The GB false prophets, leading people to death

The previous posts on this blog share many scriptures describing false prophets [Link 1; Link 2]. In scripture, we read that there are many members of the Body of Christ, and one member, is an eye. Just as a physical eye receives light to transcribe shapes that the mind interprets, so the eye of the Body of Christ who receives light from Jesus, the Holy Spirit/oil, illuminates their “lamp,” their spiritual “eye” (2 Cor.4:6). By the Holy Spirit, not their own carnal thinking, they interpret prophecy (John 8:12; 1 Pet.1:19-21; Rev.1:1-3; 1 Cor.2:10,5,12-14). That is the role of the “eye” of the Body, a prophet interpreting and teaching the prophetic word (1 Pet.1:19-21). Jesus warned beforehand, that in the last days false prophets WILL arise (Matt.24:24-25). Jesus’ warning is critical. Who you are led by and their teachings means your life.

1 Cor.12:12, For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. ... 27 Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues. 29 All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they? 18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. 16 And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less [a part] of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

Matt.6:22, "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

John 8:12, Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

Psalm 18:28, For You light my lamp; The LORD my God illumines my darkness.

Psalm 36:9, For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

Matt.6:23, "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

False teachings do not give us the light of life (John 8:12). The spiritually blind eye of the false prophet leads the blind, others who are unable to spiritually perceive their deceptive teachings are not truth but the result is that both fall into a pit (Matt.15:14). This pit symbolically represents a descent to death (Psalm 30:3). Death is more than just breathing your last physical breath (Rev.3:1; John 6:63; Job 34:6; 33:28).

Matt.5:29, "If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Rom.6:23, For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Pet.2:1, But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

There were no chapters and verses in the original writings so read carefully 1 Pet.1:19-21 continuing with 1 Pet.2:1-2.  You see that immediately after Peter tells us that prophets spoke from God as they were moved by Holy Spirit, he continues saying, “ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed (2 Pet.2:1-2; 1 Cor.6:19-20).  The false prophets who teach falsehood, blaspheme truth, are among the Body of Christ.  The very governing body members of WT.  They lead the entire Body of Christ and many others into darkness as they were not given light by Christ to interpret prophecy, but they do so without Holy Spirit, spreading deception/lies (Matt.24:24.18:20-22; 1 Pet.1:19-21; Matt.7:15-20).  The Body of Christ is the dwelling place of God by the Spirit; they are to be representatives of New Jerusalem, a city of truth, a covenant of life (1 Cor.3:16; Zech.8:3; Rev.21:2-4; Gal.4:24,26)!  They cannot give life to those who ingest their fruit/teachings, if those teachings are lies, because eating lies/bad fruit give death (Prov.18:20-21; 2 Cor.11:3). Paul reminded the Body of Christ…

1Cor.6:19, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

John 15:8, "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. ... 16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

John 15:4, "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch [Body members of Christ who are to derive sap/Holy Spirit from him, the vine] cannot bear fruit [true teachings] of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Matt.7:15, "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 "You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 "So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 "So then, you will know them by their fruits.

2 Pet.2:3, and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Matt.15;14, "Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

Jude 1:19, These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded [carnal/earthly], devoid of the Spirit.

Without Holy Spirit, what truth can they teach (John 6:63; 1 John 2:20-21,27; John 15:4-5,18,16; 2 Pet.2:1-2; John 8:44)?  Nothing!  They don’t belong to Jesus if they do not have the Spirit of Christ…

Rom.8:9, However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

Jude 1:12, These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Isa.26:14, The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

Jude 1:13, wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

Eph.5:11. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

John 16:2, "They will make you outcasts from the synagogue [a meeting place], but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

When you speak truth, and expose their teachings of darkness, they will spiritually condemn you and remove/formerly disfellowship you.  But this is the command of Jesus that we heed, if we love him more than our own feelings and fear of losing those we love through their shunning us (John 15:18-21,12-13; John 14:15; Matt.16:25; Phil.3:8).

Matt.10:28, "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-lake-of-fire.html: 

To receive God's permanent condemnation, is to die eternally. This is what the "Lake of Fire" represents. It is condemnation by means of God's Word...which IS FIRE (Heb.12:29; Jer.23:29; Jer.5:14 NIV ; Rev.11:5). There is a first death, over which Satan reigns (Heb.2:14; 1Cor.5:5), which death of the flesh is physical and from which we can be saved (Matt.10:28 YLT ; Dan.12:13; Isa.25:9). Then there is the "second death", which is God's condemnation (James 4:12; 5:9). From this, there is no salvation (Ps.104:29; Matt.10:28 YLT). Eternal Life resides with God (Ps.36:9; 1 John 2:17; Isa.43:11,12).

Deut.32:39, 'See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand. 40 'Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven, And say, as I live forever,

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He chooses who receives it's fruit, based upon His own righteous judgments (Isa.33:22; 11:4; 49:25; Jer.30:7) (Gen.3:24; Matt.13:11; Luke8:10; Rev.2:7; 22:17; Prov.3:18) (Rev.15:4).

Isa.26:11, O LORD, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

Isa.26:10, Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

Deut.32:41, If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me.

Amos 5:10, They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Luke 10:16, "The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me."

John 12:48, "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. 49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

2 Pet.3:7, But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Jer.23:29, "Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

Deut.18:20, 'But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' 21 "And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'-- 22 "when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Isa.2:22, Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

Psalm 1:1, Blessed is the man

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly [wicked men],
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Job 27:8, For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

Psalm 104:29, You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they expire And return to their dust.

The Father and Jesus have no need to kill anyone physically to take away lives.  You make that choice.

Deut.30:19, I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

Prov.8:35, For whoever finds me finds life,

And obtains favor from the Lord;
36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.

