Dear
Rob,
Thanks for our discussions and thanks for the kindness you
showed to Mike, given the constraints that you are under.
I would like to explain where we are coming from here in a
way that does not compromise you, indeed this is why we did not volunteer that
Mike and I have been JWs in the past. Had
we done so we would have not been able to discuss the bible and the enemy of all
bible discussion and research, the one who caused Wycliffe and Tyndale to be
murdered, would have won.
From a Watchtower perspective Mike and I are both spiritually
sick and so in need of help. Please therefore view this letter as a cry for that
help, so that you can and should indeed consider it in your capacity as an elder
of the congregation whose territory we are in.
31 In reply Jesus said to them: Those who are healthy do
not need a physician, but those who are ailing do.
32 I have come to call, not righteous persons, but
sinners to repentance (Luke 5).
Here is the history of my sickness and an explanation of what
we are doing.
In 1992 I realised that the greater meaning of the phrase 7
Times in Daniel4 (2520 years) did not only apply to Daniel4 (running from
607Tishri to 1914Tishri), but also to Genesis4 and in fact to any occurrence of
the phrase anywhere in the bible, since Daniel4 had the same editor as the rest
of the book. This lead to my deducing the chronology of Adam to Armageddon
initially from two parallels to the kingship malediction of the Gentile Times,
which were the Land malediction of the Exedenic Times, from Eden until the
Promised land, 2520 years from 3993Nisan to 1473Nisan, and the priesthood
malediction of the Alienation Times, 2520 years from Noah’s warning in
2488Sivan BC to Pentecost in 33Sivan AD. This gave us the end of the world, this
system, judicially, being 2008Nisan, 6.000 years after 3993Nisan BC.
So that the Kingship malediction ended at the festival of
Booths, the Land inheritance malediction ended at the festival of Cakes and the
Priesthood malediction ended at the festival of Pentecost, the 3 big 7x
maledictions ending at the 3 big annual festivals.
This meant that Adam sinned aged 33½, the same age that
Jesus was when he paid for that sin in what Paul describes as a corresponding
ransom. It also meant that Jesus died in the dead centre of the Abrahamic
covenant which started in 1943Nisan, 1975 years before his impalement, and ended
in 2008Nisan, 1975 years after his sacrifice.
I presented all of this material in 12 books one for each of
the Governing Body members in 1992 and travelled to Brooklyn on several
occasions to talk to them about it. Dan Sydlik confirmed to me, that they were
amazed at my work and that Freddie Franz thought that mankind could know the
date of Armageddon after Jesus’ death. However in the words of Brother Sydlik,
there were powerful egos at work, and the Writing committee was not about to
take any bible lessons from me (an unbaptized publisher at the time, but a
Cambridge maths scholar who excelled in abstract symbolism).
Eventually I began to see more than dates from these greater
meanings and it became apparent that most bible accounts had a greater meaning
as Daniel 4 has. I saw the whole history of Christianity and in particular that
there were to be two true Christian churches in each of two presences, making 4
faithful and discreet slaves running 4 true churches. So that in this second
parousia, there are two witnesses, the Jehovah’s Witnesses and their
successors, The Lord’s Witnesses. Jesus said he was the chief cornerstone, but
every building has 4 cornerstones, and there are 4 true churches each of which
is a wall in the temple of all Christianity laid upon his foundation (Jesus is
both the foundation and one of the cornerstones, Russell was the third
cornerstone, I can prove from scripture that I am the 4th).
But my purpose is not to bore you with my history. It is to
explain the tragedy of our position and ask for your help in resolving it.
I should say that the GB were very slow to disfellowship me,
indeed I was baptised in July 1993, long after I sent them lots of new ideas
based on greater meanings. I even sent my local congregation elders 7 proofs
each of the date of Armageddon without sanction. I was permitted to do things
most regular JWs would have been disfellowshipped for, because the GB was at a
loss as to what to do with me, rather like Herod was with John the Baptist.
Eventually I brought matters to a head by telling them that I was the mediator
of a second new covenant for 144,000 kings not of the heavens but of the earth,
and that they had recently become the evil slave. Even that did not get me
removed! It was only when I insisted upon a judicial hearing as to whether they
have become the evil slave or not using Matthew and Luke as my witnesses, that
they disfellowshipped me rather than having that hearing.
My tragic position results from the satanic rules for the
treatment us lepers. It is not hard to prove that indefinite shunning and
refusing to eat spiritual food with Disfellowshipped people is a false doctrine.
Disfellowshipped ones should indeed be thrown out of the camp, denied attendance
at formal congregation meetings. But obviously you can go and visit them when
they are outside the camp, should you wish. In fact Jesus said of the goats in
the parable of the sheep and the goats…
I was sick and in prison and you visited me not.
