Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-07-2013 WT Study (FEBRUARY 15, 2013, pages 3-7)(HERITAGE)
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THIS IS OUR
SPIRITUAL HERITAGE
“This is the heritage of
Jehovah’s servants.”
—ISA. 54:17, Byington.
HOW WOULD YOU ANSWER?
What has God done to preserve
his written Word?
How has Jehovah’s name been
preserved for the use of his
people?
Explain how God has preserved
spiritual truth despite assaults on it.
OPENING COMMENTS
Does the WTS truly use historic methods? Is their history and documents open to all or just in-house staff? Does the WTS compare historical reports from other sources or primary sources outside the WTS.
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1. What has Jehovah lovingly preserved for the benefit of
mankind?
JEHOVAH, “the living and enduring God,” has preserved
his life-giving message for mankind. It is sure
to last, for “the saying [or, “word,” Byington] of Jehovah
endures forever.” (1 Pet. 1:23-25) How grateful
we are that Jehovah has lovingly preserved such vital
information in his written Word, the Bible!
COMMENTS
Note that the WTS allows themselves to use a snippet from another translation.
He may have preserved the bible, but has he. How many original manuscripts exist today? How accurate are they. But, God was not able to preserve his real name.
2. In his written Word, what has God preserved for the use
of his people?
2 In his Word, God has preserved for the use of
his people the very name he chose for himself. The
Scriptures first mention “Jehovah God” in “a history
of the heavens and the earth.” (Gen. 2:4) God’s
name was miraculously inscribed several times on
the stone tablets bearing the Ten Commandments.
For instance, the first commandment began: “I am Jehovah
your God.” (Ex. 20:1-17) God’s name lives on
because the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has preserved
his Word and his name despite all satanic efforts to
eliminate them.—Ps. 73:28.
COMMENTS
Has he preserved his name but rather a construct by a Spanish monk, part of false religion?
3. Though religious error abounds, what has God preserved?
3 In his Word, Jehovah has also preserved the
truth. Though religious error abounds worldwide,
how thankful we are that God has given us spiritual
light and truth! (Read Psalm 43:3, 4.) Whereas
the masses of mankind walk in darkness, we joyfully
keep on walking in God-given spiritual light.—1 John
1:6, 7.
COMMENTS
If God cannot protect his true name, how could he preserve truth and why would he need humans or their organization to do so?
The WTS would like you to believe that truth and light only come through the WTS that they are only way to God. (Remember Jesus?)
*** w94 10/1 p. 8 The Bible—A Book Meant to Be Understood ***
Even as Bible prophecy pointed forward to the Messiah, it also directs us to the close-knit body of anointed Christian Witnesses that now serve as the faithful and discreet slave. It helps us to understand the Word of God. All who want to understand the Bible should appreciate that the “greatly diversified wisdom of God” can become known only through Jehovah’s channel of communication, the faithful and discreet slave.—John 6:68.
WE HAVE A HERITAGE TO BE CHERISHED
4, 5. What special privilege has been ours since the year
1931?
4 As Christians, we have a precious heritage. Says
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary: “A country’s heritage
is all the qualities, traditions, or features of life
there that have continued over many years and have
been passed on from one generation to
another.” Our spiritual heritage includes
the blessing of enjoying accurate knowledge
of God’s Word and a clear understanding
of the truth about him and his
purposes. It also involves a very special
privilege.
COMMENTS
Christians = only jws
OUR spiritual heritage = only jws
ACCURATE knowledge (of God’s Word as defined by WTS publications)
CLEAR understanding of the TRUTH (truth according to the WTS, ever-changing)
Very special PRIVILEGE (only for jws)
So did the WTS choose this dictionary for some special reason? At least they did cite the source not just saying “one dictionary says.”
5 That privilege became part of our
spiritual legacy at our convention in Columbus,
Ohio, U.S.A., in 1931. The letters
“JW” appeared on the printed program.
One sister said: “Speculations
were made as to what JW stood for—Just
Wait, Just Watch, and the correct one.”
