Jehovah's Witnesses & Haiti Earthquake

I rarely get to post anything here because I am very busy. However, I wanted to at least post the bit of information I've received for anyone that may have been interested. Below is the Google Map of Haiti and Port-au-Prince. We do have a Branch office there in Port-au-Prince according to this official Watchtower.com directory.


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All I was able to find out from HQ in New York was the following:

All the Bethel family branch office in Haiti has been accounted for. Even the branch office seems to be okay. As for the brothers in the field, we do not know of their condition, there is very limited communication at the moment. If there is any further information there will probably be information through the congregations.

Best we can do right now is pray and continue to remember your donations assist when the brothers need to send relief aid to any disaster.

Warm regards

Word of Caution, and History

There was a single purpose to this website originally, to share my personal research with others that would find it helpful--against those that despise us and hate the truth. I always found it as part of me being a "bible student" to conduct research that satisfies me and makes me feel that I am chewing the meat of the Bible rather than casually swallowing milk. That's how I operate, I have to be chewing to stay burning, to stay lit.

I think "meat" can be relative, to some, "meat" may be what I would consider "milk" and to me I may consider "meat" what someone else may consider "milk." With that said, yes there are some very basic Scriptural teachings that most of us should all accept as "milk" and should understand. But the things beyond, and the deeper gems of the Scriptures I find will be relatively "deep" to everyone, depending on what the subject is.

As I stated my original purpose was to share my research, which I have enjoyed when I found some new gem, or some new way to dissemble the trinity or some other lie that is commonly encountered at the door in the ministry. Out in the ministry when I started getting strange explanations or variations of the Trinity teaching, I began to wonder where this was coming from as it was more than I had learned about the Trinity (my own limited knowledge). So I did more research on the Library CD and also in other reference material (all material that the brothers use, such as Catholic encyclopedia, other Bibles, Strong's numbers, Vine's and authors they reference etc), then later I wanted to see exactly what people were being told about their own teachings, so I did visit multiple church's websites. Everything from Seventh-Day Adventist, to Mormon to Catholic and some "non-denominational" church "groups." (none were apostate sites or any sites created by ex Jehovah's witnesses, since I had already had a terrible experience with such people in the past, ever since then I've stayed away from them) Anyway, I quickly saw they all had a different understanding of what the Trinity was and therefore my common questions and responses to house holders would depend on what trinity they believed. Please note, I knew also that other brothers/sisters handle these types of doors differently, some just leave the brochure or share a scripture and end the conversation to many more other ways--everyone has their own method. My method at the time was to get very involved with the householder about the subject, I found it burned my zeal for truth to show people that they should reason on the matter. After a while that method of mine began to find more reason and understanding. I learned from experience, most (not all) Trinitarians will only change their view point when they decide it on their own. No amount of scriptures will do that. The truths are there, but if they are blinded they will not see it and their ego will be a major hindering factor in seeing the truth. My method has changed in dealing with Trinitarians dramatically over the years. It's much more simpler now and the only people I actually do share more than a few scriptures with and attempt to reason with them are those that are humble and truly respect the Bible--rather than tradition. So that short experience is what practically birthed my Trinity articles.

Another portion of my website was for the common misconceptions about Jehovah's Witnesses. Again, they were misconceptions, questions or assertions that I had encountered at the door. I researched most of the ones I could remember on the Library CD to find answers to and also eventually found most of these question (among others of course) or assertions consolidated in one website which was not ran by an ex-Jehovah's Witness or any apostate--which I made sure of (and which I found was interesting that it was just another person in Christendom.) He was simply an "ordained minister" that went to school at a theology college (big deal right?)

See to me there is a difference, an apostate can ask the question "A" and a member of Christendom (whom has never known Jehovah) can ask the same question "A". Is there a difference? In my opinion yes. For example, I've encountered apostates at the door, and I've been asked, "is Jesus a true god or a false god?" To which of course I would later deduct was a disfellowshiped person. And I've also encountered non-denominational church pastors or members ask me the same or similar question. Here was the difference, an apostate can be told A = 1, and the apostate in most cases will find reasons to discredit you or your references to reason in himself that he should not believe that A = 1 because you are now discredited--this results from a diseased mind, straw-man attacks, red herrings and etc--all the qualities of an apostate.

