The Secrets Of The Jehovah Witness

Charles Taze Russell and the Jehovah Witness

Typically, members of the Jehovah Witness would knock on your door to try to preach to you. They did this to me at my home and other locations. Some Jehovah Witnesses talked to me while I was walking in the sidewalk in Virginia. So, they are everywhere. For those of us who disagree with the Jehovah Witnesses, we should be meek in expressing our dissent. We should humbly preach the Gospel to them, because being an agitator and utilizing abusive language is a wicked approach in any endeavor in attempting to get your point across. Typically, among false religions, they promote little association with non-followers of their religion and other extreme views. JW founder Charles Taze Russell believed that the Bible could be understood by his sole interpretation. Russell followed the Second Day Adventists a lot. He adopted the Adventist terminology and applied that to his own theological views. Charles Taze Russell founded this religion in about 1872. Russell even in his youth denied eternal hell fire, the Trinity, the Deity of Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit (Jehovah Witnesses deny that the Holy Spirit is a real Person). In 1879, he popularized his views. He co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with its founder, N. H. Barbour. By 1884, Russell controlled the publication and renamed it “The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom.” He founded Zion’s Watchtower Tract Society. Today, it’s called the Watchtower 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. Charles Taze Russell died in October 31, 1916. The President of the Watchtower Society later became Joseph Franklin Rutherford in 1916. This religious organization claims to be anointed witnesses in the following words: “... God has on earth today a prophet like organization, ... Jehovah's anointed

witnesses on earth.” (Watchtower 1964 October 1 p.601 Pay Attention to Prophecy). This is a common occurrence too many times among false religions in the USA. Their doctrines are not related to orthodox Christianity for many reasons. The Jehovah Witness have their own New World Translation when the Scriptures are preserved in the Massoretic Text for the Old Testament and the Textus Receptus line for the New Testament. The Jehovah Witness view God’s primary name as Jehovah. Although, the name of Yahveh is a more ancient name for God than Jehovah. According to the following link, the name Jehovah is a more recent creation: “Some Christian

scholars render the four-letter Name as "Jehovah," but this pronunciation is particularly unlikely. The word "Jehovah" comes from the fact that ancient Jewish texts used to put the vowels of the Name "Adonai" (the usual substitute for YHVH) under the consonants of YHVH to remind people not to pronounce YHVH as written. A sixteenth century German Christian scribe, while transliterating the Bible into Latin for the Pope, wrote the Name out as it appeared in his texts, with the consonants of YHVH and the vowels of Adonai, and came up with the word JeHoVaH, and the name stuck."(website on Judaism Jewfaq/name.htm). The Jewish Encyclopedia including other sources don’t view Jehovah as the original name for God at all:

“JEHOVAH is an erroneous pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, a four lettered name of God made up of the Hebrew letters Yod He Vav He. The word ‘JEHOVAH’ therefore is a misreading for which there is no warrant and which makes no sense in Hebrew.” (The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia) “JEHOVAH is a mispronunciation of the Hebrew YHWH the name of God. This pronunciation is grammatically impossible. The form ‘Jehovah’ is a philological impossibility.” (The Jewish Encyclopedia) “It is clear that the word Jehovah is an artificial composite.” (The New Jewish Encyclopedia, 1962 ed., “Jehovah”) “..the true pronunciation of the tetragrammaton YHWH was never lost. The name was pronounced Yahweh. It was regularly pronounced this way at least until 586 B.C., as is clear from the Lachish Letters written shortly before this date.” (Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 7, p. 680) “JEHOVAH is an erroneous form of the name of the God of Israel.” (Encyclopedia Americana) “The Masoretes who from the 6th to the 10th century worked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with the vowel signs of Adonai or Elohim. Thus the artificial name Jehovah came into being.” (“Yahweh,” The New Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 12, 1993 ed.)

