JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: DECEIVED DECEIVERS #4 - EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS FOR JWs: "CAN DEMONS REPENT?"

Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV, see websites: BibleQuery org, HistoryCart com & MuslimHope com), has dealt extensively with Jehovah's Witnesses over the last 30 years (including witnessing for Christ at many of their conventions). Here, Larry Wessels presents a series of informative programs on the Jehovah's Witness religion which was begun by one man named Charles Taze Russell who had no formal theological training but was able to spread his strange & peculiar beliefs throughout the world. This man Russell even believed that Revelation 14:6 was talking about him & that Revelation 8:3 referred to Russell's "Watch Tower Society."
The beginning of the Jehovah's Witness religion can be traced back to Russell who was a men's clothing manager. Russell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1852, was raised as a Presbyterian, but later changed to the Congregational Church. Russell was unhappy with many church teachings, especially predestination and eternal punishment, so he left the mainline churches for good and at the age of 18 began his own Bible class consisting of six people. By 1876 his small group of followers elected him as "Pastor" and the title stuck. Russell's following began to grow in 1879, when he first founded and published a magazine entitled, "Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence," which is now known as "The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom." Through this magazine Russell was able to preach doctrines he really believed in, such as Jesus was not God in the flesh, but rather Michael the archangel created by Jehovah; the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) doctrine was Satan- inspired; Christ was not raised bodily from the grave, just spiritually; there is no hell of eternal suffering; Jesus' second coming will not be in the flesh and visible; and the Holy Spirit is not God. Some of Russell's other teaching included: Negroes were degraded according to Gen. 9:22, 25 ("Zion's Watch Tower," 8-1-1898, pp. 229-230); he declared, "Some have a strong desire to worship God, others have a weak desire, and others have no desire at all..." due to the shape of their heads ("The Watchtower," 3-15-1913, p.84, 667). Russell's passion for date-setting the end of the world and Armageddon was reflected in his use of the ancient Egyptian pyramids as his source, particularly the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. Russell's Watch Tower literature reflected this belief until his death. Russell's book, "Studies in the Scripture," vol. III, chapter ten states. "The testimonies of God's stone witness and prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt... The Great Pyramid... an outline of the plan of God, past, present, and future". (pp. 313-314, 1903 ed.). Russell took measurements of the Great Pyramid (a monument to pagan and occultic Egyptian religion) and then predicted endtime dates with the calculations.
Russell also made claims about so-called "Miracle Wheat" and "Millennial Beans" (Russell lost a lawsuit concerning his "Miracle wheat" -- see Martin & Klann's excellent book, "Jehovah of the Watchtower" published by Bethany House Publishers, with complete documentation on this case and others); he stated that 97% of appendicitis cases are due to "biting of worms near the junction of the transverse colon with the small intestines" and a special medicine offered by the Watch Tower would solve the problem ("The Watch Tower," Jan. 15, 1912). Despite Russell's "inspired" teachings he later perjured himself under oath in the Russell vs. Ross "defamatory liable" case of March17, 1913 by first claiming to understand the Greek language in which the Bible was originally written.
Russell died on Halloween in 1916 and was succeeded by a Missouri lawyer named Joseph Franklin Rutherford who introduced the name, "Jehovah's Witnesses" at a 1931 convention in Columbus, Ohio thus freeing followers from previous titles such as "Russellites", "Millennial Dawnists," and "Wathchtower people." Rutherford carried on much of Russell's belief in pyramids for most of his presidency as well as adding new beliefs and doctrines (such as devils could be saved, from Rutherford's book "Angels," p. 43, circa 1934).
The Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be the prophet of God for today as stated in their April 1, 1972 "Watchtower" magazine, page 197. The May 15, 1955 "Watchtower" says that the Jehovah's Witnesses compromise Jehovah's channel of communication. Many other publications proclaim that they are the only true religion. How do we test the claim of a so-called "prophet of God"? The Jehovah's Witnesses' own history & ever changing theological doctrines (they call it "new light") immediately prove to any researcher that this religious organization cannot be of the God of the Bible. They have even put out their own translation of the Bible which willfully perverts the Scripture. Part 4 of 4 part series.
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[Jtexascox]

You can point out all of these sects faults as you see, but I see nothing on all the numerous faults in mainstream Christianity or the inconsistencies of the bible itself that you could knit-pick if you were biased against it. What can you say about that? What about the Catholic church?

[CAnswersTV]

@Jtexascox Your question is really predictated on the logical fallacies of "YOU DO IT TOO" (2 wrongs make it right) & "RED HERRING" (going off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the topic under discussion). First, we have many videos on Jehovah's Witnesses, not this just this one, type "LARRY WESSELS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" in the YOUTUBE search box. Next we have almost 50 videos on Romanism, type "LARRY WESSELS ROMAN CATHOLICISM" in the YOUTUBE search box & an array of videos will come up.

[ynotpnut]

I am not a Jehovah witness..The answer is simple; perfect creatures, spiritual or material once they disobey The creator of al things they cant not live eternally...

We as unperfect creatures have the opportunity to live eternally.  Its simple and wise.

[CAnswersTV]

@ynotpnut Joseph Rutherford, second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, was head of the Jehovah's Witnesses from his election after Charles Russell's death to his death in 1942. During his time in office he taught that angels replaced the office of the Holy Spirit (see his book "Angels" 1934) & that they gave him "new light" to write Watch Tower doctrine. While Rutherford is getting this "angelic" help he came up with many new doctrines that JWs still believe today.

[jhonene]

I laugh , when i REad , "isSeventh day advent ism, True or false?" hehe , I just don't know why, maybe because i find this one a little arrogant. Don't get me wrong, cause I'm an SDA. ^_^ God bless

[CAnswersTV]

@jhonene You can access all our newsletters online including the one on Seventh-Day Adventism by going to our website BIBLEQUERY ORG & once on our homepage click the "Experience" box to the left & then scroll down to the newsletter section. Others reading this can do the same thing for finding our newsletter on Jehovah's Witnesses. To see our many videos on Seventh-Day Adventism type "LARRY WESSELS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM" in the YOUTUBE search box & an array of videos will come up. Matthew 7:15

[CAnswersTV]

@vmcarrion Sorry to hear about your grief & despair. Reading between the lines it sounds like you've had family trouble with the Jehovah's Witnesses. We have many videos on the JWs just type "LARRY WESSELS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" in the YOUTUBE search box including, "PERSONAL TESTIMONY: "MY KIDS WERE TRAPPED IN THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY'S JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" (we helped a lady win her kids back in a child custody case). The Bible has the truth but many false prophets get in the way (I'll e-mail you).

[vmcarrion]

Wow!! it blew my mind. What hurts I lost my Family ,Children, School. Got old and broke. Do you roll up in a big ball and die? Where and who has the true? We have the bible and yet we still along with out the true knowledge of Jehovah and his Son. I have beed taken Advantage I guess with no hope. vmcarrion@inbox.com

[CAnswersTV]

@XxnegativewalkerxX Two different blue books were used in this 4 part series: 1. "The New Testament - A New Translation" by Johannes Greber (he rewrote the Bible using his spirit medium wife - the Watchtower approved this version before they got caught) or 2. "Aid to Bible Understanding" (published by the JWs) page 1060, DEFINITION OF A LIE: "saying something false to a person who is entitled to know the truth." If the JWs don't think you're entitled to the truth then you don't get it from them!

[XxnegativewalkerxX]

what book is that blue book and what page is it?