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How did Jehovah's Witnesses Come to Practice Idolatry? 

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@sallyAP
@sallyAP Год назад
I was disfellowshipped for speaking to the elders. I told them that I had studied and found out the false doctrines that tje GB teaches. I wasn't specific on what exactly but I told them I had notes and I could prove to them. Next thing I get a call from an elder and tells me I would be disfellowshipped. They didn't even asked me what I thought was false, they didn't even want to hear it😢
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@sallyAP -- I am so sorry you were treated like that.
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 Год назад
That's terrible. And I'm hearing that basic response from elders in many life experiences of ex-JW's and their kangaroo court judicial committees. It' s all over RU-vid. Like Brother Wilson says here, they can't defend their positions with scripture, only man made rules in their elder book.
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 Год назад
When I was studying with them, after a while, I decided not to get baptized Because, I was taught that, if I think any differently from the witnesses, I would be disfellowshipped I had to keep my mouth shut when it came to dating, for example I was 21 when I stopped attending meetings altogether It's a good thing I never got baptized Because, I would keep questioning them, and they would scold me
@sallyAP
@sallyAP Год назад
@cheneethompson5756 A brother that was studying with my husband straight out told him that if he wanted to become a JW he needled to obey the GB no matter what. And that he didn't hve to question anything because they were Jehovahs annointed people🤨. And that he had to trust them regardless. In that moment my husband knew he will have nothing to do with them. Unfortunately, it took me many more years to wake up and stand my ground. Jesus is my only Lord & Savior. Not a human nor an organization
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 Год назад
@sallyAP exactly! Thanks for sharing! The governing body is always "the man" If a religious group tells you how to live, without question, it's not worth it
@yahsoulbro2018
@yahsoulbro2018 Год назад
Excellent video, I have debated with my JW family and debunked every article they have sent me and in the end they told me " It's a wonderful organization". I pray for my family to seek salvation through Christ rather than an organization.
@joeldb
@joeldb Год назад
All worshipers of Christ are as fundamentally flawed as the Witnesses, just in their own ways.
@yahsoulbro2018
@yahsoulbro2018 Год назад
@@joeldb That maybe true of others but not with Witnesses. I was one from 1970 -1991 and during that time I experienced teaching that don't make sense. Here are a few examples * 1975 Being the end of the system (Bible says nobody but the Father knows the day or hour) * Christ being just an angel * Doctrine around being annonited * Doctrine that says that a group of men are like the voice of Christ. * Doctrine that Christ came back invisibly and ruling in Heaven ( The Bible states signs and wonders and that all shall see him.) A flaw would be a misunderstanding ,crazy doctrine that goes against the bible that is something else.
@margaretislas2916
@margaretislas2916 Год назад
It is a brutal indoctrination plus their use of subliminal messages; this sect practices sorceries (Revelation 18:23), idolatry, etc. The Bible tells us that that’s how the nations were deceived. Revelation 18:23; Revelation 12:9. That’s why the title Mother of the prostitutes fit its profile. Their followers are like drunk with all their false teachings and practices. Like Jesus said they are blinded by these wolves in sheep clothing. Matthew 23:15; Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 15:14; Revelation 18:3-5; Revelation 17: 2-15; this man of lawlessness is so wicked 2 Thessalonians chapter 2; Revelation 18:24. That’s why we need the holy spirt . We need to continue praying for those who don’t have the holy spirt and are still trapped because they have been deceived regarding the holy spirt too. As Jesus said we are protected by the holy spirit. John 14:18-31; 16:13-15; Also 1 John 2:26-29 gives us the clue why the holy spirit is vital in our lives. Otherwise people will receive the mark of the beast Revelation 13; Revelation 17:2-17
@MrBugPop
@MrBugPop Год назад
@@joeldbExactly right! Each religion or even subset (denomination) is going to hell according to every other sect. It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t tied to any of them how foolish they are all.
@christinesotelo7655
@christinesotelo7655 Год назад
Excellent. Thank you for bringing up this subject. In the 70’s, when I was a JW, I didn’t even know there was a Governing Body. I truly believed it was all Jehovah. I never paid attention to an Organization. Now, it’s all about the Governing Body. That’s pretty much all that we hear. Wow. When did it happen. Slowly. Subtly. Pervasively. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention. And to think of those men treating their flock so harshly sickens me. I call them the collective “Wizard of Org”!❤
@thomassmart2790
@thomassmart2790 Год назад
Couldn’t agree more. They are getting more power hungry and everything is focused on them more and more it’s horrible
@Nathan-jq1uw
@Nathan-jq1uw Год назад
Yes. We never knew who the Governing Body was back then. A while back, Samuel Herd said in a talk that JW parents would urge their kids to write to the Governing Body. I was shocked.
@richlisola1
@richlisola1 Год назад
Closer to the end, their falsehoods and evil wants become more readily apparent. Satan is indeed shrewd and sinister. He infiltrated the Organization, and like a frog, being boiled one degree at a time, slowly over time. Lucifer has cooked the organization and its membership. The lesson, Christ’s Church is whoever worships faithfully. They might reside in many “churches,” its membership among those who never met. Yet are united by their love for Christ, and their adherence to his Word.
@butziporsche8646
@butziporsche8646 Год назад
@@thomassmart2790 The GB reminds of Luke 11:52: "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered."
@ouailleaimescier6666
@ouailleaimescier6666 Год назад
​@@richlisola1this is also my point of view now. Many JWs are not my brothers because they do not act as real brothers towards me and my family, and many individuals amongst catholics , baptists, evangelists seem to have authentic love for fellow christians, even if they have doubts about their own organisations. We cannot judge anymore people on their religious affiliation, but on their personal faith and love
@butziporsche8646
@butziporsche8646 Год назад
My mom, in her 80s, was born and raised in “The Truth” and has her entire life vested in it and makes excuses for every questionable teaching. The Governing Body now has Papal level reverence and authority.
@bygeorgehemayberite8385
@bygeorgehemayberite8385 Год назад
@butziporsche8646 My mom is not quite that age, but she’s spent more than half her life in the religion. I was a born in, served as an elder and left on own volition 2 yrs ago after catching WT in a blatant deception both in a WT article and their 2021 Annual Meeting. If I didn’t have those older publications in hand, I wouldn’t have known about the deception. That led me down a rabbit hole, b/c I’ve always been taught if someone lies about little things, there’s a good chance they’ve/they’ll lie about bigger things, & just wow. I attempted to have open & honest dialogue w/ both my parents, w/ my father being a fellow elder. I showed that the org teaches Jesus is not our mediator despite what the Bible says. I showed them a July 2011 WT article showing our obedience to them affects our salvation. I showed them where they removed the word worship from Jesus in the scriptures, & used the phrase “substitute for him” only in the NWT. I proved scripturally, archeologically, secularly, mathematically that 607 BCE is a false date made up. Literally none of that mattered; the only thing they were concerned with was how the friends viewed them, & it wasn’t my place to question The Faithful Slave. It was a very surreal & scary moment, and after hearing Lett say babies should be addressed as Little Enemies of God, & to hear the friends in the review say that was a good point they never thought about, I knew I had to leave.
@Scott-iu2jx
@Scott-iu2jx Год назад
Your words 'The friends wouldn't like it ' hit the nail on the head. That is what they are about. FEAR.... Fear is destructive across the board perhaps your parents are more PIMOs than you realise but are frightened of the backlash of false 'love'
@Scott-iu2jx
@Scott-iu2jx Год назад
Yes very much 'Class' system orientated. Become very worldly and papal status who must BE OBEYED 😠 Your life is patrolled in every detail and gossiped about they will break secular law to even try to discredit you Yes some like to have power and control to elevate themselves above the more humble ones.
@wilfredoortiz5284
@wilfredoortiz5284 Год назад
My wife and father do the same, with the UN situation she said they must have a reason 🫣 I showed her the revelation book and asked who is that sitting on top of the UN building, she said false religion. I said exactly that you!
