You people leave me very perplexed being that you either
were are still part of an organization in which the BIBLE is suppose to be
read. It seems to me that no one has ever read it. All that is ever done here on
this site is ranting and raving about the errors of the WTS/GB.
Are y’all correct in what you
point out about the errors/lies/deceitfulness of the WTS/GB…YES you are.
Does that mean they must not be
the correct religion (God’s people)…NO, to the contrary it identifies them even
more so to be such.
[9-15-10
WT- The Governing Body publishes spiritually encouraging literature
in many languages. This spiritual food is based on God’s Word.
Thus, what is taught is not from men but from Jehovah.—Isa. 54:13.]
[Ezekiel
13:1 And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying: 2
“Son of man, prophesy concerning the prophets of Israel who are prophesying,
and you must say to those prophesying out of their own heart, ‘Hear the word of
Jehovah. 3 This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said:
“Woe to the stupid prophets, who are walking after their own spirit, when there
is nothing that they have seen! 4 Like foxes in the
devastated places are what your own prophets have become, O Israel. 5
YOU men will certainly not go up into the gaps, neither will YOU build up a
stone wall in behalf of the house of Israel, in order to stand in the battle in
the day of Jehovah.” 6 “They have visioned what is untrue and
a lying divination, those who are saying, ‘The utterance of Jehovah is,’
when Jehovah himself has not sent them, and they have waited to have a word
come true. 7 Is it not an untrue vision that YOU men have
visioned, and a lying divination that YOU have said, when saying, ‘The
utterance of Jehovah is,’ when I myself have spoken nothing?”’ 8
“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “‘For the reason
that YOU men have spoken untruth and YOU have visioned a lie, therefore here I
am against YOU,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.” 9
And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are visioning untruth and
that are divining a lie. In the intimate group of my people they will not
continue on, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be
written, and to the soil of Israel they will not come; and YOU people will have
to know that I am the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, 10 for the reason,
yes, for the reason that they have led my people astray, saying, “There is
peace!” when there is no peace, and there is one that is building a partition
wall, but in vain there are those plastering it with whitewash.’11
“Say to those plastering with whitewash that it will fall. A
flooding downpour will certainly occur, and YOU, O hailstones, will fall, and a
blast of windstorms itself will cause a splitting. 12 And,
look! the wall must fall. Will it not be said to YOU men, ‘Where is the coating
with which YOU did the plastering?’13 “Therefore this is what
the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘I will also cause a blast of windstorms
to burst forth in my rage, and in my anger there will occur a flooding
downpour, and in rage there will be hailstones for an extermination. 14
And I will tear down the wall that YOU men have plastered with whitewash and
bring it into contact with the earth, and its foundation must be exposed. And
she will certainly fall, and YOU must come to an end in the midst of her; and
YOU will have to know that I am Jehovah.’ 15 “‘And I will
bring my rage to its finish upon the wall and upon those plastering it with
whitewash, and I shall say to YOU men: “The wall is no more, and those
plastering it are no more, 16 the prophets of Israel that are
prophesying to Jerusalem and that are visioning for her a vision of peace, when
there is no peace,”’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.]
The
‘stupid prophets’ are said to be in the in intimate group of Jehovah’s people
and they are leading his people astray with lies and untruths. The core ‘lie’
that these ‘stupid prophets’ perpetrate is saying, “There is peace!”
when there is no peace. This said peace, is the claim that Jehovah and or Jesus has already
refined and judged his people faithful, and views them as being in an approved
state as a group/organization. This claim is a ‘lie’ and the fact is that this
refinement is still yet future and takes place in the 3 ½ years leading to the
great day of Jehovah/Jesus’ arrival at Matthew 24:30.* (Luke 19:43,44;
Isaiah 29:2-4 Luke 21:20-24; Revelation 11:2; Revelation 13:5)
* The Bible links “the great day of Jehovah” with “the
arrival of Jesus ” which occurs after the GT is cut short. (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 2 1 Corinthians 15:51,52; 1
Thessalonians 4:15-17; Matthew 24:30,31)
In order to maintain this ‘lie’, the ‘stupid
prophets’ have to continue to tell more and more lies to keep the ‘lie’ going.