“The pronunciation ‘Jehovah’ is an error resulting among Christians from combining the consonants YHWH with the vowels of ADHONAY.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) “‘Jehovah’ is a modern mispronunciation of the Hebrew name, resulting from combining the consonants of that name, Jhvh, with the vowels of the word Adonay, Lord,’ which the Jews substituted for the proper name in reading the scriptures. In such cases of substitution the vowels of the word which is to be read are written in the Hebrew text with the consonants of the word which is not to be read. The consonants of the word to be substituted are ordinarily written in the margin; but inasmuch as Adonay was regularly read instead of the ineffable name Jhvh, it was deemed unnecessary to note the fact at every occurrence. When Christian scholars began to study the Old Testament in Hebrew, if they were ignorant of this rule or regarded the substitution as a piece of Jewish superstition, reading what actually stood in the text, they would inevitably pronounce the name Jehovah.’” (1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 15, p. 314)

Therefore, Yahveh is a more ancient name for God than Jehovah. The evidence is there for it. The Encyclopedia Britannica confirms that the English letter “J” was borrowed from the French through the agency of Petrus Ramus. Who was Petrus Ramus? He as a humanist scholar, a Kabbalist, and a close friend of John Dee. Dee was of course was an occultist who influenced the Rosicrucian Movement in England. Dee was a neo-Plationist. Ramus influenced the thinking of Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, etc. Obviously , King James opposed Sir Francis Bacon. King James prosecuted and executed occultists as criminals, wrote a treatise exposing the evils of witchcraft and single handedly pulled the rug out from under the Rosicrucian plot to take over the Continent. C.T. Russell disliked Christ's name so much he wrote the word Christmas as X-mas in his personal letter. Jesus Christ is Yahveh. In the JW‘s NWT Bible, they've eliminated words that show Jesus Christ being classified as being God in the flesh. They distort John 1:1 because the John 1:1 is clear that the Word (or Jesus Christ) was with God and was God. John 1:1 says “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was

with God and the World was God…” The Greek translation of the verse is: “En

arche en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, kai theos en ho logos.” Jesus is classified in the New Testament as in these words: “..they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US." (MATTHEW 1:23). Dr. Julius R. Mantey was recognized by the Watchtower as a Greek scholar since they quote his book on page 1158 of their Kingdom Interlinear Translation. Ironically, even Dr. Mantey

disagrees with the NWT’s mistranslation of John 1:1. Dr. Mentey calls the Watchtower translation of John 1:1 as: "A grossly misleading translation. It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John l:1 'the Word was a god. 'But of all the scholars in the world, so far as we know, none have translated this verse as Jehovah's Witnesses have done." "I was disturbed because they (the Watchtower) had misquoted me in support of their translation. I called their attention to the fact that the whole body of the New Testament was against their view. Throughout the New Testament, Jesus is glorified and magnified--yet here they were denigrating Him and making Him into a little god of pagan concept . . .I believe it's a terrible thing for a person to be deceived and go into eternity lost, forever lost because somebody deliberately misled him by distorting the Scripture!. . . Ninety-nine percent of the scholars of the world who know Greek and who have helped translate the Bible are in disagreement with the Jehovah's Witnesses. People who are looking for the truth ought to know what the majority of the scholars really believe. They should not allow themselves to be misled by the Jehovah's Witnesses and end up in hell." (Ron Rhodes "Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses" p.103-105) The Jehovah Witness view Jesus as a lesser being than God Almighty (which is similar to the Arian theology) and they view Jesus as the archangel Michael. That's false since the archangel Michael was never human, never was crucified plus rose from the dead, and he was never called Immanuel or God with us in the Hebrew language. The Jehovah Witness like all false religions view salvation as accomplished by works (not by God's grace alone through faith). Being similar to Mormonism, Jehovah Witnesses believes that God's first creations were the angels Michael (he becomes Jesus according to them) and Lucifer. Later, Lucifer rebels, deceives Adam plus Eve to become Satan. They view Jesus as having no bodily resurrection but Jesus lives in heaven. They view Jesus returning to the Earth invisibly in 1914, which is a blatantly false prediction. Charles Taze Russell made that false prediction (about 1914 as being the time when the Kingdom of God comes into Earth) in his words that: "the Kingdom of God" will have obtained full

