Well one thing for sure it isn't the WTS who has being selling a false commercialized Gospel .
There might even be a thing or two about false prophets in the bible.
Next weeks Watchtower. ' Who is leading God's people today'
by UnshackleTheChains 53 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Finkelstein
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Brokeback Watchtower
Yeah it is pretty sickening to see the words governing body though out the entire article. I just had to cut and paste:
REMEMBER THOSE WHO ARE TAKING THE LEAD”
16. What is one way to remember the Governing Body?
16 Read Hebrews 13:7. The word rendered “remember” can also be translated “mention.” Therefore, one way you can “remember those who are taking the lead” is by mentioning the Governing Body in your prayers. (Eph. 6:18) Reflect on their responsibility to supply spiritual food, to oversee the global preaching work, and to manage donated funds. Surely they need our persistent petitions in their behalf!
17, 18. (a) How do we cooperate with the Governing Body? (b) How does our preaching support the faithful slave and Jesus?
17 Of course, remembering the Governing Body involves not just words but also cooperation with its direction. The Governing Body provides the direction given in our publications and at our meetings, assemblies, and conventions. In addition, it appoints circuit overseers, who in turn appoint congregation elders. Circuit overseers and elders remember the Governing Body by sticking closely to guidelines given to them. All of us show respect for our Leader, Jesus, by being obedient and submissive to the men he is using to direct us.—Heb. 13:17.
18 Another way that we remember the Governing Body is by exerting ourselves in the preaching work. After all, Paul urged Christians to imitate the faith of those taking the lead among them. The faithful slave has exercised outstanding faith by zealously promoting and spreading the Kingdom good news. Are you one of the other sheep who supports the anointed in this vital work? How happy you will feel when your Leader, Jesus, says: “To the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”—Matt. 25:34-40.
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OUTLAW
Next weeks Watchtower. ' Who is leading God's people today'
Answer:
Not these WBT$ GB "RockStar" Pope..
Dumb F*cks..
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steve2
With one exception, self-appointed older Caucasian males lead JW organization. In that regard, they are comparable to almost every other organised religious group in the West: Patriarchal, male-led throwbacks to a bygone age.
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snowbird
Yes, Steve2.
They are lost in the 50's, with Samuel Herd as their token Neeegro!
Sylvia
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tor1500
Hi All,
Not to sound partial, but when I began to study and notice the 144,000 seemed too be white males, I said to myself, well the new system is going to be the same....white males running things...why die...Then here comes this black guy that is an anointed one....does equal opportunity ring a bell (another tax break)...did the org. get audited and found out the anointed was not diversified ? They do that in orgs. My place of work was told we were not diversified enough, so we better start adding some color to the place. But to be fair and honest who else could go around the world and buy land, only white folks, black folks still waiting for their forty acres and a mule...No doubt many readers wrote in and asked why no other color are anointed, so they most likely scrambled and found this guy...
Anyway, that's another topic....wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall of the JW's brain when the sentence is read, we are not inspired nor infallible...wonder what the average JW will really be thinking, I think even the most dug in witness will say in their mind....so If the GB isn't running things then who is? This is what the average thinking person the org. is saying....The org. is just covering their behinds...they are on the internet now...they are going to have to eat some crow....many that may come in now may question many things...and ask their teachers...
But because I'm a witness, this statement or WT, won't mean a hill of beans to the average JW....oh, this statement may shake a few up, but then they will be invited to a gathering and be around the ones they love conditionally and back to business as usual....because, no matter what, It's God's org. even the child molestation issues are exposed, majority won't leave....many of the witnesses that I have spoken to, know of a child molestation issue that wasn't dealt with and also they know it's all over the org, but it's because they carry Jehovah's name....so Jehovah will take care of it...but when they say it, they don't sound so convincing, because don't think the average koolaide drinking witness ain't asking, how long Jehovah, how much longer ?
Many of the JW's are there because they think they are just like the Jews....CHOSEN.....but if they read the scriptures, the Jews are the branch and the rest of us are just grafted in...and if we think that God has forgotten the Jews....read and think again, JW's...
