have not had any good, qualified training in the medical field. Their history well testifies to that fact. [19] Their endorsement of the "electronic reactions of Abrams" and its associated occult and psychic practices is just one example of this. They endorsed this for decades after it was deemed useless by scientific investigators and experts in the medical field.

The number of "doctors" in the Watchtower Society who used, promoted and even invented E.R.A. machines and techniques and the numerous high Watchtower officials treated with it indicates the depth of involvement of the Watchtower with the E.R.A. Here is a list of individuals associated with the Society that were involved with using the E.R.A. techniques and devices:

William Hudgings, a director of the Watchtower's People's Pulpit Association, had an E.R.A. clinic "a stones throw from Bethel" that JWs knew about and visited. He was associated with the "Radio Disease Killer" version of the oscilloclast. He wrote a book endorsing Dr. Abrams and the ERA called, Dr. Abrams and the Electron Theory in 1923(New York: New Century).

Dr. R.A. Gamble, a JW who was the chairman of the 1921 Bible Student (JW) convention invented the Electronic Radio Biola. The Golden Age magazine announced this in an a full length article, and even included an advertisement of the quack device so readers could order it to diagnose and cure their diseases at home.

Mae J. Work, a "Bethel" Osteopath, used Abrams' oscilloclast in the 1920s and 1930s to treat JWs of diseases including cancer. She gave lectures at E. R. A. conventions.

M.A. Howlett, a "Bethel" doctor of unknown medical philosophy, used the E.R.A. technique on "Bethelites" in the 1940s.

The JW "Sister," Mary LeCocq operated an E.R.A. clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas in the 1920s. Much of her methods were clearly occultic in nature as documented by Goodrich. Many JWs, on the advice of Watchtower officials were treated by her. Dr. Albert Abrams himself was called to testify on her behalf of the efficacy of the E.R.A. in a mail fraud case involving LeCocq. He died the day before he was scheduled to testify. [20]

Dr. Rolin Jones, a personal physician to Judge Rutherford, Watchtower Society president had an E.R.A. clinic in Florida. Many high level Watchtower officials visited him for treatment, perhaps Rutherford himself. [21]

It took the Watchtower Society 40 years to reach the same conclusions about the E.R.A. Roy Goodrich made in a few hours. If both Goodrich and now the Society are right about the spiritistic or demonic nature of the E.R.A., the Watchtower Society's leaders were involved in medical spiritism for several decades, along with many of their followers.

This endorsement of quackery put the physical, and perhaps spiritual, health of many in jeopardy. Their uninformed opinions continue to put at risk the health and lives of millions. Their most recent medical position in this regard is their current ban on blood transfusions. Yet, they continue to condemn others for putting their follower's lives unnecessarily at risk. They say this makes them "bloodguilty" before God. The Watchtower Society has continually been guilty of the same thing throughout their history.

For example, how many JWs died trying to be cured of serious diseases by submitting to Watchtower authorized treatments with Gamble's Electronic Radio Biola? How many JWs were treated at Bethel for their cancer with Mae Work's oscilloclast? I seriously doubt the Radio Disease Killer actually "killed" any diseases. JWs may have died prematurely by relying on it. If so, perhaps it should have been called the Radio JW Killer.

References:

1. See, A.P. Pottle, "The Power of the Mind," The Golden Age , February 25, 1925, pp. 332-4; R.A. Gamble, "Automatic Electronic Diagnosis," The Golden Age , April 22, 1925, pp. 451-455; William F. Hudgings, "Waiting for the Great Physician," The Golden Age , September 17, 1926, p. 113; "Camparative Value of White and Brown Sugar," The Golden Age , November 30, 1927, pp. 138-139; Roy D. Goodrich, "Ouija-Boards, Small and Large," The Golden Age , March 5, 1930, pp. 355-362; M.A.Work, "What is E.R.A?" The Golden Age , April 30, 1930, pp. 483-488; Dr. Mae Johnson Work, "Cancer--Why the Increase?" The Golden Age , February 18, 1931, pp. 338-342.

2. R.A. Gamble, "Automatic Electronic Diagnosis," The Golden Age , April 22, 1925, pp. 451-455. In the article, Gamble said of his invention, "I have named this new discovery, which I believe will be epochal in the history of the treatment of disease, and which I am exclusively announcing in T HE G OLDEN A GE prior to its general publication elsewhere, The Electronic Radio Biola, which means life renewed by radio waves or electrons. The Biola automatically diagnosis and treats diseases by the use of the electronic vibrations. The diagnosis is 100 percent correct..." (p. 454)

3.The Golden Age , April 22, 1925, p. 479.

4. William F. Hudgings, "Waiting for the Great Physician," The Golden Age , September 17, 1926, p. 113.

5. Roy D. Goodrich, "Ouija-Boards, Small and Large," The Golden Age , March 5, 1930, pp. 355-362.

6. M.A.Work, "What is E.R.A?" The Golden Age , April 30, 1930, pp. 483-488.

7.See the previous article, Roy D. Goodrich and the ERA Ouija Board, JW Research Journal, Spring, 1996, pp. 17-20. Goodrich's account of his blowing the whistle on the Society's endorsement of the ERA and his being dissfellowshipped over the issue is recorded in his book, Demonism and the Watchtower, 1969.

8. This 1953 Awake! article was the first official Society rejection of the ERA in print. I do not know when JWs stopped using the ERA and associated devices. One well known ex-JW, professor M. James Penton, author of Apocalypse Delayed The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, claimed to have been treated with the Electronic Radio Biola by another JW in the year 1949 (JW Research Journal, Winter, 1997, p. 29). After this and subsequent watchtower articles against the ERA and Radionics, one assumes most JWs forsoot such treatments. On the other hand, I have heard reports of JWs to this day seeking out "electronic" treatments (JW Research Journal, Jan.-June, 1999, pp. 35-36).

Shorter version from> https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/164401/ouija-board

Does anyone guarantee that if you use God's Name in worship, you are his approved servant?

Take a look in this example from the ancient times:

Young's Literal Translation

Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate

1The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 2Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah, and thou hast proclaimed there this word, and hast said, Hear a word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, who are coming in at these gates, to bow before Jehovah: 3Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Amend your ways, and your doings, And I cause you to dwell in this place. 4Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah [are] they!

The approval of God Almighty is only for that who are righteous! There are many proofs that the Bible Students movement was wrong from the beginnings. All of what I present is a proof why the Bible Students and JW’s was not the prophetic word of God:

1.Failed prediction about the second coming of Lord Jesus in 1874

2. Failed prediction about the End of the Christian harvest in 1874

3. A second failed prediction about the End of the Christian harvest in 1881

4. A failed prediction about the End of human rulership in 1914

5. A second failed prediction about the End of human rulership in 1918 1918, and other false new new terminus

6. A failed prediction about the time of resurrection of the patriarchs and prophets in 1925

7. A failed prediction about 1975, as the worldwide jubilee

“In 1966 the Watch Tower Society issued the first of what became a sequence of statements on the importance of a new date—1975—that raised the possibility of that year heralding the beginning of Christ's millennial reign and, along with it, doom for unbelievers,” .... aka who don't believe this "good news"....

"Since its formation in the 1870s, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has claimed that God has chosen the organization from among the churches to fill a special role in the consummation of prophetic history. Charles Taze Russell, a prolific writer and founder of the Bible Student movement, viewed himself as a "mouthpiece" of God and later as the embodiment of the "faithful and wise servant" of the parable of Matthew 24:45-47. The Watch Tower Society is now the legal and administrative arm of Jehovah's Witnesses. Its representatives assert that they have been given insight into the true meaning of the Bible and the unique ability to discern the signs of Christ's second coming. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society publications have made a series of predictions about Christ's Second Coming and the advent of God's Kingdom, each of which has gone unfulfilled. Almost all the predictions for 1878, 1881, 1914, 1918 and 1925 were later reinterpreted as a confirmation of the eschatological framework of the Bible Student movement and Jehovah's Witnesses, with many of the predicted events viewed as having taken place invisibly. Further expectations were held for the arrival of Armageddon in 1975, but resulted in a later apology to members from the society's leadership." Wikipedia

If the Watchtower had not made these failed predictions, but another group, demanding the same claims about itself (as if it were God's communication channel on earth), what would the Watchtower have said? Would he have accepted them being like that? I do not believe. And then why should we believe their claim?

No matter how well they argued in other respects, what they did disqualifies them.

No matter how excellent is the book review of Gerard Gertoux: Not a Nameless God - by George L Pullman, they are still false witnesses about God's plan.

