Leaving Babylon
As today, the Watchtower Society has also wrote 23 years ago hair-raising nonsense. The testimony of the Jehovah's Witnesses are now revealing itself as always. One example is in the following letter to a Jehovah's Witness, who was probably an eldest in the assembly Mettmann-South.
Dear Mr. Schulz!
John 1, 1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Since the last conversation we have had on phone with each other, where you made an impatient impression, I felt very insecurely and since tehn I have thougth about. It occurred to me that I have forgotten you entirely, saying that it does not matter to me who the two of us is right or wrong. They believe to be saved in the name of Jehovah, I believe to be saved in the name of Jesus.
You believe that Jesus is an angelic spirit creature of Jehovah, I believe that He is the son of God.
What is striking to me now, are all the primitive contradictions and clumsy contortions, that are spread by the Watchtower. One of them is, for example, the thesis that the Holy Spirit does not longer act. If we take this argument to be true, then in the absence of this power of God we have to think immediately about the presence of Satan. If Satan truly should have free hand in this world, so it would look much worse here below. You don't pose any idea what danger comes from Satan. If he had the free hand, for example, there would not exist one single Christian under the sun. For out of his own power no man can resist, as demonstrated by mankind for millennia.
When Jesus as angelic spirit creature, which was indeed a work of God and as all His works was not entitled to the glory of the Father, the earth woulld have taken under his reign in 1914, Satan should not have any opportunities in this world, which he keeps currently.
The idea of the flowing transition from the old to the new world is an old far too human dream. This are dreaming even people who don't want to know anything of God.
Jesus is not a world improver, but a man improver!
Charles T. Russell in "Dawn" Volume 1: For God has apparently intended the authorization oe evil for six thousand years ...
Mr. Schulz! Note the word apparently! Is this prophecy? How do you know that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is better than Mr. Russell?
Everything the Watchtower Society is issuing is self-put two and two together. The writings of this heap of religious deception are bursting with words such as "apparently", "definitely", "we can conclude" and so on. One fictitious assumption comes after the other windy conjecture. At some tricks of the Watchtower Society can be demonstrated directly for all that the Watchtower Society at best is only a publishing house with commercial interests.
The age-old attempt by their own initiative, here by the self decided and implemented isolation of Babylon the Great, to evade the responsibility, nobody succeeded until this day. God Himself testifies this by prefixing the forgiveness of sins and the justification in faith in Jesus Christ, for making followthe fruit in faith, which is among others the separation of the world. That the Lord makes coming later the active side of faith after the absolute exemption from the court to the believer because of his faith in Jesus, is there for a reason! We must recognize out of this decision of God who saves what believes in the sacrifice of His Son, that He, who knows us through and through, knows that we cannot do anything without Jesus. - But if I have now found the faith in Jesus, then it is right and proper to estimate all His strength in me far higher than my common sense. Therefore, Jesus sharpens our conscience through His Holy Spirit in such a way that we are after the escaping from the court (and thus out of the fall of Babylon) also learn by faith to escape the scope of the world. And since all this is not ours but God's power, we give Him the glory! That we achieve only on the basis that God offers us in Jesus.
"Even if the hour of the Court of God in Babylon not was near, our interest in our personal well-being and our desire to be God's people and not longer seduced slaves of Babylon demand to leave it? Why? Because it is a to extinction condemned organization."
This question of "Why" is not meaningless. It is important. But the subsequent response is sad making. - The Watchtower Society expresses with this answer, that if the world did not have to expect the court, it was not a bad thing to remain in Babylon. The Jehovah's Witnesses are therefore not doing the will of God, but they should not avoid it at all to serve a bad thing, no, they should be based only on the accordant success. And because here is something doomed to extinction, one should, as the rat leaves the sinking ship, move quickly to another. In which direction these ships drive in each case, that "the rat" may not care. That is what the thinking terms of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society do not strike at all. Is not the personal motivation to leave Babylon, much more important than the future prospects of Babylon? Jesus Christ gives us the motivation to leave Babylon.
The reasoning of the Watch Tower Society is so vile as the guidance, a man can get in a savings bank. The whole moral of the Jehovah's Witnesses is just a facade. The Watchtower's true motivation is nothing else than the world-common "taking care of number one". The proof for these lesser motives of the Watchtower Society it provides itself:
Abandon Babylon because it is an organization condemned to extinction.
Nothing is sacred in this professional society of men seduction. The Watchtower Society dead-argues biblical theories like a banker, who promises investors the moon. Just in this way the community of Jehovah's Witnesses is built. For them there is one rule in top of all: One hand washes the other. In addition, there is only the exclusion which is oriented on the despotism of the faithful and discreet slave. As primitive as the argument, Babylon was a dying organization, so it was necessary to leave Babylon, so primitive and based on pure self-interest is the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses itself.