Joseph Franklin Rutherford Zitate

“You may successfully resist any and all men, but you cannot successfully resist Jehovah God.... In the name of Jehovah God and His anointed King, Christ Jesus, I demand that you give order to all officials and servants of your government that Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany be permitted to peaceably assemble and without hindrance worship God.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

[The Evils of Nazism Exposed, Awake!, 1995]

“It is more reasonable to conclude that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh as well as the other pyramids thereabout, also the sphinx, were built by the rulers of Egypt and under the direction of Satan the Devil.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

[Watchtower, WTBTS, 1928 November 15, 344]

“The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. The spirit of God, i. e., his invisible power, moved upon the waters and thereby he created.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Harp of God (1921)

“It is to be expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated the thought that 1925 should see an end of the work, and that therefore it would be needless for them to do more.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

[Watchtower, WTBTS, 1925 September 1, 262]

“Do you believe it! Do you believe that the King of glory is present, and has been since 1874?… Behold, the King reigns! you are his publicity agents. Therefore advertise, advertise, advertise, the King and his kingdom.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Kingdom (1925)

“In Germany the common people are peace-loving, … The Devil has put his representative Hitler in control, a man who is of unsound mind, cruel, malicious and ruthless... He cruelly persecutes the Jews because they were once Jehovah’s covenant people and bore the name of Jehovah, and because Christ Jesus was a Jew.”

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

[The Evils of Nazism Exposed, Awake!, 1995]