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Counting the days to Armageddon : the Jehovah's Witnesses and the second presence of Christ

This book provides a thorough examination ofthe Jehovah's Witnesses' eschatological development, treating Watch Tower theology objectively but sympathetically, and also speculates about the future direction of Jehovah's Witness teaching
Print Book, English, ©1996
J. Clarke, Cambridge, ©1996
Controversial literature
160 pages ; 23 cm
9780227679395, 9780718829513, 0227679393, 0718829514
36109974
The scriptural starting point
The historicist millennialist tradition
Dispensationalism
The time is at hand
Parallel dispensations
Interpreting the Book of Daniel
Days of waiting
The end-time calendar
The battle of Armageddon
The end of an era
Millions now living will never die
The great multitude
Interpreting the current sources
The security of 1914
The response to the crisis
Originally presented as the author's thesis (MLitt)--University of Durham