Millions are oblivious to the preaching work, but “there is no need for us to be overly concerned”

Jehovah's Witnesses preaching in New York on the 9/11 anniversary - but what about the lack of converts in the Asian and Arab world?
Jehovah’s Witnesses preaching in New York on the 9/11 anniversary – but what about the lack of converts in the Asian and Arab world?

A prominent feature of Jehovah’s Witness teachings is the solemn belief that Armageddon will strike imminently, whereupon divine forces will slaughter pretty much everyone who isn’t a Witness.

Not only is this proposition outrageous and obscene to anyone of modest intellectual capacity who is not under Watchtower’s undue influence, it also poses a problem in Watchtower theology itself. What happens to the millions of people in parts of Asia and the Arab world who will never get to hear the Witness message?

Thus far, a meaningful answer by Watchtower to this conundrum has been notable by its absence. This continues to be the case in the latest December 15th study edition where the issue is masterfully sidestepped.

“When we meditate on the meaning of Jesus’ illustration [of the leaven at Matt. 13:33], we realize that there is no need for us to be overly concerned about how the Kingdom message will reach the millions who have not yet heard it. Jehovah has everything under control. But what is our work? God’s Word answers: ‘Sow your seed in the morning and do not let your hand rest until the evening; for you do not know which will have success, whether this one or that one, or whether they will both do well.’ (Eccl. 11:6)” – Watchtower 12/15 2014 pp.9-10

In case you are wondering what Matthew 13:33 says, here it is (from the revised New World Translation)…

“He told them another illustration: “The Kingdom of the heavens is like leaven that a woman took and mixed with three large measures of flour until the whole mass was fermented.”

And so it is that, because leaven ferments in bread in a process that is “unseen,” Witnesses are to adopt an “out of sight, out of mind / it’ll be alright on the night” attitude to the fact that millions in eastern countries don’t even know what a Jehovah’s Witness is.

Watchtower is essentially saying to any Witness who dares to show concern about the potential slaughter of such ones: “stop asking impertinent questions, and get back to work!”

As this website has previously noted, either a person’s salvation is dependent on him or her responding to the preaching work, or it isn’t. If accepting the ‘good news’ IS a prerequisite, then millions will soon be struck down for the simple ‘crime’ of being born on the wrong side of the planet. If is ISN’T a prerequisite, then what is the point of the preaching work in the first place, beyond a token show of obedience?

No matter how much Watchtower may evade the problem, it isn’t going away any time soon. The map below shows (in red) all the countries where the preaching work is currently under ban (the so-called “30 other lands”)…

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The publisher-to-population ratio for the area in red is 1:50,000 (one Jehovah’s Witness for every 50,000 people). The Witnesses aren’t even scratching the surface in a vast part of the globe spanning from the Atlantic ocean to the Korean peninsula!

And the following video, which uses data from the 2014 Yearbook, explains how the ratio is even worse in some countries where the work is not under ban. For example, you are far more likely to meet a Witness in one of the “30 other lands” than in Bangladesh, where the ratio is a staggering 1 Witness per 775,000 people.

The way Watchtower shrugs its shoulders at the fate of millions of non-Westerners is alarming enough, but the total indifference is driven home later in the magazine when the writers attempt to make Witnesses proud of their “spiritual heritage.”

“Only about 1 in every 1,000 people alive today has an accurate knowledge of the truth, and you are one of them. Should that not give all of us, no matter how we learned the truth, cause for rejoicing?” – Watchtower 12/15 2014 page 30

In other words, “don’t worry that 999 out of 1,000 are about to perish. Rejoice in the fact that you are among the special 0.1% who will survive divinely-mandated mass slaughter by obeying the Governing Body!”

For a group of men who pride themselves on “humility,” the solipsism,  self-centeredness and indifference with which the Governing Body greets the obliteration of all who don’t see the world exactly as they do is something to behold.

 

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144 thoughts on “Millions are oblivious to the preaching work, but “there is no need for us to be overly concerned”

  • September 18, 2014 at 4:04 am
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    The way I see it, Ted, if there is nothing, one will not know the difference.

    If there is something, it has got to be very good, if it reflects even minimally, the One who made this marvelous universe.

    Regarding punishment and the like, and if we are to believe the scriptures, “he who has died has been acquitted from his sin.” Clean slate.
    These are conforting thoughts we can make our own.
    They make sense.

