WHEN KEEPING OUR PLACE IS ALL IMPORTANT!
John 11:45-53:
45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him; 46 but some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did. 47 Consequently the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the San'he·drin together and began to say: “What are we to do, because this man performs many signs? 48 If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But a certain one of them, Ca'ia·phas, who was high priest that year, said to them: “YOU do not know anything at all, 50 and YOU do not reason out that it is to YOUR benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people and not for the whole nation to be destroyed.” 51 This, though, he did not say of his own originality; but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was destined to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but in order that the children of God who are scattered about he might also gather together in one. 53 Therefore from that day on they took counsel to kill him.
The Jewish religious leaders felt Jesus was a fake Messiah, that they had to kill, because the people would follow him and revolt against Rome, and then the Romans would send soldiers and kill the religious leaders(them), and those not killed would loose their place of authority and control.
Hey isn’t that a little like the WT. They are jealous of their place of authority and control and they plot EVIL THINGS to keep their position too.
The Jewish religious leaders eventually made many mistakes, and the Romans did come anyway, even though they put Jesus to death.
Do you think maybe the WT will make lots of mistakes too and eventually they will loose their place or position of control.
Lefty are you out there in left field, would you like to try and catch this little high pop?
Your big chance to defend the Big WT.
If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?