Excellent Eric and thank you. This is indeed another eye opener for those that truly search for truth. Amazing how the Watchtower slips falsehoods into every paragraph in such a subtle manner to mislead the rank and file.
Yes they slip it in sooooo quietly and inconspicuously that you don't know if you are coming or going. I always felt the wrongness of JW's and didn't know what it was or how to put the pieces together and you just SHINES LIGHTS on so much. Thank You.
Good yet if as a average JW you offended someone you would be expected to apologise to keep the peace in the congregation. But the same rules do not apply to those in ( so called ) higher positions and yet the scripture tells us that those who have more responsibilities more will be expected standards of behaviour. And yes that would include apologising when you are wrong. Thankfully i stopped attending several years ago . But it hurts all the time i wasted and my family still hang on to every word they are good people but have been greatly decived sadly
It's amazing how they will quickly say they are imperfect and expect their followers to blindly obey them even if what they require is not in agreement with the bible.
I've had this exact convo with a family member still in the org: FM: "The witnesses don't hide anything, you can go to the website and find everything" Me: "You can't find any Russell literature or early Watchtower issues there" FM: "So what, that stuff isn't in line with the truth anymore" Me: "Yes they've made constant errors and taught things that aren't true, they hide it, so how can you trust what they say now?" FM: "They're human they make mistakes, you make mistakes too! That's how we learn" Me: "Absolutely but I'm not the one demanding others follow my rules, or ignore their family- because I can be wrong" Just imagine this going on in circles and the JW still defending the org, this is the reality of being a member. For as much the org imposes on their people, it's the people that give them the power to do so. JWs have very little faith outside of the governing body, they want to be good little sheep to herders that abuse them but promise no hard thinking, no hard choices, and no hard times.
@@joshua-l6m *"So what, that stuff isn't in line with the truth anymore"* It's a strange claim made about a man Watchtower says was a prophet tasked by God, as "God’s mouthpiece", to single-handedly restore long-lost Bible truths to mankind.
@@domenicocatrambone9789 Yes, good point. That clearly shows that all of Jesus’s followers were to call God their Father. Which means they are all God’s adopted children through their faith in Jesus & the ransom sacrifice. Nothing in scriptures that say there is 2 diff groups of Christians with different hopes.
I had a relative tell another relative that she looked sick it’s incredible how this effected her it stayed with her for some time she was perfectly ok not sick at all but it just shows how much words affect us I always stayed away from that relative that told her I think she knew how this would affect her she’s not a good person. And yes they gaslight you it gives them some sick power over you. Thank you wonderful video ❤
I love you Brother Eric for the courage you display and your gifted, keen intellect applied to discernment. May we all continue to pray for Holy Spirit guidance to allow the true love of Christ to flow through us to others and to honor the most High God welcoming in His Kingdom. I am a child/daughter of God, he has summoned me by name, not to be a select superior person inflating my ego, but with a zeal to share love and help others. ❤ 🙏 This is a scripture on my wall with dual meaning for Jacob and Israel and for us as hopeful Christians Isaiah 43 ► New International Version Par ▾ Israel’s Only Savior 1But now, this is what the Lord says-he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”
Additional tactics of narcissistic abuse: ‘reverse blame shifting’ and ‘projection’ - accusing others of what they themselves are doing. Apply critical thinking with the brain 🧠 God gave you. Truth stands up to inspection, and fire 🔥 refines gold.
Thank you so much. Many have gifts of the spirit that I lack. But whatever our gift, what counts is that we don't waste it. . . .In proportion as each one has received a gift, use it in ministering to one another as fine stewards of God’s undeserved kindness expressed in various ways. (1 Peter 4:10)
Wonderful Eric well explained and to think we all just sat there and listened and participated until we stopped listening to men and really looked at what the Bible really taught. We know what will happen to these individuals that claim they know the truth. In Galatians 1:6-9 Paul tells us the punishment that such individuals will receive. Will they repent ? Time will tell. Thank you so much for all your hard work. ❤🙏👍👍
Good morning brother Eric. Fine video and content. Please continue providing us with "fine life-saving spiritual food". Many blessings to you and dear wife from The Father and Son. Ismael, Kingdom Christian from sunny ☀️ Puerto Rico.
From a 56yr old man, that was 3rd generation JW on both parents side, and has been disfellowshiped, ( 2nd time), for the past 23yrs. Who also, until early 2023, when, by chance, discovered the report from the Australian Royal Commission of C.S.A. among J Ws, and all that it entails, believed without reservation, that it was "The Truth". Who, despite that strong conviction, but also, in a way, because of it, instantaneously knew in the deepest part of my being, that it was unequivocally impossible that Jehovah's spirit and blessing was, in ANY WAY, associated with the organization of JWs, or any other, that would abandon children in any, most especially in that context, to promote a false narrative of righteousness and moral exception. I have dealt with alot of life altering adversities, in life, the vast majority of which were the direct results of my own conduct, actions, bad decisions and choices. None of those, some of which literaly were down to life or death in the moment, devastated me, on an emotional level especially, as did that realization.
I am a 57 year old man 3rd gen both sides who left in 95, and who just discovered less than a year ago, the good news: _"He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household...If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”_ (Acts 16:30; Romans 10:9) + Nothing. No baptism, no church attendance, no confession, no repenting from sin, and certainly no "Organization." I was slow to understand owing to generational indoctrination . All the best!
@JacobSilverberg1329 You'll notice that declaring with your mouth is part of believing in your heart. Jesus said that this belief would result in the loss of all things, and persecutions. . . .They became still more astounded and said to him: “Who possibly can be saved?” 27 Looking straight at them, Jesus said: “With men it is impossible but not so with God, for all things are possible with God.” 28 Peter began to say to him: “Look! We have left all things and followed you.” 29 Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news 30 who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time-houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions-and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. (Mark 10:26-30)
@@BeroeanPickets Hello Mr.Pickets and thank you for the reply, though I am unsure of your point. Are you quoting Mark to suggest that we must suffer the loss of all things and persecution to inherit life? Is this the condition which must first be met before we may qualify for salvation? "Jesus said that this belief would result in the loss of all things..." Which verse of the pericope supports your statement? Jesus did not refer to belief here and conflating the free gift of eternal life inherited by belief with the extracurricular work of discipleship is eisegetical. Paul stated that if you believe in your heart you shall be saved without qualification in Romans. Again in Acts 16:30,31 every requirement for salvation was disclosed to the jailer upon his request. _"...what must I do to be saved?...Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”_ Did Paul fail to make full disclosure when requested to do so directly? It is incomprehensible that the Apostle to the Gentiles who received the gospel of salvation directly from Jesus, and who was entrusted with the task of effectively communicating that gospel for the salvation of the Gentiles, failed to do so when asked directly. The command of life given is unqualified. What we see in Mark is a request to validate our endeavors as the means to life. The young ruler, hoping by merit to achieve life is denied. It is not by the works of law, but by the atonement of Christ and His imputed righteousness that we are saved. We may only receive that free gift of salvation purchased with the blood of Christ by request in faith for the remission of sins. This contrast is summarized nicely in John 5:39,40 _"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."_ Men search the scriptures for the commands of work so that they may save themselves by their own efforts, by their own merit. But with man it is impossible! _"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."_ Ephesians 2:8,9 Anyway, I admire your work here. God Bless!
