The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “The Expectations of the Church (section)”
“may it not be that the kingdom will not be ushered in for five, ten or even twenty-five years? Our reply is, we are not a prophet; we merely believe that we have come to the place where the Gentile times have ended.”
Late-1914 discussion of what to expect now that the Gentile Times were believed to have ended; commonly cited as 1 November 1914, p. 329.
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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, The Expectations of the Church (section)
Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Wording confirmed in the 1914 bound-volume OCR; the passage lies between the NOVEMBER 1, 1914 and NOVEMBER 15, 1914 issue headers and under Reprints marker 5567, so the issue is confirmed as 1 November 1914 (confirmed by the independent source auditor). The page number (329, standard citation) is not legible in the scan.
Herkunft des Scans. Internet Archive upload by Veillez.org of the 1914 volume. Public domain.
Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-wt-1914-00-not-a-prophet