Category: Faithful and Discreet Slave (page 1 of 3)

Series Summary

July 29, 2025 / / 0 Comments

When I began this “Watchtower Misconceptions About Jesus” series, I said:

“We’ll look at what the Watchtower teaches about Jesus, in what ways they are in error, and how we can get through to Jehovah’s Witnesses regarding what the Bible actually says about him.”

I hope I have successfully achieved that goal.

This has been my longest blog series to date.

It’s certainly possible that you weren’t able to get to all the posts, and you might have lost track of some that were especially meaningful to you.

For those reasons, I have decided to conclude the series by giving you an outline which includes the titles to each of the posts along with links so you can access them easily.

I hope you will find it helpful. Continue reading

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Did Jesus Give the Watchtower Worldwide Authority in 1919?

June 3, 2025 / / 0 Comments

How does the Watchtower maintain such tight control over the lives of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide?

It convinces them that Jesus gave them that authority in 1919.

It treats Jesus’ statements in Matthew 24:45-47, not as a parable about the importance of faithfulness, but as a prophecy about the Watchtower organization.

Let’s look at that passage. Continue reading

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Real Life Consequences of False Prophecies

April 9, 2024 / / 0 Comments

If you were truly convinced that Armageddon and Christ’s millennial kingdom were coming in the next couple of years—because “the faithful and discreet slave” told you so—what radical changes would you make in your life?

For the Watchtower organization, it meant increased meeting attendance, increased revenue, increased witnessing activity, and increased membership.

But what was the impact on ordinary Jehovah’s Witnesses? Continue reading

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The Finished Mystery

January 16, 2024 / / 0 Comments

The next president of the Watchtower, Joseph “Judge” Rutherford, eventually rejected many of his predecessor’s teachings, but he couldn’t do so right away because Charles Taze Russell was revered by his followers.

When Russell died in the fall of 1916, the Watchtower leaders moved quickly to bridge to the future.

In 1917, they published The Finished Mystery. It was presented as Volume 7 of Studies in the Scriptures, the posthumous book of Russell.

In fact, it was written by other men.

The Watchtower now claims that in 1918-1919, Jesus Christ personally inspected all the world’s religions. He found the Watchtower organization to be spiritually cleansed from past errors and faithfully dispensing spiritual food. Accordingly, he designated it to be the “faithful and discreet slave” of Matthew 24:45 and gave it dominion over all of his affairs on earth.

In effect, it became Jehovah’s one true religious organization on earth, authorized to speak and act on his behalf.

Given that The Finished Mystery was the last book it published and promoted before Jesus’ claimed inspection, I want to take some time to discuss it. Continue reading

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Disproving the Watchtower’s 1914 Chronology

December 26, 2023 / / 0 Comments

In last week’s post, I showed how the Watchtower arrives at its 1914 date for the end of the Gentile Times.

As I noted, its calculations are dependent on its claim that Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians in 607 B.C.E.

If that date is wrong, then the 1914 date is also wrong. Continue reading

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