posting this by request.
Randy
Date: Sunday, September 5, 2010, 2:20 PM
Dear Friend:These letters will soon be mailed to the Media office of the Watchtower, and to some Jehovah's Witnesses homes alike. Please lend your voice in praying the freedom of Jehovah 's Witnesses.
Dear JW Media:
I have a recent experience with one of my coworkers who is obese and under his doctors’ care. I was begging this coworker to allow me to show him the scriptures in the new and old testament which speak of unclean animals. Sadly, he declined this kind gesture and refused to read his personal copy of the New World Translation Bible.
Most people teach that Noah took all the animals in the ark by two: male and female, but the Bible does not teach this. ( Genesis 7:2) Of every clean beast you must take to yourself by sevens, the sire and its mate; and of every beast that is not clean just two, the sire and its mate;–.
The apostle John also informed us of unclean creatures. (Revelation 18:2) "And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: "She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has became a dwelling place of demons and a lurking place of every unclean exhalation and a lurking place of every unclean and hated bird!" These creatures can only be unclean in relation to food.
My coworker who is a Jehovah’s Witness adamantly refused to allow me to share the above scriptures with him because I am considered an "apostate" for the fact that the Governing Body does not teach that healing is possible, yet I have been healed by removing from my diet the things that Jehovah/Yah calls unclean. Jehovah/Yah revived me by helping me to find the truth in his word. I was on the brink of death in 2002. The resurrection has not already occurred, yet here I live. It is for this matter and in this manner I am shunned by Jehovah’s witnesses. My brothers and sisters won’t lend their voices in praising Jehovah/Yah because they fear some negative spiritual repercussions.
One of the brothers said I should have died, at least I would have died faithful in keeping pace with the organization. My offense is, I have been enlightened beyond the teaching of the " faithful and discreet class"– the Governing Body.
I have heard of a sister’s dilemma wherein she was dying of poor health. People from the Seventh-Day Adventist church were most willing to help her recover her health by improving her diet, but her Jehovah’s Witnesses friends were rabid advocates that if she should die, she should do so faithfully and this is done by not putting faith in a contrary teaching. Sadly, the sister did relinquished her ties with the health services of the Seventh-Day Adventist people and she did die.
" My son, to my words do pay attention. To my sayings incline your ear. May they not get away from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those finding them and health to all their flesh" ( Proverbs 4: 20-22).
"He proceeded to send his word and heal them. And to provide escape out of their pits." ( Psalms 107: 20).
From these scriptures we learn that the applied word of God is a healer. I wouldn’t hesitate to say that some people consider certain passages of God’s word to be old fashioned and they do not appropriate them to their current life style. This is the reason healing is not taking place. Consider the following shall and shall not ordinances of God:
"At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread." ( Exodus 16:12). Meat is protein and bread is carbohydrate. God did not give to the Israelites these two food groups in combination. However, a green salad would go well with these food groups.
"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk" ( Exodus 23:19). The Jews always understood this scripture to mean that milk and meat or cheese and meat should not be eaten together.
"You shall not sow your field with mixed seed" (Leviticus 19:19). If two sorts of seeds should not grow in the fields together neither should they enter the body together.
We must judge our experiences in life according to what is true of our choices. Should we rationalize that " it may work for some, and not for others". Would it be satisfactory to take a poll to ascertain if this way of eating is beneficial? Would it corroborate our preconceived ideas? If this is the way we are tearing down the word of God why should we stop here.
The Governing Body grants leeway in the choice of foods, but it is LAW that their members should not listen to any other preachers and teachers of the Bible. Increase knowledge from anybody similar to myself is classified as apostasy. Jehovah/Yah wants to heal his people now in this "system" prior to the paradise earth. Jehovah’s Witnesses have been duped into believing that accepting death is a faithful act toward God and if a person exercises faith in healing this person is being overreached by the devil. Since the Watchtower organization does not teach about healing it should encourage their members to listen to other ministries that do teach about healing. It is urgent and vital that the Watchtower organization retracts it’s position on this matter and make a public announcement to advise the congregations to welcome health and spiritual advice from persons who are not of the Jehovah’s Witness persuasion.
