QFR: "Warning - memorial partakers might be loonies!"

by cedars 46 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • cedars

    Thanks stillstuckcruz for those kind words - I am fairly new to this site but I love getting feedback to things I find, some of which I have been sat on for some time.

    Ah yes, the old "I'm anointed because I say so" argument! Obviously none of the above questions would wash with a die-hard publisher who has had his/her powers of independent reasoning eroded over time. God apparently needs a Governing Body to accomplish his purpose (even though that phrase appears nowhere in the bible) so he must obviously have manipulated the selection process for those currently serving. Hopefully though, if any have started down the course of questioning things, questions such as those above will help them to feel vindicated and pursue things further. There's only so much you can do for people who 'want' to be taken in by it all.

  • james_woods
    That His "holy spirit" led them to such a position so that they could lead and guide God's people by means of the F&DS.

    Remember that the traditional definition of the "Faithful & Discreet Slave" was not the Governing Body, but rather that it was all the annointed witnesses alive on the earth.

    So the comment in the watchtower that Ceders quoted is really an admission that they have no idea who the all-important "Faithful & Discreet Slave" really is (by their own strict definition).

  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    Given that memorial partakers might be partaking unworthily, shouldn't elders be questioning these individuals congregation-by-congregation to ascertain their state of mental/emotional health, particularly in the light of Paul's words at 1 Corinthians 11:27, "Consequently whoever eats the loaf or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty respecting the body and the blood of the Lord."

    They already do. The latest instructions stated that if somebody is not a baptized JW in good standing, they are not to be counted if they partake. Also, all partakers are to be talked to before they leave the site or as soon as possible.

    The numbers are ALREADY skewed downwards by at least 50%. We have some crazy lady that comes every year, already drunk to eat, drink and talk loudly through the talk. She doesn't get counted. We have 1 or 2 mentally ill (in my hall, 50% is on some type of anti-depressant or shizophrenia pill, about 80% of them long-time pio-sneers) that occassionally partake (whenever it coincides with their 'bad' days) and they never get counted as the elders just talk to them on another day and then they're no longer 'annointed'.

  • blondie
    It has been over 30 years since I have looked at one, but I seem to remember that the publisher's record card held in the congregation files had an entry for "annointed or other sheep".

    You are correct james_woods, the cards still have that designation on it, plus whether someone is an elder, MS, or regular pioneer.


    According to the WBT$..

    Apostates are mentally ill.....The Annointed are mentally ill..

    Everyone connected to Watchtower World is Nuts!..

    Thanks for the Warning WBT$..


  • AGuest

    Greetings, and may you all have peace!

    I am not sure if they still continue the practice, but they used to keep a count with the "A" or "O" on the publisher card. The current info, however, is in fulfillment with what I was told (and posted) a bit ago: they are going to do away with counting partakers (currently, they only count baptized partakers, not guests at the Memorial; however, they do currently count DF'd persons). They HAVE to do away with the count... because the number will continue to increase... and inexplicably so. Particularly for those who they DO accept: they deem those as replacements; however, if they are replacements, the number WOULD NOT CHANGE - one out, one in, same number.

    But I need to address this comment, if I may, dear cedars (peace to you!):

    Indeed - no instructions are given in this article as to the ramifications of partaking unworthily, which inevitably applies to any baptised publisher who partakes whilst being fully aware of the difference between a member of the other sheep and the little flock.

    First, ALL were partakers at the time of Paul's words, so there was no differentiation between 'sheep'. Eating and drinking "unworthily" had absolutely NOTHING to do with that: it had to do with whether one was "clean" at the time of partaking... or not. Meaning, such one had to scrutinize the man they were ON THE INSIDE ("cleanse the inside of the cup")... or risk eating/drinking unworthily. What did that mean? It meant that if one was harboring hate and/or judging another... such one was not CLEAN... and thus, wasn't "ceremonially" FIT to partake of the meal. Such one, then, had to deal with whatever it is, including making peace ("leave your gift at the altar, go make peace, THEN come and offer up YOUR gift) with whomever they needed to. They needed to REMOVE the uncleanliness of their HEART... so was to be WORTHY of partaking. Otherwise, they were eating and drinking judgment against themselves ("With the SAME judgment that you are judging, you will BE judged.").

    ALL, however, were SUPPOSED to partake... then AND now. Particularly those who run around telling others about being resurrected and living "forever":


    Because partaking has beneficial functions:

    1. As to the flesh, it is the "leaves"... from the Tree of Life, which tree... or "true vine"... IS Christ, the Life. (John 14:6; 15:1-7) It is HIS flesh that is for the "curing" of the nations... that keeps the SPIRIT of those who belong to him FULLY alive, even after the flesh has died...

