The "Evil Slave Class"- Is it us?

by RichieRich 36 Replies latest jw friends

  • RichieRich
    RichieRich

    The Bible speaks of 2 Slaves. There's the Faithful and Discreet Slave, and the Evil Slave. Although the Bible only mentions the terms "Faithful and Discreet Slave" twice and "Evil Slave" twice, the WTBTS still likes to put their spin on it, and turn it into 2 classes, the same as the sheep and the goats.

    Well, the WTBTS is proud to identify the members of the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class, and even uses ten of them to run their organization.

    I'm thinking, that as members of the Evil Slave Class, it could and should be considered our privilege to pick our own governing body.

    Can we at least get a tax exempt status? Some property in Brooklyn? A few million worth of printing supplies?

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    w61 7/1 pp. 409-410 The Traitorous "Evil Slave" and His Prototypes ***

    THE

    "EVIL SLAVE"

    Even as King David was a type of Jesus Christ, so the traitor Ahithophel proved to be a picture of Judas Iscariot. In turn, he and Judas Iscariot foreshadowed the "evil slave," concerning whom Jesus prophesied: "But if that evil slave should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’ and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, and will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his part with the hypocrites. There is where his weeping and the gnashing of his teeth will be."—Matt. 24:48-51.

    We should expect to see this "evil slave" today. Why so? Because these words of Jesus regarding the evil slave are part of Jesus’ great prophecy that finds its fulfillment since 1914. Since that year we have seen the unprecedented wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes and the world-wide preaching of this good news of the Kingdom as foretold at Matthew 24:7-14.

    However, as already noted, we are not to expect this evil slave to be a single individual but rather a group of individuals. Thus Jehovah, at Isaiah 43:10, speaks of his nation of witnesses back there and in our day not only in the plural form as "witnesses," but also in the singular form as "my servant." This is in keeping with the fact that the "faithful and discreet slave," which Jesus mentioned at the same time, is also a group of persons. As has been noted time and again in the pages of this journal, that "faithful and discreet slave" consists of the remaining ones or the remnant of the body of Christ still on earth and is associated with Jehovah’s witnesses of the New World society.—Matt. 24:45-47.

    From the words of Jesus it is apparent that the evil slave is a traitor. How does he show it? By beating his fellow slaves and by associating with those who are disreputable in God’s sight, "the confirmed drunkards," spiritually so. Does he beat his fellows with a literal rod? No, for the laws of the land would not permit that. Rather, he seeks to cause pain to his fellow slaves by hard and bitter speech, by slander, false propaganda, by assertions for which no proof is given nor indeed can be given. This he does both by the spoken and the printed word. He is like Diotrephes, concerning whom the apostle John wrote: He "likes to have the first place among them, [and] does not receive anything from us with respect . . . chattering about us with wicked words."—3 John 9, 10.

    Those comprising the "evil slave" class feel they have a grievance. They may have been rebuked, as Judas was, or have been relieved of privileges of service, or may have been unable to fall in line with the progress being made in understanding the truth or in methods of carrying on God’s work. But if they were honestly to examine their hearts they would be forced to admit that for a long time their hearts have not been right and that now selfishness, in the form of pride or desire for selfish gain, is blindly goading them on

  • Gretchen956
    Gretchen956

    Richie, I don't wanna be no evil slave, man. I want to be an evil king or an evil witch! Someone with power! Hey you know we could put our heads together and come up with a plan for world domination! If you need an evil sorcerous let me know, I could work that in on Wednesday afternoons.

    Sherry

  • blondie
    blondie

    Only those on this DB who claimed in the past to be of the WTS heavenly class, anointed, part of the remnant or the 144,000, and then left, will be considered part of the evil slave class by the WTS. I guess Ray Franz might be considered that then.

  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    Man! The annointed get all the good stuff -- wine, wallpaper-paste-crackers, the "Evil Slave" badges. This sucks!

    Dave

  • RichieRich
    RichieRich
    Only those on this DB who claimed in the past to be of the WTS heavenly class, anointed, part of the remnant or the 144,000, and then left, will be considered part of the evil slave class by the WTS

    But we can still have a mess of Evil Nethinim right?

  • RunningMan
    RunningMan

    I think there may be some waffling on the definition of "evil slave". Certainly, historically the evil slave was made up only of those who had claimed to be anointed, then fell away. However, I hear it on the highest authority - my cousins husband and the foremost elder in my congregation, that you can now be considered evil slave, even if you were never anointed. I guess, just like the governing body, the evil slave is aging and needs to recruit new blood.

    Us apostates can never seem to get any rest. At first, I was just irregular, but reaching out for inactivity. Then, after I became inactive, I began reaching out for apostacy. Now, it seems that I am apostate, reaching out for evil slave. Who would have thought that apostacy would be as much of a rat race as being in the org.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I'm sure the WTS would like to tar the non-anointed ex-JWs with the same term.

    *** w04 3/1 p. 13 ‘The Faithful Slave’ Passes the Test! ***.

    Yes, the "evil slave" came from the ranks of the faithful slave.

    w

    11/1/03 4, 5a

    Jesus’ use of the expression "that evil slave" draws our attention to what he said earlier about "the faithful and discreet slave." Yes, the "evil slave" came from the ranks of the faithful slave. (Matt. 24:45-48)

    Here is how they tar the non-anointed:

    *** w04 3/1 p. 13 ‘The Faithful Slave’ Passes the Test! ***

    Since those early days, a few other anointed individuals have shown a similar bad spirit, identifying themselves with the "evil slave." Some of the "other sheep" have imitated their unfaithfulness.

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    ip-1 chap. 25 p. 336 The King and His Princes ***

    In a number of countries in Europe and Asia, apostates have joined forces with other opponents of truth, speaking outright lies to the authorities, with a view to having Jehovah’s Witnesses banned or restricted. They manifest the spirit of the "evil slave,"

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    Richie:I'm more than happy for you to be my lil evil Nephinim!

  • RunningMan
    RunningMan

    So, the best I can do is "evil slave wannabe"? That sucks.

  • Mastodon
    Mastodon

    We are, in no uncertain terms, the Evil Great Crowd, or the Bizarro Sheep...

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