Yes, but only now, because the WTS has proven to be the unfaithful slave, as prophecied, when Christ comes in the night while they are asleep, he steals their outer garment and casts them out and everybody looks upon their nakedness. That is, the glorious garments of being a wise prophet are gone. Like the "Rich Man" they are in torment when Christ, the Lazarus comes, who has been granted the advanced knowledge and does not give even a cool drop of water to wet the parched tongue of the Rich Man who has only been left outdated and erroneous information to preach.
But this is a prime example of who they have promoted themselves among the witnesses as having divine knowledge and understanding. This trips them up later because once someone, like me or others provide better truth, then it seems as though Jehovah has granted us the correct understanding before he has provided it to them and thus it is a snub. It is especially a snub if after this advanced public knowledge is understood that they themselves do not correct these false teachings. But when they don't, it verifies who they have truly become, an organization more focussed on keeping the numbers and members in line than focussing on advanced spiritual things. And it confirms they are no different than any other false religion out there which has their own motives.
But also, part of the torment of the Rich Man, who actually represents the GB of JW, is the fact that while the masses of witnesses who are long put to sleep spiritually by the Watchtower, can see the truth that Lazarus has, and that torments them as well. Their high position has become low, and the low position of Lazarus has become high; just as the Bible prophesied. They want Lazarus to help them. They at one point recognize his superiority and blessed position by Jehovah. They are willing to step aside and let Lazarus take over; however, that is not Jehovah's arrangement. They want Lazarus to rise up and preach to the "five brothers" which represent the "five foolish virgins" of the house of anointed Jehovah's witnesses. But Lazarus is not sent to them. They are told to go to the Bible itself, to "Moses and Abraham and the prophets" on their own, just as the wise virgins told the foolish virgins, "Take a hike! I'm not giving you one drop of my oil I lugged all this way when you had plenty of time and money to get extra oil. So go buy oil from those who sell it if you want it. But you sure in the Hades ain't getting any of mine!" (Some of that got lost in translation I think though....
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In Revelation, you see the seals of the scroll can only be opened by Jesus, the Lamb, who arrives at the second coming to break the seals. The understanding it not given to the GB who has made itself a "god" in god's temple and become the "man of lawlessness." (2 Thess 2)
And they are the MAN OF LAWLNESSNESS. The Bible specifically says that Christians are not to be concerned with anything dietary, to accept everything with thanksgiving, and that there are to be no rules made about foods. Yet the WTS ignores this mandate and makes tobacco and blood disfellowshipping offenses. Even though we can read in the Bible where although in one place it says "abstain from blood" in another it says if you're at the house of an unbeliever eat everything making no concern about your conscience. So clearly, abstaining from blood was contingent on the weak consciences of the Jewish brothers so that rule only applied while you were in that setting. If you were at a relative's house who was an unbeliever you didn't have to abide by that conditional rule.
Or there's the issue of marriage. The Bible says whatever God has yoked together, let no man rip apart. So even if one is disfellowshipped for something other than sexual immorality the marital tie is not broken! Problem is, God recognizes polygamous marriages. It has always been an accepted custom in that culture. Thus the reference in scripture about only having one wife is purely the rules relating to accepting positions of oversight in the congregation! I meant brothers with two wives had their hands full already and they were not to take on the additional responsibility of the congregational management. That's an understandable consideration, certainly. Yet the WTS uses this to condemn brothers with more than one wife in countries where this is legal and customary, breaking up those marriages which God considers to be holy. They are not living in fornication. There is simply no rule in the Bible condemning polygamy. It is not unholy. So you see, they break the law twice. First they make up a rule that's not in the Bible and make it a sin, a disfellowshipping offense, and they break God's rule about breaking up marriage except on the grounds of fornication. Further, they become blood guilty since if you divorce someone except on the grounds of fornication it subjects them more to adultery. Not to mention all the pain caused for those families, inflicted on them without cause though they give a Biblical basis based on their own misinterpretation.
Finally, another thing many have pointed out is the strict Biblical mandate that nothing in the scriptures was to be changed. Yet what do they do? In numerous places in the NT where "Lord" or "God" is perceived to be a reference to Jehovah, they replace those terms and insert Jehovah. But since it is not always clear if "Lord" is a reference to Jesus or Jehovah, it becomes a judgment call that they make at the time of translation, which could end up being an open issue or just the opposite on further examination. Thus they actually corrupt God's pure word thinking they are doing something positive. "Obedience is better than sacrifice!" This so very much hurts those who love God's word and she this as a violation of something holy.
When you add up all the pain of those broken up marriages, the outcry of those focussed on the blood issue of those who die needlessly because of this non-Biblical rule to "abstain from blood" in all circumstances though the Bible allows it when the custom changes as in the case of an unbeliever, then their sins amass up to the heavens. They become the oppressive "man of lawlessness" the Bible prophesied they would be. And as punishment, God takes away that fine robe of being a true prophet and casts them outside naked as the false prophet. That is what is happening now. They no longer have the advanced truth, but continue to promote lies.
Unfortunately for them, in order to correct their false teachings, they'd have to admit they are the evil slave and are in spiritual darkness. That would mean the end of the religion. They are not noble enough to do that and who knows where those contributions are really going to?
So sorry, they aspire to be able to explain what is "sealed" but they are clueless. I'll give some examples in another post.
JC