    2. As to his blood, it is the "water" that "cleanses" our flesh AND our SPIRIT (the outside AND the inside... unlike H2O, which can only cleanse our flesh... on the outside... and only on the surface). So, for example, say you CAN'T cleanse whatever it is on the inside - you CAN'T get over your anger, etc. By means of the blood of Christ, your sin can be forgiven. Because sin is only forgiven where blood has been poured out).

    It's almost implied that to do so would be of little consequence, despite Paul's dire warning in the scripture quoted above.

    Paul's warning had nothing to do with a separation of the little flock from the other sheep. The "little flock" were the Jews; the "other sheep" were the nations, which included the 10-tribe kingdom of Israel AND other non-JEWS. All of these make ONE flock... with ONE Lord, ONE hope... and ONE baptism:






    These two groups do NOT, however, describe or even correlate with the 144,000 and great crowd. The first is made of the 12 tribes of Israel (excluding Dan and including two shares for Joseph) and NOT just the Jews (who make up only ONE tribe)... because the PROMISE was made to Abraham, through Isaac, through Jacob (Israel):

    "I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel."

    The second is made up of people from ALL nations, INCLUDING Israel, and thus, including Jews:

    "... before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language..."

    TOGETHER... these make up the nation of "kings and priests" that constitute the NEW Jerusalem... the people chosen as a "special possession" to be a holy nation to God, the MOST Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies (Psalm 68:4):

    "And they sang a new song, saying: 'You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. Youhave made them to be a kingdom and priests toserve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9, 10

    What is to occur... and what the WTBTS hugely misses... is that the "great crowd" are those people of the nations who REPLACE those of Israel who proved themselves unfaithful. Israel in its entirety was SUPPOSED to be that nation of kings and priests; when they rejected the KING of that kingdom, however, the way was opened for them to be REPLACED... by people of the nations. A great multitude of people from the nations.

    The "specialness" of the JEWS... is that Messiah would come through that line: out of the 2-tribe kingdom of Judah, made up of Judah and Benjamin. The term "Jews" comes from "Judeans" and other related Hebrew words. But the promise of being a royal nation was to ALL of Israel... and there are 10 OTHER tribes BESIDES the Jews (Judah and Benjamin).

    The great crowd, then, are ALSO kings and priests... bought with the blood of Christ... as Revelation 5:9, 10 states. That is HOW they can be standing BEFORE the throne (and NOT "in sight of it", a totally false and blasphemous teaching!)... AND 'rendering sacred service.'.. IN the temple [of God]! ONLY A PRIEST CAN RENDER [SACRED] SERVICE...IN GOD'S TEMPLE:


    And... these "wash" their robes... IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. How do they DO that, though... unless they PARTAKE of that blood? They cannot.

    So, I hope this clears up [some of] the false teachings of the WTBTS on this matter. There is NOTHING to fear of partaking... except, perhaps, an unclean heart. Even so, the Most Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies... is merciful. We KNOW that by knowing His Son and Christ, the HOLY One of Israel, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah)... whose blood so cleanses us... and THROUGH whom we can enter into the kingdom of God, the city of the NEW Jerusalem... which, ultimately, comes down OUT of heaven to rule... UPON the earth.

    I this helps, truly, to at least disspell some of the more important false teachings of the WTBTS, if nothing else.

    Again, I bid you all peace!

    A slave of Christ,


  • stuckinamovement

    How do I know that one of the Governing Body members doesn't have some past religious beliefs or even a mental or emotional imbalance that has caused them to assume mistakenly that they have the heavenly calling?


  • cptkirk

      If partaking at the memorial is something that one might do mistakenly because he/she is mentally or emotionally imbalanced, what assurances do we have that individual members of the Governing Body themselves are not suffering from similar delusions? How is there any way of knowing for sure either way?
      If memorial partakers as a whole are to be openly discredited, shouldn't the validity of Governing Body members as anointed co-rulers with Christ be similarly open to scepticism?


  • james_woods

    I have posted this before - but it might be worth repeating it on this thread:

    Back in the late 1960s we had a circuit overseer who claimed to be of the annointed - very unusual, as he was an ex-bethelite in his late 30s at the time - so, too young to be a classic 1930s annointed.

    I became pretty well acquainted with him, and privately posed the question: How did he know he was really of the annointed?

    Basically, his answer parsed out to this "You just KNOW if you are are if you are not - if you don't know for sure, then you are not".

    In other words, he really had no clue, no revelation from God, and just decided he was annointed in his own mind.

  • agonus

    I would think that the possible "mental or emotional imbalance" would apply DOUBLY so to those who started partaking as teenagers... wouldn't you (nudge nudge wink wink)?

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