1919
The year of 1919 is very
important to the Watchtower Society as this was the year that
they claim Jehovah chose them to be His "faithful and discreet
slave".
"TIME OF INSPECTION
BY THE SLAVE'S MASTER. Without a question of doubt, it was a
real time for inspection of the Master's "slave" class.
All the facts of the case argue that the Master came for the
work of inspection at the time. Such a thing was to be expected
according to the prophecy of Malachi 3:1-5. Of course, the sectarian
churches of Christendom had made a wartime record for themselves,
an open record that had a heavy bearing on their claim to be
disciples and slaves of Jesus Christ. Could they, by even their
latest record down till 1919, prove that they themselves were
the composite "faithful and discreet slave" class
of the heavenly Lord and Master, Jesus Christ? He as Judge would
indicate what his findings were by the way he thereafter dealt
with the hundreds of religious sects of Christendom." -
God's Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached, 1973, p. 349.
But, to be the 'faithful and discreet slave', at that time,
the Society must have been giving out good spiritual food. Was
the food being given out in 1919, good?
1919 TEACHINGS
In 1919 the Society taught that Jesus returned invisibly in
1874 (see The Finished Mystery,
pp. 295 & 386, 1917 Edition), today it is 1914.
In 1919 the Society taught that celebrating Christmas was good
and acceptable to Jehovah (see The
Watchtower, 1 December 1904 p364), today it is pagan.
In 1919 the Society taught that Jesus died on a cross (see
Zion's Watch Tower Reprints, 15 April 1913, p.5221),
today it is pagan.
In 1919 the Society taught that all true Christians had a heavenly
reward (see The Watchtower, August
1, 1935, p. 233, 234, 236), today it is pagan.
Clearly the Watchtower Society were not giving out good food
in 1919 and so, we would suggest, they could not have been chosen
by Jehovah to be His 'faithful and discreet slave'.
In the light of this discovery we think it would be helpful
to look at two key teachings of the Society and see how they
differ from evangelical Christianity. Does the Bible show one
or the other to be right?
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