More money-grubbing: Give us your money even if you can't afford food

bohm

The message would appear to be that Jehovah needs money more than that old lady needs food:

pale.emperor

Notice how the "wayward" child has a beard?

Ah yes, when a young one wakes up and leaves it's "them" thats the problem and the parents who are suffering. No one mentions that the poor lad may have been kicked out of the family home here.

Splash

Health problems: That is no excuse to miss meetings, even if you have to bring your medical equipment
(Philippians 4:5) Let your reasonableness become known to all men.

Wayward children: Kick them out and carry on like nothing happened
(John 13:34) I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another

Low finances: Giving to a multi billion dollar organisation is more important than having food in your cupboard.(James 1:27) The form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation

(2 Corinthians 12:14) for the children are not expected to save up for their parents, but the parents for their children

The GB have lost the plot. The stuff they come out with these days is unbelievable even for those who expect craziness. Their angry, disdainful view of the flock is so clear, the congregations exist to serve and provide for the GB and nothing more.

(2 Timothy 3:1-5) But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers... having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

(1 John 3:10, 11) The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Whoever does not practice righteousness does not originate with God, nor does the one who does not love his brother.

Nevuela

What is the actual context of the article these illustrations appear in?

bohm

Nevula: The January study edition. Paragraph 17 is about the woman who gave the two coins in the temple.

https://www.jw.org/da/publikationer/?contentLanguageFilter=en

Splash

The WT completely miss the point of this account.

Both versions of the needy widow in Lu 21 and Ma 12 start with Jesus giving a warning to his disciples who are about to witness the widow making herself destitute. Jesus says "Beware of the scribes... they devour the houses of the widows".

Continuing, he sits his disciples down near the treasury chests to demonstrate what he means.
The poor widow comes by and puts in everything she has - "she, out of her want, put in everything she had, all she had to live on".

How can this be commendable?
She is the centre of Jesus lesson on how not to be like the scribes who demand too much, even from those who can least afford it. We know how Jesus felt about the self-important, self serving scribes and pharisees. The GB are just the modern day equivalent, equal in their delusion and cruelty.

Room 215

They're really going off the rails; this is another example of why they split the Watchtower off into two editions; to hide this type of hard-core craziness from the uninitiated public.

menrov

Did anyone notice, the Jan. 2016 study edition can only be downloaded, not read online...is this always with new magazines just released or is this a new policy?

menrov

trust in Jehovah, knowing that if she put spiritual things first, he would provide for her physical needs

Yes, do not trust on us for that.....we only want your money...for the rest, we do not care.

So, if someone helps a poor / meek person, you could say that God worked through that person, right? That also means that those who can help but do not help, God is not working through them. In conclusion, God is not with the WT to motivate their hearts to help the poor, weak, meek etc....

Agree?

The Searcher

Hi MENROV - You can read without downloading. Just click on the cover picture of the Watchtower and it brings up all of the contents for reading.

More money-grubbing: Give us your money even if you can't afford food

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