"Name of God Y.eH.oW.aH Which is Pronounced as it is Written I_Eh_oU_Ah" by Gérard Gertoux and a review by George L Pullman

"God's name is fundamental to all monotheistic religions. Paradoxically, religions prefer to translate God's name as Yahweh "He Is," Adonay "my Lord," Allah "The God," rather than a transcription of the name, which is more usual. However, the key to unlock this mystery was provided by the famous Maïmonides, 800 years ago, when he wrote that the Name "is read as it is written." Name of God Y.eH.oW.aH Which is Pronounced as it is Written I_Eh_oU_Ah is Gérard Gertoux's examination of the paradox of the correct pronunciation. To learn more about this book, please visit the author's website at http://divinename.net."
http://www.amazon.com/Y-eH-oW-aH-Which-Pronounced-Written-I_Eh_Ou_Ah/dp/0761822046/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars “Not a Nameless God” November 29, 2003

By George L Pullman

Format:Paperback
Plato taught that God has no name (Timaios 28b,c). Philo, the Gnostics, Justin Martyr, and Clement of Alexandria likewise considered God nameless or unnameable. However, Jerome, translator of the Latin Vulgate, wrote in his Prologus Galeatus: "And we find the name of God, the Tetragram, in certain Greek volumes even to this day expressed in ancient letters." Due to the fact that these Hebrew letters were consonants, and there were originally no written characters for the vowels, it is held that the pronunciation of God's name is lost to us. Or it is thought God's name should be pronounced "Yahweh" due to the weight attached to the evidence of the Egyptian Elephantine Papyri. Gerard Gertoux in quite convincing fashion demonstrates the inaccuracy of these concepts in the light of compelling linguistic and historical evidence. Gertoux asks (p.114), "Was there really a prohibition on pronouncing the Tetragram in the first century? The answer is no, as, according to the Talmud this prohibition appeared from the middle of the second century." Gertoux readily exposes a solidly entrenched factoid (p.3): "that Jehovah is a barbarism originating from a wrong reading. As unbelievable as it may seem, this last affirmation is known to be false among scholars. This crude error has been denounced by Hebraists of all confessions, and with the support of the Vatican's Congregation of propaganda, but without result." Worthwhile reading, for as Gertoux quotes Maimonides, "it is impossible to have a deep relationship with a nameless God."

http://gertoux.online.fr/divinename/faq/A12.htm
http://www.chronosynchro.net/wordpress/

The story of CT Russell's wrong view about the gentile times and the great tribulation

Chares Taze Russell's wrong view about the gentile times and the great tribulation
If you still need proof that former Adventist pastor CT Russell is wrong and that all his predicted dates are unbiblical

"Luke 21:24 (KJV) - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

If you read carefully the collected text you will see that behind Russell's attempt to cling to a wrong explanation of the text, he is selling the Adventist and pre-Adventist environment, who have opened a long list with their speculations about the Time of the End.

It is obvious that these explanations were referring to the Bible, but they did not come from the biblical truth, but from the distortions of the Bible text and that is why they remained at the stage of speculation every time, and with every failed attempt, their authors did not learn anything, so they were condemned by the Devil, who made fun of them, to repeat them. All this are from well documented pages on the internet.

The original calculations were mostly based on dates from John Aquila Brown, who in 1823 published The Even-Tide in which he claimed that the "seven times" of Daniel 4 were a period of 2520 years running from the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign in 604 B.C.E. to 1917 C.E. While Brown never equated the 2520 years with the "Gentile Times," other writers soon did. Eventually the Adventist Nelson H. Barbour picked up the torch and put the finishing touches on what became Charles Taze Russell’s (the founder of the Watchtower) chronology. Barbour published his final calculation of the Gentile Times in the September, 1875 issue of his monthly paper Herald of the Morning, starting them in 606 B.C.E. and ending them in 1914 C.E. In January, 1876 Russell read Barbour’s paper, got together with him, and apparently accepted all of Barbour’s time calculations, even becoming a co-editor of Barbour’s paper. These calculations included one that said Christ’s presence began in 1874 and the "day of the Lord" began in 1873. Shortly thereafter, Russell published a similar calculation in the October, 1876 issue of a publication called The Bible Examiner. This paper was published by George Storrs, who was generally influential on Russell and had been a major leader in William Miller’s movement. Storrs was active in Adventist related movements when Russell began publishing. In The Bible Examiner Russell said, on pp. 27-28, concerning his belief that the Gentile Times were a period of 2520 years:

At the commencement of our Christian era, 606 years of this time had passed, (70 years captivity, and 536 from Cyrus to Christ) which deducted from 2520, would show that the seven times will end in A.D. 1914.... We will ask, but not now answer, another question: If the Gentile Times end in 1914, (and there are many other and clearer evidences pointing to the same time) and we are told that it shall be with fury poured out; a time of trouble such as never was before, nor ever shall be; a day of wrath, etc.

Russell wrote in the December 1 Watchtower of 1912:

Many of our readers will recall our reference to this subject in a sermon preached at Allegheny, Pa., January 11, 1904, and published in the Pittsburgh Gazette. We make an extract from that sermon as follows:

We find, then, that the Seven Times of Israel’s punishment and the Seven Times of Gentile dominion are the same; and that they began with the captivity of Zedekiah, and, as will be seen from the Chart, they terminate with the year 1915. According to the best obtainable evidences on the subject, synchronized with the Scriptural testimony, Zedekiah’s captivity took place in October, 605 1/4 years before A.D. 1. If we will add to this 1914 1/4 years, we will have the year, October, 1915, as the date for the end of Gentile supremacy in the world — the end of the lease of 2,520 years, which will not be renewed. Instead, he whose right the kingdom is, shall take possession of it. This, therefore, marks when the Lord himself shall assume control of the world’s affairs, to end its reign of sin and death, and to bring in the True Light.

There surely is room for slight differences of opinion on this subject and it behoves us to grant each other the widest latitude. The lease of power to the Gentiles may end in October, 1914, or in October, 1915. And the period of intense strife and anarchy "such as never was since there was a nation" may be the final ending of the Gentile Times or the beginning of Messiah’s reign.

Later, the 4th President Franz, during the presidency of the 3rd president Nathan Knorr, corrected the start date to 607Tishri, he proposed that the period started with the assassination of Gedaliah in Jeremiah 41."

"The History of mankind's understanding of the Gentile Times

1823 Rev John Brown realises that the period is 2520 years long and believes it started in 604BC at the accession of Nebuchadnezzar. He correctly calculates that the 2520 years would end in 1917AD if they started in 604BC.

1875 Barbour calculates that the 2520 years start in 606, this being 70 years before 536 when the Jews rebuilt the altar he thought. He miscalculates that the 2520 years end in 1914, he was one year out. He forgot that there was no 0 BC, it went 1 BC then 1 AD !
1876 Russell publishes the same in his Bible Examiner
1904 Russell realises that he may be one year out and the Gentile Times might actually end in October 1915
1914 Gentile Times ends (Russell thought on Tishri10, but actually on Tishri15)
1943 Franz adjusts the start date to 607Tishri in the book: 'The truth shall set you free'. The date for the rebuilding of the altar by Zerubbabel, 70 years after 607Tishri is now 537Tishri, a correct date. But the date for the burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchanezzar of 607 is wrong. And the start of the Gentile Times being the assassination of Gedaliah is also wrong.
1988 Ed Schnopp, collates overwhelming evidence that 604 was the 1st regnal year of Nebuchadnezzar and therefore Jerusalem was burned in 586 BC. John Brown knew this in 1823, he had the first year of Nebuchadnezzar as 604 !! Ed shows that there are two 70 year exiles, one for Israel and one for Judah. Israel's exile ends in 539Tishri at the fall of Babylon and starts he thought in 609 with the Babylonian conquest of Nineveh or the fall of Assyria to Babylon."

It is clear that pastor Russell’s view about 1914 comes from an Adventist imagination:

When God don’t want to shut the door in 1843 and 1844, they started other speculations about a 2520 time in years, connected to 1914.

It is clear that the 2520 year theory is from the Adventist movement of William Miller, not from God.

The period of 2520 years of Gentile Times is not from God, but only from a speculator named Joshua Spalding, from whom William Miller fished it.

Who were the first associated of pastor Charles Taze Russell? The Adventists’.

So the speculator Adventist linked origin of Bible Students & Jehovah's Witnesses is clear in history.

Charles Taze Russell early view about the Adventist Nelson H. Barbour as "the chosen vessel of God"clearly shows the great influence that the Adventists played in Pastor Russell's life, he also being an Adventist pastor at that time. Later in time, the Adventist pastor Charles Taze Russell generated a new split of the Second Adventists and made the appearance of the so called “International Bible Student” movement.

A wise proverb said> Tell me who you are with, so I can tell you who you are. Russell was and remains an Adventist speculator until his death. This truth is difficult for his followers to digest.

This is dangerous, because all the speculations that are not based on the biblical basis, come from the Devil, who only changes his hair, but not the disposition to deceive.

“Be awake and watchful! Because your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (1Pet.5:8)

From Bible Student’s splinter groups: Free Bible Students

There are many groups separated from the movement initiated by the former Adventist pastor, Charles Taze Russell. Some have corrected certain wrong teachings of the cult, especially related to the expectations based on certain predictions about the End Times, but they have not given up certain unbiblical beliefs. For example, that all people will enter the Kingdom of God and only there will they be judged as good or bad. One such group or movement having the gospel distorted was known as the Free Bible Students.

The Bible is clear:

“Because we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one will receive his reward according to the good or evil he will have done while living in the body.” (2Cor.5:10)

What will be the reward of those who did not believe?