    The rest are dissensions and inventions.

  • September 18, 2014 at 5:11 am
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    While I was pioneering for The WT, I often thought about this very question; What about those possibly billions of people who have no chance of hearing “the good news”?!?
    But I think that is the difference between people like me, who leave, and some of my friends and family who stay in the JW’s; questions. The brainwashed masses of faithful don’t seem to have any questions so they never lose faith (or blind belief).
    I just finished reading Journey To God’s House by Brock Talon and it was really excellent. This man was able to extricate himself in a relatively short period of time, and fairly painlessly, because of all the questions he was constantly asking. I wish that I kept working on my questions sooner like Brock!
    But whether it takes a long time or a short time, I think it is going to be questions like this website brings up that destroy this corrupt printing corporation.

  • September 18, 2014 at 5:24 am
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    Gameisover

    Succinctly expressed. Both options consoling.

    Thank You.

  • September 18, 2014 at 10:36 am
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    “No need to be “Overly Concerned”. A carefully phrased sentence.
    Leaving out the word Overly might have conveyed the idea of
    indifference to the fate of those unable to be contacted. Also
    it may have given the brothers an excuse for slowing down on the
    preaching.

    But the main thrust of the message is , CLOSE YOUR MIND to the
    FACTS… The fact that preaching to all the inhabited earth is, if not
    impossible, cannot, will not, be accomplished in this generation
    ( Already the longest generation in history ( 1914- 2014 ) and
    counting.

    Although not plainly stated, the hidden, subliminal, message is
    there. Ignore the failure and leave it to Jehovah to sort out.
    Something that the brothers have been asked to do, so many
    times it would be too laborious to type out.

  • September 18, 2014 at 10:36 am
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    anonymous, maybe you don’t need to write that book, just show them the video “The Prodigal Returns”! I watched it yesterday, and I thought it’s quite an eye-opener. JWs really are like the family are before the youngest son leaves the home: only concerned whether he will be able to keep up meeting attendance and field service hours. His friend Al being bad association purely because he doesn’t visit the meetings regularly. Not one bit about his personality. They’re not happy for him that he’s going to get his own place. They’re not helping him to find a cheaper place. Or negotiate the rent. Etc. *Very* black/white view on life: either you’re pioneering or living a debauched life with too many parties with too much alcohol, the house is a complete mess all the time, credit card deep in the red… Then the parents grieving over him “having left Jehovah” instead of them being happy that he’s maturing (bumpy, but ok…). I don’t quite get why he doesn’t answer the phone when his father calls? Shame, I guess.

    Quite funny, after he’s been to Taylor and crying I thought “well losing your job and friend like that is no fun, but this reaction seems a bit extreme? and he had Taylor consoling him? what does Jehovah have to do with this?” Haha, naive me!

    Of course, the only thing “worldly girls” want is to get laid! Duh! Bonus points for “luring” a good JW out of the truth! *Sigh*. How egotistical of her not thinking about his JW family feelings torturing themselves over their “lost son”! *shakes head* ;-)

    A much more likely ending would have been him moving in with Taylor and finding a job, getting a grip back on life and pay off his debts. And… be happy?

    How come at the end he suddenly likes being a carpenter? How unlikely is that?

  • September 18, 2014 at 11:07 am
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    Hi Gareth. I watched that video a while ago and had all I could do to keep from falling asleep or gagging. I can’t think of less interesting and boring videos than the Watchtower videos, nauseatingly terrible really, and that is long before I “woke” up. I wonder how many others still in the “org” think the same thing but just aren’t free to say anything?

    Somebody made a comment back that getting applause at the assemblies for the Governing Body isn’t enough and I got to thinking about that applause. We were forced (shamed) to go to meetings and assemblies (Heb. 10:25) and “shamed” into clapping. Those men giving the talks are fooling themselves if they think their talks are that good.

    It sounds like Maybe Cedars is coming out with a book? He would be the one to do it and a good job of it. I have a bunch of Watchtowers coming from the 1950’s though and I think it will still be fun for me to come up with my own crack at it. Last year before I woke up, I had written about 15 pages of how the Watchtower ruins people’s lives and then I went on line to see all these great Youtube videos etc. like Cedars and found out that there are dozens of good books already out about how the Watchtower ruins people’s lives and so I tore up my 15 pages. Now, I’d go at it differently. What I really want to see is Cedars’ book taking off and bringing down the Watchtower. If he covers what I’d have covered, I’d hang up the idea for myself and I’d be the first to buy his book. I can’t think of a more intelligent and self-sacrificing person to bring the Watchtower down than John (Loyd) Cedars.

