Following with more snippets of e-mails from a current Gileadite, who updates his friends & faimily with clumps of spiritual enlightenment from time to time.
Today's installment from the altar of higher education...er no wait, this education isn't so high...er something like that...
...In Malachi the priests were not instructing properly, allowing all sorts
of lame offerings and allowing Jewish men to divorce without valid reason
and then complaining to Jehovah about the consequences. (Malachi 3:17)
This was in violation of the law and unscriptural. The instructor said
that years ago the Watchtower could say that there was no unscriptural
divorce or hardly any divorce at all in the organization. But the same
can't be said today. It is really ruining the reputation of some
congregations today. It is sad to see that many are not learning from
the same bad mistakes of the past...
So it seems that all is not so peachy among the happiest people on earth who are living in a spiritual paradise amidst this benighted world....
See, you slackers just aren't thinking of the big picture again. Your selfishly getting divorces is "really ruining the reputation of the congregations today". If all you unclean divorcees would have just re-read the book of Malachi, all of this could have been avoided.