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DonCameron
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Instead of trying to prove that the Society’s interpretation of Matthew 24:45-47 is wrong, I decided to check to see if the organization’s history, that they say relates to their interpretation, actually happened. Here are some of the things I discovered…
First of all, I made sure I understood just how the Society interprets this Scripture….
*“45 Who really is the faithful and discreet slave [organization] whom [Jesus] appointed over his [disciples], to give them their [spiritual] food at the proper time? 46 Happy is that slave [organization] if [Jesus] on arriving [in 1914] finds him doing so. 47 Truly I say to you [in the spring of 1919] he will appoint [the Watchtower Society] over all his [earthly interests].” *
Their teaching is that Jesus returned in 1914 to begin his Second Coming or “invisible presence” in fulfillment of Matthew 24:3. Then in 1918 he began to make an examination of all the religions claiming to represent him to see if any of them had been faithfully and discreetly providing true teachings of the Bible (spiritual food) at the proper time during his absence.
They say that the only religion he found doing so was the Watchtower Society and therefore Jesus appointed them over all his earthly interests in the spring of 1919 - and therefore the Society is still God’s organization today.
I noticed that the only reason Jesus would have made the above appointment (in verse 47) is if he had found them providing ‘spiritual food at the proper time.’ Their book “God’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached” explains this very critical point under the heading “Time of Inspection by the Slave’s Master.” On pages 350-355 former President Frederick Franz explains…
“The serving of food, the RIGHT sort of food at the PROPER time was the issue. It HAD to be according to this that a decision must be rendered by the returned master [Jesus]…On inspecting [the Society] in the year 1919 C.E… Jesus Christ did find the appointed “slave” faithful and discreet in the feeding of his [disciples].”
Jehovah’s Witnesses know that this “food” and “feeding” refers to the teachings that come from the Watchtower Society. It is evident that Jesus would not base his decision in 1919 on what the Society would be teaching today. Rather, as the above book explained on pages 349 and 350…
“Could they, by even their latest record [of teachings] down till 1919 prove that they themselves were the composite “faithful and discreet slave” class of Jesus Christ?… The QUALITY of the food itself was to be considered.” – para. 40
And so they say that Jesus would make his decision in 1919 based upon what they had been teaching “down till 1919.” He would check the “quality” of those teachings to make sure they were the RIGHT things to be teaching and the RIGHT time to be teaching them (“the right sort of food at the proper time”). What was Jesus’ decision?
I realized that the only way to know what decision Jesus would have made in 1919, I would have to make the same examination they say Jesus made. And so that’s what I did. And here is what I found…
If we assume that what the Society is teaching today is true, it means that from 1876 to 1919 they were guilty of serving THOUSANDS of portions of wrong spiritual food MILLIONS of times!
This realization led me to the conclusion that the Society would have failed a food-at-the-proper-time examination by Jesus Christ in 1919. And therefore they would not have received the above appointment. And therefore the Society cannot be “God’s organization” no matter what they are teaching today.
Even if everything they are teaching today were true, it is too late. The time to pass an examination is when it is given, not decades after it is over. And the Society says that exam was over in the spring of 1919.
Most everyone who makes this examination reaches the same conclusion. Here is what Former Governing Body Member Raymond Franz concluded after he finally made this exam after some 60 years of associating with the Society…
“It would be an insult to Christ Jesus to say that he selected this organization on the basis of what it had been teaching as of 1919.”
The reason why there are 6.5 million Jehovah’s Witnesses today is not because they all made such an examination and concluded that the Society would have passed it. They all made the same mistake of not making it before they got baptized. And everyone who becomes a Jehovah’s Witness in the future will make this same mistake.
If anyone would like to see where the “thousands of portions of wrong spiritual food that were served millions of times” comes from, you can find this information in Chapter 3 of “Captives of a Concept.”
Don at www.CaptivesOfaConcept.com
First of all, I made sure I understood just how the Society interprets this Scripture….
*“45 Who really is the faithful and discreet slave [organization] whom [Jesus] appointed over his [disciples], to give them their [spiritual] food at the proper time? 46 Happy is that slave [organization] if [Jesus] on arriving [in 1914] finds him doing so. 47 Truly I say to you [in the spring of 1919] he will appoint [the Watchtower Society] over all his [earthly interests].” *
Their teaching is that Jesus returned in 1914 to begin his Second Coming or “invisible presence” in fulfillment of Matthew 24:3. Then in 1918 he began to make an examination of all the religions claiming to represent him to see if any of them had been faithfully and discreetly providing true teachings of the Bible (spiritual food) at the proper time during his absence.
They say that the only religion he found doing so was the Watchtower Society and therefore Jesus appointed them over all his earthly interests in the spring of 1919 - and therefore the Society is still God’s organization today.
I noticed that the only reason Jesus would have made the above appointment (in verse 47) is if he had found them providing ‘spiritual food at the proper time.’ Their book “God’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached” explains this very critical point under the heading “Time of Inspection by the Slave’s Master.” On pages 350-355 former President Frederick Franz explains…
“The serving of food, the RIGHT sort of food at the PROPER time was the issue. It HAD to be according to this that a decision must be rendered by the returned master [Jesus]…On inspecting [the Society] in the year 1919 C.E… Jesus Christ did find the appointed “slave” faithful and discreet in the feeding of his [disciples].”
Jehovah’s Witnesses know that this “food” and “feeding” refers to the teachings that come from the Watchtower Society. It is evident that Jesus would not base his decision in 1919 on what the Society would be teaching today. Rather, as the above book explained on pages 349 and 350…
“Could they, by even their latest record [of teachings] down till 1919 prove that they themselves were the composite “faithful and discreet slave” class of Jesus Christ?… The QUALITY of the food itself was to be considered.” – para. 40
And so they say that Jesus would make his decision in 1919 based upon what they had been teaching “down till 1919.” He would check the “quality” of those teachings to make sure they were the RIGHT things to be teaching and the RIGHT time to be teaching them (“the right sort of food at the proper time”). What was Jesus’ decision?
I realized that the only way to know what decision Jesus would have made in 1919, I would have to make the same examination they say Jesus made. And so that’s what I did. And here is what I found…
If we assume that what the Society is teaching today is true, it means that from 1876 to 1919 they were guilty of serving THOUSANDS of portions of wrong spiritual food MILLIONS of times!
This realization led me to the conclusion that the Society would have failed a food-at-the-proper-time examination by Jesus Christ in 1919. And therefore they would not have received the above appointment. And therefore the Society cannot be “God’s organization” no matter what they are teaching today.
Even if everything they are teaching today were true, it is too late. The time to pass an examination is when it is given, not decades after it is over. And the Society says that exam was over in the spring of 1919.
Most everyone who makes this examination reaches the same conclusion. Here is what Former Governing Body Member Raymond Franz concluded after he finally made this exam after some 60 years of associating with the Society…
“It would be an insult to Christ Jesus to say that he selected this organization on the basis of what it had been teaching as of 1919.”
The reason why there are 6.5 million Jehovah’s Witnesses today is not because they all made such an examination and concluded that the Society would have passed it. They all made the same mistake of not making it before they got baptized. And everyone who becomes a Jehovah’s Witness in the future will make this same mistake.
If anyone would like to see where the “thousands of portions of wrong spiritual food that were served millions of times” comes from, you can find this information in Chapter 3 of “Captives of a Concept.”
Don at www.CaptivesOfaConcept.com