Questions for Jehovah’s Witnesses Part 2

Part 2 of our questions for the Jehovah’s Witness that comes to your door. Please remember to love them, they need you to show them the truth.

A new website called www.jwchildcustody.com

This is Bill Bowen I am writing to introduce a new website called www.jwchildcustody.com

Since the inception of silentlambs the purpose of the website was to give victims a voice, protect children and educate about child abuse issues. After hearing over 6,000 abuse stories in the last seven years everything that was stated in the beginning has proven itself to be the truth about the cover up of abuse in the organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

We have simply asked for specific actions to protect children.

1. Report all allegations of abuse to police.
2. Never reappoint pedophiles to positions of authority.
3. Never allow pedophiles to call on the homes of the public.

To this day not one of these simple requests has been enacted as policy of the organization. Instead much like child molesters Read more

BBC Watchtower Pedophile Cover-Up Video

Click Here for the Video BBC Report on Pedophile Cover-Up

Click Here for the Transcript-panorama-bbc.doc

Australian News Watchtower Pedophile Cover-up Video

This is another news story that broke out in Australia. It amazes me that the same story comes from different people from other parts of the world.

For a Transcript Click Here

Click here for the Video>>Australian Watchtower Pedophile Cover-up

The “Great Crowd”

Click Here for the Watchtower Documents on the 144,000 and the Great Crowd.PDF

In 1935 the Watchtower began to teach that only 144,000 of the Jehovah’s Witnesses would go to Heaven after they die and the remaining class called “The Great Crowd” would inherit paradise earth and live on earth forever after the resurrection by Jesus. Since they say the 144,000 have already been sealed I assume that most Jehovah’s Witnesses alive today are part of the 99% of Jehovah’s Witnesses that feel they are in the Great Crowd that will live on Paradise Earth.

For the Jehovah’s Witnesses, would you please help me out and show me where specifically the Bible says “The Great Crowd will live on earth.” Please read Rev 7:9-15. In verse nine we know right away that the great crowd is in heaven. This is a heavenly scene. The heavenly throne and the Lamb are there. The great crowd is standing before the throne. In verse 11 we see other heavenly creations. There are angels, the elders and the four living creatures. These are always spoken in revelation as heavenly creatures. Notice what they did. They fell before the heavenly throne and worshiped God who was there. Verse 13 presents a powerful question. One of the elders asks, “who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come?” That would be a silly question if this was an earthly scene. The reason the elder wanted to know where this great crowd is from, was that they were strangers to the territory. They were strangers to heaven. If this was an earthly seeing the answer to the question might have been New York or California.

In verse 14 we have our answer. These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation. These are earthly tribulations saints, who still go to heaven, but they have to go through the tribulation, because they accepted Christ after the tribulation began. Notice their salvation. Verse 14 says this crowd have washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the lamb. They didn’t believe an organization for salvation, they accepted Christ.

So does the Watchtower teach a lie that the great crowd will live on earth? Why does the Watchtower society say that the great crowd will live on earth, when Revelation 19:1 says that the great crowd is in heaven? (Rev 19:1 And after these things I heard a great sound of the great crowd in heaven, saying, hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and the power of the lord our God! Interestingly you will find no scripture that says the great crowd will live on the earth. Since 1935, when the alcoholic president of the Watchtower, Judge Rutherford, (who died of cirrhosis of the liver) made the decision that the majority of Jehovah’s witnesses should live on the earth, Jehovah’s witnesses have been living a lie. The Watchtower society has taken salvation through Jesus’ away from the great crowd.

A Question for the Jehovah’s Witnesses

We receive a lot of emails and comments from Jehovah’s Witnesses. Many of them want to tell us how sinful we are for having this website and that we are also liars. However, when asked to explain which article or post had a lie in it, we get no response. It’s written down, so it’s pretty easy to prove.

So I thought about it and I have a question of my own for the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Watchtower Society (“Gods Organization”) predicted the end of the world would come in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1932, 1941 and 1975. They lied.

Question: Who is the father of the lie?

Jehovah’s Witness Exposed by Ex-Members

This video was completed in the 1980′s but it’s still very true today. It shows the devestation that has happend to familys that were caught up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses with true life storys. It is about an hour long, but well worth the time to view it.

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.

Get a copy of the Watchtower’s refrenced below by Clicking Here>>>GODS ORGANIZATION.PDF

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.