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So before 1919 Jehovah's Witnesses believed Jesus died on a cross?
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Yes. From 1879 until January 31st 1936 Jehovah's Witnesses believed Jesus died on a cross.
It was after the January 1936 'Riches' book was published by the Watchtower Society that the belief changed to a tree or an upright stake.
See the quote below from the 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses page 148,
yb75 pp. 148-149 Part 2-United States of America ***
" Some three years thereafter, beginning with its issue of October 15, 1931, The Watchtower no longer bore the cross and crown symbol on its cover.
A few years later Jehovah's people first learned that Jesus Christ did not die on a T-shaped cross. On January 31, 1936, Brother Rutherford released to the Brooklyn Bethel family the new book Riches.
Scripturally, it said, in part, on page 27: "Jesus was crucified, not on a cross of wood, such as is exhibited in many images and pictures, and which images are made and exhibited by men; Jesus was crucified by nailing his body to a tree."
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