The Jehovah's Witnesses "Faithful and Discreet Slave" Is A Lie.

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>> The faithful and discreet slave, the

only people on this planet that can

interpret scripture. From their

direction comes life-saving accurate

knowledge. The Watch Tower says, "Unless

one is in connection with the faithful

slave, they will not progress along the

road to life, no matter how much Bible

reading they do." It is apostasy for the

Jehovah's Witness not to submit

themselves to the direction of the

faithful slave, the Governing Body. So,

what is the faithful and discreet slave?

Well, they're going to take this from

Matthew 24:45 and from Luke 12, and

we'll cover those verses.

Now, if this is actually said by Jesus

that there would be this group that

would issue out accurate knowledge and

life-saving direction, and they would

need your obedience and submission if

you're going to survive Armageddon,

well, it should be pretty explicit in

scripture. If that's so important, and

if apostasy does rest on you needing to

to follow them, well, it should be

pretty explicit, right? Shouldn't just

be up to wild interpretation. There

shouldn't be multiple ways to take a

passage because then one potentially is

wrong. And if you're basing anything

just on opinion and not fact, well, then

it's just not true. It's subjective.

It's relative. We need to get to the

objective truth of scripture, and you

can do that by practicing hermeneutics,

the context, eisegesis, history, the

literary tone of what's being told via

the text. So, that's what we're going to

get into, and we're going to debunk this

whole faithful slave once and for all.

So, first we're going to start with who

is the faithful slave? This is from who

are doing Jehovah's will today? Who is

the faithful and discreet slave? And

they ask say here in lesson 19, who is

the faithful and discreet slave?

They say shortly before his death, Jesus

had a private conversation with four

disciples. As Jesus was foretelling the

sign of his presence in the last days,

and he raised a vital question, who

really is the faithful We'll scroll down

here.

And discreet slave. Who really is the

faithful and discreet slave whom his

master appointed over his domestics to

give them food at the proper time. Now,

they go on by saying Jesus was assuring

his disciples that as their master, he

would appoint those who would provide a

steady supply of spiritual food for his

followers during the time of the end.

Who would make up this slave? So, who is

this master that Jesus is going to put

in charge? I mean, he's the ultimate

master, but who's who's the other one to

to nourish them and to feed them, to

make sure they're okay? It's all such

polite language, right? It's not not

someone you need to submit to, but

someone that's going to help you. Don't

you want someone to help you?

It was a It is a small group of anointed

followers of Jesus.

The slave is closely identified with the

governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses,

the leaders. It dispenses timely

spiritual food to fellow worshipers of

Jehovah. I love how it's closely

identified. Why isn't it just

identified? Whatever. We are dependent

on this faithful slave to keep giving us

our measure of food supplies at the

proper time. And then they're going to

quote Luke. So, they quoted Matthew 24

and Luke 12:42.

Matthew 24:45,

sorry, and Luke 12:42.

I they. So, is this legitimate or is

this made up by the same people who say,

"No, to interpret scripture, you need

us." And just so happens scripture said

that you must obey us. Wow, what a

coincidence. Amazing. Bow. So, remove

this completely by just reading

scripture very closely and getting to

the objective truth of what it says. And

to anyone who says you cannot do that,

well, then just throw the Bible out. So,

we're going to start here in Luke 12.

Now, Matthew expands on this, which is

why we're going to spend most of our

time there. But, it is mentioned in

Luke. So, it says in verse 41 of chapter

12, "Peter said, 'Lord, why are you

telling this parable for us or for us

all?'"

Uh so, notice it does say parable, not

prophecy. They're going to kind of

ignore that, but whatever. Uh and then

the Lord said, verse 42,

"Who then is the faithful and wise

manager or slave? It's fine. Whom his

master will set over his household to

give them the portions of food at the

proper time? Blessed is that servant

whom his master will find him doing when

he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will

set over him all his possessions." And

then he goes on to what the evil slave

does. He drinks and gets drunk. Uh he

the master of the servant will come on a

day when he does not expect. The servant

knew his master's will, but did not get

ready and act according to his will. So,

that's a that's a big one. The servant

knew his master's will, but did not get

ready and act accordingly to his will.

Um he will receive a several a severe

beating. So, yeah, you're in trouble if

you do such things.

Now, uh it's this is easily debunked by

just saying, "Look guys, it's a parable.

It's not a prophecy of what's going to

happen during the end times." But, like

I said, we're not going to spend most of

our time here cuz Matthew expands on it

and we get to the real meat of the

matter. Now, they're going This is

worded a little differently in Luke,

which is why they quoted it about giving

food portion at the proper time cuz it

just makes them sound better. Like we

are portioning it out. The It's It's

drip of accurate knowledge. Well,

anyway.

So, now comes Matthew 24. This is the

famous Olivet Discourse. What is

happening? Jesus is on the Mount of

Olives, and he's telling people what's

up, especially his apostles.

Now, this starts, obviously, in verse

one.

And it's really important that we get

the actual context of what's happening

in chapters 24 and 25, and all we need

to do is read it. Now, I'm not going to

read the whole thing. I suggest everyone

else read the whole thing. Otherwise,

we'll be here for 2 hours, and you and I

don't want that. But, I'm going to cover

enough so you can see what the initial

message is, what's the overall theme,

and what Jesus is trying to decree

during this discourse. So, uh start at

verse one. Jesus left the temple and was

going away when his disciples came to

point out to him the buildings of the

temple. So, they're on a high spot, way

up. Uh if you've ever been to Israel,

you will notice that there's this big

mountain, Mount of Olives.

Um not legitimately a mountain, or just

a very, very large hill. Point is, it's

really, really above the city, and you

can look down and see the temple back

then, see the temple. Of course, today

you see the Temple Mount. And the temple

back then would have white walls and

gold inlays. It would have been like

glistening in the in the hot, you know,

Israeli sun. Like, "Wow, that's really

cool." And so, of course, the disciples

are up there, and they're like, "Jesus,

look. Ooh, ah, pretty. Do you see the

temple and all the buildings? Isn't that

nice?" Uh-huh. "Have you ever seen

anything like that?" And Jesus, of

course, is like, "Yeah, I've been to

heaven, so it's nice, though." But, his

response is, but he answered them, verse

two,

"You see all these things, do you not?

Truly, I say to you, there will not be

left here one stone upon another that

will not be thrown down."