2 Thessalonians 1:6-12

6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now think what those people will do, who hear a distorted gospel, that they will be in the kingdom of God anyway, regardless of whether they are doing good or bad now, and that the way is still open and they will have time to repent there, after the arrival of lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus did not preach such a thing and neither did his apostles.

It is no wonder why their activity is slow and without notable results and would simply disappear as a group, if their activity were not sprinkled with charitable acts, which also moves certain people to join them.

I invite you to read the mission report from the Acts of the Apostles and then compare it with the mission report of the Free Bible Students.

Free Bible Students Trip Report

(Some years ago...)

“At the invitation of the Free Bible Students in various parts of R., J & P K and I made a trip there leaving on Sept. 8 and returning on the 28th. A van from the orphanage took us and J G (who knows some English and whom F and B C are sponsoring for nursing school) to B, arriving after midnight. I was delighted to meet C P for the first time.

The next morning we went to breakfast and met many of the orphans. They are wonderful children who crave affection. Many just touched us and smiled as they passed by. I interpreted this as a sort of welcome from them. The financial situation at the orphanage was not good. I later found out that they owed $20,000 to creditors and it takes $15,000 a month to operate. The children had only bread and jam and watered-down juice for breakfast. Even so, they seemed contented. Later we went to a food co-op and C and V (who runs the orphanage) bought some food staples to give to some of the poor families in the area. How appreciative they were to receive so little. One family lived in a dirt floor one room house that formerly housed seven people. The husband had died, three of the children were taken into the orphanage, and the mother was out in the fields working for food for herself and the two remaining children. We left the food with the two children.

That evening the children assembled in the church on the orphanage property and sang us many songs. They sounded like little angels. Afterwards J, P and I handed out packages sent there by many brethren in the US to all the children. Most all the contents were school related. How appreciative they all were to get so little. They gave us hugs as they received their package. M, whom J and I sponsor, had always wanted a flute. Through the generosity of T E of the Berean Bible Student Church of C, IL, we were able to present her with one that evening. She looked down at it, then back to me, then back to it again as if it were a dream. She started to get tears in her eyes. Quite an emotional time for both of us.

The next morning we attended a three hour service in the church. Women sat on the left and men on the right. There were spontaneous prayers from the congregation, hymn singing, and short sermons given by any who wished to share. J and I were invited to share which we did with M G interpreting. After lunch we and all the children gathered on the steps of the church for pictures. They also sang to us again.

We stayed with the V G family for a week enjoying their wonderful hospitality. While there we had many Bible discussions with the brethren of that group as well as with two others from another group that showed up. A thirst for a deeper understanding of the Lord's word was ever present.

During the week we studied many things. One was the need to be organized as a church group with responsible leadership as outlined in the Bible. After much discussion this group decided to do this, taking the name of Fellowship of Christian Love in C). Their first elder was to be Br. R B. During this week Br. V drove us to visit with Br. L P and his family in B M. Br. M V, a doctor from the village of B joined us for Bible discussions. These two brothers drove us to see Sr. L D and her family in S M near the R border. J, P, and I had known L when she lived in the US. It was good to see her again and to meet her husband and beautiful little daughter.

The next morning we were picked up by Br. B C who took us to his home in AI. He and their three children spoke English fairly well. We had some Bible discussions and afterward the children sang us some songs. They taught J a R hymn and he is turn taught them an English one which had a tricky melody which they loved. He played their guitar while they sung it over and over and over. We enjoyed our visit with them but it was all too short.

The second week we moved over to G M's home in C. Immediately we entered into more studies with about six of their brethren. We walked in the nearby woods while the brethren sang hymns accompanied by the accordion. At a high point with a panoramic view of valleys and hills, we sat down and studied some more. Another day we picnicked near a dam and had more studies and sang more hymns again with the accompaniment of the accordion that Br. G played. We had some very intense studies while we were there. C, Br. G's daughter did much of the interpreting for us. At times N B came and took over. She is a music student at a local university. We discussed the topics of Christian liberty and unity and other topics during the week.

We were invited to dinner at the house of E R, Br. G and Sr. L's other daughter, and also to I and M R' homes. We sang hymns after the meals. R love to sing and they do it with all their hearts. On another day we revisited The P's home, studied some more, and had dinner at Br. M's home. The next morning we saw the family sawmill business, had a picnic lunch and headed for St. George where we answered questions in the evening, stayed overnight and had Sunday services the following morning. About 55 brethren were present including many from the Divine Plan group. J gave a sermon on living our faith and walking in integrity. I also spoke on the plan of God and centered on the importance of agape (love) being more important than knowledge. Of course many hymns were sung.

The flights home were uneventful and we were all very happy to be home once again with our families. Though tired, we felt that God had richly blessed us and the brethren that we had met.

Other observations:

-The R countryside, hills and mountains are spectacular to behold.
-Encountered cows and sheep driven down the main streets of some villages.
-Pollution in the cities is very bad and went unregulated until just recently.
-Young people in cities are dress quite fashionably on a whole.
-Horse drawn wagons are frequently seen on city streets. Hay is cut by hand with a scythe or sickle.

-Whole families with hoes on their shoulders are seen walking to and from their fields.

-Cows and horses are fed anywhere there is grass, even on the sides of highways. Men and women watch over them.

-The C area was once villages which were destroyed and replaced with huge apartment complexes by the Communists.

-The country's economy is so bad and unemployment so high that many city people wish they were still under Communism for then they had no worries.
-In many cases both the husband and wife work to make ends meet, many work 12 hours a day, 5 days a week.

-It was said that the average wage for workers is $60.00 a month.
-One dollar is about 15,000 R l. Ex. - A small bottle of water sells for 4500 to 5000 lei. Gasoline price per gallon was around $3.50.
--- Narrated by E W

From JW's Splinter groups The Goshen Fellowship (1951 - Present)

Among JW's Splinter groups The Goshen Fellowship (1951 – Present?) have a very interesting story.

There has been much confusion and speculation about the End Times. The Lord Jesus told us clearly, what will be the visible signs of entering this chapter of history in Matthew 24: About The Coming of the Son of Man. What sane man could say that these have already been fulfilled? Only those deceived and lost by Satan the Devil.

Matthew 24:29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days pthe sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and qthe stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And whe will send out his angels with a loud xtrumpet call, and they will ygather zhis elect from athe four winds, bfrom one end of heaven to the other.

From the internet we find:

The Goshen Fellowship was formed as a result of the ministry of Jesse Hemery.

He was undoubtedly the most prominent Bible Student/Jehovah's Witness in England, serving as Vice President of the IBSA, a position he held until 1946 since his appointment by Pastor Russell in 1901. He then was disfellowshipped by N. H. Knorr in 1951. Although he accepted much of Russell's interpretations, he did reject the second presence as being a current reality. Believing the book of Revelation was to be fulfilled in the future, he wrote a few commentaries on Revelation and other books of prophecy. He died in 1963 at the age of 99, a few year after founding the "Goshen Fellowship" in 1951. Frank Lewis Brown headed the group for many years, publishing Zion's Herald, a monthly journal beginning in 1965.

A book based upon the writings of Jesse Hemery but with additional comments titled a Bible Study Investigation into our relationship to God and into ‘The Time of the End’.

http://bijbelvorsers.webs.com/apps/forums/topics/show/3518291-jesse-hemery-and-goshen-fellowship

According to a Great Brittain source the movement now is defunct (Trevor Pope).

I think this group have two good points in common with the "Back to the Bible way" movement, lead by Roy D Goodrich:

1. They reject the second coming and presence of Lord Jesus as being a current reality, saying that his coming has not yet happened, but will be in the future

2. Believing that the events from the book of Revelation will be fulfilled in the future

Writings:

1. Ministry of the lamb, 108 pages

Zion's herald

Autor: Frank Lewis Brown

Editor: Goshen Fellowship, 1970

http://books.google.ro/books/about/Ministry_of_the_lamb.html?id=CzhtPAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

2. The scripture of truth: the vision, its understanding, 84 pages

Autor: Frank Lewis Brown

Editor: Goshen Fellowship, 1967

Zion's Herald: Journal of the Goshen Fellowship, published in Bexleyheath, Kent, England. 10 issues, 3-11/1973.

Goshen Fellowship, London, England, Detroit, MI 1970-73
Jonah 'Read' in the Light of the Unveiling of Jesus Christ, by Frank L.

Brown (Goshen Fellowship, England) 1973

The Revealer of Secrets: Joseph, God's Chosen Interpreter, by Frank L. Brown (Goshen Fellowship, England) 1973

http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5b69q9tj/dsc/?query=Goshen%20Fellowship;dsc.position=1#hitNum2

3. A Bible Study Investigation Into Our Relationship to God and Into "The Time of the End"

Following intensive study Jesse Hemery produced his first book in December 1951 entitled Revelation Unfolded.

It was printed privately accompanied by a booklet entitled Christ's Great Prophecy of the Coming Events.

