I am just so pleased to be aware of the long, fruitless history of JWs pretending to interpret the Bible.
Interpretations belong to God, which they even admit. But that admission doesn't stop them from pretending to interpret.
It also doesn't stop from teaching these destructive pretenses as "divinely revealed truths" that must be accepted and taught as truth. They fail to recognize that they are messing with people's lives when they state doctrines they did not receive from God.
These are NOT doctrines of God, they are merely teachings of men. 100% fallible, uninspired men. Men who say they receive nothing from God, but who go right along interpreting anyway, as though interpretations belong to men.
God will see that they answer for their gross misrepresentation. I need not judge them, they already bear far heavier judgment than I could ever muster. But I am required by God to judge what they say, what they teach, for myself. I am required by God to test doctrine for truth.
1 John 4:1 — Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test [lit. put under trial, put to the test, challenge] the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
If the doctrine does not originate with God, what is its source? According to 1 John 4:1 such expressions not originating from God come from false prophets. So, I only have to ask myself, "Should I believe John, or not?"
Mark 7:6-8 — He said to them:“Isaiah aptly prophesied about you hypocrites, as it is written,‘This people honor me with [their] lips, but their hearts are far removed from me. It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach as doctrines commands of men.’ Letting go the commandment of God, you hold fast the tradition of men.”
Vain worship = worship that includes commands of men taught as doctrine. Would it look like true worship, from the outside? Definitely. Otherwise, how would any be misled by it?
Colossians 2:23 — Those [commands and teachings of men] are, indeed, possessed of an appearance of wisdom in a self-imposed form of worship and [mock] humility, a severe treatment of the body; but they are of no value in combating the satisfying of the flesh.
Ezekiel 13:8, 9 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said:“‘For the reason that you men have spoken untruth and you have visioned a lie, therefore here I am against you,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.” And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are visioning untruth and that are divining a lie.’”
It can't get any more plainly spoken than that. Jehovah's Witnesses predict things that do not come to pass. According to Ezekiel, they do not represent YHWH, the hand of YHWH is against them.
THAT is the truth! I am so happy to know it.