Why Jehovah Does Not Want An Effective Preaching Work

by konceptual99 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • konceptual99
    konceptual99

    So we all know how ineffectual the preaching work really is. We also know how much the WTS hypes up the scope and scale of the global preaching effort. What the GB should be doing however is emphasising the ineffectiveness of the preaching work. Why?

    Well it would appear that, according to recent WT writings, Jehovah is not prepared to make it obvious he is about to act.

    This is paragraph 7 from the 15 August 2015 study article Keep in Expectation

    http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150815/keep-in-expectation/

    7 But how bad do you expect conditions to become before “the great tribulation”? (Rev. 7:14) For example, do you expect that there will be a war in every country, no food on anyone’s table, and illness in every household? Under those conditions, even skeptics would likely feel compelled to admit that Bible prophecy was undergoing fulfillment. However, Jesus said that most people would take “no note” of his presence, carrying on with life’s normal activities until it is too late.(Read Matthew 24:37-39.) Thus, the Scriptures indicate that world conditions during the last days would not become so extreme that people would be forced to believe that the end is near.Luke 17:20;2 Pet. 3:3, 4.

    This is the same paragraph from the simplified edition:

    http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/ws20150815/keep-in-expectation/

    7 Some could think that before “the great tribulation,” there will be war in every country and that most people will be sick or starving. (Revelation 7:14) But if that happened, it would be obvious to everyone that Bible prophecy was being fulfilled. It would be clear even to people who are not interested in what the Bible says. Remember, Jesus said that in the last days, most people would take “no note.” They would be living their normal daily lives and would be shocked when Jehovah’s day comes. (Read Matthew 24:37-39.) Clearly, we should not expect world conditions to become so bad before “the great tribulation” that people would be forced to believe that the end is near.Luke 17:20;2 Peter 3:3, 4.

    So basically the all powerful Jehovah, who apparently wants NONE to be destroyed.....

    2 Peter 3:9
    9 Jehovah* is not slow concerning his promise,+ as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.

    .... is not prepared to use an effective method of warning people just in case it could be argued they were coerced into wanting to live in a paradise.

    So, the Almighty, All Loving Master of the Universe is actually pleased that there are over 200,000 new people in the world everyday. He is happy that billions are actually unlikely to ever know anything about the Kingdom thanks to the almost invisible presence of his people in large tracts of the Earth.

    Having given a composite sign, it cannot be so obvious that people actually realise there could be a way out. Instead of being desirous of saving his creation he actually wants the vast majority to press on in ignorance to their end.

    The WTS should be ecstatic that they are just pissing in the wind with all of the preaching work. They should be celebrating the fact that so many carts stand like idle waste paper bins while the faithful rack up hours sitting on a bench drinking coffee. Thank goodness so many people have so little insight and faith that they cannot discern where their salvation is going to come as they pass by some mobile literature stand or get some old lady knock on their door pushing some scrap of paper about the latest convention in their hand.

    It looks like Jehovah has picked exactly the right organisation. He could have picked someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, someone capable of building an organisation that in under 40 years (or a generation) can impact the life of pretty much every human on the planet. Instead he picked a group of people that all but a tiny minority either know about or care about. Thank goodness they are actually so useless in getting the message across and the chance of an individual human actually getting "attaining repentance" is so slim.

    It's like some human sperm/egg race. Everyday, humanity is ejaculating 200000+ people into the world but only one will reach the "egg" of WT repentance.

    Well done WT. Keep up the good work.


  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Haha great post!

    Amazing to think about some modern companies like Google, Facebook, Apple who touch the lives of billions in just a few decades. Never thought about it in those terms before.

    I try not to think about WT claims of God given authority anymore, if not so laughable it makes my head just hurt.

  • Divergent
    Divergent
    For Facebook, it's less than a decade. WT has much to learn from them!
  • iconoclastic
    iconoclastic
    Very interesting point you brought! Thanks for that.
  • jhine
    jhine

    Every utterance out of their mouths is wrong , misleading and daft .

    They have no more idea about the Bible than I have about nuclear physics .Really sad thing is even after people have realised TTATT the teaching , or bits of it often still stays with them .

    Jan

  • konceptual99
    konceptual99
    For Facebook, it's less than a decade. WT has much to learn from them!

    Even better. When you consider the ability for companies to grow to truly global proportions in just a few years then the growth of the WTS looks like a drop in a bucket. Facebook has 1.44 BILLION monthly users.

    WTF is God doing using a organisation that is struggling to get growth of 1-2% in areas of the world flooded with opportunities for mass media message distribution, especially as they actually have the money to do the most in your face advertising campaign the world has ever seen.

  • steve2
    steve2

    Yes, they even rewrite their account of conditions in the world foretelling the imminent end. In a recent Watchtower, there is mention of the brothers and sisters using the relative peace of the 20th century to spread the good news. Huh? Aren't these supposed to be the last days in which Satan had been thrown down to earth from the heavens to wreak havoc on earth? Now it's reframed as a time of relative peace?? There's nothing quite like a suite of end- times prophecies that covers every imaginable contingency. We wouldn't want to make conversion from scepticism to faith too easy for worldly people, would we? Let's make them think nothin's up snd then, Bam! Wipe them out once and for all.

    The crudely bizarre thinking of end-times believers beggars belief - and as the imminent end tarries, ongoing opportunities for re-visiting and re-fining prophecies increasingly acquires the appearance of reading tea leaves.

  • smiddy
    smiddy

    A great post Konceptual99

    It would seem like Jehovah God , Jesus Christ,and the Holy Spirit , have not kept pace with human ingenuity in this 21st. Century , and to be outdone by them in effectively reaching a much wider audience .

    smiddy

  • konceptual99
    konceptual99

    It's not just the inability to really push the message, it's the dichotomy between the scale of the event due on the earth and the desire of God through his chosen organisation to warn people and save them.

    Here you have a composite sign that has been hyped as the most extreme situation ever in the history of humanity yet somehow most people will continuing as normal. It will not become so severe people really will question what is going on and look for a way out.

    Then there is the matter of faith. It's the most narcissistic aspect of the whole thing. The urgency of the preaching work has been likened to seeing a burning building and doing everything possible to drag people out. Imagine going to this burning building and saying to someone stuck in there that you need them to acknowledge you as their saviour, sign a testimonial about how grateful they are or confirm they are not gay or disagree with any of your beliefs before you condescend to carry them out.

    Not Jehovah though. It's not possible to flood the world with advertising about the coming apocalypse. It's not enough to read the heart and discern the true person behind whatever façade they have put up. Not a bit of it. No, firstly you have to be fortunate enough to think the world is going to pot and then somehow discern that the mobile trash can sitting at the end of your shopping precinct represents your only path to salvation. Not only that, you then have to be deemed worthy. Not by the depth of your humanity but how much you conform to a set of rules from a small group of men in New York, by how much you are prepared to submit yourself to the rules that a so called loving God insists on.

    Narrow is the way leading to life. Broad and spacious is the path leading to destruction. This says everything about how much God really wants people to be saved. It says everything as to why Jehovah does not really care that the sign is ineffectual and his chosen people even more so.

    How I believed in all of this for so long makes me feel like such an idiot.

  • sir82
    sir82

    What a bizarre line of reasoning.

    Jehovah, who is supposed to be love personified, intentionally makes sure that he will "have to" slaughter 99.9% of humanity because the fulfillment of prophecy is so vague that, well, 99.9% of the population won't recognize it.

    Do these guys even read what they write? Are there no "continuity" proofreaders at Bethel?

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