Watchtower Study: April 21-april 27, 2008

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Study article for the week of April 21 - April 27, 2008

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[EmmaKay]

Paragraph 15 has two key words in it..."yeilding" and "modest"....If there are Brother&#39;s here who once were are still are elders...I apologize ahead of time....But I asked my Mom just how many elders she&#39;s ever met that we could use those words with....between the two of us, we could only come up with one, and it was the same brother.

I&#39;ve known literally hundreds of elders, we traveled a ton when I was younger and met many many brothers and sisters.

I really hope that this article hits home to a few people. But, in my limited experience with life... it seems that if the point is directed at you and doesn&#39;t specificly say your name, you&#39;ll think it&#39;s about someone else and you&#39;ll never get the point.

~sigh~...this article depressed me because I think in most congregations, this is not true or at least limited. There is no balance...

Paragraph 12 slays me....we will continue our preaching work no matter what superior authority is in the way...and if they don&#39;t let us preach...we&#39;ll just join the UN and ally ourselves with them (instead of taking a bold approach like the apostles did and rely on Jehovah) without the rest of you finding out! ....that&#39;s what it should have said. :icon_rolleyes:

Sorry, I just needed to vent on this...I&#39;ll explode if I don&#39;t. :cry:

Love,
EmmaKay

[shikinah]

Paragraph 15 has two key words in it..."yeilding" and "modest"....If there are Brother&#39;s here who once were are still are elders...I apologize ahead of time....But I asked my Mom just how many elders she&#39;s ever met that we could use those words with....between the two of us, we could only come up with one, and it was the same brother.

I&#39;ve known literally hundreds of elders, we traveled a ton when I was younger and met many many brothers and sisters.

I really hope that this article hits home to a few people. But, in my limited experience with life... it seems that if the point is directed at you and doesn&#39;t specificly say your name, you&#39;ll think it&#39;s about someone else and you&#39;ll never get the point.

~sigh~...this article depressed me because I think in most congregations, this is not true or at least limited. There is no balance...

Paragraph 12 slays me....we will continue our preaching work no matter what superior authority is in the way...and if they don&#39;t let us preach...we&#39;ll just join the UN and ally ourselves with them (instead of taking a bold approach like the apostles did and rely on Jehovah) without the rest of you finding out! ....that&#39;s what it should have said. :icon_rolleyes:

Sorry, I just needed to vent on this...I&#39;ll explode if I don&#39;t. :cry:

Love,
EmmaKay[/b]


I remember posting an article about a month ago, about the UN, and how they were going to tell church leaders and ministers, they need to ease their parishiners into the acceptance of martial law, by using the scriptue Romans 13.1, iv&#39;e noticed it used in a quote on this watchtower, very interesting, lets watch the increase of Romans 13.1 over the next couple of months..Then we&#39;ll see the real reason they joined the UN.

Sisterly Love,
Elizabeth x

[SlaveForJah]

I really had a hard time even getting to the end of this article. Again, the premature and usurped self-appointment of the FDS causes my stomach to turn. And this time they focus on a word that isn&#39;t even used in the textual body of the scripture, namely "yielding".

There is nothing inherently wrong about having a yielding spirit; it is truly a Christian quality. The problem arises when a very sloppy case is made for authoritarian and near-absolute dictatorship-like power being offered as the object to which we should yield. 7 paragraphs are dedicated to telling us that we must always yield to "divinely constituted authority", which is to be understood as anything coming from the Society, the platform, or the elder body. Then a mere 3 paragraps are written expounding upon the virtues of NOT yileding when it comes to any authority outside of the Watchtower corporate framework. This is in order to appear like a balanced view is being offered, when in reality it is only a negative reinforcement of what had already been put forth. "Four legs good, two legs bad."

This article is classic fearmongering at its best. "Everything WE do is good, pure, and right. And everything THEY do is evil, demonic, Satanic." The article even goes so far as to drag out the old Boogeyman of "Terrorism" in an effort to get us to willingly offer up our "rights" for the "good of the state". Has no one read Fahrenheit 451, or 1984, or Animal Farm? Haven&#39;t we seen such tactics employed in every fascist, totalitarian and communist state of the past 150 years? Just ask the people of Stalin&#39;s Russia, Hitler&#39;s Germany, Italy under Mussolin, Spain under Franco, or Cambodians of Pol Pot&#39;s reign with the Khmer Rouge. "No animal shall kill another animal without cause."

It&#39;s quite ironic to call up the example of the Apostles&#39; dispute of who was the greatest in an article designed to succesfully argue that its authors are indeed the greatest. Fortunately for us, whatever position the Watchtower believes it has or seeks to maintain, whatever self-praise and self-glory it chooses to award itself, whatever false status it pretends to hold with those who are blind to its charades and worship its idol, Jehovah is not pressured into viewing it as such. Fortunately for us, our standing before Jehovah God is a personal matter, not a congregational one. Fortunately for us, Christ Jesus paid the price for our Redemption and will Judge us individually in his coming Kingdom. At that time, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. May we all endure all these things that are destined to occur. May we all yield, in Christlike fashion, under the mighty hand of our God Jehovah, the One to whom the glory belongs.


Praise Jah, You People!

SlaveForJah