Author: Jesse Hemery, Trevor Pope notes

Editor: Xlibris Corporation

Here is the Foreword, with kind permision of brother Pope

FOREWORD
In these disturbing times a popular Christian opinion is that we are in “the time of the end” spoken of in the Bible, when the second coming of Christ is imminent. Some even assert that His appearance could occur almost any day now. This publication is a form of Bible study which investigates what the scriptures record about “the time of the end.” Most importantly it examines what Jesus said to His disciples when they asked Him what visible evidence would there be to indicate the time of His return.

The following material is based upon the writings of Jesse Hemery, one of the most highly respected Bible students of his generation. He was born in 1864 and died in 1963 aged ninety-nine. For many years he served in London, England as the first president of the International Bible Students Association. Inevitably he was familiar with the various Bible student movements that had emerged in the nineteenth century, mainly in America. A dominant characteristic was the emphasis they placed on chronology to forecast the year of the return of Jesus Christ. In earlier centuries individuals had speculated along similar lines, but the nineteenth century seems to have produced more attempts than any other to link chronology to Bible prophecy.

Early in that century William Miller a Baptist preacher founded The Adventists. He aroused great attention preaching that Jesus Christ would return to earth in 1843, but later changed the year to 1844. He derived this date by applying chronology to his interpretation of one of Daniel’s prophecies in the Bible. When the expected advent did not materialise, proving his calculations to have been wrong, his preaching was described as “the Great Disappointment.” Miller died five years later aged sixty-seven.

Undaunted by Miller’s failure a Mr Nelson Barbour, describing himself as a Second Adventist, began publishing in 1869 a magazine called The Midnight Cry. He had been a follower of William Miller, and an enthusiast for his chronology; so much so that he used the same formula as that of Miller. Barbour argued that Miller’s chronology was based on a historical event that occurred 30 years later than Miller had thought. So he convinced himself and many others that the Lord’s visible return would be in 1874.

When this proved not to be the case Barbour, still convinced his chronology was accurate, asserted Christ had indeed returned but was invisibly present in the lower heavens. Accordingly he changed the name of his magazine to Herald of The Morning. Other Bible students, among them a Pastor C.T. Russell, had also concluded the Lord’s return would begin with an invisible presence. So, many thousands of them adopted Barbour’s chronology with its 1874 date and believed that Christ had returned.

Years later in 1922 J.F. Rutherford, the new president of Russell’s Watchtower Society, claimed yet another date for Christ‘s return, based on chronology. He announced that 1914 had been the year of the Lord’s invisible arrival. Rutherford’s rejection of the 1874 date in which he had previously believed was based on time periods and incidents in the scriptures different from those used by Miller and Barbour.

These Second Advent preachers of the past with their conflicting opinions on chronology held one interpretation principle on which they were all agreed; and which is still accepted by many in the present day. It is known as “the year for a day principle,” and consists of rejecting the literal definition of the prophetic “days” forecast by angels in the books of Daniel and Revelation. It insists these prophetic days are not real days, but are symbolic of years. Otherwise stated it is claimed that a day in these prophecies represents a year in their fulfilment. There is absolutely no scriptural authority for applying this theory to prophecies that are said to relate to “the time of the end.” The improper use of chronology and its interpretation has caused much confusion, even unintended deception for many years.

The legacy of these nineteenth century adventist beliefs has permeated Bible student thinking through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. It lead to the abiding belief that the return of the Lord is imminent, and in the minds of many that He has already returned invisibly. Therefore the great prophecies of the time of the end in the books of Daniel and Revelation which focus on specific and unusual events that must occur before the Lord returns are often considered as being either symbolic or as having been fulfilled; and are therefore of little relevance to the present.

During the 1940s Jesse Hemery, ever an ardent student of the scriptures, focussed his attention on Bible prophecies relating to the second coming of Christ, while rejecting the use of chronology for that purpose. He observed that Jesus himself when asked about the time of His return made no reference to chronology, declaring that God, His Father, was the only one who knows the date. Instead Jesus spoke of definite events that would indicate the imminence of His return and quoted events from the prophet Daniel in particular. So Hemery’s writings are free from the bewildering use of chronological interpretation which caused such confusion both past and present.

Following intensive study Jesse Hemery produced his first book in December 1951 entitled Revelation Unfolded, accompanied by a booklet entitled Christ’s Great Prophecy of the Coming Events. During the first half of the 1950s he produced other literature, notable among which were the books Daniel Unfolded and The Second Coming of Christ.

The reality of what Bible prophecies predict for “the time of the end” is startling to many Christians studying them for the first time. Some believers accustomed to the popular teaching that undesirable events preceding our Lord’s return were fulfilled years ago are comfortable with that tradition. As such they are less inclined to re-examine for themselves the questionable evidence used to support it. One should remember, when discussing these future events, Jesus warned constantly of the risk of being deceived and said, ”What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).

The editor and compiler of these study notes on the writings of Jesse Hemery also held the opinion originally that much of these prophecies had already been fulfilled. Having re-examined the evidence has led to the overwhelming conviction that their fulfilment is not past, but is in the near future. To be prepared, and to help others to be prepared, every Christian believer needs to know there is a crisis of faith still to come that will immediately precede the Lord’s coming for His Church.

Most of what follows herein is expressed in the words of Jesse Hemery and found to be as relevant today (in 2006) as when he spoke and wrote many years ago. His writings have been edited with additional notes and explanation by Trevor Pope. It is not the purpose of this study to prove the authenticity of the scriptures, for these notes are written to assist Christians who have already accepted the Bible as the word of God. Nevertheless the consistency of these end-time visions, conveyed by angels over a period of some six hundred years, is a testimony in itself to the authenticity of scripture. It would be well for anyone whose expectations are even remotely derived from chronology to verify in detail for themselves whether or not the dramatic Bible prophecies studied here have in fact actually been fulfilled.

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thess. 5:21).

http://books.google.ro/books?id=o3VJ06tNUDsC&pg=PR11&dq=Revelation+Unfolded+Jesse+Hemery&hl=hu&sa=X&ei=mJCdT_HQKeuL4gT5i82pDg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Revelation%20Unfolded%20Jesse%20Hemery&f=false

4. Revelation Unfolded: Its Message and Its Call to God's Israel, 221 pages
Author: Jesse Hemery

http://books.google.ro/books?id=q1JpHAAACAAJ&dq=Revelation+Unfolded+Jesse+Hemery&hl=hu&sa=X&ei=mJCdT_HQKeuL4gT5i82pDg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg

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Jesse Hemery was appointed overseer of the Watch Tower Society's British Isles branch office by Russell in 1901,[1] holding that post until 1946.[2] Hemery founded the Goshen Fellowship after he was disfellowshipped by N.H. Knorr in 1951.[2]

1^^ 1973 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 92, "The British Isles"
2a b Willis, Tony. A People for His Name: A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation. 2007. p. 268.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses_splinter_groups#cite_ref-Willis.2C_Tony_2007._p._268_1-1

According to Roy Goodrich Jesse H. claims that he was the faithful servant. But I don't know if this was just an information about JH or a even Roy himself hold this view.

Dialogue about 1914 doctrine, for helping Bible Students and Jehovah’s Witnesses and their splinter groups about this insane doctrine

First of all, they need to understand this steps

- The 2520 years theory is from the Adventist preacher William Miller, not from God

- He took this doctrine of the 2520 years as the Gentile Times not from God, but from Joshua Spalding

- Who were the first associated of the ex-Adventist pastor Charles Taze Russell? Of course, the Adventists. So he took this doctrine of the 2520 years from the Adventists.

- The Adventist linked origin of Bible Students & Jehovah's Witnesses is clear in history

- Charles Taze Russell early view about Nelson H. Barbour as "the chosen vessel of God" was wrong

- A new split of the Second Adventists and the appearance of the Bible Student movement was started by Russell

- From A.P. Pottle, "The Power of the Mind," fromThe Golden Age we could see the that this movement was dilettantish in many areas
- Good and clean doctrines are not a guarantee that everything is ok, for example Gerard Gertoux book's excellent review: Not a Nameless God - by George L Pullman

- The scribes and Pharisees had many good teachings, yet they were not ok> So all the things that they tell you to observe, observe them and do them; but according to their deeds do not do. Because they say, but they don't do. (Matt. 23:3) This could be true again with the Bible Students and Jehovah’s Witnesses groups also

- CT Russell's wrong view about the gentile times and the great tribulation is clear if we agree with Lord Jesus:

Matthew 24:26. So if they say to you: "Here he is in the wilderness", do not go there! "Behold Him in hidden chambers," do not believe. 27. For as the lightning comes from the east and is seen to the west, so will the coming of the Son of man be. 28. Wherever there is a flock, there the eagles will gather. 29. Immediately after those days of trouble "the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." 30. Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky, all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31. He will send His angels with a sounding trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

- Compare Bible Students and JW's or their Splinter groups reports with the report from Acts of the Apostles, you will see a big difference

- a great dialogue and understanding of the truth comes from the pages of the Bible, if you are sincere about 1914 doctrine

I am pleased to invite you (Bible Students, JW's or their splinters) on a dialogue about in which we will discuss the year 1914, and the doctrine about that year, if this is Biblical, or not.

Why God's people need a final reformation (revival)?

