Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, “Appointed Times of the Nations”
“It is a historical fact worth noting that, on the basis of the points and evidence above presented, the March 1880 edition of the Watch Tower magazine identified the year 1914 as the time for the close of “the appointed times of the nations” (and the end of the lease of power granted the Gentile rulers).”
The paragraph then quotes The World (New York) of 30 August 1914 that the Bible Students “have been proclaiming to the world that the Day of Wrath prophesied in the Bible would dawn in 1914”.
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Provenance and verification note for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Appointed Times of the Nations
Confidence note. Full article fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the page were confirmed against the text and its embedded page markers. Insight on the Scriptures is undated on the Online Library; the 1988 publication year is the work’s own imprint date.
Notes. Recorded here only as the organisation’s own claim about its history. What the March 1880 Zion’s Watch Tower actually said, and what the Bible Students expected 1914 to bring, belongs to the predictions ledger and must be checked against the 1880 magazine itself.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-o-it1-appointed-times-1880