Oh, great. Yet another reason for WT to ask for more money.
And for the GB to release a string of more construction progress puff pieces in broadcasts for months to come, that claim that all this work is to "God's glory", while all the time promoting their own organisation with sweeping overhead shots of building sites, staged shots of men in suits gazing thoughtfully at laptops and blueprints, and gullible Witnesses smiling cheesily in hardhats and overalls as their free labour is exploited to build another future billion-dollar property sale. We've seen it all before too many times already!
The crazy thing is that the Org claim that the reason why it's ok to build such facilities now, supposedly so close to "the end", is that they can be used in the "new world" afterwards.
Yet NOWHERE in scripture are Christians told to prepare facilities for the end of the current "system of things". In fact, quite the opposite. Several verses warn that the best Christians should expect to escape with is their lives, and in verses like Matthew 6:19–21 Jesus warned against trying to "store up things on the earth". Isn't that exactly what building expensive facilities now with the idea of still using them after Armageddon is doing?
Who says you will get to use those facilities, even if Armageddon happens as you anticipate and you are fortunate enough to survive?
It all smacks of arrogance, and ties in with my thoughts in another thread that the Org is putting too much emphasis towards encouraging Witnesses to imagine very specific details of how they want to live in Paradise. Yet nowhere in that picture is respect shown for what the God and the King they supposedly worship will want instead. Of course, the GB presume to know that already, and to be doing "the will of the Father" (and the Son).
Jesus added: "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". He also warned his disciples in Mark Ch 13 against being obsessed with mere buildings, admiring the stones of the temple. It seems the WT Org have the same problem, being obsessed with their facilities - first the likes of Brooklyn and Mill Hill, now of places like Warwick, Chelmsford and soon, Ramapo. Obsessed with the earthly and the physical, rather than the spiritual.