I am a disfellowshipped apostate, voting with my feet, 37 years ago. I have gone to other churches, and I can say, categorically, the the Watchtower does not have a monopoly on wackyness; as other denominations have beliefs and practices that are not to be found in the Bible.
The gaslighting is another example of how arrogant and presumptuous the Watchtower Society's Governing Body is. They have also been known to claim that Jehovah God has "given them new light in his own due time" and that he has given them authority to teach the elders to set up their own "judicial committee" to "try" those accused of what they call "sins against the Watchtower Society". That smacks of blasphemy to me because they are bringing God's good name into their wicked practices, as though God were responsible for them. Jesus Christ sternly but lovingly warns us that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, as He had warned the Jewish religious leaders and the common people of His day. Thank you, Eric, for this eye-opening video.
If the GB doesn’t feel the need to apologize when they don’t get things exactly right someone needs to point them to James 3:1 where it says that leaders are held to a higher standard and are judged more strictly.
I left the "Organization" last year after I waited 30 years for my Witness Pioneer Sister to recant from a vicious lie that she spread about me. According to the publications, I was to apologize for something I never did. For the fact that she was a pioneer and female, my word meant nothing as I became inactive as I had gone to prison for a separate matter. Well, she died last year before last and I decided to leave, since that Elders didn't want to mediate this matter even after I requested their help to reconcile my sister with myself. My only fault was that I was too passive about the whole matter and I should have been more forceful in my calls for mediation. I thank you for helping me make that decision to leave such and deceitful group.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that injustice. However, nothing is over. God will bring all things hidden in darkness into the light, whether in this system of things, or the one to come. Nothing will be left unresolved. (Matthew 12:32)
Part 2: My apologies, I didn't intend to write a book in the comment section. I wanted to put the, for lack of a better term, core, of why I am in the comments, into context. ...... So, continuing on, the reality that what, up to that moment, I considered to be the rock solid foundation of who I was and my life veiws, my expectations, future plans, my core values, literally, every aspect of my life, was not just merely, cracked or broken in half, but more like, obliterated, not only beyond repair, beyond recognition. All the preceding is an attempt to explain why I truly and sincerely appreciate your channel and the content of your videos. I'm thankful beyond description, that I found your videos, within 2 or 3 weeks after I had the experience with what was exposed in the ARC report, which I throughly and meticulously reviewed in its entirety, ( all pertaining to JWs). The only thing I did have after that , was I absolutely believed that Jehovah and Jesus had to be real and that the Bible was from God. Hade I not found your videos, I would be lost in so many ways. So THANK YOU, and I always look forward to your next installment, I have a ways to go yet, but I feel, with growing confidence, that I am looking in the right direction. I wish you the best and forJehovah's blessings to continue on you your, very appreciated work.
@samlindsey1078 • Thank you so very much for your kind words. It matters so much to me and my wife, and the many who are now working with us behind the scenes to get the message out in many languages. When you're ready, please join us online for our weekly zoom bible discussions. I know you'll find them very instructive and so very different from what we were used to at the weekly KH meetings. beroeans.net/meetings/
@@BeroeanPickets you for the invitation, I certainly would like to check the Bible discussions. I have not had any experience with Zoom, my, technology application abilities need an update. I look forward to it.
They try to avoid giving any answer in my experience, but if pressed, still cling to the canard that they only did it because they needed access to the UN library. That is not true, because you don't have to be a NGO affiliate to use the library, but even if you did, it's still no justification for "laying down with the Wild Beast of Revelation". It's like saying that you need to be a promoter of the local bordello, because they have a great library.
Dear Meleti...1st of all, Thanks for explaining gaslighting...from the movie. Very well explained , and illustrated... Every JW should see this! Tis A brilliant 30 minute Bible study. Keep up the good work! Thanks, and continued Support!
Can you also review the July 2024 watchtower second article entitled: "Do You Recognize the Truth?" and the fourth article entitled: Important Lessons from the Kings of Israel. Thank you very much Brother Erik for loving and defending the "Real Truth" from God's Word.
None other than Freddie Franz gave a blistering talk at Brooklyn Bethel decrying the whole idea 💡 of a first century Governing Body in the middle 70's.
More of the same brilliance from Eric and the Team at Beroean Pickets! I would like to ask (Eric) if you would go out on a limb and say anything about other contributors on RUclips et al, who might offer a similar perspective in relation to their past lives in other "Organisations" and how they have come to learn that it has been deleterious to their spiritual growth/understanding of scripture? I am posing this question as I don't want to get baptised as a JW and then get kicked out in order to continue on my pathway to salvation. So, for those, like me, who love Beroean Pickets and Beroean Voices, it would help to gain a wider perspective from others who have started their journey on the wrong path and eventually found the narrow path. " Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it". Matthew 13:7 Berean Standard Bible. Fully understand if you feel that you wouldn't want to advocate for other, similar, contributors regarding this matter. I simply can;t find anyone else out there who I can have confidence in. All very best wishes, AJ225
It is our hope that through our journey the next two months, that we can contact and interview many who will share their stories so as to encourage others to take a stand for truth, knowing they are not alone, but that there are thousands like themselves who are abandoning the falsehood of religion and embracing the freedom of the Christ by worshipping in spirit and truth.
In an ironic twist of fate, setting themselves up as Jesus’ organization, if things in this system go way south many may see them as safety and overwhelm the headquarters for protection and help. You reap what you sow.
Back in the 80s when Nevado del Ruiz, a semi-active volcano in Colombia, blew its top killing 25,000, some 40 Jehovah's Witnesses fled to the Kingdom Hall in the town of Armero thinking that Jehovah would protect them. I fear that so many of our former friends will do the same when the "Kings of the Earth" turn on Babylon the Great and devastate her "in one hour". They will fail to heed the warning of Revelation 18:4.
@@BeroeanPickets and/or also. Watchtower is a one way street, always in need of money or workers. It may come a time when the faithful come to them, many starving and in need of shelter will find out what they will provide. My father for 50 years always giving money and his time (from always driving in service cleaning toilets, taking in stranded JWs) never asked for a thing. One day 2 elders came by asking for a donation for some project. I overheard my dad in a stern voice answering their inquiry if there is anything he needed, I could use some help with my yard. You never saw them leave so fast. My dad got face to face with the realization that it was a one way street. He was healthy in his late 80s but from that day forward he started to lose his mind, howling and acting irrationally. Reality struck hard, he died soon after that. That may be the fate of many when they have assumed they were appreciated, if there is nothing to be gained by helping a person you are cut loose. I have so many stories of great injustices, games they play with people to get what they want-put up with it as long as I could. Husbands father was a ped hanging around the organization my sister 13 years old treated horrible suicide at 18. Shake up is a coming.