control in heaven and on earth, that Christ would be reigning visibly, that "the saints" would all be resurrected, and that the city of Jerusalem would be highly honored again. Russell made this false prediction in 1889 (and it‘s found in volume 2 of his book “The Millennial Dawn, The Time Is At Hand”). Russell even declared that the Millennium would take place in 1872. That of course didn‘t occur at all. Charles Taze Russell wrote that: “... that in the spring of 1878 all the holy apostles and other 'overcomers' of the Gospel age who slept in Jesus were raised spirit beings.” (C.T.Russell: Studies in the Scriptures Vol. 3, p. 234). Of course, the apostles aren’t raised spirit beings presently. This and other false prophecies from the Watchtower group would make Russell as a false prophet. Other Watchtower members were other false prophets as well. The Jehovah Witness seek an agenda about wanting to reestablish Jehovah's kingdom over the Earth. They view 144,000 Witnesses to be born again to help establish this new kingdom. They take the book of Revelations out of context, because the Bible says that tons of people would exist in the new Kingdom of Jesus Christ. They deny an eternal soul even of believers and they deny a literal Hell (A literal Hell was said by Jesus Christ on plenty of occasions, especially in the book of Matthew). The Jehovah Witness forbid blood

transfusion, military service, no salute of a flag, and refuse to hold public office. The Jehovah Witness is more strict than even conservative Christians on some things. Thomas Heinze, in his new book, “Answers to My Jehovah's Witness Friends,” offer guidance to

those who want to leave the Jehovah Witness in a peaceful, graceful way. David Stewart (although I don't agree with him on every issue like David Stewart saying

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all people who claim to be a Zionist want Arabic people to die or be oppressed. David made the false statement that Judaism is Satanic when Judaism may be obsolete, but Judaism still worships Yahweh as God. The words in black are Stewart's words and the words in green are the sources he uses) has found other people documenting even a Jesuit connection to the Jehovah Witness religion. Here it is: "...Dr. Bill Grady said it best in his excellent book, Final Authority..."Wescott and Hort, were a pair of unsaved liberals whose open Vatican sympathies cast them as the consummate Jesuit plants." "To regain her corner on the market, Rome created an elite paramilitary Gestapo unit that would make Himmler's SS appear like a Sunday school….sparking what historians call, the counterReformation. The infamous Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius De Loyola in 1534, more commonly known as the Jesuits…." They are the most militant arm of papal power to this day. Their goals were to reclaim those that had left Catholicism and to attack the reliability of the Textus Receptus. They would use ANY METHOD to regain control including confiscation, treachery, torture and assassination. Jesuits will stop at nothing to bring the whole world under subjection to the Vatican. The Jesuits ploy was to entice Protestants back to Rome. They knew they could not bring anyone back into the bondage of Catholicism as long as true believers clung to the pure text. So the Jesuits plotted to replace our Bible with pro-Catholic readings of Jerome's Vulgate. This would cause the Protestant scholars to believe our text was unreliable, unreadable and not scholarly. Once programmed, the scholars would attack the pure text, all the while, believing they were doing God's service." Westcott and Hort took two waste Catholic Sources (the Sinaiticus and the Vaticanus) to produce their waste version of the Bible, Nestle and the New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses, written by Senior Jesuits Jose Maria Bover and A. Merkz, followed Westcott and Hort. From the Forward of the 1950 version NWT: "The original writings of the Christian Greek Scriptures, commonly called the New Testament, were inspired. No translation of these Sacred writings into another language, is inspired... The Greek text that we have used as a basis of our NW translation is the widely accepted Westcott and Hort text (1881) by reason of its admitted excellence. But we have also taken in to consideration other texts including that prepared by D. Eberhard Nestle and that compiled by the Spanish Jesuit scholar Jose Maria Bover and that by the other Jesuit scholar A. Merk..." 9. *The Jehovah's Witnesses used Jesuits and Roman Catholic manuscripts to aid in the translation of the New World Translation. 'GREEK TEXT: The Greek Text that we have used as the basis for the New World Translation is the widely accepted Westcott & Hort text (1881), by reason of its acknowledged excellence. But we have also taken into consideration other texts, including those prepared by D. Eberhard Nestle, the Spanish Jesuit scholar Jose Maria Bover, and another Jesuit scholar, A Merck. The UBS text of 1875 and the Nestle-Aland text of 1979 were cinsukted to update the critical apparatus of this edition." The Forward, The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1985, page 8. "In the broad left-hand column of the pages will be found the Greek text edited by B F Westcott and F J a Hort, and published in 1881." By Way of Explanation, The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures - 1985, page 5." (From http://www.jesusissavior.com/False%20Religions/Jehovah%20Witnesses/jw.htm) Now, we know there is more to the Jehovah Witness than meets the eye. I first found the following out by the research of Robert Howard (from Hardtruth). To expose the Watchtower or the Jehovah Witness, here's Charles Taze Russel's own words about exposure of false religions: "...It is not a form of religious persecution to say and to show that another religion is false. for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion on being false, thus allowing persons to

