Gods Organization?

One of the core doctrines to the Jehovah’s Witness is the belief that they are “Gods Organization”. This doctrine brings with it a certain connotation that God is running the organization and should you choose not to believe, listen, or do something the organization tells you to do, it would be paramount to telling God no. This in itself can be a fearful thought, but one that holds the Jehovah’s Witness in bondage to the Watchtower’s bidding.

Let’s take a look at how this doctrine of being “God’s Organization” and it’s “channel of communication” actually came full circle from the beginning of the Watchtower and its teaching.

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The Watchtower Reprints, March 1883, p. 458 “We believe that a visible organization and the adopting of some particular name, would end to increase our numbers and make us appear more respectable in the estimation of he world €¦ We always refuse to be called by any other name that that of our Head – Christians – continually claiming that there can be no division among those continually led by his Spirit and example as made known through his Word.”

The Watchtower  Reprints, September 1, 1893, p. 1572 “The endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects, culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the great Papal system.”

The Watchtower Reprints, September 1, 1893,p. 1573 “There is no organization today clothed with such divine authority to imperiously command mankind. There is no organization doing this today; though we are well aware that many of them in theory claim that they ought to be permitted to do so.”

The Watchtower reprints, December 1, 1894, p. 1743 “In view of these facts and also of the nature of the harvest work, and the additional fact that each one so gathered is expected to enter into the harvest work as a reaper, and will do so to the extent of his ability and opportunity, it is plain that the forming of a visible organization of such gathered out ones would be out of harmony with the spirit of the divine plan.”

The Watchtower Reprints, September 15, 1895, p. 1866 “Beware of €˜organization’ It is wholly unnecessary.”

The Watchtower, January 15, 1917 p. 6033  “The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is the greatest corporation in the world, because from the time of its organization until now the Lord has used it as his cahnnel through which to make know the glad tidings”

The Watchtower, April 1, 1919, p. 6414 “Is not the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society the one and only channel which the Lord has used in dispensing his truth continually since the beginning of the harvest period.”

The Watchtower, May 1, 1938, p. 169 “Jehovah’s organization has a visible part on earth which represents the Lord and is under his direct supervision.”

The Watchtower, May 1, 1957, p. 274 “The world is full of Bibles, which Book contains the commandments of God. Why, then,  do the people not know which way to go? Because they do not also have the teaching or law of the mother, which is light…If we are to walk in the light of truth we must recognize not only Jehovah God as our Father but his organization as our mother.”

The Watchtower, October 1, 1967, p. 587 “Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization, not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can interpret the Bible. For this reason the Bible cannot be properly understood without Jehovah’s visible organization in mind.”

The Watchtower, July 1, 1973, p. 402 “Jehovah’s organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God’s holy spirit or active force.”

The Watchtower December 1,1981, p. 27 “unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God uses, we will not progress along the road of life, no matter how much Bible reading we do.”

The Watchtower, February 15, 1983, p. 12 “What does God require of those who will reside forever upon his Paradise earth?…requirement is that we be associated with God’s channel, his organization…To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it.”

The Watchtower, June 1, 1985 p.19  “We must not lose sight of the fact that God is directing his organization.”

The Watchtower, June 1, 1985, p. 20 “Although walking with confidence in Jehovah’s leadership may not be easy at times…To turn away from Jehovah and his organization, to spurn the direction of the €˜faithful and discreet slave,’ and to rely simply on personal Bible reading and interpretation is to become like a solitary tree in a parched land.”

Just looking at the way this doctrine has developed should make one ask themselves, is this truly God’s Organization and channel of communication? Would God first communicate one thing and then years later say the exact opposite?  Who are people being told to turn to for answers? Does this point to the Bible or God? It is also interesting to notice that in earlier Wachtower publication they used the word “Lord” as God’s name. This was another flip flop change when they used the name “Jehovah” for God and not Lord. This is just another way to keep their members in control.