Posted by CC on March 22, 1999 at 06:31:19 {MWV7/1kkPzlK6}:
The Watchtower organization has claimed to be the prophet of God (The
Watchtower, April 1, 1972, p. 197) yet it has made numerous false
prophecies. The excuse given for their false prophecies has been to
quote
Proverbs 4:18 which says, "But the path of the righteous ones is
like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the
day if firmly established." However, this is not the correct verse to
use.
Instead, it says in the NWT in Deut. 18:20-22, "'However, the
prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not
commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that
prophet must die.
And in case you should say in your heart: "How shall
we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?" when the prophet speaks
in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that
is the word that
Jehovah did not speak..."
If the NWT condemns false prophecying and states that it is proof
that God is not speaking through that prophet, then doesn't this prove
that the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society is
not speaking for God?