see the difference between false religion and true religion." (Watchtower 11/15/63, p. 688). Charles Taze Russell invented the Jehovah Witness. Russell is a family bloodline with ties with the invention of the Skulls and Bones, the Opium Trade, and other interests dedicated to the manufacture of the new world order. Charles Taze Russell was accused of being a Freemason. Freemasons deny this to this day. Regardless, Russell approved Freemasonry and advanced Masonic beliefs plus symbolism in his religion. There is a source called the Special 1913

Convention Report of the International Bible Students. Under the subject of "The Temple of God" is a discourse by Pastor Russell reported verbatim on pages 120-127. In that source, Charles Taze Russell says that he is a Free and Accepted Freemason (not as a member of Freemasonry), but as an ally of Masons. He admits that he had friends who were Freemasons. On page 120, Russell admits that: “..Do our Masonic friends understand something about the Temple, and being Knights Templars and so on? We more…” Russell admits that he approves of some of the doctrines of Freemasonry in the same source: “…I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry and we also are Masons. I am a Free Mason. I am a free and accepted Mason, if I may carry the matter to its full length, because that is what our Masonic brethren like to tell us, that they are free and accepted Masons. That is their style of putting it. Now I am a free and accepted Mason. I trust we all are. But not after the style of our Masonic brethren. We have no quarrel with them. I am not

going to say a word against Masons, and I can appreciate that there are certain very precious truths that are held in part by our Masonic friends. I have talked to them at times, and they have said, How do you know about all these things? We thought nobody knew anything about these things except those who had access to our very highest logic…” "...If you feel that you want to become a member of the Free and Accepted Order of Masonry, and do not feel free and masonic enough as a follower of Christ, God bless you, use your own judgement; that is yours to decide not mine. But now I am talking about this great order of masonry of which Jesus is the Grand Master. This Order is to be entered in a peculiar way. There are certain conditions--the low gate, the narrow way, the difficult path…” "Although I have never been a Mason, I have heard that in Masonry they have something which very closely illustrates all of this…” As showing another view, Fritz Springmeier (who said that Charles Taze Russell embraced concepts from Enochian magic. This magic is claimed to have come from the research of Kabbalist and Queen Elizabeth‘s agent Dr. John Dee. Dee popularized the concept of the British Empire and the heresy of British Israelism) believes that Charles Taze Russell is a Mason from his “Be Wise As Serpents” book in the following: “…Each of these explanations put forth, has some merit. But there is another

