Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses?

Jehovah's witnesses allege to be Christians yet they deny the authority of the One whose name they claim to bear. They go door to door trying to convince people that they represent the true Gospel but as you will see, they actually represent a false religious system. "...having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." (2Tim.3:5-7)

When recruiting new members, Jehovah's witnesses avoid confessing that they don't believe Jesus is the only means of salvation or that they believe (as did the Pharisees) that they must work to enter heaven. They use kindness and geniality to woo potential converts into their false religious system then slowly brainwash them into believing their lies. Go to their website- http://www.watchtower.org/, and type "Jesus" into the search bar and you'll get, "God's first creation."

One of the first things a new member learns is that they must depend on the organization for their passage into paradise and that they must earn their salvation mostly by going door to door. However, this is skillfully manipulated. They teach that man is saved by grace but at the same time they teach that unless their members go door to door and attend meetings in order to prove their worthiness to escape the wrath of God they will never receive eternal life. Members are actually required to turn in a monthly time report to be kept on the active membership roll.

Former Jehovah's witnesses have testified to the fact that they were constantly filled with guilt. Their lives were consumed with Kingdom Hall meetings, walking door to door, and reading the Watch Tower literature, which by the way, according to the Watchtower society, is the only way that anyone can understand the Bible.

Jehovah's witnesses are not baptized in the traditional formula dictated by Scripture which is in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, but rather they are baptized in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the spirit-directed organization. Christians devote their lives to serving the living God through Jesus Christ to which they belong. Jehovah's witnesses devote their lives to serving the Watchtower Society to which they belong.

The Bible clearly states that Jesus Christ is the only means of salvation yet the Watchtower, in their December, 1981 publication said that people are to come to Jehovah's organization to receive salvation, which leaves Jesus completely out of it. Acts 4:12, referring to Jesus says, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

Despite all of the clear texts about the person and work of Jesus Christ, Jehovah's witnesses teach that before His incarnation Jesus was a created spirit-being called Michael, the Archangel, devoid of all divinity, and that He was never resurrected but instead was re-created. They teach that God destroyed His physical body and gave Him other bodies to appear before the disciples.

The Cross represents paganism to Jehovah's witnesses. They believe that Jesus was crucified on a pole and when God destroyed His body He ascended to heaven and resumed His role as Michael the Archangel. Moreover, at Armageddon He will destroy all but the Jehovah's witnesses which are supposedly the chosen 144,000 who will rule with Him from heaven.

The Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible (New World Translation) is also known as the Green Phantom because it was put together by translators who were then unknown. It was later learned that these now-known translators had absolutely no knowledge of the Greek language which is probably why they didn't want their identity known.

As the organization grew and expanded it became more vulnerable to public scrutiny. People within the headquarters of the organization began to see things that were hidden from its members which caused them to leave the organization and set about to expose it.

The Watchtower Society claims to be the prophet of God. The Bible says that when a prophet makes a prediction that doesn't come to pass he is a false prophet. In 1874, Charles Russell, the first president of the Jehovah's witnesses claimed that Jesus would return visibly before the year's end. It didn't happen of course so the organization had to regroup.

Two years later a new Watchtower came into being by a man named Barber who claimed that Jesus did come in 1874 but it was an invisible return. This was changed again and Jesus was going to return in 1879, then 1881, 1914, 1918, and 1925.

However, in 1968 the Watchtower announced that Jesus was returning on October 1, 1975 to destroy all but the Jehovah's witnesses. Members began selling their homes and everything they had. Many of them quit their jobs. When it didn't happen, the president of the organization rescheduled Christ's return for 1988. Actually, whistle blowers have documented more than one hundred false prophecies that came directly from the main headquarters of the Watchtower organization.

The Watchtower claims that their magazine carries more authority than the Bible and any member who challenges this is excommunicated. In other words they are kicked out of the organization and members are not allowed to have anything whatsoever to do with them, even if they are members of the same family.

Therefore, anyone who has been drawn into this corrupt organization that claims to be nonprofit (which couldn't be further from the truth) needs to read the true Word of God rather than a false translation that has eliminated essential words and added others to hide the truth, namely, that Jesus is Lord, and the only means of salvation. However, those who follow blindly without question are willfully ignorant and God says He will send a strong delusion upon those who love not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Thess. 2:12)

Sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeRDG6kXcEw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ktR8XHtcrs

http://www.jude3.net/JWIDX.HTM

http://www.cultwatch.com/jw.html