@sultana7411
@sultana7411 Год назад
@@bygeorgehemayberite8385 how are you doing now, did your wife and children follow you out of Babylon the great?
@Sean-gio2
@Sean-gio2 Год назад
Thanks a lot, Eric. JWs also have their own version of the Trinity: Jehovah, the GB and the organization. They are all god to JWs.
@DietlindeJanssen
@DietlindeJanssen Год назад
That,s so true!!!!
@LouiseWeber-b2m
@LouiseWeber-b2m Год назад
Wrong Giv Bidy and elders are not God and we would never think of them as such. Only one true God Jehovah. I am with gratitude fir the GB and I live my religion. However, people who live the Trinity Doctrine even though it was never heard of until 400 yrs after Christ died have plenty of religions to choose from. If you like false religions then go for it.
@Sean-gio2
@Sean-gio2 Год назад
@@LouiseWeber-b2m Of course you will say you do not see GB as god. No JW will say they treat GB as god, but in their subconsciousness, they do. The orders from the GB are just like the orders from your god.
@be-gone-thot
@be-gone-thot 8 месяцев назад
​@@LouiseWeber-b2m you should check out arianism for where your beliefs originated
@starwarsbunker
@starwarsbunker Год назад
That ‘bow down’ part in the revelation book is extremely telling on how the governing body see themselves. Wow!
@jc10907Sealy
@jc10907Sealy Год назад
Thank you Brother - you adroitly describe a truly Pharisee-driven organization. Organized religion killed Jesus, even if by design. Escape is painful and the only way to the light. May all thrive by feasting on the WORD, to draw closer to Christ Jesus, The Way, The Truth and The Life as our only intercessor to our Heavenly Father. Amen 🙏
@daleprice8111
@daleprice8111 Год назад
AMEN WE HAVE TO ENDURE MANY MORDAN DAY PHARISEES.
@melinaz3385
@melinaz3385 Год назад
What got me so upset was when I recognized that JESUS is the Messiah and they have called him by the archangel Michael's name and demoted him from the Son of God our king and ruler. They did wrong by trying to say Jesus is Michael. Jesus, Yeshua, is the lord of hosts, also Jesus said he would not come in secret and that is the whole key of the JW's that Jesus came invisible only to a select few. No, the whole world will see him when he lands back on earth. there is not secret place, no desert place, no place in the wilderness .. he said all these are not him. for everyone will see him and KNOW it is HIM when he Returns to do Yehovah's work.
@francesgreist4979
@francesgreist4979 4 месяца назад
Not only did they lower the only begotten Son of God to an angel, they have poked him in the eye by celebrating the memorial on Nisan 13 last year and this year they celebrated it a whole month too early. I can't stand their blatant arrogance!
@rebeccawyse5562
@rebeccawyse5562 Год назад
If Jesus Christ shows up..."they" WOULD RUN TO THOSE MEN TO ASK WHAT TO DO. OOPS TO LATE...isn't that so sad?...oh my goodness gracious 😢
@ericerpelding2348
@ericerpelding2348 Год назад
The Watchtower Organization is the idol of the JWs.
@louiskucinski5016
@louiskucinski5016 Год назад
Thanks Eric Excellent . The number of rules within the organization is ridiculous and they keep flip flopping makes it clear that they are self appointed and the way the lieutenants (elders ) behave is obsessive . And I never felt safe around them either . How this situation developed over time is interesting and clever .
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@louiskucinski5016 - Well said Louis!
@theresefournier3269
@theresefournier3269 Год назад
In-DEED❤
@LouiseWeber-b2m
@LouiseWeber-b2m Год назад
You are a disgrace and so is your propaganda
@LouiseWeber-b2m
@LouiseWeber-b2m Год назад
I only feel 100 % safe around "them". But not so much you and your demons. Making yourselves seeds of Satan. You are disgusting to Jehovah God and His people .
@atserehenry2813
@atserehenry2813 Год назад
How on earth will our salvation depends on worshiping men! Shocking!
@bonniewelsh564
@bonniewelsh564 Год назад
They worship the Governing Body !!!!
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 6 месяцев назад
There it is! Finally, someone agrees with me!
@FixingMyFaithExJWtv
@FixingMyFaithExJWtv Год назад
this has been one of the points i draw on in many of my videos. You have done a great job in this video. I would like to share a small protion of it on my LIVE. Just give me a heart if its okay.
@sonya-oh7im
@sonya-oh7im Год назад
I was VERY VERY fortunately to have parents that pressed upon me, that the TRUTH had to be my own and to QUESTION EVERYTHING to ensure that the TRUTH was in MY HEART and MY OWN. I no longer attend meetings, but read the Scriptures, pray , even do my own little memorial service. I believe with ALL MY HEART in Jehovah and his ONLY begotten Son JESUS who was sent to SAVE us and show us the TRUE WAY OF WORSHIP. I still speak to some of my family and friends who are JW's (by the way I class myself as a JW as I witness about Jehovah and our King Christ Jesus) and make this observation: They speak LESS of Jehovah and JC than I do. When I ask, have you prayed to Jeh about your problems, or a view on world events...they ALWAYS refer back to what the ORGANISATION will say in due course to sort things out....AND cop this they are AMAZED and BEFUDDLED that I can love and speak about my faith so freely and NOT want to go to Meetings.....They Just DO NOT get it or UNDERSTAND ME. They think that because I refuse to attend now, that I have turned my back on Jeh, JC and the Scriptures and believe differently and have become oh so worldly...??? Yet unfortunately, I find them to have become less reliant upon the Word of God and faith in Jah than I have....I know I have a good heart condition and I trust in Jeh I JC with ALL MY HEART as I know the word of GOD is what is FAITHFUL and TRUE.....I watched the Royal Commission into Child Abuse here in Australia and I WEPT many tears !! I asked Jeh, how he could let this happen and be represented by such people who say they are his direct link to us here on earth....I know the answers will become apparent , ALL in Jehs good time. I know there are 10's of Thousands of us out there who WILL NOT give up the FAITH and did not deserve to be thrown aside and I know that in Gods heart and memory we sit awaiting the rule of his son JC and we will be blessed as will ALL THOSE who love God. ❤😊
@Des7iny7
@Des7iny7 Год назад
I think you’ll change your mind, when you find out what Yahweh really is. And no, Yahweh is not the Father of Christ. Keep praying for truth 🙏🏼🩵
@killian396
@killian396 Год назад
Hi Sonia, you seem to live your faith in a very genuine and intimate way. I appreciate that so much and I fully understand you when you are confronted with people who didn’t seem to feel any faith in God anymore.
@theresayoungazrealtor7742
@theresayoungazrealtor7742 Год назад
There’s many of us.
@tonyqarri8809
@tonyqarri8809 7 месяцев назад
You described it so well, I'm exactly in that situation. I told the elders: 1. Jehovah's organisation never equals Jehovah. It was Jehovah's organisation that killed Jesus, let alone the modern day blunders. 2. Faithful slave that produces food or Arrogant Master that issues orders? 2 Co. 1:24 3. I have no human head as Jesus Christ is my head and mediator. 1 Co. 11:3 Jehovah is my shepherd, Jesus is my head/mediator/ransom and the Holy Spirit guides me into all the truth. Enjoy life forever
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 2 месяца назад
Amen to that sister! I was DF'd 2.5 years ago, and after 3 appeals for reinstatement and either ignored or denied for stupid who knows what" reasons; I wrote the Society an 18 page letter exposing these corrupted elders and their lack of using the scriptures as a basis for shunning me and asking my family and friends to do the same. At the end of that letter, I told them: "Listen, I'm going to serve Jehovah WITH OR WITHOUT THE ORGANIZATION; my spiritual head is Jesus Christ, not the self-proclaimed governing body! I've witnessed frequently to neighbors, friends, etc. and have placed literature and started Bible studies (using the Bible only with topical old books discussing scriptural views) since being DF'd. I have felt and seen the operation of God's spirit on me like never before; and have prayed relentlessly for God to stir up the courage of lovers of truth to remove authoritarian elders and to REMOVE THIS CURRENT SET OF MEN SERVING, TYRANNICAL, PHARISAICAL GOVERNING BODY. I see it moving in that direction as they scramble to change their man made rules to try and appear less strict with the members! And the nations of the world initiate one lawsuit after another!