  • September 18, 2014 at 11:23 am
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    Well, actually, I thought this one was quite well done! Contrasting personalities make for good entertainment. I loved how Al was played! So over the top, so ridiculous, I had a good couple of laughs. Although maybe that’s also because I recognize the attitude, but now I think how silly it all is. OTOH, having yourself judged by your brother (and my case my younger sister) hit home hard. Very sad.

    Also, in real life, the elders do not really take the time to console and “warn” people. That point was untrue. They only immediately have time in case there is a judicial committee to be performed. At least that’s my experience.

    Anyway, far from boring, that is my opinion. It could be boring for the JWs “in”, as for them, it just reaffirms their view on life. But showing it to a non-JW interested in JWs could be a good starting point for a discussion. (Which I thought was the goal of your book, non-JWs studying with JWs).

  • September 18, 2014 at 11:36 am
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    i think the issue is that watchtowr does not belive god is concerned with mans salvation he is only conerned with vindicating his soverenty and mans salvation is secondary this teaching startedwith rutherford most witnesses are oblivious to this all of course actually most will deny they think everyone will die at armogedon there either lying or ignorant

  • September 18, 2014 at 12:39 pm
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    Hi Gareth. I will have to watch that video again with “new” eyes of understanding. The first and only time I watched it, I hated it so much that I didn’t get a thing out of it. Every time I ever watched one of those videos, I had to force myself to do it, but of course I could never admit that to anybody out loud.

  • September 18, 2014 at 12:53 pm
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    Hi Gareth. I tried. I really tried. I saw it was 1 hour and 34 minutes long and I got about 15 seconds and couldn’t take another second. What I remember about it when I did manage to force myself to watch it before was I wondered how in the world the “worldly” brother got such a good job when he probably didn’t go to college? That was so far out of reality in real life of a JW. Without college, the most that boy could aspire to was being the janitor for that company. I can’t remember if he went to college but if he didn’t, that just goes to show you how detached the Governing Body is in thinking that any JW could get such a good job like that without going on to college. Just that part makes me angry, let alone the rest of it.

    • September 19, 2014 at 7:33 am
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      I didn’t mean to make you angry. Although having connections does help when finding a job (the whole reason LinkedIn exists), the scenario in this movie is quite unlikely indeed. I don’t know whether the GB really think any JW could get that job… I figured it way just a way to create context for the story. So you can also view it the other way around: as the young man couldn’t have gotten a college education (as that is frowned upon), they had to resort to an unlikely storyline to get to their point. Anyway, all this could be insightful to JWs-to-be.

  • September 18, 2014 at 4:12 pm
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    Apart from the 30 countries where JWs, are banned, and the
    meagre ratio of publishers to population in some other lands.
    Making it impossible to accomplish a fulfilment of Matt24/14
    in this generation.

    There is an equal if not more formidable obstacle. It is the
    number of Languages in the world. At least some part of the
    Bible is available in 2,508 , very impressive. But the number
    of catalogued languages in the world is 6,909, the W,T, is
    published in a mere 220 languages.

    One tends to think in terms of one country one language, but
    this is by no means the case, In Papua New Guinea for
    example, the population is 3.9 million, quite a modest figure
    but 832 languages are spoken. in that one country.

    So as we can see, the W,T, Org, has yet to learn another
    6,689 languages,

    Please wake up brothers, it’s not going happen is it. Don’t
    be taken in with the glib explanation ” With God all thing are
    possible. If an all powerful god wanted the job done within
    a limited time period, he would have provided his people
    with the means to do it.

    ( Figures, concerned with world languages taken from,
    The Ethnalogue , published by SIL in 2009.)

  • September 18, 2014 at 5:57 pm
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    You guys are wrong. According to the September Kingdom Ministry, the fact that Har-Maguedon is coming soon really is a good news. We will get rid of all the wicked. Of course we are now part of the wicked but we just need to become JWs. Isn’t it worthy?

  • September 19, 2014 at 9:44 am
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    Hi Gareth. It was just the video made me mad at the Governing Body for implying it was so easy to get a good job like that. I think the best way to bring down the org is with a really good book that takes off, which it sounds like John (Loyd) is working on and I am looking forward to. Most Witnesses would look at that video and think it was great. I look at it as one hour and 34 minutes I can never get back in my life again.