Agape,
Marie B. Paraison
Addendum
Can anyone of us live independent of the first human couple’s precedent? We are all actors on the same stage. We all came into this life after the issue had been birthed regarding Adam and Eve eating the one thing that God forbid them to eat. Can anyone of us conclude that food is uninvolved? In fact, our first parent could not prove obedience to God apart from food, can we?
People love food because religion have told us that we can eat everything, correspondingly, people love their religion. When we learn how to eat God’s way we become enlightened and religion losses it’s value. We will see how this works. It must be first mentioned that most often a person seeks to belong to a church or a religious organization with the assumption that the leader of such an institution can be a spiritual guide and that the leader has more spiritual vision/ spiritual light than he or she. However, it is noteworthy that an enhanced spiritual vision, this guiding light can be obtained not in a mysterious or arcane manner. In fact, the human body has an affinity for this spiritual light.
" The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is simple(good), your whole body will be bright" (Matthew 6:22) This brightness that Jesus/Yeshua spoke of is the light of God’s Holy Spirit. Eating simple foods keep our internal channels clear, and no blockage can form in the body. It is the eyes that lure bad food or crowded plates of foods into the body to clog up the arteries and to gorge the organs. Jesus/Yeshua said a good eye or a simple eye would not do that. Hence, our body will be bright with God’s Holy Spirit.
Some people would quickly ask, did not Jesus/Yeshua say: "Are you not aware that everything entering into the mouth passes along into the intestines and is discharged into the sewer? However, the things proceeding out of the mouth came out of the heart, and those things defile a man" ( Matthew 15: 17,18).
This answer was sufficient for Jesus’/ Yeshua’s audience, it appeased their insolence. I am convinced that Jesus/Yeshua would use a different approach to answer the Pharisees if He were here today because we have enough evidence that everything that enters the body does not come out. This explains why people have kidney stones, gallbladder stones, certain cancers, also, fat is transported in the blood and it causes clogged arteries all of which are pockets of darkness within the body. Today, we have the facts that everything that enters the mouth is not being evacuated.
"Therefore, if your whole body is bright with no part at all dark, it will all be as bright as when a lamp gives you light by its rays" ( Luke 11: 34). In His teachings to His disciples Jesus/Yeshua promoted the best principles for the maintenance of spiritual light and physical health of the human body. This is well illustrated when He was at the home of Mary and Martha. Martha was burdened in the kitchen and she was begging for her sister’s assistance. Jesus/Yeshua had a simple recipe solution, He said to her very kindly, Martha, Martha, just one thing is needed.
"The breath of earthling man is the lamp of Jehovah/ Yah, carefully searching all the innermost parts of the belly" (Proverb 20: 27).
Certain translations use the word "spirit" verses the word " breath" which is very correct because the Bible speaks of dark spirit and bright spirit. The spirit of man is the lamp of God. It is our food that determines how bright our lamp shines. Do you know what your spiritual leaders eat? In the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses yes we do. The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses considers everything as good for food.
Noah had more knowledge about the animal kingdom than most people will admit. It is astonishing that most people teach that Noah took all the animals in the ark by two. The Bible teaches that Noah took the clean animals in the ark by seven. " Of every clean beast you must take to yourself by sevens ---" ( Genesis 7: 2). If we don’t acknowledge the unclean animals we will then eat them.
