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(The first of 9 pages).

The following extracts are from the book: Visions of Glory. A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, a proof reader and former member of the sect falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses. Published in 1980 by Robert Hale Ltd, a copy of this book may be obtained from most public libraries.

While reading the following quotations from 'Visions of Glory' I ask readers to bear in mind that The Christ's teachings also came through his apostles, and "Everyone that pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of The Christ does not have God." (2 John V.9).

From Chapter 1.

Personal Beginnings: 1944.

I was convinced that 1914 marked "the beginning of the times of the end." So firmly did Jehovah's Witnesses believe this to be true that there were those who, in 1944, refused to get their teeth filled, postponing all care of their bodies until God saw to their regeneration in His New World. (Pg.12).

The Witnesses are able to identify outsiders, or defectors, or hangers-on, by the slightest misuse of code language... Any departure from the universal language, any verbal eccentricity, starts alarm bells ringing in the heads of Witnesses. (Pg.18). And yet we all begin from a position of ignorance. Their coded language barrier creates a form of apartheid, or 'apartness'.

Female Witnesses outnumber male Witnesses 3 to 2. As a child, I observed that it was not extraordinary for women who became Jehovah's Witnesses to remove themselves from their husbands' bedrooms as a first step to getting closer to God. Many unhappily married and sexually embittered women fall in love with Jehovah. (Pg.21). They obviously chose to ignore the apostle Paul's instructions. (See 1 Cor 7:2-5).

I did not know that since 1873 the Witnesses had arranged and rearranged pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which had yielded several different, earlier dates for the apocalypse; nor did I know that there was never any basis in secular history for assuming 607 to be the year of Jerusalem's destruction. I knew only what I was told, and I believed it… Had Armageddon come exactly on schedule, it would have arrived in 1972. ("From Adam's creation to the end of 1943 A.D. is 5,971 years.") In 1944, we were 29 years away from the seven thousandth year of human history, according to the Witnesses' reckoning. In later years, the Witnesses juggled figures a little and came up with 1975 as the date of the apocalypse: "Six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. [Common Era]… It would not be by mere chance or accident... for the reign of Jesus Christ to run parallel with the seventh millennium of man's existence." [Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God. 1966]. The Witnesses are now in the process of slithering away from 1975 as they have in the past slithered from other dates. In spite of their modest claim that they do not know "the day and the hour," they have nevertheless led their followers to believe in at least five apocalyptic dates. (Pg.26,27).

All those involved in the fabrication, publication, and distribution of such "lying signs and portents" as the above, have pushed ahead of the teachings of The Christ. (See 2 John V.9,10). They are the apostate "man of lawlessness" who declare that "the day of Jehovah is here." (2 Thess 2:1-12). The "Little Scroll" is the Lord's exposure of them and their guilt. (Rev 10:7-11).

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