Core tenet of Jehovah's Witnesses
God's Kingdom is a real government.
Established, Witnesses hold, in 1914 — soon to replace every human rule. The good news is an announcement of state.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Kingdom is understood as a literal government established in heaven in 1914, which will shortly replace all human governments — which is why Witnesses do not vote, salute flags, serve in militaries, or participate in politics. That neutrality has cost them enormously: they were imprisoned in Nazi camps with their own badge, banned in the Soviet Union and Russia today, and their refusal of blood transfusions has generated a substantial body of medical case law.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Christ will come again.
Christianity
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Christ's return is near and literal.
Seventh-day Adventism
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The boy who waited three days at Death's door.
Hinduism · story
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Maitreya — the one to come.
Buddhism · figure
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The messianic age is still ahead.
Judaism
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Every soul stands before God on the Last Day.
Islam
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