Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses

False Prophecies and the Watchtower’s Claim to Speak for God

The Watchtower organization is claimed to be the prophet of God. That's the Watchtower, April 1st, 1972, page 197. Yet, it has made numerous false prophecies. Now, the excuse given for their false prophecies has been to quote Proverbs 4 .18, which says,.

But the path of the righteous one is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established. Now, whether or not the light gets brighter or not does not change the fact that the Watchtower made false prophecies.

The Bible says in Deuteronomy 18, 20 -22,. However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

And in case you should say in your heart, how shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken? When the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak.

If the New World Translation, which is the Jehovah's Witness Bible, condemns false prophesying and states that it is proof that God is not speaking through that prophet, then doesn't this prove that the Watchtower Bible and tract society is not speaking for God?

The New World Translation and Adding Jehovah to the New Testament

Next question, why does the New World Translation insert the word Jehovah in the New Testament when there are absolutely no Greek manuscripts that have it in there? Isn't this playing with the text? In the book, Salvation, written by Rutherford, 1939, page 311, this is a Watchtower publication, it says, quote,.

At San Diego, California, there is a small piece of land on which, in the year 1929, there was built a house, which is known as Beth Sarim. The Hebrew words Beth Sarim mean house of the princes. And the purpose of acquiring that property and building the house was that there might be some tangible proof that there are those on earth today who fully believe God and Christ Jesus and in his kingdom and who believe that the faithful men of old will soon be resurrected by the Lord, be back on earth and take charge of the visible affairs of earth.

The title to Beth Sarim is vested in the Watchtower Bible and tract society and trust to be used by the president of the society and his assistants for the present and thereafter to be forever at the disposal of the aforementioned princes on earth.

While the unbelievers have mocked concerning it and spoken contemptuously of it, yet it stands there as a testimony to Jehovah's name. And if and when the princes do return and some of them occupy the property, such will be a confirmation of the faith and hope that induced the building of Beth Sarim.

Now that's what the Watchtower says. Now, this place was sold in 1942 after Rutherford's death. Therefore, it appears that the faithful were misled since the house was to be, as the book by Rutherford says, to be forever at the disposal of the aforementioned princes.

Is this really a testimony to Jehovah's name as it said? And how can it be if they sold the house? Here's another question to ask Jehovah's Witnesses. The Watchtower organization states that Jesus died on a stake, not a cross.

Nails in Jesus’ Hands and the Cross

The typical Watchtower representation of this is with Jesus on a single vertical stake, hands over his head with a single nail in his wrists. If Jesus were crucified on a cross, then, of course, two nails would be necessary, one in each hand.

How, then, does the Watchtower organization handle the verse in the Bible that states that Jesus had nails, no, that's plural, nails, in his hands? John 20, 25 says in the New World Translation even, Consequently, the other disciples would say to him, We have seen the Lord.

But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and stick my finger into the print of the nails, and stick my hand into his side, I certainly will not believe. Now, Jesus had one nail in each hand.

This is made clear by the use of the word nails, not nail. Jesus must have been crucified on a cross with his hands outspread, and not on a stake with his wrists over his head and one nail between his wrists, as the Watchtower organization teaches.

The 144,000 and the Identity of Jesus as Michael

Why is it, then, that the Watchtower teaches something that is clearly unbiblical? Here's another question to ask. The Watchtower organization states that through good works and sincere effort, only 144 ,000 elite Jehovah's Witnesses will go to heaven.

The 144 ,000 are mentioned in two chapters in the Bible, Revelation 7 and 14. By looking at the verse, it is obvious that the 144 ,000 are literal Jews of the ancient tribes of Israel, with no Gentiles among them.

That's chapter 7, verses 4 -8. They're all males. That's chapter 14, verse 4. And virgins, chapter 14, verse 4. If the Jehovah's Witness states that the usage of Jewish male virgins is figurative, then what gives them the right to state that the number of 144 ,000 is literal?

Finally, number six. Where does it teach in the Bible that Jesus is Michael the archangel? Why isn't Jesus called Michael right now, since he's in heaven?