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Week of September 5, 2004

 

 


You keep announcing that the "end" is soon, and that judgment is soon to fall upon the Watchtower. What makes these proclamations different from all the others throughout history? For instance, Fred Franz' insistence on 1975 and his subsequent humiliation were just recent examples of the danger of making false prophecies. What if you are just wrong? How long will you keep saying these things before you give up? Do you have a time limit in mind? How long before your warnings fade into the irrelevant Malthusian dogmas of years past?


To my knowledge, no Jehovah's Witness has ever publicly announced the coming downfall of the Watchtower as being foretold in numerous prophecies. It is something entirely unique in the history of Jehovah's Witnesses.

True, Jehovah's Witnesses have been preaching for many decades about the nearness of Armageddon. However, the apostle Paul assures us that the presence of Christ will not commence until first an apostasy develops in God's household.  "Let no one seduce you in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction." (See essay "Mystery of the Antichrist" )

The Watchtower assumes that the foretold apostasy Paul was referring to occurred over 1,000 years ago and manifested in the advent of Christendom. However, for Paul's prophecy to have any meaning at all in terms of signaling the imminence of Christ's presence, the apostasy that "comes first" must occur among Jehovah's Witnesses—from among the anointed.

Daniel's prophecy confirms this for us, in that the prophet foretold an apostasy will occur among some who are in a covenant with God immediately prior to the time of the end. Daniel 11:32 foretells: "And those who are acting wickedly against the covenant, he will lead into apostasy by means of smooth words."

Of course, the Watchtower interprets that verse to apply to Christendom; but their reasoning is nonsensical. If Christendom has been apostate since its inception, which it inarguably has, then how can apostates become further led into apostasy? Too, in order to act wickedly against the covenant one would actually have to be in a covenant with God. For example, in the Bible no ancient nation other than Israel could break their covenant with God for the simple reason that only Israel was in a covenant with God. The Watchtower says that the prophecy in Daniel is fulfilled because Christendom merely claims to be in a covenant. However, sound reasoning leads us to the conclusion that only anointed Christians can act against the new covenant. 

As of October 2001, the Watchtower's secret NGO affiliation with the United Nations has been uncovered. For ten years prior to that time the Watchtower Society served as a propaganda organ for the United Nations. The Watchtower has made numerous gaffs and mis-steps in the past, but prior to their unseemly political alliance with the UN coming to light three years ago, there was no tangible evidence that the Watchtower had actually been seduced into overt apostasy—only the puzzling fact that the Watchtower seemed to go out of its way to praise the United Nations. The exposure of the Watchtower's immoral NGO affair has been a significant development in the modern history of Jehovah's Witnesses; which in itself, signals that the slithering, Judas-like, man-of-lawlessness is well-ensconced in the Bethel house of God and over-ripe to be harvested by the angelic harvesters in accord with prophecy.

As the prophecies also indicate, the actual harvest-like conclusion of the system of things occurs in the context of a terrifying global upheaval, unlike any other in history in scale and scope. Not coincidently, concurrent with the present ferment among Jehovah's Witnesses, the world presently stands on the precipice of a war that will defy belief. There are undeniably very powerful occult forces at work driving the nations to a third World War. Anyone who dismisses the reality of looming nuclear war is either not interested enough in the world's affairs to concern themselves with the facts or they are practicing some form of denial.

While the Watchtower's prophetic credibility has definitely been damaged, clear thinking persons surely realize that Jehovah's Witnesses' past failures to precisely predict the outbreak of the tribulation and Armageddon has no bearing upon the future; even as the apostle Paul said, 'let every man be proved a liar, yet let God be found true.'

This watchman remains fully convinced of the reliability of God's Word.


 


Your ongoing criticism of the Watchtower is relevant to those of us who are familiar with its shortcomings, which are understandable given that it is made up of imperfect men and women. However, how do you feel about its effect on the good news that must be preached earth wide before the end comes? Could you be compromising this aspect of the work and responsibility of the Congregation of God for that matter to onlookers and potential converts?


The problems afflicting the Watchtower Society are not the result of mere human shortcomings and imperfections. The underlying fundamental problem affecting the organization is our long-held delusion that Jesus Christ began ruling the world in 1914. But, there is more to that fallacy than mere human imperfection.

Because of embracing that error, the Society has arrived at all sorts of erroneous conclusions—with far-reaching results. For example, because of believing Christ initiated the judgment upon God's house during the 1914 period, we have since then been saddled with the false teaching that the faithful slave has already been appointed over all of the master's belongings. Clearly, though, according to Christ's teachings in the 12th chapter of Luke, the faithful slave is not appointed over all of the master's belongings until after Jesus arrives as a thief in the night. That is why Jesus stressed the importance of staying awake even if the master does not arrive in the first or second watch of the night.

But, because the Society teaches that it has already been appointed over all the master's belongings, we have gradually been induced to attribute to the Watchtower an infallibility it simply does not inherently possess. The result has been that Jehovah's Witnesses have been seduced to regard the faithful slave with such reverence that it can only be described as idolatry. All this because of our unreasoning attachment to 1914!

