My mother in law is upset that I would leave her...she says she is crying at my loss. And so, I replied to her:
"Dont be sad...what do you have to be sad about? Jehovahs people are happy people, it says so right there in their propaganda, and the destruction of all those with bad heart conditions like me is a source of happiness for them. So...save the tears for the judicial committee where you will have to convince them you believe that this is Gods Organization and that the Faithful and Discreet Slave "Class" speaks for God. as they repeatedly claim. Like S P once told me of the elders, "hey, they're just men and men can be fooled." So even dyed in the wool JWs dont believe God acts through these men. I am no loss after all, I'm just one of those evil ones, whom they say are trying to "come between you and Jehovah" as if anything could if you really loved Him. You claimed you never left Jehovah when you were out of the JWs so I dont see how you can return to serving him if you never stopped serving him. Those are words of men. And not of your heart, and said only to the purpose of them letting you back in. We both know this.
I never believed in the Trinity, even as a Methodist...so I guess I am of the annointed and need to start my own religion just like the JWs. God must have given me the "truth" too according to your reason for returning, so Im going to go get some followers and start shunning everybody who thinks differently than I do. Thats all it takes obviously. You say you love Christ? Would you knowingly belong to an organization that has forsaken him and tricked people into believing the WTS were Christians? Thats exactly what this organization has done...and over the years morphed their beliefs using "new light" to accommodate whatever society's perception of them was in order to increase their member count. Do you want to belong to an organization based on lies and deceit? Does not the Watchtower condemn such organizations as the Catholic Church, the Mormons, and in fact all other religions as being based on lies and deceit? Would you be so blind as to accept your own religion's black past as being Christian when in fact it denounced Christ? If you have not read "30 Years a Watchtower Slave", you owe it to yourself, before you become trapped once again...if following CHRIST is what is in your heart and not just pursuit of the acceptance of MEN, to read it. William Schnell was THERE , a powerful man in the organization...there at the beginnings of this cult and its machinations to dominate the world and create the New World Order under the guise of a Theocracy, wanting to lure not just Christians to Christ, but anybody from ANY religion to enslave and sell their wares. He helped to BUILD it and now recoils at the monster he helped to create. If you are not willing to be honest about who these people really are, then you have no business being in the "truth", and if it is found to be a lie, then to be a part of it would be against all you have told me you believe. Will you turn your face away and pretend to not see, the clay feet of this organization? If you were a murderer, a liar and deceiver, and then suddenly after 30 years you put on a purple robe and began to preach about Bibles and love...should I forget your past and just accept this New You because you said to? Does God need to deceive people into following him? Would he back and support and bless an organization bearing his name who denounced Christ in order to increase their wealth and power? If you have any intellectual honesty left in you...you would see that He would not. I will leave you with this exerpt. As leave you I must for the sake of my own sanity. Let God in...and quit "leaning on your own understanding" and stop telling yourself and us, that He is leading you when your heart knows thats a lie, and that your heart is leading you.
Dawn
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Thirty Years A Watchtower Slave, William J. Schnell, 1956 pages 94-98
DOCTRINAL GYRATIONS 95
Incorporating the Gibeonites
Let us note in a bit more detail how they (the Org) cleverly made
use of the Scriptural picture of the Gibeonites.
The Gibeonites, as you will remember, were the inhabi-
tants of a Canaanite city lying in the pathway of Israel's occu-
pation of the Promised Land. Long before Joshua and
the Israelites approached the environs of the city, these good
people sent a deputation to Joshua pledging subjection and
asking in exchange a pledge of protection. The Gibeonites
made it appear as if they had come from a far distant country.
It was not until after a treaty of peace had been duly made
and ratified that it was discovered that the Gibeonites had
tricked Joshua. Israel reluctantly honored the treaty, and
allowed the Gibeonites to dwell in their midst and to share
their blessings. It even fought a battle for them against the
Canaanites. But Israel did not integrate the Gibeonites into
itself. Instead it made of them slaves, or "hewers of wood
and carriers of water" as the Scriptural account puts it. (See
Joshua 9:3.27; 10:6-10.) The Gibeonites gladly accepted this
role in exchange for the benefits which it afforded. It is this
event which the Watch Tower Society culled out of the
history of Israel in order to justify and interpret the role
which it planned for the Jonadabs, or unspiritual "Great
Multitude" within its midst. This story adapted itself admir-
ably to the Society's purpose - even though anyone not
already in the Watch Tower clutches and hypnotized by the
Watch Tower jargon will have a hard time to see the
connection.
Anyway, in this explanation the Society did not ostensibly
lower its sights. Did it not have Scriptural precedence and
warrant for its action? It lifted the sights even higher - to
its Watch Tower plateau, which was actually the Highway
to Zion of Isaiah 35. So a way was designed for the multitude
of newcomers to live within the "New Nation.' It no longer
mattered that they were not "spiritbegotten." They could
dwell within the framework of God's Organization as slaves,
as modern "hewers of wood and carriers of water," so to
speak. (not to become Christians but to sell the WTS wares)
What a vista for increase was opened up here far the
Watch Tower by virtue of this explanation! The Watch
Tower Society correctly saw that this new class was present
by the millions throughout the land of the anti-typical Canaanites,
namely Christendom. And so the book, Preparation
(1933), shows in discussing the prophecy of Zechariah, this
would not only be limited to Christendom. This class would
be drawn from all the nations of the world, whether Christian
or pagan, there "being ten men who grasped the coat of him
who is the Jew." By this it meant that other nations, not of
Christendom, also contained millions of such "people of good
will." which latter term was intended to indicate a fine shade
of differentiation. So, subtly here the Watch Tower Society
was laying the groundwork: first for the emergence of a vast
unspiritual class, and therefore an un-Christian class, out of
the lands of Christendom; and then later, for the emergence
of a still larger class to come from out of the pagan nations.
a class which never so much as laid claim to the spirituality
of Christianity. Thus naturally would the Jonadabs become
"the Great Multitude."