The leaders of the JWS/WTS want to take away devoted loyal Christians ability to examine what they preach and teach, to see if it in-lines with what Jehovah has spoken or Jesus's words and teachings for preaching his Gospel. Yet in 1 John 4:1 says... [1] Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. True devoted Christians are to examine what men say to see if it is what god has given them to say and be aware of false prophets . If these men's words are not what god has given them to say, god instructs to not listen to them, they are false prophet apostates. False prophets are severely condemned in the bible as Revelation 20:10 says.... 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Now think of the first leader of the Watchtower Corporation C T Russell preaching of Pyramidology, through this theology claiming that Jesus returned to his heavenly throne in 1874. False prophet or not ??? 🤔 At least Russell didn't institute a disfellowshipped doctrine that demonized people who questioned his doctrinal teachings , that came about 50 years latter on by other men who ran the WTS/JWS an apostate sin in itself. 😳
Powerful analysis Eric, Watchtower is so manipulative, they have been gaslighting for so long they must now be considered the 'Gaslighting kings', everything about this cult is based on deciet, and we know who was the original deciever, reminds me of Jesus words 'see that you are not decieved'. Really appreciate your hard work, though you look tired in this video presentation. I hope you're looking after yourself. Sometimes, we need to take time out. Many thanks once again, Eric....🙏
Ich habe vor kurzem, mal wieder nach langer Zeit, in einem Königreichssaal der Zeugen Jehovas gesessen und dort habe ich mich als ein Ausgeschlossener so unwohl gefühlt, dass ich es nicht mal 5 Minuten ausgehalten habe. Das war in einem Saal in dem ich zuvor noch niemals war und man auch nicht gewusst haben müsste, dass ich ausgeschlossen bin. Ich war aber mit einer alten Ausgabe einer großen Studienausgabe der Neuen-Welt-Übersetzung dort. Ob die vermutet haben könnten, dass ich ein Ausgeschlossener bin, weiß ich natürlich nicht aber erst als ich aufstand um zu gehen hat man mir einen Wachtturm angeboten, der gerade Studiert wurde. Lieber Eric ich weiß Deine Arbeit zu schätzen; aber wir müssen alle auf uns achten, denn wir machen alle Fehler! In Liebe und liebe Grüße! Marco
@MN-xs8ku - We left the Netherlands a couple of days ago. I am so sorry that we missed meeting up with you. Either your email went into our spam folder and got missed, or we answered and the reverse happened. I can't tell who you are by your RUclips alias, so I can't be sure what happened. We are currently in Switzerland, but we will be in Germany later this month, so perhaps there's still a chance for us to meet. My email is meleti.vivlon@gmail.com and my wife's is wendyatberoeanvoices@gmail.com. Let's try again.
Great Exposé my brother. "Gaslighting" began long before that 1938 story. The first known instance involved Satan and a woman named Eve. "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." 2 Cor. 11:14 Satan still "gaslights" the gullible today, simply because it still works. We should be like the noble minded, first century Bereans who examined the scriptures daily to see if even what the Apostle Paul said was true according to what is written in God's word. Acts 17:11 The JW "organization" does not allow such an examination of their ever changing, non-scriptural "New Light."
Stirring up racial hatred in the U.K. is now seen as an crime resulting in a prison sentence. Likewise, messages of religious hatred carry the same penalty.
@@BeroeanPickets - Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God - I bet you don't know where in Scripture this bit of wisdom is to be found?
@@JWC-iw9um You would lose that bet, but remember that the most important peace we can make is with God. We cannot be at peace with God if we spread lies. And if we know that someone is lying about God to mislead others, and we do nothing to warn them, then we are complict and bear guilt.
The scriptures talk of teachers. These teachers from the apostolic age are the ones that pass this information on . Because of false teachings creeping in there had to be councils to determine what is dogma . So in the catholic church we have teachers the scriptures and the magisterium ,all three complement each other
Beloved, do not believe all spirits, but be distinguishing between the spirits whether they are from God, because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.
At 28 minutes into your video, the Watchtower article talks about "rejecting false stories". I don't have a problem with that admonition. It came from the anointed apostle's counsel. What I have a problem with, and discerned only after I was a victim of the "false stories" perpetrated by elders who sought to judge me; is that the JW organization believe that because "they're Jehovah's organization" they are miraculously immune from deceptive influences and false stories that originate FROM WITHIN THEIR OWN ORGANIZATION OF LEADERS! THERE IS NO SCRIPTURAL BASIS FOR BELIEVING THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU INVOKE THE NAME OF GOD FOR YOUR RELIGION; OR THE NAME OF HIS SON; YOU ARE IMMUNE FROM SECTARIAN INFLUENCES AND MISLEADING TEACHINGS! The entire history of 1st century Christianity is filled with examples of those who, FROM WITHIN THE CONGREGATIONS THEMSELVES; AROSE AND SPOKE TWISTED TEAHINGS THAT DEVIATED FROM THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES! Jesus had to repeatedly counsel elders in the congregations of Sardis, Ephesus, Pergamum and Thyatira for their deviating from the scriptures and God's counsel thru his Son, the Head of the congregation! And the books of the apostle John, the record in the book of Acts, as well as Peter and Paul's letters are filled with examples of their leaders infiltrating the congregation, "tickling the ears" of those in it; "and misleading and being misled by impostors! (2 Tim. 3: 13; Acts 20: 28, 29;..2 Peter 2: 1, 2,......"these ones will quietly bring in destructive sects,..disowning the owner that bought them, and many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these, the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively."!!
So well said. That is why God told His people to leave Babylon the Great.(Rev.18:4) I’m sure you can tell that the population of Christians’ trapped in BTG is massive! God saves those within one believer at a time. It is actually quite rare for a Christian to become truly born from the Spirit.(Luk.15:7)
King James Bible And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. Off topic... What's ur view on this prophecy
What's that refrain from the song, "The glory that was Rome is of another day." More and more we see that in this world, there is no cohesion. Things are becoming more and more fractured in nation after nation.
They moved it into their archive section on the UN, but it's still obtainable. All the information you need can be got at www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/united-nations-association.php
How do I get my sister in law to wake up to this false doctrine, only through Jesus Christ can their be salvation , so sad for them being brainwashed and leading to being lost and in forever the lake of fire
Those who don't wake up will still likely be given time to get to know God while living as humans on earth. The second death is for those who choose not to submit to God. Watchtower deprives most of its members of partaking of the bread and the wine, so that they will not get to be part of the bride of Christ.
