by Meleti Vivlon | Jun 13, 2015 | Faithful Slave, JW.ORG |
The Governing Body is, by its own admission, the “highest ecclesiastical authority for the faith of Jehovah’s Witnesses” worldwide. (See point 7 of the Declaration of Gerrit Losch.[i]) Nevertheless, there is no foundation in Scripture for a governing authority made up...
by arover2014 | Apr 29, 2015 | Faithful Slave, Identifying the Slave |
Does God have an exclusive channel of communication? Who is the faithful and discrete slave today?
by Meleti Vivlon | Mar 10, 2014 | Identifying the Slave, Watchtower Commentor |
[Watchtower study for the week of March 10, 2014 – w14 1/15 p.12] Par. 2 – “Jehovah has already become King in our day!…And yet, Jehovah’s becoming King is not the same as the coming of God’s Kingdom for which Jesus taught us to pray.” Before going further, a...
by Meleti Vivlon | Nov 10, 2012 | Faithful Slave |
Well, we finally have an official pronouncement in writing on the new position the organization has taken vis-à-vis the “faithful and discreet slave”, now available on www.jw.org. Since we’ve already dealt with this new understanding elsewhere in this forum, we won’t...
by Meleti Vivlon | Oct 3, 2012 | Revelation Climax Book |
If you have read the article on the Two Witnesses of Revelation 7:1-13, you’ll recall that there is strong evidence to support the idea that this prophecy has yet to be fulfilled. (Our current official position is that it was fulfilled from 1914 to 1919.) In fact, a...
by Meleti Vivlon | Sep 2, 2012 | Last Days, Revelation Climax Book |
Continuing our analysis of the Revelation Climax book for date-related prophecies, we come to chapter 6 and the first occurrence of the “messenger of the covenant” prophecy from Malachi 3:1. As one of the ripple effects of our teaching that the Lord’s day...
by Meleti Vivlon | Aug 30, 2012 | Last Days, Revelation Climax Book, The Presence of Christ |
This is the first in a series of posts investigating the impact of removing 1914 as a factor in the interpretation of Bible prophecy. We are using the Revelation Climax book as the basis for this study because of all the books covering Bible prophecy, it has the most...
by Meleti Vivlon | Mar 31, 2012 | Revelation Climax Book |
Revelation 11:1-13 relates a vision of two witnesses who are killed and then resurrected. Here’s a synopsis of our interpretation of that vision. The two witnesses represent the anointed. The anointed are trampled upon (persecuted) by the nations for a literal 42...