Namely, that the org & its elite group of "anointed" Christians had usurped Christ's role.
Thank you so much, faithful evil slave! By their fruits..............
For lurking JW's: How many org "truths" have you seen reversed during your life?
w52
11/15 p. 678 Marking Those Who Sigh and Cry
- "In
times past
it was thought
that the man in linen with the writer’s inkhorn by his side
pictured a certain
individual in modern times...Rather,
all the facts
indicate that this man in linen with a writer’s
inkhorn by his side pictures or represents the body of faithful
anointed Christians.....
and who are working together under divine
direction as the
“faithful and discreet slave”.
kj
chap. 9 p. 172 pars. 24-26 - "On
July
30, 1931
"Vindication
(Volume I)
was released. It
said, on pages 99,
100,
under the subheading “Man with Inkhorn,” the following:
"The
man with the writer’s inkhorn by his side,’ therefore, clearly
represented the anointed
“servant” class of
the Lord on earth,......Thus
these dedicated, anointed followers of Jesus....were
very grateful that their God, Jehovah, had definitely
revealed to them the work for them to do as indicated in the vision
to Ezekiel concerning the man “clothed with linen, with a
secretary’s inkhorn at his hips.” They were highly
elated at the
prospect....of
marking the foreheads
of those who were to be spared..."
w72
1/15 p. 46
- 48
Has the King’s
Secretary Called on You
Recently? - "Hence,
for our day, the visionary man “clothed with linen, with a
secretary’s inkhorn at his hips,” must
picture a modern composite
man, that is, a united group of men,....Such
is the King’s secretary of our
day......It
is that small body of
dedicated, baptized Christians
who, in the year 1931,
recognized the impending
destruction of Christendom and therefore the need for the work of the
“man clothed with the linen” to be done in its modern
application.....On
Sunday, July 26, 1931, this convention of spirit-anointed
Christians embraced as a distinguishing name for themselves as
Christians the designation “Jehovah’s
witnesses.” Not just the
name,
but the work
carried out by them since then proves
that this anointed remnant of Christian witnesses of the Most High
God are unmistakably
the twentieth-century fulfillment of the man “clothed with linen,
with a secretary’s inkhorn.”
w83
12/15 p. 17 par. 6 -
"Today
there is only a small remnant of the members of the “royal
priesthood”...These
serve together as the
figurative linen-clad man,
who does the marking of worthy ones in their foreheads."
w88
9/15 p. 14 par. 18 -
"The
antitypical ‘man in linen’ is the
class of anointed Christians."
w16
June pp. 16-17 Questions From Readers
- Whom
do the man with the secretary’s inkhorn and the six men with
smashing weapons described in Ezekiel’s vision symbolize? "They
picture heavenly forces that were involved in the destruction of
Jerusalem and that will also be involved in the destruction of
Satan’s wicked system at Armageddon. Why is this adjusted
understanding reasonable? In
the past, we have
explained
(insisted!) that
in the modern-day fulfillment of this vision, the man with the
secretary’s inkhorn represented the
anointed remnant. It was
thought
that those who respond favorably to the message being preached are
now marked for survival. In recent
years, however, it has become
clear that an adjustment
needs to be made to this explanation.
According to what is stated at Matthew 25:31-33, Jesus
is the one who judges people. He
makes his final judgment during the time of the great tribulation,
separating the sheeplike ones, who will survive, from the goatlike
ones, who will be destroyed. So in light of this
adjusted understanding,
what lessons do we learn from Ezekiel’s vision?"
How do you "adjust" a blasphemy to make it a truth? 🤣
