Watchtower,
September 15, 1895: "Beware of "organization." It is wholly
unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek
to bind others' consciences, and do not permit others to bind yours."
Watchtower 1961 Jul
15 p.420
"Jesus encouraged his followers to love their enemies, but God's Word also
says to "hate what is bad." When a person persists in a way of
badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it
is an inseparable part of his make-up, then in order to hate what is bad a
Christian must hate the person with whom the badness is inseparably
linked."
"Minds must
be cleansed" (Watchtower, June 1, 1953, p. 350 par. 24). 24 In
these closing days of wickedness Jehovah’s people must demonstrate holiness.
They must not foul their minds with the filthy mental food on the propaganda
tables of this old world, but must feed on the feast of fat things Jehovah
provides. (Isa. 25:6; 28:8.) Minds must be cleansed and made over, mental
circuits formed by old-world thinking and acting faded out and new ones put in
according to new-world specifications. By privately studying regularly, by
attending all meetings regularly, and by engaging in all features of the
preaching work regularly mental circuits are deepened and such good activities
become habitual, not at all the struggle they are when the mental circuits are
weak and faint because used only occasionally. For ourselves and for others,
make them strong!—1 Tim. 4:16.
Some people insult those who disagree with
them by questioning character or motives instead of focusing on the facts.
Name-calling slaps a negative, easy-to-remember label onto a person, a group,
or an idea. The name-caller hopes that the label will stick. If people reject
the person or the idea on the basis of the negative label instead of weighing
the evidence for themselves, the name-caller's strategy has worked. --Awake!,
June 22, 2000
*** kj 377 20 Land of Magog No
More to Threaten Mankind ***
The unburied dead, those slain by Jehovah, will be so enormously many that even
the carrion birds and scavenging wild beasts could never take care of their
consumption. The burial of even what remains after these lower creatures have
their fill would be stupendous. Doubtless the Almighty God will use some highly
scientific means, whether including antimatter or
not, to dispose of the surplus of decaying bodies in a speedy and sanitary way.
This remains for the survivors of the war of the great day to see and witness.
*** yw 322 12 The
"Prince" of the Sanctuary Stands Up ***
In this prophecy God warns that he will also use other natural forces
that are at his disposal, possibly a rain of antimatter that has the property
of annihilating any material thing that it meets. He warns all scoffers that he
"Man
on earth can no more get rid of these demonic `heavens' (the organization of
wicked spirits) than man can by airplane or rockets or other means get up above
the air envelope which is about our earthly globe and in which man
breathes." (The Truth Shall Make You Free, 1943, p. 285)
"The face of the deep, of course, would be toward the Pleiades, which
are claimed to be the habitation of Jehovah." (Creation; 1927; 2,175,000 ed.;
p. 94)
"The constellation of the seven stars forming the Pleiades appears to
be the crowning center around which the known systems of the planets revolve
even as our sun's planets obey the sun and travel in their respective orbits.
It has been suggested, and with much weight, that one of the stars of that
group is the dwelling-place of Jehovah and the place of the highest
heavens;..." (Reconciliation; 1928; p. 14)
"The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others
which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man. But the
greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared with the
Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne
of God." (Reconciliation; 1928; p. 14)
*** yw 323 12 The "Prince" of the
Sanctuary Stands Up ***
25. How could Jehovah God use these cosmic rays to affect the king of the north
and the king of the south, and what other natural force might he use in his
work?
