I would like to discuss very briefly, in general terms, the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses on the year 1914, on the invisible presence of Christ, on the "great crowd," on the fact that Jesus Christ is the Archangel Michael, and, finally, on the saddest teaching in this organization – the transfusion of blood and its main components.

Let's start with 1914

As we have already said, Jehovah's Witnesses teach that this year marked the beginning of the invisible presence of Jesus Christ as the King of God's Kingdom. To prove this, Jehovah's Witnesses use Daniel chapter 4.

This is completely unacceptable, for the simple reason that there is no such indication there. This chapter deals with the prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom (which is represented by "a tree to heaven"). This prophecy came true within 7 times (3, 5 years). That is, we are talking about a pagan king and his kingdom. Therefore, Jehovah's Witnesses have no right to believe that this can be a type of God's Kingdom. After all, then it must be that the type of Jesus Christ is Nebuchadnezzar!? After all, there must be complete compliance! Therefore, there is no need to draw an analogy further. This theory is unfounded from the very beginning, and therefore further analysis of it is no longer appropriate.

But I will still say that Jehovah's Witnesses are proud that they were able to point out in advance the year 1914 as a year of radical changes in human society. I think that they themselves are victims of this coincidence because, looking at it, it is very difficult for them to refuse such a "successful" prophecy. That's why they "cling" to it with the last of their strength. But the fact is that the dates of Nebuchadnezzar's reign have already been proved, on the basis of ancient astronomical tablets, in terms of our chronology, and thus it has been established that the date of the destruction of Jerusalem is 586 BC, and not 607 BC, as Jehovah's Witnesses believe.

Therefore, 2520 years, if we accept this theory, ended in 1933, not in 1914. This, if we do not take into account the unreasonableness of the method itself, is more reliable. And indeed, let's imagine a little how the "faithful slave" could have imagined all this, and maybe he will in the future: "Yes, there was a chronological error of 19 years, so we can take 586 BC, as the year of the destruction of Jerusalem, and come to 1933, adding 2520 years. This year, Hitler came to power in Germany, who communicated directly with "heaven" (according to some sources), and therefore with the Devil. It is more plausible, then, that it was in 1935 that Jehovah's light shone forth and we understood the truth about the "great crowd" who would live on earth. It follows that Jehovah "shed light" on the significance of this in time, as soon as the Kingdom began to rule, in just 2 years, etc., etc. Here I have simply presented some options for the development of events in the future, when the year 1914 will have to be recognized as erroneous. I did this so that when this happens, it will not be unexpected for you.

Invisible Presence

Now about the invisible presence or "parousia". We can talk a lot about this. But the point is that there are no two "canvases" and Christ nowhere said that his return would be carried out in 2 stages. But this is how Jehovah's Witnesses now interpret Christ's return—first the invisible presence since 1914, when he became King in heaven, and then the visible coming with the angels: "Then will the sign of the Son of man appear in heaven; and then shall all the families of the earth weep, and see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; and he will send his angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other... But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory, and all nations will be gathered before Him; and separate one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;  and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left" (Matthew 24:30-31, 25:31-33).

That is, now we are in a transitional period between these 2 events. Christ is already King in heaven, but He has not yet begun to reign on earth. And this is no longer the Bible's message, it is the "truth" borrowed by Jehovah's Witnesses from the Adventists. Any Jehovah's Witness who reads these words of mine will be very surprised that the Watch Tower Society has managed to confuse the matter in such a way that fellow believers simply do not see such an obvious state of affairs. Interestingly, until October 1995, the situation was somewhat different. It was believed that after Jesus Christ became invisibly present or reigning as King in heaven in 1914, the invisible judgment of the world and the division of people into "sheep and goats" began. No visible sign of the presence of Christ will be given, and after the passage of "this generation" Armageddon will begin, i.e. the destruction of this "system of things". But the Watchtower of October 1 and 15, 1995, published articles in which, simultaneously with the change in the doctrine of "this generation," the doctrine of the two-stage "parousia," or the presence of Christ, was introduced. This is the "radiance of light" we have today.