  • September 20, 2014 at 4:00 am
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    Gareth and anonymous,

    I, too, have watched that “blockbuster”.

    The worst part was not in the movie itself, it was in the questions and answers section where they interview the “actors”.

    It is stated there that all non Witness family members are bad associations and all “worldly” people are bad associations.

    This is logically flawed! How can a “bad association” ever become a Jehovah’s Witness?

    This video was repulsive in the extreme and I do not want to waste any of my finite time on this wonderful planet watching it again!

    Peace be with you

    Excelsior!

  • September 20, 2014 at 7:03 am
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    In fact, I threw it away without watching it. I’m suspicious all the tear jerkers they have been produced lately.

  • September 20, 2014 at 7:09 am
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    In fact, I threw it away without watching it. I’m suspicious
    Of all the tear-jerkers they have been producing lately.
    I’m also upset because my “prodigal son” will never
    Return, but for the opposite reason.

  • September 20, 2014 at 7:46 am
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    Reading about the personality of the Bible god Jehovah
    it’s not difficult to believe he would slaughter millions in
    an Armageddon.

    His capacity for unjust slaughter of even infants and babies,
    so young they could not possibly be accused of any rebellion
    against him. Josh, 6/21.

    The killing of whole families because of the fathers sin Josh, 7/24-26.

    The stoning to death of a man for collecting firewood on the
    Sabbath. Numb,15 /32-36.

    Any of those things happening today would arouse universal
    condemnation, and disgust, and would probably be printed
    In the W,T, to show why Jehovah needs to bring an end to this
    wicked system.

  • September 21, 2014 at 5:56 pm
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    Why does the WTS not use satelite broadcast where house to house preaching is impossible? Many other Christinan evangelizers do and even high rank Muslims in middle east have converted to Christ. Much of the evangelize TV programs are crap but some are that good they make this.

  • September 28, 2014 at 10:38 am
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    Interestingly their application of the leaven in this instance is a flip flop….Aid to Understanding taught this application and then it was adjusted in the Insight book to say that leaven could only mean the spread of apostasy…so now are they reverting to the old interpretation?

  • September 29, 2014 at 8:01 pm
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    How foolish do you think we are. JWs ahave absolutely nothing to do with what God sees as right or just.

    We have nothing to do with the out come of Armageddon nor on who will or will not survive it. The Bible gives us instructions. It is up to us to follow them or not.

    How many died in the flood without knowing it was coming

    how many died in Sodom and Gomorrah without knowing of any warning.

    The people before the flood and of Sodom and Gomorrah will be resurrected to be given a chance to choose.

    What ever happens leading up to Armageddon (Gods war against corrupt political commercial and religious systems) will be the right and just thing from Gods point of view not mans

    The judgment will start with the house of God

    1 Peter 4:17 “For it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God. Now if it starts first with us, what will the end be of those who are not obedient to the good news of God? “

    • November 20, 2014 at 2:17 am
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      All Christians would agree that they have nothing to do with what God sees as right or just because our God is a holy and righteous God. All Christians are aware of the judgments that befell the people in Noah’s day, and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. The problem isn’t with God – the problem is with the false teachings of your denomination. There is no second chance. Billions of dead people will not be resurrected with physical bodies to live on planet Earth and have 1,000 years in which to conform. The Bible says man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment (Hebrews 9:27). According to the Bible, the dead will come before the judgment seat of God in heaven, there to answer for their godlessness. Those who have been saved will come before Christ Jesus, there to receive their rewards. We are to be judged on what we did while alive.
      As for the family of God being judged first, the Bible says that only those persons who are in the new covenant, who have been born-again (or born from above) and are indwelt by the Holy Spirit can claim to be adopted into God’s family (Romans 8:15-17). Jesus said no person would even see the kingdom of God (let alone be part of it, whether as a ruler or as a subject) unless they were born again (John 3:1-15 and 1 John 5:1-18). Yet 8 million Witnesses cheerfully admit they are not born-again! How, then, can they be part of the family of God?
      Finally, the September 2011 Watchtower article ‘What is Armageddon?’ said only the incorrigibly wicked will be destroyed at Armageddon. Do you think every person who does not belong to your organisation is “incorrigibly wicked”? Where, in the Bible, does it say you have to belong to an organisation in order to be saved? My Bible says you have to belong to Christ Jesus to be saved. Sir, you have been deceived and you have bought into the doctrines of men.