Jer.29:13, And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Matt.7:7, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 Thess.5:21, Do not despise prophesies. 21 Test all things; hold fast to what is good. 

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Angels…just invisible?

This post is supplemental to the “good eye, bad eye” post.

JW’s are taught that the angels are only invisible spirit creatures [wt17,No.5].  Please look at the original Greek word translated in scripture, angel, and you can see the meaning of this word is: messenger (https://biblehub.com/greek/32.htm).  

Rev.1:1, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take

place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.”

In Rev.1:1,3, we read that Jesus sends his angel/human messenger to show his servants things which must shortly take place.  Is the messenger sent to open the words of prophecy in the book of Revelation, an invisible angel?  

Carefully consider the following scriptures as you go through them:

Mal.2:7, For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

We see that the Hebrew word translated messenger, has the very same meaning as the Greek word for “angel” (https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4397.htm).  Priests are human angel/messengers.  

  
1 Pet.2:5, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Heb.1:13, But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?  (Psalm 110:1; Mark 12:35-37). 14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

John 20:21, So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

1 Cor.12:4, There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 

Rom.12:4, For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,  5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.  6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;  7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;

1 Cor.12:11, But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,

1 Cor.3:16, Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Matt.10:20, for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

2 Sam.23:2, The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me, And His word was on my tongue.

Can you begin to put the pieces together?  Spirit-anointed are priests, human messengers (“angels”) who offer up spiritual sacrifices, keep the knowledge of God and instruct those who seek them (1 Pet.2:5; Mal.2:7; Heb.1:13-14).  The spiritual priesthood, a spiritual house, is God’s dwelling place in the Spirit (1 Pet.2:5; 1 Cor.3:16). The Spirit of their Father who dwells in them by His Spirit, speaks through their mouth (1 John 2:20-21,27; 1 Pet.2:5; Mal.2:7; Matt.10:20; 2 Sam.23:2). When sent forth by Jesus, they receive the Holy Spirit, a gift given to each body member they are to use for the profit of all (1 Pet.2:5; Mal.2:7; John 20:21; 1 Cor.12:4; Rom.12:4-6; 1 Cor.12:11; Heb.1:13-14; 1 Cor.12:5-6,27-29,7-8; 1 Cor.3:16; John 6:63; 2 Sam.23:2; Matt.10:20).  Anointed differ in gifts of Spirit, but must be united in Spirit, speaking the truth to one another as each is a bride member, a representative of New Jerusalem, a city of truth whose head/bridegroom/husband is Jesus, the truth (1 Cor.12:11,5-6,27-29,7-8; Rom.12:4-5; Eph.4:12-14; 1 Cor.3:16; 1 Pet.2:5; Rom.12:1; Mal.2:7; Eph.4:25; 5:25-27,30-32; John 15:1,4-5; Zech.8:3; Rev.5:10; 21:2,24,27).  

Do we assume anointed are faithful just because they say they are?  Are all anointed faithful angel/messengers, faithful ministering spirits sent by Jesus?  No.

1 Tim.4:1, Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

Matt.7:15, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Matt.24:24, For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

2 Cor.11:13, For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.  14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Matt.7:21, Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 

Luke 6:46, But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? 

John 14:15, If you love Me, keep My commandments. 24, He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

Matt.15:7, Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8 These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

Matt.7:23, And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

When Jesus’ disciples asked him when the temple, Jerusalem, would be destroyed, Jesus described a spiritual event to occur in the last days, when his spiritual temple, the Body of Christ, the spiritual priesthood, would be destroyed by a false prophet (Matt.24:1-4,11,24; John 2:19,21).  This prophecy has occurred. False prophets have arisen from among God’s own people, the anointed who claim to be faithful stewards, appearing as ministers of righteousness, but are in actuality, ministers/messengers/“angels” of Satan… falsely presenting lies as truth, deceiving many, even the elect/anointed (1 Tim.4:1; Matt.7:15-20; 24:24; 2 Cor.11:13-15; Matt.7:21-22; Luke 6:46; John 14:15,24; Matt.15:7; 7:23; John 8:44).  You will recognize these false prophets as the unfaithful anointed leaders of Watchtower whose bad fruit/teachings do not remain, but expire over time, along with their long history of failed predictions (Matt.15:5,16,8; Matt.7:15-20; 24:24; Deut.18:20-22). 

How can the anointed and the many who have been deceived by these false prophets, perceive they have been misled by this “bad eye” who has brought them under the power of Satan through deceptive teachings (1 Tim.4:1; 2 Pet.2:1; Matt.24:24,11-12; 6:23; 15:14; 1 John 4:1)?

Let’s Circle back to Rev.1:1,3 to understand that the angel messenger sent is a spiritual priest, as all messengers are priests (1 Pet.2:5; Mal.2:7). But, not all spiritual priests, body members, have the same function (1 Cor.12:11,5-6,27-29,7-9; 1 Cor.3:16; Rom.12:4-5; 1 Pet.4:10).  The human messenger (“angel”) that is sent is given the gift of Spirit to prophesy (Num.12:6; 24:4,16; 1 Cor.12:12,27-29; 14:32-33; 2 Pet.1:21; Rev.1:1,3; Matt.10:20).  Prophets are always sent to give warning to God’s own people when they need to correct their ways, and what will occur if they do not amend their ways (2 Chron.36:15; Neh.9:30; Jer.25:4-5). 

Amos 3:7, Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Mark 1:2, As it is written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.”

Psalm 18:28, For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

Matt.6:22, The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 

Acts 26:18, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Matt.3:2, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”

Acts 3:19, Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

2 Pet.1:20, knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 19, And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light/lamp that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 

Rev.22:16, “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Do not despise prophecies (1 Thess.5:20). Test all things, hold fast to what is good (1 Thess.5:21).  

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