Watchtower Teaching
Dead leader still active
“…though Pastor Russell has passed beyond the veil, he is still managing every feature of the Harvest work.”
-Studies in the Scripture, Vol. 7, p.144
Earlier Mormon Teaching
Dead leader still active
“Joseph Smith holds the keys of this last dispensation, and is now engaged behind the veil in the great work of the last days.”
-B. Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 289
Watchtower Teaching
God’s throne at star Alcyone
“Alcyone, the central one of the renowned Pleiadic stars…from which the Almighty governs his universe.”
-Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 3, p.327
“…the group Pleiades. And the reasonable suggestion has been made that that center may be the heaven of heavens, the highest heaven, the throne of God.”
-The Watchtower, May 15, 1895, p. 1814
(Society’s reprints)
Mormon Teaching
God’s throne at star Kolob
“And I saw the stars… that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God…the name of the great one is Kolob…Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets….”
-Abraham 3:2, 3, Pearl of Great Price (1842)
Watchtower Teaching
Men will become gods
“Now we appear like men, and all die naturally like men, but in the resurrection we will rise in our true character as Gods.”
-The Watch Tower, December, 1881, page 301
Mormon Teaching
Men will become gods
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man…and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves…the same as all gods have done before you…until you attain to the resurrection”
-Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 305-306
Watchtower Teaching
Pyramid prophecies
“THE TESTIMONY OF GOD’S STONE WITNESS AND PROPHET, THE GREAT PYRAMID IN EGYPT…Call to mind that the full end of Gentile power in the world and the time of trouble which brings its overthrow, will be in the end of A.D. 1914…If the inches of the floor-lines of these passages represent a year, each…
-Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. III, 1891 (1903 edition), pages 313 (title), 362-363
Mormon Teaching
Pyramid prophecies
“…a new witness that the Lord seems to have brought to light, by the opening of the Great Pyramid of Egypt… There seems to be a prophetic spirit running through the construction of all that cast superstructure, pointing forward to the very end…Allowing one year to a cubit inch… the generation that will close up the times of the Gentiles.”
-Orson Pratt, Fiftieth Annual Conference Report of the Mormon Church, 1880, pages 86-87
Watchtower Teaching
God’s channel
“Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do.”
-The Watchtower, December 1, 1981, pg.27
Earlier Mormon Teaching
God’s channel
“Do we realize that this is the channel through which the mind and will of God our Father is made known to us?…and it is among the privileges of every man and every woman to approach the Lord through this channel and learn his mind and will concerning them.”
-Journal of Discourses, Vol. 18, 1875, p.98
Watchtower Teaching
Generation prophecies
“Most important, this magazine build confidence in the Creator’s promise of a peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away.”
Earlier Mormon teaching
Generation prophecies
“We believe in these promises as much as we believe in any promise ever uttered by the mouth of Jehovah. The Latter-day Saints just as much expect to receive a fulfillment of that promise during the generation that was in existence in 1832 as they expect that the sun will rise and set to-morrow. Why? Because God cannot lie.”
-Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, May 5, 1870, p. 362
