Once upon a time, the people of Israel were tired from
years of corruption and heavy taxation. So, they told
King Rehoboam about it:
"Your father, for his part made our yoke hard; and now make
the hard service of your father and the heavy yoke that he
put upon us lighter, and we shall serve you always."
2 Chron. 10:4
And Rehoboam's final response?
"I shall make your yoke heavier, and I, for my part, shall
add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I, for my
part, with scourges."
2 Chron. 10:14
The result? Rebellion and a half-wrecked kingdom because
an arrogant king refused to treat his people kindly.
Take warning, you lurkers!
The Watchtower Society is embracing the foolishness of
King Rehoboam!
Witnesses are depressed, tired, beaten down by endless
appeals to their guilt, pushed into attending boring
meetings and nagged into participating in a dead ministry.
Now, the Society wants to increase the 'whippings' by
preaching that all inactive Witnesses are apostates,
traitors who need to be shunned by everyone 'loyal'.
When does this attempt to coerce and dominate the
friends ever end? When do these corrupt old men ever
wake up and see that the organization needs MORE LOVE
and COMPASSION - and that the organization's troubles
are directly related to this failure?
When the Society's representatives 'beat down' the
friends verbally for not doing enough, who are they
imitating? ("you are relaxing, you are relaxing" Exodus 5:17)
Perhaps this same account in the Bible also tells us why
the Society has been led to do this.
1 Kings 12:15 says that God inspired this mistake because
he was angry with the nation and its leaders.
So too today, God is growing tired of this cold-hearted,
hypocritical organization - and that's why it's losing money,
losing young people, and losing capable brothers to run it.
In the case of the Watchtower, I say
God's will be done.
metatron