Christianity Discarded
The Watch Tower Society had reached a point where It
was forced to go even further. Quietly and Imperceptibly it
now had to disrobe itself of the mantle of Christianity which
It so long had worn for a cover and disguise. This was neces-
sary if it were to be at all successful among the discontented
masses within Christendom and later of Christ-hating heathendom. (The Society wanted haters of Christ in its midst as well, as these brought in money, which they pereceived they were stealing "from Egypt"...the rest of the world whom they deemed their enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, they reasoned.)
So the Watch Tower Society set about to bring a change
in its designation or name. "The only name under heaven by
which men can be saved" had become an "impediment to the
progress" of the New World Society. It no longer suited its
policy of world-rule. nor fitted its world-wide proselytizing
purpose. A general and more universal designation had to
be found. Looking back into their blueprint of the formation
of Israel at old, in the Old Testament, they soon hit upon
the Idea of calling themselves after the name of Jehovah,
"Jehovah's Witnesses." (Are they now doing Christs command here, bringing people to Him, or to themselves?)
In thus seeking to shed all connection with Christ they
failed to realize that they were also publicly branding them-
selves as opposers of Him who had provided for Christ's first
appearance on earth for man's redemption. And what was
equally condemning in our age, at this late stage of events,
they set themselves as a Organization squarely athwart the
path of Christ's second coming. They displayed the characteristics
of "the abomination of desolation spoken of by
Daniel, standing in the place it ought not to stand." And -
the apostle warns concerning the anti-christ, so the New
World Society pitted itself against the returning of Christ.
This Watch Tower doctrine thus became a confusing and
heady wine, Sat "would make drunken all the nations of the
world," instead of bringing in a condition of soberness,
advocated by Paul as being so necessary as the end
approaches.
This was now 1931, and was to mark another milestone
in Theocracy's advance. Twelve years of "the second tier" of
the Watch Tower Society (as I term the new set-up) had
elapsed since 1919. Since this was a historical fact within the
ken of all Jehovah's Witnesses who read their books, the
Society grasped this occasion to nail down its newly adopted
doctrines and practices. It did this by issuing a three-volume
commemorative publication entitled Vindication (1932).
Even though the Society had by this time disowned the
name of Christ it did not think it inconsistent to make use
of one of Christ's parables to further its purpose, in fact, it
saw real advantage in doing so. This would help cover up
the fact that it had for the sake of expediency turned its back
on Christianity by choosing a name other than the only name
by which men can be saved. At the same time it could give
Christian color to its argument It found a parable which was
admirably adapted for its misuse, namely, the parable of The
Laborers in the Vineyard. It compared the twelve years since
1919 to the twelve hours of the parable. All the laborers in
the Organization were to receive an equal reward, regardless
of the length or type of service. And what reward was that to
be? Why, the wonderful new name, "Jehovah's Witnesses."
This parable served their purpose wonderfully well. The
Organization even had the counterpart of the murmurers of
the parable. They were the older ones, or rather, the ones
who had worked the longer. These were those of the
Mordecai-Naomi class which had with some of the new
Ruth-Esther class turned side in disappointment and
dissatisfaction. But all without exception and without distinc-
tion, even those newly come in as unspiritual Jonadabs, would
now have one designation. The spiritual and unspiritual alike
would be comprehended under the one name "Jehovah's
Witnesses." Herewith the parable had served its purpose.
This gave all, regardless of class, the same standing within
the Organization. It made it a synagogue or assembly alike
in breadth to the kingdom and nations of the world. In
appropriating this interpretation of the parable the Society
presumed itself to be a Theocracy, thereby claiming to be
the spiritual Israel or "the New Nation" (See Rev. 29). In so
doing it turned its back on the ecclesia or Church of Christ,
which is selective and not all-comprehensive in its structure
as was the Jewish synagogue. Thus, the Watch Tower So-
ciety and its Jehovah's Witnesses ceased to be Christian in
essence as well as in name.
But in order to bring forth the intended multitudes from
out of Christendom, and later from heathendom, the Organiza-
don had to make a name for itself. The best way to
accomplish this purpose was to go to war! It is surprising
how well and how long the Scriptural story of the Gibeonites
served the Watch Tower purpose. The Society now, as had
Israel of old, went to war in behalf of its adopted "Gibeon-
ites," the Jonadabs. It carried the battle for "freedom of
worship" all the way from the Justice of the Peace to the
Supreme Court. Throughout the battle the Society feigned
the role of martyr and underdog, and emerged as a victorious
hero. The campaign was 100 per cent successful. The details
of this battle will be told in subsequent pages.
Yes, the Watch Tower Organization had stooped - and
had conquered! (end book quote)
"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know."
Jeremiah 20:21 - "Hear, now, this, O unwise people that is without heart. They have eyes but they cannot see, they have ears but they cannot hear."
Edited by - LovesDubs on 7 October 2002 13:6:17