Mr. Picketts, I've commented so many times on your videos. To possibly allow you to see that the teachings you learned by JWs, points you to beliefs of men instead of Gods truth, which I'm sure is engrained, indoctrinated, in you from being a JW for so long. You, as a man, a son of God , His creation, has, and will always stand alone in God's truth. Your salvation is of your heart, no one else's. Proving not even one other person on earth is right or wrong will bring you no salvation, none. Helping even one person to see what you see as wrong or right, is just a thrill, it is 100% your will and not of God's , and it is 100% your ego that drives you to do so, not God's love, which is the light of God that allows you to see your lost in imagination. God uses men that are a empty vessels, and fills their empty glass with His wisdom, not intellectual knowledge of the bible or men, to prove others unworthy. As a JW you argued with people on the name of hell, and it was never revealed to you that hell is what you are living right here on earth, right now. You preached, even door to door about paradise being here on earth without even realizing that hell is here too, in thoughts, in thoughts in your head, and outside you in others heads, right here, right now. Spirits that are pure evil. But if you take all thoughts into captivity, they will flee from you, and out of your ego that is fueled by thoughts, and free of your intellectual knowledge. I've talked to so many JWs that tell me God never said that, take all thoughts into captivity, so amazing! Defying God, Jesus and the Holy spirit, just so they can stay in the past or in the future, in hell, with their daddy satan. The spiritual battle is real, but your to busy fighting flesh and looking outside you for answer's, what a mess.
I have so many JW family and friends that are caught up in the past, that is gone, and the future, that hasn't happened that they can't see that Jehovah is right here right now with us. God said I'm right here right now with you. But the pain of the presence is too much to endure. Even though God said to, and God through Jesus was the example of enduring this pain, they are too afraid of the pain, of their own thoughts. They cannot let go and be still, and know that God is God. and will provide all that is needed. They read walk through the valley death and fear no evil, but look too men, with the same fear instead of trusting in Jehovah. Jesus said it best, forgive them Father, which He does, they just can't see.
They use the verse that says : "Let everything take place decently and by arrangement" I agree with you but playing devils advocate that's a verse they use to justify having every jw activity organised and micro managed
10:13 wasn’t the Governing appointed in 1976 when the 1975 prophecy failed? To claim Jesus appointed them in 1919 is a lie because there were no Governing Body then.
"Inhabited 🌍 earth" should be translated as Inhabited LAND; as it is the Greek word ge = land. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created (bara) the heavens and the Eretz (land). Psalm 37 "The meek shall inherit the Eretz (land) not Earth 🌍 " Matthew 24:14 "The Gospel shall be preached in all the Inhabited earth LAND!' ACTS 1:8 Jesus said: ye shall be Witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the most distant part of the ge (LAND)' There is no evidence that the Apostles preached in Australia, the continent of America, Scandinavia, or Russia. A total misappropriation of both Hebrew and Greek words. The truth of the Bible is - LOST IN TRANSLATION 😮
We should follow the word of God not the word of men - true. But the Bible was compiled from various texts that were selected by men, and written by men. Every one seems happy to say the Bible is God's word, but unless God himself tells us it is, then we cannot really know that it is. Paul said all scripture is inspired by God, but then he was obviously referring only to the old testament, which was claimed to have be based on stone tablets miraculously provided by God. But we have never seen the tablets or the angels, so again there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. All this is just assumptions and guesswork. I have decided to wait till God really gets in touch with us directly. When I can see angels or visions (without being drunk or on drugs) or suffering from a brain tumour, only then will I take notice. I am sure the real God will not dissapoint.
Show me a compilation of writings that span 1600 years that contain the wisdom found in the Bible. If you feel that it is not God's word, but merely man's, then there would be many writings that have foretold the future accurately, that have contained the same self-effacing admissions by its writers, and that contain the same superlative wisdom that has guided us for centuries.
The men of the Watchtower Corporation (JWorg.) have been setting times of Jesus's return right back to the late 1800's and using the false theology of Pyramidology to do so, selling these teachings in books and magazines. $$$ When people go directly against Jesus's own words when he said no one knows of the time not even he. You better take careful scrutiny to what these people are doing and why to keep yourself in adherence of being a true righteous Christian. The real intent was always about certain men of the WTS such as Presidents and GB members to circumvent wanting power and control toward themselves, there was also a vast amount of money coming into their hands which they used to their fullest capability including health and dental care, food and lodging, cars with insurance and now days swimming pools and tennis courts, just to name some of the perks. This is also the reason why those at the top of the organization will continue to lie and deceive, its really about themselves and a drive to sustain what they personally have and are receiving. 😕
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And yet they still continue to call themselves the "truth". Absolutely despicable
@@FirsteMann1929 things are either true or not true, but there is no one truth , there are many truths.
@@yvonne3903 Huh ? If things are not true , then isn't it by definition a lie . So how can there be MANY truths ?
Excellent Eric and thank you. This is indeed another eye opener for those that truly search for truth. Amazing how the Watchtower slips falsehoods into every paragraph in such a subtle manner to mislead the rank and file.
Yes, perfect examples of gaslighting.
Well Researched , and Presented !!
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So nice of you to say.
Yes they slip it in sooooo quietly and inconspicuously that you don't know if you are coming or going. I always felt the wrongness of JW's and didn't know what it was or how to put the pieces together and you just SHINES LIGHTS on so much. Thank You.
Again thank you Eric for your hard and diligent work to help us see the truth of GOD'S word 🙏 the Bible and to reject the falsehoods of men.
Yup that Jeffery winder talk w no need to apologize woke me up! Been awake since thxs Eric’s
Good yet if as a average JW you offended someone you would be expected to apologise to keep the peace in the congregation.
But the same rules do not apply to those in ( so called ) higher positions and yet the scripture tells us that those who have more responsibilities more will be expected standards of behaviour.
And yes that would include apologising when you are wrong.
Thankfully i stopped attending several years ago . But it hurts all the time i wasted and my family still hang on to every word they are good people but have been greatly decived sadly
@@thetruthk5138woke me up too, they are the modern day Pharisees .
It's amazing how they will quickly say they are imperfect and expect their followers to blindly obey them even if what they require is not in agreement with the bible.
The GB demands agreement even when their directives defy all rational, logical thought.
@@adamantiumbullet9215 Because the sad elders are blinded by the elusion of authority they have now and what they hope to have in the new system.
I've had this exact convo with a family member still in the org:
FM: "The witnesses don't hide anything, you can go to the website and find everything"
Me: "You can't find any Russell literature or early Watchtower issues there"
FM: "So what, that stuff isn't in line with the truth anymore"
Me: "Yes they've made constant errors and taught things that aren't true, they hide it, so how can you trust what they say now?"