What is "reformation"?

A. Personal reformation

God want to reform not only the false teachings, but also the person.
"Reformation" is a kind of "review" of our personal mind, heart and life "stile", to understand if this "stile" is in harmony with the beautiful and righteous will of Almighty God. Reformation is first of all, the self review, through God's holy word, through his holy spirit, through true repentance, before our heavenly God and Father, in the holy name of his Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

"And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2 ASV

"But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:" 1Timothy 1:5 ASV

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22,23 ASV

B. Full harmony of our teachings with the Gospel

"The last reformation" is the last review of what we believe, and correct our understanding to be in the harmony of the Gospel.

And He said to the Jews who had believed in Him: "If you remain in My Word, you are truly My disciples; you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31,32)

„I am the Vine, you are the shoots. He who abides in Me and in whom I abide bears much fruit; for separated from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." Matthew 25:1-4

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues: for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Revelation 18:4,5 ASV.

C. A true (real) reform without struggles for influence, power and other things in the Christian congregation (Assembly, Church)

"Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you." (Ephesus 4:32)

Exhort to "brotherly aid" (1 Thessalonians 5:14-15)

“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. (1Th 5:14-15)”

God's people need a last reformation or final reformation (aka restoration, or revival) as long time was predicted:

Then I heard another voice from heaven, which said: "Come out of her midst, my people, so that you do not share in her sins and that you are not struck with her plagues! (Rev. 18:4)

If you see the context this is before the plagues! I have heard opinions in some cults that if something is wrong with them, then God will correct them in his kingdom. That's why they don't want to move even one comma from their wrong assumptions. They are based on some wrong assumptions that come from some biblical texts that have been misunderstood, that is, distorted. But this text clearly says, whether they like it or not, that whoever does not get out of the errors - before the apocalyptic plagues - will have them. Something extremely serious! So we must not play with fire.

To start a mission for a final and last reformation in the Kingdom of God is ridiculous. The mission for this initiative it is set for the time before the coming of the Lord Jesus. No one will enter the kingdom of God who will not come out of the errors of Babylon.

First: We must restore the truth about God, without the errors of the Unitarians, Bible Students, or Jehovah's Witnesses, and bear witness to the heavenly Father, Jehovah God Almighty, and to His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, if we are to bear witness the truth about how unbiblical the doctrine of the Trinity is. And that's without human error. There is God, the Father Almighty. This is the SUPREME TRUTH OF THE BIBLE: John 17:1-3.

- The snowball doctrine of Trinity is based of altered Bible verses against the Father Almighty

1John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God came and gave us understanding to know the True One. And we are in the True One, THROUGH His Son, Jesus Christ. He (that is, the one true God, the Father) is the true God and eternal life. (See John 17:3)

- He is "Yehowah": God's holy name is not „the Lord”

Second: All people who want to be true and living witnesses of God and of His Son, as the first Christians was, must know and must preach this: repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." ASV Acts 20:19-21

This is more than clear why we must do this: Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; Revelation 18:4.

Third: Another important truth is the mortality of man, and the importance of the resurrection. All who believe that only the body die are false witnesses: 1Corinthians 15:12-16 ASV.

This is the Satan’s big lie (Genesis 3:4).

"Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised: and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain. Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:"

The story of The rich man and the beggar Lazarus: A fake, a literal history or a parable? This is a fake in the light of the whole Bible, added to the Bible, after the death of the holy apostles....

May our Father Almighty, Jehovah God help us, through His Son, our Lord Jesus.

If you want to be a true Bible believer, a true witness for Almighty God, Jehovah and Lord Jesus Christ

Who is a true Bible believer?

How can this status be obtained?

To achieve this high goal, you must first believe in the Bible as the Holy Scripture appointed by God as a bright guide in this world full of spiritual darkness:

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp for my feet,

a light on my path.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy,

and blessed are those who hear it

and take to heart what is written in it,

because the time is near.

The Bible should not be used to justify your opinions in matters of faith, but to form opinions based on God's declaration.

Do not add anything to His words, so that He does not punish you and you are found to be a liar. - (Prov. 30:6)

To be able to become a true believer of what is written in the Bible, you must be willing to learn and correct yourself.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer again; twice, and I will add nothing more." (Job. 40:5)

Who is a true witness for Almighty God, Jehovah and Lord Jesus Christ?

How can this status be obtained?

If your desire is to be a true Bible believers, and a true witness for Almighty God, Jehovah (American Standard Version - YHWH in Hebrew), and a true witness for His only begotten heavenly Son, Lord Jesus Christ, you must dedicate your whole life to their service and obey with all our heart. You must want to be free in the truth, "free" in Biblical sense, free from the Devils' errors, strong in faith in God and His Son, in the Bible and it's message, true in true love and honest in the holy repentance.

Isaiah 43:10 ""You are my witnesses," declares Jehovah, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me." God is not a Trinity. He is the Father Almighty only.

We cannot serve Jesus with a mixture of truth and lies:

1Corinthians 15:15 "Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised."

We must follow the example of others, we cannot separate ourselves from what others believed about God and Jesus:

Hebrews 12:1 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"

The Lord Jesus did not change the worship to another God, nor to a trinity, nor to himself. He had only one God, whom he worshiped and obeyed: the God of the true Jews, like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, David and Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Daniel.
Revelation 3:14 "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:"

Lord Jesus and the first Christians of the first century did not see in the spirit of God a third divine person from heaven:

Acts 1:8 "but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."

True faith cannot be abandoned in times of hardship:

Revelation 2:13 "I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth."

What is a true fellowship?

A true fellowship is when all those present seek to do God's will, through the teaching of our Lord Jesus. A true participation does not make the church a club, neither charitable nor of any other nature. A true fellowship must make the church the House of God, a holy place.

Therefore, you are no longer strangers or guests of the house, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, people of God's house, (Eph. 2:19)

And you, like living stones, are built to be a spiritual house, a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices, pleasing to God, through Jesus Christ. (1Pet.2:5)

A true fellowship is created by God for a true mission in holiness: to serve His will about repentance toward God and faith toward His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in this the world, for salvation of people, as many as possible.

"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." ASV Acts 20:19-21

A second mission of a true fellowship is to preserve the faith as it is in the Holy Scriptures and to defend it

But, if I will linger, know how you must behave in the House of God, which is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Foundation of truth. (1Tim.3:15)

But whoever hears, and does not do, is like a man who built a house on the ground, without a foundation. And the flood rushed upon her, she collapsed at once, and the collapse of this house was great." (Luke 6:49)

Because no one can lay another foundation than the one that was laid and that is Jesus Christ. (1Cor.3:11)

And if someone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, reeds, (1Cor.3:12)

so that he can gather for the future, as a treasure, a good foundation, so that he can grasp the real life. (1Tim.6:19)

The foundations of the fortress wall were adorned with precious stones of all kinds: the first foundation was of jasper; the second, of sapphire; the third, of chalcedony; the fourth, of emerald; (Rev. 21:19)

The Apostle Paul struggled hard with all the false teachings that crept into the Church.

Compare with 1Corinthians 15:12-16 ASV:

The very difficult but beautiful purpose of the fellowship of the Church of the End Time must be to restore the holy truth and, as true and living witnesses of God, Jehovah Almighty and of His Son, Jesus Christ, bring Christians back to the doctrine of the first century. Then the Lord Jesus will come and the wise virgins will enter the Kingdom of His God. The others will be refused, this is why it is important to understand this capital aspect of the times to come, otherwise we will receive the following sentence:

But he, as an answer, said to them: "I tell you the truth, I do not know you!" (Matt. 25:12)

God calls us to shine

TO SHINE it is an intellectual brilliance, of a spiritual nature:

„The wise will shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who will teach many to walk in righteousness will shine like the stars, forever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3)

The method by which we can reach this state of intellectual brilliance is clearly shown in the Book of Proverbs, chapter 4.

Wisdom plays a prominent role in this epic of faith, precisely because persevering in the Word of God, that is, meditating on what is written, ennobles man with wisdom.

1 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;

pay attention and gain understanding.

2 I give you sound learning,

so do not forsake my teaching.

3 For I too was a son to my father,

still tender, and cherished by my mother.

King David taught his son Solomon as follows:

4 Then he taught me, and he said to me,

“Take hold of my words with all your heart;

keep my commands, and you will live.

5 Get wisdom, get understanding;

do not forget my words or turn away from them.

6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;

love her, and she will watch over you.

7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.

Though it cost all you have, get understanding.

8 Cherish her, and she will exalt you;

embrace her, and she will honor you.

9 She will give you a garland to grace your head

and present you with a glorious crown.”

The process of growing in wisdom is compared to the increasing brightness of the sun during the day. This shows that man can acquire it gradually, throughout his life, if he remains consistent in the study of the Holy Scriptures. We will always have something to learn, so always seek to study the Word of God, as long as we live.

Proverbs 4

18 The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,

shining ever brighter till the full light of day.

19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;

they do not know what makes them stumble.

20 My son, pay attention to what I say;

turn your ear to my words.

21 Do not let them out of your sight,

keep them within your heart;

22 for they are life to those who find them

and health to one’s whole body.

