God's Channel Quote

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  • ClassAvenger
    ClassAvenger

    There's a quote on the Watchtower being God's Channel at the site http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/channel.htm. It lies between August 15, 1933 and November 1, 1933. This quote has a "?/??". I would like to know if anyone has the date on this magazine. It is not that important to me, but it is to a friend. The quote reads as follow in the page: *** Watchtower 1933 ?/?? p.276 ***
    [Not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM]

    It has pleased the lord to use The Watchtower as a means of conveying his message to his covenant people.

    [Emphasis Added]

    Thanks

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    Here are some related quotes you might enjoy.

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    You will be interested to learn that God has on earth a people, all of whom are prophets, or witnesses for God. In fact, they are known throughout the world as Jehovah's Witnesses.

    *** Watchtower 1964 June 15 pp.365-6 Jehovah, the God of Progressive Revelation ***
    THE KINGDOM'S ESTABLISHMENT
    22 As Jehovah revealed his truths by means of the first-century Christian congregation so he does today by means of the present-day Christian congregation. Through this agency he is having carried out prophesying on an intensified and unparalleled scale. All this activity is not an accident. Jehovah is the one behind all of it. The abundance of spiritual food and the amazing details of Jehovah's purposes that have been revealed to Jehovah's anointed witnesses are clear evidence that they are the ones mentioned by Jesus when he foretold a "faithful and discreet slave" class that would be used to dispense God's progressive revelations in these last days. [...]
    23 The holy spirit of Jehovah is working mightily today! How thankful we should be for the provision God has made of this slave class, the modern spiritual remnant, as they faithfully dispense the revealed truths of Jehovah! With these rich truths to light the way, Christians do not grope in this dark, jungle-like world as do the masses of people in Christendom and heathendom alike. To the contrary, Jehovah's faithful witnesses have been progressively brought to an understanding of Jehovah's purposes, which are clearer now than ever before in history. Their organization, being patterned after the first-century Christian congregation, is blessed by Jehovah. He has prospered their work of preaching "this good news of the kingdom" in 194 different lands to date. Each year they gather into the organization tens of thousands of new ministers, clearly a product of Jehovah's spirit operating through his invisible King-Son and his angelic representatives, then through his faithful slave class on earth today.-Matt. 24:14.

    *** Watchtower 1964 October 1 p.601 Pay Attention to Prophecy ***
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    *** Watchtower 1965 June 1 p.352 Questions from Readers ***
    New features of the work have required new methods, which has meant revisions and changes from time to time in organization instructions, but it is all a part of the advancement of Jehovah's theocratically controlled organization under the immediate direction of Jehovah God himself. Therefore, these revisions and changes are themselves fully theocratic, so they do not alter in any way the fully theocratic structure of the organization.

    *** Watchtower 1972 August 1 p.458 Loving Oversight of the Congregation of God ***
    THEOCRATIC APPOINTMENT IN THE CONGREGATION
    10 But who is at the head of this rapidly expanding congregation, you ask? Is it some brilliant, farsighted man, some human who is a master organizer? No, for the Christian congregation is operated theocratically, meaning that it recognizes the leadership only of Jehovah God as exercised through his Son and enthroned King, Jesus Christ. (Isa. 33:22; Heb. 12:2; Rev. 19:16) This is what makes the congregation theocratic in structure, adhering to God-rule. If an organization is to be fully theocratic, it must be directed and controlled altogether by God and by the forces he operates. It is vital, therefore, that each one recognize that Jesus Christ is the Head of the Christian congregation, as well as showing proper regard for those on earth who have been theocratically appointed to positions of oversight.-Phil. 2:9-11; 1 Cor. 11:3; Acts 14:23.

    *** Watchtower 1981 February 15 p.19 Do We Need Help to Understand the Bible? ***
    OUR VIEW OF THE "SLAVE"
    We can benefit from this consideration. If we have once established what instrument God is using as his "slave" to dispense spiritual food to his people, surely Jehovah is not pleased if we receive that food as though it might contain something harmful. We should have confidence in the channel God is using. At the Brooklyn headquarters from which the Bible publications of Jehovah's Witnesses emanate there are more mature Christian elders, both of the "remnant" and of the "other sheep," than anywhere else upon earth.

    *** Watchtower 1981 December 1 p.27 The Path of the Righteous Does Keep Getting Brighter ***
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    *** Watchtower 1983 February 15 p.12 You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth-But How? ***
    A third requirement is that we be associated with God's channel, his organization. ... Jehovah is using only one organization today to accomplish his will. To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it.

    The Watchtower recognizes the truth as belonging to Jehovah, and not to any creature. The Watchtower is not the instrument of any man or set of men. No man’s opinion is expressed in The Watchtower. God feeds his own people, and surely God uses those who love and serve him according to his own will.
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    Jehovah God is therefore the only Supreme Court of interpretation of His inspired word.... To such remnant of faithful servants of Jehovah God Christ Jesus has entrusted all “his goods”, or earthly interests of the Kingdom. This does not signify that the faithful remnant or society of Jehovah’s anointed witnesses are an earthly tribunal of interpretation, delegated to interpret the Scriptures and its prophecies. No; Christ Jesus the King has not entrusted that office to them. THE SUPREME COURT STILL INTERPRETS, thank God; and Christ Jesus, the Court’s official mouthpiece of interpretation, reserves to himself that office as head of Jehovah’s “faithful and wise servant” class. He merely uses the “servant” class to publish the interpretation after the Supreme Court by Christ Jesus reveals it.
    (Watchtower 1943 July 1 p. 202, 203)

  • hooberus
    hooberus

    The quote might come from a yearbook, it sounds similar to other yearbook quotes from the 30's like the 1937 and 1939 yearbook "channel" quotes.

  • ClassAvenger
    ClassAvenger

    The reason I need this quote is because this friend thinks it's that the lack of the date on the quote makes the rest invalid in the webpage. I hope I can find it soon. Thanks

  • pseudoxristos
    pseudoxristos

    The quote may actually come from: (Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1933 p. 247).

    I found the following by searching google. The formatting of these quotes are a little confusing.

    1933: "Enlightenment proceeds from Jehovah by and through Christ Jesus and is given to the faithful anointed on earth at the temple, and brings peace and consolation to them." (Watchtower 1933 p. 276) "It has pleased the Lord to use The Watchtower as a means of conveying his message to his covenant people." (Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1933 p. 247)
    http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/cultinformation/claimsofinspiration.html

    pseudo

  • hooberus
    hooberus
    The reason I need this quote is because this friend thinks it's that the lack of the date on the quote makes the rest invalid in the webpage. I hope I can find it soon. Thanks

    The Watchtower often quotes from others without providing the dates of the quotes, does this then invalidate the rest of the Watchtowers words? Besides the quotes page documents everyting else to a high degree, the lack of a specific date for a single quote, hardly disqualifies the site.

  • ClassAvenger
    ClassAvenger

    Yeah, and I have also seen how they misquote them. I need to get some books such as One Lord, Many Witnesses of William Barclay, an author who was misquoted in the magazine "Should You Believe in the Trinity?". I'll probably show it to her when I get it, although I don't think it will be of much impact on her.

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