Exposing the Governing Body! What are they?
I'ts pretty-well common knowledge among Bible Students today, that Jesus, just prior to his ascension informed his Eleven Apostles that, "All Authortity in heaven and on earth, was given to him." So, that fact would elevate him over everyone, who made claim to be his followers today, at this time. Would you say that's a correct assumption? {Matthew 28:18} {Ephesians 1:15-23} {Philippians 2:5-11}
But more than that, even, Paul told us he was the 'one mediator between Man and God;' and didn't Jesus himself fortify that by telling us, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, and No Man comes to the Father but by me." Then told us, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will resurrect him in the last day." {1 Timothy 2:5} {John 6:44;14:6}
Considering this alone, that puts Jesus in very high station, wouldn't you say? With no man on earth equal to his position? That would be my summation of that information at any rate. But, just how high though, is Jesus Station? Notice what Paul has to say about that, in these next few words:
1"Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.:" {Hebrews 3:1-6 NIV}
You notice Paul tells us to fix our thoughts on Jesus? Who was faithful to the one who appointed him? Who is to be afforded greater honor than Moses? This is the point I don't want you to miss! Notice! Paul tells us, "Christ is faithful as a Son OVER GOD'S HOUSE! Then he highlites the fact, that he, as well as all others of the Apostle's constituted God's House. He didn't tell us, they were over it, did he? They were merely members of God's Household, looking to the one appointed over it for their spritual food at the proper time. Is that not correct?
Wasn't it the Christ who was head of the house? According to him, he was:
"It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household!"{Matthew 10:25;12:24-27 NIV} {Matthew 13:27}
15 "if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth."{1 Timothy 3:15 NIV}
18 "For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone." {Ephesians 2:18-20 NIV}
What I'm driving at here, is, I wanted you to see, that Christ is the appointed head of God's household, all the others were members of God's household, built on the foundation of the Apostles... as it says. With all of that in mind I want you to look carefully at this next scripture, which is a major bone of contention; and used by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to identify themselves as the Fathful Slave of the Parable in Matthew 24:45: I want to show you Two different Bible Translations to make my point more solid: First the Jehovah's Witness Bible, the New World Translation. Notice the difference between the Two:
45 "Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so. 47 Truly I say to YOU, He will appoint him over all his belongings."{ Matthew 24:45 NWT}
Now the expression, over his domestics, doesn't really stimulate the thought processes for those who really know their Bible does it? It really never did with me. I'd breeze on by that, and not see a thing necessarily, not ever. Be honest right now. What do you actually see there that might just cause a few doubts as to the authority of the governing Body? Anything at all? Now compare that with the New International Version, and watch how drastically the picture changes:
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the Master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?"{Matthew 24:45 NIV}
As it did with me; doesn't the question come into your mind, 'just whose household is in question here?' That question I asked myself is what put me on to this. Thus far I have shown, it is God's Household in question here. Then I remembered what Paul has said in Hebrews 3:1-6- This Faithful and wise servant, you'll remember was 'faithful as a Son over God's House' So, whose in charge of the servants in the household, to dispense the food at the proper time? Remember too Paul said, "We are that house if we hold to our courage of which we boast."
I feel it safe to say, when they were putting the New World Translation together, they knew that Bible would go World-Wide, and most always these Bible Translators are very meticulous about preserving the original text. What might they have been thinking when it came time to deal with that scripture at Matthew 24:45? Those Boys are not dumb by any means, they would have known, to word it; "The Servants in the household," They'd be dead in the water, because they would have known someone would do what I did, and the expression, "Over his Domestics," doesn't really alter the original text all that much, but it did serve to blind the minds of those reading it, because they knew they would do what I've been doing these many years, just breezing right by it, without noticing anything; and I'm damn certain that was purposely designed that way to accomplish that very purpose, because that one scripture alone blows them right clean of the water, and they knew that it would.
Since Jehovah as Paul had said, is the builder of everything, then Jehovah had to be the Master in the Parable of the Faithful Slave. Lets read that one more time:
45"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?"{Matthew 24:45 NIV}
So, now we know that Jesus was appointed over God's House; that Christ was faithful over God's House just as Moses was faithful in all God's House. We know also that the Christ was the head of the household, all others, merely members of the household. So Christ was the faithful and wise servant whom the Master, {his Father] put in charge of the servants in the house-hold.
Are we to believe, that the Members in the first Century would have tried to usurp the position of the head of the house-hold? Setting themselves up as head of God's House? They would have known, wouldn't they, that Jesus was the faithful and wise servant, that Jehovah himself had appointed? Wouldn't they also have known that Jesus had been entrusted with the Holy Spirit to use as a teaching instrument, and on their own could never teach the Bible to anyone without first being taught by him? Lacking the Holy Spirit as they would, had they ever tried to seat themselves in the seat of the Christ; at best, all they could teach would be leading individuals on a path of error, failed predictions and false prophecies. They would have known Jesus held all authority in heaven on and earth, and would never have tried to push beyond his authority, by setting themselves up in positions that belonged solely to him. Telling everyone that they were THE Faithful Slave.
They would remember the voice of Jehovah God coming from the cloud, when they were told to listen to Jesus. Not to one another, as members of the household.
4 "Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell face-down to the ground, terrified." {Matthew 17:4-6 NIV}
Wouldn't they have known that Jesus was entrusted with the Holy Spirit, and that he, after his ascension,carried on his teaching by means of Revelations from the invisible heavens? {Acts 2:33} {Galatians 1:11,12} {Ephesians 3:1-3} {Revelation 1:1,2}
Would they have even dared to tell anyone that any one of them was the appointed Faithful Save? The head of the household? While they would know, that all they were was members of God's Household and no more than that? That was the position of the True Apostles, and they never would have even dared to try and step beyond that position. What do we find today though?
