Forudsigelser og påstande om Kristi andet komme: Forskelle mellem versioner

|Disse tre mænd forudsagde alle, at Jesus ville vende tilbage i år 500. En af forudsigelserne var lavet på grundlag af beretningen om [[Noas ark]].<ref name=rr>{{cite book|title=Are You Rapture Ready|first1=Todd|last1=Strandberg|first2=Terry|last2=James|publisher=Dutton|yeardate= juni 2003|month=June|location=New York City}}</ref>{{rp|35}}

| Russell var den første præsident for hvad der blev til [[Vagttårnets Bibel- og Traktatselskab]] hos [[Jehovas Vidner]], og han regnede sig frem til, at Jesu andet komme ville være i 1874. Indtil sin død i 1916 prædikede han, at Kristus var usynligt til stede, og havde regeret fra himlen siden den profeterede dato.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404705638.html |title=Charles Taze Russell—FREE Charles Taze Russell Information |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |date= |accessdate=2009-11-21}}</ref><ref>"The writer, among many others now interested, was sound asleep, in profound ignorance of the cry, etc., until 1876, when being awakened he trimmed his lamp (for it is still very early in the morning.) It showed him clearly that the Bridegroom had come and that he is living "in the days of the Son of Man."{{cite journal |journal=Zion's Watch Tower|author=C.T. Russell |title=From and To The Wedding |url=http://www.mostholyfaith.com/bible/Reprints/Z1880APR.asp |monthdate=Aprilapril | year=1880 |page=2}}</ref><ref>Russell explained how he accepted the idea of an invisible return of Christ from N.H. Barbour in [http://www.agsconsulting.com/htdbv5/r3820.htm "Harvest Gatherings and Siftings"] in the July 15, 1906 ''Watch Tower'', ''Reprints'' page 3822.</ref><ref>''The Three Worlds and The Harvest of This World'' by N.H. Barbour and C.T. Russell (1877). Text available online at: [http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/3worlds.pdf http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/3worlds.pdf]</ref> Russell forkyndte Kristi usynlige genkomst i 1874,<ref>''The Three Worlds'', p. 175.</ref> de helliges genopstandelse i 1875,<ref>''The Three Worlds'', pp. 104–108.</ref> og forudsagde slutningen af "høsten" og en bortrykkelse af de hellige til himlen i 1878,<ref>Se side 68, 89–93, 124, 125–126, 143 of ''The Three Worlds.''</ref> og den sidste vredes dag i 1914.<ref>The year 1914 was seen as the final end of the "day of wrath": ."..the 'times of the Gentiles,' reach from B.C. 606 to A.D. 1914, or forty years beyond 1874. And the time of trouble, conquest of the nations, and events connected with the day of wrath, have only ample time, during the balance of this forty years, for their fulfillment." ''The Three Worlds'', p. 189.</ref> 1874 blev betragtet som slutningen af de 6000 års menneskehistorie og begyndelsen på Kristi dom.<ref>In 1935, the idea that the 6,000 years ran out in 1874 was moved forward 100 years.{{cite journal|journal=The Golden Age|title=The Second Hand in the Timepiece of God|pages=412–413|date=27. marts 1935|url=http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/docs/1935_Calendar_Golden_Age.pdf|format=PDF}}</ref>