False Prophecy

There is much evidence of failed or false prophecy in the LHMM. The biggest claim to “correct” prophecy is the pivotal date of 1914 as the start of World War I. It is one date where something visible happened that they can point to as proof. The date was not originally predicted as that way in the writings, but after the fact they changed their views to make it appear that it was a known conclusion.

Here are a few predictions that Johnson made that did not come to pass:
E10 p. 140 Johnson claimed that “the entire Bible would be revealed and commented on before his death.” He never wrote about or commented on a large portion of Scripture before his death.
E5 p.40 The Bible passages which Bro Russell did not explain before his death…about 66% of the Bible …will be correctly explained during the Epiphany period.
E6 p.322 By the end of the Epiphany everything in the Bible will be clear. See also E8 p.448 and E8 p.627-628. The LHMM believes the Epiphany period ended in 1954. So is everything clear yet?
E10 p. 108 Johnson predicted when and how he would die (October 11, 1956). He was wrong. He actually died October 16, 1950 and of different causes.

In general, Johnson predicted the future like tarot cards or Nostradamus. He tried to make events work out or when they didn't, he made up excuses for them. He even indicates this “In a few cases we construe sometimes the date...because of uncertainty as the exact date” (E10, p. 22) For many of the parallels (type and antitype) found in his books, there is no way to verify that they occurred at the times indicated because the people are dead and there are no other witnesses that viewed the events or wrote about them.

The LHMM believed they would have a pivotal role toward the Jewish nation and had a separate name called “The Israel Commission” to do this work. Raymond Jolly predicted that his booklet “Jewish Hopes and Prospects” would be pivotal to converting millions of Jewish people to Christianity. This never occurred and Jolly died in 1979.

Given these obvious false claims how much can we trust the LHMMs other claims to “truth”?

What does the Bible say about those who prophesy and their prophesy turns out to be wrong? Deuteronomy 18:20 “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.”