Oh btw here is some documentation to go along with my above post:
From the Nov. 1, 1944 Watchtower, pages 331-332:
Fulfilled prophecies make it certain that Jehovah’s Theocratic Servant Christ Jesus came to the temple in 1918. Then he entered into judgment with the consecrated servants of Jehovah. He did so in order to determine who of them should be retained in God’s service and be constituted and organized as His "faithful and wise servant" class to do the evangelistic work thenceforth...
During the period from 1878 to 1918 Jehovah’s devoted servants were endeavoring to act unitedly in doing the witness work pictured by that of Elijah the prophet and hence referred to as "the Elijah work". Like Elijah’s work, it was against religion or demonism and for the vindication of God’s name. This work, conducted under the leadership of Christ Jesus, came to an end in 1918, when he came to the temple as Jehovah’s Messenger and Judge. (See Malachi 3: 1.) The judgment tests which he then and there applied separated out from Jehovah’s professed servants an "evil servant" class, which followed after man-worship, selfish ambitions, and self-righteousness, and which aimed after the control of the governing body.
A remnant manifested purity of heart and devotion to the Lord God and to his Theocratic organization and the interests of his kingdom. This faithful remnant was approved under the judgment trial, and Christ Jesus the King gathered them unto unity with himself at the temple. He adjudged these faithful anointed servants of Jehovah God to be the "faithful and wise servant" class under himself as Head. To them he committed the interests of the Kingdom. That is, he laid upon them the duty and privilege to carry on the evangelistic work as Jehovah’s witnesses in ’preaching the evangel of the kingdom in all the habitable earth for a witness to all the nations’. This they must do, down to the battle of Armageddon, when the Kingdom will destroy all the enemies of The Theocracy and then the millennial reign of Christ Jesus will begin. This "faithful and wise servant" class is the real "Society" of Jehovah’s anointed remnant. That is, it includes all those of the faithful spirit-begotten remnant, whereas the legal corporation, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, does not include all such.
The hardest question for Jehovah's Witnesses ...
by sacolton 46 Replies latest jw friends
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M.J.
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M.J.
Interesting. Here it's 1944, twenty-six years after the "inspection", and they were still saying that Jesus came to inspect his "consecrated servants" and clean house within the "temple", not to inspect all religions.
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83501nwahs
I thought my Great Pumpkin Defence would garner much praise and laughter, as well as being a really good analogy. Anyone want to pat me on the back?
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M.J.
I really did like it! It was good.
But don't feel bad, I often think my stuff as "pat on the back" worthy but it usually just kills threads. -
M.J.
and alas...
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whoknows
Hey - I LOVE the Great Pumpkin defense. I will use this! Sincerity is truly the least of the virtues.
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wings
I would love to answer....I'm sure I have a good one....just can't find my reasoning book. (crapola!)
wings