TODAY IN THEOCRATIC HISTORY

[Jay]

Great thread! Filled with lots of knowledge

[Boanerges]

October 28- On October 28, 2003, the Bucharest Court of Appeals issued Judgment No. 1756, obligating the government of Romania to include Jehovah’s Witnesses on the tax-regulations list of recognized religions.

[Boanerges]

On 10/26/2019 at 11:19 AM, BrotherJay said:

Great thread! Filled with lots of knowledge

Thanks bro. jay

[Skye]

Sunday October 29 1916: Charles T. Russell delivered his last talk in Los Angeles, California. He was so weak that he was unable to stand for the discourse. “I regret that I am not able to speak with force or power,” said Russell. He then beckoned to the chairman to remove the stand and bring a chair, saying as he sat down, “Pardon me for sitting down, please.” He spoke for about forty-five minutes, then answered to questions for a short time. Dwight T. Kenyon says of that occasion: “I had the privilege of attending Brother Russell’s last talk in Los Angeles on October 29, 1916. He was very ill and remained seated during his discourse on Zechariah 13:7-9. How his good-bye text, Numbers 6:24-26, impressed me!” Two days later, 64-year-old Russell died on a train at Pampa, Texas. 

 

October 29, 1983: Dedication ceremonies of the new branch complex of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Emmen, the Netherlands. A crowd of 1,150, including 54 delegates from nine other countries, were present for the festive program. In attendance, too, were hundreds of old-timers, whose “gray-headedness” lent a special touch to the occasion. Among the special guests was M. G. Henschel, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who came all the way from New York to serve on the dedication program. Nearby, in two assembly halls, an audience of 2,978 watched slides and listened to the program via telephone hookup.

 

 

[Skye]

October 30, 1991 -  The Russian government officially admits that the Soviet government had persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses because of their religion. Exactly 10 years later, on October 30, 2001, another legal case started again, accusing Jehovah’s Witnesses of making people hate others. The prosecutor she said that the government should ban Jehovah’s Witnesses for their own protection! 

 

 

[Skye]

October 30, 1921 - Day 1 of the Poland's first general convention. It lasted 4 days. 500 were in attendance from various parts of Poland, and 14 got baptized.

 

Korea: In order to be a legally recognized religion in the country, it became necessary for the Witnesses to form a corporation. The Watch Tower Songso Chaekja Hyuphoi of Korea was thus formed and registered with the Ministry of Education on October 30, 1952, with six directors and nine members.

 

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/VODIntExpArchives/pub-jwbiv_201605_1_VIDEO Br. Erich Frost, who composed the melody that we know today as Song 61 "Forward You Witnesses" finished his earthly course on October 30, 1987, at the age of 86. 

 

On June 6, 1950, without any advance notice, the minister of transport prohibited the transportation of the Society’s publications by the Belgian railroad and postal systems. After repeated requests throughout the 31 years, it was not until October 30, 1981, that the Belgian government removed the ban on the transportation of the Society’s literature!

 

[Boanerges]

October 31- On Tuesday, October 31, C. T. Russell was on the verge of death. Shortly thereafter, in early afternoon of Tuesday,October 31, 1916, sixty-four-year-old Charles Taze Russell died at Pampa, Texas.

[Skye]

October 31- October 31, 1991, is a date our brothers and sisters in Estonia will long remember. That was the date on which the first congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses was officially registered in Estonia.

 

 

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November 4- On Sunday, November 4, 1945, Nathan Homer Knorr, for the first time as president of the International Bible Students Association, set foot on English soil.

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November 5- NOVEMBER 5, 1977, was a great day for the Bethel family at the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Amsterdam. The occasion was the dedication of the new annex of the Bethel home

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November 8- Joseph Franklin Rutherford was born of Baptist parents on a farm in Morgan County, Missouri, U.S.A., on November 8, 1869. 

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November 9- during the 1990 service year, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall began being demolished. This resulted in a flood of newly liberated peoples as well as fresh situations that would affect our global preaching work.

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November 10- On November 10, 2002, a group of Mixe, an indigenous people of Mexico, gathered in San Miguel, Quetzaltepec. That is a town in the beautiful southern state of Oaxaca. The group were attending a district convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. 

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November 11- On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end.

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November 12- On November 12, 1991, the minister of the interior issued a decree lifting the ban on the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

[daydream]

What country is this?

[Boanerges]

Just now, M'Awan said:

What country is this?

In Republic of Congo Sis Anne. (yb04 pp. 134-161, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville)

[daydream]

Thanks. 

Today, Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city in what is now the Republic of Congo. The city is located on the banks of the Congo River.  From Brazzaville you can look across the river at the skyline of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since both countries adopted the name of the river, it is common to call them Congo (Brazzaville) and Congo (Kinshasa).

[Boanerges]

Thanks. 
Today, Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city in what is now the Republic of Congo. The city is located on the banks of the Congo River.  From Brazzaville you can look across the river at the skyline of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since both countries adopted the name of the river, it is common to call them Congo (Brazzaville) and Congo (Kinshasa).

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[Boanerges]

November 13- For more than four years prior to this, the government of Greece had viewed marriages of Jehovah’s witnesses as “nonexistent” and their children as “illegitimate.” Why? Because a circular issued on November 13, 1970, by the then Vice-President and Minister of Interior, Stylianos Pattacos, declared that “the religion of Jehovah’s witnesses is an unknown one.”  (g75 12/8 pp. 17-21, Jehovah’s Witnesses—“Known” Once Again in Greece)

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November 14- In a personal letter dated November 14, 1927, Brother Frederick W. Franz wrote: “We will have no Christmas this year. The Bethel family has voted not to have Christmas anymore.” 

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November 15 - By November 15, 1993, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, a legal agency used by Jehovah’s Witnesses, had been reregistered and Jehovah’s Witnesses were once again legally recognized as a religion in Malawi.

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November 16- On November 16,1970 an enthusiastic crowd of 15,443 overflowed the facilities of the Honolulu International Center to hear the stirring Bible discourse “The Road Back to Peace in Paradise.”

Edited November 17, 2019 by Boanerges

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November 17- The major highlight of 1955 was undoubtedly the assembly held in Accra, Gold Coast, November 17 to 20. Twenty-five from Ivory Coast attended, traveling alternately by small truck and boat. At the border Brother Paterson got out of the boat, told the border officials that these were “New World” citizens on their way to attend a convention of “fellow citizens” in Accra. The boat was allowed to pass with none of the brothers being disturbed.

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November 18- On November 18, 1949, the Society’s 65-foot (20-meter) schooner Sibia set sail from St. Thomas and headed for St. Martin in the Leewards. On board were four preachers of the “good news”—Gust Maki, Ronald Parkin, Arthur Worsley and Stanley Carter. And, of course, the boat was loaded with many cartons of Bibles and Christian literature.