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Are Jehovah witnesses a cult or part of Christianity? You see them at airports, in parks. A lot of times they'll come even to your house and knock well-d, and very polite, good people.

And there's about 8,699,000 Jehovah Witnesses around the world.

They would offer about 5 million free home Bible courses,

and they have about 117,000 congregations around the world. Now, we will answer whether Jehovah Witnesses are a cold or they're part of Christianity in just a moment.

But I want to just highlight a little bit of the background of where they started.

Now, we have to go back to the Adventist background.

There was a guy named William Miller.

He was a farmer, a deputy sheriff,

a justice of the peace, and the captain in the war of 1820. He announced in 1831 that the end of

the world would come in 1843. According to Miller's estimations, about 50,000 to 100,000 people started to follow his teachings.

But of course, it didn't happen. The world did not come to an end in 1843.

But his associates revised that date to October 22nd, 1844. Still, the end of the world didn't come.

What a disappointment.

And the movement then split into various Adventist organizations,

including what is known today as a Seventh-day Adventist.

Now, you may say, what does this have to do with Jehovah's Witnesses? Well, one of the Adventist teachers was Charles Russell.

He was born in 1852 and died in 1916. In 1872, he founded the International Bible Students Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He denied the existence of hell. He denied the Trinity. He denied the divinity of Jesus. He taught that Jesus' presence had already returned

to earth invisibly in 1874, that Jesus had become king in heaven in 1878, and that he would set up his visible

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