We had been called Bible Students, but
we adopted the name Jehovah’s Witnesses
by resolution on Sunday, July 26,
1931. It was a thrill to receive that Scriptural
name. (Read Isaiah 43:12.) “I will
never forget the tremendous shout and
applause that vibrated through that
meeting place,” recalled one brother. No
one else in the world wanted that name,
but God has blessed us in the use of it for
over eight decades. What a special privilege
it is to be Jehovah’s Witnesses!
COMMENTS
Were Jesus’ followers ever addressed as Jehovah’s Witnesses?
(Acts 1:8) but YOU will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon YOU, and YOU will be witnesses of me (Jesus) both in Jerusalem and in all Ju·de′a and Sa·mar′i·a and to the most distant part of the earth.”
(Revelation 1:9) . . .I John, YOUR brother and a sharer with YOU in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in company with Jesus, came to be in the isle that is called Pat′mos for speaking about God and bearing witness to Jesus.
(Revelation 12:16, 17) . . .. 17 And the dragon grew wrathful at the woman, and went off to wage war with the remaining ones of her seed, who observe the commandments of God and have the work of bearing witness to Jesus.
(Revelation 17:6) 6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.. . .
(Revelation 19:10) . . .All I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who have the work of witnessing to Jesus. Worship God; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires prophesying.”
Not a special PRIVILEGE to be a CHRISTIAN which was the name given to Jesus’ followers by DIVINE PROVIDENCE?
(Acts 11:25, 26) 25 So he went off to Tarsus to make a thorough search for Saul 26 and, after he found him, he brought him to Antioch. It thus came about that for a whole year they gathered together with them in the congregation and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
6. Our spiritual heritage includes what accurate
information?
6 Our spiritual heritage includes a
wealth of accurate and valuable information
from the past. For example, consider
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These patriarchs
and their families must have had
discussions about how to please Jehovah.
So it is not surprising that upright
Joseph rejected sexual immorality so as
not to “sin against God.” (Gen. 39:7-9)
Christian traditions were also handed
down orally or by example. Among these
were points regarding the Lord’s Evening
Meal that the apostle Paul passed
on to Christian congregations. (1 Cor. 11:
2, 23) Today, details needed for us to worship
God “with spirit and truth” are part
of his written Word. (Read John 4:23,
24.) The Bible is for the enlightenment
of all mankind, but we as Jehovah’s servants
especially appreciate it.
COMMENTS
Must have had?
While Joseph may have recognized personally about sexual immorality (actually adultery because having sex with multiple single women was not a sin then)
Judah was not so moral. But the WTS excuses him saying there was no Mosaic law yet. The same could be said of Joseph, no Mosaic law.
*** w11 7/1 p. 30 How to Resist Temptation ***
Why, do you think, did Joseph feel that committing adultery would be a sin against God when, at the time, there was no law from God against adultery?
*** w03 12/1 p. 20 Do You Always Need a Bible Command? ***
Consider the example of Joseph. At the time he was confronting the immoral advances of Potiphar’s wife, there was no divinely inspired written law against adultery. Yet, even without a direct law, Joseph perceived that adultery was a sin not only against his own conscience but also “against God.” (Genesis 39:9) Evidently, Joseph recognized that adultery was in violation of God’s thinking and will, as expressed in Eden.—Genesis 2:24.
*** w02 4/15 pp. 20-21 par. 10 Guide Your Steps by Godly Principles ***
Though Jehovah had not yet given a written law against adultery and no divine sentence was prescribed for having relations with another man’s wife , Joseph was aware of the principles of God-ordained marital faithfulness
*** w73 6/15 p. 384 Questions From Readers ***
As far as Judah was concerned, he thought he was having relations with a prostitute. In this he was not acting right, for it was God’s original purpose for a man to have relations with his wife and not for the earth to be filled with prostitutes. Still, Judah did not sin in the sense of transgressing a specific command of God’s law, for the Mosaic law was not given until much later.—Gen. 2:24; compare Leviticus 19:29.