  • October 30, 2014 at 7:45 pm
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    good shot, my dear friend!
    I believe that it would be seriously difficult to really enumerate the many truly awful pieces of garbage that can be attributed to that prolific psychopath.
    By pointing out this one, you tag a major insidious
    tool, one of many, used to induce functional psychopathy in those unfortunate enough to have placed their hearts and minds at his ‘disposal’. Thank you,dear friend

  • October 30, 2014 at 7:54 pm
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    forgive my oversight…. my previous post was in response to Micheal Glenn (sept. 18) … couldn’t stoop myself as I truly despise that lowlife Rutherford…
    Thanks again.

  • November 20, 2014 at 5:20 am
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    WARREN, I FELT THE SAME AS YOU FOR SO LONG ON ALL THE RIDICULOUS RULES THEY MAKE UP AS THEY GO ALONG. grooming, beards,Minimum hours for Field Service,Hair cuts,Everytime I would say something about the rules being non scriptural they would say well, it is the scriptural principal and It is God’s Organization ( Mother ship ) that is directing it? On one hand they claim EVERYTHING they do is based on the bible and then they make up 100’s of man made rules that hve nothing to do with the bible. They have become just LIKE The Pharisees. Rules, Rules Rules. Warrem I wore a beard for a while myself back in my JW’s days and I was ostracized and told I was being “REBELLIOUS” which I was not. They would not allow me to carry Microphones ( another rule ) or lead the group in FS. They even gave a talk saying,”SOME” may not allow their conscience to have them preach door-door or associate with another JW if they do not look like a JW or are not appropriately “groomed” and setting a good example? However there was a 350 lb Brother who was so fat he could not walk up steps or go tot he door and he was ok to go door-door and give talks etc? So I guess he was setting a good example? What unscriptural hypocrisy they practice.
    Are you still a JW Warren and attending meetings? It sounds like you are but you have so many issues with the WT I have a hard time understanding if you are unless it is th family/friend pressure thing.

  • November 20, 2014 at 5:46 am
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    @Ben Burns. I am wondering if you are a Jehovah’s Witness? If so, then you don’t believe in those who were killed at Sodom and Gomorrah and at the flood are going to be resurrected. This would be “apostate” thinking.

  • December 4, 2014 at 6:07 pm
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    Something that happened to me while I was pioneering back in the late 80s that has a bearing on people “hearing the truth”
    I was studying the live forever book with two different people,the first guy stopped his study when we got to the part about the generation that won’t pass away,he said that he couldn’t accept it because that was a misrepresentation of the facts and was against Jesus words of not knowing the time or the hour of Gods judgement.
    The second guy,also studying the LFB,stopped his study when we got to the part about seperating the sheep and the goats,he explained to me that seperating the sheep and the goats was Jesus role ,not that of any human.
    Interestingly both these guys turned out to be right in their thinking WELL before the GB changed both of these “truths”.
    I just wonder how many more people are there like these two who already know the “truth”well before the GB do.
    Are in fact jws teaching something that has to have ongoing alterations,so really in the end those in the western country’s who have heard “the truth” haven’t really heard it because it will need to be changed again in the near future,what they did hear was not the latest version lol,so how could God in his right mind,destroy them for not hearing the latest

    • December 5, 2014 at 10:57 am
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      Thank you for sharing those insights, because my parents, who became Witnesses in the late 1930’s, believed they were the generation that would still be alive when Armageddon came. They both died disappointed.

  • December 5, 2014 at 1:45 am
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    @Wild Olive. I started a study in the Live Forever book with a young mother and it was maybe the 3rd time going back there and she was very interested until I had her look up a scripture that was supposed to support the thought in the paragraph. I could not see how that scripture had anything to do with the thought and said so. I knew in my heart that I “blew” it because of that comment. She never answered the door when I went back after that. Now I am glad for her that that happened and she never got “brainwashed” into the organization.

