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Question: 1 have been told that in a book written by Rutherford o f the Jehovah’s Witnesses that he listed some inventions and achievements of man as signs that Christ had come to earth. Where can I find this and what does it include ? Answer: The list appears on page 235 of The Harp o f God, published in 1921 by the Watch Tower of Brooklyn and reads as follows: Adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery, ar tificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, b a r b e d wire, bi cycles, carborundum, cash regis ters, ce llu lo id , correspondence schools, cream separators, Dark est Africa, disk ploughs, Divine Plan of the Ages (R u s s e ll’ s books), dynamite, electric rail ways, electric welding, escalators, fireless cookers, gas engines, har vesting machines, illum ina ting gas, induction motors, linotypes, match machines, monotypes, mo tion pictures, North Pole, Panama Canal, Pasteurization, ra ilway signals, Roentgen rays, shoe sew ing machines, smokeless powder, South Pole, submarines, radium, sky scrapers, subways, talking machines, telephones, typewriters, vacuum cleaners and wireless tele graphy. When Russell’s predictions that Christ would return in October 1914 did not come to pass, and Russell himself died in 1916, the new head of the cult, “ Judge” Joseph F. Ruth erford, was faced with a dilemma which he “ solved” with this explana tion: “ In 1914 Jehovah set His Anointed One upon his th rone; therefore at that time Christ Jesus took his authority as King. Three and one-half years thereafter, to wit in 1918, the Lord came to his tem ple, which is the temple of God” (Prophecy, pp. 73, 77, 82ff.). Absurd as is this theory, it is a fulfillment of Matthew 24:26: “Wherefore, if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: be hold, he is in secret chambers; be lieve it not.” Jehovah’s Witnesses is but one of the cults which teaches that Christ is already here.
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