Mark Jones explains the Watchtower gospel much better than I can.
"The good news that Christians in the first century preached was the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that all those who believed in him were saved and reconciled to God through the death of his son.
Unfortunately Jehovah’s Witnesses) have been led to believe it is something bizarrely different. The good news according to the Watchtower Society is as follows:
The
THE
GOOD NEWS (according to Jehovah’s Witnesses)
"The
gospel or good news is not a simple idea that can be expressed in one
sentence.”
Michael
the archangel came to earth as a Jehovah’s Witness called “Jesus”
and died on a pole so that their governing body and 143,992 other
specially chosen Jehovah’s Witnesses can go to heaven. 1.
3
days later, Michael (aka Jesus) was reincarnated as a hologram who
looked completely different to the original Michael (aka Jesus) 2
Then
for a long time he did nothing until 1919 when he chose the
Watchtower society publishing company to be his channel of
communication on earth. 3 He
fed false information to the Watchtower leaders over the decades “as
a cleansing” to sift out “those serving a date”. This is known
as “new light”. 4
Since
1914 Michael (aka Jesus) has been sitting on the edge of his throne
waiting for the day when Jehovah (his dad) tells him and the 144,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses in heaven (who are now kings up there by the
way ruling over the earth) to slaughter everyone who didn't become a
Jehovah’s Witness - men, women, children, babies, the disabled…
you know, like a holocaust?
"Only
Jehovah's Witnesses,
those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a
united organization under the protection of the Supreme
Organizer, have
any Scriptural hope of surviving the
impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the
Devil." - Watchtower 1989
Sep 1 p.19
Just
as Noah and his God-fearing family were preserved in the
ark, survival
of individuals today depends on their
faith and their loyal association
with the earthly part of Jehovah's universal organization."
- Watchtower 2006 May
15 p.22 "
And
the only way to survive all of this is to obey the 8 leaders
currently living in New York on Jehovah’s Witness donations writing
ever changing doctrine about the end of the world. Because this “good
news” also includes the teaching that Michael (aka Jesus) will also
slaughter Jehovah’s Witnesses who didn't obey the 8 governing body
member’s every word or those who didn't go out door knocking when
they were suffering from cancer or infirm.
One
of their more unlikable governing body members ranting about the
slaughter or non members… and actual members who don't obey him
enough.
The
good news includes that the United Nations is going to ban religion
and hunt down Jehovah’s Witnesses. Every other religion will go
“Huh, ok” and go with it. The pope will hang up his hat, ISIS
will put down their weapons and Christians will just stop worshiping
their god. Why?
Because the UN told them to.
Then,
Michael will swoop down to earth as an old man holding a scepter
along with some angels (who are the reincarnated governing body) and
slaughter everybody who isn't a Jehovah’s Witness. The police will
try to shoot Michael but the bullets will pass right through him.
After
this Jehovah (Michael’s dad) will get the birds to eat the rotting
corpses of non-Jehovah’s Witnesses while the survivors dismantle
all of the buildings (by hand) and live in a socialist utopia where
everyone lives in a tree house, owns an exotic animal and passes
fruit to each other for all eternity.
I’m
not making this up. This is legit what Jehovah’s Witness believe.
[Actual
video shown to members at their 2019 convention.]
In
short - “god is going to kill you. But he might (might)
spare you if you obey the 8 governing body members of Jehovah’s
Witnesses and agree to peddle their writings door to door for free.”
Can
you find in the bible where Jesus or his apostles taught any of that?
Cults
tend not to tell your their entire beliefs in one go like I just did
because if they did you’d likely see it as a mad doomsday cult that
destroys families or something.
You
know, like a mad doomsday cult that destroys families?
Footnotes
[1] https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/go-to-heaven/
[2] https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/jesus-body/
[3] https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/pure-worship/teaching-boxes/why-1919/
[4] https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101993039
