What do you think about this delivered rebuke to The Governing Body?

by Benny Sikter 2 Replies latest jw friends

  • Benny Sikter
    Benny Sikter

    In the presence of witnesses, an unrestricted rebuke is delivered to The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and their representatives in a leading position because they do not care about the weak ones, including me who am the weakest of them all:

    ”But whoever stumbles one of these little ones who put faith in me, it is more beneficial for him to have hung around his neck a millstone such as is turned by an ass and to be sunk in the wide, open sea.” (Matthew 18:6)

    ”And a strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: “Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.” (Revelation 18:21)

    Additional words from The Lord Jesus Christ which by now can be applied to Jehovah's Witnesses are:

    ”The kingdom of God will be taken from YOU and be given to a nation producing its fruits.” (Matthew 21:43)

    ”The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. Therefore all the things they tell YOU , do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for they say but do not perform. They bind up heavy loads and put them upon the shoulders of men, but they themselves are not willing to budge them with their finger. All the works they do they do to be viewed by men; for they broaden the [scripture-containing] cases that they wear as safeguards, and enlarge the fringes [of their garments]. They like the most prominent place at evening meals and the front seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called Rabbi by men. Woe to YOU , scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU shut up The Kingdom of The Heavens before men; for YOU yourselves do not go in, neither do YOU permit those on their way in to go in. Woe to YOU , scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU give the tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin, but YOU have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law, namely, Justice and Mercy and Faithfulness. These things it was binding to do, yet not to disregard the other things. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel! “Woe to YOU , scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and immoderateness. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside of it also may become clean. “Woe to YOU , scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every sort of uncleanness. In that way YOU also, outwardly indeed, appear righteous to men, but inside YOU are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Serpents, offspring of vipers, how are YOU to flee from the judgment of Ge·hen'na?” (Matthew 23:2-7, 13, 23-28, 33)

    Benny Sikter, Sweden

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    That is one bitchin' rebuke!

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    While the GB closes their minds, hearts and ears so that they would never entertain any rebuke ... I do like this verse you quoted:

    ”The kingdom of God will be taken from YOU and be given to a nation producing its fruits.” (Matthew 21:43)

    That about sums it up in a way as though that verse were especially written for the Gb and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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