Jehovah's Witnesses With these interpretations, Jehovah's Witnesses' publications have made various predictions about world events they believe were prophesied in the Bible. Failed predictions have led to the alteration or abandonment of some doctrines. Some failed predictions had been presented as "beyond doubt" or "approved by God". The Watch Tower Society rejects accusations that it is a false prophet, stating that its interpretations are not inspired or infallible, and that it has not claimed its predictions were "the words of Jehovah." Chryssides has suggested that with the exception of statements about 1914, 1925 and 1975, the changing views and dates of the
Jehovah-shammah Jehovah-shammah Jehovah-shammah is a Christian transliteration of the Hebrew meaning "Jehovah is there", the name given to the city in Ezekiel's vision in . These are the final words of the Book of Ezekiel. The first word of the phrase is the tetragrammaton . Jehovah is a Christian anglicized vocalization of this name. Easton's Bible Dictionary identifies the city in Ezekiel's vision as Jerusalem, and as a type of the gospel Church. Commentaries such as that of Matthew Henry draw attention to the similarities of the vision of the holy city, the new Jerusalem, in the closing chapters of the