Now the second type of person which I mentioned, can be told A = 1, and in most cases not personally attack you or your faith. They commonly will try to show you scriptures they believe teaches their teaching. Or they will try to be argumentative with you, but for totally different reasons, in most cases it won't come off personal, just emotional for them. Which is normal. However apostates, with them it is personal, they still have a sense of injustice they feel they need to correct regardless if it was right or wrong, their disgruntled attitude eliminates any sound communication--that's why if they are already disfellowshiped and continue their course, they do not communicate with the elders--rather they accuse, attack and discredit. Proof of that statement I point you to what we see at our convention entrances! Small mobs with an attitude, not a Christian spirit.

My point of the last few paragraphs, was to show, my website was never designed to investigate apostate claims. I can care less what they have to say because of what I already stated in my last paragraphs. That is why I have refrained visiting or conversing with brothers or sisters on the internet that do host such websites, to better protect myself--as I said, I've already had a spiritually bad experience with such material. It did nothing for me. Where as the truth has done so much! Therefore, I will be removing the guestbook. My wife made a point to which I find isn't without basis, regarding the communication on the internet and material that can present itself through my website by means of people that can post material. The guestbook is such an avenue in my opinion and really the only one on my website that could be used that way. Which of course there is evidence of by simply looking at the countless of posts I've had to delete, edit or block. Additionally, websites some posters post also need to be screened, and in order to be screened they would most likely have to be visited so therefore that would be another reason. Any websites that I have allowed however were ones I already knew of and found them to be encouraging. But there is no reason to allow room for error and it would be better to remove the guestbook. I will miss all the kind comments and experiences of others, not because it made me feel as if I did something for you, but because it gave me faith and endurance knowing we are all very well alive all over the place, felt closer to the brotherhood even though we were thousands of miles apart. I assume if any brother became a friend of mine over the internet I'd have to call your kingdom hall and make sure you were an active brother--you can never be to sure--even though your fruits would prove you one, but yet that is one of the admonishments we do receive, to get to know people you can actually know than just over digital signals.

In either case, I have been busy, too busy to write any new articles and pretty much there hasn't been much to my concern to write on. I have done plenty of research though, but none of it has felt I needed to add it to my collection. And let this one fact not escape your thoughts all my research was based on the research provided by the faithful & discreet slave class. Or on material they have used. I have never claimed to be a source or a teacher of new information, that is not my job or responsibility, nor do I want such a responsibility--that belongs only to this class. I am simply a publisher of this information, a publisher just like you, a sheep, that needs to get fed and does not feed himself. All the information I've provided can easily be found through logic and good use of the information we are given. So it really is thanks to this chosen class of students that I have any knowledge at all, and ultimately thanks to Christ's direction and God's spirit revealing light!

So to conclude this long winded post (sorry,) the word of caution is nothing different that we hear, "be careful on the internet." I do not host this website to reveal anything new, to "discuss our teachings" or to refute apostate claims. It's simply informational purposes of my own learning. In the end, my small website is an unpopular, insignificant space on the internet that contains some brother's research. Nothing more, nothing less. Thanks for reading.

Evolution, Compatible with God?

Apparently to about 11,900 individual church "ministers" it is. I came across some information on evolution which led to this: "The Clergy Letter Project."

It consists of thousands and thousands of signatures and sermons from "ministers," "pastors," and "reverends." These church leaders all over the world, have signed and agreed to this "Open Letter" that states the following (the below is summarized, for full letter visit their site):

"We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth. . . . We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge."

What are some of the "churches" that signed? Some New Age types? Perhaps some newer "churches"? No, for they include churches such as: Methodist, Unitarian, Lutheran.
For the most part it seems it mainly includes those three denominations, along with many other independent churches. For a complete list, see the website hosting the "project" itself.

While this movement isn't really a new idea, it is something to notice. By accepting this demonic teaching, they are accepting the notion that the Bible is not to be taken literally in most cases, that the Genesis account is a "story" rather than history, and that we are somehow "limiting" God by rejecting evolution.

In some cases, they have used the example of "scientists" of the past that were burned or persecuted as heretics for suggesting something that was not popular, such as the earth revolving around the sun, the earth being round etc. Except they fail to recognize one thing, true science has always been compatible with the Bible--even though the Bible is not a science book. For example, the shape of the earth:

(Isaiah 40:21-22) 21 Do YOU people not know? Do YOU not hear? Has it not been told to YOU from the outset? Have YOU not applied understanding from the foundations of the earth? 22 There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth. . .