@FARADAMA184
@FARADAMA184 Год назад
Thank you Eric for another insightful video. To everyone, FYI, the Org has not changed the "Revelation" book in the JW library on the website. I was really surprised! You would think they would want to hide that blatant lie of "bowing down".
@jeremiahh.3383
@jeremiahh.3383 Год назад
Could you touch upon this more for me? I'm not familiar with the bowing down part.
@jwtruth
@jwtruth Год назад
Great video. Idolatry of the GB for sure! We studied the Revelation Climax book 4 times. 1989, 1991, 1994 and 2007. It's not that I can actually remember it at all, however, you can look it up online. One of the few things not doctored lol.
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 Год назад
I show 3 times, because in my book, I was a study conductor then and dated the start and stop points as we went thru the book. I don't show an '89; which makes sense because they released the book in '88. But not to argue over that; I did want to say too, that actually; I wish we would study that book every 5-6 years. The same holds true with the "Daniel" book, the "Word of God" book, and other deep prophecy examination books. Today's governing body and bodies of elders are feeding spiritually baby food and their own exaggerated opinions! I sometimes go to a meeting with my wife and I can't believe the elementary topics they study in the Watchtower. They haven't discussed deep prophecies in over a decade!! No wonder people are leaving! They want REAL SPIRITUAL FOOD and are being served bread crumbs by the "unfaithful and indiscreet slave"!!
@jwtruth
@jwtruth Год назад
I threw away a lot of literature, which I regret now, including both versions of the Revelation book I had. I am bad with remembering what happened in what year lol, so I looked up those dates in the Kingdom Ministries online. April 17, 1989 is when it says the first study started. I do remember a lot of publishers having no idea how to answer in this book or the Daniel book. That's why now they are only fed milk like the new Enjoy Life Forever book. I would be asleep 5 minutes in. 😂
@yahsoulbro2018
@yahsoulbro2018 Год назад
I agree, the "Governing Body", has become many things in the past several years = Faithful Slave, Voice like Christ and now an idolatry image as you have pointed out. Eric you pointed out Coi 3.5 which is spot on. I like the way the AMP Bible says it " So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God] "
@Scott-iu2jx
@Scott-iu2jx Год назад
Religious trauma comes to mind. It is pure fear of man that holds you to them. Causing this dabilitating illness.
@susanpaine1513
@susanpaine1513 Год назад
They bow down to the governing body
@linvest8466
@linvest8466 Год назад
Excellent talk Eric, I have gone through the fire. It is obvious the governing body class is a group of men who have run ahead, not waiting for the one inviting them to appoint them a seat, but have seated themselves in the highest position. . Everything that is elevated will be brought down when Jesus returns.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@linvest8466 - Well said!
@francesgreist4979
@francesgreist4979 4 месяца назад
Brother Robert King said the freemasons infiltrated the society/congregation. The scriptures say the wolves come from within.
@massiahson6391
@massiahson6391 Год назад
Excellent video..before this video started I already knew it's the GB
@haynehifanny8006
@haynehifanny8006 Год назад
What an exquisitely informative and quite enlightening video this is!! I was an elder before I left. I never gave this brilliant area a look. Great thanks Eric for your diligent videos. ❤️👍👏
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@haynehifanny8006 - I am so glad you enjoyed it!
@darrylholcomb9076
@darrylholcomb9076 Год назад
Good points outlined in an easy to understand manner. In 1999, I complained of what I regarded as excessively flattering praise of the UN's UNICEF arm, in the Awake magizine. Soon, I became aware of the WTB&TS actual joining of the UN as a non-govermetal organization. Also I complained of an inordinate amount of praise of Al Gores' environmental policies. This resulted in an uninvited visit to our home by the Elders. They asked why I was complaining. I answered the Holy Spirit, pointed this out to me, & it conflicts with my understanding of Christian neutrality in political affairs. They firmly asserted, " the governing body is the only source of information", & then demanded to know," was I loyal to them?" I answered, my spiritual loyalty is complete towards God, not to mortal men in New York City! They started to rebuke me in the strongest terms, when I interrupted their response, & unceremoniuosly ordered them out the door. I became free from their "spell" that day, & never looked back!
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
This is the sort of story that illustrates how a JW can be disfellowshipped for the slightest divergeance from the Governing Body's "information". Do they claim to be inspired by God. Oh, no, of course not. But can you disagree with them? No, of course not,... not unless you are ready for them to make your life miserable.
@stevenpina1983
@stevenpina1983 Год назад
How did you find out about their dealing with the UN back then? I’m curious because I only became aware of it after many years later when more info was coming out online
@mamajan99
@mamajan99 Год назад
I accidentally found you weeks ago while researching: "Religion is a Snare and a racket!" The first few observations that you offered were exactly in line with my views. Holy Spirit at work? Jn 14:26: "The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you." No mention by John of some "Governing Body"!
@MN-xs8ku
@MN-xs8ku Год назад
Thank you Eric, for explaining everything so nicely.
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 Год назад
Great job, Eric. Ex-elder, Bethelite here. So nice to see fellow elders like myself who don't just critique or criticize the organization, but do as the ancient Beroeans did, that is , "carefully examined the scriptures,....to see if things if these things were so." Acts 17: 11) Earlier in that same chapter of Acts, it was mentioned that the Apostle Paul "reasoned from the scriptures with them, explaining and proving by references, that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, etc. etc." So yes, I will and have a scriptural defense ready to send the US Branch "explaining and proving by references" why the 3 clowns that were called "Elders" or a "judicial committee", should not only be removed as elders; but also removed from the congregation as slanderers! And yes, the organization of JW's have slowly and insidiously succumbed to the proddings of this self proclaimed "faithful and discreet slave"; effectively idolizing them as God's spokesman, incapable of error or mistakes! That is not the organization we grew up in is it my brother??!!! 😊🤔😝
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@connormusic9274 - So very true brother!
@theresayoungazrealtor7742
@theresayoungazrealtor7742 Год назад
Yes we have to continue to exam the word, learn from it. Agree with all.
@ismaelamadot3893
@ismaelamadot3893 Год назад
Thank you brother Eric. Just excellent. Keep those videos coming. It's "real spiritual food" at the right time. The end is near for the watchtower. Many blessings from Jehovah God and Christ. Amador, Kingdom Christian from sunny Puerto Rico.
@jackiepowell7513
@jackiepowell7513 Год назад
Their whole" bringing food in due season" is a parable.parable were always used to teaching around pharisisees and saducees not to the Church Age aka the church. So whole premise or foundation is faulty.
@Barbie-hp2lk
@Barbie-hp2lk Год назад
I never believed the Governing Body
@RiverDanube
@RiverDanube Год назад
It is absolutely appalling that they tell followers to obey them even if it doesn't make sense from a human standpoint. No mention about using their bible trained conscience to obey after proper examination as well as consideration that they are uninspired and imperfect.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Correct. All the logic they use to convince members of other religions to examine their faith's teachings goes out the window when turned on themselves.
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 Год назад
It reminds me of the words of the Apostle Peter, 1: 16, where he said, (NWT)..."it was not by following artfully contrived stories that we acquainted you with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by becoming eyewitnesses of his glory,..(at the transfiguration). The Watchtower org. seems bent on "artfully contriving " stories through their now elaborate use of videos. They use these videos to dumb down the members, and to sway their emotions instead of stimulating their intellect! Paul said at Hebrews 5: 14 that we all need to train our "perceptive powers to distinguish between right and wrong". That means deep study of the scriptures; thinking critically and logically to allow the Bible to answer it's own questions! Not to "trust in the faithful and discreet slave," no matter how stupid their counsel seems"!
