I brought this up to debator on another thread... and he/she ignored it... Thought the subject deserved its own thread...for anyone who has never read the Finished Mystery.
The Watchtower claims that Jesus inspected the Churches in 1919 and chose the Watchtower to represent God on earth, based upon the spiritual food they were dispensing at that time.
Note:
“The serving of food, the right sort of food, at the proper time was the issue. It had to be according to this that a decision must be rendered by the returned master…
On inspecting the remnant of his anointed disciples in the year 1919 C.E., the reigning King Jesus Christ did find the appointed slave faithful and discreet in the feeding of his domestics. Accordingly, he appointed this slave class over all his belongings." Gods Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached pp.350,355
If Christ chose them as the only organization to represent God on earth based on what they were teaching, then the teachings of the organization at the time of their having been chosen, must have been true. Right? What were they teaching at that time? Well, the most well known and current publication of that time was the Finished Mystery. What is contained in that book?
Here are a few gems contained in the Finished Mystery:
- 88 "proofs" that Christ's "Second Advent occurred in the Fall of 1874" (pp.68-71)
- The remaining Anointed would all be taken from earth to heaven in the spring of 1918. (p.64)
- "Also, in the year 1918, when God destroys the churches wholesale and the church members by millions...." (p.485)
- "Even the republics will disappear in the fall of 1920....Every kingdom of Earth will pass away, be swallowed up in anarchy." (p.258)
- The rider on the white horse in Revelation 6:2 is "the Bishop of Rome, the embryo Pope, the personal representative of Satan" (p.106)
- Michael the Archangel is the pope of Rome. (p.188)
- "Leviathan" of Job 41:2-19 is a locomotive. (p.85)
- "The chariots rage in the streets, they jostle one another" of Natham 2:4 are the clanking and the bumping of railway cars. (p.93)
- The "valiant men" of Nathum 2:3 are an engineer and a fireman. (p.93)
- Demons will invade the minds of churchgoers in 1918, leading to their destruction. (p.128)
- "Behemoth" of Job 40:15-24 is a stationary steam engine. (p.84)
- The "voice from heaven" of Revelation 18:4 is the voice of The Watchtower Society. (p.276)
- The glory of the angel of Revelation 18:1 refers to modern discoveries such as correspondence schools, celluloid, Divine Plan of the Ages, talking machines, vacuum cleaners, induction motors, pasteurization, Panama Canal, shoe sewing machines, subways, skyscrapers, Roentgen rays. (p.273)
- Revelation 14:20 predicted the precise distance from the place where The Finished Mystery was produced in Stranton, Pennsylvania to its shipping destination in Bethel in New York City (p. 230)
These teachings and others were the basis of the Watchtower organization being chosen by Christ, himself. Why then don’t they continue to teach these things? Why do the teachings of the Watchtower today have little in common with the teachings of the Watchtower at the time of their being chosen? If the teachings contained in this book and other publications of that time were the basis for their being chosen, then one would think that every JW would want to read them…right? But no, the Society strongly discourages anyone from reading it. Why?
In addition to the insanity contained in this book, the front cover reveals even more. The symbol on the front cover is the Egyptian god, RA.
A quick googling of the symbol of the Egyptian Sun God RA...also related to Horus shows countless examples of this ancient symbol. Here's an example.
The winged sun disk: the primary symbol of Ra, a very ancient symbol that signifies the “Sun of Righteousness with healing in his arms.” It also represents the creative elements of nature.
So the JWs claimed that they were chosen on the basis of the spiritual food they were dispensing at the time of their choosing...and yet they don't teach those things now.... and to boot, there is the symbol of another God on the front cover of material they claim was the basis of their choosing... Just where is the credibility?
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Thanks to JWfacts for the easy references to wt quotes!