Explaining "The Truth" to Jehovah's Witnesses
This is Kenneth Flodin, a member of the Governing Body of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Listen to what he has to say about the subject. If this doesn’t show that they think they are equal to Jesus, I don’t know what would.
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The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ second president, Judge Rutherford, believed that biblical patriarchs such as Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah and Samuel, would be resurrected sometime in the 1920’s-1930’s. He built a 5,100 square foot, 10 room mansion property in San Diego California, because they would obviously need a place to live once they were resurrected. When they didn’t show up (shockingly), Rutherford himself moved into the mansion (how convenient) where he ultimately died. He wanted to be buried there but the permit for that was denied. The official story is that he is buried in New York, though some say he is actually buried in the concrete of the garage floor of Beth-Sarim.
So the story is that Judge Rutherford built it with his own money, and money that was donated from friends. Be that as it may, it was built for a purpose, prophesied resurrections by the president of the watchtower organization at the time, published about in “The Golden Age” magazine (which was published by the Watchtower) and vested to the watchtower organization who DID pay to maintain and upkeep the property WHILE Rutherford was alive and living there and after his death. The Watchtower quietly sold it off a few years after Rutherford’s death and pocketed the money. So don’t let any Jehovah’s Witness tell you that it was a “personal endeavor by Rutherford” and has no bearing on their history.
There’s no reason for me to re-invent the wheel on this, so go here to read all about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Sarim
But wait, what is Beth-Shan you may ask? Most people have never heard of it, but it was basically an adjacent property where Rutherford wanted to be buried when his burial request at Beth-Sarim was denied by the city. His request to be buried at Beth-Shan was also denied by the city.
There’s no reason for me to re-invent this wheel either, so go here and read all about it:
http://www.equip.org/article/beth-shan-and-the-return-of-the-princes/
Most all Jehovah’s Witnesses of today have either never heard of this or they will completely deny it, or both.
Facts are facts though people… it’s a matter of public record.
Do not be misled. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that you MUST be a part of “Gods Spirit Directed Organization” (ie: the watchtower org) in order for God to retain the memory of you (re: Saved). They don’t call it “Saved” because they don’t believe in the promise of Salvation. They believe in a “hope” that if they are good enough, associated with the “True Religion” (ie: Jehovah’s Witnesses), that maybe God will “remember” and “recreate” them to live on a paradise earth. I say “recreate”, because they do not believe in a bodily resurrection. They believe that God will recreate you from his memory of you.
Sound crazy? That’s because it is.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that salvation requires association with “Gods Spirit Directed Organization” (re: The Watchtower Organization) and obedience to their rules. If you’re not a baptized, active Jehovah’s Witness in good standing, you will never be “remembered” by God.
We know that this is outright unbiblical. Let’s look at what the Bible requires for Salvation:
So we know that we are saved by grace and not by works as it’s a GIFT OF GOD. If you receive a gift from someone that’s truly a gift, that means you don’t have to give them anything for it, whether that is something materialistic or some kind of actions or work. If you have to pay them back with something, it’s NOT A GIFT.
How do we get to God though? Do we get to God by being associated with a particular denomination? A lot of religions believe this, but what does the Bible actually say? Let’s take a look.
So what can we derive from the above verses? That Salvation is FREELY GIVEN, not earned by works OR by association with any denomination, group of people and definitely not an organization that’s never mentioned anywhere in the Bible.
I’ll leave you with one of the most well known verses in the Bible that plainly tells you that to have eternal life, and it has NOTHING to do with being associated with ANY group or denomination:
Here’s an important question to Jehovah’s Witnesses: Is Jesus Your Mediator?
First of all, what is a mediator? A mediator is someone who is able to make peace between parties who are in disagreement with each other. The Bible explicitly says that Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and man.
So what does the Bible teach and what do Jehovah’s Witnesses teach? Are they the same? If they are NOT the same, if you are a Jehovah’s Witness, would you accept that?
