Exposing The Lies
Of The
WatchTower Society
Taken From The Corrupted
Version The
New World Translation of the
Holy Scriptures
Published By the Watchtower Society
Of Brooklyn New York
John
3: 3-14 NWT
3 In answer Jesus said to
him:
“Most truly
I say to you, Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom
of God.”
4 Nic·o·de´mus
said to him: “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter
into the womb of his mother a second time and be born, can he?”
5 Jesus answered:
“Most truly
I say to you, Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God."
6 "What has
been born from the flesh is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit
is spirit."
7 "Do not marvel
because I told you, YOU people must be born again."
8 "The wind
blows where it wants to, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know
where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone that has been
born from the spirit.”
9 In answer Nic·o·de´mus
said to him: “How can these things come about?”
10 In answer Jesus said to him:
“Are you a
teacher of Israel and yet do not know these things?"
11 "Most truly
I say to you, What we know we speak and what we have seen we bear witness
of, but YOU people do not receive the witness we give."
12 "If I have
told YOU earthly things and yet YOU do not believe, how will YOU believe
if I tell YOU heavenly things?"
13 "Moreover,
no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the
Son of man."
14 "And just
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must
be lifted up,"
15 "that everyone
believing
in him may have everlasting life."
John
3:3-14 NWT
After
the final resurrection described in Revelation chapter 20, today's Jehovah's
Witnesses expect to live in a new paradise on earth under God's reign.
They feel or I should say, that they have been indoctrinated into thinking
that only 144,000 of their fellow believers, (considered part of the "Anointed
Class") that run and publish all the publications of the Watchtower Society
in Brooklyn New York, the so-called saved ones, will go to heaven.
The Bible clearly teaches that some
will be saved and others not, however a person can have the certainty this
very second that they are completely saved. This is a luxury that a typical
Jehovah's Witness cannot have while under the slavery grip of the Watchtower
Society in Brooklyn New York.
When you share Scriptrue with people
about spiritual things, if someone were to ask you how he could be one
of those who will be saved, could you answer him from the Bible?
God's Word says that the Scripture
alone has all that it takes to bring us to perfection:
"All scripture is given
by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works"
2 Timothy 3:16-17
It follows, therefore, that we should
be able to answer the question of how one can be saved from the Bible alone
without resorting to men's teachings, especially those of the Watchtower
Society in Brooklyn New York.
If we can't, how do we know
that we ourselves will even be counted among God's people?
While Jehovah's Witnesses do not expect
to enter God's heavenly reign after death, they want very much to be where
He rules on earth by means of His Kingdom.
God explains that there is something
that must happen before a person can even see a place where He rules:
"Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God"
John 3:3 KJV
The Jehovah's Witnesses have complicated
the issue by teaching that the Bible says that only 144,000 people will
be born again and go to heaven.
This is Jehovah's Witness doctrine,
but no passage in the Bible presents or infers this teaching.
Following the teachings of their
leaders, however, many Witnesses believe that after the resurrection they
will be God's subjects in a new paradise on earth, and that they can enter
without being born again.
God says the opposite. . .
"Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God"
John 3:3 KJV
Two verses ahead, John 3:5 repeats the
thought in another way.
"… he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God."
God's word allows no other means of
entrance into any place where He reigns. The next verse explains that the
rebirth is spiritual, rather than physical.
"What has been born from
the flesh is flesh and what has been born from the spirit is spirit"
John 3:6 KJV
Follow God's Word Because
Men Make Mistakes
Follow God's Word because men make
mistakes and the Watchtower Society of Brooklyn New York has been making
MAJOR mistakes with people's salvation for over one hundred years.
Pastor Russell, the founder of the
Jehovah's Witnesses, when he revised his book, The Time is at Hand,
said that he had included a mistaken interpretation in the first edition.
He wrote in the author's forward when the book was reprinted:
"The author acknowledges
that in this book he presents the thought that the Lord's saints might
expect to be with him in glory at the end of the Gentile Times.
This was a natural mistake to fall
into… we drew a false conclusion, however, not authorized by the Word of
the Lord."
Can we trust Russell's statement that
he fell into "a natural mistake?" He and the leaders who followed him did
not claim to be infallible.
When they realized they had taught
doctrinal errors, at times they said so. If we can trust anything they
said, we should be able to trust these statements.