This is likened to plastering the ‘lie’ with whitewash, coat
after coat, trying to keep all the cracks filled in to keep the ‘lie’ intact.
Gog’s attack in Ezekiel
38, the calamity in Joel’s account, the holy city
being trampled on in Rev 11:2, the attack upon Ariel in Isaiah 29,
the major fulfillment of the disgusting thing in the holy place, etc… are
all counterparts of one another and is what the future great tribulation
will entail. This will occur at the time that the wild beast receives his
42-month authority, which will then at that time make him the 8th, and final
king that will soon go off into destruction after those 42 months are up.
At the time that the wild beast receives his 42-month
authority it will not only be a great tribulation upon Jehovah’s people but
will also be for the rest of the world as well. This is the time that ‘the
mark’ will be given out and all those that refuse it will either be
incarcerated or killed. Even before one of those two fates meet up with these
that refuse ‘the mark’, they will have already begun to have a difficult time
being that they can no longer buy or sell at this point.
Those that refuse ‘the mark’ are refusing the
counterfeit kingdom of Satan and are holding out for the true heavenly kingdom
of Jehovah God under his son and Christ, Jesus. Those that are refusing ‘the
mark’ will be calling upon Jehovah’s name and it stands to reason that the
majority of those will be those that already today call upon his name and have
faith in Jehovah and his son Jesus and their heavenly kingdom, but during that
time many more will understand and join themselves together to take a stand for
Jehovah’s kingdom. These combined are who will make up the great crowd. (Revelation
13:5, 7; Daniel11: 33,34; Revelation 7:9,10,13,14)
While Jehovah’s Witnesses are warned by their
Governing Body about the attack that Jehovah’s people will face by Gog, they
close their eyes and ears and are silent when it comes to Ezekiel
39:23-29. While Jehovah’s Witnesses are warned by
their Governing Body that the attack on Ariel is the counterpart of Gog’s
attack (See 3-15-61 WT p.192) they close their eyes and ears and are
silent when it comes to Isaiah 29:9-16.
While Jehovah’s Witnesses are told by their Governing Body that it is Jehovah’s
people that he will act on their behalf at Joel 3:2-16, 19,
they close their eyes and ears and are silent when it comes to Joel
3:1, 21, as well as
completely twist and misapply chapters 1 and 2 of Joel and close
their eyes and ears and are silent when it comes to Joel
2:20 even thou they admit that the locusts (insect assault) is
‘the northerner’ in verse 20.
While the Governing Body of Jehovah’s
Witnesses apply Revelation 11:2 as to coming upon them, it is claimed that it
already occurred back in 1914-1918. This all (and of course more not
mentioned here) is in order to maintain the ‘lie’ that ‘there is peace from
Jehovah’ since 1919.
The inspection and cleansing work did
not occur back at that time, it occurs upon those that
are alive just prior to Armageddon arriving.
(Luke 19:43,44; Isaiah 29:2-4 Luke 21:20-24; Revelation 11:2;
Revelation 13:5)
They have to be
refined and cleansed to such a degree at that time (pre-Armageddon) because
they are the ones that will live on in post-Armageddon without ever having to
die.
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[9-15-88 WT- Why, learning that Gog’s attack is
imminent but that Jehovah will rescue His people ought to increase our faith
and make us rejoice that such events will result in sanctifying God’s
long-profaned name!—Ezekiel 39:1-29.]
[Ezekiel 39:23 And the nations will have to know that it was because of
their error that they, the house of Israel, went into exile, on account of
the fact that they behaved unfaithfully toward me, so that I concealed my
face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they kept
falling, all of them, by the sword. 24 According to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions I did with them, and I
kept concealing my face from them.’]
