This is not mine, and I check and didn't see me posting it in the past, but it’s appropriate with what Covid did to the door to door preaching work.
Considering we are living in the LAST DAYS, and EVERLASTING LIFE IS AT STAKE………
and the only means of SALVATION ------is the preaching work……..
WHY WOULD JEHOVAH ALLOW DOOR TO DOOR PREACHING TO STOP FOR A WHOLE YEAR-----MAYBE LONGER?????
All Jehovah’s Witnesses never noticed how dumb the door to door preaching work actually is.
JEHOVAH is the GREATEST EMERGENCY RESPONDER. And he is responding to the GREATEST EMERGENCY EVER IN HUMAN HISTORY.
THE GREATEST EMERGENCY IS THIS……….WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS.
And the only means for all people to be saved is to WARN THEM OF THE COMING DESTRUCTION----THE GREAT TRIBULATION FOLLOWED BY ARMAGEDDON.
Any person that dies at ARMAGEDDON… WILL DIE ETERNALLY WITH NO HOPE OF A RESURRECTION.
DO NOT FEAR, JEHOVAH IS THE GREAT EMERGENCY RESPONDER, and he has made available the GREATEST PREACHING WORK EVER through the Organization called; The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society ------AKA God Earthly Organization.
BUT WAIT……...
Imagine an Emergency Responder learns of an impending terrorist plot to detonate a bomb at a crowded concert.
Without intervention, the explosion will kill all 10,000 people in attendance.
He must somehow deliver urgent evacuation instructions to all in attendance as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, he has the authority to take the stage and use the sound system to address the crowd personally — and he has the expertise to successfully execute this strategy with 100% certainty.
However, he chooses another strategy.
He instead selects a SINGLE INDIVIDUAL in the crowd and privately whispers the vital evacuation instructions privately.
This random person must then write the warning and evacuation plan to the best of his ability and pass it to other attendees one by one on paper. As they receive the instructions they are to share this information. The
Emergency Responder then stands aside quietly.
After many hours the message is offered (often repeatedly) to all attendees, yet of the 10,000 people in attendance...only eight people heed the warning.
To make matters worse, thousands more attendees have since entered the arena, bringing the number of potential victims from 10,000 to 50,000. And many more are entering each minute. In fact, the rate of people entering the building now outpaces the number of people successfully receiving the warning!
This strange strategy was able to warn a paltry 0.1% of the crowd, actually less if we want to be real.
The remaining 99.9% of men, women, and children are now poised to be killed at any moment.
Such a method of emergency communication would be sadistically ineffective, and yet Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that their God is using a method so similar that my analogy scarcely qualifies as one.
According to the Watchtower Organization, God wishes to save as many people as possible from the approaching catastrophe of Armageddon.
The key to survival is to simply recognize the sovereignty of the one true god. This isn’t too challenging a hurdle. Nothing is too fantastic for an omnipotent god; surely just making people aware that he exists should be simple.
Clear your mind of the concept of preaching and imagine you had unlimited power and the desire to save all of humanity by making them aware that you exist. There are no bad ideas here. Not even the sky is the limit.
Could you reveal your godliness unequivocally to the world? Of course you could.
Perhaps a simultaneous personal vision occurs to each human on earth. Made clear in every language at every comprehension level. These synchronized revelations could be sent clearly and beautifully through every culture and into every land.
From the boardrooms executives atop of the tallest skyscrapers to the tribes people hunting amongst the deepest jungle brush. Like a live, celestial broadcast the truth and the hope of everlasting life can be made clear and fairly to all. It would be irrefutable and instantaneous. Anyone choosing to disregard may do so by their own will. The rest may be saved knowing that their survival was not left in the hands of imperfect humans.
Could this be done?
Of course; and we should not accept any logistical limitations for an omnipotent god.
The chambered response is likely “It would be too easy for people to believe.”
Too easy?! Too easy to be saved? Too easy for God’s name to be vindicated? Is that not God’s prime concern? Why on earth should it be anything less than easy?
This idea of a public revelation shouldn’t seem radical. Scripture is full of precedent set for human revelations...they’ve just traditionally had smaller audiences (think Abram, Noah, Moses, or John).
Knowing that public revelation is an option----- let’s reconsider the approach we’ve accepted as the gold standard — --------THE PREACHING WORK.
Watchtower claims that god, like our Emergency Responder, privately revealed his means of salvation to one Charles Taze Russell — a random businessman from Pittsburgh. Russell’s expanding printing company continues to spread this written interpretation through literature to whomever happens to accept it.
Now,
more than 100 years later, this message has reached an embarrassing
0.1% of the world’s population.
This leaves the remaining 99.9% of
the planet’s population supposedly poised for complete
extermination.
Additionally, the recruitment work of Jehovah’s Witnesses does not keep pace with the additional non-JWs being born each day. (385,000 babies born each day)
These new “attendees” flood through the “arena” entrance every minute while we’re having a hard enough time passing notes as it is!
In both the analogy and the Witness doctrine, the more time that passes, the greater the loss of life (and the the larger funeral pyre will be need to be to accommodate the corpses). If that outlook isn’t grim enough, add to it that according to Watchtower, their God is the mastermind of the deadly plot itself. T
his renders their version of God …..both the Emergency Responder...and the terrorist.
The fault in my analogy is, of course, that there is no imminent divine threat to life, nor an Emergency Responder that would ever conjure such an absurd strategy.
There’s just a religion peddling such nonsense.
Watchtower claims that God has left the world’s most important message of salvation in the hands of self-evidently ineffectual humans — to which they have designated themselves as the spearhead (a claim which has yielded only self-enrichment for the past 100 years).
The false doctrine of a literal Armageddon is not only unscriptural,
.....but stands at strict odds with the concept of an all-powerful and loving God.
An all-powerful God would have the ability to make his presence unequivocally known and deliver his message clearly and with zero ambiguity. He would maximize salvation and, if he “wanted” to save ALL of humanity, he would accomplish exactly his wish.
And all-loving god could choose no other option.