@cammeag1965
@cammeag1965 Год назад
I could feel my heckles rising when I read the headline. Then as the video started I guessed, correctly, that the idolatry accusation would be to do with blind allegiance to the GB. Its true they are followed blindly, but its not in the remit of anyone to judge anyone else. Wrong or not, even the GB are victims of victims. Anyone blessed with truth outwith the Society should be grateful for their freedom, not use it as a stick to beat their former brothers and sisters. Using advice gratefully received from Eric about writing letters to all i am close to, i am slowly but deliberately distancing myself from my congregation while using every second I have to speak to and encourage freedom in Christ(1Jn4.18). Im still grieving my beliefs though and whether i am DF tomorrow or in 6 months as planned, i will still love every one of my congregation and not use my freedom in Christ to attack any of them.
@mamajan99
@mamajan99 Год назад
No one person was judged. The skinned and thrown about sheep may find much healing and support from such. We have all been warned about the wolves in sheep's clothing. The Man of Lawlessness will be revealed. 2 Thes 2: "Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God."
@cammeag1965
@cammeag1965 Год назад
@@mamajan99 The man of lawlessness is not the single possession of witnesses. To single them out would be wrong even though they make up part of that group who have been misled. More important to keep ourselves clean and not be pointing the finger at any one group. Personally, my leading is that we are ambassadors not judges 2 Cor 5.20.
@mamajan99
@mamajan99 Год назад
Jesus did a whole lot of finger pointing at those who skinned his sheep! I'll follow his example.
@PollokBhoy
@PollokBhoy Год назад
@@mamajan99 Math 7.1 he also told us to listen to him.
@mamajan99
@mamajan99 Год назад
@@PollokBhoy 1 Jn 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world
@Elroi3310
@Elroi3310 Год назад
John 10:7So Jesus said again: “Most truly I say to you, I am the door for the sheep. 8 All those who have come in place of me are thieves and plunderers; but the sheep have not listened to them
@TheCchinc1984
@TheCchinc1984 Год назад
Great video, the older someone is the deeper the brain washing goes and the harder it is to admit they’ve been misled. I remember it took me a full year to even believe all of the information I was finding during my waking up. I was reading and finding Information Almost every day and still I’d make excuses. the hardest part was to admit that the great governing body could actually be wrong and misinterpret scripture.
@its_Luzci-fer
@its_Luzci-fer Год назад
You are still asleep if your looking for what you call God
@aiercooledengine
@aiercooledengine Год назад
To answer your question about how many times we studied the Revalation Climax publication we studied the first iteration three times which I conducted as for a forth time after its revision I don't know, I had already woken up by then.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I wish I had, but I was starting to.
@FirsteMann1929
@FirsteMann1929 Год назад
Yes We studied revelation 3 times. The 3rd time was when they started adding additions from the kingdom ministry, which I still have
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Thanks for that.
@FirsteMann1929
@FirsteMann1929 Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets thank you for your videos. I really enjoy your content
@connormusic9274
@connormusic9274 Год назад
Yes I remember in 2007 we had to paste revisions into the paragraphs! I agree. A couple of people said 4 times but my book is marked with the dates in each chapter as we covered the book. It was 3 times. I was a book study conductor then.
@wilfredoortiz5284
@wilfredoortiz5284 Год назад
Awesome way of showing this idol worship, I've to my wife she worship men she believes she doesn't.
@wilfredoortiz5284
@wilfredoortiz5284 Год назад
My father is no better!
@Pixieviewanimation
@Pixieviewanimation Год назад
Thank you, Eric, well I have been studying with JW back in the early 2000s, but I never got baptised, I have been questioning some things about them that made me not to join them. But I wanted to ask, what organisation can one join that serves God in truth, and spirits.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@tochukwuoparaku5671 • Any organization will eventually descend into human rule. That is why the word is not in the Bible and we are encouraged to bond with fellow believers with Christ as our only leader. If you'd like to join with such ones as Jesus described in John 4:23, 24, check out beroeans.net/events/
@PraiseYaHuWaH
@PraiseYaHuWaH Год назад
Thank you Eric, OUTSTANDING WORD! Out of all those I do my best to listen to and test all things, you are the ONLY ONE that I can resonate with and fully respect. I greatly greatly appreciate you bro!
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Thank you so very much. I shall endeavor to be worthy of that respect.
@amberforcen1177
@amberforcen1177 Год назад
My great grandmother is 103 and she has been loyal almost her entire adult life and when I talk to her she really believes the elders and the governoring body are Jehovah’s channel. To me it’s like believing Jehovah has a telephone and only calls the governing body. Her excuse for any questionable behaviors excuse “ we are not perfect”
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
I had a conversation about four years ago with an 80 year old JW brother who had that same answer for everything. He had even "perfected" that defense for Watchtower. He gave me the illustration that he, as a business owner, can't know exactly what each of his employees does or says every minute. I had only woken up a couple of months before talking with this brother, and sadly, at the time, I was woefully short on any rebuttals. He hasn't answered his phone since we spoke, whenever I've called.
@ericerpelding2348
@ericerpelding2348 Год назад
In 1919 the only person in control of The Watchtower, and hence was "the slave", was Judge Rutherford.
@karenmoody2763
@karenmoody2763 Год назад
A drunkard and womanizer that used doctrine to build his self a mansion .
@Barbie-hp2lk
@Barbie-hp2lk Год назад
He is a trillion percent right!! I’ve been saying they were idol worshipers
@ladyangi100
@ladyangi100 Год назад
I call you Eric because I call my real brothers by their first name not a title. ❤ for sharing.
@OmarMartinez-tw4to
@OmarMartinez-tw4to Год назад
Absolutely love your content. Its just facts. You have so much credibility since you walked the walk for decades and knows the inner politics that govern that community. You may have single handedly spared deception, confusion and heartache for tens of thousands if not more from such an intense religious denomination. For those who have ears and decide to listen. I decided to walk away after more than 5 years of attending. Never committed, but when i decided to introduce my family, i saw such hypocrisy from several elders against me. The mask had come off. They expected for me to surrender to them. Its not in my personality to surrender to hypocrites. Just walked away with my wife just been apointed non baptized publisher. I have no animosity towards any of them. I continue to accept calls from members and will always give them a hand if they ask. Its just thier politics, idolatry of the elders and governing body and the false interpretations of several scriptures that is unacceptable to me, and so will continue to keep it at bay until they change. I have looked for credible ex witnesses as to why they left. I have found you to be the best example for the right reasons. Others leave because they have the itching ears towards false Christian doctrine that gravitate towards wordly lifestyles they prefer. They dont seem to really believe in GOD or his laws. Only a few like you have spoken up and have not strayed from scripture, but instead up hold it.
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
Hi, Omar. They are completely the hypocrits that you accurately saw for yourself. I was a "born in" JW. I only woke up four years ago. They definitely want to dominate others. Watchtower stole my youth, my young adulthood, my middle age, and was well on the way to ruining my old age. At whatever age... run from them. Jw's consider it a badge of honor to "turn in" an apostate to the elders.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@OmarMartinez-tw4to • Thank you for your encouraging words. I hope that soon more will join us and speak out against such hypocrisy in all religious while holding to the truth from Scripture and spreading the good news. There is still time.
@kalasatwater2224
@kalasatwater2224 Год назад
I thought when the governing body said they were not inspired by Jehovah they would all leave but it wasn't the case -_-
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
'We're not inspired, but if you disagree with us, you are opposing Jehovah'. Sounds like a line from that George Orwell book: 1984
@mdunlapification
@mdunlapification Год назад
Yes, they want you to bow down to the govering body, and obey anything they say. This is Truth, they want you loyal to the governing body & watchtower, not the Bible or God.
