End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. He cried aloud, and said thus, “Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches. Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth: let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.”

Pastor Russell interpreted the word time in that passage to be equal to 360 days. Seven “times” gave him a total of 2,520 days, which he translated to actually mean 2,520 years. Using 607 BCE as a start date and adding 2,520 years, Pastor Russell arrived at the conclusion that TEOTWAWKI would happen in October of 1914. The Watchtower Bible, written in the late 1800s, states, “The final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.”

Obviously 1914 came and went without God exterminating billions of people. Still believing in Pastor Russell’s prophecy about its being a significant year, the Watchtower Society simply redefined its importance. The End Of The World As We Know It would undoubtedly be preceded by a series of transitional events, rather than a mass genocide and the reappearance of Jesus Christ on Earth happening with no prelude at all, and what more likely prelude to the war of Armageddon than 1914, the start of World War I? And with Pastor Russell’s statement that those transitional events could take a number of years to occur, the date of the ultimate Armageddon was moved to 1915 and then 1918.

Pastor Russell passed away in 1916, and the newly appointed president of the Watchtower Society, J. E. Rutherford, decided to make a few adjustments in Pastor Russell’s calculations and prophecies. The Jehovah’s Witnesses had come to accept it as fact “beyond a doubt” that Jesus Christ appeared on Earth in 1874. Working both backward and forward from that date, with the help of the

Bible and other spiritually charged sources on earth, Rutherford arrived at the conclusion that Pastor Russell’s initial TEOTWAWKI date of 1914 could reliably be changed to 1925. Not that he was ready to stake his reputation on it, though—as New Year’s Day of 1925 approached, he wrote, “The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year.”

It goes without saying that the Lord clearly decided not to commit mass genocide in 1925 either. Undeterred, the Jehovah’s Witnesses kept right on calculating their way to such TEOTWAWKI years as 1932 and 1966, and then arriving with some certainty on the fall of 1975. “Our chronology,” they wrote in the Watchtower publication, “which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible) , at best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth.”

Obviously, 1975 wasn’t it either, which sent the Jehovah’s Witnesses back to their calculations and resources. And in Psalms 90:9- 10 they found a possible clue:

For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore.

Fourscore, they reasoned, translates to eighty years. And the beginning of TEOTWAWKI was still believed to be 1914. Eighty years from 1914, then, or 1994, was apparently the date they’d been looking for when Armageddon would occur. The church leaders were understandably reluctant to make any dramatic announcements about the significance of 1994, and, as we all know now, even we non-Jehovah’s Witnesses survived that year as well.

To this day the devout membership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who number more than six million worldwide, continues to believe that the end of the world is quickly