The Kingdom of God in heaven is commonly referred to by Jehovah's Witnesses as "God's government." Jehovah's teaching about the end times says that there were allegedly several presences of Jesus Christ on earth. The first presence is three and a half years, the period from his baptism to his death; the second presence began in 1914, when Christ, who had been resurrected spiritually, turned his attention to earthly affairs and began to separate the sheep from the goats and to raise up real Christians to prepare them for his second coming and how to survive the coming Armageddon—that is, there is now a preliminary period of separation of the sheep from the goats (an obvious borrowing from Adventism). [171] In 1914, Jehovah appointed Christ as King, the head of his heavenly government.

Jesus began his work as King with the casting down of Satan and all his henchmen, the rebellious angels, to earth, which brought about innumerable misfortunes for mankind. Satan, who is the "god of this world," is in great rage. Under his power were not only individuals, but also entire nations, earthly authorities, state structures, economic systems, political and religious organizations (apparently because they did not believe the sect in their time. — A.D.): "The world system of things is ruled by people who have inherited imperfection. Many of them are corrupt, and some are outright evil. None of them turn to Jehovah for wisdom. This leads to a lot of human suffering... The Bible reveals that the dominant power behind this world comes from Satan..." (The Watchtower. July 1, 1997, p. 8.)

First the First World War broke out, and then the Second World War. Numerous local wars, revolutions and riots broke out. The world began to be shaken by economic crises and environmental disasters. Epidemics have struck humanity. Millions of the dispossessed are condemned to poverty and hunger. By provoking all this, Satan feels that his power on earth is not eternal and therefore rages without measure, as evidenced by the above-mentioned disasters experienced by mankind after 1914. However, Jehovah has appointed a day when he will intervene in the affairs of the earth, and then Satan's power on earth will come to an end. [172]

Jehovah's Witnesses have on several occasions definitely and unequivocally predicted the bodily coming of Jesus Christ and the end of the world (in their current terminology, "the end of this evil system of things"), first in 1914 (but then only his "spiritual coming," as they later explained), then in 1918 (but he did not come either), then in 1925, when Abraham was to be resurrected and come to earth. Isaac, Jacob and other prophets, which would have been the threshold of the Second Coming (but again, as we know, nothing of the kind happened). Unlike some other sects, which in such cases admitted that there was a mistake and the prophecy did not come true, the Jehovah's Witnesses each time twisted and distorted their own predictions, so it turned out that in 1914 the "coming of Christ in the Spirit" took place, in 1918 Christ "entered the spiritual temple and began to cleanse it" – this was the beginning of the "preliminary Judgment", the end of which was predicted in 1975. which would lead to the end of "this evil system of things". But 1975 passed, and again nothing happened.

After the failure of their first prophecies, the Jehovah's Witnesses abandoned the idea that Christ would appear bodily at His Second Coming:

If Christ had come as a man and sat down at the earthly throne, He would have taken a position below the angels. But He comes more powerful and more magnificent than all those spirit sons of God, and therefore He's just as invisible as they are. Having given His flesh for the life of the world, Christ could never have taken it back and become man again. For this basic reason, His return could never have taken place in the human body that He sacrificed once and for all. Christ's return does not mean His return to this earth in a literal sense. Rather, it means that He will accept royal authority over the earth and turn His attention to it. To do this, He does not need to leave His heavenly throne and literally return to earth. [173]

Today, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that earthly history must end with a bloody Armageddon, when Christ, in the form of the Archangel Michael, will invisibly descend to earth at His Second Coming, leading Jehovah's army, which will physically exterminate all the "infidels." At first, the sectarians said that 2 billion of the world's population would be drowned in blood, now it turns out that there should be 6 billion. According to some reports, the sect used to teach that in battle the faithful Jehovah's Witnesses would be on the side of God, they would receive weapons in their hands and would help Christ-Michael deal with all the infidels. Thus, the Jehovah's Witnesses have no moral obstacles to genocide. True, now Jehovah's Witnesses, as a rule, claim that they themselves will not kill anyone, but will only enjoy the spectacle of the slaughter of all their enemies by the heavenly host, and when it is all over, they will take part in cleansing the Earth of the remaining "garbage" (obviously, from billions of human bodies), and that, they say, they have never taught about their participation in Armageddon, which will be carried out in a supernatural way. without the help of people.

However, the author has a Danish acquaintance who was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. He found the strength to break with the sect, now he lives a different life. Here is his story about his childhood memories. He went to school and had little contact with other children (any holidays – even birthdays – are forbidden for them, as well as games with the children of "infidels"), but he knew that Christ was about to come and then he would be given a machine gun in his hands, and he would have to kill all his fellow students. With this, he grew up. One can imagine the impact this had on the child's psyche.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the immortality of the soul, which, according to their unbiblical teaching, dies with the body. They don't believe in hell either. They say that God cannot subject people to eternal torment, He is merciful, and a merciful owner will not torment a rabid dog, but will simply take and shoot it. There are people who will be resurrected (or rather, will be recreated anew – body and soul) and be saved, while the rest will be destroyed forever.

According to the teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses, only 144,000 faithful will receive complete salvation (they read this figure in the Book of Revelation of John the Theologian). They are said to have been appointed by Jehovah to help Christ, whom he had appointed as the head of the heavenly government, to be kings and priests with him. This teaching was developed by the founder of the sect, Charles Taze Russell (who hoped that by 1914 it would all be over), it is not clear that this number was quickly exhausted, and there are already millions of Jehovah's Witnesses. Already in the 30s, Russell's successors had to somehow get out of it, so there was a teaching that in the first resurrection these same 144 thousand faithful will receive only "spiritual (and not physical) bodies and will be taken up to heaven (today it is believed that most of them are already in heaven, and the remaining few thousand are still living on earth and preaching), and the rest will have a resurrection of a lower grade - they will live in paradise on earth in their renewed physical bodies. eating bananas and oranges and walking among palm trees with good tigers, lions, and snakes (this is one of the most frequently used subject subjects for pictures in Jehovah's Witness publications).