The apostle John reported that there are unclean creatures. We would be wise not to eat them. "She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a lurking place of every unclean exhalation and a lurking place of every unclean and hated bird!" ( Revelation 18: 2). These creatures can only be unclean in relation to food
In addition to the reason we have already discussed. The reason we cannot show neglect in the way that we consume physical food yet shoot for the spiritual food is because our opinion of food should correspond with that of Jesus’/ Yeshua’s who said: " My food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work" ( John 4:34). There is an intrigue to this as well. Jehovah/Yah and the devil are both vying for the belly of each person. In the book of Proverbs we found out that God is searching, investigating the belly. He has a keen interest in the belly. However, the devil is also aiming for the belly, and if the devil can get us to mishandle our bellies by the way that we eat we will fall prey to him. Jehovah/Yah has been protecting our bellies by telling us what we should not eat. The devil on the other hand told Adam and Eve to eat the one thing that God told them not to eat, thus, the devil got them to eat everything. Men who fall prey to the devil also tell their fellow men to eat everything. This matter is most fundamental in our walk with God. It can not be bypassed. Would you have accepted spiritual guidance from Adam and Eve after they disobeyed?
(2 Corinthians 7:1) urges us to cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit. The flesh and the spirit can only go one direction at a time, they work in tandem. If our activities, our foods defile the flesh, the spirit is not guarded. If we allow the devil to maneuver our spirit what do we have left for God?
"Your word is a lamp to my foot and a light to my roadway" ( Psalms 119: 105). How well do we appropriate the word of God? The following will be a test! These scriptures are recipes for simple meals.
"At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread" ( Exodus 16: 12). Meat is protein and bread is carbohydrate. God did not give these to the Israelites in combination. However, a green salad would go well with these food groups.
"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk."(Exodus 23: 19). The Jews have always understood this scripture to mean that milk and meat or cheese and meat should not be eaten together.
"You shall not sow your field with mixed seed" ( Leviticus 19:19). If two kinds of seeds should not grow in the fields together neither should they enter the body together.
Should we poll these modern societies who promote the eating of super sizes and buffet style meals to ascertain if this way of eating works? Please do not diminish the word of God.
Jesus/ Yeshua said that we must be like a child to be born again. Therefore, He was referring to when life was simple and we ate simple foods. Eating simple foods will keep the organs clean and in health. If this is the foundation of life, then it should work for everybody and continuously.
"Now I exhort you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. For men of that sort are slaves, not of our Lord Christ, but of their own bellies--- "( Romans 16: 17,18 ).
It is noteworthy that the apostle Paul is telling us that the debates over doctrines are the product of the belly or it is the result of the way people cater to the belly, which brings about more religions, cults and sects. In spite of all the discussions and debates mankind don’t have a unified way of coming together for worship. Since we have been informed that the belly is the core of the problem, then, when the problem (passion for unhealthy foods) is eliminated, the way to God is not obscured. It is then the enviable Holy Spirit will guide us to all truth (progressively). Cleanliness is close to godliness. The indwelling Holy Spirit will became our guide, our light. This is not to say that we should not learn anything from another person, we can, but we need not get stranded in one thing after another. Too often a person gets loosened from one snare than becomes entangled in another. The way that most people eat now is good enough to keep them spiritually juvenile all their lives, and always under the spiritual leadership of another person, because they don’t have any light in themselves. We should not want a flickering light in our body. A flickering light keeps people in bondage. We need The Holy Spirit to blaze in our body. The light of God’s Holy Spirit removes a person from being a follower of man to freedom. As I was free to walk away from the Watchtower organization the rest of Jehovah’s Witnesses are free also. The only difference is, they don’t know it.
The Watchtower organization graciously does not impose a particular diet on it’s followers, but is quick to tell them not to listen to anyone else who is teaching the word of God. Notwithstanding the spiritual and physical malnutrition of their members, the congregations are applauded and praised with these words: "Jehovah hand picked each one of you of all the billions of people on the earth to be part of his only earthy organization. This is a very special privilege". This atmosphere brings about what is spoken of at ( Isaiah 5: 13). The people are captives because they have no knowledge. Their leaders, their honorable men don’t know what they are talking about. They definitely are not speaking truth.
"These things I write you about those who are trying to mislead you. and as for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you and you do not need anyone to be teaching you; but as the anointing from him is teaching you about all things and is true and is no lie, and just as it has taught you remain in union with him" (1 John 2: 27).
"And they will by no means teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother saying: Know Jehovah/Yah For they will all know me, from the least one to the greatest one of them" ( Hebrew 8:11).
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