Week 11: Introducing the Jehovah's Witnesses | August 17, 2025 Sunday School

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turn your Bibles, please, to. Daniel chapter #4 Daniel chapter

#4 We're in the middle of our series, World Religions and

Cults. We look for several weeks at the

issues surrounding Islam, and we're actually moving to our

first biblical cult, and that is the Jehovah Witness.

Now remember, the difference between world religion and a

cult really is that a cult has some similarities to

Christianity, but yet takes a lot of the names, the

characters, the entities that we are familiar with in

Christianity use the same names, same terminology oftentimes, but

completely changed it and twists into something that is

completely different. And so we want to talk today

about the Jehovah Witnesses and give you a little bit of an

introduction to them. All right, now we're going to

start this way. Are you ready?

Knock, knock. Jehovah Witness.

That's it. That's the end of the story.

That's it. So that's all I got.

All right, so that's how we're familiar with the Jehovah

Witnesses, aren't we? Because they go around our

neighborhoods. We see them in all types of

other places. If you were driving around

Brockton, you will see people that are in downtown Brockton.

You'll see over at Mansfield Commuter Rail Station, you'll

see at the heaviest times of the day that there will be those who

are Jehovah Witnesses that are there really, if you go to about

any T station in Boston at any given time, I know South Station

is certainly this way. You're going to see several

people that are dressed up to the nines with a smile on their

face next to a rack of literature and they are just

waiting for someone to come by and to talk to them about their

booklets and pamphlets that are there.

And certainly there are some very, very nice people.

If you just take people for who they are, that they can be some

very friendly people, some very kind people in many ways.

But I do want you to understand that what you see in the

Watchtower materials, that what you see when it comes to the

teaching the Jehovah Witness is exactly opposite of what the

Bible teaches is true Christianity.

And that what they have there on those racks of literature are

ways and methods of teaching that are so very opposite of

what the Bible teaches about who Jesus Christ is.

In fact, I would put it this way, They've made so many

predictions over the years about predictions.

And we'll look at this in just a moment about the world coming to

an end, prediction about Armageddon, predictions about

David and Abraham walking the earth, that they've made so many

predictions that if having a false religion was an Olympic

sport, they would receive a gold medal because they have.

I've been so wrong so many times.

It actually is unbelievable that there would be people that would

still follow their teachings. However, they have found ways

over the years to cover up many of the errors that they have

made in these false predictions. And because of that, there are

still people who follow in lockstep.

Now, I want to remind you, as I remind you every time we look at

one of these false religions that we are not attacking the

people that are involved in those false religions.

That is not our desire. We want to love these people to

Jesus Christ, and maybe I put it this way, we want to love these

people to the true Jesus Christ, the Jesus Christ, the Bible.

What we attack is the articles of faith.

What we attack is the authorities, those that are

leading those people astray. That's what we are looking at,

not those people who out of a heart that are trying to find

God have been turned to a false direction and turned to a false

gospel. That is not our desire here

today. And even mentioning those key

doctrines were not key doctrines rather, but those key dates

where they were mistaken. Just look at some of these

predictions and the outcome. In 1878, the Jehovah Witnesses,

or at least what was starting to form as the Watchtower Society

then called the Jehovah Witness. Well, if you look around, well,

we're still here, right? So that didn't happen and that

had to be reinterpreted. 1918, destruction of churches and the

death of millions, which did not occur.

The resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, and other patriarchs,

1825 or 1925, that did not happen. 1975, the suggested

start of Christ's millennial reign.

And then that led to disappointment and membership

decline. That over and over and over

again, the Jehovah Witnesses have made predictions about

future events and over and over and over again, they have been

wrong. They've changed their positions

on blood transfusions over and over again for many, many years.

If you were a Jehovah Witness, you could not have a blood

transfusion of any kind. But according to the records

that I have, and these have been reviewed by others, and so this

is not something that I've just pulled out of a hat, they've

changed their positions on blood transfusions at least 18

different times since 1940. 18 different times, the doctrine of

whether you can receive a blood transfusion or whether you can

receive part of a blood transfusion or who can or who

can't. 18 different times since 1940, that has changed.