FM: "They're human they make mistakes, you make mistakes too! That's how we learn"
Me: "Absolutely but I'm not the one demanding others follow my rules, or ignore their family- because I can be wrong"
Just imagine this going on in circles and the JW still defending the org, this is the reality of being a member. For as much the org imposes on their people, it's the people that give them the power to do so. JWs have very little faith outside of the governing body, they want to be good little sheep to herders that abuse them but promise no hard thinking, no hard choices, and no hard times.
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*"So what, that stuff isn't in line with the truth anymore"*
It's a strange claim made about a man Watchtower says was a prophet tasked by God, as "God’s mouthpiece", to single-handedly restore long-lost Bible truths to mankind.
In the prayer of the Our Father, it begins with Father. This prayer causes us to call God our Father.
@@domenicocatrambone9789 Yes, good point. That clearly shows that all of Jesus’s followers were to call God their Father. Which means they are all God’s adopted children through their faith in Jesus & the ransom sacrifice. Nothing in scriptures that say there is 2 diff groups of Christians with different hopes.
Good point - they only want u to think of yourselves as worthless slaves.
This was really good... I like this format!
I appreciate knowing that. I plan to use the format more often as it allows me to produce more content.
Thanks for covering this!
Oh my goodness, Thank You again and again and again...
Excellent video!! Thank you!! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had a relative tell another relative that she looked sick it’s incredible how this effected her it stayed with her for some time she was perfectly ok not sick at all but it just shows how much words affect us I always stayed away from that relative that told her I think she knew how this would affect her she’s not a good person. And yes they gaslight you it gives them some sick power over you. Thank you wonderful video ❤
I love you Brother Eric for the courage you display and your gifted, keen intellect applied to discernment. May we all continue to pray for Holy Spirit guidance to allow the true love of Christ to flow through us to others and to honor the most High God welcoming in His Kingdom. I am a child/daughter of God, he has summoned me by name, not to be a select superior person inflating my ego, but with a zeal to share love and help others. ❤ 🙏
This is a scripture on my wall with dual meaning for Jacob and Israel and for us as hopeful Christians
Isaiah 43 ►
New International Version Par ▾
Israel’s Only Savior
1But now, this is what the Lord says-he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”
Additional tactics of narcissistic abuse: ‘reverse blame shifting’ and ‘projection’ - accusing others of what they themselves are doing.
Apply critical thinking with the brain 🧠 God gave you. Truth stands up to inspection, and fire 🔥 refines gold.
Thank you so much. Many have gifts of the spirit that I lack. But whatever our gift, what counts is that we don't waste it.
. . .In proportion as each one has received a gift, use it in ministering to one another as fine stewards of God’s undeserved kindness expressed in various ways. (1 Peter 4:10)
It's amazing what happens when you read what the scripture say!! and apply a little common sense.
Great job my brother and i appreciate all you're work on reavealing these lies they have told . ❤❤❤
I appreciate that
Wonderful Eric well explained and to think we all just sat there and listened and participated until we stopped listening to men and really looked at what the Bible really taught. We know what will happen to these individuals that claim they know the truth. In Galatians 1:6-9 Paul tells us the punishment that such individuals will receive. Will they repent ? Time will tell. Thank you so much for all your hard work. ❤🙏👍👍
Thank You .
You are welcome!
Good morning brother Eric. Fine video and content. Please continue providing us with "fine life-saving spiritual food". Many blessings to you and dear wife from The Father and Son. Ismael, Kingdom Christian from sunny ☀️ Puerto Rico.
Finally someone explained to me the origin of Gaslighting 🙂 And many thanks for discussing this and other such Watchtower topics!
Glad it was helpful!
From a 56yr old man, that was 3rd generation JW on both parents side, and has been disfellowshiped, ( 2nd time), for the past 23yrs. Who also, until early 2023, when, by chance, discovered the report from the Australian Royal Commission of C.S.A. among J Ws, and all that it entails, believed without reservation, that it was "The Truth". Who, despite that strong conviction, but also, in a way, because of it, instantaneously knew in the deepest part of my being, that it was unequivocally impossible that Jehovah's spirit and blessing was, in ANY WAY, associated with the organization of JWs, or any other, that would abandon children in any, most especially in that context, to promote a false narrative of righteousness and moral exception. I have dealt with alot of life altering adversities, in life, the vast majority of which were the direct results of my own conduct, actions, bad decisions and choices. None of those, some of which literaly were down to life or death in the moment, devastated me, on an emotional level especially, as did that realization.
I am a 57 year old man 3rd gen both sides who left in 95, and who just discovered less than a year ago, the good news: _"He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household...If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”_ (Acts 16:30; Romans 10:9) + Nothing. No baptism, no church attendance, no confession, no repenting from sin, and certainly no "Organization." I was slow to understand owing to generational indoctrination . All the best!
@JacobSilverberg1329 You'll notice that declaring with your mouth is part of believing in your heart. Jesus said that this belief would result in the loss of all things, and persecutions.
. . .They became still more astounded and said to him: “Who possibly can be saved?” 27 Looking straight at them, Jesus said: “With men it is impossible but not so with God, for all things are possible with God.” 28 Peter began to say to him: “Look! We have left all things and followed you.” 29 Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news 30 who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time-houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions-and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. (Mark 10:26-30)
@@BeroeanPickets Hello Mr.Pickets and thank you for the reply, though I am unsure of your point. Are you quoting Mark to suggest that we must suffer the loss of all things and persecution to inherit life? Is this the condition which must first be met before we may qualify for salvation? "Jesus said that this belief would result in the loss of all things..." Which verse of the pericope supports your statement? Jesus did not refer to belief here and conflating the free gift of eternal life inherited by belief with the extracurricular work of discipleship is eisegetical.
Paul stated that if you believe in your heart you shall be saved without qualification in Romans. Again in Acts 16:30,31 every requirement for salvation was disclosed to the jailer upon his request. _"...what must I do to be saved?...Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”_ Did Paul fail to make full disclosure when requested to do so directly? It is incomprehensible that the Apostle to the Gentiles who received the gospel of salvation directly from Jesus, and who was entrusted with the task of effectively communicating that gospel for the salvation of the Gentiles, failed to do so when asked directly. The command of life given is unqualified.
What we see in Mark is a request to validate our endeavors as the means to life. The young ruler, hoping by merit to achieve life is denied. It is not by the works of law, but by the atonement of Christ and His imputed righteousness that we are saved. We may only receive that free gift of salvation purchased with the blood of Christ by request in faith for the remission of sins. This contrast is summarized nicely in John 5:39,40 _"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."_ Men search the scriptures for the commands of work so that they may save themselves by their own efforts, by their own merit. But with man it is impossible!
_"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."_ Ephesians 2:8,9 Anyway, I admire your work here. God Bless!
I am a disfellowshipped apostate, voting with my feet, 37 years ago.
