I just sent this video “faithfully obey to what is least” from JW.org to a former elder and circuit overseer. I titled the video The GB have now sat down in the seat of misses. The following was his response
Will there be a person or some group that would be used by God to disseminate any instructions?
How would y’all respond.?
I do not believe there would be any need for “instructions”. Not from man, anyway. The age of tribalism and enslavement of national peoples is no longer recognised, but as we have seen is still extant in countries of the far east in Burma and China. However, the witnesses are a religion - or seen as - and thus as in Russia et alia, they are simply banned. No “instructions” for them there then!
The gb have created a belief that they are Jehovah’s personal possession but this is simply not true. They are servants, set with a task and which they have glorified themselves beyond their remit - assuming they ever had one. The witnesses are employed across the world as individuals with a faith in common to preach the word. They are not ruled by men, but by their heart and are chosen by Jehovah for that very reason. The common tie between them all was down to one man’s provision of a printing press and the money to print back in the 1800s. Printing tracts was an altruistic act of a group of men. Its authority grew from that one provision. They were then not dictators of the Word, but distributors of the Word. That it has grown was a phenomenon of the time, is a cause for debate, but accordingly, one can point to its success in its extraordinary reach.
However, its reach was not of its own making. The Word, was and remains, the singular common factor of its own power, and it is true only, that like attracts like, just as it was in the days of Jesus at the culmination of the Jewish nation as the bringer forth of the messiah. The Jewish nation eventually came to its conclusion and the Word was thrown open to all. It is not owned or controlled by men, and neither is its interpretation. It is of the heart. Its response in each case, is from the heart of the individual and it is to the individual that Jehovah speaks. Jehovah does not require any man to speak for him of his own volition, other than to tell others what he knows of Jehovah. Even when it becomes time for the anointed to speak, they will not do so with their own voice, but that voice which is given them. The time for instruction in the Word will be passed. Its truth will told in retrospect to salvation. And there will be only regret to chew upon.
If there is instruction in the truth by man to be given, it’s time is nearly at an end. Regardless, it never was instruction to save the body, but to save the value of the soul, its life. It does not matter to the faithful one should he lose his body come the tribulation. The Bible tells us that . “Do not fear those that can kill the body. Fear Him who can kill the soul.” The Bible goes on to tell us that in those days, people will even seek the cover of mountains to protect them, but that will do them no good.
We must look to the past interventions Jehovah has made that reflect these very conditions we see today. Exodus is one, Jerusalem in 70 CE is another. Watchtower may see these examples as “instructions” but are they? No. They were responses to faith through understanding the Word critically discerned by those whom had faith in what they had been taught. Understanding was required on the behalf of the person concerned to rest his future upon the Word of Jehovah. In both cases, it was blindingly obvious who was the rescuer of His people. When Moses presumed that above Jehovah, he paid for it with his life. The gb seem to ignore this salient point that the understanding of truth leads men, not men themselves.
If anything reflects mans’ greed for praise and the position of a ‘saviour’, it is the exact same spiel dripping from the mouths of the gb that mimics this need to be seen as Jehovah’s means salvation.
We should ask ourselves why the gb have never described this feat of engineering in plucking from all the earth and guiding to a place of safety, eight million people spread all over the earth, and to do so possibly without any form of communication that we know of or can employ. Logistically, there is no known way to do this even in relative peace. Linguistically, electronically, it’s just not possible. Thus the gb in their luxury marble mansion, cut off from reality, dream that somehow they can issue “life saving instructions” world wide.
Jehovah sent a king to eat grass in the field for seven years and then returned him to his throne. I do not think Jehovah needs the governing body to dream up “life saving instructions”. Jehovah notices even a sparrow that falls to earth. We don’t need the gb. And that we do not need the gb, is what worries the gb the most. That’s why they have invented the fiction of “life saving instructions.” They seek only to remain relevant in a world that is rapidly exposing their irrelevance to the outcomes of the WORD.