So the Watchtower by banning its subjects from visiting the
disfellowshipped is forcing baptized witnesses to be goats by the definition
that Jesus gave in Matthew25. The goats actually go into indefinitely lasting
cutting off. If you shun all of your brothers who were so spiritually sick that
they got disfellowshipped, and are therefore also in a prison where they may not
even have proper communication with their own genetic relatives, then you are a
goat according to Matthew25. And this is not a trivial matter, you will have
1,000 years to weep and gnash your teeth over it, if you truly love the slave
who told you to shun more than the master who told you this parable.
Furthermore it does not belong to man who lives but a hundred
years to pass any indefinite penalty on his brothers, not under the law of
Christian love anyway. I committed mortgage fraud in 1990 (which incorrectly
delayed my baptism) and after 7 years my sentence became spent, finished, it no
longer exists. I am permitted by law to say that I have no criminal record. That
is the world following what is a Sabbath element of the law of Moses. But the
Watchtower sentences me in perpetuity? That is not from God. The Watchtower of
course have no Sabbaths, and so have amassed a huge land Sabbath error, which
they are in fact already paying.
The Sabbath was a principle not of the law, but of Genesis1,
Jesus did not die to end the Sabbath, he died to end the law and to become the
Lord of the Sabbath.
So enough doctrine and history. My disfellowshipping is when
the tragedy began not just for me but for God and his people. Because yes, I am
good at bible research, the best there has been in the Watchtower, but no I am
not a better Christian than any other JW, and make all sorts of mistakes and
need the help of my brothers as much as any other JW does. Furthermore the bible
was not written entirely for G. S Ritchie, and I have found that when 2 or 3 are
gathered together, then the holy spirit will help a lot more effectively and our
research really yields fruit. So I am always keen to have scriptural discussions
with enlightened bible students, because that is how the holy spirit gives new
understandings. Your focus as a JW is to get a larger congregation and convert
or reconvert me. My focus is not to get a larger congregation but simply to
improve the doctrine of the small church that the scriptures instructed me to
set up. I want to grow our understanding, you want to grow your congregation.
In the end the restaurant with the best food will get the
most customers. But that does not occur until the mountain is raised up.
The Watchtower represent that the bible is pretty much
understood as far as it needs to be and that they have fulfilled Matthew 24:14
and that the flock do not need to worry about getting new understanding because
only the faithful slave is the channel for all new interpretation. This is not
true. Most Watchtower doctrine originated in other churches. The Gentile Times
was first proposed by Rev John Aquila Brown in 1823, a Scottish Presbyterian for
example. And Russell described himself as more of a collator and sifter of other
people’s ideas than an originator (Kingdom Proclaimers). In fact it was his
wife that convinced him that he personally was the FDS. Although we know today
that the remnant administration of the Watchtower was that. There are perhaps 7
or more years of research work for perhaps 100 or more researchers that need to
be done on the bible to get anywhere near a thorough understanding of it. And
the very people who could do this job are forbidden from doing it by Satan
through the now corrupted evil slave. This has pretty much ruined true
Christianity over the last 13 years.
Had I spent the last 13 years (I was disfellowshipped in
1995) doing bible research with hundreds of JWs, neither of us would believe the
incredible things that we would have found, because the mind of God is not
limited to the understandings of the Watchtower. To give you some idea of what
we are talking about. You can get the resurrection timetable of the kingdom from
Genesis 11. We know the precise condition of the first dead and the second dead.
We know that 50% of mankind are saved into the kingdom, and the other 50% are
saved out of Gehenna. In fact just as God created this planet to save Adam,
which although you do not believe, must be the case because Jesus ransomed him,
soul for soul. So he also created the entire universe to save Satan who was
actually his firstborn angelic son. Michael was a 41st generation
angel. This is the greater meaning of the genealogy of Matthew1.
For love never fails and we must love our enemies and you
cannot love the non existent. Put those together and you see that it is God’s
desire that none are destroyed but all attain to repentance, and again
everything that is his delight he shall do. So will he fail with anyone? – you
tell me!
The Watchtower argues that no loving parent would hold their
son’s hand on a hotplate for a thousand years. I argue that neither would they
cause that son to disappear forever. For the former is an abuse of love, and the
latter is an absence of love. God suffers from neither.
We know all the 24 salvation covenants. We know that we go
into the ark by twos by choosing a rapture partner and lending them our angelic
body in a good antitype to the bad procreative activities of the demons choosing
good looking wives for themselves and having hybrid kids immediately prior to
the flood etc.
We presently calculate that the world has already ended
judicially, and that the greater flood of Noah is underway. This means that the
descended 1NC saints (the anointed) are already here, in the wilderness for 40
days and 40 nights, and actually they start appearing next weekend which is the
41st day of the greater flood. It all seems ludicrously close, but if
it is truly going to happen, then the day will come when it is that close. We
may be wrong chronologically – we normally are! But we certainly have masses
of advanced understandings many of which show that the Watchtower was the third
true Christian church, the first true Christian church of the second presence.