So over and over again we find that the doctrines of the

Jehovah Witnesses have changed. Now I know this from the Word of

God. The Bible says Jesus Christ is

saying yesterday, today, and forever.

Amen. Now, aren't you glad that when

it comes to the Word of God, that the doctrines of the Word

of God, when we talk about biblical Christianity, do not

change? Could you imagine coming to

church and one Sunday morning I say this, listen, I've had some

new light. I've received a word.

And remember what I told you about a couple months ago?

It's not true anymore. God has revealed to me that that

is no longer true. Could you imagine over and over,

that being the case, at some point you'd say, well, who's

really in charge here? Because it doesn't seem like God

is in charge. The Bible says this, that God is

not the author of confusion. Well, if God's not the author of

confusion, then who is? Well, Satan.

And if there is all of these different dates and there's all

these different times and there's all these different

doctrines that get changed over and over and over again, and

what do we find? None of it comes to pass.

What are we to say? Just as we're doing a very

topical inspection right now, we're not even diving deep into

the doctrine. We're just giving you the

introduction today. We look at that and say

something's not right here. And what's not right is the fact

that the Word of God has been pushed to the side by the

Jehovah Witnesses using their own version of the Bible called

the New World Translation, which we'll look at a little bit

later. That takes the long held

doctrines of the Word of God and removes them.

They're inconvenient and they're removed from their version of

the Bible. I really hesitate to call it a

Bible because it is not a Bible. It's been so radically changed,

but they've taken these things and removed them.

Just you don't like something in the Bible, cross it out.

You don't like that doctrine, cut it out, remove it.

And that's what they have done with their New World

Translation. So how does this group grow?

How are they able to grow with what seems to be such blatant

disregard for the truth? How could they possibly grow?

Well, the answer is because of the fact that they are out there

in the communities and they are talking with people.

By the statistics that I saw, on average almost nine and a half

million individual personalized Bible studies are held by

Jehovah Witnesses in people's homes every year. 9.5 somewhere,

give or take million every year. And so because of that, there

ranks of around 20 million worldwide can grow because they

are so very adamant about being in people's homes and being able

to talk to them. Now the way to be able to do

that is this with Bible closed because if the Bible, I mean the

true word of God was opened, the things that they're teaching

just could not be true. But when you try to take away

the word of God and give them a a word of God, that's not the

word of God, and then you really tell people, well, instead of

really worrying about the Bible, you really should read our

materials. You really should read our watch

that you read the Watchtower materials and it'll explain

everything you need to know. Why is it so important?

I don't want to go on a tangent here this morning, but why is it

so important that we bring our Bibles to church?

Why is it so important that I say open your Bibles?

Why is it so important that we turn from one scripture to

another Tonight? You're going to get dizzy and

all the scriptures we're going to look at because I think we've

got about 10 different passages we need to look at to be able to

properly cover the subject that we're going to be looking at

this evening. Why do we do that?

Is it because pastors are stalling for time and he doesn't

have anything to say and he just wants to keep going through your

Bible? So that means it's less time

that I talk. Well, listen, you all know me

well enough. I'm just going to keep talking

no matter what, all right? You can't make me stall.

But the idea is this. I want you to see in the Word of

God for yourself. Don't take my word for it.

What does the Bible say? Because that's really what true

religion is all about. Not not what religion says or

not what the higher up say, but what does the word of God say?

There's really only one higher up that we need to be concerned

about, if you will. That's the Lord, what His word

says, is it? And if I contradict the word of

the Lord, then I'm an error. I cannot say, well, this is what

I believe, and so I'm going to change the Bible to fit what I

believe. Listen, that's rank heresy.

So how do they do this? Well, what I want to do is

actually take you into the living room of someone.