23 Above all else, guard your heart,

for everything you do flows from it.

24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;

keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

25 Let your eyes look straight ahead;

fix your gaze directly before you.

26 Give careful thought to the[c] paths for your feet

and be steadfast in all your ways.

27 Do not turn to the right or the left;

keep your foot from evil.

The study process of the word of God will make us wiser and show us the areas in which we need change, where we are the "poorest" in our spirituality, as the Son of God told us.

Matthew 5:3

ICB

“Those people who know they have great spiritual needs are happy. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

EXB

“·They are blessed [or Blessed are those…; C and so through v. 10] who ·realize their spiritual poverty [L are the poor in spirit], for the kingdom of heaven ·belongs to them [is theirs].

AMP

“Blessed [spiritually prosperous, happy, to be admired] are the poor in spirit [those devoid of spiritual arrogance, those who regard themselves as insignificant], for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever].

AMPC

Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

PHILLIPS

Then he began his teaching by saying to them, “How happy are the humble-minded, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs! “How happy are those who know what sorrow means for they will be given courage and comfort! “Happy are those who claim nothing, for the whole earth will belong to them! “Happy are those who are hungry and thirsty for goodness, for they will be fully satisfied! “Happy are the merciful, for they will have mercy shown to them! “Happy are the utterly sincere, for they will see God! “Happy are those who make peace, for they will be sons of God! “Happy are those who have suffered persecution for the cause of goodness, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs! “And what happiness will be yours when people blame you and ill-treat you and say all kinds of slanderous things against you for my sake! Be glad then, yes, be tremendously glad—for your reward in Heaven is magnificent. They persecuted the prophets before your time in exactly the same way.

Through God’s "wisdom" we could make a necessary "review" of our personal mind, heart and life "stile", to understand if this "stile" is in harmony with the beautiful and righteous will of Almighty God. First of all, true faith comes after a deep and sincere self review, through God's holy word, through his holy spirit, through true repentance, before our heavenly God and Father, in the holy name and mediation of his only-begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, our only High Periest and only Mediator.

"And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2 ASV

"But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:" 1Timothy 1:5 ASV

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22,23 ASV

The word of God will teach us what to believe instead of what we believe, and correct our understanding to be in the harmony of the Gospel.

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." Matthew 25:1-4

All who knows English, Romanian or Hungarian and are interested to know more about the true beliefs are kindly invited to read:

Romanian
www.inasteptareatestului.blogspot.ro
Hungarian
www.aupv.blogspot.com

English

https://bibletopicsa.blogspot.com/

What can we really learn from the Bible?

1. The Holy Scripture, the Bible, is inspired by God and it is useful for our fulfillment: 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Corinthians 4:6. Any teaching, prophecy or conduct must be verified with the Bible, but, be careful, it can be misinterpreted: 2 Peter 3:15,16; Revelation 22:18,19. Those who distort the Bible are on a dangerous path, because they are deceived by Satan the Devil (Revelation 12:9).

2. Salvation from sin and death is achieved through grace, through faith: Ephesians 2:8, 9; Tit 3:5, in Christ‘s sacrifice: Romans 3:21-36; Luke 221:41-44. Not by deeds, because then we would annul both Christ’s sacrifice and God’s grace, which is given on the grounds of the belief in this sacrifice and thus the reason of our salvation would not be the belief in Christ’s sacrifice: Galatians 5:4-6; Galatians 2:21 and also the grace would no longer be grace Romans 10:6. However, the good deeds that God has prepared for us to do, are indispensable because faith without deeds is void, dead; that is why we must show our faith through good deeds: James 2:14-20. God’s Word teaches us that the payment for sin is death and not the sinner’s eternal torment: Romans 6:23. “The lake of fire” is a great warning signal of the eternal destruction that awaits the lost ones: Revelation 20:14. This "lake" is the eternal death, the eternal destruction, as it is so clearly shown: “The lake of fire is the second death.” Universal salvation (many chances to repent in God's Kingdom for sinners) and semi-universal salvation (a new chance for sinners to repent in God's Kingdom) are not biblical teachings (Revelation 21:7,8).
All these are dangerous distortions of the Bible, behind which is Satan the Devil.

3. God loves every person and He commands all the people everywhere to repent: Acts of the Apostles 17:30; Romans 2:1-16. There is no possibility of salvation once a man dies unrepentant, that is why, with true love for mankind, we must do our best talents to spread the Gospel those who are lost: Matthew 24:14; Revelation 20:11-15. What would you say about a father who, before any of his children are even born, decides that he will kill the second and the third one, no matter what they could be, good or evil? There are a lot of Christians (Augustinians and Calvinists) who think that God has decided, in this way, the faith of billions of people. Does God wish the fall or the salvation of His children? The next verse reject the Augustinian&Calvinist view of salvation: “God, our Savior, who wishes all the people to be saved and to see the truth: “1 Timothy 2:3,4. As we see, God wishes the salvation of all the people, but those who through their bad deeds reject this free grace, fall from grace and cannot be saved. That is why, when Apostle Paul writes about our predestination we must bear in mind God’s wish shown to mankind (1 Timothy 2:3,4), for all people and by what and how we can enter in this predestination of salvation, which is a predestination as a group of believers and not of individuals: Romans 9:30-33. God did not create a man more sinful than another. He has not arbitrarily decided one’s destiny, neither one’s fall, nor salvation, and this even before the individual’s birth. Through repentance everybody can receive the grace of salvation! Luke 13:1-5.

4. There is only one almighty, supreme, sovereign, eternal, immortal and unchanging God. He is one single being, one single person distinct from all: the Creator of heavens and earth, the Father who bears the name of YHWH (transl. Yehowah, Jehovah, etc.): Exodus 3:13-16. That means that it was not God who died in pains on the torture pillar (renamed crux), but it was His Son, Jesus Christ who died: John 3:16; 1 Timothy 6:16; John 20:17; Luke 23:46. Jesus Christ did not always exist, because otherwise he would be God’s “Twin Brother” and not His Son, but obviously, as God’s Son, he inherited God’s nature and this nature is also promised to us, the faithful: 2 Peter 1:4. Of course, Jesus Christ existed in heaven as a distinct person from the Father, before His coming on Earth and His birth, Jesus being the beginning of God’s Creation: Revelation 3:14; John 8:57,58; Philippians 2:5-8. In the beginning, He was created, that is, brought into existence by God and not given birth by a heavenly woman (God's heavenly wife), because God is not a man nor a woman and cannot give birth like a man, nor like a woman. It is only when He came from heaven and was born like a man that He literally was given birth by the virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit is not a distinct person from God, because then it would be God’s “Twin Brother”; it is God’s Spirit. Being created in God’s image: Genesis 1:26, every person has a spirit, which, however, does not make him the residence of two twin people: the copy looks like the original, in the same way as God has own Spirit, which is incomparably more powerful than our spirit, taking into consideration that we are only miniatures of the original. The idea and concept of the godly “one-trinity” has been taken from the pagan philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras of Samos, via Plato, Aristotle, etc. and “dressed” in meanings from the Bible, by certain prominent Christians of neoplatonic orientation from Egypt and Cappadoccia, etc. and imposed on Christians as Bible teaching.

5. We must not believe Satan’s lie that people don’t die: Genesis 3:4, John 3:13, John 11:11-14. The man is a divine creation, God’s creation, being the result of the joining of flesh and breath or, let’s put it in another way, the joining of flesh and the spirit breathed by the Creator: Genesis 2:7. As long as the flesh and the spirit coexist, the man is a being; in biblical terms: man is a living (breathing) soul. When this union ceases to exist, the man is no longer a being, a living and breathing soul. He not live anymore, death being the opposite of life. The only hope for those who die is the resurrection: John 5:28, 29. There is no conscious or subconscious “life” or the purgatory state after death: Ecclesiastes 9:1-12. Don’t let yourselves be fooled by those who explain the biblical parables in literal terms: Matthew 13:10-15. If the man could live after his death, there would be no need for resurrection.

6. The Christians are forbidden to worship (with the meaning of God's worship) objects, images, people (either living or dead) and angels: Exodus 20:1-5; Acts of the Apostles 10:25, 26; 14:15; Revelation 19:10; 22:8, 9. They have only one God, the Father and they worship Him, only Him, as Jesus Christ, God’s Son, did and taught us to do: Luke 22:41-45; Matthew 4:10. Our worship is in Spirit and truth and ONLY through His only begotten celestial Son, our High Priest and ONLY Mediator: John 3:3-7; John 3:13-21; John 4:24; John 8:31,32; John 14:6; Hebrews 4:14-16; 1 Timothy 2:5. If a person bows down to somebody else in sign of obeisance, courtesy, gratitude, it does not necessary mean that he or she worship that person: Genesis 23:12; Luke 8:41. Christians are forbidden to kill and to revenge themselves on their enemies, whatever the reason: Matthew 5:21, 22; Matthew 5:38-48; Romans 12:17-21; James 1:19-21.