OK here is the big one. As you may know the Watchtower became
an NGO associated with the UN DPI on 1992January28. This was the transgression
causing desolation of Daniel8. It was in fact the Watchtower playing the harlot
and riding the beast. Those would be Russell’s words. But in fact nearly every
major religion is an NGO associated with the UN DPI. So that is how the harlot
of Babylon rides the beast of the UN.
But it is worse….
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All churches are subject to the law
of the land but no church should make itself subject to the rules of another
organisation. Such an agreement is a corporate joining which gives the church a
second head. It is therefore an act of harlotry to a God who requires exclusive
devotion...
16 What! Do you not know that
he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The 2, says he, will be one
flesh. (1Corinthians6).
Anyone who brings an idol into the
temple is an idolater. So if you spend the whole meeting trying to sell double
glazing to your brother you are an idolater. But if a church makes itself
subject to the rules of any other organisation by agreement, then it has become
one body with that outfit and the outfit has a permanent wing in the temple.
This is harlotry by the church.
So if for example a church joined
the tennis club as a corporate member, this would also be harlotry. Even if the
only result was that every member of the church had to mow the lawn of the
tennis club once a year, it is still harlotry, because the church is joined by
agreement to the tennis club and subject to its laws.
So the harlotry of the Watchtower
with the UN was not that the UN would one day battle with the lamb nor was it
that the UN is the throne of Satan, nor was it that they had condemned the UN in
1963 and resolved never to have anything to do with it. The harlotry was merely
that they joined the temple to a worldly outfit by agreeing to be subject to the
UN rules for NGOs associated with the DPI (Department of Public Information).
These rules involved actively promoting and supporting the ideals of the charter
of the UN!
However the bottom line is that the
Watchtower was joined to the throne of Satan. His throne was therefore placed in
the temple of the Watchtower for 10 years from January 1992 until the Watchtower
left the UN on October 9th as a result of an exposee in the UK
Guardian Newspaper on October 8th 2001. Any JW knowing this, who
thinks that he should remain in that church is a rank idolater of that church
and an unrepentant worshipper of Satan.
Any JW who remains in that temple
is condoning the biggest possible insult to God and Jesus and is a demonstrably
false worshipper. In fact since the temple is joined to God, Satan succeeded in
joining his throne to God through the UN-Watchtower association.
This of course was one of the 3 tests that Jesus passed.
However his church fails all 3 of them. In this case Satan offered all the
territories of the world to the Watchtower for evangelism for one little UN NGO
signature.
The throne of Satan being in the temple of the Watchtower was
the abomination causing desolation standing in a holy place in the church
symbolic thread of Matthew24. It is the UN on the temple mount in Jerusalem in
the literal meaning of Matthew24. The advice from Jesus is therefore to flee to
the mountains of Judea, the congregational administrations of the next true
church.
So yes we can prove from the scriptures that the Watchtower
has become a false church and that everyone with faith in God in it, everyone
who loves the master more than the slave, should join the Lord’s Witnesses.
16
Most truly I say to you, A slave is not greater than his master, nor is one that
is sent forth greater than the one that sent him.
17 If
you know these things, happy you are if you do them [The problem being that they do not. The JWs worship the slave
rather than the master. That is why they need their feet washed again]
(John 13).
But that was not the purpose of our talking with you. The
purpose was to seek new bible understandings or to correct existing
understandings through the holy spirit acting on a group of sincere bible
researchers. That remains our purpose. If the only way to achieve that is for
you to leave the JWs, then yes our purpose would be for that to occur. But we
are not primarily evangelists, we are primarily researchers, we are Mary, you
are Martha, the two women stand for two covenants as Paul said of Sarah and
Hagar.
What I have been missing these last 13 years is bible based
discussions with reasonable numbers of
sincere knowledgeable Christians. This has meant that I have been over focussed
on research and under focussed on doctrine and congregational care and
evangelism to some extent and well I have been unbalanced. Also our research is
too much the sort of thing that I am interested in! Mind you we do not stop
anyone else coming up with new ideas, and when they satisfy all the scriptures
as far as we can see, we accept them just as Russell did. I would certainly
argue that I need to be unbalanced away from evangelism and towards research to
make up for the imbalance of 6 million JWs in the other direction, but the point
is this. We are in a position to help each other and God requires churches to
love their neighbours just as he requires people so to do. For to God a church
is one person just as the entire nation of Israel was Israel, the person.
