If you want to skip to the new light or understanding, its underlined for you pleasure.
I think some will find this interesting. We had the CO tonight. During his talk my jaw about hit the floor. At the start of the kingdom hall we had the bookstudy. We had chapter 15 which is another one to glorify the governing body again. Then the CO had his talk called "Cherish your Place in the Congregation Relationship." In his talk he said that we have new understanding on subjects. Ill start off with the notes I have and fill in the blanks.
Lev. 16:17 The day of atonement no other men should lie in the tent, high priest only provide direction for the entire congregation. He went into some bs about aaron sons getting killed by Jehovah for entering near the ark. I was thinking yeah right, what really happended was a priest got pissed that some young kids were horsing around playing in the temple and killed them. They then passed it on as if Jehovah killed them for what bad thing they had done. Its kind of like a child running up to the stage during the kingdom hall only to hear them getting beat in the backroom. Were supposed to have Unified arrangement around the high priest wordwide congregation. Christ Brothers Psalms 133:1,2 unity soothing oil, oil used for chapped lips. He gave this stupid illustration how the brothers are like oil for your chapped lips or oil for all your problems in this system of things.
Matt 25:31 Jesus said when the son of man, kingly throne 1914. The CO said we have NEW UNDERSTANDING or new light. Previously we had thought the throne talked about in matt 25:31, Jesus had already took that throne in 1914. The new idea is that he hasn't taken that throne yet. This is kind of odd to me because how many thrones could Jesus have? He said that Jesus has two thrones one he took in 1914 and one he will take in the future. I presume he will take his second throne sometime around armageddon.
Matt 25:32 Then he talked about how Jesus would separate sheep from goats. At the end it says "lest you gave some of my brothers something to eat" We have new understanding on who these brothers that were suppose to give something to eat. Any guesses on who these brothers we are suppose to clothe or give something to eat to. Well, there are seven specific brothers that we are suppose to listen to and obey everything they say. None other than the GOVERNING BODY. Unless you obey the governing body you will lose your life at armageddon. This is when my jaw hit the floor. I thought I was supposed to be worshipping Jehovah not the Governing body WTF.
It gets better. In this talk he says can we see Jesus. Well, NO we cant see Jesus. He says can we see the faithful and discrete slave. He says no the FDS DOES NOT HAVE A PHYSICAL FORM and we cannot see them. Instead we have 7 governing body members that represent the faithful and discrete slave.
He said our life will be judged on whether we listended to the governing body. Then he went on a spiel about Men, sisters, and young ones. I got the impression that he wanted men to step up and take the lead. I was like for what why would I want that lol.
Sorry my notes are a little crappy at times but I think you will get the idea.
Thoughts?
Forgot this - He specifically said that Jehovah talks to Jesus. Jesus in turns talks to the governing body. The governing body talks to us. What makes them any different than the pope? Then he said every wednesday the governing body meets and personally decides where every CO and DO will go in the world. That they do this because they care about us and have a special relationsip with us.