If you are a witnesses, there is something you should know. I am not mentally diseased, and I am not a worshipper of Satan. I am a Jehovah's Witness who has decided to help his brothers and sisters open their eyes. My dear brother / sister, you wont believe this but your eyes are just as blind as eve's eyes were. Your eyes are blinded by your God of this system of things.... the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
This article is for those who want to know about Jehovah's Witnesses, or existing Jehovah's Witnesses who want to know about the new light of the NEW Faithful and Discreet slave (FDS). Please keep in mind, this was a parable that Jesus spoke in Matthew 24:45. This article quotes from the Watchtower Magazine of July 15, 2013, pg. 22-25. This article is available for free on www dot jw dot org. All Bible quotations have been taken from the New World Translation (NWT), unless otherwise explicitly specified. Objective and independent review of some of the paragraphs are given by me.
Paragraph 2: The timely spiritual food we receive is proof that Jesus, the Head of the congregation, is keeping his promise to feed us. Through whom is he doing so? When giving the sign of his presence, Jesus said that he would use “the faithful and discreet slave” to give “food at the proper time” to his domestics.* (Read Matthew 24:45-47.) That faithful slave is the channel through which Jesus is feeding his true followers in this time of the end. It is vital that we recognize the faithful slave. Our spiritual health and our relationship with God depend on this channel.—Matt. 4:4; John 17:3.
Opinion: If you dont use that channel, you cant connect / communicate with God. You will have no spiritual health, and will be in spiritual starvation. When the time comes, God WILL destroy you because you didnt use that channel.
Paragraph 3: How, then, are we to understand Jesus’ illustration about the faithful slave? In the past, our publications have said the following: At Pentecost 33 C.E., Jesus appointed the faithful slave over his domestics. The slave represents all anointed Christians on earth as a group at any one time since then. The domestics refer to the same anointed ones as individuals. In 1919, Jesus appointed the faithful slave “over all his belongings”—all his earthly Kingdom interests. However, further careful study and prayerful meditation indicate that our understanding of Jesus’ words about the faithful and discreet slave needs to be clarified. (Prov. 4:18) Let us examine the illustration and how it involves us, whether we have the heavenly or the earthly hope.
Opinion: At Pentecost 33 CE, Jehovah's WItnesses didnt even exist. The organization claims that "Bible Students" (BS) were serving as the Faithful and discreet slave.Those BS were supposed to be feeding the domestics. The domestics were the BS in an individual sense. The idea was similar to a kitchen with many cooks. The cooks cooked, and then individually they ate the food. That was the understanding until this article in 2013. That means that whatever the witnesses understood until this point may no longer be true. Further careful study and prayerful meditation? I thought they had done that before! or they didnt study enough and prayerfully meditate enough?
In life, when something needs to be clarified, it means that a minor misunderstanding needs to be corrected. Usually in the part of the one who is supposed to be the followers, not the leaders. In other words, the followers had the misunderstanding, not the leaders.
Paragraph 4: The context of the illustration of the faithful and discreet slave shows that it began to be fulfilled, not at Pentecost 33 C.E., but in this time of the end. Let us see how the Scriptures lead us to this conclusion.
Opinion: This means that 33 CE had nothing to do with this illustration. In fact, This illustration or parable was supposed to begin to be fulfilled in "this time of the end".
Paragraph 4: The illustration of the faithful slave is part of Jesus’ prophecy about “the sign of [his] presence and of the conclusion of the system of things.” (Matt. 24:3) The first portion of the prophecy, recorded at Matthew 24:4-22, has two fulfillments—first, in the years from 33 C.E. through 70 C.E., and second, in a more far-reaching way in our day. Does this mean that Jesus’ words about the faithful slave would also have two fulfillments? No.
Opinion: That's the prophecy where Jesus talked about the end of this system of things.... So the prophecy was divided into 2 parts. The first part talks about the end of the system of things in Matthew 24:4-22.... and has 2 fulfillments. The second part, which only talks about the slave has 1 fulfillment in our day.
If you read Matthew 24, you will see a lot more things that were prophesied by Jesus. Including Matthew 24: 23 “Then if anyone says to YOU, ‘Look! Here is the Christ,’+ or, ‘There!’ do not believe it.+ 24 For false Christs+ and false prophets+ will arise and will give great signs+ and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones.+ 25 Look! I have forewarned YOU.+ 26 Therefore, if people say to YOU, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; ‘Look! He is in the inner chambers,’ do not believe it.
The Double fulfillment is so typical Watchtower talk. For them, everything has 2 fulfillments. Did Jesus say anywhere that his prophecy was to be divided into 2 parts, and going to have 2 fulfillments? Imagine you rent your house to a family. The family takes your house, divides it into 3,and rents out the other 2 sections to other people. Not only was dividing the house not in the contract, it was also illegal. Now, the Bible is supposed to be utilized unchanged, and is supposed to be a book from God. The Watchtower has taken this one prophecy in the Bible and divided it into 3 parts. The first part and the second part, and then the part with the slave has only 1 fulfillment. They have done the same with several other parts of the Bible.
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