... according to the book "Light". See this Witchtower article, which is, for once, serios.
Food Poisoning – God Overlooks Expiration Date!
Revised reprint from The Witchtower, 3/2010
Is the spiritual food harmless to health?
A spiritual rotten meat scandal of unprecedented proportions is shocking God’s organization. To maintain physical health, we need food that is wholesome. “Likewise, we need wholesome spiritual food to maintain our spiritual health.” (Mankind’s Search for God, page 28) To people who want to maintain spiritual health, Jehovah’s Witnesses say: “We have what they need: the nourishing spiritual food.” – Come Be My Follower, page 159.
But does this claim bear critical examination? Or has the best-before date of the spiritual food already expired? May we pay attention to what the book The Harp of God said even back in 1922: “Jesus said with reference to his second presence: ‘For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together’. (Matthew 24:28) And so it is. The carcass here refers to the spiritual food provided for the household of faith.” – page 240.
Pastor Russell had a similar opinion. He mentioned Jesus’ words “Wheresoever the body [the carcass, the food] is, thither will the eagles be gathered together” and explained that “the Lord … will attract them [his ‘elect’] as eagles are attracted, by food, for which they have a keenness of vision and appetite.” Regarding his doctrines published in the Watchtower and the Bible Students he added: “The food of ‘present truth’ now provided by our Lord, and the gathering of his saints by and to it, fits the description of this prophecy exactly.” – Millennial Dawn, volume IV, The Day of Vengeance, page 610.
So Russell and Rutherford, the first two presidents of the Watchtower Society, clearly pointed out that their writings were spiritual rotten carcass. According to the German edition of Encyclopaedia Wikipedia, carcass is “the rotting corpses of animals … Due to the decay of the corpse, cadaveric poisons and strong odor of decomposition evolve … In addition, due to bacterial toxins, the carcass becomes more and more toxic over time.”
Unlike so many others, this doctrine has not been replaced by “brighter light” yet. Rather it was reaffirmed more than 50 years later in the Watchtower: “The ‘chosen ones,’ Jesus said, would not be deceived and disappointed by false Christs. They are symbolically like ‘eagles’ in having sharp spiritual insight. As an eagle knows where the carcass on which he is to feed is to be found, so the farsighted ‘chosen ones’ would gather together to the looked-for Messiah, Jesus, to feed on the spiritual food.” (December 15, 1974, page 750) Chapter 11 of the bookThe Greatest Man Who Ever Lived applies Matthew 24:28 to the “true spiritual food” too.
Hence there can be no doubt that the anointed Jehovah’s Witnesses – the alleged “chosen ones” – are spiritual scavengers, distributing seedy food to their followers. This was confirmed by Joseph F. Rutherford, who wrote: “The beginning of the ‘pouring out of the third bowl’ dates from July 25, 1824 … These ‘water fountains’ are effusions, talk, palaver … sent forth … by those who claim that they have power to make the earth a fit place in which to live … As to the effect upon these ‘rivers and fountains of waters’, ‘they became blood,’ that is to say, as dead rot.” – Light, volume II, page 25.
Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that they would cultivate “an earthly paradise” after Armageddon, so that the earth would become “a fit place in which to live forever.” (Awake!, April 2007, page 10; Good News to Make You Happy, page 94) Indeed do their “effusions” fill whole libraries, and
their “palaver” is bothering homeowners all over the world. As foretold, all their publications are “dead rot” or “carcass.” Like literal carrion, their writings become “more and more poisonous over time,” so that not even their followers dare to read in their older books. Actually these contain many claims which seem ridiculous and absurd now, but were beyond any doubt based on the Scriptures back then. Nevertheless, “meat” that is decades old and long rotten is simply repackaged (that is, equipped with a new cover page) and printed with a new date.
No wonder that whoever eats from the spiritual food for some time becomes spiritually ill. Which normal human has “appetite” for carcass, like Russell wrote? Many affected people isolate themselves more and more and are hardly responsive to the outside world. Hence may we beware of the rotten spiritual meat that Jehovah’s Witnesses distribute all over the world!
Not only spiritual carrion
The “eagles”, the anointed Jehovah’s Witnesses, eat not only spiritual carrion. Jehovah himself said regarding the eagle:“Where the slain are, there it is.” (Job 30:30) Accordingly Judge Rutherford wrote: “The remnant on the earth are ‘the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven’ … The gathering is to ‘the supper of the great God’ … These birds are invited to feed upon the fallen hosts of the enemy’s organization; therefore they must represent the Lord’s remnant on the earth … The faithful are likened unto eagles … Eagles feed upon the flesh of dead animals. ‘For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered.’ (Matt. 24:28) … All these Scriptural illustrations fit the faithful servant class on earth … Jehovah, by his mighty Field Marshal, does the fighting and fills the earth with dead bodies … It will be a feast to those who are on the Lord’s side.” – Light, volume II, pages 172, 173.
Another Watchtower book confirms this view. It explains that the “birds” from Revelation 8:17 are the “eagles” from Matthew 24:28 and adds: “These passages will have a literal and terrible fulfilment in a deluge of actual bloodshed.” Regarding the “kings” or human rulers, the book says: “They are there to be eaten.” – The Finished Mystery, 1918 edition, page 296.
Hence the anointed Jehovah’s Witnesses are looking forward to the day when God will slaughter all humans except Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their carcasses will lie about everywhere and will “be a feast to those who are on the Lord’s side.” Which side will we be on?