We find a very shocking situation going on among the Governing Body of the Watchtower Society. Jehovah's Witnesses!
According to them, they are the appointed head of Jehovah's house. They, according to them, are the Faithful Slave. Their Watchtower Magazine is Jehovah's principle teaching instrument. Even worse! The are God's Spirit directed Organization. God's Prophet! The Anointed remnant! The Temple Class! "Listen to us as though you were listening to the voice of God, they tell us. The Mother of all Christian's in their ranks."To us, only, the Bible is not a sealed Book." No one can understand the Bible apart from them." On and on, these self honoring, self exalting, claims continue.They are the only place of safety... ... ...
Since the Faithful Slave has all authority in heaven and on earth, and the Governing Body makes claim to being that Faithful Slave, then they have all authority in heaven and on earth, and since the Faithful Slave was appointed as head over God's House, then they are the head of God's house as well. As well since they claim to be God's Spirit Directed Organization, and their Watchtower Magazine is Jehovah's Principle teaching instrument, they render the Holy Spirit in the hands of the Christ impotent and being as they claim to being God's Organization; they have managed by all of those claims to put the Christ completely out of office. The reason being, it was my understanding, that the Christ was the Faithful Slave. That the Christ was appointed over God's house. That it was the Christ was the one with the ability to pour out the Holy Spirit, and do all of the necessary teaching, and if we must listen to them as though we were listening to the voice of God, then God didn't know what he was talking about when he told all of us to listen to his Son. Oh! My! It do get confusing, don't it?
Actually it really isn't! They were foretold by Jesus, and luke penned a few words about them ,as did the Apostle Paul. First the Words of Jesus:
24"For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible."{Matthew 24:24 NIV} Next Luke:
8He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them."{Luke 21:8 NIV}
"Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness."{2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NIV}
Has not the Governing Body for a long time now, been telling us the time is near? Do they not tell us the Christ has been invisibly present since 1914? How much nearer can you get than that ?
48"But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,'49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards." {Matthew 24:48,49 NIV}
Whose been beating the Hell out of their fellow slaves, with the practice of disfellowsipping for how long now? When it's not even authorized for our day? Whose been right in their with the UN while condemning them, for Ten Years? As an agent of the NGO?
Eating and drinking with the confirmed drunkards?
If they are not the foretold Evil Slave, then would someone mind telling me, please, who is?
All through the sign Jesus gave he foretold the prevelence of many false Prophets, if you'll notice, so it stands to reason they'd all be evil slaves, in a manner of speaking. This begets the question, why did he pair two together, one Faithful, the other evil? Now we know now, that he [Jesus] was the Faithful Slave, but the other not genuine, evil. One that looked the part, but really wasn't; this class was evil. One that could, if possible mislead, the chosen ones. The one luke said, was preaching 'the time was near.' The one Paul said not to be seduced by; because he had that verbal message or letter that had the appearance of coming from the true Apostles. That lifted himself up over everyone called God or an object of reverence. Now making the statement, as they do, that everyone in their ranks should "listen to them as though they were listening to the voice of God," is about as high and lofty as any human can lift himself, don't you agree? Isn't that sitting down in the Temple of God professing to be God, when you're telling people that? Personally I would think so! {2 Thessalonians 2:1-12}
I mentioned the disfellowshipping practice not authorized today, and that was because of the parable of the wheat and the weeds. Read it through and you'll see Jesus Disciples had asked him if he wanted them to pull out the weeds. He told them: NO! There was a chance of pulling out the wheat by mistake, because they wouldn't be able to distinguish one from the other. They were told to, 'let them grow together until harvest season' at which time he would instruct the Angels to remove the weeds because they wouldn't know one from, the other. Being evil as they are the Governing Body has no respect for the authority Jesus has over those Angels, and the fact that the job of doing that cleanup was to be done by the Angels. Not by them at all! Look at the misery it has caused! All the broken Marriages and destroyed Families. Are we to believe that action on their part wasn't evil? Matthew 13:24-30 --36-43}
Jehovah foretold the antics of this evil slave class in Ezekiel Chapter 34 how they would rule over them with harshness, hold them in subjection with tyranny. Pushing and shoving them around. Like Big Spiritual Bullies! Which is exactly what they are.
I believe that I have positively identified Jesus as the Faithful Slave; the one appointed over the house of God. I have also shown that all of the Apostles were merely members of God's Household, and I have shown that absolutely none of them would ever identify themselves as THE Faithful Slave. Conversely I have shown that the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, so-called, identify themselves as the Faithful Slave, the one appointed over the household of God. Now, consider this: Even if they all were of the Heavenly Calling, would they still not be only merely members of God's Household? How then can they tell us they are the Faithful Slave of the parable in Matthew 24:45 when it is the Christ who is the Faithful Slave? How can they tell us they are appointed over God's House, when it is Jesus who was appointed over God's House? They are obvious liars, and satan was the first liar and the Father of the lie! That makes the Governing Body Children of the devil, and that makes them evil, or the evil slave. Even worse, the Man of lawlessness foretold by Paul.
So, I have positively indentified the Faithful Slave: {Jesus Christ} As well, the Evil Slave, and Man of Lawlessness, as to being, the Governing body of the Watchtower Society.
One thing we can be absolutely certain of! The Governing Body of Jehovah's Withesses is definitely not the Faithful Slave as they claim, nor are they appointed over the House of God! Wannabe
Do they not have a verbal message or a letter that appears to come from the True Apostles? Don't they actually tell us they are? Do they not exalt themselves over everyone, setting themselves up in God's Temple? Don't they by telling us the Christ is invisibly present tell us it's already come?
Jesus Luke and Paul nailed them to the wall.