  • December 25, 2014 at 4:07 pm
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    @anonymous,I agree with you whole heartedly,Ime also glad that the young mother you spoke of didn’t get drawn in,something that I noticed over time was that all the witnessing I’ve done,over the last 35 yrs,hasnt bore any fruit in ME.
    I would have thought that all the time spent in faithful work would have brought a deep heart change,but it hasn’t been the case,I know a lot more,but I found that when I stepped down as an elder ,that spiritually I was still in the same place when I was baptised 30 yrs previously,the “truth”had just been an activity that distracted me and kept me occupied with no real heart change taking place,not all of it is bad,it just hit me that all I had done was collect knowledge,I was no closer to Jehovah in real spiritual terms,this was the beginning of my awakening,I had always been ready to do what was asked of me,but now the questions I was asking is where do I stand before God?
    How could all of that spiritual work done not have a better effect on Me?
    Why did I feel that God was still “distant”?why did it feel that as soon as I couldn’t “do the job ” anymore that I was completely empty and condemned despite decades of faithful service?it just made no sense. If you want to hear the rest of the story let me know

  • December 25, 2014 at 5:31 pm
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    @Wild Olive. Being an elder has to be such a hard job for any man, but especially if a person really wants to do “God’s Will” and your story sounds real interesting to me and to everyone I am sure.

    All the time I was in the “truth”, I was always depressed but could never put my finger on why but once I separated myself from the meetings and service and assemblies, I don’t have that sinking feeling anymore so I know it was the guilt that had been laid upon me by the Society that did it. Even just reading the Watchtower on line, brings back that feeling of dread. It isn’t good for me to even do that.

    I told the 2 brothers that came here last week that they don’t have an approach to God in prayer since Jesus is supposed to only be the intercessor for the “anointed” and that went right over their heads.

    There is so much wrong with the “truth” that it’s difficult to know where to begin. I think each of us could write our own unique experiences in a 600 page book and maybe even then, we could use a few more pages than that to express it all. I know I sure could. The two books that Ray Franz wrote equal about 1,000 pages I think, and even then, he left out a lot.

  • December 27, 2014 at 2:58 am
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    @anonymous,your comment on the mediatorship of Christ to the two that came to visit you,as you said right over their heads,the average Jw had been taught to overlook full value of the Ransom.
    I spent some time with Moslems through work and various other circumstances,something that dawned on me was how similar the position of a Moslem is to the average non anointed Jw,the Moslem is not in a covenant,doesn’t have a mediator,therefore doesn’t receive the indwelling spirit,and only knows if he has gods approval if he performs the prescribed works,how could I have not seen it before?how can the GB get away with teaching what they are and not realise the same?how can they make rules on who is in the new covenant and who’s not?where in the Bible does it say that any human can decide who qualifys to be in the new covenant?especially since the ONLY way that Jehovah deals with humans at this time is via the new covenant,so how can you have his approval without seeking to be party to the new covenant?where in the Bible is an uncovenanted Christian talked about and how can anyone have a true standing with God without seeking his legal means of dealing with us?where is Jesus Ransom offered “by extension” to someone not in the new covenant

  • December 27, 2014 at 12:44 pm
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    @Wild Olive. I think that almost every Jehovah’s Witness thinks they have an approach to God through prayer “in the name of Jesus” but according to the Insight Book and other places in the JW literature, it’s clear, Jesus is supposed to be the mediator only for the anointed. If you were to ask the average Witness if Jesus is their mediator, I’d bet you dollars to donuts, that almost every single Witness would answer yes. What about the elders when they give prayers at the meetings?

    How can they legitimately offer prayers in the “name of Jesus” when they should know that Jesus is the mediator only for the anointed?

    It’s as you said from the Insight book. The Insight book and the Society say that the rest of the Witnesses “benefit” from it. How???? That is not answered. They just say that the rest benefit but never say how and how does that make anybody else’s prayers legitimate if they can’t claim Jesus as their intercessor between them and God?

    It is such a pity that such an important teaching as that (which is right in the Insight Book for all to see) when it comes to if they even have an approach to God in prayer, shouldn’t wake up every single Jehovah’s Witness but it doesn’t.

    The reason it doesn’t dawn on them is is because they never question the Society and have complete trust in the Society and can’t conceive of the idea that this Organization that they have devoted their lives to, could lead them in the wrong direction.

    It goes to show you the cult “mind control” that the Organization has over it’s members.

  • January 1, 2015 at 3:43 am
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    Yeah that’s it in a nutshell anonymous.
    They are all worshipping their organization,the most cleverly camouflaged idol ever conceived,passed off as worship to the most high”by extension ”
    The GB is completely infatuated with their organization,and want all of us to feel the same,not this fellow.

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