The Watchtower, “Part 1—Flashes of Light—Great and Small”
“In the second volume of Vindication, published by the Watch Tower Society in 1932, a flash of light revealed that the restoration prophecies recorded by Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and other prophets did not apply (as once thought) to the fleshly Jews, who were returning to Palestine in unbelief and with political motivations.”
The paragraph records that the movement had previously applied the Hebrew restoration prophecies to the literal return of Jews to Palestine, and that in 1932 it applied them instead to its own history from 1919.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, Part 1—Flashes of Light—Great and Small
Confidence note. Document opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; the wording was read in full and the page number taken from the library's own page markers.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-d-w-1995-0515-p1-restoration