I have gone to other churches, and I can say, categorically, the the Watchtower does not have a monopoly on wackyness; as other denominations have beliefs and practices that are not to be found in the Bible.
Witaj bracie Eryku czekam z utęsknieniem na podkast w języku polskim. Serdecznie pozdrawiam.
Ja też 😊
The gaslighting is another example of how arrogant and presumptuous the Watchtower Society's Governing Body is. They have also been known to claim that Jehovah God has "given them new light in his own due time" and that he has given them authority to teach the elders to set up their own "judicial committee" to "try" those accused of what they call "sins against the Watchtower Society". That smacks of blasphemy to me because they are bringing God's good name into their wicked practices, as though God were responsible for them. Jesus Christ sternly but lovingly warns us that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, as He had warned the Jewish religious leaders and the common people of His day. Thank you, Eric, for this eye-opening video.
If the GB doesn’t feel the need to apologize when they don’t get things exactly right someone needs to point them to James 3:1 where it says that leaders are held to a higher standard and are judged more strictly.
They don't see the need to apologize because they are like the pharasies
Which Christ called them Serpentes
Matthew chapter 23.
They will regret ever saying those words.
@@Linda-ux8unyou would think. They have never regretted saying any words, they just say we didn't say that even when you have a record. Example 1975
@@yvonne3903 Wait until Judgement.
@@Linda-ux8un Sie werden es bereuen nicht bereut zu haben!
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I left the "Organization" last year after I waited 30 years for my Witness Pioneer Sister to recant from a vicious lie that she spread about me. According to the publications, I was to apologize for something I never did. For the fact that she was a pioneer and female, my word meant nothing as I became inactive as I had gone to prison for a separate matter.
Well, she died last year before last and I decided to leave, since that Elders didn't want to mediate this matter even after I requested their help to reconcile my sister with myself. My only fault was that I was too passive about the whole matter and I should have been more forceful in my calls for mediation.
I thank you for helping me make that decision to leave such and deceitful group.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that injustice. However, nothing is over. God will bring all things hidden in darkness into the light, whether in this system of things, or the one to come. Nothing will be left unresolved. (Matthew 12:32)
Part 2: My apologies, I didn't intend to write a book in the comment section. I wanted to put the, for lack of a better term, core, of why I am in the comments, into context. ...... So, continuing on, the reality that what, up to that moment, I considered to be the rock solid foundation of who I was and my life veiws, my expectations, future plans, my core values, literally, every aspect of my life, was not just merely, cracked or broken in half, but more like, obliterated, not only beyond repair, beyond recognition. All the preceding is an attempt to explain why I truly and sincerely appreciate your channel and the content of your videos. I'm thankful beyond description, that I found your videos, within 2 or 3 weeks after I had the experience with what was exposed in the ARC report, which I throughly and meticulously reviewed in its entirety, ( all pertaining to JWs). The only thing I did have after that , was I absolutely believed that Jehovah and Jesus had to be real and that the Bible was from God. Hade I not found your videos, I would be lost in so many ways. So THANK YOU, and I always look forward to your next installment, I have a ways to go yet, but I feel, with growing confidence, that I am looking in the right direction. I wish you the best and forJehovah's blessings to continue on you your, very appreciated work.
@samlindsey1078 • Thank you so very much for your kind words. It matters so much to me and my wife, and the many who are now working with us behind the scenes to get the message out in many languages. When you're ready, please join us online for our weekly zoom bible discussions. I know you'll find them very instructive and so very different from what we were used to at the weekly KH meetings.
beroeans.net/meetings/
@@BeroeanPickets you for the invitation, I certainly would like to check the Bible discussions. I have not
had any experience with Zoom, my, technology application abilities need an update. I look forward to it.
What response now would The Watchtower give if they are asked about their UN association?
They try to avoid giving any answer in my experience, but if pressed, still cling to the canard that they only did it because they needed access to the UN library. That is not true, because you don't have to be a NGO affiliate to use the library, but even if you did, it's still no justification for "laying down with the Wild Beast of Revelation". It's like saying that you need to be a promoter of the local bordello, because they have a great library.
Dear Meleti...1st of all, Thanks for explaining gaslighting...from the movie. Very well explained , and illustrated... Every JW should see this! Tis A brilliant 30 minute Bible study.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks, and continued Support!
Thank you Eric. WT has perfected an MK-Ultra level of mind control.
No doubt!
Thank you for your information it's very interesting the movie help me to open my eyes wake up thank you very much
Can you also review the July 2024 watchtower second article entitled: "Do You Recognize the Truth?" and the fourth article entitled: Important Lessons from the Kings of Israel. Thank you very much Brother Erik for loving and defending the "Real Truth" from God's Word.
None other than Freddie Franz gave a blistering talk at Brooklyn Bethel decrying the whole idea 💡 of a first century Governing Body in the middle 70's.
Thank you for this
"Home Run".
More of the same brilliance from Eric and the Team at Beroean Pickets! I would like to ask (Eric) if you would go out on a limb and say anything about other contributors on RUclips et al, who might offer a similar perspective in relation to their past lives in other "Organisations" and how they have come to learn that it has been deleterious to their spiritual growth/understanding of scripture? I am posing this question as I don't want to get baptised as a JW and then get kicked out in order to continue on my pathway to salvation. So, for those, like me, who love Beroean Pickets and Beroean Voices, it would help to gain a wider perspective from others who have started their journey on the wrong path and eventually found the narrow path. " Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it". Matthew 13:7 Berean Standard Bible. Fully understand if you feel that you wouldn't want to advocate for other, similar, contributors regarding this matter. I simply can;t find anyone else out there who I can have confidence in. All very best wishes, AJ225
@@aj225 the narrow path is yourself & Christ💗Pass it on💗
It is our hope that through our journey the next two months, that we can contact and interview many who will share their stories so as to encourage others to take a stand for truth, knowing they are not alone, but that there are thousands like themselves who are abandoning the falsehood of religion and embracing the freedom of the Christ by worshipping in spirit and truth.
Spoken like a true Witness
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(Romains 16:18) [...] par des paroles mielleuses et des discours flatteurs ils séduisent les cœurs des personnes sans méfiance [...]
In an ironic twist of fate, setting themselves up as Jesus’ organization, if things in this system go way south many may see them as safety and overwhelm the headquarters for protection and help. You reap what you sow.
Back in the 80s when Nevado del Ruiz, a semi-active volcano in Colombia, blew its top killing 25,000, some 40 Jehovah's Witnesses fled to the Kingdom Hall in the town of Armero thinking that Jehovah would protect them. I fear that so many of our former friends will do the same when the "Kings of the Earth" turn on Babylon the Great and devastate her "in one hour". They will fail to heed the warning of Revelation 18:4.