Let's face it many witnesses have a need to be validated and belong and the org. is a perfect place for misfits, if you need a pat on the back being a witness is the right thing to be...even if you read a scripture (even a 4 or 5 year old can do), you get commended....they always say, it's good to be encouraged...the average person out here goes about their day without being commended every minute of the day....but not JW's they complain how they are not appreciated at their job....it's not that, they just want to be patted on the back for just doing their job... Many witnesses suffer from lack of attention...and need a pat on the back all day long...but some are just attention hogs...those are the ones that always have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the meetings....
So, this WT like many others will go over the witnesses heads, but they will think, but won't mention one word to anyone...although, I do have a few in the congregation that will say, so who is running things?
Tor
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snowbird
Well said, Tor.
I noticed the same thing about Whites only being of the anointed, which should have set off alarm bells due to the many Whites Only signs I'd witnessed in the Jim Crow South.
But, selfishly, I kept quiet because I feared if I rocked the JW boat too much, I wouldn't make it into the new system.
Boy, was I hoodwinked!
Sylvia
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UnshackleTheChains
I think even the most dug in witness will say in their mind....so If the GB isn't running things then who is?
Paragraphs 10 and 11 grabbed my attention. Sounds like the GB are distancing themselves from a legal aspect. I wonder why? 🤔
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stuckinarut2
That article is simply mind blowing!
The level of arrogance proves that the GB are beyond help! They really honestly believe the crap they spew out to the rank and file....
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tor1500
Hi Snowbird,
You hit one of the characteristics of some witnesses....as you mentioned, Selfishly, I kept quiet...that's the MO of most witnesses...selfish, want to make it into the new system, and don't care who they step on to do it...The issue with most witnesses they feel safe and comfy in the congregation so, they don't say or do anything to upset their life....because their life is all nice and neat just like their literature...
What I'm finding out about most witnesses that if they are in good standing, even if they know TTATT, and no one steps on their toes, all is well, but let something happen to that same witness...then that's another story...I have read that all over all the x witnesses sites...Many sat there hearing that families are broken up and children die because of blood and so on, and many just sat there like stone, why because, it didn't affect them at the time...but when any of these negative things happen, then folks started to wake up...Now I'm not pointing any fingers, because I was awake when I came in and saw that the org, isn't all that, so I got issues too, but at least when I hear something that doesn't sound right, I don't dismiss it because I'm in good standing,
The org isn't headed by God all by themselves...all churches as messed up as they are, are all headed by Jesus and God....
The problem with illustrations, we all see in the color we are ourselves....so no doubt the art dept. of the org. just got diversified...if at all....
The anointed are men that were not defiled by women....aka: Eunuchs...makes sense that God would choose men that can't be tempted by what gets everybody in trouble....SEX...This time God's angels/anointed will not be tempted by the daughters of men.....wonder why they verse says, defiled by women....so now sex is defiling....I think something got lost in translation...maybe the verse said, men who have never known sex...something like that...sex is not defiling....only rape...
Someone said the level of arrogance proves that the GB are beyond help.....that says it all, and arrogant people are drawn to this religion and that's why it takes so many a long time to see the TTATT...their arrogance...even when they society/friends admit they are wrong, they still have a bit of arrogance about their being wrong....
And we Black folks never learn, we want to be accepted so bad in this society, but we don't pay attention, because we want to be accepted so much....we complain how in balanced our government is racially, yet we join this religion that shows no diversity in who is going to run things in the new system....more duh?
I don't care if this is God's org. or not...and don't care who is in charge, believe or not that's why many stay in the org...it's God's org (wrong as their doctrine is and will be, that's the hook in itself THE BADGE OF HONOR)....Those of us who believe in God shouldn't look to any org. but only in ourselves....we shouldn't put anyone in charge of our spirituality we should be in charge of our own....see when we leave it up to others for us, then we can blame others and we are not responsible...isn't that why many are witnesses or Christians, we can blame the someone else for our shortcomings....we shunned because the org. said we should, we let our child die, because the org. said so, we never helped anyone but ourselves, why ? because the org. told us to....and all along we knew and know it's wrong...
There is no place in this world where you can hear the truth and why do we need to be lead....the truth is not a doctrine or an organization, the truth is in YOU....
Again, many want someone else to be responsible for their actions...like they used to say back in the day, "The Devil made me do it"....so with many of us in the org....we can use that same excuse so we won't be accountable..."The FDS made me do it".
Tor