Posted by Bibleman [Bibleman] on October 31, 1999 at 13:39:19 {MDPAlM8llYMRXA6xmpscslyACFuF8c}:
In Reply to: ***WTS DARKNESS-EMBARRASSING posted by WW on October 31, 1999 at 07:53:39:
Ahhh, now I fell guilty! See previous note where you said I was wrong without argument..
Anyway, this is promising. Everybody needs a little validation.
So I'll take yours. Thanks.
But what now, WW?
You're waking up. And this will be painful.
But this is real.
Of note, there is another "great tribulation" mentioned in Revelation through which the "great crowd" comes. This means a tribulation of having to realize a separation from the love and devotion GB and the witness organization and reestablishing your loyalty to Jesus and Jehovah.
That will be painful. But only when you do that can your "robes be washed clean".
This is just one of the false teachings. If you pay attention now and make sure of what you believe and what you teach, you will see the darkness of the GB. This was prophesied. The "evil slave" is WITHIN the organization. 2 thess 2:4 says he "rises up in the temple of THE GOD..."
What is "THE temple of THE God"? It's the anointed remnant of JWs. This can be no one other than who is running the organization when the Messiah arrives. Someone who has made themselves a "god", calling themselves "God's channel" and the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" and requiring "Loyalty to the slave..."
Loyalty?
You don't have to break away from the organization, which still has many of Jehovah's "sheep" associated with it. But you must break away from anything that would be considered as "worship" of the FDS. Especially if you realize they have been disapproved in any way from representing Jehovah's truth.
That will be painful. That will be your "great tribulation". But you can come through this. You must! You've begun. Finish it!
The WTS doesn't want you on the net! There is a reason for that. It is to keep you dumb! Which is the only way they can control you.
So choose yourself. Save yourself. Make sure of all your teachings. Search the scriptures and accept what the Bible has to say, only not in the light of the Watchtower.
You will have to make that painful break though. You must leave that "broad road" and get on that narrow road to life, which is your own personal spiritual awakening. That is what that journey is about. Becoming a servant of Jehovah, and not a servant of an organization. You must think of yourself as belonging to Jehovah and not to Jehovah's Witnesses.
So far so good, WW. But you've got to keep it up.
Time is running out....
Best wishes to you...
Cheers,
Bibleman
P.S. And thanks for facing reality! For facing the TRUTH! I'm in this just like you. I have to make these teachings work out as well. And they don't. Take care.