@villagegirl
Your welcome. you might ask these questions as well which I get an answer to sometimes, but never the right one. This is because the basic answer actually is the apostasy is present from the top, it is leadership apostasy the Bible speaks of, not the man on the street, that is the main distraction.
There was a person I knew who was afraid of confronting the elders. So I said ask everything as legitimate questions and concerns to get the questions into their own heads, and let them sit in their own heads, don't affirm or deny the questions, keep them as if you are pondering the issues yourself. This happened to be a woman who was well versed in the foundational JW teachings on prophecy.
Prophecy is a good place to ask questions, because they are usually historic in detail rather than morals and dogma, they hinged on world events as history in many places in JW theology. Prophecy is a good place for questions because some JWs do examine it. The point being to inject valid questions into the elder Bethelobotimized skull.
But literally these are questions many have actually had, that Bethel has no satisfying answer for. The other basic answer is Bethel cover-up, they are covering up their own apostasy and prophecies that detail it at Daniel 11:30-32, 8:11-13, 23a.
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Why have Jehovah's witnesses stopped tracking modern international developments since the third United Nations placement of 1990 saying such a milestone towards world government is not prophetic or even significant?
Why does Bethel only ambiguously mention world government, but implies it is not prophetic?
Why doesn't Bethel detail the final third and fourth UN progression easily seen in prophecy and world events since 1990?
Why did Bethel join the UN third placement development as UN NGO rather than start exposing these details?
How is a failed/bankrupt USSR supposed "King North" also a valid global "ruler of the silver and the gold" in Daniel 11:42-43?
How did a defunct USSR supposed "King North" also "prove successful until the denunciation comes to a finish" at Daniel 11:36? How can a national bloc failure, also be successful?
On Daniel 8:13-14
How can "organizational adjustments" that actually increased corporate seizure away from the congregations independence be called a "right condition" temple purification? Is it not more "profanation" that occurred at that time? (1938-1944).
How is congregational independence a "transgression causing desolation" at Daniel 8:13? Isn't the UN NGO more likely a "transgression"?
Since when does apostasy not apply to the leadership? In the Sanhedrin? In the Papacy? In the Governing Body? Are they not really the same thing, human intermediation claiming divine authority?
How is the "faithful and discreet slave" (2012) or the "Governing Body" (1976) in itself not "lifting themselves over everyone" when obviously such teachings are literally a self exaltation? (in reference to 2Thess2:3-4)
How is "Christendom" the "holy place" today, when in fact the first FIFTY years of the JW ministry was saying Christendom is NOT the "holy place"? How can a claim to being the "holy place" be the "holy place" in prophecy, which is not a claim but a "place", as Bethel implies illogically?
Those last questions will probably send the elder back to catch up on what JWs were supposedly believe with some needed research, as JWs in general have been dumbed-down severely.
In fact everything points to the fact Bethel is diverting attention from their true condition: Classic Apostasy from the top.