Could the Watchtower Religion be Anti-Christ? Let them tell you

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Terry

JEHOVAH WORSHIP vs JESUS WORSHIP
Identify Anti-Christ worship
The Watchtower Society does not contain people who worship Jesus. This is on purpose.
The Watchtower Society does not refer to members as Jesus' Witnesses. This is on purpose.
Sparingly, from time to time, members have been called Jehovah's christian Witnesses. The identifying "Jesus" is omitted. This is on purpose.
If we ask the question: Jehovah's Witnesses vs Christianity: what really IS the difference?--we might be startled at the answer.
Arguing Doctrines misses the point.
JEHOVAH gave one tiny group of people among all of mankind a perfect law through Moses.
Jehovah played favorites. He was a God of exclusivity. US vs THEM.
Take a look at the 10 Commandments .
Trust. Respect. Holiness. Renewal. Family. Chastity. Justice. Honesty. Truth. Purity. Generosity.
Matt 22:36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
37-40 "Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Note to self: JESUS changed something! Jesus made WORSHIP PERSONAL.
Jehovah was a moral Dictator demanding OBEDIENCE.
Jesus was a Son of Man imploring LOVE as motive for fine positive behavior.
Jehovah instituted Priests who protected obedient Jews from retaliation by an angry deity.
Jesus inserted himself between Death and a suffering humanity.
Jehovah demanded perfection from wretched unworthy sinners. He provided ritual cleansing. One year at a time.
Jesus offered Himself as a buffer once for all time and completely overlooked man's flaws.
Jehovah's Witnesses prefer the Dictator who demands Obedience to the Jesus who requires LOVE.
Jehovah's Witnesses have leaders who are Dictators demanding constant proof of obedience and marginalize Jesus; to the point of marginalizing him and denying him any worship whatsoever.
The Governing Body replaces Jesus and accepts and demands the maternal love of a Mother.
Jehovah's 10 commandments continually exposed the flaws of humanity and kept the focus on one narrow gene pool of Jews.
Jesus 2 commandments suspended condemnation for the flaw of humanity and asserted there were no superior genders, races or supererogations.
Jehovah required the constant slaughter of animals and their bloodshed to appease his anger toward obedient Jews.
Jesus offered a celebration (Lord's Evening Meal) of bread and wine in place of actual bloodshed and sacrifice and did the heavy-lifting on behalf of those weaker than himself.
Jehovah's Witnesses deny the majority of members participation in this celebration and restrict it to only one performance by elite members once a year. Everbody else is reduced to bystanders.
Is it any wonder no Jesus' Witnesses knock on your door and offer magazines sent by the Watchtower Society?
Their heart's desire is for Obedience and continual proof of same which reflect the bondage of humanity to priesthood. Their Governing Body is the modern priesthood.
Christianity has been their avowed enemy from the birth of the Watchtower religion. Labeling them as Christendom, Jehovah's witless members have been made fighters against rather than recipients of the LOVE of Jesus.
Pause and reflect on this decision. Jehovah worship vs Jesus worship.
What is the Watchtower saying about its own values and leadership?
You cannot be a Jehovah's Witness and worship Jesus rather than Jehovah!
Consider their own words below:
"Should we worship Jesus?
...the answer to the above question must be that no distinct worship is to be rendered to Jesus Christ now glorified in heaven.
Our worship is to go to Jehovah God. However, we show the proper regard for God's only-begotten Son by rendering our worship to God through and in the name of Jesus Christ. Even now when we kneel in prayer, as Paul did according to Ephesians 3:14-19, we offer prayer in the name of Jesus Christ in obedience to his own directions (John 15:16; 16:23-26), but the prayer itself is addressed, not to Jesus, but to God his Father. In this way we keep things in their relative positions." Watchtower 1954 Jan 1 p.31
"... Jehovah's witnesses say that it is unscriptural for worshipers of the living and true God to render worship to the Son of God, Jesus Christ" Watchtower 1964 Nov 1 p.671
"Though some claim that prayer may properly be addressed to others, such as to God's Son, the evidence is emphatically to the contrary." Insight on the Scriptures Volume 2 p.667
The Watchtower religion clearly and repeatedly identify themselves as ANTI-CHRIST worshippers.
N.drew