This is a staged event here, but of what it would be like if

someone is giving a Bible study, a Jehovah Witness to someone who

is searching and meeting in one of those 9.5 million Bible

studies a year. Now, the video I'm about to show

you does not come from YouTube. It does not come from someone

who is a denier, the Jehovah Witnesses.

This video that I have has been downloaded from jw.org.

I found it myself all right. And So what you're going to

watch is not something from a plant.

It's not something from someone who is trying to debunk the

Jehovah Witness. This comes from their very own

organization. So I want you to watch this.

And then what we're we're going to do is from that introduction

to their Bible studies, actually go through the word of God and

see why they are so wrong. And so we'll just go ahead and

do that now and then we'll give you some comments.

So let's take a watch. And I thought what we could do

is just go right to the Bible account that deals with that.

Your Kingdom will be yours again after you come to know that the

heavens are ruling. So that is the dream that King

Nebuchadnezzar had. But as we discussed last week,

that dream is actually a prophecy.

Now it's important to remember that similar to other prophecies

in the book of Daniel, this prophecy points forward to God's

Kingdom with Jesus Christ as ruler.

So what I thought we could do today is look at some specific

points of this prophecy and to see the relationship between the

God's Kingdom and the year 1914. And this article has a fantastic

chart here that provides some great visuals that we can go

over. And I also made a few notes for

myself additionally. So if you don't mind, maybe we

could just spend the next few minutes and consider this?

Sure, sure, that sounds good. I always enjoy talking about the

Bible. Great.

Well, let's get started. What do you see in that first

box there? An enormous tree.

Is this the tree that we just read about in the prophecy?

That's exactly it. And in the second box, you'll

notice that there's a picture of an axe, and that indicates that

the tree was chopped down. But what happens next?

It says let 7 times pass. Yeah.

And so a period of time went by, and then eventually the tree

grew again. So those are the basic pieces to

the puzzle. We've got this enormous tree, it

gets chopped down 7 times, pass, and then eventually the tree

grows again. Well, that's the prophecy.

But what we want to know is what does that actually mean?

Well, the chart helps us out there as well.

Notice underneath it mentions rulership.

So the tree signifies rulership. Now, logically, if that's the

case, if it's spoken of as being chopped down, then that

rulership would be interrupted, someone's rulership, then

there'd be an interval of time that would pass, and then

eventually that rulership would be restored again.

So does that explanation seem reasonable?

I think so. Good.

Well then, let's consider the fulfillment of the prophecy.

Now, as we can see from our chart, there's both an initial

fulfillment and a larger one. Let's just spend a few minutes

considering the first one. So who is pictured by that tree?

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Excellent.

And the tree would be an apartment depiction of

Nebuchadnezzar, because like that tree, he was very prominent

and very powerful as the king of Babylon.

But also like that tree, he was chopped down, so to speak, when

he lost his sanity and can no longer continue ruling now,

according to the chart. How long did that last?

It says 7 literal years. That's it.

So after those seven years, Nebuchadnezzar regained his

sanity and began ruling again. So let's just recap kind of what

we've considered so far. Who was pictured in his first

fulfillment by the tree. Nebuchadnezzar.

Good. And how is he chopped down?

He loses his sanity. That's it.

And for how long? Seven years.

True. And after that seven years, he

regained his sanity and then began ruling again.

Now does that make sense? Yes, but what does this have to

do with God's Kingdom in 1914? That's a great question.

Well, we know there's a larger fulfillment of this prophecy

because Jesus himself spoke about it.

See later in the chart here refers to Luke 21 and verse 24.

Notice what Jesus said, Jerusalem will be trampled on

until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.

Well, what did he mean by that? Well notice here in the first

box down at the bottom it says Israelite kings who represent

God's rulership. Well those kings are also

represented by that tree. So that line of kings is is

really the larger fulfillment of that.

Now you might remember the Bible referred to these kings as

sitting on Jehovah's throne. That's because God appointed

them to rule over his chosen people at the time, the

Israelites. Unfortunately, as years went by,

most of those kings became disobedient to God, and in turn

their subjects did the same. So eventually Jehovah saw fit to

destroy Jerusalem in six O 7 BCE.