7. Our legacy includes what heartening promise?
7 In part, our spiritual heritage consists
of more recently published accounts
proving that ‘Jehovah is on our
side.’ (Ps. 118:7) This makes us feel secure,
even when we are persecuted. A
heartening part of our ever-increasing
spiritual heritage is this promise: “ ‘Any
weapon whatever that will be formed
against you will have no success, and any
tongue at all that will rise up against you
in the judgment you will condemn. This
is the hereditary possession [or, “heritage,”
By] of the servants of Jehovah, and
their righteousness is from me,’ is the utterance
of Jehovah.” (Isa. 54:17) Nothing
in Satan’s arsenal of weapons can do us
permanent harm.
COMMENTS
I wonder what non-jws think that the WTS only has God’s blessing?
This shows how important the WTS thinks they are, that they are exclusively Satan’s target. Satan doesn’t have to do anything, the WTS will sink themselves.
Picture: We were delighted to accept the name Jehovah’s
Witnesses at our convention in 1931
8. What will we consider in this article and in
the next?
8 Satan has tried to destroy God’s
Word, eliminate the name Jehovah, and
suppress the truth. But he certainly is
no match for Jehovah, who has foiled all
these efforts. In this article and in the
next, we will see (1) how God has preserved
his Word; (2) how Jehovah has
seen to the preservation of his name;
and (3) how our heavenly Father is the
Source and Preserver of the truth we enjoy.
COMMENTS
Satan has not destroyed God’s name, God has failed to preserve his actual name.
JEHOVAH HAS PRESERVED HIS WORD
9-11. What examples show that the Bible has
survived various assaults?
9 Jehovah has preserved his Word
against all odds. Says the Enciclopedia
Cattolica (Catholic Encyclopedia): “In 1229,
the Council of Toulouse prohibited
laymen from using them [vernacular
Bibles] in view of the fight against
the Albigenses and the Waldenses . . .
The assembly held in 1234 in Tarragona,
Spain, under James I issued a similar
prohibition. . . . The Roman See intervened
in the matter for the first time
in 1559, when Paul IV’s Index forbade
the printing and possession of vernacular
B[ibles] without the permission of
the Holy Office.”
COMMENTS
So what does the WTS leave out…
And does the WTS mention that since 1950 with the first volume of the NWT, it has strongly discouraged jws from using other translations. For 71 years the WTS had managed to teach their “truth” with other Bibles. Was the truth only available in the NWT?
*** w85 11/1 p. 29 Part 1—Modern Stewardship of God’s Sacred Word ***
Turning to Appendix 1A, we find the title: “The Divine Name in the Hebrew Scriptures.” Under this title, the appendix shows that the New World Translation renders YHWH as Jehovah all 6,827 times that it occurs in the traditional Hebrew text. It also adds 146 warranted restorations, making a grand total of 6,973 times that the name Jehovah appears from Genesis to Malachi. No other Bible translation gives this rightful place to Jehovah’s name. That alone makes the New World Translation superior to all others .
Really, then why does the WTS say the following:
*** w92 12/15 p. 9 par. 5 Jehovah, the Doer of Wondrous Things ***
We can be grateful that the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, as well as a number of other careful translations, have restored the divine name to its rightful place in God’s Word.
10 Despite various assaults on the Bible,
it has been preserved. About 1382,
John Wycliffe and his associates produced
the first Bible translation in English.
Another Bible translator was William
Tyndale, who was put to death in
1536. Tied to a stake, he reportedly cried
out, “Lord, open the eyes of the king
of England.” Then he was strangled and
burned.
COMMENTS
While the bible might have been preserved, the accurate pronunciation of God’s name was not. How could an all-powerful God preserve one without preserving the other?
If the WTS could execute disobedient jws, would they? The only thing holding the WTS back now is that secular governments do not allow it. “Theocratic nations” only Israel.
*** w52 11/15 p. 703 Questions From Readers ***
We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. “Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, . . . And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.”—Deut. 13:6-11, AS.
Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God’s law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship.
