Rutherford's Armageddon

J. F. "Judge" Rutherford
2nd President 1916-1942

1919 Trial of Joseph Franklin Rutherford (review)   part one   part two (incomplete)

Mystery Years of Joseph Franklin "The Judge" Rutherford in Missouri

Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie

news clippings from the "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" campaign era (1919-1925) (PDF file)

Olin Moyle's Letter to J. F. Rutherford

Beth Sarim and Beth Shan

Armageddon, Inc. The Saturday Evening Post, Sept.14, 1940

EXHIBIT I

Catholic opposition was high... Rutherford needed bodyguards. Threats and violence in the streets were commonplace due to Rutherford's outspokenness towards the clergy and the organization's stand for neutrality amidst a World War. Listen to the Society's lawyer Hayden Covington about one such story. Covington also tells about one man who kidnapped his Witness son with a view to having him abducted into the U.S. Army.  RealAudio

Rutherford Rutherford the canes Rutherford
the "Judge" Rutherford, Knorr and Covington bodyguards with canes Rutherford booms out

The "Judge" Speaks Out against all who dare oppose his newly-refurbished organization by means of hand-cranked phonographs carried door-to-door and sound cars parading around the streets, especially in Catholic enclaves. Here are a few samples of these record messages in RealAudio. 

click "Why the Clergy Oppose the Truth" "When men use the Word of God for a selfish purpose to exalt themselves and other men, they always fall into the trap of the devil."
click "God's Organization" "A mighty organization which destroys Satan's power, pictured as a mountain." "Only those who put themselves under the power and control of that organization" will be saved.
click "Satan's Organization"  
click "Obedience"  
click "The World's End" "1914 marks the BEGINNING of trouble for the world."
click "Who Will Survive Armageddon?" Those who reject our message or who leave the organization rebelliously will not be resurrected.

Watchtower's "Proclaimers" book twists the truth about Rutherford


arrow.gif (159 bytes) Exhibit II of Rutherford's Armageddon

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