[3-15-61
WT- Isaiah 29:4 reads: “And you must become low so that you
will speak from the very earth, and as from the dust your saying will sound
low. And like a spirit medium your voice must become even from the earth, and
from the dust your own saying will chirp.”
The opening verse of Isaiah 29 shows that
these words are addressed to Ariel, concerning which the footnote of the New
World Translation states: “‘Ariel.’ Meaning, perhaps, ‘the altar
hearth of God’; or, ‘the lion of God.’ Designating Jerusalem here.” This
prophecy would therefore apply to spiritual Jerusalem as represented upon earth
by the remnant.
These words show that God’s earthly organization would
come under attack and would be reduced to a very low state by the enemies of
God’s kingdom. God’s people would be, as it were, crushed to the earth, at the
time of Gog’s attack upon them, so that what utterance they made, what
vocal sounds they made, would come up from low down in their abasement. It
would be sound coming up from the very dust of the earth. It would be as if a
spirit medium were talking with the vocal sound coming from the dust of the
earth. However, the next verses show that God would turn his attention to his
faithful people who had been brought so low and he would work miracles on their
behalf to deliver them from the power of the enemy so that their enemies and
oppressors would become like dust and chaff that are quickly blown away by a
violent windstorm.]
[Isaiah 29:13
And Jehovah says: “For the reason that this people have come near with their
mouth, and they have glorified me merely with their lips, and they have removed
their heart itself far away from me, and their fear toward me becomes men’s
commandment that is being taught, 14 therefore here I am, the One
that will act wonderfully again with this people, in a wonderful manner and
with something wonderful; and the wisdom of their wise men must perish, and the
very understanding of their discreet men will conceal itself.”
15 Woe to those who are going very deep in
concealing counsel from Jehovah himself, and whose deeds have occurred in a
dark place, while they say: “Who is seeing us, and who is knowing of us?” 16
The perversity of YOU men!]
[6-1-81 WT-
Joel 3 2-16, 19 It tells us why Jehovah is angry with
the nations—because of the way they have treated his servants. They
scattered them among the nations, making slaves of them.]
[Joel 2:17
‘Do feel sorry, O Jehovah, for your people, and do not make your
inheritance a reproach, for nations to rule over them.’ Joel 3:2
I will also collect together all the nations and bring them
down to the low plain of Je·hosh´a·phat; and I will put myself on judgment with
them there on account of my people and my inheritance Israel,
whom they scattered among the nations; and they apportioned out my own land.]
[Joel 1:6 For there is a nation
that has come up into my land,]
[Ezekiel 38:16 In the final part of the days it will occur,
and I shall certainly bring you against my land,]
[Isaiah 29:3
And I must encamp on all sides against you, and I must lay siege to you with a
palisade and raise up against you siegeworks.]
[Luke 19:43
Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will
build around you a
fortification with pointed stakes and will encircle you and distress you from every side,]
[Ezekiel
39:23 And the
nations will have to know
that it was because of their error that they, the house of Israel, went into exile, on account of the fact that they behaved
unfaithfully toward me, so that I concealed my face from them and gave them into the
hand of their adversaries, and
they kept falling, all of them, by the sword.’]
[Luke 21:
20 “Furthermore, when YOU see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that the desolating of her has drawn near. 21
Then let those in Ju·de´a begin fleeing to the mountains, and let
those in the midst of her withdraw, and let those in the country places not
enter into her; 22 because these are days for meting out justice,
that all the things written may be fulfilled. 23 Woe to the pregnant
women and the ones suckling a baby in those days! For there will be great
necessity upon the land and wrath on this people; 24 and they
will fall by the
edge of the sword and
be led captive
into all the nations; and Jerusalem
will be trampled on
by the nations,
until the
appointed times of
the nations are fulfilled.]
[Revelation 11:2
But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple [sanctuary], cast it clear
out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.]
[Revelation 13:5 And
a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given it, and authority
to act forty-two
months
was given it. 6
And it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and
his residence, even those residing in heaven. 7 And there
was granted it to wage
war with the holy ones and conquer them, and authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and
nation.]