11 The Bible has survived in the face
of opposition. In 1535, for instance, the
English translation of the Bible by Miles
Coverdale came on the scene. Coverdale
used Tyndale’s rendition of the “New
Testament” and of the “Old Testament”
from Genesis through Chronicles. He
translated other parts of the Scriptures
from Latin and from Martin Luther’s Bible
in German. Today, the New World
Translation of the Holy Scriptures is appreciated
for its clarity, fidelity to the Bible
text, and usefulness in our ministry. We
rejoice that no demonic or human power
will ever block the preservation of Jehovah’s
Word.
COMMENTS
Other than jws, how many people have a NWT recognizing its superiority over other bibles?
While the WTS occasionally quotes from other translations in its publications, what if you as a jw in the audience chose to use another translation to read in your answer?
JEHOVAH’S PRESERVATION OF HIS NAME
12. What role has the New World Translation
played in the preservation of the divine name?
12 Jehovah God has seen to it that his
name is preserved in his Word. In this
regard, the New World Translation is
playing a major role. In the introduction,
From Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Such men as Tyndale gave their lives
for the sake of God’s Word
its committee of dedicated translators
wrote: “The foremost feature of this
translation is the restoration of the divine
name to its rightful place in the English
text. It has been done, using the
commonly accepted English form ‘Jehovah’
6,973 times in the Hebrew Scriptures
and 237 times in the Christian
Greek Scriptures.” The New World Translation
is now available, in whole or in
part, in over 116 languages, and more
than 178,545,862 copies have been
printed.
COMMENTS
Has God’s name been preserved or only a 1270 A.D. version crafted by a Spanish monk? So was this by holy spirit?
*** w80 2/1 p. 11 The Divine Name in Later Times ***
Interestingly, Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, first rendered the divine name as “Jehova.” This form appeared in his book Pugeo Fidei, published in 1270 C.E.—over 700 years ago.
Here is how the WTS explains it away. Some scholars, other scholars—who? Probably?
*** w08 9/1 p. 31 Why Use God’s Name if Its Pronunciation Is Uncertain? ***
Some scholars , though, recommend the pronunciation “Yahweh.” Is that closer to the original pronunciation? No one can be certain. Actually, other scholars have cited reasons for not using this pronunciation. Of course, Bible names, when spoken in a modern-day language, probably sound nothing like the original Hebrew, and hardly anyone objects. This is because these names have become part of our language and they are easily recognized. So it is with the name Jehovah.
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/jehovah-yahweh.php
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/jehovah.php
13. Why can it be said that people have known
God’s name since the creation of mankind?
13 People have known God’s name
since the creation of mankind. Adam
and Eve were aware of it, and they knew
exactly how to pronounce it. When Ham
showed disrespect for his father after
the Flood, Noah said: “Blessed be Jehovah,
Shem’s God, and let [Ham’s son]
Canaan become a slave to him.” (Gen.
4:1; 9:26) God himself declared: “I am Jehovah.
That is my name; and to no one
else shall I give my own glory.” God
also stated: “I am Jehovah, and there is
no one else. With the exception of me
there is no God.” (Isa. 42:8; 45:5) Jehovah
has seen to it that his name has
been preserved and made known to people
around the earth. How privileged we
are to use the name Jehovah and serve
as his Witnesses! In effect, we cry out:
“In the name of our God we shall lift our
banners.”—Ps. 20:5.
COMMENTS
So after Adam and Eve sinned, did they forget how to pronounce God’s name and could not pass it on to their children and grandchildren, after all Adam lived 930 years. The WTS says the flood came in 2370 BCE, meaning that Noah would have been just the 3 rd generation. Could they have forgotten by then….down through the Israelite history to Jesus day, while the Jews might not have used God’s name, they had not forgotten what it was, certainly Jesus knew what it was and did he use it, know the correct pronunciation and share it with his followers?
Why could God preserve the bible but not his true name?
Where in the NT does the phrase Jehovah’s Witnesses or witnesses of Jehovah occur? Nowhere.
14. Other than in the Bible, where can God’s
name be found?
