The Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian restorationist movement that focuses on end-time predictions, evangelism (door-to-door ministry specifically), and a strong centralized authority.

The Christian community of the world has broadly recognized this movement as a cult, as they reject central Christian beliefs, have made several unfulfilled end-of-the-world predictions, and have had many cases of isolationist tendencies among members. This organization was founded by Charles Taze Russell, based on his unique Bible studies and commentaries in the 1870's.

It is the view of Jehovah's Witnesses that 144,000 Christians will rule with Christ in Heaven, and the remaining faithful will remain on Paradise Earth. It is the belief of the organization that the 144,000 are complete, and the remaining faithful will be on Paradise Earth.

The way to get to Paradise Earth is to recognize Jehovah as the one true God, that Jesus is God's son but not God himself, to recognize the Jehovah's Witness governing organization, Watchtower, as the sole channel of God's presence on Earth, and to reject all other religious organizations as heretical. From there, the member would need to submit to a study conductor and study the doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses, attend Kingdom Hall meetings, meet field service hours, door-to-door, and public outreach, expected to be 30-70 hours a month.

They must also abstain from certain unique activities that, if not abstained from, can result in removal from the organization and disfellowship:

• Blood transfusions and certain blood fractions
• Celebrating Christmas, Easter, birthdays, and most holidays
• Voting or political participation
• Military service
• Certain entertainment deemed spiritually dangerous
• Association with disfellowshipped persons
• Reading apostate material

A Jehovah's Witness will then be baptized into the organization. It's important to understand that their standing in the organization and their going to Paradise Earth depend on being faithful in all of these matters. If they are not followed, they will be disfellowshipped and told they're not going to Paradise Earth.

Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their multiple failed claims of major prophetic events. Below is a list of such events:

1874- Christ would return invisibly to the earth

1878- the Saints would be raptured and taken out of the Earth

1914- Armageddon would occur, and God's kingdom would be physically established on Earth

1915- Revised deadline of God's Kingdom to be established

1918- the destruction of all world governments and churches

1925- the year ancient biblical patriarchs would rise from the dead and govern the world, they went so far as to build a house for them in San Diego

1941- Armageddon

1942-1944- Armageddon

1975- Armageddon, this prophetic failure came with the most consequences as the Jehovah Witnesses had a steep decline in membership after this prophecy failed

The Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses had repeated legal problems that included the following:

1897- Divorce from Maria Ackley, the divorce was filed due to her claims of conceit, egotism, domination, and improper conduct in relation to other women. When ordered by the court he would refuse to pay Alimony and kept all of his assets in Watchtower to avoid solicitors.

1904- Russell's sold a miracle wheat that allegedly grew at 5 times the rate of normal wheat, and was advertised in the Watch Tower magazine, being sold at 60 times the market price of wheat, with proceeds going to Watch Tower. When a newspaper reported that the wheat was normal and lacked unique properties, Russell sued for Libel, only to have their claims confirmed by agricultural experts during the proceedings.

1913- Russells had claimed a deep knowledge of Greek and Hebrew during legal proceedings; when presented with the alphabets of these languages, he was unable to identify the letters.

Originally, the organization used the King James Version of the Bible, which is still used in many churches today. However, because several Bible verses contradicted Watchtower's teachings, in 1950, Watchtower produced the New World Translation. The Watchtower refused to release the names of anyone involved in the translation of this Bible, as the Bible itself is composed of manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and comes from different manuscript traditions, requiring deep language knowledge to translate.

It was revealed years later by a member of the Governing Body who had been disfellowshipped that the men who wrote the New World Translation did not know Greek or Hebrew. It instead just rewrote an English Bible that fit its narrative and theological conclusions. It was additionally proven during legal proceedings that the foremost theologian of the Jehovah's Witnesses at the time, who would have been key to this translation, could not identify the letters of the Greek or Hebrew alphabets. It instead just rewrote an English Bible that fit its narrative and theological conclusions.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have set up a governing authority that has such strong centralized power that it has had very serious consequences. When a Jehovah's Witness does something that warrants disfellowship, every member of the Jehovah's Witness community ceases to speak to or acknowledge that person in any capacity, including family relationships, and has resulted in shunning children or parents, and has even caused divorces. The members are strongly discouraged from having relationships outside the organization; even children are prevented from forming friendships and from involvement in sports teams and clubs, and, as they grow up, from attending college. This has led to extreme isolation and increases the effectiveness of disfellowship. This has led to a noticeable increase in anxiety, depression, and even suicide amongst those disfellowshipped.

This isolated environment also gave way to large-scale abuse of children, which has been increasingly brought into public life. The Watchtower organization has required its congregations that, in the event of abuse towards a child, instead of going to the police, they report to the Watchtower organization. Since the 90s, a database has been built internally that has never been made public of all the accusations within the Jehovah's Witnesses organization.

In the belief systems of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus is not God, but instead the first created being and the being given the most glory, Michael the Archangel. Mainstream Christian beliefs heavily dispute this, and due to the revisionist nature of the New World Translation, a great deal of the reference to Christ's deity is erased, but not all of it.

In the NWT, Thomas exclaims in John 20 to Jesus, "In answer Thomas said to him: 'My Lord and my God!'" These words were spoken directly to Jesus. In Isaiah 9, "For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us, and the rulership will rest on his shoulder. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." This messianic prophecy was of Jesus and refers to him as Mighty God. It was also the case that the Pharisees still accused Jesus of blasphemy for claiming to be God, and Jesus was killed for this charge. There are many more clear references to Christ's deity that the Jehovah's Witnesses would like to erase, but remain nonetheless.

It is clear from what is demonstrated that the Jehovah's Witnesses is a highly controlled society that seeks an extreme degree of isolation for its members, rejects the identity of Christ, and sees the path to Heaven as a requirement of service towards the organization. Those who follow Watch Tower are walking the path to Hell because they do not pursue God; they pursue the obedience of the Governing Body.

If you are someone who has shared your faith with a Jehovah's Witness, do not be surprised at the great resistance that you will meet, as they are in an extremely isolating environment that threatens utter excommunication upon the smallest mistake. You are not simply asking someone to rethink they're faith, you are asking them to rethink every person they have called friend or family.