Good Morning, householder! We are Jehovah's Witnesses. And we are here this morning to bring you some "good news."
It is not, however, the "good news" which was preached by the apostles as recorded in the pages of the New Testament. Rather, we are here to tell you that those who now accept Jesus Christ as their Lord are not God's sons; are not Christ's brothers; do not have Jesus Christ as their mediator; are not fully forgiven for their sins; are not fully reconciled to God; are not declared righteous by God; are not a part of the body of Christ; are not allowed to partake of the symbols of Christ's body and blood; will never become incorruptible; will never be given immortality; are not born again; are not anointed by God's Holy Spirit; are not baptized by God's Holy Spirit; will not rule with Christ during the millennium; will not be part of the first resurrection; and are not a part of Christ's New Covenant.
You see, all those things which the apostles preached as good news stopped being offered to people by God in the year 1935. We know this is true because the Watchtower Society's president at that time, J. F. Rutherford, the same man who said that the world would definitely end in the year 1925, said it is true.
But don't worry. For we now have a different "good news" to offer you. We are here to tell you that if you now fully submit yourself to the spiritual authority of the Watchtower Society and do all the Watchtower Society tells you to do, including spending all your free time going door to door distributing Watchtower publications, you can survive the battle of Armageddon, which only Jehovah's Witnesses will survive, and will then have a good chance of living forever on a paradise earth.
But we can only promise you "a good chance" of then living forever. For, as we mentioned earlier, you will never be given immortality. So, your only hope of really living forever is to first work very hard during Christ's thousand year reign to bring yourself to a state of "human perfection." Then, after doing so, you must resist the attacks of Satan the devil which God will subject you to at the end of those thousand years. If you do not then successfully resist Satan's attacks, Jehovah will then kill you. And, as we know from reading the story of Adam and Eve, even perfect humans do not always successfully resist Satan's attacks.
So, you are not actually assured of eternal life even after a thousand years of hard work. But if you do then successfully resist Satan's attacks you will then have a real good chance to live forever. But even then we can only promise you "a real good chance" to live forever, because even then in order to remain alive you will have to maintain perfect faithfulness to God every day for all eternity. But since, as we mentioned earlier, you will not then be incorruptible, you will then every day for all eternity be fully capable of displeasing God in some way. And, since eternity is a long time, and since you will all during eternity be corruptible, you might sometime during eternity displease God in some way.
But don't worry. Jehovah will never allow his new paradise earth to be spoiled by sin. So, if and when you do become unfaithful to Jehovah in any way at all after the thousand years have ended He will then destroy you instantly.
We hope you have enjoyed our "good news." Oh, one more thing. Please pay no attention to what the apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 1:8 and 9. You know, where he said that anyone who preaches a "good news" different from that which the apostles themselves preached will be eternally condemned.
Edited by - aChristian on 12 March 2001 23:5:23