Captives of a Concept

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Title Copyright Contents Important Terms Foreword Chapter 1: The Concept The Concept That Holds Jehovah’s Witnesses Captive What Makes Jehovah’s Witnesses ‘Tick’ - Raymond Franz The Dominant Controlling Force That Nobody Notices ‘Come to the Watchtower Society For Salvation’ The One Question Everything Always Comes Down To - Peter Gregerson The Only Thing That Needs To Be Known Which Comes First? Bible/Watchtower or Watchtower/Bible Chapter 2: Matthew 24:45-47: Most Important Scripture in Watchtower Theology Understanding Their Interpretation and Holding Them To It The Most Important Event in Watchtower History - Jesus’ Decision in 1919 Using Watchtower Standards To Judge Watchtower Teachings Chapter 3: 48 Teachings Jesus Examined #1: Second Coming of Christ – 40 Years Too Early Then 29 Years Too Late #2: “We Are Not Your Faithful & Discreet Slave” #3: Christ’s Thousand-year Reign & The Sewing Machine - 1873 #4 “Millions Now Living Will Never Die” #5-42: 38 Dates/Events That Didn’t Happen #43-46: Christmas, Birthdays, The Cross, Great Pyramid of Gizeh #47: “End of the Gentile Times” In 1914? #48: The 1,200 Furlongs of Revelation 14:20 – Scranton, Pa to Brooklyn, NY Romans 13:1 – A Special Case Thousands of Portions of Wrong Food Served Millions of Times. Chapter 4: Matthew 24:47 – The Most Important Event In Watchtower History The Society Was In Satan’s Organization From 1914 to 1918! Why Russell Should Have “Let the Very Stones Cry Out” Jesus’ Decision In The Spring of 1919: To Appoint or Not To Appoint? Chapter 5: The One Mistake All Jehovah’s Witnesses Have Made How Their Free Bible Study Program Causes This Mistake How To Avoid Making This Mistake “God’s Organization” Exists Only in the Minds of Jehovah’s Witnesses Why Their Interpretation of Matt. 24:45-47 Could Not Have Come From God Why the Watchtower Society Cannot Be God’s Organization Today Chapter 6: Who Is “God’s Organization”? The Men Hidden Behind “God’s organization’” The Illusion vs. The Reality Nothing is Allowed to Disprove the Lie Chapter 7: No False Teachings or Prophecies – Why Not? Removing the Word “False” Removing the Word “Prophecy” What Their Teachings Are Called When They Start Teaching Them What Their Teachings Are Called When They Stop Teaching Them The Word “False” Is Reserved For All Other Religions Watchtower’s Definition of False Prophets = Russell & Rutherford What The Watchtower Society Has Never Been Able To Admit Do Their Motives Matter? A Spirit-Directed, Uninspired True Prophet? They Are Unable To See What They Are Saying Changing Matthew 7:15-20 From “False Prophets” to “The True Religion” Chapter 8: Using the Bible to Keep Themselves Captive Proverbs 4:18: The Society’s 2nd Most Important Scripture The Second Coming of Christ – Change of date from 1874 to 1914 The Superior Authorities of Romans 13:1 Matthew 24:36: No Difference between Jesus, Russell and Rutherford? The Watchtower’s Spiritual ‘Light Switch’ Acts 1:6: Jesus’ Disciples, Russell & Rutherford Made the Same Mistakes? Using the Bible to Prove Anything They Want It To – James Penton Why The Governing Body Cannot Present a Candid History Chapter 9: Watchtower Propaganda Keeps Them Captive ‘Tricks and Tactics of the Cunning Propagandist’ “Apostate” – The Governing Body’s Favorite “Name-Calling” Label The Governing Body’s ‘Brick Wall’ of Propaganda The Witnesses’ Inner Wall of Willful Blindness Overcoming Watchtower Propaganda and Willful Blindness Is Difficult To Do Chapter 10: Why Jehovah’s Witnesses Have Unity of Belief 1954- Walsh