The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's

 

Military Links in Business

 

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The Watchtower Society, a religious organization, owns a large percentage of (at least) three "Sister Companies": Rand Cam Engine Corp., Rand Energy Group Inc., and Regi U.S. Inc. These companies are dedicated to research & development and marketing of Rand Cam™ engine technology of which they own the rights and several patents.

 

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None of the Watchtower’s "Sister Companies" fabricate neither bombs nor ammunition of any kind. However, REGI’s management systematically seeks out –and has obtained- U.S. Department of Defense’s awards, funding and subcontracts to supply the U.S. Department of Defense with RC™ technology. REGI’s management has signed numerous agreements with some powerful warfare-technology contractors. A military expert as Marketing Corporate Director now leads REGI.

 

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The Watchtower’s BOD have concealed the truth about these assets and their transactions with NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense from its own members

 

 

1914 - A Year In Time With No Real foundation In Bible Teachings

"While they -the Watchtower Society- are promising them freedom, they themselves are existing as slaves..."
2 Peter 2:19

The Headquarters of The Watchtower Society in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Loyalty To Whom ?

"Recently, 'the faithful and discreet slave' has helped us to refine our understanding of the term 'generation' used at Matthew 24:34 and of the timing of the judgment of 'the sheep' and 'the goats' mentioned at Matthew 25:31-46, as well as of our view toward certain types of civilian service. No doubt some apostates would have been delighted if many of Jehovah's Witnesses had stuck rigidly to the previous understanding of such subjects and refused to progress. Nothing of the kind has happened. Why? Jehovah's people are loyal." - Watchtower August 1, 1997 page 12

Who are these people loyal to? Men or God? When is this self appointed "faithful and discreet slave class" going to finally "refine their understanding" and "progress", ceasing to stick "rigidly" to their

"Jehovah's People Are Loyal"

Loyalty To A Man's Organization Comes First

unique interpretations on blood transfusions, shunning persons, flag salutes, holiday observances, voting elections, joining the YMCA and the Red Cross, the year 1914, the slave class appointment, the counting of time, the role of Pioneering and much more? Instead they resort to name calling, labeling all who question such practices as "Apostates", banning and shunning them. Then years later they publish a Watchtower article that "refines their understandings." These persons, who are labeled "apostates", are not "delighted" when the Watchtower rigidly sticks to their unique interpretations, or removes them, as the Watchtower states, but rather it proves the Watchtower Society's control over others and manmade interpretations they teach that "make the word of God invalid" (Matthew 15:9)

What Identifies A True Christian? What is True Christianity ?

Is Having Complete Unity On Doctrinal Issues The Identifying Mark Of True Christians ? The Watchtower Brags How They Are One Of The Few Groups Who Reject The Trinity, Hellfire And Immortality Of The Soul, Restored God's Name In The Scriptures And The Only Ones Who Teach 1914, A Literal Kingdom Government And Many Other Doctrines. Does This Mean They Are The Only True Christians?

Are We Living In The Last Days ?

  Many Denominations Of Christendom, Along With Jehovah's Witnesses, Are Convinced That We    Are In The "Last Days" Mentioned In The Bible." Look out that you are not misled, for many will come on the basis of my name saying, I am he (his appointed slave class) and The due time (1914) has approached. Do not go after them." - (Luke 21:7)

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Earthquakes, Food Shortages, Warfare and Disease are all events that "must occur" as they have always occurred from the beginning of man's existence and are NOT part of the sign.

The Second Coming of Christ

There are many different words used in the Greek New Testament concerning Christ's Second Coming. Do they support the Watchtower's interpretation of an invisible presence of the Christ or do they all pertain to a one time event?

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Field Service Hours

Here's some thoughts of then two extremes of being out in field service. Elders and Ministerial Servants are deleted if they do not have enough hours filled out on a slip of paper each month. Others members are judged either "spiritually strong" or "spiritually weak", depending on how many hours they count each month in the preaching work. The United States national average of hours counted door to door preaching is 10 hours per month. Auxiliary Pioneers are 60 hours per month and Pioneers are 83 hours per month.

How Can Field Service Hours Determine One's Relationship With God? 


Some Questions And Answers I Had As One Of Jehovah's Witnesses

 

A Religious Organization

The Headquarters of The Watchtower Society in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Jesus Christ

Lord, WHOM Shall We Go Away To ?

