The new STUDY ARTICLE 28 Watchtower that has just been published on jw.org is about apostate lies and introduces new concepts in their effort to compat apostasy in the congregations. So despite the loosening of their recent disfellowshipping rules their fight against apostates is still raging hard. According to the foreword of this article, they will concentrate on :
Training ourselves to discern the difference between the truth we have learned from Jehovah and the falsehoods promoted by Satan and our opposers(=in other words apostates)
So under the theme "Do You Recognize the Truth?" we read in paragraph 3:
Soon the Devil will use powerful propaganda to mislead entire nations into taking sides against Jehovah. (Rev. 16:13, 14) We can also expect Satan to intensify his efforts to mislead Jehovah’s people. (Rev. 12:9) Consequently, it is important that we train ourselves to see the difference between truth and falsehood and to be obedient to the truth. (Rom. 6:17; 1 Pet. 1:22) Our survival during the great tribulation will depend on it!
So the new idea is that combating apostate lies now is a training exercise for combating the intensified propaganda Satan will unlease during the time of the End. Now forget for a moment that I'm an apostate according to them, you know and I know and the whole world knows that they are the liars. Do you remember when Stephen Lett came on jw broadcasting telling millions of jws that news about CSA victims being an issue in the organization is apostate driven lies? Now not only the admit there is an issue they have even changed their policies and tell rank and file to report any CSA perpetrator to the authorities.Who is the liar?
Here is another glaring example from their publications of how far they are prepared to go in order to handicap their members critical faculties, only 2 years ago from the Watchtower 2022 Feb pp.2-7
Study Article 6 "Do You Trust in Jehovah’s Way of Doing Things?"
During the great tribulation, we may receive instructions that seem strange, impractical, or illogical. Of course, Jehovah will not speak to us personally. He will likely provide direction through his appointed representatives. That will hardly be the time to second-guess the direction or to view it with skepticism, wondering, ‘Is this really coming from Jehovah, or are the responsible brothers acting on their own?’ How will you fare during that crucial time in human history? The answer might be indicated by how you view theocratic direction now. If you trust the direction we receive today and readily obey, you will likely do the same during the great tribulation.
So Jehovah's Witnesses are brainwashed relentlessly and are being told lies whereas the exjw community exercised critical thinking by escaping the Watchtower and are now far less likely to fall for another cult.Who is the better equipped to stand during the time of the End?
Now I know they quote these verses from the book of Revelation to make the case that a strong propaganda will overtake people during the time of the End, but there is a definitive verse about End Time propaganda that they never quote. Before I read you this verse, let's first look at these 2 verses in the book of Revelation they quote
And I saw three unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and they perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almight.- Rev. 16:13,14
So here you have the first propaganda aimed at the kings and the whole inhabited earth but WHEN at the very end of the Tribulation with the sole purpose to gather them to the final event of the Tribulation, the battle of Armageddon. To be honest if you have survived upto this point here on earth, it will either be by miracle or you are part of the unfaithful humanity that survives here on earth before that battle. Now the second verse:
So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.-Rev. 12:9
Now this verse is in a different point in time, this is right at the beginning of the Great Tribulation, the last 3 1/2 years. By the way the Watchtower has taught over 100 years that this verse came true in 1919 when Satan was hurled down from heaven but the Warchtower can't even remember their own theology and they speak of it as future in this paragraph. But the most important verse that speaks of End Time deception is the one that really matters and the Watchtower never speaks off but the Bible is very clear, this is the end time propaganda that you need to ready to identify and escape. We read in 2 Thess. 2:3:
Let no one lead you astray in any way(=Paul says, here look this is the big dangerous propaganda), because it will not come (=the presense of the Lord) UNLESS the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction (=more well known as the Antichrist)
In other words the End Times will not kick in unless the identity of the Antichrist gets revealed first and for that to happen first THE apostasy will have to come first. And you know APOSTASY is a Biblical term, apostasy is only something that will take place in the Church, amongst those who profess followers of Christ. Why this apostasy will take place in the Church in the last days? We read in verses 11 &12:
That is why God lets a deceptive influence(=a great deception, OR an end time propaganda) mislead them (=who? All those who profess to be followers of Christ) so that they may come to believe THE LIE, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness
Notice how it says THE LIE, it isn't any small little lie it is THE LIE, the ultimate final deception that will lead into this great apostasy amongst those that profess to be Christians at the time of the End and the Revelation of the Antichrist. The apostle Peter speaking to Christians of his time gives us a glimpse of the nature of this lie in 2 Peter 2:1:
However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you. These will quietly bring in destructive sects (=that has happened to all Christian denominations the past 2000 years BUT the tipping point where the Christian Church as a whole will turn apostate and morph into Babylon the Great is in in the next few words), and they will even disown the owner who bought them (=who is the owner who bought them? Jesus Christ right?), bringing speedy destruction upon themselves
There is a time in the future that the Christian Churches will replace Christ with the Antichrist as their Saviour, this End Time Saviour of mankind. Think of it this way, during the years leading up to the second World War and during the War , Adolf Hitler's face adorned not only every poster in every public square in Germany, but also the picture of Christ hanging on the wall in every classroom, this is just a small glimpse of what will happen during the time of the End. This is the great deception!
Talking about dividing the sheep from the goats! This is the tipping point, side with the wrong Messiah and you have signed your eternal death warrant!
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