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(Cont. from Page 26/3/85). OUR LORD IS
DOING AWAY WITH THEM DEAD EXAMPLES
OF JWs AND OF BAPTISMS "ON THEIR BEHALF": (1) Those receiving baptism on behalf of members of the sect of JWs ("dead" ones) endorse the false teaching that those of the "great crowd" of "other sheep" who die may only be resurrected to life back on earth and are not destined for immortal heavenly life. (* See below). (2) After issuing instructions for the shifting of responsibilities and the consequent removal of the "constant feature" (namely Spirit anointed sons of God), the "man of lawlessness" did stand in the "holy place" themselves. (Dan 11:31. Matt 24:15. See Page 841).
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Contrary to the law of God, female JW members exercise authority over males
inside and outside their congregations (4) By proclaiming that the "appointed times" ended in 1914 and that the "Lord's day" had begun, JWs did send "a letter as though from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here."
"However, brothers, respecting the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we request of you not to be quickly shaken from your reason nor to be excited either through an inspired expression or through a verbal message or through a letter as though from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here. Let no one seduce you in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. He is set in opposition and lifts himself up over everyone who is called "god" or an object of reverence, so that he sits down in the temple of The God, publicly showing himself to be a god. Do you not remember that, while I was yet with you, I used to tell you these things? And so now you know the thing that acts as a restraint, with a view to his being revealed in his own due time. True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work; but only till he who is right now acting as a restraint gets to be out of the way. Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence. But the lawless one's presence is according to the operation of satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents and with every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved. So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie, in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thess 2:1-12). 28/3/85. |
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