Leaving The Organization Is Not Leaving The Truth. One Can Still Serve Jehovah and Jesus

Certainly if "death, nor life, nor angels , nor governments, nor things now here, nor height nor depth, nor any other creation can separate us from God's love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord", then neither can any religious group, organization or self appointed "slave class" separate us either. We have every right to pray with our family and children, regardless of some organizational rejection, for our relationship is with God and Christ, not men who take on a divine role of mediatorship. (Romans 8:38-39) 


"The Letter Kills"
- 2 Cor 3:6

Putting Sacrifice and Legal Requirements Ahead of Mercy Makes the Word of God Invalid

Legalism & Jehovah's.Witnesses

Legalism always blinds its followers to spiritual reality. Legalism drives out the revelatory ministry of the Holy Spirit. I have never heard a person caught in the midst of legalism confess that he or she was legalistic. I have heard many people caught in the midst of immorality confess their immorality, but I have never heard a legalist confess legalism. There is something so blinding about that sin.

 

Pioneer Service IdentificationPreaching Door To Door My Story As One Of Jehovah's Witnesses

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Some Personal Thoughts

Charles Taze Russell  - Founder Charles Taze Russell

Was Charles Taze Russell Ever The Faithful And Discreet Slave ? The Early Watchtowers Say Yes! Can you imagine, out of all the religious groups and people on earth, God supposedly rejected all of them and appointed this man as his representative! "To disregard the message received through Pastor Russell would mean disregard for the Lord." - The Watch Tower (12/15/1916) P. 6024

 

Who Really Is The Faithful And Discreet Slave ?

Is This a Class of Persons ? Or Is It Each Individual Christian ? If This Does Not Pertain To An Elite Small Number Of Christians Having A Central Spokesman, The Governing Body, Then The New Light From The Watchtower Is Meaningless.

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Was There Really A Governing Body In The Early Church? Not According To Apostle Paul

Check out what Apostle Paul did after his anointing by Christ in the first chapter of Galatians. He made it a point not to go to Jerusalem and when he finally did, it was not to see any governing body.

 

The Finished Mystery - Published in 1917 Check Out The Quality Of The Spiritual Food Supplied - Resulting In The Appointment Of The "Slave Class"

This Is A Small Portion Of The Spiritual Food The Watchtower Society Supplied In The Year 1917, 3 and one half years after 1914, The Watchtower's Interpreted Year That Jesus Christ Began Ruling As King. This Spiritual Food Supposedly Determined Jesus To Reject All Of Christendom And Select The Only True Religion, The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Also Known As Jehovah's Witnesses.


Elders Counseling Brother Is It Following Christ, To Completely Shun Anyone Who Leaves The Organization, As Jehovah's Witnesses Do ?

See What Scriptures The Watchtower Bible And Tract Society Use To Completely Shun Anyone Who Officially Leaves The Organization. Witnesses are forbidden to communicate with former members in anyway, including a greeting. This Shunning Policy Is The Major Reason Why Many Persons Speak Out Against The Watchtower Society. If This Policy Were Dropped, There Would Be A Sharp Decrease In Criticism, For All Religions Have Erroneous Teachings. Many "Cult" experts, agree that two major identifying marks of a destructive group are, first, the restrictions on reading or obtaining any information from former members and second, the shunning of those who have left the group.

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  The Shunning Policy Of The Watchtower Has Destroyed Many Families. Is This In Harmony With Christ?

This 1981 Watchtower Along With My Personal Thoughts Show How the Watchtower Society Uses Scriptures To Show Complete Intolerance Of Anyone Who Disagrees With Their Interpretations. Fathers are restricted from family prayers and cannot discuss the scriptures with any Watchtower family members. With the exception of family members that live in the same house, all those who leave the Watchtower Society are shunned by all other family members and so called friends for the remainder of their lives.


