within little over two decades of the Pastor’s death, the Judge succeeded in fashioning a movement that was almost unrecognizable both organizationally and doctrinally from that which he inherited. Instead of Christ dying on a cross, it was decided he had died on an upright tree, or stake. Armageddon was not some period of anarchy and civil unrest preceding Christ’s rule—it was a “universal war” during which “the very ground will revolt against the presence of the wicked horde . . . and it will heave up and shake itself against the enemy.” The vindication of Jehovah’s name through preaching,
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