@@BeroeanPickets and/or also. Watchtower is a one way street, always in need of money or workers. It may come a time when the faithful come to them, many starving and in need of shelter will find out what they will provide. My father for 50 years always giving money and his time (from always driving in service cleaning toilets, taking in stranded JWs) never asked for a thing. One day 2 elders came by asking for a donation for some project. I overheard my dad in a stern voice answering their inquiry if there is anything he needed, I could use some help with my yard. You never saw them leave so fast. My dad got face to face with the realization that it was a one way street. He was healthy in his late 80s but from that day forward he started to lose his mind, howling and acting irrationally. Reality struck hard, he died soon after that. That may be the fate of many when they have assumed they were appreciated, if there is nothing to be gained by helping a person you are cut loose. I have so many stories of great injustices, games they play with people to get what they want-put up with it as long as I could. Husbands father was a ped hanging around the organization my sister 13 years old treated horrible suicide at 18. Shake up is a coming.
The leaders of the JWS/WTS want to take away devoted loyal Christians ability to examine what they preach and teach, to see if it in-lines with what Jehovah has spoken or Jesus's words and teachings for preaching his Gospel.
Yet in 1 John 4:1 says...
[1] Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
True devoted Christians are to examine what men say to see if it is what god has given them to say and be aware of false prophets .
If these men's words are not what god has given them to say, god instructs to not listen to them, they are false prophet apostates.
False prophets are severely condemned in the bible as Revelation 20:10 says....
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Now think of the first leader of the Watchtower Corporation C T Russell preaching of Pyramidology, through this theology claiming that Jesus returned to his heavenly throne in 1874.
False prophet or not ??? 🤔
At least Russell didn't institute a disfellowshipped doctrine that demonized people who questioned his doctrinal teachings , that came about 50 years latter on by other men who ran the WTS/JWS an apostate sin in itself. 😳
Powerful analysis Eric, Watchtower is so manipulative, they have been gaslighting for so long they must now be considered the 'Gaslighting kings', everything about this cult is based on deciet, and we know who was the original deciever, reminds me of Jesus words 'see that you are not decieved'.
Really appreciate your hard work, though you look tired in this video presentation. I hope you're looking after yourself. Sometimes, we need to take time out. Many thanks once again, Eric....🙏
Thanks Phillbobaggins5962. Yes, I am a little tired. So much to do. But planning a week off soon.
@BeroeanPickets glad to here Eric, our time is very precious at our stage of life...😇
Commenting for the algorithm.
I am a JW, and I listen with the translation. Eric explains well, but it is extremely difficult for me to accept that I got everything wrong....
Welcome to the club. But it is what it is. 😊
Ich habe vor kurzem, mal wieder nach langer Zeit, in einem Königreichssaal der Zeugen Jehovas gesessen und dort habe ich mich als ein Ausgeschlossener so unwohl gefühlt, dass ich es nicht mal 5 Minuten ausgehalten habe. Das war in einem Saal in dem ich zuvor noch niemals war und man auch nicht gewusst haben müsste, dass ich ausgeschlossen bin.
Ich war aber mit einer alten Ausgabe einer großen Studienausgabe der Neuen-Welt-Übersetzung dort. Ob die vermutet haben könnten, dass ich ein Ausgeschlossener bin, weiß ich natürlich nicht aber erst als ich aufstand um zu gehen hat man mir einen Wachtturm angeboten, der gerade Studiert wurde.
Lieber Eric ich weiß Deine Arbeit zu schätzen; aber wir müssen alle auf uns achten, denn wir machen alle Fehler!
In Liebe und liebe Grüße!
Marco
Did you return back?
18:19 their conduct and believes are terrible
Hallo Eric, when are you in Holland? Unfortunately I did not receive an answer by email a month ago. Monique N
@MN-xs8ku - We left the Netherlands a couple of days ago. I am so sorry that we missed meeting up with you. Either your email went into our spam folder and got missed, or we answered and the reverse happened. I can't tell who you are by your RUclips alias, so I can't be sure what happened. We are currently in Switzerland, but we will be in Germany later this month, so perhaps there's still a chance for us to meet. My email is meleti.vivlon@gmail.com and my wife's is wendyatberoeanvoices@gmail.com. Let's try again.
They are presumptuous and discount the role of Christ through the Holy Spirit in spreading God's word. They are arrogant and presumptuous.
Great Exposé my brother. "Gaslighting" began long before that 1938 story. The first known instance involved Satan and a woman named Eve. "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." 2 Cor. 11:14 Satan still "gaslights" the gullible today, simply because it still works. We should be like the noble minded, first century Bereans who examined the scriptures daily to see if even what the Apostle Paul said was true according to what is written in God's word. Acts 17:11 The JW "organization" does not allow such an examination of their ever changing, non-scriptural "New Light."
Stirring up racial hatred in the U.K. is now seen as an crime resulting in a prison sentence.
Likewise, messages of religious hatred carry the same penalty.
I doubt that the Watchtower corporation will pay heed to your warning.
@@BeroeanPickets - Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God - I bet you don't know where in Scripture this bit of wisdom is to be found?
@@JWC-iw9um You would lose that bet, but remember that the most important peace we can make is with God. We cannot be at peace with God if we spread lies. And if we know that someone is lying about God to mislead others, and we do nothing to warn them, then we are complict and bear guilt.
I have not seen your review of the August 2024 Study Edition of the Watchtower.
I will likely do one once the Annual Meeting is broadcast as I'm sure that will add to the content.
23:22 I don’t know.🤔 I think most times, elders disfellowship wrongdoers simply because it’s easier and they don’t have to help them.
The scriptures talk of teachers. These teachers from the apostolic age are the ones that pass this information on . Because of false teachings creeping in there had to be councils to determine what is dogma . So in the catholic church we have teachers the scriptures and the magisterium ,all three complement each other
Beloved, do not believe all spirits, but be distinguishing between the spirits whether they are from God, because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.
Not servants of Jesus, but servants of men.Sad.
At 28 minutes into your video, the Watchtower article talks about "rejecting false stories". I don't have a problem with that admonition. It came from the anointed apostle's counsel. What I have a problem with, and discerned only after I was a victim of the "false stories" perpetrated by elders who sought to judge me; is that the JW organization believe that because "they're Jehovah's organization" they are miraculously immune from deceptive influences and false stories that originate FROM WITHIN THEIR OWN ORGANIZATION OF LEADERS! THERE IS NO SCRIPTURAL BASIS FOR BELIEVING THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU INVOKE THE NAME OF GOD FOR YOUR RELIGION; OR THE NAME OF HIS SON; YOU ARE IMMUNE FROM SECTARIAN INFLUENCES AND MISLEADING TEACHINGS!