explanation. One that seems bizarre, so bizarre that this author dismissed it until such time as he was able to confirm C.T. Russell's Masonic membership. C.T. Russell's membership records in the Masonic Knights Templar are kept in Ireland. The Blue Lodge records belong to the Grand Lodge of PA. Lady Queenborough in her book Occult Theocracy published in 1933 notes on page 737 C.T.Russell's Masonic membership. His Masonic membership must have also been common knowledge to those associated with him, and those acquainted with the prominence Russell gave to the Knights Templar logo…Evidence shows C.T. Russell was not only a high Freemason, but prominent in their schemes, in other words he was a key player. Watchtowers are very important to the very highest Freemasons. The highest secret knowledge of many Masonic rites including such rites as the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Memphis, the Rite of Mizraim, etc. is concentrated in a high level group of llluminati. The basic group of the llluminati is the O.T.O. The initials O.T.O. can stand for a several names for this group one being Ordo Templi Orientis (The Order of Oriental Templars). Its esoteric name is Order of To Ov. Its members also have been referred to as the Great White Brotherhood or Atlantean Adepts, and have worked with the B'nai B'rith. The O.T.O. llluminati teach their select group of initiates Hermetic Science (occult knowledge), magick (called Holy Magick of Light), Mysticism, and Yoga of all forms. The O.T.O. during C.T. Russell's lifetime established in every important metropolitan area, including New York, a secret hidden center (Collegium ad Spiritum Santum) where members could carry out their "great work" concealed without interference. However, each llluminati is nothing if he is not able to practice the Magick that gives him a knowledge of the Watchtowers and the ability to enter the four Watchtowers. Is this bizarre? Why doesn't C.T. Russell mention any of this in his writings?…” What more evidence do you need to prove the unscriptural, Masonic nature of the Jehovah Witness. Fritz Springmeier (who wrote the "Bloodlines of the Illuminati" book) wrote that the Rothschilds worked with Charles Taze Russell in sending Jewish people into Israel. That isn't surprising since the Rothschilds would infiltrate the Aliyahs into Israel. There is nothing wrong with Jewish people sincerely going into Israel, but the Elite controlled the Jewish people's movement into the Holy Land. It's also ironic that Russell was buried in Masonic logo. The following images are his headstone to the top and the Masonic image to the bottom in a bigger image.

The crown and the cross symbol is embraced by JWs. Masonic author Ray Denslow reveals the meaning for the cross and crown image: "The Cross and Crown may be said to be confined almost exclusively to the historical degrees in Masonry as exemplified in the various orders of knighthood of York and Scottish rites. In Gaul we find the cross to have been a solar symbol when it had equal arms and angles; to the Phoenicians it was an instrument of sacrifice to their God, Baal; and to the Egyptians, the crux ansata was his symbol of eternal life." (Ray V. Denslow, Masonic Portraits, Transactions of this Missouri Lodge of Research, vol. 29, p.7---emphasis in the original). The People's Pulpit was one of many literatures published by Russell with the Knights Templar (or the cross in the crown logo) symbol. Theosophist writer N. Sri. Ram wrote the Theosophist, which was a 19th century periodical. It had the same Knights Templar logo in that occultic book. The Knights Templar degree is readily found in the York Rite of Freemasonry as the source outlines. The Masonic crown and cross symbol is found in Mary Baker Eddy’s old literature (like the “Unity of Good”) and in Mormonism. The plaque on the gravestone reads "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society." That was an early name for the Jehovah Witness. Russell talked a lot about "Millennial Dawn," "The Golden Age," and the Watchtower which are Masonic and Enochian Magic terminology. Russell wanted to establish the Golden Age, which is very similar to the concepts of the new world order. In 1872, Charles Taze Russel started the International Bible Students Association. According to Robert Howard, Russell had a secret Rosicrucian membership with the Quakertown, PA group of Rosicrucians (as revealed by the pyramid he ordered erected over his grave site). Russell enjoyed the use of the Winged-Sun-Disk. Charles believed that it was Biblical. The winged sun disk is from the ancient Egyptian false sun god of Ra. This winged disk with serpents on it still exists on the New York Assembly Hall in Queens, New York. What does the winged sun disk mean for the occult? There are many meanings to symbols as we know. The winged disk isn't just utilized by the Jehovah Witness. The ancient Egyptians, the ancient Assyrians, Spiritists, and Freemasons encouraged this symbol's usage. Here's some meanings to it:

