CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES WAS A FREEMASON.

Charles Taze Russell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in the United States, in 1852, the son of a Presbyterian marriage. A few years, he became the Congregational church. From the beginning, with only 11 years he started a business with his father menswear, coming to own several shops. Years later, in a moment of crisis in his Christian faith, he made contact with the Church of the Advent of Christ. 

In the following years he made contact with various preachers of the time, which was taking various ideas, yet away from them. These departures approaches are understood in the world of Jehovah's Witnesses as the appearance of the first rays of divine light to guide Russell definitely become Jehovah's Witnesses. It was essential to break with your partner then Barbour, which eventually led to the 1879 edition of the magazine The Watchtower finally end calling. For several years, Russell wrote an enormous amount of literature, presenting their ideas on the creation, the end of the world and the second coming of Christ. It was Russell who deduced from the biblical scriptures who proposed the date of 1914 to the end times of the Gentiles, and proposed the years between 1914 and 1918 as a trial run for the Bible Students, as it was known then to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Finally, Russell died in 1916 while traveling on a train, and JF Rutherford was his successor, who will speak later. 

This is a large-scale biography that any Jehovah's Witness knows Russell as its original founder, in fact, the data reported here can be contrasted with the teachings of the book "Jehovah's Witnesses. Proclaimers of God's Kingdom "

Is this the true story of Russell ?, is there anything else in your life ?, there are things they do not know Jehovah's Witnesses today its founder? 

The answer is that there is much that Russell should know, information that would help many current Witnesses identify Russell as a character not divinely directed, but very lucrative as an excellent employer. 

Sticking exclusively to the religious aspects, firstly, I must say that Russell came to determine various dates as the arrival of the coming doomsday. The first was for 1799, just as he was working with Barbour, which stated that on that day out of time for false prophets. By 1874 it was when Jesus was visibly returned to the world, and in 1914 was when the world had come to an end. Little do they know Witnesses current dates of 1799 and 1874, it was shown that was an absolute mistake. 

Some excuse Russell for the fact that even those days when he did not have the divine light, and was influenced by other religious people. That is why such data have almost disappeared from the current literature of Jehovah's Witnesses. Few know that Russell himself in 1879 sold his prosperous clothing business to engage in "God's work", because he thought that 1914 would come in the end of the world. However, what happened in 1914 ?. Nothing, though some Witnesses strive to justify that year was assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, and it began following World War I, and in that same year, Germany invaded Belgium and France, but not sound rather than excuses. 

The truth is that Jehovah's Witnesses then expected to go to heaven during the first week of October, and that did not happen. What happened ?, as the logical, many people turn away from the Witnesses, so they give the explanation that "some" had lost faith. That date is slightly delayed to October 1915, where nothing happened, what Russell himself responded with the following words: "We wanted to do our own will; so when we found out that we were wrong about what we expected in October 1914, we rejoiced that the Lord did not change his plan to fit our expectations. We did not want him to do that. We just want to understand their plans and purposes. " 

Then he said that since 1914-1918 a time trial where Jehovah's Witnesses would have to demonstrate their faith would be set. Finally, Russell himself did not see what happened in 1918, because he died in 1916, but again, nothing happened. 

Another thing that few Witnesses know today is the hobby of Russell by the pyramids of Egypt. Russell himself spoke to the Great Pyramid of Giza had been made ​​to witness the presence of God with the Bible. Even argued in his book "The Divine Plan of the Ages" that measures the pyramid gave details as the weight of the Earth, the distance from the Sun, and the year of Christ's coming, it was, 1914, as obtained in the length of one of the main passages. Finally, few witnesses know that Russell's grave is a pyramid, which is the Masonic symbol par excellence.

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Certainly Russell's successor, JFRutherford, after a long internal dispute with other members who wanted to inherit the empire of Russell, also made his own doomsday prophecy. And in 1920, the booklet "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" saying something like "Can we trust that in 1925 return from the Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old to a condition of human perfection dead." That is, it was expected that men of the past resurrected in 1925, and also anointed Christians, the faithful Witness, would receive their heavenly reward. Again, nothing happened, and the Company justification given was that the Apostles themselves had expected things not done, and it was normal that some lose faith.