The entire history of 1st century Christianity is filled with examples of those who, FROM WITHIN THE CONGREGATIONS THEMSELVES; AROSE AND SPOKE TWISTED TEAHINGS THAT DEVIATED FROM THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES! Jesus had to repeatedly counsel elders in the congregations of Sardis, Ephesus, Pergamum and Thyatira for their deviating from the scriptures and God's counsel thru his Son, the Head of the congregation! And the books of the apostle John, the record in the book of Acts, as well as Peter and Paul's letters are filled with examples of their leaders infiltrating the congregation, "tickling the ears" of those in it; "and misleading and being misled by impostors! (2 Tim. 3: 13; Acts 20: 28, 29;..2 Peter 2: 1, 2,......"these ones will quietly bring in destructive sects,..disowning the owner that bought them, and many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these, the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively."!!
So well said. That is why God told His people to leave Babylon the Great.(Rev.18:4) I’m sure you can tell that the population of Christians’ trapped in BTG is massive! God saves those within one believer at a time. It is actually quite rare for a Christian to become truly born from the Spirit.(Luk.15:7)
Yes this is the troof
Great video! Is it JW software you're using to look at the Greek concordance alongside the interlinear translation?
Thank you. Yes, I use the JW library as well as online sources, like biblehub.com
King James Bible
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Off topic...
What's ur view on this prophecy
What's that refrain from the song, "The glory that was Rome is of another day."
More and more we see that in this world, there is no cohesion. Things are becoming more and more fractured in nation after nation.
Could not find it on UN site---please send link. Found it on the Guardian site though.
They moved it into their archive section on the UN, but it's still obtainable. All the information you need can be got at www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/united-nations-association.php
@@BeroeanPickets Well done, thanks.
How do I get my sister in law to wake up to this false doctrine, only through Jesus Christ can their be salvation , so sad for them being brainwashed and leading to being lost and in forever the lake of fire
Those who don't wake up will still likely be given time to get to know God while living as humans on earth. The second death is for those who choose not to submit to God. Watchtower deprives most of its members of partaking of the bread and the wine, so that they will not get to be part of the bride of Christ.
Mr. Picketts, I've commented so many times on your videos. To possibly allow you to see that the teachings you learned by JWs, points you to beliefs of men instead of Gods truth, which I'm sure is engrained, indoctrinated, in you from being a JW for so long. You, as a man, a son of God , His creation, has, and will always stand alone in God's truth. Your salvation is of your heart, no one else's. Proving not even one other person on earth is right or wrong will bring you no salvation, none. Helping even one person to see what you see as wrong or right, is just a thrill, it is 100% your will and not of God's , and it is 100% your ego that drives you to do so, not God's love, which is the light of God that allows you to see your lost in imagination. God uses men that are a empty vessels, and fills their empty glass with His wisdom, not intellectual knowledge of the bible or men, to prove others unworthy. As a JW you argued with people on the name of hell, and it was never revealed to you that hell is what you are living right here on earth, right now. You preached, even door to door about paradise being here on earth without even realizing that hell is here too, in thoughts, in thoughts in your head, and outside you in others heads, right here, right now. Spirits that are pure evil. But if you take all thoughts into captivity, they will flee from you, and out of your ego that is fueled by thoughts, and free of your intellectual knowledge. I've talked to so many JWs that tell me God never said that, take all thoughts into captivity, so amazing! Defying God, Jesus and the Holy spirit, just so they can stay in the past or in the future, in hell, with their daddy satan. The spiritual battle is real, but your to busy fighting flesh and looking outside you for answer's, what a mess.
I have so many JW family and friends that are caught up in the past, that is gone, and the future, that hasn't happened that they can't see that Jehovah is right here right now with us. God said I'm right here right now with you. But the pain of the presence is too much to endure. Even though God said to, and God through Jesus was the example of enduring this pain, they are too afraid of the pain, of their own thoughts. They cannot let go and be still, and know that God is God. and will provide all that is needed. They read walk through the valley death and fear no evil, but look too men, with the same fear instead of trusting in Jehovah. Jesus said it best, forgive them Father, which He does, they just can't see.
They use the verse that says : "Let everything take place decently and by arrangement"
I agree with you but playing devils advocate that's a verse they use to justify having every jw activity organised and micro managed
10:13 wasn’t the Governing appointed in 1976 when the 1975 prophecy failed? To claim Jesus appointed them in 1919 is a lie because there were no Governing Body then.
True, true.
"Inhabited 🌍 earth" should be translated as Inhabited LAND; as it is the Greek word ge = land.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created (bara) the heavens and the Eretz (land).
Psalm 37 "The meek shall inherit the Eretz (land) not Earth 🌍 "
Matthew 24:14 "The Gospel shall be preached in all the Inhabited earth LAND!'
ACTS 1:8 Jesus said: ye shall be Witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the most distant part of the ge (LAND)'
There is no evidence that the Apostles preached in Australia, the continent of America, Scandinavia, or Russia.
A total misappropriation of both Hebrew and Greek words.
The truth of the Bible is -
LOST IN TRANSLATION 😮
We should follow the word of God not the word of men - true. But the Bible was compiled from various texts that were selected by men, and written by men. Every one seems happy to say the Bible is God's word, but unless God himself tells us it is, then we cannot really know that it is. Paul said all scripture is inspired by God, but then he was obviously referring only to the old testament, which was claimed to have be based on stone tablets miraculously provided by God. But we have never seen the tablets or the angels, so again there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. All this is just assumptions and guesswork. I have decided to wait till God really gets in touch with us directly. When I can see angels or visions (without being drunk or on drugs) or suffering from a brain tumour, only then will I take notice. I am sure the real God will not dissapoint.
Show me a compilation of writings that span 1600 years that contain the wisdom found in the Bible. If you feel that it is not God's word, but merely man's, then there would be many writings that have foretold the future accurately, that have contained the same self-effacing admissions by its writers, and that contain the same superlative wisdom that has guided us for centuries.
I feel like God has a sense of humor and his name translates from the Hebrew word YHWH to the English YooHooWooHoo.
You got a chuckle out of me😂
Didn't Jesus send the disciples to preach in pairs? Devils advocate again ha
Yup, but other than that, it was pretty loose.
The men of the Watchtower Corporation (JWorg.) have been setting times of Jesus's return right back to the late 1800's and using the false theology of Pyramidology to do so, selling these teachings in books and magazines. $$$
When people go directly against Jesus's own words when he said no one knows of the time not even he. You better take careful scrutiny to what these people are doing and why to keep yourself in adherence of being a true righteous Christian.
The real intent was always about certain men of the WTS such as Presidents and GB members to circumvent wanting power and control toward themselves, there was also a vast amount of money coming into their hands which they used to their fullest capability including health and dental care, food and lodging, cars with insurance and now days swimming pools and tennis courts, just to name some of the perks.
This is also the reason why those at the top of the organization will continue to lie and deceive, its really about themselves and a drive to sustain what they personally have and are receiving. 😕
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