How many times have Jehovah's Witnesses given a date/year for the end of the world?

Fourteen and counting:

1897 "Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present, since October 1874," Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 4, page 621.

1899 "...the ‘battle of the great day of God Almighty' (Revelation 16:14), which will end in A.D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth's present rulership, is already commenced." The Time Is at Hand, page 101 (1908 edition).

1916 "The Bible chronology herein presented shows that the six great 1000 year days beginning with Adam are ended, and that the great 7th Day, the 1000 years of Christ's Reign, began in 1873." The Time Is at Hand, page ii, (forward).

1918 "Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particularly those named by the Apostle in Hebrews 11, to the condition of human perfection." Millions Now Living Will Never Die, page 89.

1922 "The date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated by the Scriptures than 1914." The Watchtower 9/1/22, page 262.

1923 "Our thought is, that 1925 is definitely settled by the Scriptures. As to Noah, the Christian now has much more upon which to base his faith than Noah had upon which to base his faith in a coming deluge." The Watchtower, page 106 4/1/23.

1925 "The year 1925 is here. With great expectation Christians have looked forward to this year. Many have confidently expected that all members of the body of Christ will be changed to heavenly glory during this year. This may be accomplished. It may not be. In his own due time God will accomplish his purposes concerning his people. Christians should not be so deeply concerned about what may transpire this year." The Watchtower, 1/1/25, page. 3.

1925 "It is to be expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated, the thought that 1925 should see an end to the work." The Watchtower, Sept, 1925 page 262.

1926 "Some anticipated that the work would end in 1925, but the Lord did not state so. The difficulty was that the friends inflated their imaginations beyond reason; and that when their imaginations burst asunder, they were inclined to throw away everything." The Watchtower, page 232.

1931 "There was a measure of disappointment on the part of Jehovah's faithful ones on earth concerning the years 1917, 1918, and 1925, which disappointment lasted for a time...and they also learned to quit fixing dates." Vindication, page 338.

1941 "Receiving the gift, the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the Lord's provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before Armageddon." The Watchtower, 9/15/41, page 288.

1968 "True, there have been those in times past who predicted an ‘end to the world', even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened. The ‘end' did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing?.. Missing from such people were God's truths and evidence that he was using and guiding them." Awake, 10/8/68.

1968 "Why are you looking forward to 1975?" The Watchtower, 8/15/68, page 494.

1975

Compared to the tremendous wealth of accurate biblical information that they have provided, why should it matter?

"The Bible shows that Jehovah enables his servants to understand his purpose in a progressive manner. (Prov. 4:18; John 16:12) Thus, (even) the prophets who were divinely inspired to write portions of the Bible did not understand the meaning of everything that they wrote. (Dan. 12:8,9; 1 Pet.1:10-12) The apostles of Christ Jesus realized that there was much that they did not understand in their time. (Acts 1:6,7; 1Cor. 13:9-12)

"The Bible shows that there would be a great increase in knowledge of the truth during the time of the end." (Dan. 12:4) Increased knowledge often requires adjustments in one's thinking. Jehovah's Witnesses are willing to humbly make such adjustments." -Reasoning From the Scriptures p. 205 (a JW publication)

For over a century of teaching and writing voluminously, Jehovah's Witnesses have made (and admitted) some errors of interpretation. But I doubt that any objective person would say that they were errors which would affect their eternal lives. But the problem is that some take such minor errors as an excuse to condemn the entire JW organization!

If one were to look at any religious organization, they would find errors (usually never corrected) in all of them.

"The key is, do they admit their error when it becomes clear? Do they change their teaching when an error becomes clear? And, above all, are their errors so wrong that they would prevent the person believing and following them from receiving eternal life? (John 17:3)

How many times has your faith and others participated in war, politics, used idols in worship, or persecuted those who follow Jesus' footsteps?

There have been people who have tried to "predict" the future and figure out God's timetable - Jehovah's Witnesses and OTHER religions. So what. The Bible says only God knows.

Noah must have received the same bitter persecution. I do understand why people are so vicious about Jehovah's Witnesses. However, I pity you.

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Jehovah's Witnesses have never pretended that they are infallible or inspired. Jehovah's Witnesses have never pretended that they experience miraculous messages from God or Christ. For more than a century, Jehovah's Witnesses have always presented their suppositions as the result of sincere bible research, rather than as "predictions" or "prophesying".

Interestingly, however, even those Christians who did enjoy direct communication from heaven at times came to wrong conclusions; these wrong conclusions were even communicated "out among the brothers"!

For example, the apostle Peter enjoyed remarkable privileges in the early congregation, but it seems that he was the source of an incorrect teaching about the apostle John that was not formally corrected until several DECADES had passed, and John himself finally wrote his gospel about 98 C.E.

(John 21:21-23) Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, what will this man do [that is, the apostle John]?” Jesus said to him: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me.” In consequence, this saying went out among the brothers, that [the apostle John] would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?”

Jehovah's Witnesses apply the term "prophet" only in a very limited sense to themselves as a religion, not to individuals. The Scriptures indicate that whenever Jehovah purposes to execute judgment upon a people, he always makes arrangement for a 'prophet's work' as a warning. Their self-description as a "prophet" (in this limited sense) does not indicate special inspired knowledge or foreknowledge, but their willingness to perform Christ's assigned warning work in our day leading up to Armageddon.

What group is working harder than Jehovah's Witnesses to preach God's message globally (as Noah did before the Deluge)?

(Amos 3:7) For the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the prophets.

(2 Peter 2:5) Noah, a preacher of righteousness...

(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.

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Does it matter?

I give a date/year for the end every day as we look to the end coming any day or every day.

Thus add it up and you get over 7000 dates from me.

So looking to dates is not bad.

Why not grow up, or rather grow in the faith and be concerned with what you, yourself are doing to please God.

And 1975 was not predicted as a date for the end.

I have talks by Fred Franz with him saying that it is not a prediction.

1874, 1875, 1914, 1915, 1925, 1945, 1975

quite a few, starting i think with 1914 (good guess!)

but the modern end of the world stuff started with the millerites, who first decided that sometime around 1840 (i don't have the reference to hand) was A-Day

Didn't they quit doing that around 1980?

geez..way too many....at least a half dozen or more

times and seasons we can and do know..a day and hour...gong.

i've lost count