Court Case – Former Vice President Hayden Covington 1980 – September 1 Governing Body Letter 1986 – April 1 Watchtower Playing by Watchtower Rules – Or Else! Illusion vs. Reality Chapter 11: The Final Authority of Watchtower Teachings 2 Timothy 3:16 Only Those Submissive to the Governing Body Can Understand the Bible Their Non-Existent “Chain of Command” Illusion vs. Reality Chapter 12: What They Say Is Not What They Always Do “What Does It Mean To Be Honest?” The Difference Between Making a Mistake and Being Dishonest August 30, 1914 “The World Magazine” June 1, 1997 Watchtower June 15, 1964 Watchtower The Watchtower’s Greatest Enemy - Leonard Chretien How The Society is “Shamelessly Dishonest” – Carl Sagan They Have Fallen In Love With Their Illusion Chapter 13: Who Molds Their Thinking? Listening To Those Who Are Misled and Corrupted in Their Thinking Lacking Information and Receiving Misinformation About Society’s History The Illusion vs. Reality Chapter 14: “Slaves of Men or Servants of God?” Whom Have Jehovah’s Witnesses Been Following? Why Studying The Bible Is Dangerous For Jehovah’s Witnesses Illusion vs. Reality Chapter 15: Bible or Watchtower Trained Conscience – Which? “Happy Anniversary” – Yes / “Happy Birthday” – No Alternative Civilian Service The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Chapter 16: What If This Was Another Religion? Their Concept of “The Organization” Makes All the Difference Chapter 17: No Honorable Way Out of the Watchtower Religion Why It Is So Difficult To Say “I Quit.” 2 John 9-11 – Teaching of the Christ or Teaching of the Watchtower? Keeping God’s Organization Clean? Chapter 18: The Internet – The Watchtower’s Worst Nightmare Chapter 19: The Key To Their Escape Chapter 20: Evidence Alone Is Not Enough Unequivocal and Undeniable Evidence Jehovah’s Witnesses and The Mexican Army First Reserve “I Might As Well Eat, Drink and Be Merry” “I Would Rather Go To My Grave Being Deceived” “They Can’t Tell Us the Truth” “I Can Wait 30 Years For God To Straighten Things Out” “I Don’t Care If Every Member of the Governing Body is an Apostate” When Ten Thousand Words Won’t Make Any Difference The Different Kinds of Jehovah’s Witnesses The Kind of Witness God Chooses to Help Chapter 21: Correcting Their Mistake The Mistake – Correcting the Mistake Watch Out For Proverbs 4:18 Teaching Themselves the Truth The Best Way To Get Along With Jehovah’s Witnesses The Student/Teacher Relationship Watchtower History Study “Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom” – The Book of Watchtower History ‘Once The Bell Has Been Rung’ The Starting Point – Matthew 24:45-47 Russell, Rutherford, 1914 & The Second Coming of Christ ‘We Are Not Your Faithful and Discreet Slave’ “Millions Now Living Will Never Die” The Society’s Nonexistent “Extraordinary Prophecy” Christmas, Birthdays, the Cross & the Pyramid of Gizeh How Would I Have Reacted? How Will Jehovah’s Witnesses React? “Would You Welcome a Visit?” Chapter 22: When Illusion Meets Up With Reality John 6:68: Nowhere Else To Go? An Alternative to “God’s organization” - Ron Frye An Alternative to “God’s organization” - Charles Taze Russell Captivity to the Christ Instead of “God’s organization” In Conclusion Looking Forward To Their Next Visit REVIEW APPENDIX The Watchtower Society’s 1914 The 1st Watch Tower Magazine – July, 1879 – How Amiss it Was The “Knowledge” Book: Page 161, paragraph 4 September 2007 “Kingdom Ministry” – No Independent study of the Bible January 15, 2008 Watchtower. (Study articles for March 10-16, 2008) The Foundation Cornerstone of the Watchtower Religion 151