After that point, no more earthly kings figuratively sat

on Jehovah's throne, so it's as though God's rulership was

interrupted. Now, according to the chart, how

long did that interruption last? The chart says 2520 years.

Exactly. So if we calculate 2520 years

from the time Jerusalem was destroyed in six O 7, that

brings us all the way to 1914 and that is when Jesus began

ruling in heaven as King of God's Kingdom.

I know it's a lot to take in, but does that explanation make

sense? I think so, but I still have

some questions. Where do you get this 2520

years? How do you know that that's the

period of time? And how do you know for sure

that this prophecy is about God's Kingdom?

Is it possible that the kingship would be restored right here on

Earth, in Jerusalem? Those are all excellent

questions and we've taken in a lot of information here, but the

best thing for us to do to really get the answer is to look

at it in light of the complete Bible because that will assure

us that this is definitely a heavenly Kingdom and we can find

scriptural texts that point to this number 2520.

So what if the next time I come, we consider those specific

scriptures and also the remainder of this article, and I

think you're going to find it answers the rest of your

questions. Sure, that sounds good.

Is there some way that I could download this electronically?

I'd like to take a look at this chart some more.

Absolutely. Let me show you how to get on

our website, thesiteisjw.org. So when you go to the site, you

just go up to publications and then from there you choose

magazines. Chart and so we have that here

on the screen for you just a moment.

How many of you would say this? You just watch it say why on

earth are they talking so much about 1914?

Does anybody have any concern? Like, it seems like they are

fixated on 1914. Why would they have a Bible

study in a guy's house talking only about 1914?

And here's the answer. If you remember the chart that I

just showed you previously, they believe that in 1914, and it

taught for somewhere around 40 years that 1914 that Armageddon

would take place, all of the world kingdoms would dissolve,

and that Jesus would set up his rightful throne here on earth.

Now, the problem was, and in 1914, that didn't happen.

You know, I know that we're still here.

There was no Armageddon, there was no type of world kingdoms

dissolving and Jesus rightful throne.

In fact, does anybody remember what happened in the beginning

of 1914? Anyone have any kind of

historical context that it was the beginning of World War One?

So not only did Jesus not set up his Kingdom, but World War One

continued for the next four years.

In fact, it was exactly the opposite.

So what has the Jehovah Witnesses had to do for the last

100 plus years? Explain why Jesus did not come

and start an earthly Kingdom, but instead he started his

heavenly Kingdom in 1914. Now you say, wow, that is that's

that's a lot of things going on there.

And the answer is that's exactly right.

Because when you get away from the word of God, you have to

start pulling into all of these other different things.

And there's a lot of things that are going on now.

There's a lot of problems with what we just saw.

Maybe the first thing that you noticed was this the Bible.

And when I say the Bible, I mean the New World translation was

read from for one verse. And then what happened?

The Bible was closed. What was the next thing that was

opened the Watchtower materials, those magazines, were they

reading from the Bible? No, not really.

And it's funny because at the end he says we need to really

understand this in context of the whole Bible.

But the problem is, is that Jehovah Witnesses aren't going

to guide you to self-directed Bible study.

They're going to direct you to you need to read the Watchtower

and you're going to hear the term Watchtower a lot.

But they are the ones that put together all the publications

like what you just saw right here.

And so the Bible is put away and the Watchtower public.

Locations are pulled out. You're going to see that over

and over again as we look at the Jehovah Witnesses.

A lot of time and energy was placed on that.

But the real problem from what we saw was even beyond that, and

that's this purposeful, sloppy Bible interpretation, purposeful

sloppy Bible interpretation, meaning taking a little bit of

this, a little bit of that, a little bit of this, a little bit

of that, throwing it all together and then creating a

doctrine, whether that's what those verses said or not.

Listen, you can say a verse or part of a verse and make it mean

whatever you want it to mean if you're not careful.

