The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

Jehovah's Witnesses now take the contrasting view, believing that Abaddon is another name of the resurrected and enthroned Jesus Christ.

The Bible-based name Jehovah's Witnesses identifies these Christians as a ' people for God's name.

It was also eventually used in the name of a millenarian restorationist denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses.

* July 26 – The millennialist Bible Student movement adopts the name Jehovah's Witnesses at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.

The journal is now published by Jehovah's Witnesses on a semi-monthly basis under the name, The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom.

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

If, however, a convert comes from a Christian confession that baptizes in the name of Jesus ( such as Oneness Pentecostals ), from one which practices an invalid, non-Trinitarian baptism ( such as Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses ) or from one that does not practice baptism at all ( such as Quakers or The Salvation Army ), baptism is a prerequisite for chrismation-an initiate must always be validly baptized into the death of Jesus in the name of the Holy Trinity before any further holy mysteries or sacraments of initiation can be administered.

For example, Jehovah's Witnesses use a form of the name in over 400 languages.

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, a Bible translation used primarily by Jehovah's Witnesses, features the word " Jah " for all 26 occurrences of the shortened name in the Hebrew-Aramaic Scriptures ( Old Testament ), and translates ' Hallelujah ' as ' Praise Jah, you people ' in all 24 occurrences of that expression in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as its 4 occurrences in the Christian Greek Scriptures.

In 1939, it was renamed Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., and in 1956 the name was changed to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Until 2000, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses was president of both the Watch Tower ( Pennsylvania ) and Watchtower ( New York ) corporations, as well as Britain's International Bible Students Association corporation ; in 2001, it was decided that the corporations ' directors need not be members of the Governing Body.

In some countries, Jehovah's Witnesses use the corporation name Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, or a similar name translated into the local language.

He introduced the name " Jehovah's witnesses " in 1931 and the term " Kingdom Hall " for houses of worship in 1935.

At a 1931 Bible Student assembly in Columbus, Ohio Rutherford proposed a new name for the organization, Jehovah's witnesses, to differentiate them from the proliferation of other groups that followed Russell's teachings.

On 15 October 1931, the magazine was renamed The Watchtower and Herald of Christ's Presence, in January 1939, The Watchtower and Herald of Christ's Kingdom, and from March 1939 until the present, its full name has been The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom.

* Purple triangle — Bible Students, a term taken from a name of, and primarily referring to, Jehovah's Witnesses, though a very small number of pacifists and members of other religious organizations were also imprisoned under this classification

Following a dispute in the movement's leadership, supporters of the Watch Tower Society's president, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931.

Luke does not name any witnesses, but mentions " women who had followed him from Galilee " standing at a distance.

In listing witnesses who saw where Jesus was buried by Joseph of Aramathea, and Matthew 27: 61 both name only two people: Mary Magdalene and " the other Mary ", who in Mark is " the mother of James ".

He plainly told them, when witnesses were produced against him, that he came not thither with an intention to deny anything he had done, but rather to bring it to light, owning his name subscribed to the warrant for executing the King, to be written by himself ; charging divers of those who sat on the Bench, as his judges, to have been formerly as active for the cause, in which he had engaged, as himself or any other person ; affirming that he had not acted by any other motive than the principles of conscience and justice ; for proof of which he said it was well known, he had chosen to be separated from his family, and to suffer a long imprisonment rather than to comply with those who had abused the power they had assumed to the oppression of the people.

Mary ( elephant ) | Mary being executed on September 13, 1916 before a crowd of over 2, 500 witnesses at Erwin. The town of Erwin received its name by a mail mishap.

The name continues to be used for corporate entities ( for example, in East Africa ), but in 1931 the religion formally changed its name worldwide from International Bible Students Association to Jehovah ’ s witnesses.

This document included the name of the presiding magistrate, the place of the assembly, the dates involved, the number of senators who were present at time the motion was passed, the names of witnesses to the drafting of the motion, and the substance of the act.

The method takes its name from the word stemma in the meaning of " family tree ", which shows the relationships of the surviving witnesses ( the first known example of such a stemma, albeit with the name, dates from 1827 ).

One of the effects of the sacrament is that " it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross " ( Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1303 ).

Of more long-term significance was the affirmation " Jesus is the Son of God " These were not mere catchwords: they were complemented by passages such as and which describe Christ's work of salvation and the existence of witnesses to his resurrection and he goes on in the following pages to list another ten examples of passages which attach to the name of Jesus " selected incidents in the redemptive story ".

Those who appeared as " friendly " witnesses, such as Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, and Lee J. Cobb, avoided the fate of their colleagues who refused to name Communist Party members and, as a result, were blacklisted.

The reasons for their choosing of the ASV were twofold: its usage of " Jehovah " as the Divine Name, which was congruent with their doctrine, and they derived their name from Isaiah 43. 10, 12, both of which contain the phrase, " Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah.

Other witnesses testified that Beauchamp habitually referred to Sharp's friend, John W. Covington, as " John A. Covington ", the name used by the murderer to gain entry to Sharp's house.

At the bar, Matthews made a good name for himself, being especially noted for examination of witnesses.

She refused to name the father of her child, but historians do not doubt that it was Commerson, and that it was Commerson who had also made the arrangements with the lawyer and witnesses on her behalf.

He could have done so, since the VDL Co operated a cutter that made the trip regularly for mail and supplies, but his name is not listed amongst the witnesses.

In 1993, looking through the doors of the pavilion, past the broken floor, the viewer witnesses the word on the wall: " Germania ", Hitler's name for Nazi Berlin.

It is significant that for the first time the Lithuanian nobles issued a political act in their own name, not merely as witnesses to the Grand Duke's treaties.

On February 14, 1835, nearly one year after the Kirtland High Council was organized, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, " or special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world " was formed as a " Traveling Presiding High Council.

Using the pen name Jozef Lanik, he wrote up the story of his experiences in Slovak as Auschwitz, Tomb of Four Million People, a factual account of the Wetzler-Vrba report and of other witnesses, and later a fictionalized account called What Dante Did Not See.

International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

In older classification systems, amoeboids, under the taxon name Sarcodina, had been divided into several morphological categories based on the form and structure of their pseudopods.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

* ASP ( handgun ), the name for a custom-designed 9 mm pistol based on the S & W Model 39

Since the Angles took a geographic name, they possibly had other names not based on geography.

In retrospect the name change was unfortunate, not only because the Greek roots alone do not reveal the anode's function any more, but more importantly because, as we now know, the Earth's magnetic field direction on which the " anode " term is based is subject to reversals whereas the current direction convention on which the " eisode " term was based has no reason to change in the future.

* Gigi ( 1973 ), based on the 1958 film of the same name, with Frederick Loewe

A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler ( maiden name Laura Smith Petersen ).

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** based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.

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The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).

This reading could be based on Malachi 3: 1, " Behold, I will send my messenger ...", if my messenger is taken literally as the name Malachi.

It is possible that its name may be based on Bon, an earlier but unrelated, and rather different, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

Liquids are so important to cooking that the name of the cooking method used is often based on how the liquid is combined with the food, as in steaming, simmering, boiling, braising, and blanching.

The story is based in part on Love's life, and involves the main character's search for her place in the world ; it was written by Stu Levy under the name D. J.