"A family's love is a much stronger force than the conditional love given by a cult's members and leaders. A family's love supports one's right to grow into an autonomous adult and make one's own life decisions. A cult's love attempts to keep a person forever as a dependent adolescent -- threatening to be withdrawn (expelled) if the person makes his own life decisions that differ from the leader's orders." - Steve Hassan - Combating Cult Mind Control, page 122. (Italics added)

Christians and Divorce 

Marry Only In The Lord

According to the prophet Malachi, "God's hates a divorcing" and according to Jesus Christ, fornication is the only exception allowed for divorce.
1. Is this a blanket ruling with no exceptions, and a "one size fits all" legal requirement that applies to each and every marriage with out considering each marriage's individual circumstances ? Or does God want "mercy, not sacrifice", which allows many of his laws to be broken, due to the individual circumstances ?
2. Could Jesus words, include spiritual fornication? For when the nation of Israel, broke their vow with their, "husbandly owner", God, and began to rely on Assyria, Egypt, Babylon and other nations for military, political and spiritual strength, God condemned them as spiritual fornicators, equaling their actions to physical fornication, calling the nation a "hoar" and a "prostitute" "who kept lusting in the style of concubines belonging to those whose fleshly member is as the fleshly member of males asses and whose genital organ is as the genital organ of male horses." God himself, then divorced Israel and allowed Assyria to destroy the northern 10 tribe of Ephraim and later Babylon to destroy the southern two tribe of Judah.

Paradise Earth ?

This article is based on erroneous biblical literalism. Although founded on the supposed accuracy of the technical, juridical and insistence on hairsplitting distinctions, which is nothing more than interpretative speculation under both mythological and limited first century mentality, still has the power to eradicate the Watchtower's private interpretive meanings that benefit their own means.

   Join The YMCA And Get Disfellowshipped

You Better Play Basketball Somewhere Else. This Watchtower Article Along With My Personal Thoughts Show The Legalistic And Pharasaicle Approach To Christianity.

The Divine Name Jehovah - Must This Name Be Used By Christians ?

Why Is the New World Translation The Only Bible With The Tetragramaten In The Christian Greek Scriptures ? Here's Some Thoughts As To The Absence Of God's Name In Other Bibles And The Importance Of Jesus Name.

Divine Name Brochure Cover

   The Watchtower's Restrictions on The Sex Of Both Married And Single Christians

Does Any Religious Counsel Have The Authority To Restrict Oral Or Anal Sex Of Married Christians? The Watchtower Considers This Loose Conduct, And Persons Are Subject To Disfellowshipment If Caught. Also The Normal Human Function Of Masturbation Is Considered To Be Unclean And Incorrectly Labeled "Self Abuse", Calling It A Sin. Is This A Fair And Accurate Assessment?

What Does The Word Fornication Really Mean?

Pagan Origins

Are various holidays and celebrations displeasing to God because of their Pagan origins? Does having Pagan origins make certain customs and holidays unclean and part of false worship? Are there any scriptural accounts of God's true servants following Pagan customs?

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Watchtower Pagan Chart

See what's pagan and what's not. When you really think of it, almost everything has pagan origins. But what's more important to God, "straining out the gnat" or "justice and mercy?"

 

 

 

Blood Bag

New Light On Blood

An extremely comprehensive and exhaustive link on the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's view on blood and how it compares to both the scriptures and medical science.

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Blood and Life, Law and Love
Chapter 9 of
"In Search of Christian Freedom"


Read former Governing Body Member of 9 years and over 40 years of full-time service, Raymond Franz's Thoughts on The Blood Issue. Genesis Chapter 9, Leviticus Chapter 17, Deuteronomy Chapter 12, Acts Chapter 15 and Others. Thoughts Are Also Conveyed As To The Watchtower's Breaking Down Of Blood Into Major And Minor Components, Deciding And Enforcing Which Components Are Allowed And Which Components Are Not Allowed For Jehovah's Witnesses. Courtesy of Beacon and Commentary Press.

1982 Time Magazine
Ray Franz Story

Ray's Second Book, "In Search Of Christian Freedom"

 

 

     

ExIcoc.Org

The Online Community For Former Members of International Churches of Christ. Another Cult

Your Family Member Has Been Socializing With Jehovah's Witnesses

What do you do? Is there any danger to this? Or are they just becoming friends and they are nice people and there is nothing to worry about? Or do the Witnesses have a purpose, a motive, in mind for befriending your family member?

 

Thank you,

 

Bill Bowen

 

There are many courageous and admirable people out in the world who have the courage to leave their comfort zone and cross the barriers of injustice. Bill Bowen is one of those special people.  

Bill Bowen, spokesman against pedophilia and sexual abuse, literally stands up and defends his wrongful disfellowship in front of his congregation.