Worship of the Governing Body
We are facing a very frightening phenomenon in the Truth right now. It is an issue that has been building for some years. It is being encouraged hugely at the moment and that is scaring me. I feel like I want to explain this to the kind, decent people but they wont listen as they are so deeply involved. Any slight critisism of the GB is a critisism of their gods.
(Acts 20:29,30) “I know that after my going away oppressive wolves will enter in among you and will not treat the flock with tenderness, and from among you yourselves men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples after themselves.” (In the old Bible this said to draw away “followers” after themselves).
(1 Corinthians 10-17) Now I urge you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all speak in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you may be completely united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. For some from the house of Chloe have informed me regarding you, my brothers, that there are dissensions among you. What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” “But I to Christ.” Is the Christ divided? Paul was not executed on the stake for you, was he? Or were you baptised in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptised none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptised in my name. Yes, I also baptised the household of Stephanas. As for the rest, I do not know whether I baptised anyone else. For Christ sent me, not to baptise, but to declare the good news; and not with wisdom of speech, so that the torture stake of the Christ should not be made useless.”
I was speaking to a sister in another congregation, and she was saying that her congregation are dividing themselves up among the GB. “I like Samuel Herd best, I prefer Bro Jackson etc.” So are they Herdians or Jacksonians? I don’t want to be either of those, I want to be a Christian and worship Jehovah.
(1 Timothy 4:1) However, the inspired word clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired statements and teachings of demons,
(2 Timothy 4:3, 4) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the wholesome teaching, but according to their own desires, they will surround themselves with teachers to have their ears tickled. They will turn away from listening to the truth and give attention to false stories.
(1 John 2:18, 19) Young children, it is the last hour and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, from which fact we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us. They went out so that it might be shown that not all are of our sort.
Now, I don’t want to be part of any of these scriptures. I am feeling pretty lost but understanding is good. We are starting to see who we can’t trust but we know we can still trust Jehovah.
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