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What is stated in the daily text is true. However, and it always seems there is a "but" or "however," this expression: "Satan has not finished putting God’s people to the test" implies that God's people have been put to the test. Let us examine this statement more closely.
Jesus spoke of our being put to the test in his letters to the seven congregations. At Revelation 2:10 Jesus spoke of Satan's test: "Look! The Devil will keep on throwing some of you into prison so that you may be fully put to the test, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Prove yourself faithful even to death, and I will give you the crown of life." According to a recent statement by the GB, there are currently over 200 JW's in prison right now. That is a lot, but it is only a tiny fraction of the nearly nine million JW's worldwide. Some Christians are imprisoned in Russia. Islamic Eritrea has persecuted Jehovah's Witnesses for 30 years. Here is a question to ponder: Why have JW's in the United States had it so good? The last time JW faced prison was a half-century ago when the military draft was in force during the Vietnam War. Besides, Jesus was speaking to anointed persons. That is why he said, "Prove yourself faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life."
At Revelation 3:10-11 Jesus spoke of a test coming upon the world: "I will also keep you from the hour of test, which is to come upon the entire inhabited earth, to put to the test those dwelling on the earth. I am coming quickly. Keep holding fast to what you have, so that no one may take your crown."
Again, Jesus speaks to anointed persons, encouraging them to continue enduring. If they do, Jesus promises to keep them from the hour of test. Has this hour of test begun? According to the Watchtower it has. The hour of test supposedly began in 1914 and has been ongoing now for 110 years! Here is a quote from the Grand Climax book, paragraph 18:
If the above statement is true, then there is no reason to keep holding fast to what you have because Christ has already come. As only the Watchtower can do and do with great conviction, it holds two contradictory positions. On the one hand, the Watchtower teaches that Christ is coming and it also teaches that Christ has come. Which is it? The Governing Body claims it is both. But how can that possibly be true? Revelation concludes with Jesus saying he is coming quickly and his reward is with him. Have Christians been rewarded with salvation? No. Obviously not. So, it is not possible to continue to hold two contradictory interpretations of prophecy successfully. Both cannot be true. Either Jesus has come, or he has not. And since Jesus has not come to punish and reward his slaves, neither has the hour of test come upon the world. The Watchtower has worked a great falsehood upon Jehovah's Witnesses.
Because Jehovah's Witnesses have been seduced into exalting the organization and the Governing Body to an inordinate place of honor reserved for Christ, also known as idolatry, the test for Jehovah's Witnesses will come when the idol is discredited. When will that come about? When Christ comes. How will that discredit the Watchtower? Because the Watchtower is founded upon the fabricated lie that Christ has already come, in 1914. How can Jehovah's Witnesses possibly go forward in faith when it becomes undeniable that the Watchtower has misled the entire organization? That is what Jehovah wants to find out.
Everyone, be on guard against your neighbor,
And do not trust even your brother.
For every brother is a betrayer,
And every neighbor is a slanderer.
Each one cheats his neighbor,
And no one speaks truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood.
They wear themselves out doing what is wrong.
You are living in the midst of deception.
In their deception they refused to know me,” declares Jehovah.
Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies says:
“I will smelt them and test them,
For what else can I do with the daughter of my people?
Their tongue is a deadly arrow that speaks deception.
With his mouth a person speaks of peace to his neighbor,
But inside he lays an ambush.
Should I not call them to account for these things?” declares Jehovah.
“Should I not avenge myself on such a nation?"
Jeremiah 9:4-9
And do not trust even your brother.
For every brother is a betrayer,
And every neighbor is a slanderer.
Each one cheats his neighbor,
And no one speaks truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood.
They wear themselves out doing what is wrong.
You are living in the midst of deception.
In their deception they refused to know me,” declares Jehovah.
Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies says:
“I will smelt them and test them,
For what else can I do with the daughter of my people?
Their tongue is a deadly arrow that speaks deception.
With his mouth a person speaks of peace to his neighbor,
But inside he lays an ambush.
Should I not call them to account for these things?” declares Jehovah.
“Should I not avenge myself on such a nation?"
Jeremiah 9:4-9
You are living in the midst of deception
A continuation of the Jeremiah series. Unlike his prophet-contemporaries Daniel and Ezekiel who were in Babylon, Jeremiah was in Jerusalem when the siege began. You might say he was at ground zero. Although Jeremiah also penned an entire Bible book called Lamentations lamenting the fall of...
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When is the hour of test coming upon the world?
This is the last article in the series examining the May, 2024 Watchtower. I am still trying to mentally process the Watchtower’s most recent “new light.” As stated in the previous article in this series, it is doubtful that
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THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT
"And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. He was saying in a loud voice: 'Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of judgment by
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