Let’s look at a simple scripture that’s pretty clear as to what the Bible teaches:
Every Jehovah’s Witnesses that I’ve talked to, absolutely agrees with this scripture and have not even once, said that Jesus was not their mediator when I’ve asked them.
Would you be surprised to learn that the Jehovah’s Witnesses actually teach that Jesus is ONLY the mediator for the 144,000 “Anointed” Jehovah’s Witnesses that are going to heaven? Well, SURPRISE!!! That’s EXACTLY what they teach.
Now, before you call me a liar and accuse me of attacking JW’s (as so often JW’s do), we can find this directly on their jw.org website so no one can honestly say that I’m trying to trick or lie to them. This isn’t “Old Light”… it’s current light.
Let’s take a look…
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20141015/a-kingdom-of-priests/
So if Jesus is the Mediator for ONLY the anointed 144,000, then who or what is the mediator for the rest of the “Great Crowd” of Jehovah’s Witnesses?
**Spoiler Alert**
It’s the 144,000 and the Watchtower Org itself.
Think about that for a minute. If Jesus is ONLY the mediator for the 144,000, then the 144,000 JW’s and Watchtower Org are the only other avenues by which you could possibly be saved. The JW’s teach that the 144,000 will be the mediators for the rest of the “faithful Jehovah’s Witnesses”. Do you realize that they have put themselves in the place of Jesus Christ? That they have put themselves on the same level, with the same power as Jesus Christ himself? If Jesus is NOT your mediator, then who is? The 144,000 and the Org. If they are your only other avenues, then you CANNOT deny that they have put themselves in the place of Jesus.
Now let’s review that scripture one more time:
It’s no secret that the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that you MUST be part of “God’s Spirit Directed Organization” (ie: Jehovah’s Witnesses) as a REQUIREMENT for salvation. This has been a long taught doctrine that’s not found anywhere in the Bible except with their twisted interpretation of scripture. To use their popular argument that the Trinity is obviously false because the exact word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible… well guess what? Neither does “God’s Organization”.
I could go through posting Watchtower articles and quotes from their books, but this is such common knowledge about them, I’ll leave that up to you to google if it you’re interested, but for now, you know that the JW’s teach that Jesus (er, I mean Michael the Archangel) AND the Watchtower Org are Mediators between God and Man.
John 14:6:
The Bible is extremely clear on this point.
Where does the Bible say ANYTHING about a “Spirit directed Organization” being a mediator or a way to the Father? IT DOESN’T.
I guess instead of saying “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” in John 14:6, he should have said “God’s Spirit Directed Organization and the 144,000 are the only two ways, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through THEM.” I wonder why he didn’t just say that since it’s a requirement to be saved apparently… (that’s sarcasm if it wasn’t obvious).
Ok let’s get this timeline straight. This is 100% correct based on the organizational teachings.
If you’re reading this, is this something you could really possibly agree with?
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever is associated with a man made organization from 1870 that’s never mentioned anywhere in the Bible, and viewed favorably by the 144,000, shall not perish, but will be recreated by God to live forever on the paradise earth.”
Am I reading that correctly? Maybe not…
Do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus was resurrected? Guess what? That’s a big ol’ NOPE!
Simply put, being resurrected means to restore a dead person to life. JW’s don’t teach that this happened to Jesus. They teach that he was “raised from the dead as a spirit creature” meaning that he was actually re-created as Michael the Archangel, not in the body he died in. That being the case, nothing that was dead was restored to life so that means he was NOT resurrected.
They may call it a resurrection, but that’s simply not the case. Being re-created as a brand spankin’ new Archangel is NOT a resurrection…
Knock knock… Did you know that Jehovah (God) took one of his many sons, his first creation, a Mighty Archangel God++ named Michael, made him “cease to exist”, then re-created him as an embryo in the womb of the virgin Mary where he was then born as a human and grew up to be a perfect man named Jesus?
He lived on earth teaching the gospel, never once revealing that he was once this Mighty Archangel God to his disciples or to other humans. Even the writers of the books of the Bible didn’t know it, as for sure, they would have mentioned it. Jesus never said “I and the Mighty Archangel God are one”. He never once even said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Mighty Archangel God”. Assuredly if he had, none of the Jews would have picked up stones to stone him because they would have never accused him of blasphemy and he would have never been killed on the torture stake.