7. Before the coming back of God’s Anointed (Christ means the Anointed), there will be great sorrow and trouble on Earth, which will show that God’s kingdom and the coming of His Anointed designated as King (of the whole earth) is near, is at the door: Luke 21:25-31; Matthew 24:29-33; Revelation 6:12-17. The signs show that God's Anointed comes after the signs, and not before them. A big sing will be the coming of an anti-God New World Order (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12).

8. In prayer and in gatherings those chaotic manifestations of pagan type which dishonor God’s gathering must be avoided: Matthew 6:5-8; 1 Corinthians 14:23,40.

9. The Old Testament Sabbath and the abstention from certain foods are not obligatory now, because these commandments have been unbound: Mark 7:14-23; Acts of the Apostles 15:1-11; for example, vegetarians are called weak; we must treat them wisely so they won’t completely lose their faith: Romans 14:1-23.

10. Our Lord Jesus Christ said that the world will not see Him, only His disciples will: John 14:19. How does this truth tone with that which says that every eye shall see Him, even those who pierced Him: Revelation 1:7? Very simple: after the big and frightening sign, which will be the last in a series (plagues, catastrophes) which will come over the unfaithful: Matthew 24:29, 30. Revelation 6:1-17.

God tells us: Repent, pray and watch! We have only one chance to enter in God's Kingdom. Let escape, and run from the wrath to come! Whoever does not do it, will remain without eternal life.

Remember

1. The snowball man made doctrine of the Trinity is against the holy monotheist teaching about the Father Almighty, as the only true God (Johna 17:3).

2. "Yehowah" is God's holy name, not the „Lord” or „God”. Jesus is not God’s name. Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God, not God Himself, sent from heaven to the earth (John 3:13,16, John 17:5, Revelation 3:14)

3. The story of The rich man and the beggar Lazarus is a fake, not a literal history, nor a parable (Daniel 12:2, John 5:28,29).

The Bible Student Movement and it's fractions story

The problem arises when a "new Russell" appears with strange views, which cannot be justified from the Bible, but who is believed as Christ. This leaders make people to be blind, by their false promises. With such people you have no chance to dialogue. It will be a monologue: You tell them and they don't listen to what you said. You are simply talking into the wind.

A few years ago I was invited to a dialogue with certain factions separated from the movement of pastor CT Russell.

You can't build a dialogue relationship if you don't have peace:

and seek to preserve the union of the Spirit, through the bond of peace. (Eph. 4:3)

But it is difficult to follow a dialogue, where there is no peace that comes from knowing the truth. When everyone strives for the truth that he considers to be the truth, peace cannot triumph. There is no peace where there is no true Leader appointed by God, Jesus Christ.

On the contrary, countless divisions are produced. Here are some of them.

From the internet:

First schism was with the Second Adventist Nelson H. Barbour, the so called chosen vessel of God.

A book about Nelson H. Barbour the chief of CT Russell

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/nelson-barbour-the-millenniums-forgotten-prophet/5424152

After the death of Russell, the so called „Judge”, Rutherford, ejected the majority of the Board of Directors, pilgrims and other bethel workers,

new groups were formed in hopes of continuing the ministry of Pastor Russell. Instead of serving God they focused on serving the "legacy" of a ghost, admiring how great Russell was:

Colossians 2:19. and does not cling to the Head from which the whole body, nourished and well-cohesed, with the help of joints and ligaments, receives the growth that God gives it.

It is no wonder why they stayed so long waiting for the false fulfillment of some stories invented by Russell and his Adventist forerunners.

Some of the groups we are going to document here are as follows:

International Association of Bible Students

Associated Bible Students

New Covenant Believers

Pastoral Bible Institute, Inc.

Watchers of the Morning - Isaac Hoskins

Stand Fast Bible Students Association

Elijah Voice Society

Servants of Yah - C. H. Zook

Laymen's Home Missionary Movement - Paul S. L. Johnson

Epiphany Bible Students Association - John Hoefle

Laodicean Home Missionary Movement - John Krewson

Divine Plan Foundation

Dawn Publishers, Inc. - Norman Woodworth

Bible Student Examiner - Olin R. Moyle

Christian Millennial Fellowship, Inc. - Gaetano Boccaccio

Chiesa Cristiana Millenarista

Viale Gabriele D'Annunzio, 285-A

65126 Pescara

E-mail (internazionale:) feedback@cmfellowship.org

URL (internazionale:) www.cmfellowship.org

http://www.cesnur.org/religioni_italia/t/testimoni_geova_04.htm

Friends of man - Alexander Freytag

Chiesa del Regno di Dio

Corso Trapani, 11

10139 Torino

Tel.: 011-745102

http://www.cesnur.org/religioni_italia/t/testimoni_geova_03.htm

Overseas and Canadian Groups

Bible Students Committee

God's Kingdom Society, Africa

Bible Students Publishing Concern, UK

Bible Fellowship Union, UK

New Jerusalem Fellowship, UK

Old Paths Publications, UK

Maran-atha Conference, UK

Goshen Fellowship, UK - Jesse Hemery

Institute of Pyramidology, UK

Philanthropic Assembly of the Friends of Man, Denmark

Angel of Jehovah BIble and Tract Society, Sweden

Free Bible Students, France, Greece

South India Bible Students Committee, India

Berean Bible Institute, Australia

New Covenant Fellowship, Australia

Some schisms during the Jehovah's Witness years have also occurred.

Back to the Bible Way - Roy Goodrich

Jewish Bible Students

Love Ministries, Inc.

True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses

Theocratic Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Way of the Truth Bible Association

Christian Fellowships International, Canada

There are many more groups that I can mention, some are very active ecclesias who publishing books and journals, others who rallied around a prominent elder, still others who formed committees and published some obscure book or journal and folded after the death of itrs founders.

Interestingly, there seems to be more offshoots of the JW's now then there are Bible Students. There is thee xJW community who have no faith, and theere is the xJW community that still have faith and have formed groups of their own.

Bible Standard Ministries

http://www.biblestudents.net/forum/index.php?topic=1099.0

The Life, Ministry, and Legacy of

Pastor Charles Taze Russell

http://reocities.com/SoHo/lofts/3187/outline.html

CT Russell's wrong view about the gentile times and the great tribulationit will never produce peace or holiness, because the fruit of lies is division and strife.

BS and JW's or their Splinter groups Trip or Mission Reports are so different from those in the book of Acts. No sending or guidance from God is seen. Everything they did was fueled by speculation. Would they still be doing the work if it weren't for these speculations? When belief in these speculations faded, people scattered and many groups died, as is the case of those from BS and JW's Splinter groups.

How can you find the true path?

Be wise and listen to God, through His only-begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, this is the way to understand His will:

Daniel 12:2. The multitude of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will rise: some to eternal life, and others to eternal reproach and shame.

3. The wise will shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who will teach many to walk in righteousness will shine like the stars, forever and ever.

Jesus said to him: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)

That's why don't let anyone influence you in terms of faith, be honest and humble with yourself. Don't be fooled by the great "successes" of the so-called "prophets" or "people of faith" in this world.

I you have hard questions about God, or the Bible, ask for help in sincere prayers and holy manners.

Do you have a question about Life and Death? You have the Bible for answers. Read it carefully.

Do you have a question about The Gospel? You have the Bible for answers. Read it carefully.

Do you have a question about anything else? You have God. Ask Him carefully.

God will bless you with right answers if you are sincere and holy!

The insincere and unholy will not receive an answer, but God leaves them prey to a work of wandering.

For this reason, God sends them a work of error, to believe a lie, (2 Thess. 2:11)

They haughtily talk about nothing, they lure, with the lusts of the flesh and with debauchery, those who have barely escaped from those who live astray. (2Pet.2:18)

If you are sincere, compare the snowball doctrine about the so called "Trinity", and you will understand this made by Satan, the Devil, againts the supremacy of Father Almighty (John 17:3).

Who is our God and Father, Jesus? No, He is the Son of God.

God's name is "Yehowah", this is God's holy name, not Jesus.

The story of The rich man and the beggar Lazarus is a fake, not a literal history nor a parable. The maker of this story is Satan, the Devil, not Lord Jesus. See why is a fake: John 5:28,29.

Don't let yourself be deceived.

Is there a human "channel" through which God communicates with us today?

This Bible study group supports the first-century classical Christianity, founded by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God Almighty.

The primary source for this group is the Bible, which we check by studying the early Bible manuscripts to make sure that the translators met the special requirements for a good rendering of the translated text.

Also in this group we question the statements and teachings of different religious groups, to see if what they claim corresponds to the Bible.

For example, yesterday a Jehovah's Witness, from the so called "True Faith Association" branch, argued that their leaders are the "channel" through which God communicates with people.

How true this statement is, a former missionary of this group tells us in his book, which he called> DEMONISM and the WATCH TOWER (Paperback)

By Roy D. Goodrich

Could have been DEMONIC connection in WATCH TOWER: Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders under the demon's control?

This is a very serious accusation! Could it be true?

Roy D. Goodrich was a devoted Bible Student and Jehovah's Witness who took issue with the tacit endorsement of "junk science" medical devices by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society which, to Goodrich, were a form of demonic divination. His is an interesting and very revealing account of how the organization that calls itself "The TRUTH" really operates.

