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I received a text from my mother a few days ago (2/28/2022). She informed me that she is no longer associating with me because I “oppose the truth.” She said, “I will welcome you back when/if you return to Jehovah.”
“Return to Jehovah” by supporting the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society? My mother is a devout Jehovah’s Witness [JW]. Her text is communicating: She will speak to me again if I return to Watchtower [WT].” Essentially, Watchtower equates to God. After a JW facility is built, they give a public prayer dedicating the building to God. There is no doubt they associate their Kingdom Halls [KH] and other buildings and real estate, with God and His blessing. Are God and Jesus directing the anointed leaders of Watchtower?
We must examine God’s Word to see whether God considers WT, His house of worship (John 1:1,14; Rev.19:13).
When Jesus was in the flesh, at the time near the Jewish Passover, he went up to Jerusalem (John 2:13). When in Jerusalem, Jesus was greatly upset finding in the temple courts, commerce and bankers trading monies, currency exchanging (Matt.21:12; John 2:14,15). After Jesus demonstrated strong rebuke over such activities, the Jews challenged him, asking Jesus for a sign to prove his authority (John 2:18). Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days” (John 2:19). Demonstrating their lack of spiritual perception, the hearers scoffed at the impossibility of Jerusalem being destroyed and rebuilt in three literal days as it took 46 literal years to build (John 2:20). Even Jesus’ disciples with him at that time did not recognize Jesus was referring to the “temple of his body,” and even after Jesus was raised from the dead, they only associated this with his duration spent in physical death (John 2:21,22). On another occasion, Jesus approached a Samaritan woman who also viewed his words in a fleshly way. Jesus said that he is the source of “living water” that is the “gift of God” which he gives to those who ask, and that imparts everlasting life (John 4:10,14). The woman could not discern Jesus was not describing spiritual water. Jesus further told the Samaritan woman, “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the worship in truth and spirit, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth” (John 4:23,24). Jesus was explaining to her that worshiping the Father “in truth and Spirit” is now unrelated to a physical temple (John 4:21).
The Jewish system of things was centered around physical service, burnt sacrifices, a constant feature in the temple (2 Kings 21:4; Matt.24:15; Dan.12:11). For many Jews, it was difficult to comprehend that their traditional physical system of worship was no longer required. You may think, as so many JW’s express, “God has always had an organization”…so of course he would maintain a physical place of worship to Him in “Spirit and truth.” But is that what Jesus was teaching his disciples? Was he communicating His Father’s wishes to organize and build, just in a different location, a physical religious center for worship that would serve as a central hub, similar to the temple located in Jerusalem with their religious leaders? (Mark 11:27; 12:38-40; Luke 20:1,45-47; 21:23). Read carefully:
“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation”…”and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things;” (Col.1:15,17,18). “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood” (Rev.1:5). “And you have an anointing from the holy one; all of you have knowledge. I write you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie originates with the truth” (1 John 2:20,21). “Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one come to the Father except through me: (John 14:6). “Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will Raise it again in three days. But the temple he had spoken of was his body” (John 2:19,21). “Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it” (1 Cor.12:27). “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body - whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free - and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many” (1 Cor.12:12-14). “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame” (1 Pet.2:5,6). “I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain” (Psalm 2:6). “ but you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the myriad of angels, and to the General assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven and to God, who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect,” (Heb.12:22,23). “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit” (Eph.2:19-22). “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?” (1 Cor.3:16). “You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ” (Rom.8:9). “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, (1 Cor.6:19). “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry” (1 Cor.10:14).
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples build by human hands” (Acts 17:24). “What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people” (2 Cor.6:16). “Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit” (Rom.8:5). “So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours” (1 Cor.3:21). “For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people” (Rom.16:18). “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen” (Rom.1:25). “They have lost connection with the head [Jesus; Col.1:15], from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow” (Col.2:19).
Through the scriptures we clearly see that a physical religious organization cannot, nor ever will be selected by God and His son, Jesus, to represent Them or true worship. It is an abomination to create with human hands, a physical religious organization for worship to God, and an erroneous claim and outrageous lie to even insinuate “ returning” to Watchtower equates to and with serving, God (Isa.66:1,2).
