Who's Knocking? #2: Jehovah's Witnesses Hidden History, Spiritism, Racism, Doctrines of Demons

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A free transcript is available of this video at https://media-cloud.sermonaudio.com/text/1230141936132.pdf. Free transcripts of this video in 20 different languages are available at https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1230141936132. See our playlist "Dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower Society" with 47 videos & 35 hours of teaching material at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCF0ADB29C0EB8C40. Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV at http://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersTV; websites: http://www.BibleQuery.org, http://www.HistoryCart.com & http://www.MuslimHope.com) presents a lecture series at a university study center on how to be prepared to deal with false prophets & false religions from a Biblical point of view (Jude 3). This particular lecture in the series covers "Part #2: All Along the Watchtower: Jehovah's Witnesses."

This lecture has many witnessing tips for Christians who desire to reach people being deceived by the Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses. Larry Wessels, by the grace of God, has been able to lead many people out of the Jehovah's Witnesses over the years (hear the testimony of Chiquie Estrada on the video "SPANISH VERSION: FALSE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS DOCTRINES - LAS DOCTRINAS DE LOS TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQWPW88ViI&index=9&list=PLCF0ADB29C0EB8C40 as one example). Many Christians have tried playing Bible "ping pong" with JWs to no avail but by understanding JW history a Christian can find an effective methodology for undermining the Watchtower foundation which enslaves its followers. Instead of hostile arguing & polemic retaliation Larry proposes a simple line of friendly questioning to steer the conversation with JWs to a more fruitful result.

Jehovah's Witnesses' History

The Jehovah's Witnesses was begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872. He was born on February 16, 1852, the son of Joseph L. and Anna Eliza Russell. He had great difficulty in dealing with the doctrine of eternal hell fire, and in his studies came to deny not only eternal punishment but also the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and the Holy Spirit. When Russell was 18, he organized a Bible class in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1879 he sought to popularize his aberrant ideas on doctrine. He co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with its founder, N. H. Barbour; and by 1884 Russell controlled the publication and renamed it The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom and founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society (now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society). The first edition of The Watchtower magazine was only 6,000 copies each month. Today the Witnesses' publishing complex in Brooklyn, New York, churns out 100,000 books and 800,000 copies of its two magazines--daily!

Russell claimed that the Bible could be only understood according to his interpretations--a dangerous arrangement since he controlled what was written in the Watchtower magazine. This kind of assertion is typical among leaders of cult religions.

After the death of Russell on Oct. 31, 1916, a Missouri lawyer named Joseph Franklin Rutherford took over the presidency of the Watch Tower Society which was known then as the International Bible Students Association. In 1931 he changed the name of the organization to "The Jehovah's Witnesses."

After Rutherford's death, Nathan Knorr took over. After Knorr, Frederick William Franz became president.

The Society was led by Mr. Henschel who died in 2003. The group has over 4 million members worldwide. The Watchtower Society statistics indicate that 740 house calls are required to recruit each of the nearly 200,000 new members who join every year.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have several ‘book studies' each week. The members are not required to attend, but there is a level of expectation that gently urges converts to participate. It is during these ‘book studies' that the Jehovah's Witness is constantly exposed to counter Christian teachings. The average Jehovah's Witness with his constant Watchtower indoctrination could easily pummel the average Christian when it comes to defending his beliefs.

The Jehovah's Witnesses vehemently portray the doctrine of the Trinity as pagan in origin and that Christendom, as a whole, has bought the lie of the devil. Along with denying the Trinity is an equally strong denial of the deity of Christ, the deity of the Holy Spirit, the belief in hell, and eternal conscious punishment in hell.

The world of spiritism has played a major part in the development of Jehovah's Witness doctrine, particularly under "Judge" Rutherford's leadership. This has led to their many "doctrines of devils" (1 Timothy 4:1-3) as exposed in this video presentation. Leviticus. 20:27, “Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death.” Mediums are ultimately in contact with demonic spirits and are being deceived.

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