@dalex60
@dalex60 Год назад
All Christians bow down to the Pagan gods, Christianity is deep,y rooted in it…
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
not all
@dalex60
@dalex60 Год назад
@@bourbon_sketcher - Christmas, Easter, Halloween, The Cross, Wedding rings, Fasting (lent), The idea that people have immortal souls, The Greeks taught that at death the soul would separate from the physical body, it did not come from the bible. The ancient Egyptians developed the concept of going to heaven. The list goes on and on, and on, and on... Christianity is stolen mythology, it is SERVING TWO MASTERS!!!
@carryjoseph9414
@carryjoseph9414 Год назад
Man …. what did I just “witness” for 18 years of my life. 12 years out finally feel normal
@saracarlson-kringle
@saracarlson-kringle Год назад
You know, I've been browsing through this 'money-luxury' youtube channel and watching pieces on 'old money' [who are all connected to 'secret societies' and 'clubs']...I think the WT 'society' has so many 'classes' now, that this money/luxury channel could do a piece on their 'eliteness'. My eyebrows flew up into my hairline over the similarities.
@ilyahart2446
@ilyahart2446 Год назад
Hello Eric. Great video, thanks for the good thoughts. You mentioned the book "Revelation-Its Grand Climax At Hand!" (9:34), only you quoted paragraph 14 first, not 18. But this does not affect the content in any way. Thanks again.
@toddhayes3506
@toddhayes3506 Год назад
Watchtower is DANGEROUS RIP Raymond Franz please read Crisis of Conscience
@Pont651
@Pont651 Год назад
Je tenais Éric à vous remercier pour vos vidéos. Elles sont la réponse à mes prières j’étais tellement mal dans cette organisation. Vos vidéos ont changé ma vie. Merci encore.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Je suis très heureuse de savoir que les vidéos m'ont aidée. Je vous remercie.
@ronwillan3179
@ronwillan3179 Год назад
You always make so much sense. Thank you Eric.👍👍
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I appreciate that!
@LouiseWeber-b2m
@LouiseWeber-b2m Год назад
Disgraceful. Well well see in Armageddon, wont we. Oh wair, you wont be around to see anything.
@cygnustsp
@cygnustsp Год назад
The words JEHOVAH and governing body just make me crack up in laughter, it's all so ridiculous, those who cling to such ideas a perfect representation of the very flower of humanity, a reckless, infantile species almost incapable of reason.
@georgerickard4915
@georgerickard4915 Год назад
We studied the Revelation book 4 times. The hilarious thing is that by the last time it was studied there were so many revisions and “adjustments in understanding” that it rendered your previously studied copy essentially worthless. Being near Bethel, it became yet another means of judgement if you chose to keep your old book vs. bringing the new book to the book study.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I thought it was four times, but that seems so ridiculous that I began to doubt my memory. I just remember being incensed that instead of studying something truly beneficial like the Greatest Man book, we were yet again studying that stupid book full of outlandish speculation. I remember one friend joking that Armageddon will probably start at Cedar Point, Ohio.
@aiercooledengine
@aiercooledengine Год назад
​@@BeroeanPicketsI totally agree...why we did not study the Greatest Man book in the book study is just amazing to me, but of course if we had it would have illuminated the the error of the Governing Body as having userpt the position of the Christ.
@thetruthk5138
@thetruthk5138 Год назад
​@@aiercooledengineWhy would the JW study The greatest man book it's about Jesus. The Lord doesn't get mentioned it's all follow the governing body and the organisation and the spiritual shepherd's. So sad the rank and file witness do not see it . Fortunately I did and left
@LouiseWeber-b2m
@LouiseWeber-b2m Год назад
You are a very confused person. I studied the Greatest Man publication. You had the same opportunity. And here is where the heat is on for you. Jw's practice the first century teachings of Christ. And only what he taught. His two commandments : 1. You MUSTt love Jehovah God with your whole mind, body and spirit.. 2. You MUST love your neighbor as yourself. ot a problem with that ?
@thetruthk5138
@thetruthk5138 Год назад
@@LouiseWeber-b2m Alternatively modern version you must love the organisation or society and the governing body with your whole heart without question Psa 146 v 3 Do not put your trust in nobles or the sons of man . Trust the Scripture's and Christ and not any religion. And as for the golden rule it's something all individuals should strive to do. Something that should come naturally. As my Wife is a witness a few weeks ago in a Watchtower that I overheard it was talking about showing love kindness respecting young and elderly fatherless boys etc . What a sad state of affairs when you as witness have to be told and reminded to do these things. True Christians don't need to be told about these things they just do it . And they don't need to tell others how wonderful they are and count time for it either. You shouldn't be on these sites unless you are searching for something you don't have a relationship with Christ.
@exjw.believer.philippines
@exjw.believer.philippines Год назад
In 10 min.up to 14 minutes of your talk really hits hard to the rank & file JW's.And the proof you qouted is undeniable since it was of the book that we have studied 3 times since 1988. As usual you hit the nail. Good job bro
@davidh5403
@davidh5403 Год назад
Blatant idolatry for sure!!....masked in misapplied scripture, JW doctrine and emotion.
@MervinJ-qg6ir
@MervinJ-qg6ir Год назад
Very good An Well Spoken
@thetruthnothingelse5033
@thetruthnothingelse5033 Год назад
They have always been wrong in their end time predictions Deutr 18:20-22 "the one prophet prophesyes that God has not proclaim shall die"
@thiemhoang2312
@thiemhoang2312 Год назад
Did Jesus and disciples ever say Jehovah or Jehovah god ? Governing body is not in the Bible
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Actually, there is evidence that they did.
@jeffbrown423
@jeffbrown423 Год назад
I see it as corporate worship
@LavernLee-zz5ln
@LavernLee-zz5ln Год назад
False religions have numerous devious rules & commands. JW have the Governing Body.
@byebyewatchtower
@byebyewatchtower Год назад
Thanks. This is exactly what I needed. Yes, Watchtower's leadership wants to have their members worship or serve them. Idol worship indeed. Jehovah God wants exclusive devotion. Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:14, Deuteronomy 5:9
@dennisconstantine624
@dennisconstantine624 Год назад
This brings to mind my late great old friend Christopher Hitchens who stated [ religion poisons everything ]
@TheAngryAstronaut
@TheAngryAstronaut Год назад
Speaking as a former Jehovah's Witness, I have to say that you're making a serious stretch here. Just because your interpretation of scripture doesn't jive with that of the Governing Body doesn't make them idolaters. Just because I firmly believe that the JW's interpretation is screwed up doesn't mean that they are knowingly defying scripture to follow the governing body. There are many reasons to detest this cult. This isn't one of them. And just because you dug up one badly written passage in one of their infinite number of publications that reads "bow down" does not mean that these people are KNOWINGLY bowing down to the governing body. There are hordes of Christian sects with leaders and elders who wield this kind of authority. Stick to the really awful things the governing body has done, not the misled people who do their bidding.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
What was one of the principle causes for which God punished the Israelites over and over ending finally in their being taken to Babylon? Idolatry! I cannot think of a greater sin. All the "awful things the Governing Body" has done can only be accomplished because they have millions who blindly follow them. If the Witnesses refused to obey them whenever their instructions went against God's law, they would be a lame duck. No, my friend, it is the propensity of most people today to blindly latch onto a human or group of humans (Witnesses are not the exception) and give them absolute obedience. They idolize them and follow them wherever they lead. Only God deserves that level of obedience, because he will never lead us into wrongdoing and into "awful things".
@exjwfromwyoming1275
@exjwfromwyoming1275 Год назад
Thank Sir. ❤
@WampanoagNative
@WampanoagNative Год назад
Thank you Eric! Excellent video ❤ Love for you to speak about dispensationalism and rightfully dividing the scriptures.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Bing gives this definition: Dispensationalism is a theological framework of interpreting the Bible which maintains that history is divided into multiple ages or “dispensations” in which God acts with his chosen people in different ways. Dispensationalists use a literal interpretation of the Bible and believe that divine revelation unfolds throughout the Bible. They believe that there is a distinction between Israel and the Church and that Christians are not bound by Mosaic law. They maintain beliefs in premillennialism, a future restoration of national Israel, and a rapture of the Church that will happen before the second coming, generally seen as happening before a period of tribulation.
