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Russell usou medidas da Grande Pirâmide como evidência para sua cronologia, e os números foram alterados entre as edições. Na página 342 da primeira edição de 1891 de Thy Kingdom Come, uma passagem de “3416 polegadas” resulta em “A. D. 1874 como marcando o início do período de angústia”; na mesma página da edição de 1914, a mesma passagem diz “3457 polegadas” e resulta em “A. D. 1915”, com “o fim de 1914” como o início da angústia.

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Russell usou medidas da Grande Pirâmide como evidência para sua cronologia, e os números foram alterados entre as edições. Na página 342 da primeira edição de 1891 de Thy Kingdom Come, uma passagem de “3416 polegadas” resulta em “A. D. 1874 como marcando o início do período de angústia”; na mesma página da edição de 1914, a mesma passagem diz “3457 polegadas” e resulta em “A. D. 1915”, com “o fim de 1914” como o início da angústia. Source: Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, 1891Source: Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), 1914Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), 1993Source: The Watchtower, 1 de janeiro de 2000

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: Proclamadores (1993) diz que Russell sustentou esse conceito “por uns 35 anos” e que “as Testemunhas de Jeová abandonaram a ideia de que uma pirâmide egípcia tenha algo a ver com a adoração verdadeira”; A Sentinela de 1.º de janeiro de 2000 recorda que “dizia-se que o comprimento de certas passagens da Grande Pirâmide indicava o tempo do início da ‘grande tribulação’”. Nenhum dos dois relatos menciona que a própria medida publicada foi alterada entre as edições.

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Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”

1891 · p.342 · Charles Taze Russell · Tower Bible and Tract Society / Watch Tower

“we find it to be 3416 inches, symbolizing 3416 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1874 years A. D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the chronological beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”

Russell measures the descending passage of the Great Pyramid from a point he dates to 1542 B.C. and reads the distance to the “Pit” as a date for the beginning of the time of trouble.

Nota de procedência e verificação for Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt

Nota de confiança. Read in the 1891 first-edition scan; the page header on the same page reads “342 Thy Kingdom Come.” Obvious OCR artefacts repaired; figures checked character by character.

Procedência da digitalização. First edition of June 1891, issued as a special number of Zion’s Watch Tower (the scan’s front matter reads “SPECIAL ISSUE OF ZION’S WATCH TOWER … VOL. XII, JUNE, 1891” and gives the publisher as “TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, BIBLE HOUSE, ARCH ST., ALLEGHENY, PA.”), scanned on the Internet Archive.

Corroborado por. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”

1914 · p.342 · Charles Taze Russell · International Bible Students Association

“we find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1915 years A. D. equals 3457 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”

The same paragraph on the same page of the same chapter as the 1891 first edition, with the pyramid measurement and the resulting date altered.

Nota de procedência e verificação for Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt

Nota de confiança. Read in the 1914 edition scan (title page: “SERIES III / Thy Kingdom Come / 1,385,000 Edition / International Bible Students Association / … 1914”); the same wording, with the same figures, also appears on page 342 of the 1918 printing (archive.org item studiesinscriptu03russ_0), which was checked as a second witness.

Procedência da digitalização. University of Illinois copy of the 1,385,000 Edition (Brooklyn, 1914), scanned on the Internet Archive.

Corroborado por. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), “Chapter 14 — “They Are No Part of the World””

1993 · pp.188-201 · p. 201 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God's stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship. (See “Watchtower” issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928)”

The organisation's own summary.

Nota de procedência e verificação for Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), Chapter 14 — “They Are No Part of the World”

Nota de confiança. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording and page confirmed.

Corroborado por. src-w-1928-1201-altar-in-egypt-pt2

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-jv-1993-ch14-pyramid

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

The Watchtower, “Serving With the Watchman”

1 de janeiro de 2000 · pp.6-11 · par. 16 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“In 1886 when C. T. Russell published a book that came to be called The Divine Plan of the Ages, this volume contained a chart linking the ages of mankind with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was thought that this memorial of Pharaoh Khufu was the pillar referred to at Isaiah 19:19, 20”

Adds that 'the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the “great tribulation”'.

Nota de procedência e verificação for The Watchtower, Serving With the Watchman

Nota de confiança. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording confirmed.

Corroborado por. src-ss3-1891-thy-kingdom-come-pyramid

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-w-2000-0101-serving-watchman-pyramid

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