Amos writes that “surely the Lord God will do nothing except he reveal it unto his servants, the prophets.” (Amos 3:7) Now, in the latter days, the “truth,” we’re told, has been made known to his ministerial “slaves” in New York—men who guide God’s Kingdom and who sit in judgment over this generation, not as prophets, but as representatives of Jehovah, himself.
But if true, where are the prophecies in the Bible that portend such a holy and true event? It certainly would be appropriate for God to have foreseen, and prophesied, these things.
So where in the scriptures do we see the hand of God in the creation of this latter-day kingdom?
The scriptures also state that in the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be established. Are we to take the word of the Jehovah’s Witness Governing Body that they are who they say they are? Whenever God has done anything on Earth, he has revealed it to his servants, the prophets, and has established it in the mouths of two or three witnesses. It appears that though God chose Moses to warn the Egyptians, and had numerous witnesses who saw the plagues and subsequent miracles in the deserts of Egypt and Sinai, and sent Jesus to warn the world, and the Jews, of coming judgments, and to die for the world, and that there were witnesses to the many miracles he did, including his resurrection from the dead; that he did all of these things, yet has wholly decided to remain silent on the mission and calling of his Governing Body in the latter days. How can this be?
At no time has the Governing Body received any revelation from God, nor have they been informed of their callings before the Church.
Anciently, God gave Peter the keys of the kingdom, so that what they, the apostles, bound on Earth would be bound in Heaven. That meant that no one could baptize or confer the Holy Spirit without there being those keys. If a Christian were to baptize men and women without the authority of the Church, which held those keys, the baptism would carry no validity. The same thing goes on with the Governing Body. If a Jehovah's Witness were to baptize a man or woman today without the approval of the local church and, essentially, the Governing Body of the Jehovah's Witnesses, that baptism would not be accepted by Jehovah, right? But for this to happen, the Jehovah's Witnesses would have to have the keys of the kingdom. And if they were given by Jesus to the apostles, how did they end up in the possession of the Governing Body?
So the foundational validity of the Governing Body’s claims are challenged here by three scriptural requirements that the Jehovah's Witnesses don’t possess, namely:
- They have no basis in scripture written by the prophets in the Bible. No prophecies, nothing.
- They have no witnesses of their divine calling. No angels, no theophanies, no visions, and,
- They have no claim to the keys of the kingdom, having never claimed to have received them.
To me, these are insurmountable points that rob the Governing Body of the Jehovah's Witnesses of any claims of representing God.
Or am I wrong?