@WampanoagNative
@WampanoagNative Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets wow thank you! 🙏🏼
@colorcreatively
@colorcreatively Год назад
Thank you, Eric, for this informative video. I am not a Jehovahs Witness. I feel compelled to let you know how much I agree with you regarding this idolatry of the Governing Body. When Witnesses have come to my door, I always show them respect and desire to dialogue with them. Why? Because of the very thing you point out in this video. I find their exaltation of this small group of men idolatry. Just recently, I asked a witness about a scripture she presented to me. She says the Dead know nothing (Ecclesiastes). I gently asked her why the Scriptures say something totally different in Luke 16 about the rich man and Lazarus? She promptly told me she had to leave and literally ran to the door. She said she would return with an answer. The following week, she returned with a book that she began to read a lengthy passage from. I stopped her and asked her just to please explain the seeming contradictions . She bluntly told me that the explanation could not be questioned because the Elders told her I needed to blindly accept the organization's explanation regarding this matter. Eric, where has the Witnesses desire to dialogue gone? They can not hear any question regarding their interpretation nor have a friendly discussion. If they have the truth, then why are they so afraid of my questions that they literally flee to the front door? P.S. I am now shunned by the Witnesses. When they go door-to-door they clearly avoid my home.
@dawnbehatin1224
@dawnbehatin1224 Год назад
Thank you for a thorough and informative presentation! ❤
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Glad you enjoyed it!
@jgomez1032
@jgomez1032 Год назад
Eric, this was a great video. Thank you. I think that I do the idol worship goes beyond the governing body. I truly believe they idolize the organization just like another religion idolize the Virgin Mary. In many ways, they idolize themselves for their own righteousness…..Galatians 2:21
@theshowroomzambia
@theshowroomzambia Год назад
This is great analysis. Growing up I used to love these bible dramas but ever since I woke up I wonder how I didn’t see the manipulation behind them.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I can empathize.
@akatheheretic3014
@akatheheretic3014 Год назад
🎯 VERY WELL RESEARCHED !!! 😉👌 Good work , Bro. Eric ! 🙂👍
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Much appreciated
@newfiejoe4998
@newfiejoe4998 Год назад
Again, another great video!
@revelationsecondwoe
@revelationsecondwoe Год назад
WHAT IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST? And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark-the name of the beast or the number of its name (Revelation 13:16-17). The right hand in the bible is a symbol of authority (Revelation 5:7, Hebrews 1:3, 1Peter 3:22) The right hand in the bible is a symbol of God's commandments: Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads (Deuteronomy 6:6-9). The forehead is a symbol of God's commandments: Bind them on your foreheads (Deuteronomy 6:6-9). The forehead is a symbol of who we belong to: Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads (Revelation 14:1). The Mark of the Beast is obeying the authority of the Beast, instead of God's authority, the Mark of the Beast is belonging to the Beast, instead of belonging to God. The Mark of the Beast is worship (proskunio) of the Beast instead of God. The word proskunio means to fully submit. To understand the word proskunio better, one must study how Satan wanted Yeshua (Jesus) to worship (proskunio) him, and break God's commands (Mathew 4:1-11). But how can we be sure that the Mark of the Beast, is the name of the Beast, symbolically written in ones hand, or in ones forehead, when one obeys the authority of the Beast instead of God's authority? Answer: In Revelation Chapter 14 we are clearly told how not to get the Mark of the Beast: And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand, he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name." Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:9-12). So it is very clear in scripture, if we do not want to get the Mark of the Beast, we only have to keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua, we must choose to belong to God, not to the Beast (Revelation 14:12). THE QUESTION REMAINS HOW IS SATANS BEAST GOING TO GIVE US THIS SYMBOLIC MARK? Answer: The Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) will try to make us break God's commandments, through a social credit score system. The Beast will legalise many abominations, gross sins, and try to make us accept these abominations, through a social credit score system, connected to a digital ID and a digital CBDC. Answer: The Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) will also try to make us break God's commandments, by enforcing, the gross sin pharmakeia. Pharmakeia is a gross sin, a abomination, it is mass murder, mass depopulation, mass sterilization and mass genetic modification: The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and (((pharmakeia))); hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21). Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, (((pharmakeia))), sexual immorality, and theft (Revelation 9:20-21). In the book of Revelation 18:23, Yeshua uses the Greek word (((pharmakeia))) sorcery, to reveal to us the main thing that will be used to deceive ALL people in our Age (time), is a well organized system of administering poisonous drugs, vaccines, medications, to billions of people that are not only toxic to the organs of the body, but have direct negative effects on the brain and reproductive system (Revelation 18:23). The Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) and the apostate mainstream Churches (Vatican ect) pimp pharmakeia and many other abominations, to their flocks. God commands us, to come out of all these apostate Churches, and we must come out of any Church that pimps pharmakeia, or pimps any abomination to their flock, we must seperate ourselves from wickedness. If we do not seperate ourselves, we will share, in these great sins, and abominations (Revelation 18:4-5). The Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) will force upon all a Vaccine passport, just so we can buy, sell, work and play. The Beast will try to force us all to accept many abominations, through a social credit score system, hence we must keep the commandments of God and not submit, we must belong to God, not to the Beast system (Revelation 14:12). The Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) will also ban and outlaw christianity, and burn it with fire, the Beast wants us to abandon our faith, hence we must keep the faith of Yeshua (Revelation 14:12). Those who have the Mark of the Beast will get loathsome, malignant, sores and clots, they will be permanantly injured, and they will gnaw their tongue because of their pains and sores, all this because they obey the authority of the Beast (Western Empire, United Nations) instead of keeping the commandments of God (Revelation 16:1-3, Revelation 9:10, Revelation 16:10-11 ). They have been decieved with pharmakeia, and decieved into worship (proskunio) of the beast. (Revelation 18:23, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 13:14). THE QUESTION REMAINS CAN ONE REPENT? Answer: Yes it is clear in scripture that God is calling all to repent! If one reads the context of the Mark of the Beast one will clearly see that God is calling us all to repent! So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image (Revelation 16:2). And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory (Revelation 16:9). And curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores; yet they did not repent of their deeds (Revelation 16:11). YOU MUST REPENT AND KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF YESHUA!
@kerrinbooth2764
@kerrinbooth2764 Год назад
Instead of debating what "the goat herders guide to the galaxy" does or does not command, can we debate whether it is indeed the word of our creator? There is good reason to beleive it is not
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Like the nod to Douglas Adams. I know for those seeking to discredit Scripture that there appears to be good reason do claim the Bible is not from God. However, much of that is based on a faulty premise, one that is unfortunately applied by the churches themselves.
@Pont651
@Pont651 Год назад
Après être canal de Dieu ils sont la voix du Christ depuis peu ( sans doute pour que l’on ne dise plus que le Christ n’est rien pour eux). Un ancien m’a dit que l’esclave fidèle et avisé c’était dans la Bible et que lui obéir en tout c’était obéir à Dieu !
@bun2069
@bun2069 10 месяцев назад
That's all they talk about is the gb as if they died for our sin, or the Jehovah, Jehovah it's really sickening. They should be giving glory to Jesus John 14:6 and also keep in mind John 17: 17 The father word never change
@Melchizedek11
@Melchizedek11 Год назад
I am the Firstborn, brought forth. I am identical twins. I am Equal to MYSELF. Adam and Eve in the Genesis account was created for the Last Days; I already said that then ... Genesis 3:15. I AM MELCHIZEDEK. I AM EQUAL-MELCHIZEDEK. I HAVE NO END. I AM THE KEEPER/GUARDIAN OF ALL PROPHETS ON EARTH, FROM AONS TO AONS. Abel, Adam, Eve as HOMO SAPIENS did not exist. Cain is the evil in man, the dark side. Abel is the good in man, the light. This light must be found and explored by humans. The Holy Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation is a concise version of the Vedas to repent the outcast man; compare the Gospel of Mark to the three others. It is the Purpose of MYSELF, is to find yourself. A quest for everyone....