Therefore, in questions such as how
to enter into the paradise where God reigns, when God's Word differs from
the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses, remember that it is God who will
judge.
When Christ said. . .
"Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God" John 3:3 KJV
He said it in a way which leaves no
room for exceptions, even though He knew that later some people would claim
to be of a lesser class with no need to be born again.
If you asked directions and someone
pointed and said, "Go north!" when the right direction was south, no matter
how sincere the person was, or how often in the past he had been right,
this time he was wrong.
Following wrong directions would
never get you to your destination.
When it comes to our salvation, rejecting
the teaching of God to follow the mistakes of men keeps people out of God's
kingdom.
To get there God says for the third
time in five verses,
"…Ye must be born again"
John
3:7 KJV
This third time, the New World Translation,
written for Jehovah's Witnesses, makes it even more clear that they are
not excluded:
"Do not marvel because I
told you, You people must be born again"
John
3:7 KJV
There is no other way for a Jehovah's
Witness or any one else to enter, or even see, any place where God reigns,
so why not be born again?
How to Be Born Again?
Nicodemus wants to understand how
to be born again, and asks,
"How can these things be?"
Jesus explains that our rebirth is
accomplished by trusting Him, Jesus Christ, to save us:
"And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life"
John
3:14-15
Not just the 144,000, but everyone who
believes in Christ as Saviour to save him will be born again and will receive
everlasting life.
In fact, as we have seen in verses
three and seven, and will see again in verses 16 to 18, trusting Christ
is the only way to be saved.
The message of John
3:7, "Ye must be born again," cries out to
your heart throughout the passage.
It is not just for people of that
day. It is for the entire human race through today.
It makes no distinction between an
earthly kingdom and a heavenly kingdom and no exception for people who
lived after 1914.
It says, "whosoever."
This is not a matter of trying to
win an argument. Your own entrance into paradise or anywhere else where
God reigns is at stake as well as the entrance of all those you are trying
to help.
I urge you to take God's word so
seriously that you do not give the benefit of the doubt to people who "draw
false conclusions" and make "natural mistakes" but to the word of Jehovah
Himself.
Because of its importance in bringing
people to salvation, the next verse, John 3:16 has probably been committed
to memory by more people than any other Bible passage.
"For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John
3: 16 KJV
God does not condition our salvation
on how many visits we have made, how many books we have distributed, or
on our ability to be worthy, but on the Savior's ability to save.
Those of us who have trusted in Christ
have received everlasting life. We testify to you that we have been born
again and our spiritual lives have started.
God's solution works! Why not shift
your faith from whatever else you have believed, and put it in Jesus Christ.
Trust Him to save you. If you do,
you too will receive everlasting life.
You will be born again and have a
place in God's kingdom.
The very next verse explains why
Christ came into the world. Understand it, and many of the Bible's teachings
will fall into place and make sense.
"For God sent not his
Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him
might be saved"
John
3:17
John 3:18
explains what will happen, not only to those who trust Christ, but also
to those who insist on following another way:
"He that believeth on
him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God."
Let God's word convince you to quit
trusting in what you have done or hope to do, and trust in Christ.
The Bible does not admit a second
chance after the resurrection.
"…he that believeth not is condemned
already."
See also Luke 20:35-36
Works?
Those who have been born again, the
ones who trust Christ to save them, usually do more good works than other
people.
Observing this, many have fallen
into a natural mistake and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
They believed that these people's
works must have saved them.
This leads them to teach that people
can be saved by doing the right works, or that at least the works will
contribute something toward their salvation.
This is contrary to the scriptures,
and while I will go into it more fully in future articles, let's glance
at two of the passages that explain the relationship between faith and
works:
"For by grace are ye saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man should boast"
Ephesians.
2:8-9 KJV
I am so convinced of the need to preach
this Gospel and therefore the birth of Shout of Victory Ministries, but
neither distributing literature nor other fine works add anything to our
salvation, because salvation is a gift that God gives us.
We receive this gift through faith
in Jesus Christ our Savior.
There is no other way we can get
it!
Jesus said:
"I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me"
John
14:6 KJV
This does not include The Watchtower,
a denomination nor an organization.
Only by trusting Jesus Christ, the
Son of the Living God to eternally save us from damnation can we receive
God's gift of salvation and be born again.
