A reader sent me some info about Charles Taze Russell.

I am first going to post it up, as it’s interesting in its own right, and I actually really enjoy sharing quality info that other people share with me on the blog. It’s one of the ‘nice’ things about blogging, in fact, that I can also give other people’s research and ideas a voice. At least, sometimes.

So, here’s what they sent me:

This doctrine of replacement theology is common in both Catholicism and Protestantism and is also known, with a complex word, as supersessionism.

Regarding your research on Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel, I’m sending you this information: I don’t know what it’s called in Israel, but here it’s called “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” I always call it “The Watchtower Society,” so as not to use Hashem’s name unnecessarily!

This, too, is a movement that stood at the beginning of Christian Zionism.

But perhaps you already knew this. Its founder is Charles Taze Russell. He was born on February 16, 1852, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the time, his group was known as the International Association of Bible Students. Russell launched the magazine we know today as The Watchtower in July 1879.

In his book “Pastor Charles Taze Russell – An Early American Christian Zionist” (New York 1990), Jewish author David Horowitz notes that the pastor emphasizes throughout his writings that the Bible’s central theme is the return of the sons of Israel to their land. Horowitz claims that Russell was one of the first American Christians to announce the return of the Israelites to Palestine; according to him, Russell was a Zionist before the term even existed!

In 1881, he founded the Zion’s Watchtower Tract Society.

To promote immigration to Palestine, Russell published a Hebrew newspaper.

It appears that on October 9, 1910, he organized a meeting at the Hippodrome Theater in New York. More than 4,000 Jews are said to have attended. Russell gave a special two-hour presentation. According to the Watch Tower of October 15, 1910, Jewish citizens made the gathering one of the largest New York had ever seen. One of the prominent figures was Frank Goldstein, a member and later president of the B’nai B’rith Order.

The Watchtower Society is considered a sect in mainstream Christianity.

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Thanks to H., first of all, for taking the time to condense this info down and to send it to me.

I have been doing such a deep-dive on the roots of xtian zionism, that I literally have three books to write on the subject. BH, I will have more time over the next couple of months to start to share what I’m finding more widely, as it changes the whole picture of how the ‘State’ really got founded, who was really behind it, in the non-Jewish world, and what their agenda was for doing that.

It will also help to explain so much of what seems so bizarre and wrong, with what is going on here in our days.

Before there was ‘xtian zionism’, there was an evangelical movement to get the Jews back to their biblical homeland, to fulfill biblical prophecies so that Yoshki could ‘come back for a second time’, called RESTORATIONISM.

If you start looking for information about Jewish Restoration, you will see that a bunch of influential xtians in the UK, primarily, were pushing this idea for at least 300 years.

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But, back to Charles Taze Russell, because a few weeks ago, I downloaded this diagram, which explains more of the eschatology (= end of days prophetic speculations) that underpins his movement, and bunch of others, too:

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First, let me tell you about the ‘Dispensationist Theology’ of a particular group of evangelicals.

That group gave us John Derby Nelson and the ‘Plymouth Brethren’, who also jumped the pond in a big way and influenced people like William Blackstone, of the ‘Blackstone Memorial’ fame.

It also gave us the ‘Catholic and Apostolic Church’, aka the Irvingites, in the UK, which are a truly strange story that needs to be told in full, at some point soon, as so many leading ‘xtian zionist’ politicians had links with this group.

It gave us a bunch of people who were ‘labouring’ with the London Jews Society – who realised in the late 1820s that the Jews in Israel were expecting moshiach to show up in 1840, so they rushed to Jerusalem to set up a mission, and a new Anglican Bishopric, at exactly that time.

There’s a whole bunch of interesting things going on with this, behind the scenes, that no-one ever talks about, because that would be real history, real facts, and that would change the whole picture about who is really a ‘political zionist’…

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So, ‘Dispensationalist Theory’ taught that the ‘dispensation’ of the patriarchs ended with the Flood.

That the so-called ‘Jewish Dispensation’ ended with the destruction of the Second Temple, and dispersion of the Jews.

And, pay attention here, this is the chiddush that sets this group of apocalyptic-minded xtians apart from so many others, that there was a ‘Christian Dispensation’ that is due to end with terrible violence and destruction, when the Jews are returned to their biblical homeland.

AND – that the ‘christian church’ will also be destroyed at this point, in the carnage that happens all over the world, aka ‘Armageddon’ and all that fun stuff.

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These evangelicals literally believe the whole world has to be destroyed in terrible, bloody violence, where only a few people who have been ‘sealed’ by their particular churches (the number is 144,000) will make it through in one piece, and get to greet Yoshki.

I am still figuring out their idealogy, so I may have to refine the above as we go along, but it’s the basic foundation of what they believe.

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So now, let’s go back to the chart, where what I just told you is depicted graphically.

Do you notice the capstone of the pyramid?

Let’s zoom-in on it:

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I’m still researching it – and I’d appreciate any input from others – but it seems to me, this capstone is meant to be Yoshki, returning for the ‘Second Coming’.

After ‘Israel is Restored’ and the whole world has been destroyed in Armageddon.

Now, take a look at this:

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The latin words above this ‘pyramid’ and capstone read:

Annuit Coeptis = ‘He has agreed to our undertakings.’

Underneath, the latin words are:

Novus ordo seclorum = ‘New order of the ages.’

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That pyramid diagram, above, is called:

PYRAMID CHART OF THE AGES.

And it also has a book that goes along with it, that you can download here:

The Plan of the Ages by Charles Taze Russell : Charles Taze Russell, Maria Russell : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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They keep telling us all it’s the masons, masons, masons, that are behind so much of what is going wrong in the world.

That is only half true, at best.

‘The Masons’ are not homogenous.

Some masons, particularly the French stream, became satanic, humanistic ‘atheists’ – and sadly for us, this is the stream that really embraced the renegade Jews, who were sick of being debased, fleeced and murdered by the good xtians they’d been living amongst, for 1800 years.

But, there were so many masonic societies and spin-offs that ONLY accepted xtians, and still hated the Jews.

(And who were also satanic…. but in a totally different way, which we will get around to explaining, but hopefully you are starting to figure this out for yourself, that ‘ABIRAM’ the builder was actually none other than…. Yoshki himself.)

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We’ll stop here for today, but go and look up ‘restoration’, and see what you start to learn.

And this was NOT a fringe group…. it includes so many of the leading politicians on both sides of the pond.

All focussed on ‘restoring’ the Jews to Eretz Yisrael, so they could:

a) convert them all en masse

b) kill whoever refused to convert

c) usher in Armageddon, and the ‘Second Coming’, when the whole world would be destroyed, except for the little bunch who Yoshki is going to ‘take up to heaven’ to wait out the violence below, until their ‘new order of ages’ is properly established.

QED.