"Emblematic of the element of air, this consists of a circle or solar-type disk enclosed by a pair of wings. In ritual magic it is suspended over the alter in an easterly direction and used when invoking the protection and co-operation of the sylphs." (Hope, Murry, Practical Egyptian Magic (New York: St. Martin's Press), 1984 p. 107. Quoted by Fritz Springmeier, The Watchtower & the Masons, 1990, 1992 pp. 113, 114) "... the Winged-Disk, with the Uraei of Egypt, the original of which we find in the text summarized by Naville in the "Myths of Horus," pII. xii. ff.:&endash; "horus commanded Thoth that the Winged-Sun-Disk, with Uraei, should be brought into every sanctuary wherein he dwelt, and into every sanctuary of all the gods of the lands of the South and the North, and in Amentet, in order that they might drive away evil from therein...." This is what is meant by the Winged-Disks, with the Uraei, which are seen over the entrances of the courts of the

temples of all the gods and goddesses of Egypt." (Churchwald, Albert, The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man... “(London: George Allen & Co., Ltd.) 1913 p. 344. From a photo copy in Springmeier, p. 114) "The Winged Globe is pre-eminently a Rosicrucian symbol, although the Illuminati may lay claim to it, and it may be admitted that it is of Egyptian origin. The Winged Globe is the symbol of the perfected soul making its flight back to the source of its creation in the Elysian fields beyond." (Swinburne, Clymer, The Rosicrucians Their Teachings (Quakertown, PA.: The Philosophical Pub. Co.), 1923 p. 112. Quoted by Springmeier, p. 115) Russell wanted these images to represent the new Golden Age, but the Scriptures are clear that false god symbols aren’t just (or holy) emblems to outline the new Kingdom of Jesus Christ at all.

Also, the Bible is clear that there is no such thing as a Golden Age. Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" book have a picture of a winged sun disk on page XLIX. Even Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (once the leader of the Theosophical Society) used the Winged Sun disk. Blavatsky traveled all throughout the world to promote her occult doctrines (She even sent a 1891 New Years Card to the Dublin Lodge with that winged sun disk logo indeed. Theosophical Magazines even in March 1989 has the same emblem). Fritz Springmeier have written excellent research on the Jehovah Witnesses. According to Fritz, the winged sun disk was accepted by Kabbalists as falsely portraying Jehovah as a sun god. Kabbalists view Jehovah as the Deimurge or the Creator. Fritz shows ancient Egyptian images of the winged sun disk relating to a text about the Pharoah Userten II. It's basically related to sun worship. Sun worship is one of the components that occultists and other Illuminists believe in. Why would Russell do this unless if he accepted a sun deity or approved of occultic imagery. Russell viewed Jesus to be the center of the Sun according to Fritz. Springmeier outlines conclusive evidence of the ties between the Jehovah Witness, the Freemasons, the Rothschilds, and the new world order (Hall called the Winged Globe as a solar trinity and it represented the various false sun gods of the ages). JP Morgan funded Russell's Watchtower Society. CT Russell claimed to be a Zionist but refused to preach the Gospel upon Jewish people. Russell's form of Zionism was more political than spiritual. Even the B'nai B'rith financed Russell (Freemason and B'nai B'rith member Frank Goldman escorted Russell to the Hippodrome where he spoke for 2 hours). Russell predicting that Jews would return to Palestine was one of his few predictions he got right. Why did Russell align with Zionists and Jewish people like this? The reason was that he wanted to see his utopian dream of a man-made Jerusalem capital to be a reality. Also, much of CT Russell's beliefs of Jewish people like Jewish people not having to accept Jesus Christ as the Savior, Jewish people being morally plus intellectually superior to Christians, the bashing Orthodox Christianity, the nations of the world being headed by Jewish people during the Millennium (although even Jesus is Jewish), etc. was strange. All of these views (as proven by Russell's own words and Fritz Springmeier's research) might appeal to many nonbelieving Jewish people. This doesn't mean Jewish people have no right to live in Israel though. Jewish people and all people have a right to live in Israel if they want to. The World Headquarters of the Jehovah Witness is located in the Crown Heights Section of Brooklyn, New York. It's easy to prove the agenda of the one world religion and one world government since personages spanning centuries have called for these aims from Walter Cronkite to Nehru. Joseph F. Rutherford was the new leader of the JWs in the early 20th century. According to Fritz, Charles Taze Russell had a connection to Masonic Hall. It's interesting to note that on Presbyterian minister's Andrew Masonic Constitution from 1722- 1723, there is a Phoenix image. This image influenced the original design of the U.S. Great Seal according to Manly P. Hall. Russell's theology is just a rehash of Arianism (or the view that Jesus was only a good man and not Almighty God). It's a known fact that Russell in his June 15, 1895 article praised Freemasonry and Secret Societies.

