Who Really Is The Faithful Slave? Really? W-7/15/2013
I have, for some time, related to my family the underlying reason why the governors at “headquarters” (pg22p10) say what they say & do what they do. Simply put, they need to make themselves big. They crave bigness as did the Pharisees in Jesus day. As the Pharisees ‘enhanced their outer garments to be seen by men’, for this same reason the governors at headquarters do likewise. It’s the same reason a drug addict craves the drug. When he/she takes the drug, it releases endorphins. When the HQ governors print this stuff, they get the same high. They get that “feeling of well-being”.
But they need more. And more. Ever increasing amounts till they inevitably crash. That is how addiction ends. And so I have explained to my family that the claims by the HQ guv’s would only get more bold with time. And if the guv's can’t say enough good about themselves, it will also do to put everyone else down. They need to see a greater chasm between themselves and the ‘great unwashed’. In so doing, they model the activities of the rest of corporate America. Greed. Lust for power. The high. The addiction.
And so the final part of Matthew 24:45-51 finds fulfillment.
(Matthew 24:48, 49)48 “But if ever that evil slave should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’ 49 and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards,
The HQ guv’s have done all the rest. Preached false dates so as to teach ‘the Master is delayed’, once the dates came and passed. And now they beat the “fellow slaves”.
This Watchtower article is ‘the’ defining moment.
First, they nail it down -that THEY and only THEY- are the embodiment of, the fulfillment of “the slave”.
Page 22, pg. 10 “…that slave is made up of a small group of anointed brothers who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food during Christ’s presence. Throughout the last days, the anointed brothers who make up the faithful slave have served together at headquarters.” (see page 26 photo at bottom)
No room for anyone else. Only them. Their “brothers” in the field are beaten down, NOBODY. The HQ guv’s don’t want to hear anything from the ‘unwashed masses’.
Ah. But in so doing, the HQ guv’s have cut everyone else out of the reward as well!
Is the rest of the 144,000 in there? NO!
The remaining 143, 992 are ‘outsiders’. Only the 8 fellas whose picture is found at the end of all these articles (page 26) get the SUM, whereas the 143,992 get SOME. I wonder if the 144k-8 will notice.
I guess it depends on how brain dead the “anointed” are and whether or not they will catch this tricky ‘spiritual accounting’ in paragraph 19 on page 25.
19 Does the faithful slave receive a greater reward in heaven than the rest of the anointed? No.
…Jesus promised that small group of men that a fine reward awaited them for their faithfulness.
They would share [SOME] his throne of kingly authority. But years later, he indicated that all of the 144,000 will sit on thrones and share [SOME] his rulership. …Similarly, as stated at Matthew 24:47, he promised that a small group of men—the anointed brothers who make up the faithful slave (see photo on page 26) —will be appointed over all [SUM] his belongings. In reality, all of the 144,000 will share [SOME] his vast heavenly authority.
Will the 144k-8 pick up on this gross contradiction? Only “the faithful slave”, says this Watchtower article, the few brothers pictured in the photo at the bottom of page 26, will be appointed over all, that is the SUM of his belongings. Add them “ALL” up and you have the SUM of them. No exceptions!
But, is there anyone else in this “faithful slave” group who will be placed “over all”, the SUM of his belongings? No! So how can the guv’s work so hard to separate themselves from the rest of the 144k as “over all”, but then suggest the reward is the same?
CAN YOU SPELL CONTRADICTION?
Paul’s words ring true, more so today then ever.
(1 Corinthians 4:6-8)6 Now, brothers, these things I have transferred so as to apply to myself and A·pol′los for YOUR good, that in our case YOU may learn the [rule]: “Do not go beyond the things that are written,” in order that YOU may not be puffed up individually in favor of the one against the other. 7 For who makes you to differ from another? Indeed, what do you have that you did not receive? If, now, you did indeed receive [it], why do you boast as though you did not receive [it]? 8 YOU men already have YOUR fill, do YOU? YOU are rich already, are YOU? YOU have begun ruling as kings without us, have YOU? And I wish indeed that YOU had begun ruling as kings, that we also might rule with YOU as kings.
Yes, the 8 governors at HQ are going to have a higher reward than even the Apostles of Christ. And why? Because they publish this rag filled with rubbish.
One final quote from paragraph 19, omitting the fluff in between to bring the contradiction to bear.
19 Does the faithful slave receive a greater reward in heaven than the rest of the anointed? No. … he promised that a small group of men—the anointed brothers who make up the faithful slave—will be appointed over all his belongings. In reality, all of the 144,000 will share his vast heavenly authority.
One simple question bears out the hypocrisy? If there was no diffeence in the reward given the slave, from that which all annointed will recieve, then what was Christ talking about when he said 'all my belongings'?