Or what about the fact that the Earth is not being supported by anything?:

(Job 26:7) 7 [God] is [...] Hanging the earth upon nothing;

Nevertheless, rejecting simple and basic teachings in the Bible or in the Genesis account as truth, namely the creation, there are many questions and holes that arise in the rest of the Scriptures. Questions regarding who Jesus is saving and why, and for what purpose if evolution is what has caused our coming about as humans. It simply isn't compatible. Christians aren't supposed to be compromising for the sake of members in churches, for the sake of popularity or money, but it surely does seem that is what is becoming of these individuals that have signed this open letter. They continue to say (these church leaders) that there is "truth" in the theory of evolution, yet Jesus said, "your word is Truth." (John 17:17)

Not only is it blinding these people further (which eventually I believe that will lead them to completely abolishing their faith,) but this also seems to be suggesting demonic "inspired expressions." Consider a short excerpt from a Presbyterian Pastor's sermon:

"And so it must strike us at some point or another that if it is through literal devotion to stories such as these that we believe we are going to find true knowledge of our Creator, we are going to be sadly disappointed. The image of God as this punitive parent lacking in grace and dedicated to imposing hardship on the whole of creation is a troubling one indeed. No one is spared God’s wrath—the serpent, Eve, Adam, or even the rest of creation for that matter—in a situation that really, if you think about it, Dr. Phil, or any pastoral counselor worth his or her salt could have resolved differently and with more success." --Rev. Dr. Jeffrey DeYoe, Sr. Pastor

Imagine that, from this "spiritual" leader's mouth, even Dr. Phil could have handled matters better with Adam and Eve than the literal God we read about in Genesis.

In any case, as not being of this world, we are not here to accommodate to science or evolutionists, we are here as Jehovah's people to uphold his truth and continue to avoid becoming puppets of Satan's system as many of these churches are allowing themselves to become. Too bad, they are shoving aside a large portion of the foundation built by the Scriptures, for what seems to be for members.

Catholic Tract, El Oh El?

Recently I was looking through the Catholic website doing some research and I came across a 'Stumpers for the JWs tract' on the Catholic website. It made me chuckle because they were supposed to be "stumpers." I read through them and it was the usual false beliefs people have about us, for example, we 'changed' the Bible and 'added' words etc. I don't really understand how all the points that were brought out in this online "tract" were stumpers at all. Who's stumped? Not us, not I...so then who?

I don't know, I'm guessing it's them, for posing questions to which we have had answers to for a 100 years! So in jealousy for Jehovah and the Truth I almost took up spiritual arms and was about to disect every so-called "stumper" apart and do what I usually do--refute. But then I gave it some quick thought, "wait a minute, how many Catholics do I ever meet in the ministry (which is plenty in my area) that actually practice their own faith or even know much about the Bible?" Well I realized, yeah, in most cases, none.

I don't understand, instead of trying to teach their people--their masses on how to supposedly "refute JW teachings," why don't they spend that much energy in teaching them their own doctrine?

In any case, I found the fact that I found a "tract" to refute us, a little humorous. And for comic relief:

Stumper.5 "Is Hell Real or Not?"

Sharing More From CO Visit

Last night we had our second meeting as the C.O. delivered his talk on Godly Devotion. The brother made very good points. For example, one of them was the way he defined and explained "contentment."

In effect he said, contentment is not dealing with what you already have and forcing yourself to be happy over what you have, and even if it is old continuing to make the best of it. Contentment is not avoiding the acquiring of new or better things than what you already have. He said, godly contentment is having Godly devotion--by not letting the acquiring of these things to distract you from your spirituality. In other words, when getting things (materially in most cases of course,) if it takes our time and energy from spiritual pursuits, then it is wrong. Then you are not showing godly contentment. However having Godly Devotion, will help you be "content" with what you have and even with things you may acquire--but it will not distract you. The pursuit for such things will not have an adverse affect on your spirituality.

Of course the brother said it much better and I simply paraphrased what he said the best I could.

Another example was regarding family life and marriage. It was a simple exercise he did with the audience. After talking briefly about marriage and our roles as husband and wife, he asked each married person to turn and look at their spouse. Everyone did. He let the audience continue that for a few seconds and said, 'now look at your wife, and now switch roles, now she is the head of the household and your are to be in subjection. How does that feel now?'

The exercise I believe created a very good effect on each person, especially the husbands, to understand how it feels to be in subjection to your spouse--and it quickly brought to realization that not only may it be difficult, but brought to light what qualities we would like from our "head" if we were in the subjective position. How we would like to be treated and so forth. I can't explain it as well as the experience was, but I do believe it was very effective--which I appreciated.

Yes, that's the end of my blurb.

"Gahh!" Even Jesus Got Frustrated - Humor

I was doing my personal Bible reading the other day and was at John 8 when I came across a scripture that made me laugh. In fact I saw it during a meeting but came across it during my Bible reading.

