Blondie: "cameo-d, there are so many large and small religions all with their own interpretation, it would take more time than I have or care to to track. The WTS is all I concentrate on. What other religions do, has little to do with the WTS, believe me.
Blondie, I realize that the work you do here is very specialized and focused. You are a unique treasure. I know the exactness of quotation is where you concentrate your efforts. Your anwers of documentation are much appreciated.
From what I see the Jws are sheltered; what they know of other religions is basically what WT teaches them. And the ex-JWs are so wounded and traumatized, that by the time they get out of there, the focus is on WT and they do not see the bigger picture of what is really going on.
These other religions...protestant/catholicism very much do have things in common with WTS. All of these religions are taking their directions from the top...the King of the North. These other religions are more in sync than you could ever imagine. They are not little independent churches all teaching their unique version of scripture. No. They are all in league with one another. The councils, federations, leagues, are layer upon layer. And they are all on the same page. They are very co-ordinated.
The xtian religion teaches that the "abomination of desolation" will be when the sacrifices are again instituted in the Temple, when the third temple is rebuilt.
But doctrine is changing...for them as well as for WTS...to prepare people to accept blood sacrifice again.
In the sacrificial rituals, the temple is defiled after the sacrifice. Then, more sacrifices must be offered to "cleanse the Temple".
In the near future they will be teaching that Jerusalem cannot be a holy land because the land was defiled by the blood of Jesus.
The sin will only be taken away when " the fountain is opened in Jerusalem". (The fountain is blood sacrifices to cleanse the land.)