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city! She heeded no voice, She accepted no instruction. She did not trust in the LORD, She did not draw near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They leave nothing for the morning. Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law. The LORD is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the unjust knows no shame. Zephaniah 3:1-6
You can argue that it was fulfilled a long time ago. Fine, have some fun. But if we of the conclusion of all those things had actually LEARNED from it (some have) it would have proved to be a HELPER. If Israel had proved to be a helper to the world by it's example, it would have found forgiveness for itself (it's spiritual). But instead they came MOCKING Israel. They are the worst anti-semetics. They should be stopped. How are they anti Israel (which means peace)? They condemn the whole nation from the start till now.
When they took the NAME that is when ..." "I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith. .... became effective.
HIS divorce frome HIS NAME
Terry

I wish I could understand the meaning of that post, N.drew. I wish....
N.drew

Israel was a shadow of the things to come. They were not to imitate, they were to learn from. World did not learn from them.
By not learning from them we have made the nation (as a whole from time beginning to now) vain (worthless).
The name meaning divorce, that's easy to see, isn't it? If your name identified a company, would you feel OK about it publicly failing? So then Jehovah would stay with HIS NAME until the end. Like a captain of a ship. It means with the name comes the blessing. Remember where the ark settled there was a blessing? It's similar to that. The NAME is a protection for them, not because of the POWER of it but for the weakness. They are making the Christ weak. Lies are the enemy. How many lies do they have? And they are all in the NAME of the HOLY ONE.
N.drew

It means if institutions had learned from the mistakes, some small, some very grave, then the ones who commited those sins at first would have SOMETHING to feel good about. Do you not see that?
N.drew

Terry, if you made a grave mistake, and you knew it, then because of your grave mistake someone else committed it again, and you knew it, how would you feel? Most people would feel double bad. Some other people would learn to lie because it would be too much to bear, some others would learn to shut off their compassion and say good for me I have another sinner after myself. See how the world can spiral downwards if we are not learning and forgiving?
I believe The Nation of Israel is a gift to world for knowledge and learning forgiveness. If we do not learn what we need to know as a world, we will make it all vanity. Which is what is happening. "To get out" as in "come out of the great tribulation" is what I believe I am doing. I want no part of the vanity. God knows.
N.drew

Yes the Watchtower is the worst anti-christ, not because they are anti Jesus so much as because they are misleading and being misled. They are at the root of the quarrel it seems.
It's in the Bible
Terry

Israel is called israel which takes the name of a person who was HUMAN. Jacob's name was changed to Israel.
They didn't call themselves Jehovah's Israelites.
The population of planet Earth was largely totally unaware of what Israel said, did or didn't do.
What was actually written down about the activities of israel, the Jews and their religion was in a language most could
NOT READ. It was HEBREW and regional variants.
Ptolemy, by tradition, instructed 72 scholars to write in GREEK (translate from Hebrew) what had been "revealed" by their founders.
'King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned. He entered each one's room and said: "Write for me the Torah of Moshe, your teacher." God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.' ( Tractate Megillah)
The enormous cultural changes wrought under Alexander's conquests made such a translation necessary inasmuch as the "civilized" world now was saturated in Greek.
N.drew says:
I believe The Nation of Israel is a gift to world for knowledge and learning forgiveness.
Unfortunately, under the Maccabees, for 102 years the Jews persecuted anybody around them wanting freedom of religion. The Messianic ideal
promulgated in the Septuagint, Torah, Mishna ignited political aspirations that resulted in Temple destruction in 66 c.e.
The viral acceptance of Jesus as that Messianic leader was the final nail in the coffin of Judaism as a benign ideal. Christian authors and the subsequent Catholic Church for 1500 years broadbrushed them as Christ-killers deserving persecution.
N.drew

No Terry, Abraham was called friend.
Isaiah 41:8 "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,
"God strives," another name of Jacob and his desc.
2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God. James 2:23
Earth was given to man. If you had given it to man who would you leave it in the care of?
Your friend. Someone you can TRUST.
That is what Israel was.
Luke 7:28
It means John was just one least member of the God's Kingdom (God who is love, His will be done). It takes many to accomplish God's Kingdom. Abraham was the first, hopefully John wasn't the last.
N.drew

Maybe computer program is telling us something. Interpretation. If your not so careful how you cut and paste computer runs with it

Could the Watchtower Religion be Anti-Christ? Let them tell you

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