Anyway, Jesus (aka Michael, the Mighty Archangel God) was put to death for blasphemy (against whom, we don’t know), buried in a tomb where Jehovah disposed of his body by dissolving it into it’s constituent elements or atoms. After 3 days, Jehovah re-created Michael, the Mighty Archangel God, with a new spirit body that was unlike any other. Even though this was really Michael, he continued to go by the name Jesus on earth and currently goes by both names in heaven, yet he still continues to kept his Mighty Archangel God identity a secret. Not only that, while on earth, he would manufacture different bodies that he would put on in order to keep people from recognizing him as the old human Jesus. Why would they recognize him as the old Jesus you might ask? We have no idea, BUT we do know that Michael, the Mighty Archangel God, manufactured a replica of Jesus’s old body, including his wounds, and let people touch it to prove to them that he was resurrected, when in actuality, he wasn’t. He was re-created as Michael, the Mighty Archangel God, not resurrected at all. By fooling people with Jesus’s old body, he made them believe that he was physically raised from the dead as he claimed he would be in John 2:19-21.
Through his human death, Michael, the Mighty Archangel God, became the mediator between Jehovah God and the 144,000 faithful believers that belong exclusively to our organization, which was created in the late 1800’s. Jehovah chose our Watchtower organization in 1919 as his ONLY means of spreading his word throughout the inhabited earth, even though we never mentioned this fact in our magazines until the 1950’s. No celebrations and no announcements of this happening anywhere until then. Also, if you aren’t associated with our Watchtower organization, known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, you have no hope of everlasting life. No paradise earth, no heavenly hope at all. Our organization is a “Noah’s Ark” of sorts, as only faithful members that sell and distribute our magazines, and dedicate their lives to our “Ark” might possibly have the small chance of being remembered by Jehovah.
If Michael, the Mighty Archangel God, is only the mediator for the 144,000, then who is the mediator between Jehovah God and the rest of the people in our organization you might ask? Well that would be the “Ark” itself, the Watchtower Organization, because being a member is the only way that you may have that small chance at everlasting life on a paradise earth.
144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses will live in heaven and the rest of the faithful magazine distributors / Jehovah’s Witnesses from our “Ark”, MIGHT have a chance to be remembered by Jehovah and be re-created to live forever on a paradise earth. The chance is small of course. It all depends on us being active in the preaching work, if we obey this organization’s every rule, believe this organization’s every belief, even if that belief changes (which it could at any moment (and has multiple times)), and only if we distribute enough magazines that we write and print ourselves. But even then, there are no guarantees. It could all be for nothing in the end. There’s no way to really be sure that any of us have everlasting life.
How do we know all of this? Because the Bible tells us so? NOPE! We know this because the Governing Body in New York told us so and threaten our eternal life if we dare to question them.
Now, won’t you join us and dedicate your life to our man made organization that’s never mentioned anywhere in the Bible at all?
++Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that God created his Son as Michael the Archangel and they also agree that He is the “Mighty God” of Isaiah 9:6 (He’s a Mighty God but not Almighty God).
If Jehovah’s Witnesses were up front and honest, they would tell you these things when they are offering you an in home Bible study:
Now that all of “the truth” is out there, would you like a free, in home “book about the Bible” study?
Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas, birthdays, Thanksgiving or pretty much any other holiday that most people celebrate. But is there any actual scriptural basis for not celebrating the birth of Jesus? Well let’s take a look…
In Luke 2:8-20, a “multitude” of heavenly hosts appeared praising God that Jesus had been born.
So if the angels and a “multitude of heavenly hosts” can rejoice and praise God for the event of his Son being born, if an angel of the Lord can “bring good news of great joy which will be for all the people” about his Son being born and if the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen just as had been told to them, is there a reason why the birth of Jesus is NOT to be celebrated regardless of the date? NOPE! No valid reasons anyway…