So we wish to keep communication with you (sorry to burden you with this, but it is God’s will as we can prove if given the chance). We are both too experienced to play conversion games with each other and I really have no desire to do that. I have an enormous desire to combine our research power with your bible experience, and indeed the Watchtower’s bible experience and to finish the job of fully understanding the book that God wrote for this system. It is our experience that the holy spirit often gives great new understandings to newcomers. For example it was a 15 year old girl who got the understanding that the name above every other name named given to Jesus was ‘Jehovah’ as his surname. This meant that Jesus became what his father is, namely a God to be worshipped. That is our destiny, and Jesus is the first begotten God as John says. He is a God like Jehovah, as true son. He is the first creation to be elevated to a God. He exists now not in an angelic body, which he gave as a ransom for Adam himself, and which resulted in Adam being resurrected back in his original angelic body which he gained aged 30 and lost aged 33½. But in a divine body, the same type of body that Jehovah has. For if we are truly sons of God, then one day we run the family business, which is being a God, a God to be worshipped.
Now we can provide you with people from the Lord’s
Witnesses who were never JWs, who could speak to you from a personal standpoint
should you wish it. And that is no problem. We have both Arsenal supporters and
Tottenham in the church (since they shun each other too – probably with more
justification! – sorry just kidding!)
But also I would like you to try and persuade the Watchtower
at some level to obey the second commandment to love their neighbour and to obey
the first, which is to love God and love the power of his book more than to love
exercising power over the flock. It is not scriptural to refuse to study the
bible with anyone. Jesus had a bible study with Satan himself in the wilderness
as he was being tested.
I once wrote to all the Governing body and said: I have
searched the scriptures and found no case where Jesus refused to see anybody. He
met with lepers, demonised men, prostitutes, tax collectors, Pharisees, traitors
and with Satan himself. There is no account wherein he said I am a bit busy,
come back next Tuesday. Therefore since we are following Jesus’ example, I
will now say the same thing to you that I said to them. Either show me the
scripture I have missed wherein Jesus refused to see someone, or since we are
supposed to be imitators of the Christ, agree to continue seeking the truth with
us, with the help of the holy spirit. Dan Sydlik, incidentally rang me having
received that letter and said that was a great letter.
So my proposal is that you obey the commandment of the Christ
and love Mike and I and visit us in our sickness, and try and heal us by
researching with us. I doubt that you will persuade us that all our new ideas
are incorrect and that we should return to the Watchtower, but you are welcome
to try and you may well persuade us on some of them. We are interested in
serious bible debate, since that is sacrificial smoke to Jehovah. We will just
be trying out our new ideas on you and seeing if you can add to them or indeed
knock them down and more importantly if the holy spirit will give us all a few
more. It is just bible research, it is what we do and what we promote and what
Satan detests – hence 6 million JWs do not do it other than to confirm
Watchtower doctrine which is not true research.
So just as Tyndale finished his translation of the bible into
English in prison, so we are finishing our decoding of its greater meanings
(which is a translation of the bible within the bible) in the prison of being
disfellowshipped. The M.O. is all too familiar. So please do come and visit us
in this sad state!
Or if not, then like Mike says: Try shunning your tax
collector or someone from another race and see how long you remain solvent and
not indicted for race hate! As you know we should be treated just as they are.
There is no prohibition in scripture on discussing the bible with tax
collectors!
As Russell said: Only when we have harmonized all scriptures
relating to a subject, do we have the truth. And the harmonized truth, the
completed scriptural jigsaw on disfellowshipping, is that the sinner needs to be
removed from the congregation, not from the love of the congregation. So he
needs to be visited by elders and spiritually strong people and helped, but
denied attendance at formal meetings, until he is repentant and therefore no
longer a threat (or can prove that the Watchtower has become a false church in
which case no one should any longer be under its law!!) We can prove the latter
for anyone who is interested.
Here is the key question. Does the chain of command for the
faithful go:
God, Church, Conscience or does it go:
God, Conscience, Church?
If the former then you are an idolater of a church, no matter
whether it be true or false. If the latter then you are a son of Abraham by
covenant so long as you sincerely try and keep to your conscience. The job of
the true church is to strengthen the bond between God and your conscience, not
to interpose itself between the two and thereby play God to your conscience.
Finally I had better defuse this one in advance…
23 Then [tote]
[i.e. during the Great Tribulation] if anyone says to
you, 'Look! Here is the Christ,' or, 'There!' do not believe it [anyone
from any false Christian church].
24 For false/pseudo Christs and
false/pseudo prophets [opportunist
false Christs and false prophets arising after the Great Tribulation taking
advantage of the panic. Before the first birth pang, which starts the GT,
potential Christs are ridiculed, after it they will be on to a good thing from a
worldly perspective. True Christs arise and are ridiculed before the GT]
will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible,
even the chosen ones [no false
signs until after the first true sign, the sign of Jonah].
25 Look! I have forewarned you (Matthew
24).
May the Lord open the king of Brooklyn’s eyes!
Regards
Gordon and Mike.