And even Baptist can do that if we're not careful.

I remember one time I was in Bible college and there was a

visiting pastor who preached the love of money is the root, and

that's all he preached. But you understand that the

Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.

You can't just take the beginning and just preach on the

beginning of that verse and not explain what the whole verse

means. And so all of us, not just in

reference to Jehovah Witness, but any of us, when we deal with

the Bible, we always have to look at the Bible in context.

So why do I have US turn to Daniel chapter 4?

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Well, I'm not in Daniel chapter 4 for some reason.

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I'm in Psalm 144. But why are we in Daniel chapter

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4? Well, that's where they

referenced what took place in Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

So why don't we take a look at that for ourselves?

Because they said that there was a fulfillment at first when

Nebuchadnezzar went mad, and then there was another larger

fulfillment where it says the Israelite kings who represent

God's rulership, gruesome is destroyed, destroyed,

interrupting that line of Israelite kings.

And that this is told to us in Luke 2124 that these two

passages are connected. So why don't we read Daniel 4

for ourselves and Luke 2124 for ourselves and see if there's

actually a connection or not? Daniel Chapter 4 Nebuchadnezzar,

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the king unto all people, nations, languages that dwell in

all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.

I thought it good to show you the signs and wonders that the

high God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs, How

mighty are his wonders. His Kingdom is an everlasting

Kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

I Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in

my palace. I saw a dream which made me

afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head

troubled me. Therefore made I decree to bring

in all the wise men in Babylon before me, that they might make

known unto me the interpretation of the dream.

Then came in the magician, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, the

soothsayers, and I told the dream before them, and they did

not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.

But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was

Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom the

spirit of the holy gods. And before him I told the dream,

saying, Oh, Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know

that the spirit of the holy gods is in the and no secret trouble

of thee. Tell me the visions of my dream

that I've seen, and the interpretation thereof.

Thus were the visions of my head and my bed.

I saw and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the

height thereof was great. So does that track so far with

what we saw on here? Yes, it does.

There was a tree now moving on, it says, And the tree grew, was

strong. The height thereof reached unto

heaven, the sight thereof to the ends of all the earth, and the

leaves thereof were fair, the fruit thereof much, and in it

was meat for all. The beasts of the field had

shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the

boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, A

watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.

He cried aloud, and said Thus hew down the tree, cut off his

branches, shake off his leaves, scatter his fruit, let the beast

get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches.

Nevertheless leaves the stump of his roots in the earth, even

with a band of iron and brass. And the tender grass of the

field, let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his

portion be with the beasts of the grass of the earth.

Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart

be given unto him. And let 7 times Passover this

matter is, that the decree of the watchers, and the demand by

the word of the holy ones to the intent, that the living may know

that the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of men, and give it to

whomsoever he will, and set up over it the basis of men.

This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen.

Now thou belt to Shazzer, declare the interpretation

thereof. For as much as all the wise men

of my Kingdom are not able to make known unto me the

interpretation, but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy

Gods is in thee. Well let me ask you this.

Did what we just read here in the first in Daniel chapter 4

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track with those first three boxes?

It does, doesn't it? Here's why.

Understand that when it comes to error, truth is always found in

it. But just a little bit.

Just like a hook has to have a worm in it for people.

Not people to get it, but for a fish to get it, error has to

have a little bit of truth in it to get people to be interested.

And so was there a tree? Yes.

Was they told to chop down the tree in the vision?

Yes. Were several times to pass?

Yes. In fact, even represented were

the bands there around the tree stump.

And so yes, that is true. Well, we can go on.

And for the sake of time, we're not going to read the whole

chapter. But I would say, unlike our

Jehovah Witness friends, I would encourage you to read the entire

chapter. There's nothing here that's

hidden that I think you should not be able to read.

No sleight of hand, no nothing up my sleeve.

You know, nothing like that. It's all about being able to

read the word of God for yourself.

But in summary, we find that there is nothing in the

interpretation of the the vision that we're going to find next

that says that there is going to be this initial fulfillment.