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
The Holy Scriptures are not a concise version of the Vedas. The Vedas are a collection of ancient Hindu texts that contain a wide range of themes and teachings. Some of the themes of the Vedas include: Praising a wide pantheon of gods, some of whom personified natural and cosmic phenomena, while others represented abstract qualities. The concept that the individual is not an independent entity, but, rather, a part of the Universal Conscious. Many different creation stories. Helping humans to know their essential nature, and return from their embodied, limited state as bound souls to their eternal state as liberated souls. Helping humans to invoke the power of gods to deal with the problems of the mortal world, death and disease. It appears you have not read nor understood the concise message of the Bible which is to show us how God wills for us to return to the blessed state that Adam and Eve enjoyed as his children. It's all about family. 🙏
@Melchizedek11
@Melchizedek11 Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets funny greetings
@aljawisa
@aljawisa Год назад
Looking at the principals of this topic you can really run with it, and I have. And the solutions run from God creating us like robots, or some Buddhistic type of perspective on life.
@aljawisa
@aljawisa Год назад
I'm not advocating for Buddhism, it's just a musing.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I'm not really sure what your musing means.
@aljawisa
@aljawisa Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets Food a wife your job regular exercise even if you don't want to do certain things, I've always found Paul's definition about submitting yourself to do something makes you a slave to it, which makes almost any regular and consistent activity idolatry or could the definition change if has to do with setting those things up over God, only if their considered normal activities? Such a fine line to walk. Much like walking on eggshells. Makes you not want to think about it to much otherwise you'd be overwhelmed with a since of paranoia.
@johnlopez7488
@johnlopez7488 Год назад
Hi, I may not always agree with what you say. But I do appreciate your time and effort you put in to your videos. I also like the way you answer comments, with respect. No name calling no yelling. Thanks again
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
I appreciate reading that. Thank you.
@DietlindeJanssen
@DietlindeJanssen Год назад
Glad I found this! I needed this video so much! Thank you! ❤
@SpotterVideo
@SpotterVideo Год назад
What the modern Church needs is a New Covenant Revival (Heb. 9:10) in which members of various denominations are willing to re-examine everything they believe and see if it agrees with the Bible, instead of the traditions of men. We need to be like the Bereans. It will be a battle between our flesh and the Holy Spirit. It will not be easy. If you get mad and upset when someone challenges your man-made Bible doctrines, that is your flesh resisting the truth found in God's Word. Nobody can completely understand the Bible unless they understand the relationship between the Old Covenant given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the New Covenant fulfilled in blood at Calvary. What brings all local churches together into one Body under the blood of Christ? The answer is found below. New Covenant Whole Gospel: Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him. He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth. Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? What did Paul say about Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart. Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36) We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24. 1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. The following verses prove the Holy Spirit is the master teacher for those now in the New Covenant. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Watch the RU-vid videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.
@paulinerelph
@paulinerelph Год назад
Good News; please google, 'The Growing Jewish Messianic Movement'
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Since you capitalize Church, I think you are suggesting that we all get together and form one true religion. Is that the case?
@paulinerelph
@paulinerelph Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets No, I mean that all people who repent and through faith have their sins washed clean through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ as their Saviour, are the collective Church on earth, regardless of denomination or meeting place.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@@paulinerelph Thank you for clarifying that important point. Recommendation, use a word other than church to avoid misunderstandings given that it has acquired many unscriptural usages through the centuries.
@paulinerelph
@paulinerelph Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets You make a good point and I did in fact put thought into it, but when I use Bride of Christ, I usually find even more explanation is then called for. I do think the capital Church is more deserved for a people, (as equivalent with a nation) than for a church building though, so that is why I use it. Also gives me a chance to differentiate, (as here) if asked. I will continue to think on it.
@ckelly5141
@ckelly5141 Год назад
It’s time for our final Jeopardy challenge: Who do Jehovah’s Witnesses obey as their leader?Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do ,do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do-do, do, do, do do. Yes......contestant #1.....um......who is Jehovah? No that is incorrect. The correct answer is the Governing Body. How much did you wager? All of your earnings. I’m so sorry contestant #1.......and that is just for your $ earnings lost, although I have to say......the spiritual ramifications are more serious....much, much more serious indeed, especially since you are one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 Год назад
I love jeopardy!
@ckelly5141
@ckelly5141 Год назад
@@cheneethompson5756 Oh good. You know, whatever doesn’t hurt us can only make us smarter.😁
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 Год назад
​@ckelly5141 yeah! Jehovah's witnesses are ok, I just don't wanna be one I use "ok" loosely Because, they only care about you if you're one of them In the ministry, they fake care about others If the householder says they're not interested, the witnesses call them idiots behind their backs And make fun of them On the other hand, if they're interested, then the witnesses start a Bible study with them Later, if they decide not to get baptized, then they're called idiots by the witnesses behind their backs And they laugh at them
@ckelly5141
@ckelly5141 Год назад
@@cheneethompson5756 Chenee....you are so loose with the word O.K. and possibly with the word idiots.😝I understand what you mean though. I disassociated in 2020 after 40 yrs. in but my family all stayed. I am actually surprised by some of the brothers. Some will still talk to me a bit, or wave. Because my wife is still in, 2 of them cut a 20 ft. tree into pieces and cleaned up a bit today after a bad storm yesterday. I did have a pretty good rapport before I left, not nearly as bad as some others have to face. I pray that my family and as many Witnesses as possible wake up and leave WT but not lose their Christian faith like me. Hey.....have a great day.👍
@cheneethompson5756
@cheneethompson5756 Год назад
@ckelly5141 my mom's a witness And she calls "worldly people" idiots Just because they're not convinced to convert Thanks for the comment!
@elreyhats
@elreyhats Год назад
Hi Eric, First I want to say thank you for all your videos they have helped me a lot when talking to my JW side of the family. I am Catholic and you and I would disagree strongly in other issues but I just want to point out that we Catholics do not worship anyone but God and God alone. You seem to be confused on this issue. This is just one paragraph of our catechism on the subject of idolatry. Have a great day. 2113 Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot serve God and mammon." Many martyrs died for not adoring "the Beast" refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
Idolatry does not have to be directed toward a "creature". Catholics worship "statues", too.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Do not Catholics pray to Mary and to the Saints? Do they not pray to them before images, statues and paintings?
@elreyhats
@elreyhats Год назад
@@vintage6346 I am Catholic and I can tell you for a fact I have never or seen anyone worship a statue. Every time I read a comment like this, just lets me know that the person making it knows absolutely nothing about Catholicism.
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
@@elreyhats I lived in a South American country for almost twenty years. Eric lived in a different South American country for many years. We know what we saw.
@elreyhats
@elreyhats Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets Hi Eric, we don’t pray to images,statues or paintings. We give worship to God alone. Since we have very different views on the afterlife and the millennium we might do things that to you may seem strange. But like you we believe in Yahweh as the one true God.
@Moshimoshi405
@Moshimoshi405 Год назад
Our CO get worship by his faithful followers. They believe that this so called CO’s are like reverend or bishop that can give them such privilege and responsibilities in congregation or special privilege because they are entrusted directly by the branch. So as I observed a lot are being like kissing their toes just to get what they want and to get praise by others.
