The Watchtower has always focused on end times chronology as it relates to Jesus.

When Charles Taze Russell began publishing, he called his magazine, “Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.” (Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, p. 42)

The Watchtower claims that God’s revelation is progressive and that it therefore has to make “adjustments” in its teachings.

At the same time, it makes this claim:

…Jehovah’s organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God’s holy spirit or active force… Only this organization functions for Jehovah’s purpose and to his praise. To it alone God’s Sacred Word the Bible, is not a sealed book… How very much true Christians appreciate associating with the only organization on earth that understands the “deep things of God.”! (The Watchtower, “Praise Jehovah with His People,” 3/1/73, p. 402) Continue reading