But then also this larger fulfillment and will you know

what this vision was about Nebuchadnezzar and that was it,

that Nebuchadnezzar was for seven years going to be a madman

because he did not honor God. And after those seven years he

would be restored to the Kingdom.

Again. There was nowhere else where it

says or even hinted that there was going to be a larger

fulfillment. You say, well, pastor, hold on.

They said that really that is to be found in Luke 2124.

And so maybe if we look at Luke 2124, that will make the

connection so well, let's go do that.

All right, so turn to Luke 2124. For the sake of argument, let's

follow their logic, Luke 2124, because we want the word of God

to have it say Luke 2124. I hear a cricket right now while

I'm talking. Usually while I'm talking, I

hear crickets. That's not a good thing, you

know. And so Luke 2124.

And this is talking about the end of days.

And so let's start not in 2124, but let's get a little bit more

context here by going up just a little bit.

And it says in verse #21 Then let them which are in Judea flee

to the mountains, and let them which in the midst of it depart

out, and let not them that are in the countries enter there

into. For these be the days of

vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

But woe unto them, they're with child, and to give them suck in

those days. For there shall be great

distress in the land, and wrath upon this people, and they shall

fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be LED away captive

into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down at the

Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Now it says here. And this is where they want to

focus, that in 1914, the times of the Gentiles were fulfilled,

which is why Jesus Christ came back and set up his heavenly

Kingdom. But I have to ask you this

question. What does Daniel chapter #4 and

what we just read here in Luke chapter 21 have anything to do

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with one another? And the answer is they have

nothing to do with one another, nothing at all that this is

talking about the end times and the issues that will take place

during the end times and yet that has not taken place yet.

Remember, it's so bad during those times.

It says if you have a child, it's going to be hard for you

because you have a child because of how difficulty, the great

difficulty during those times. And so we find that what we find

in this whole issue here at the bottom is faulty from beginning

to end. There are many other faults that

can be found here as well. Sixteen O 7, they say is the

time that Jerusalem fell. There are there are no reliable

historians that say that Jerusalem fell in six O 7 BC.

Rather it's somewhere around 587588-BC, not BCE.

By the way, they use these because they want to take out

any reference to Christ in the years here.

But six O 7, there's no one that says that it was six O 7.

So why did they pick six O 7? Because somewhere they have to

come out with 2520 years. Now you say, why is it 2520

years now? Oh man, my head hurts from all

this. I hope that somehow that it's

coming across to you, what's coming through on the pages and

through their own doctrine here. But they chose 2520 years

because they said seven times will pass.

Remember, 7 times. And that was seven years for

Nebuchadnezzar. But in the larger fulfilment,

they go to Revelation chapter #12 where there's a whole

different prophecy that's taking place.

And there they talk about that there is going to be in the

Tribulation period. Well, we know the Tribulation

period, seven years. And they take the days that are

there, they calculate it out, and they say that the Bible says

that it says in prophecy a day really counts as a year.

And they misinterpret Numbers, the book of Numbers, chapter 14,

Numbers 14:34

verse 34, because nowhere in the Bible does it say in prophecy a

day is always a year. There's nowhere it says that.

But they take a little bit of here, a little bit of there, a

little bit of here, a little bit of there, a little bit of there

of texts that have nothing to do with one another.

And they hope that you don't read your Bible and that you

just look at that little magazine and by the time you're

done, you say 02520. That makes perfect sense when

none of this has anything to do with the Bible and the only

reason they're teaching this in the 1st place is because they

had failed prophecies that Armageddon was supposed to

happen in 1914 and everything was supposed to be destroyed and

it didn't happen. So they have to find a way to re

explain it. Listen, this is a mess.

This is an absolute mess and it has nothing to do with the

Bible, but what they hope to do when they talk to you on a

corner, what they hope to do when they knock on your door.

What they hope to do when you come to a Bible study is that

you do not know anything about the Word of God or that you take

just the veneer of the Word of God that they're using.

