One group of people who dedicate their lives to the spreading of the gospel, is the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are not ashamed to proclaim the message in the streets, from door to door. The result of this is that they are often ridiculed, and most people regard them as a 'nuisance'.

Although there are errors in the doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses, they are closer to the reality than the vast majority of religious organizations. The movement was started by Charles Russel who conducted a small Bible study group. In 1872 the International Bible Students Association was formed, the Jehovah's Witnesses is an outgrowth of the Association.

Russel was a devout student of the Bible, and based on his study of the book of Daniel, he predicted that the second coming of the Son of man, would take place in 1914. Today the Jehovah's Witnesses still believe that the 'spiritual' second coming took place in 1914, and that it was 'a turning point' in the history of the world.

The error in the prediction that Russel made, was in calculating the date from the time that the Jews were banished from Jerusalem, instead of calculating from the time that the Jews returned to restore the Holy City. This means that Russel miscalculated by seventy years.

The turning point came in 1984 as prophesied in Luke 2 verse 37. The prophetess Anna, was four score and four years of age. This date was the time of the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.
The beginning of the "end time" .

The end time was ushered in when the two witnesses, the written word, and the spoken word, prophesied that the present world is about to come to an end. The prophesy came to an end in 1988, at which time the world as we know it started to collapse. All that still remains is for the Revelation of the Son of man to take place. The faithful witness(the two witnesses) where resurrected on May 17, 2004, and the world was judged on the 31st July, 2004.  The harvest is now being gathered so that the Son of man can be revealed.

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