The Three Worlds

The Three Worlds and the Harvest of This World; or Plan of Redemption was a 197 page book published by Nelson H. Barbour And Charles Taze Russell in 1877.
The book purported to be "A Brief Review of the Bible Plan of Redemption, Which Spans Three Worlds: “The World That Was,” “The World That Now Is,” and “The World to Come;” with the Evidences That We Are Now in the “Time of Harvest,” Or, Closing Work of the Gospel Age." This wording was based on the King James Bible translation of 2 Peter 3:6, 7.
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The book presented the authors' beliefs regarding a combination of theological restitution and prophecies of biblical chronology. Though these subjects had been presented earlier, Russell felt the book was "the first to combine the idea of restitution with time-prophecy." It proposed that Christ's second coming began in the year 1874 CE, and would be followed by a forty year harvest period leading up to God's judgment of the nations in 1914.
The Bible Student movement and Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that the Gentile Times ended in 1914 CE. The latter group discarded the beliefs about 1874 and the forty year harvest.

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