Just just that little covering, that little coating of the word

of God on the outside. They're hoping that you take

that look at this. Wow, doesn't this look nice?

Doesn't this look sharp? Boy, this makes a lot of sense

when nothing here from here on down, well really from here this

is all true, but from this section here has anything to do

with the Word of God. So there is truth, but the error

is what gets you. And I say, well listen, we never

said, we never said that the world was going to end in 1914.

And the fact of the matter is, not only did they say it, they

said it over and over and over and over again.

For instance, it says in Source and Studies in the Scriptures,

1889. Be not surprised then, when in

subsequent chapters we present proofs that the setting up of

the Kingdom of God has already begun, that is pointed out in

prophecy as due to begin the exercise of power in AD 1878.

And at the battle of the Great Day of God Almighty, which will

end in AD 1914 with a complete overthrow of earth's present

rulership is already commenced. Does that sound like something

that's figurative or something that's literal?

Sounds literal to me. But going on in the upcoming 26

years, all present governments will be overthrown and

dissolved. CT Russell, Studies of the

Scriptures. Remember that the 40 years

Jewish harvest ended in October AD 69 was followed by the

complete overthrow of that nation, and that likewise the 40

years of the Gospel age harvest will end in October 1914, and

that likewise the overthrow of Christendom, so-called, must be

expected to immediately follow. Continuing on, in the view of

this strong Bible evidence concerning the times of the

Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final

end of the kingdoms of this world and the full establishment

of the Kingdom of God will be accomplished by the end of AD

1914. I wish I was done.

I'm not done. True, it is expecting great

things to claim as we do, that within the coming 26 years all

present governments will be overthrown and dissolved.

I'm still not done. We see no reason for changing

the figures, nor could we change them if we would.

They are, we believe, God's dates, not ours.

But bear in mind, at the end of 1914 is not the date for the

beginning, but the end of time of trouble.

Now, in view of recent labor troubles and threatened anarchy,

our readers are writing to know if there may not be a mistake in

the 1914 date. They did not see how present

conditions can hold out so long under the strain.

We see no reason for changing the figures, nor could we change

them if we would. They are, we believe, God's

dates, not ours. But bear in mind that the end of

1914 is not the date for the beginning, but the date of the

end of the time of trouble. I believe that's the last one

that I have. No, I'm not done yet.

Oh, there's still more. True, it is expecting great

things to claim, as we do, that within the next coming 26 years

all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved.

But we are living in a special and peculiar time, the day of

Jehovah. In view of the strong Bible

evidence concerning the times of the Gentiles, we consider an

established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this

world and the full establishment of the kingdoms of God will be

accomplished by the end of AD 1914.

And then it goes on and on and on.

Does it sound like it's something that was just a

spiritual or metaphorical Kingdom, or did they really

believe that the world was going to end in 1914?

They really believed that the world would end in 1914.

And spoiler alert, we're still here.

We're still here and they're still here.

So what do you have to do? Well, you have to find a way to

cover up the mistake. And to do that, they had to

reverse engineer a prophecy of taking a little bit from Daniel,

a little bit from Luke, a little bit from Revelation, and a

little bit from the book of Numbers.

And they cooked it together. And what they ended up was a

toxic soup, a false doctrine. You know, it's amazing to me

that you can take truth and truth and truth and truth. 4

Bible passages. All true, but put them together

in a way that absolutely destroys them.

Why? Because the Bible tells us this,

that the word of God is not for private interpretation, meaning

this. I can't make it say what I want

it to say. I can't take the doctrine of the

Word of God and make it what I want it to be.

Why is it so important I believe to be not just a Christian and

one who knows Jesus Christ their Savior, but to be a Baptist?

What is one of the things that people ask us about being

Baptists all the time we say this, it's because we want to

believe the Bible from beginning to end.

We need no other book. We need nothing else.

What we say is it's the Bible and the Bible alone that saves

you. It's the Bible and the Bible

alone that will teach you. It's the Bible and the Bible

alone that will guide you in every area of your life.

