Give me the year
2007-02-14 07:38:03 · 10 answers · asked by carlos z 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
While the Scriptures plainly refer to Adam's son Abel as the earliest of the "great cloud of [Jehovah's] witnesses", another name preceded Abel by untold millenia...
(Hebrews 11:4,39;12:1) By faith Abel ...had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness respecting his gifts... And yet all these, although they had witness borne to them through their faith, did not get the fulfillment of the promise... we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us
(Revelation 1:5) Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness [of Jehovah]
It seems that Jesus began witnessing many thousands or millions or billions of years before even Abel. An exact year cannot be given.
2007-02-14 13:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Adam & Eve's second son Abel was the very first witness of Jehovah. From Moses to Malachi all the writers of the canonical Scriptures were witnesses of Jehovah; and all those inspired Scriptures in Hebrew and Aramaic were of Jehovah’s authorship and were by his witnesses.
Isaiah 43:10--"You are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me, and that you may understand that I am the same one. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none."
The greatest and most faithful witness of Jehovah is his son, Jesus, who not not only preached the good news about Jehovah's Kingdom, but commanded all witnesses of Jehovah to do the same, which we are now doing in over 235 lands.
Matthew 24:14, Matthew 28:19-20
2007-02-14 08:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by Micah 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Hi our beliefs were first promoted by Abel. 1931? I believe was the year we first took the name Jehovah's Witnesses.(I will check to vverify in the morning)
PS Yes we did celebrate Christmas. Yes, we did stop. Why? Because through study we learned it to be a PAGAN celebration. If you wait till Christmas time comes many newspapers even print the PAGAN origins of this practice.
2007-02-15 18:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We weren't called Jehovah's Witnesses until 1931. Before that, there was a group called "International Bible Students". They published the Watchtower but Charles Russell never even heard the name "Jehovah's Witnesses".
Abel (Adam and Eve's son) was the first true worshipper of Jehovah.
2007-02-14 07:47:53 · answer #4 · answered by krobin 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
1872 by Charles Taze Russell
2007-02-14 07:44:36 · answer #5 · answered by Rixie 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Jehovah's Witnesses was begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872.
Russell claimed that the Bible could be only understood according to his interpretations. A dangerous arrangement since he controlled what was written in the Watchtower magazine. This kind of assertion is typical among leaders of cult religions.
2007-02-14 07:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Technically, Abel was the first witness of Jehovah. (Hebrews 11:4 says, "By faith Abel offered God a sacrifice of greater worth than Cain, through which faith he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness respecting his gifts and through it he, although he died, yet speaks.") :-)
2007-02-14 07:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by Badriya 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere in the early 1900's......that's around the time that the false prophet Charles Taze Russel was born I think.
Edit:
Oops...I was 30 years off. Either way....still a cult.
2007-02-14 07:41:30 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Funny Fact - Everybody knows that JW's don't celebrate Christmas, but did you know that they DID, until the late 1920s. WHY did they stop? --short answer in [someone else's] words -- because Judge Rutherford (president at that time) said so.
The fact that they changed this practice shows that their religion is not infallible.
2007-02-14 08:16:20 · answer #9 · answered by Me ves y sufres 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
i think all jehovah witness answers wrong because the name jehovah is not known on first century christian. meaning the name jehovah only made by man. please read there own book REASONING IN THE SCRIPTURE page 192
2007-02-14 08:15:00 · answer #10 · answered by gen c 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