The Apostle Paul exhorts us> But examine all things and keep what is good. (1 Thess. 5:21)

Testing someone is necessary if he claims to speak from God:

"I know your works, your toil and your patience, and that you cannot suffer the wicked; that you put to the test those who say they are apostles, and they are not, and you found them liars.” (Rev. 2:2 )

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About me & My statement after my dedication to serve God Almighty and His only-begotten Son (1992)

My testimony

My creed, based exclusively on Holy Scripture, which I have been studying since 1991

Grace and peace to all from God the Father and from His only-begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Glory and honor be to God, our heavenly Father and also to

His only-begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forever and ever! Amen!

What is my authority?

I have no other authority than the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, I have no other so-called "holy or inspired" books, I have no other authority that guides me, I follow the Bible exclusively. I do not believe as "authority" neither in EG White nor in the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses, nor in the leaders of the Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses, nor in anyone else from other cults, that they are an "authority" to whom one should to obey blindly. I'm not even saying that I would be such an authority. I want to be impartial and Satan the Devil cannot deceive me through anyone. That's my goal. That is why I watch day and night and stick exclusively to what I learn from the Bible. God help me and you!

If someone asked you to make a short summary of your faith, a kind of confession of faith, what would it be?

Here, dear brothers and sisters, in short, my creed, after an in-depth study of the Bible, starting in 1991. In 1992, I surrendered my life to God, after He healed me of a serious illness.

Be blessed!

My testimony

My creed

I believe everything written in the 66 holy books of the Bible and I remind you of the warning in it, that if you do not interpret the Bible correctly, you fall astray.

Daniel 12:10, Matthew 13:19, 2 Peter 3:16

The belief I share from the Bible, about God, is the following:

There is only one God, the wise Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things and beings in the Universe. This is the God of the Bible, known from ancient times as the God of the Jews, Yehowah, He is described as a God of justice and love and as the Almighty Father.

Gender. 1.1, Exodus 20, Matt. 5.45, Rom. 1.20, Deuteronomy 32:4, John 3:13,16, John 17:1-5, 1John 4:8,16, Revelation 3:12.

The Bible shows that the Son of God was made by God our Lord and Savior, after he came from the heaven of heaven to be born on earth through Mary, a holy virgin, through the holy spirit of God and took the name of Jesus Christ (in Greek: Iesus Christos). Before coming from heaven he lived there under another name, in which we will know him again, he being the beginning of God's creation, being made by the Creator the master of creation, unique in being and authority over angels and men.

Genesis 1:26, Daniel 12:1, 1 John 1:1-3, John 3:16; 17:5, Revelation 3:14.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of our God and Father, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, died for our sins, and was placed in a stone tomb, guarded by a company of soldiers so that he would not be stolen, rose from the dead on the third day for our justification, ascended to heaven to help us and sits at the right hand of the Almighty Father, where he intercedes for us as High Priest. Satan - wanting to take the place of God - is guilty of all evils and that is why the Lord Jesus came to destroy the deceptive works of the Devil. The devil will be definitively defeated at the appointed time because God is Almighty.

Jesus Christ will come again, as KING, with his holy angels, to judge the living and the dead, to reward the righteous and punish the unrighteous, and to restore divine order on Earth. He will rule from heaven as King over the earth for a period of a thousand years. Then Satan will be destroyed with all those who will follow him.

Matthew 3.17, Luke 1.35, John 19.19-42, 1 Peter 3.18, Matthew 6.10, Revelation 20.

The Holy Spirit is the power and intellect of Almighty God, given to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the faithful.

Matthew 28:18.

Whoever believes in the grace of God and His Son and repents - fleeing from all sin and living a new life in love for God and fellow man according to the truth of the Gospel, pursuing sanctification and peace in the holy unity of the assembly of saints, receives the forgiveness of sins, the Holy Spirit and eternal life in happiness at the resurrection of the dead. Amen!

1 Cor. 2.9, Revelation 21: 3-5

That's why I say "Hallelu-Yah!", praising my heavenly Father, Creator of heaven and earth, and His Son, my Lord and Savior!

Come Lord Jesus! Amen!

Who invented the hell?

Hegesippus (born c. 110 – died c.180 AD), also known in history as Hegesippus the Nazarene, was a Jewish Christian historian of the early Church.

He wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion which flourished a lot in the first part of the second century and brought rotten fruits. After the deafeat of Marcion's thesis in Rome, Marcion’s disciple Cerdon and Valentinus came to Rome under Anicetus — being defeated by the help of Bishop Polikarp of the Smirneans. In the statement of Eusebius he lived in the time of Antinous (130), and that he came to Rome under Pope Anicetus (Bishop of Rome c. 157–168) and wrote in the time of Pope Eleuterus (Bishop of Rome c. 174–189).

At that time Christian teachings began to be preached dressed in the pagan philosophy of the time and Christian writings were altered to justify these false dogmas.

Hegesippus' works are now entirely lost, save eight passages concerning Church history quoted by Eusebius, who tells us that he wrote Hypomnemata (known as Memoirs) in five books, concerning the tradition of the Apostolic preaching. Jerome wrote that Hegesippus "wrote a history of all ecclesiastical events from the passion of our Lord down to his own period... in five volumes", which has established the Hypomnemata as a Church history. Hegesippus appealed principally to tradition as embodied in the teaching which had been handed down through the succession of bishops, thus providing for Eusebius information about the earliest bishops that otherwise would have been lost. We must lament the loss of other portions of the Memoirs which were known to exist in the seventeenth century.

Who caused these memories to be lost and why? The same happened with the oldest complete copy of the Gospel according to Luke, which disappeared after being photocopied in the 19th century. We could suspect that there were and still are criminal hands and minds in Christianity, who do not want us to know the history and Christian texts from the second century, because they want to preserve the deviant lines of the tradition of people in Christianity, for example the pagan origin of Hell.

How could we believe in the doctrine fabricated by some philosophers about hell, who say that bad people are tormented immediately after death, without having part of the resurrection and judgment, when the Lord Jesus said that all people must have the stain of resurrection and judgment?

John 5:28. Do not marvel at this; because the hour is coming when all those in the graves will hear His voice

29. and they will come out of them. Those who have done good will rise to life; and those who have done evil will rise to judgment.

See here some of the inventors of the hell:

Polybius, the ancient historian, says: "Since the multitude is ever fickle, full of lawless desires, irrational passions and violence, there is no other way to keep them in order but by the fear and terror of the invisible world; on which account our ancestors seem to me to have acted judiciously, when they contrived to bring into the popular belief these notions of the gods, and of the infernal regions." B. vi 56.

Livy, the celebrated historian, speaks of it in the same spirit; and he praises the wisdom of Numa, because he invented the fear of the gods, as "a most efficacious means of governing an ignorant and barbarous populace." Hist., I 19.

Strabo, the geographer, says: "The multitude are restrained from vice by the punishments the gods are said to inflict upon offenders, and by those terrors and threatenings which certain dreadful words and monstrous forms imprint upon their minds... For it is impossible to govern the crowd of women, and all the common rabble, by philosophical reasoning, and lead them to piety, holiness and virtue - but this must be done by superstition, or the fear of the gods, by means of fables and wonders; for the thunder, the aegis, the trident, the torches (of the Furies), the dragons, &c., are all fables, as is also all the ancient theology.
These things the legislators used as scarecrows to terrify the childish multitude." Geog., B. I

Timaeus Locrus, the Pythagorean, after stating that the doctrine of rewards and punishments after death is necessary to society, proceeds as follows: "For as we sometimes cure the body with unwholesome remedies, when such as are most wholesome produce no effect, so we restrain those minds with false relations, which will not be persuaded by the truth. There is a necessity, therefore, of instilling the dread of those foreign torments: as that the soul changes its habitation; that the coward is ignominiously thrust into the body of a woman; the murderer imprisoned within the form of a savage beast; the vain and inconstant changed into birds, and the slothful and ignorant into fishes."

Plato, in his commentary on Timaeus, fully endorses what he says respecting the fabulous invention of these foreign torments. And Strabo says that "Plato and the Brahmins of India invented fables concerning the future judgments of hell" (Hades). And Chrysippus blames Plato for attempting to deter men from wrong by frightful stories of future punishments.

Plato himself is exceedingly inconsistent, sometimes adopting, even in his serious discourses, the fables of the poets, and at other times rejecting them as utterly false, and giving too frightful views of the invisible world. Sometimes, he argues, on social grounds, that they are necessary to restrain bad men from wickedness and crime, and then again he protests against them on political grounds, as intimidating the citizens, and making cowards of the soldiers, who, believing these things, are afraid of death, and do not therefore fight well.

But all this shows in what light he regarded them; not as truths, certainly, but as fictions, convenient in some cases, but difficult to manage in others. Seneca says: "Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, &c., are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors."

Sextus Empiricus calls them "poetic fables of hell;" and Cicero speaks of them as "silly absurdities and fables" (ineptiis ac=fabulis).

Aristotle. "It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state." Neander's Church Hist., I, p. 7. 11

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