And so here's what I want us to understand today, and we'll

actually finish in just a moment.

As a little bit of an aside, you say how on earth could we reach

a Jehovah Witness? How on earth could we reach

them? And it seems hard.

And the reason why it's hard is for several different things.

One, you can't use your Bible with them because they do not

accept this as the word of God. They will only accept the New

World Translation. You can't talk to them about

things that you found online. Listen, they will not research

and they are forbidden to research anything about Jehovah

Witnesses online. They have been told on high.

We'll look at the hierarchy the next time we look at this

lesson. But basically the hierarchy are

8 men who meet in New York and those eight men tell everybody

what they believe, how they believe it.

And when the end times come, in their minds, they will have to

do whatever those eight men tell them to do That's it.

So how do you reach people that are even told by those eight

men? Don't even Google the words

Jehovah Witnesses. Don't Google it because whatever

you see on there will be propaganda and it will be false.

The only website that they really can legitimately go to

isjw.org, where you saw videos like the one we just watched a

few minutes ago that are false. If you're like me, you think,

how on earth can you reach someone like that?

How on earth, when you don't even have something in common,

how could you talk to them while at the same time we share common

words and phrases and terms, but yet when they talk about them,

they mean something totally different than what we mean.

How do we reach these people? And we reach these people by

using their own literature. What I just showed you right

there shows that in their own literature they were false.

By showing them places in the Watchtower that teach their

wrong, by showing them place in the New World Translation, we're

still Jesus Christ is uplifted. For whatever reason, they remain

in the New World Translation. They're few and far between.

In fact, the by the New World Translation won't even call that

a cross. It's called a stake because they

refuse to acknowledge the cross. How do you deal with someone

like that? You have to understand what they

believe and you understand where they believe it from so that

when you have a conversation with them, you were able to

lovingly bring up these issues. Because I will tell you this,

from all that I've seen and I've watched several videos and a lot

of research this week in preparation for the next several

weeks on this on top of my normal reading for this series.

But what I found is this. Jehovah Witnesses are afraid.

They are so afraid. Say afraid of what?

They are afraid that they won't make it to heaven because it's a

works based salvation. If they do not go and knock on

people's doors once a week. And if they do not go or rather

once a month and they do not stand at one of those stands

once a month, they have no hope of heaven, period.

That's been an edict. One hour.

You have to do it. And on top of that, they have

this idea that the end times will come.

And if they're not ready, some of the biggest preppers, if you

will, or actually Jehovah Witnesses, because they are so

afraid of what will happen next. Where is the life that were

promised in the word of God and life more abundantly, it's not

found there. It's fear, anxiety.

In fact, watching one video this week, I saw that that these

public, they're called publishers.

If you go out and you share the good word, if you will, of the

Jehovah Witnesses, you're called a publisher.

And they talked about the publishers walk.

Because if you've ever watched a Jehovah Witness, and I, and I

realize this now, once I saw, if you ever see them walking down

the street, they walk like this. They're in no hurry to get

anywhere. You know why?

They're just trying to fulfill their hour.

That's it. They're not really worried about

souls. They're not really worried about

who knows about their Jesus. They just want to make sure the

hour is done. I'm thankful yesterday we were

making visits to people and talking to people about Jesus

and we're and, and the idea I have is just, we got time for

one more. Can we, can we see one more

person? Can we talk to someone else

about Jesus? You know why?

Because I want people to know about Jesus.

I wanted many people. You know why?

Because he's done so much for me.

That's the difference between false religion and pure

religion. That's the difference between

falsehood and the truth of the word of God.

So I hope this has been a little bit of a wedding of your

appetite. You said, boy pastor, that was

so convoluted, right? And it's going to get even more

detailed as we go along. And I know you may not capture

all that we're talking about, and that's OK.

But if nothing else, to help you understand the confusion that

these people live with, the fear that they live with, but that we

want to show them the hope of the gospel.

Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of

Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing

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grow in His Word.