Jehovah's Prophetic Word (The Watchtower, March 15, 1980)

Jehovah's Prophetic Word, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society's own article in the March 15, 1980 Watchtower, is a primary denominational publication, the Society's own statement addressing the disappointment among Jehovah's Witnesses when the widely anticipated end of the present system by 1975 did not occur. Its strength is that it is useful as direct evidence of what the Watch Tower Society itself taught and said publicly at the time, and it is the citation used across the wider literature on this event, including in M. James Penton's and George D. Chryssides' scholarly histories cited alongside it here. Its limit is that it is not independent scholarship; this record has not independently examined the original periodical, and its account of the article's content is drawn from its citation and description in that secondary scholarly literature rather than from a directly checked primary copy.