Here Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees and explaining to them where he was from, "the realms above" and that they were from the "realms below." He further was telling them they would not be able to go where he was going to which they said, "he will not kill himself will he?..." Here I chuckled and did a *face-palm* in the sheer hilarity of the fact that they were so blind. So the Pharisees continued to wonder what he was talking about to which again Jesus explained to him who he was and why he was telling them they would die in their sins. Then they asked him:

(John 8:25)“Who are you?”

...Jesus said to them: “Why am I even speaking to YOU at all?”

I couldn't stop laughing though because it just seemed that Jesus became frustrated and seemed to want to say, "dude are you serious?! I..., I just explained it!" :-\






Jesus says: "Oh...God..."

Seventh-Day Adventists Experience

In the area we cover, in particular southern California, we have an entire section of our territory that is "SDA." This poses to us some pros and several cons in our ministry. For example the pros are that first, you will find that most in this territory believe in God and many similar and common ground beliefs. At the same time, their families seem to really push higher education. In fact they have their own school in the area and hospital as well. So at the same time we do meet many students--and sadly many of those students are somewhat apathetic to religious beliefs, even their own. Aside from that, those that do believe in God and in the power of the Scriptures, are very much tied to one thing--The Sabbath.

For the most part, most of the SDA members we meet are very kind people. Most of the time we are respected very much for our ministry. Several times I have seen first hand a pastor from their own churches commend us and even express to us how he wished his people would do what we did in the ministry. Once even a mobile home complex manager let us into his complex--even though he and most of the residents were SDA! Says much about our ministry!

Now even though we do meet many polite SDAs, the majority of them will in effect 'judge' us on the fact that we do not "keep the ten commandments" or more specifically, "the Sabbath of the Lord." No they do not condemn us, but they do pass judgment on us for not "observing the Sabbath." This has been expressed to us in a very stern scolding to a passive and subtle "exhortation." However they all have one thing in common, very rarely, do they ever bring out their Bibles. Also, very rarely do they ever want to disagree with anything else we teach--except the Sabbath.

From what I have observed is that it doesn't matter to them that we are taking time out of our daily lives, all seven days and Jehovah's Witnesses are doing the work Jesus commanded us all to do--preach. We worship and serve God all days, not just on the Sabbath. It is a very rare case that we can come across an SDA that will reason on the matter by the Scriptures, mainly what Paul wrote regarding the Law and the Sabbath itself.

Usually I share with them, Colossians 2:16, 17, that reminds us that "no man" should judge us in regard to a sabbath or any other portion of the Law that was only given to the Israelites. Why not? Well because of what Rom. 10:4 says: "Christ is the end of the Law..."

After a few scriptures you can usually tell if the conversation is going to go anywhere or if it is just going to go in circles. At that time if I decide that it will not go anywhere else, I will go on to the next door. From what I have concluded is that this sabbath "issue" has become so out of focus that it ranks right up there with the Trinity teaching--another teaching of fruitless debate. I don't even bother with either subject anymore as I used to. Before I used to speak with the householder on either subject for sometimes even and hour or two (as long as they permitted,) and even arrange for return visits to further "discuss" any of these subjects--however not anymore. I have come to find that not once had any of these produced good fruit but rather wasted time in an unreasonable debate.

So what do I do now? Have I given up? Not at all! Instead my wife and I have changed our approach. Most often when we do encounter an SDA, we find common ground immediately and make sure we commend them for any fine qualities of their faith. Be it family values, faith, clean and neat homes, etc. That softens their heart to anything else you may present to them. It will indeed allow you to plant seeds of truth much easier than trying to debate over the Trinity or the Sabbath right off the bat. Perhaps you may see an opening to touch on those two subjects, but we don't want debates nor are we looking for such--we are ministers, let them debate among themselves instead.

If they are unable to at present understand that Christ was the end of the "law" from a clear cut scripture, then they aren't going to comprehend it with an hour's worth of scripture citation. Instead, finding common ground immediately will help you further open up discussion about other topics that may be more enjoyable and fruitful for the both of you. As this being our new approach, I believe we have been able to place much more literature with them than before. Often times we do wish we could instead do their territory on Sunday since Saturday they are observing Sabbath, for fear that they may become offended that we are out and not observing it, but I personally do not worry about that--I am doing the most important work of all, even above observing any day or sabbath, and that is declaring Jehovah God's message to all--and in fact this worshipping him on this "sabbath" day!