@alanbuthardt8797
@alanbuthardt8797 Год назад
Our powerful heavenly father and his son will continue to expose and crush this cult with truth amen
@margaretislas2916
@margaretislas2916 Год назад
Thanks Eric. Jesus said: “I won’t leave you as orphans..” John 14: 18-31 He knew that the holy spirt will tell us everything. 1 John 2:26-29; John 16:13-15 Thanks to the Almighty God for letting us know everything that these horns are doing, these men who compose the man of lawlessness. At one point these horns or rulers, will give the power that they have over all his followers worldwide to the beast. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2; Revelation 17:12-17; Revelation chapter 13; Revelation 18:3-5,24. These ministers of Satan are truly misleading the nations and doing the dirty work of the devil their god. Revelation 12:9; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; 4:4. Thanks Eric for helping those who are innocent sheep and have found mercy before the eyes of the Lord and are heeding the voice of the angel that keeps calling everyone to get out of that organization of Satan. Revelation 18:4,5. There are many harlots of churches that are about the work of the devil but this organization is the mother of the prostitutes or mother of all the harlots . Revelation 17:5, the very synagogue of Satan the worse , the one who really tortures the sheep of Jesus. John 16:2; Revelation 17:6; 18:24 Revelation 3:9; 2:9; The lord sent his message regarding the time of the end. It is clear that the lord is condemning the deeds and attitude of the religious leaders not of the innocent that got trapped and get to suffer the evil ways and treatments of those leaders who are wolves in sheep clothing. It mentions the suffering of the people under these harlots or prostitutes . It is obvious that this organization or synagogue of Satan is the most evil. Revelation 3:9;2:9; 17:5; 18:24. Thanks again Eric for all your effort to bring this information to the victims that still trapped in Babylon the Great. 👍👍👍
@rhondahart2416
@rhondahart2416 Год назад
i saw a study article not too long ago that had a song in it , the first line was Jehovah AND His organization. so they are singing a worship song about men who in 2017 feb. watch tower stated they are neither inspired(of God?) nor infallible. in other words just men, so why are they singing worship songs about them? that is indeed idol worship! Jesus is the one to call upon for eternal life! His blood must cover OUR sins. Isaiah 53 says it all. Isaiah 53:11 My Servant will justify the many! He is the only one that can save. that sin system in leviticus never changed. the blood of animals covered the israelites sins, Jesus is the perfect lamb to cover OUR sins not Adams.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
You make a very good point
@cygnustsp
@cygnustsp Год назад
I kind of like how rabbi Singer calls most Christians idolators. His sparse comments on the Witnesses are funny. I also like how Catholics call Sola Scriptura believers "bibliolators." Anything can be an idol. Never meet or engage with your idols.
@discusstrueworship5597
@discusstrueworship5597 Год назад
1John 2:26,27 is talking to the co-heir that will be with Christ in heaven. As co-heir they are God’s adopted children, will share in the inheritance of Jesus. Jehovah wanted them not to listen to anyone but His spirit because His spirit was truth.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@discusstrueworship5597 - that is an excellent scripture to share. Thank you.
@kathleenwharton2139
@kathleenwharton2139 Год назад
All Churches put some man or heirachy of men on a pedestal. That is why I rely on God Within me..Alone. 😊❤
@mibz1117
@mibz1117 Год назад
What about apostles? Didn't jesus gave them glory and authority as well?
@kathleenwharton2139
@kathleenwharton2139 Год назад
@@mibz1117 Jesus called them disciples. Paul named them apostles..once a Pharisee..always a Pharisee. Jesus taught the opposite.
@kathleenwharton2139
@kathleenwharton2139 Год назад
@@mibz1117 Jesus Said..”Let NO MAN be called Rabbi.”
@KillTheEgo1223
@KillTheEgo1223 Год назад
This is soo true Eric. JWs worship the religion rather then Jehovah. They substitute the governing body for Jesus Christ and they think angels are leading the teaching work rather then the Holy Spirit. It’s unfortunate because the members, no matter how sincere they are, are totally being misled by the teaching of men. Jesus and later Paul reiterated and emphasized not to be deceived by the many deceptions of Satan and unfortunately they did not seem to heed that warning. As always, great video and Hopefully a few will wake up from this religious nightmare. Peace
@ericisawesome5725
@ericisawesome5725 Год назад
I don't think the revelation book is even on jw web anymore, they told all the elders to toss it out of the hall libraries years ago... Probably cuz it said this sort of wacky stuff 😂
@paulrosser6249
@paulrosser6249 Год назад
Thank you eric for this excellent presentation.
@tan-jello
@tan-jello Год назад
You keep build a following of your teaching. A chip off the old block.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
If you mean by "the old block", our Lord Jesus Christ, then, thank you, though the following is not mine, but his.
@starwarsbunker
@starwarsbunker Год назад
The difference is Eric doesn’t ask us to bow down to him and accept his words as 100% truth or else
@tan-jello
@tan-jello Год назад
@@starwarsbunker Followers step up to ardently defend. The leader is pleased.
@Lulu-oi9ue
@Lulu-oi9ue Год назад
JWs bow down to Jehovah, the GB amd the organisation. To bow down is to show respect and agreeing they are more powerful then you. All of these are false because the true God/ source is love and doesn’t want to be worshipped. Jehovah/ satan loves to be worshiped as does the GB.
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
Jehovah, Yahweh, or Yehowah (YHWH) is the true God and he does want to be worshipped. Worshipping God means obeying him and since he is God Almighty and a loving Father, why wouldn't you want to obey him, or are you taking the role of Satan and suggesting that we can be gods ourselves and make our own rules about what is right and what is wrong?
@Lulu-oi9ue
@Lulu-oi9ue Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets I’d have to disagree. Yes YHWH is the evil creator god and is opposite to Jesus who’s are reflection of the true loving god. The whole Old Testament shows what a psychopath the entity is and by no means someone I want to worship. YHWH is a god who genetically modified us to worship him and control us to live a life of slavery.
@delrico8788
@delrico8788 Год назад
The Watchtower God is not the God of the Bible, the Watchtower’s Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible, the Watchtower’s Gospel is not the Gospel of of the Bible.
@vintage6346
@vintage6346 Год назад
Yes, it is sickening that Watchtower has made a deceptive copy of God, Jesus, and Jesus' message.
@nathansealey6270
@nathansealey6270 Год назад
Gosh I remember it was either 4 or 5 times but I was only a child, my understanding now is because they thought the end was actually at hand due to the passing of brother Franz (their oracle or prophet who was the mind behind all their publications after Russells death). 9:30
@mmorgan0678
@mmorgan0678 Год назад
The Lord doesn't change, he remains the same. Does that mean he still wants us to put people to death for mixing fabrics, eating pork products, doing any sort of work on Saturday, disobeying their parents ...
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
He doesn't change, but we do. Are you a parent? If so, do the rules you place on your five-year old and the punishments you impose when he disobeys you continue throughout his life, or do they change as your child matures?
@mmorgan0678
@mmorgan0678 Год назад
@@BeroeanPickets Societal evolution in no wise addresses why a god from whom we supposedly draw our morality would at one time would call for stoning people for practicing astrology while at the same time allowing people to own slaves who were very literally "their property" (Ex 21:21)
@BeroeanPickets
@BeroeanPickets Год назад
@@mmorgan0678 Evolution speaks of things that develop without an intelligence guiding them. Left to themselves, societies devolve which is what we see in the Flood account, and the account of Sodom and Gomorrah. There are limits to what we can accept as a culture at any one time. For instance: “. . .They said to him: “Why, then, did Moses direct giving a certificate of dismissal and divorcing her?” He said to them: “Out of regard for your hard-heartedness, Moses made the concession to you of divorcing your wives, but that has not been the case from the beginning.” (Matthew 19:7, 8) ““I have many things yet to say to YOU, but YOU are not able to bear them at present. However, when that one arrives, the spirit of the truth, he will guide YOU into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears he will speak, and he will declare to YOU the things coming.” (John 16:12, 13)
@Tomanymadeuplaws1914-mu8kt
@Tomanymadeuplaws1914-mu8kt Год назад
They built their own golden calf! “The governing Body”
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