14 God’s name does not appear only
in the Bible. Consider the Moabite
Stone, found at Dhiban (Dibon), 13 miles
(21 km) east of the Dead Sea. The stone
mentions Israel’s King Omri and gives
Moabite King Mesha’s version of his re-
volt against Israel. (1 Ki. 16:28; 2 Ki. 1:1;
3:4, 5) But the Moabite Stone is of special
interest because God’s name appears on
it in Tetragrammaton form. The Tetragrammaton
also appears repeatedly in
the Lachish Letters, earthenware fragments
found in Israel.
COMMENTS
Yes, the 4 letters, but no vowels, so no way of knowing how to pronounce God’s name.
15. What is the Septuagint, and how did it come
about?
15 Early Bible translators had a part
in the preservation of the divine
name. After their exile in Babylon from
607 B.C.E. to 537 B.C.E., many Jews did
not return to Judah and Israel. By the
third century B.C.E., Alexandria, Egypt,
had become the home of numerous Jews
who needed a translation of the Hebrew
Scriptures into Greek, then an international
language. Completed by the
second century B.C.E., that version is the
Septuagint. Some copies of it contain the
name Jehovah in its Hebrew form.
COMMENTS
In its “Hebrew” form? Any vowels?
16. Give an example of the use of God’s name
in a book first published in the year 1640.
16 The divine name is found in the Bay
Psalm Book, the first piece of literature
published in England’s American colonies.
Its original edition (printed in 1640)
contains the Psalms, translated from Hebrew
into the English of that day. It uses
God’s name in such passages as Psalm
1:1, 2, which says that a “blessed man”
does not walk in the advice of the wicked,
“but in the law of Iehovah, is his longing
delight.” For more information about
God’s name, see the brochure The Divine
Name That Will Endure Forever.
COMMENTS
Is the true form and pronunciation in the Bay Psalm Book or the Spanish monk crafting of Jehovah, truly the name Adam would have used? Or Jesus would have used?
JEHOVAH PRESERVES
SPIRITUAL TRUTH
17, 18. (a) How would you define the word
“truth”? (b) “The truth of the good news” consists
of what?
17 We joyfully serve “Jehovah the God
of truth.” (Ps. 31:5) “The truth about
something is all the facts about it, rather
than things that are imagined or invented,”
says Collins Cobuild English Dictionary.
In Biblical Hebrew, the term often
translated “truth” pertains to something
that is true, trustworthy, faithful, or factual.
The Greek word rendered “truth”
denotes that which conforms to fact or to
what is proper and right.
COMMENTS
So is “Jehovah” the facts about God’s name or something imagined or invented. Is it right or proper?
18 Jehovah has preserved spiritual
truth and has made knowledge of it
available to us in ever-increasing abundance.
(2 John 1, 2) Our comprehension
of the truth steadily becomes clearer, for
“the path of the righteous ones is like
the bright light that is getting lighter
and lighter until the day is firmly established”!
(Prov. 4:18) Of course, we fully
agree with Jesus, who said in prayer to
God: “Your word is truth.” (John 17:17)
God’s written Word contains “the truth
of the good news,” which consists of the
whole body of Christian teachings. (Gal.
2:14) In part, these include facts about
Jehovah’s name, his sovereignty, Jesus’
ransom sacrifice, the resurrection, and
the Kingdom. Let us now consider how
God has preserved the truth despite Satan’s
attempts to suppress it.
COMMENTS
If God cannot provide the “spiritual truth” about how to pronounce this name, what kind of truth does the WTS offer. How bright can the light be if the fundamental aspect of WT truth leaves out the most important, his true name?
*** w08 9/1 p. 31 Why Use God’s Name if Its Pronunciation Is Uncertain? ***
Some scholars , though, recommend the pronunciation “Yahweh.” Is that closer to the original pronunciation? No one can be certain. Actually, other scholars have cited reasons for not using this pronunciation. Of course, Bible names, when spoken in a modern-day language, probably sound nothing like the original Hebrew, and hardly anyone objects. This is because these names have become part of our language and they are easily recognized. So it is with the name Jehovah.
JEHOVAH FOILS AN
ASSAULT ON THE TRUTH
19, 20. Who was Nimrod, and what endeavor
failed in his day?