In the recent video on the annual meeting of JW’s, posted on their website, WT governing body member Samuel Herd spoke. During his talk, he tried to convince his audience that it is not possible for apostasy to occur among their organization. The reason? Well, he scanned the audience and noted that he didn’t see any Israelites sitting in the audience, nor anyone dressed like an ancient Israelite. That’s why. How ridiculous and foolish to be so cavalier as to liken the clothing one wears to the inability to repeat ancient Israel’s pattern of rebelliousness, apostasy (Psalm 78:8; 1 Sam.15:23; Exod.32:5,6,9; Deut.9:7,16; Ezek.20:8). Ancient Israel’s example of ignoring God’s decrees was recorded for us to avoid the danger of repeating their behavior, not their physical attire (1 Cor.10:6,11; 2 Tim.3:16,17). But the GB uses smoke and mirrors tactics to distract their listeners from what scripture shows…that they are the apostates.
The unfaithful anointed leaders of Watchtower speak from their own minds, lie saying they speak for and about God, misleading many who without question believe their ever-changing, expiring rotten “fruit” (Matt.24:11,24; 7:15-20; Luke 6:26; Isa.9:16; Lam.2:14; Jer.14:14). The Spirit of God does not dwell in them because they have rebelled and apostatized from God and their head, Jesus. They themselves recognize they do not have God’s Spirit, and are forthright in the statement published in the February 2017 Watchtower, paragraph 12, which says, “The Governing Body is neither inspired nor infallible. Therefore, it can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction.” They are rebellious and apostatized from their head, Jesus, ignoring the spiritual temple arrangement, promoting a religious idol abomination, and do not teach from Spirit (Acts 7:48-51; 2 Thess.2:3; Isa.1:23; 30:1,9).
“Watch out for false prophets,” because they come in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ferocious wolves” (Matt.7:15). You will recognize a false prophet by their false predictions and their “bad fruit,” teachings that rot (Deut.18:20-22; Matt.7:16). All anointed, male and female, are to be “one in Christ Jesus” and as “trees,” are to produce healthful, “good fruit” by remaining firmly rooted, attached to Jesus, seeking him for living water - only then can they too be sources of living waters that provide truthful teachings (Matt.7:15-20; Psalm 1:1-6; 92:12-15; John 15:4-6; 17:3; 3:14-16,36). As part of the “body” of Christ, each anointed is to look to their “head,” Jesus, and remain faithful to his him (Eph.5:23; 1:22,23; Col.1:18). Our thoughts must be captive to obey Christ, and we defend Jesus’ truth, and “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God,” exposing such “works of darkness” using the Word of God (2 Cor.10:5; Titus 1:9; Eph.5:11; Heb.4:12; Eph.6:17; 2 Tim.3:16; Isa.49:2). “The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds” (2 Cor.10:4). This is Armageddon. Now. A spiritual warfare, not a physical annihilation. A spiritual warfare using the “sword,” God’s Word, to demolish strongly held false teachings and the LIES spoken about Him (Jer.23:29; 5:14; Hos.6:5; Eph.6:17; Isa.49:2; Heb.4:12; Rev.1:16; 19:15; 17:14).
Please carefully read the scriptures referenced to discern, not with physical eyes, but spiritual discernment, that the WT concept of Armageddon is no more true than avoiding apostasy by the clothes you wear. The egregious claim that Jesus and the Father are murderers and that Jesus would even ask his servants to murder is absolute blasphemy (John 18:36,37; Prov.12:22; John 3:16). The adversary the devil is the murderer and those who claim Jesus and the Father are murderers, are liars, just as their father (John 8:44; Rev.13:5-9,4; 1 John 4:1; 2 Pet.2:1-3; Mark 13:22; Luke 6:26; Jer.23:16).
“‘For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the LORD” (Jer.29:23).
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!” (Ezekiel.13:3).
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” - Jesus, Matt.11:28-30.
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