Robert King
by PublishingCult 34 Replies latest jw friends
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AK - Jeff
Welcome.
Robert King thinks he is 'The King'. He desires jw's to jump ship and get on board his narcissistic prophet-eering enterprise. He thinks himself a writer, and that god is selecting him. In short he believes he succeeds Freddy to the position of Oracle. He is a nut job.
Jeff
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Titus
E-Watchman -- Robert King
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He's a bit of an enigma in that he trashes many JW creeds, eg, 1914, and exposes a lot of hypocrisy by the leadership yet he also asserts the JW's are God's people and many bible prophecies will be fulfilled through them. If you disagree with that you will be kicked off his website.
He has also presumptously predicted the imminent collapse of the global financial system and the end of the world for the last 10 years, mostly regurgitating the very provocative views of Lyndon Larouche. In everything he writes now he asserts that Armageddon is just at hand.
He pissed a lot of people off on this site as YouKnow with his arrogant and insulting attitude.
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leavingwt
PublishingCult:
Welcome! I have really enjoyed your high-quality videos on YouTube .
-LWT
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oppostate
Welcome! I have really enjoyed your high-quality videos on YouTube .
I agree...
PublishingCult and V / WTcomments videos are quite well done and very similarly presented.
Kudos!
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Tuesday
Jello wrestling anyone?
Ew!
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Sapphy
Hi & Welcome!,
Just speaking from my own experience Robert King functions as a kind of halfway-house. Some JWs who have questions and concerns around doctrine will read his stuff, but would never dream of comming here... Yet.
It's so divisive from the rest of humanity, you start off as a member of a religion e.g. as a Catholic, where you think approx 1 billion people believe the right things, become a Witness & believe only 7 million believe the right things, to a witness dissenter where you think maybe only hundreds of people believe the right things.
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leavingwt
functions as a kind of halfway-house
Very interesting. I suspect that you may be correct. He could be a useful stepping stone on the path to freedom, for some.
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donuthole
Robert King published a book Jehovah Himself Has Become King which purports that the Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses constitutes God's modern day people to fall, to be refined, and to be restored. He applies the OT prophecies toward Judah/Israel to Jehovah's Witnesses, claiming that as an organization they have fallen into bad practice (child abuse scandal), teaching (1914), and worldly affiliation (UN). However just as the OT prophets look toward a restoration, King proclaims that Jehovah's Witnesses will be restored during the backdrop of the Time of the End. To that end he encourages people to stay in the Organization and be obedient to the channel, even if they are in error. At the same time he has encouraged them to share in distributing his book and messages to their congregation, even their Circuit Overseer, actions that ultimately can lead to them being disfellowshipped.
He claims to be anointed, one of the 144,000, but does not partake in obedience to the Watchtower since he is currently disfellowshipped. In the past he had strongly suggested that he was the modern-day watchman spoken about in Ezekiel but when called on it he would not commit to it. Many of his Biblical interpretations and predictions follow that of financial/political analyst Lyndon Larouche - a fact that he doesn't try to conceal. He has routinely predicted the beginning of the great tribulation in the fall of each year (October) - often instigated by Larouche's own predictions of global financial meltdown. Some have noted his view of Jehovah's Witnesses as God's modern day people to fall and experience restoration bear a striking similarity to those found in false-messiah Donald Burney's book the Report. King denies a connection.
In his early days of essay writing he was pretty vocal in denoucing the Organization, calling their meetings a table of filthy vomit. His rhetoric has softened over time and now much of his writing and YouTube videos are virtually indistinguishable from something produced by Jehovah's Witnesses. One video speaks favorably in regards to Russell and Rutherford, citing their use of the technology of the day (photodrama, telegraph, and radio) before highlighting his own use of the Internet. The impression was that he saw himself as heir-apparent to the legacy of Russell, Rutherford, and Knorr. While he rejects and reinterprets much of the Society's applications of Bible prophecy in most respects his beliefs still mirror the Watchtower's. He firmly upholds Rutherford's two-class system (little flock/other sheep, 144,000/great crowd) and has purged his discussion board of any who suggested that all Christians should be partaking at the memorial. A key problem in his teachings is that by rejecting 1914, as an "operation of error", he destroys the Watchtower's foundational proof of being selected and inspected as God's people in 1919. In its place has offers no real reason to accept that Jehovah's Witnesses constitute God's modern-day Organization, other to fall back on the Society's assertion that God has always worked through an "organization" and that no other one on the planet today has taught "the truth".
He has no real followers to speak of apart from a small handful of individuals who have remained on his discussion board. Most of those who once welcomed his teachings have rejected them and moved on.