19 After the Flood, there was a saying:
“Just like Nimrod a mighty hunter
in opposition to Jehovah.” (Gen. 10:9)
As an opposer of Jehovah God, Nimrod
in effect worshipped Satan and was like
those opposers to whom Jesus said: “You
are from your father the Devil, and you
wish to do the desires of your father.
That one . . . did not stand fast in the
truth.”—John 8:44.
COMMENTS
“in effect” worshipped Satan
I wonder if non-jws realize the WTS and its members believe they are all Satan worshippers. In effect that is.
*** w90 12/1 p. 6 Which God Should You Worship? ***
Satan has enormous influence. The apostle John said that “the whole world” is lying in his power, and Paul called him “the god of this system of things.” (1 John 5:19; 2 Corinthians 4:4) Hence, worship of any god apart from Jehovah is really worship of Satan.
20 Nimrod’s domain included Babel
and other cities between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers. (Gen. 10:10) It was possibly
under his direction that the building
of Babel and its tower began about
2269 B.C.E. Contrary to Jehovah’s will
that mankind spread throughout the
earth, those builders said: “Come on!
Let us build ourselves a city and also a
tower with its top in the heavens, and
let us make a celebrated name for ourselves,
for fear we may be scattered over
all the surface of the earth.” But that
scheme had to be abandoned when God
“confused the language of all the earth”
and scattered the would-be tower builders.
(Gen. 11:1-4, 8, 9) If Satan had thus
planned to start one religion with everyone
worshipping him, his plot was an
utter failure. Throughout human history,
the worship of Jehovah has prevailed
and is gaining momentum with each
passing day.
COMMENTS
POSSIBLY
IF
Noah and Shem were still alive…why then did they have no influence on Nimrod and their other descendants?
21, 22. (a) Why has false religion never posed
a serious threat to true worship? (b) What will
we consider in the following article?
21 Never has false religion posed a serious
threat to true worship. Why? Because
our Grand Instructor has seen to
the preservation of his written Word,
has kept his name before mankind, and
has been the limitless Source of spiritual
truth. (Isa. 30:20, 21) Worshipping
God in accord with the truth brings us
joy, but doing so requires that we remain
spiritually vigilant, relying fully on Jehovah
and following the guidance of his
holy spirit.
COMMENTS
Actually prior to 1950, the WTS taught that all religion was bad and that they were not a religion.
*** w51 3/15 p. 191 Questions From Readers ***
In the past we regarded “religion” as anything that was against God’s will. Now many brothers are using the expressions “true religion” and “false religion” to make a distinction. Is this advisable?— D. D., California.
The brothers are correct in using the qualifying adjectives “true” and “false” respecting religion, so as not to be misunderstood, especially by those outside the organization. In the past we have had to do so much needless explanation and extricating of ourselves from embarrassing positions by not being specific on this. footnotes of the New World Translation show the early use by Latin-speaking Christians of the term religio as the equivalent of the Greek term thres·kei′a. It simply means “form of worship”, of which there can be a true and a false kind. Study over the footnotes in the New World Translation on the texts at Acts 26:5, Colossians 2:18 and James 1:26, 27, and see how the footnote renderings allow for the use of the term “religion” or “religious”, though the texts themselves use the expressions “form of worship” or “formal worshiper”. Hence it is well to make clear our use of the term “religion” by qualifying it as “true” or “false”, if the context or setting does not do this sufficiently.
God’s true name has not been kept before humans only a form crafted by a member of an apostate religion.
22 In the next article, we will trace the
development of certain false doctrines.
We will find that these crumble when
tested in the light of the Scriptures.
Moreover, we will see how the incomparable
Preserver of truth, Jehovah, has
blessed us with true teachings that we
cherish as part of our spiritual heritage.
COMMENTS
Remember that the WTS will only use information that supports its view and discourage independent research in other sources. Not exactly how true historians approach things.
OUR spiritual heritage = only jws
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
Next week, DO YOU APPRECIATE OUR SPIRITUAL HERITAGE?
Will the WTS be truly professional in examining their history?
Love, Blondie