When speaking about the apostasy that would envelope God's household as a prelude to Christ's actual presence, Paul wrote about the presence of an apostate man of lawlessness and revealed that his credibility among God's people was according to the operation of Satan, who would use all manner of lying signs and portents and every unrighteous deception against those who do not accept the love of the truth.

As hard as it may be for some to swallow, the evidence points to the inescapable conclusion that Satan the Devil is actually behind the 1914 delusion. Apparently the Devil orchestrated the First World War to coincide with the Watchtower's chronologic calculations. The subsequent persecution and jailing of Rutherford and company would also seem to be an aspect of the powerful portents and unrighteous deceptions, which we have been induced to attribute to Bible prophecy in a way that the facts simply do not support. Nonetheless, Jehovah's Witnesses remain in the grip of Satan's unrighteous deception up to this very moment.

However, when Christ actually arrives to commence the judgment, Jehovah's Witnesses will be confronted with a life-or-death dilemma. Will we discard the satanic 1914 deception that the Watchtower has embraced or will we cling to the lie out of organizational loyalty? Our everlasting life will likely be determined by our decision.

As regards the fulfillment of the prophecy that calls for the good news of the kingdom to be preached in the entire world, if 1914 is not the actual date of Christ's presence, then all the preaching that Jehovah's Witnesses have done to date cannot possibly have fulfilled the prophecy since it is based on the lie that Christ's kingdom was established in 1914. That is not to say that our preaching has not laid a vital groundwork; yet, something more is needed than what Jehovah's Witnesses are doing at the moment. Although it is impossible to know now exactly how Jehovah will cause the good news of the kingdom to be preached during the actual conclusion, it most likely will not be accomplished in the plodding way Jehovah's Witnesses go about preaching presently. Perhaps the mass media will be employed, somehow.

Consider, Jesus told his disciples that they would be hailed before governors and kings for the sake of giving them a witness concerning the kingdom. Has that aspect of Christ's prophecy been fulfilled? Not hardly. For one thing, Jesus specifically instructed his followers not to prepare their defense beforehand. Yet how is it that whenever the Watchtower or individual witnesses go to court we are usually represented by an attorney? Is that following Christ's instructions? It would not seem so.

The tribulation will change everything. We may anticipate that Jehovah will open up his word and pour out his spirit as never before; so that what we think is impossible now will become our modus operandi in the future.

So, in direct answer to your question: No, I do not think I am in anyway compromising Jehovah's work. In all humility, I hope I am planting the seeds in receptive minds for the real preaching work yet to be done.

"For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth."

II Corinthians 13:8


 


What do you have to say about all those websites and commentaries that also refer to the establishment of a satanic New World Order and their similarities/differences to our current understanding? They mention things related to the Antichrist/False Prophet being a person, the mark of the Beast being a chip implant, the return of the Nephilim and fallen angels among other things.


What we need to know about the New World Order is that it is all about deception. It was conceived behind the veil of numerous secret societies and proceeds today under a conspiratorial cloak. After all, it is the Devil's doing, so it reflects his deceptive nature. Bible prophecy verifies that the last king, the so-called king of fierce countenance, will succeed by means of deception. Daniel 8:25 says of him: "And according to his insight he will also certainly cause deception to succeed in his hand."

Jesus specifically forewarned his disciples to be on guard against being deceived during the conclusion of the system of things. Jesus foretold that numerous false christs and false prophets would deceive many people, and even the chosen ones if that were possible.

The popular opinions today regarding the mark of the beast, the rapture, and the coming anti-christ and a host of other fantastic things, like UFOs and such, are emanating through channels, from individuals who are steeped in Christendom's deceptive teachings. Evidently, it is the purpose of the king of fierce countenance to create a deceptive religious backdrop for his future activities. We can see the beginning of it even now with Christendom being pitted against Islam in a conflict that evangelicals are promoting as a way of expediting their version of Armageddon. President Bush apparently feels that he has been tapped by God to lead the charge.

Apparently, during the hysteria of the tribulation, when people are in highly suggestible states of mind, they will be easily swayed by what has already been planted in their minds now by the false prophets.


 


How else can we understand Gen 6:4: "The Nephilim proved to be in the earth 'IN THOSE DAYS', and 'ALSO AFTER THAT', when the sons of the true God continued to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them..."

Contrary to the Society's view, Could this text be understood as the Nephilim being destroyed entirely and yet the 'sons of God' coming down again after the flood and bearing hybrid sons once again; such as the giants from the Canaanite nations such as the Anakim, Rephaim, Amorites, Emim, and Zamzummim? That also brings the question if these fallen angels could once again bear hybrid offspring during the Great Tribulation as that would completely replicate the days before the flood, as stated in Matt 24: 37: "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of Son of man will be"?


Jehovah's purpose in causing the Deluge in the first place was not only to wipe out an ungodly world, but to flush out the materialized angels to force them back into the spirit realm. Peter and Jude both refer to the angels that sinned in Noah's day as being confined as if in prison—under bonds of restraint. Evidently, that means that Jehovah has prevented the demons from re-materializing after the Flood.

The race of giants that inhabited the land if Canaan after the Deluge were human and not the offspring of materialized angels. Remember too, when Christ's begins ruling in his kingdom the first thing he does is throw Satan and his demon angels out of heaven. So, Revelation indicates that the demons are in heaven—not on earth—when Christ's Parousia commences.


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