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In the same year, they conducted Bible studies with 7,480,146 individuals (including those conducted by Witness parents with their children [27] [28]). 4,091 members served as missionaries in 2021. [7] In 2024, Jehovah's Witnesses reported a worldwide annual increase of 2.4%. 21,119,442 people attended the annual memorial of Christ's death. [6]
In 1990, 68 Jehovah’s Witness elementary students were expelled for refusing to participate in daily flag-raising ceremonies. In Ebralinag, et al. vs. Division Superintendent of Schools of Cebu, the court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses are permitted to refrain from saluting the Philippine flag and singing the national anthem.
Publications of Jehovah's Witnesses teach that God's kingdom is a literal government in heaven, established in 1914, [97] ruled by Jesus and 144,000 humans raised to heaven. [98] The kingdom is viewed as the means by which God will accomplish his original purpose for the earth, [ 99 ] bringing about a world free of crime, sickness, death and ...
Hamon introduced the idea of a coming prophetic movement and was instrumental in establishing prophets of that movement, especially in the form of the Elijah company of prophets, and activating and training Christians in prophetic ministry. John Eckhardt and C. Peter Wagner were prominent figures in pioneering and propagating the movement ...
Russell viewed the Great Pyramid as "God's Stone Witness and Prophet". [71] [72] Smyth reviewed Russell's manuscript on the Great Pyramid before publication. Russell credited him and Scottish writer Robert Menzies for the view "that the Great Pyramid is Jehovah's 'Witness', and that it was as important a witness to divine truth as to natural ...
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Heschel's work on prophetic inspiration in the Middle Ages originally appeared in two long Hebrew articles. In them, he concentrated on the idea that prophetic inspiration was even possible in post-Talmudic times, and, indeed, it had taken place at various schools in various times, from the Geonim to Maimonides and beyond."
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