Contents
Contents
“You Are My Witnesses,” Says Jehovah
CHAPTER
10 1 Why Should Jehovah Have Witnesses?
19 2 Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness
26 3 Christian Witnesses of Jehovah in the First Century
33 4 The Great Apostasy Develops
42 5 Proclaiming the Lord’s Return (1870-1914)
61 6 A Time of Testing (1914-1918)
72 7 Advertise the King and the Kingdom! (1919-1941)
90 8 Declaring the Good News Without Letup (1942-1975)
108 9 Jehovah’s Word Keeps Moving Speedily (1976-1992)
Gaining Accurate Knowledge of God’s Word and Applying It
120 10 Growing in Accurate Knowledge of the Truth
149 11 How We Came to Be Known as Jehovah’s Witnesses
159 12 The Great Crowd—To Live in Heaven? Or on Earth?
172 13 Recognized by Our Conduct
188 14 “They Are No Part of the World”
204 15 Development of the Organization Structure
236 16 Meetings—For Worship, Instruction, and Encouragement
254 17 Conventions—Proof of Our Brotherhood
283 18 “Seeking First the Kingdom”
304 19 Growing Together in Love
318 20 Building Together on a Global Scale
340 21 How Is It All Financed?
Proclaiming the Good News in All the Inhabited Earth
404 22 Witnesses to the Most Distant Part of the Earth
521 23 Missionaries Push Worldwide Expansion
547 24 By Human Power? Or by God’s Spirit?
Kingdom Preaching Furthered by Production of Bible Literature
556 25 Preaching Publicly and From House to House
575 26 Producing Bible Literature for Use in the Ministry
603 27 Printing and Distributing God’s Own Sacred Word
Exposed to Reproaches and Tribulations
618 28 Testing and Sifting From Within
642 29 “Objects of Hatred by All the Nations”
678 30 ‘Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News’
A People Distinctively His Own, Zealous for Fine Works
704 31 How Chosen and Led by God
710 32 “By This All Will Know That You Are My Disciples”
713 33 Continuing to Keep on the Watch
352 World Headquarters and Principal Offices of Jehovah’s Witnesses—In Pictures
718 Noteworthy Events in the Modern-day History of Jehovah’s Witnesses