That is why the Jehovah Witness is Masonic in some of its doctrines. For example, Masons and Charles Taze Russell (plus the Jehovah Witnesses) use the Masonic term the Great Architect, both believe that Jesus wasn't necessary God but a good man, and each claim not to be a religion. Both Freemasons and Charles Taze Russell each require they don't need to renounce their religious affiliation to join theirs groups. Also, both the Masons and the JWs outline a works-based salvation, each group have meetings in a Masonic Hall, and each use Masonic buzz words and symbols. Russell praises Hiram Abiff when he's not mentioned in the Bible. Hiram Abiff is mythical figure used in Masonic ritual especially of the Blue Lodges. According to Claude McClung (an ex-high level Mason) in his book "Why I left Masonry," Hiram Abiff is the sun god Baal. In some sources, Hiram Abiff does have influences from the sun god myths and Osiris. Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry on pg. 195 said that the Legend of Hiram was Egyptian and related to the Isianic Mysteries (of the religion of Isis and Osiris). Russell teaches that the Bible was written in a code as found in WT December 1879 on pgs. 57. The Bible, on the other hand, is clear that God doesn't outline secrets in His Word. The Bible is clear cut with its doctrines. Both the Charles Taze Russell (He called the Great Pyramid of Egypt as of God) and Freemasonry are interested in Egyptology. According to Fritz Springmeier, Piazzi Smyth (CT Russell's mentor) was the source for Manly P. Hall's esoteric Great Pyramid information. Also, he was a source for CT Russell and the Edgar Brothers' knowledge (They were lecturers of the Great Pyramid). For 62 years, 1891 to 1953, the Watchtower taught that God resided on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades constellation and that from this star he governed the universe! This belief was taught in 1891 in Volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures and was based on distortions of passages in the Bible. Joseph Franklin Rutherford assumes control of the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society in 1916. After founder Charles Taze

Russell died, the majority of the WatchTower Bible and Tract Society's board members (who were personally appointed by Russell) strongly opposed Rutherford's leadership. Rutherford disagreed with Russell on numerous doctrinal issues. Joseph went into jail for allegedly opposing the Selective Service Act of1917 and the Espionage Act of 1917. Rutherford made the false prediction that the World would be a paradise by 1925. This false prophecy rightfully led a huge exodus of human beings to leave out of the Jehovah Witness religion. Joseph was accused of utilizing vulgar language and being an alcoholic. He died in January 4, 1942. The Nazi government collaborated with the some of the JWs and the Erklarung stated that the Jehovah Witnesses supported the aims of the Third Reich. The Watchtower in Germany had a swastika (according to the testimony of Konrad Franke going into the Watchtower’s Magdeburg Headquarters in Germany) with notes from the melody of ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles.’ Now, William Schnell wrote a book entitled, “Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave.” In it, William details his experience as suffering in a Nazi concentration camp. He found that many of the Jehovah Witness leaders were traitors (many German JWs were apart of the Nazis) working with the Nazis. He protested to the world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, but he was kicked out of the religion afterwards. Although, numerous Jehovah Witness were rounded up into concentration camps by the Nazis, so that was wrong. Typically, Russell and the JWs promote false Bibles. The Jehovah Witnesses‘ official Bible is again the New World Translation (which was helped to be invented by Nathan Knorr). Nathan Hower Knorr

