What did the WTS say the "inner rooms" to find safety

by blondie 2 Replies latest jw friends

  • blondie
    blondie

    As recently as 2025, the WTS has compared the "inner rooms" to the congregation as a place of safety. Do you remember this? What did you think? Notice the "weasel words" the WTS uses to lay the foundation for "adjustment" or "clarification" of their statements. “Interior rooms” who remembers this phrase interpreted this way by the WTS?

    Isaiah 26:20 RNWTGo, my people, enter your inner rooms,

    And shut your doors behind you.

    Hide yourself for a brief moment

    Until the wrath* has passed by.

    WT 5/15/2009 p. 8

    In our day, the “interior rooms” of this prophecy could be closely associated with the more than 100,000 congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world. Such congregations play an important role in our lives. They will continue to do so through “the great tribulation.” Rev. 7:14 .God’s people are commanded to go into their “interior rooms” and hide themselves “until the denunciation passes over.” It is vital that we develop and maintain a wholesome attitude toward the congregation and be firmly resolved to stay in close association with it. We can take to heart Paul’s exhortation: “Let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as [we] behold the day drawing near.”​

    WT 3/15/2013 p. 23

    That direction will come theocratically, probably by means of the congregation arrangement. Indeed, the many thousands of congregations around the world appear to be linked to the protective “interior rooms” foretold at Isaiah 26:20. Do you value the congregation meetings? Do you act promptly on the direction Jehovah provides through the congregation arrangement?​

    WT May 2025 p.13

    Jehovah will give us both angelic protection and lifesaving instructions. How will those instructions be conveyed to us? We will have to wait and see. However, we will likely receive such instructions through our congregations. In a sense, these may be our “inner rooms,” where we will find safety. How can we prepare for what lies ahead? We must draw close to our brothers and sisters, willingly obey theocratic direction, and be convinced that Jehovah is leading our organization.

  • NotFormer
    NotFormer

    'Such congregations play an important role in our lives. They will continue to do so through “the great tribulation.” Rev. 7:14 .God’s people are commanded to go into their “interior rooms” and hide themselves “until the denunciation passes over.”'

    How does that work? 🤔 You're hiding from your would be persecuters in a building where everyone could find you? Were JWs in 1930s Germany able to hide in Kingdom Halls?

  • BoogerMan
    BoogerMan

    I have considered for some time that Isaiah 26:20 is describing figurative interior rooms, namely, the sanctuary of the heart & mind.


    Proverbs 24:4) "And by knowledge will the interior rooms (heart & mind = thinking/reasoning abilities) be filled with all precious and pleasant things of value."

    (Proverbs 15:6) "In the house of the righteous one (heart & mind) there is abundant treasure, But the produce (thoughts) of the wicked one brings him trouble."

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