headed the Watchtower by 1942. The NWT distorted the Scriptures in Ex. 3:14 changing “I am” to “I have prove to be.” They revise John 8:58 to reject the Diety of Jesus Christ plus John 1:1. The New World Translation was released in 1950 and

even those who accept tons of Bible versions rejected it. Fred Franz takes over the JWs in 1977 and perjured himself under oath in Scotland when he claimed to read Hebrew, but he failed a simple Hebrew test.

*What conclusion can you figure about except that the Jehovah Witness (especially its founder Charles Taze Russell) has ties to occult doctrines (like the fact that Russell believed that the

Great Pyramid of Giza is a time clock of Biblical prophecy when there is no conclusive evidence to prove this), the Jehovah Witnesses’ tenets including its symbolism originated from Secret Societies like Freemasonry, and the Jehovah Witness’ leaders have worked with others in the goal of creating a new world order. Again, the Jehovah Witness refuse to have blood transfusions, they refuse to celebrate any holiday (not even Thanksgiving or your birthday), members aren’t even allowed to wear a beard (I wear a goatee), and you can’t served in the armed forces. There is a dispute whether Charles Taze Russell is a Freemason or not, but he certainly did embrace Masonic-like teachings. There have been a connection between the Jehovah Witness and the Mormons. Both are works based salvation and represent unorthodox views on Christian doctrine. Mormonism was created by Freemason Joseph Smith along with Hiram Smith plus Brigham Young. Smith according to Fritz Springmeier was related to the Merovingian bloodline (The Bush family and European Royalty are in this family tree). William J. Schnoebelen’s and James R. Spencer’s book called "Mormonism's Temple of Doom" is a book outlining occult links to the religion of Mormonism.The Salt Lake temple is covered with Illuminati/Masonic symbols, like the All Seeing Eye. That huge Temple is built with granite, which is a rock which has been used throughout the ages for temples on earth power centers and for esoteric initiation. The Mormons love the bee symbolism which is apart of the state logo of Utah. According to Dr. Cathy Burns' "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated" book (along with Texe Marrs'

Mysterious Monument book from pgs. 145- 146), the bee is found in the Goddess Venus. Later, the bee is related to the priestesses of Elusis and Ephesus along with relating to generative power. The bees to many occultists means the Goddess and to work toward a manmade Paradise on Earth. Freemasonry hold on to the bee as representing the role of human industry. Bee occult imagery was embraced by Mystery Religions for thousands of years. Even Dwight D. Eisenhower’s parents were Jehovah Witnesses. Eisenhower was a General during WWII (Freemasons were all over the Allied side during that war. These Freemasons include King George VI, Winston Churchill, General George C. Marshall, General Joseph W. Stillwell of Burma, Colonel James Doolittle, General Mark Wayne Clark, and others. Freemasonry teaches the unbiblical view that all Religions are equal if they profess the belief in one God). The most famous ex-Jehovah Witness member is Michael Jackson, who blatantly hates his own heritage by intentionally disfiguring his face and skin pigmentation. His facial features is what God gave him, yet he hated it, which is a disgrace. He was accused of pedophilia and escaped jail time. I feel that he’s guilty, but a man is innocent before proven guilty under the court of the law. Unfortunately, Michael Jackson passed away in the summer of June 25, 2009. He was only 50 years old. It was a tragic time and he‘s life is a representation of a lesson that we should get right with our lives and God before we die. JWs have promoted a blatantly false Bible version and have connections with false prophecies. The once leader of the Watchtower Society was led by Mr. Henschel who unfortunately died in 2003. Their false doctrines are obviously apparent.

By Timothy