Watchtower Society visits Apostate Website!

By Rado Vleugel
Webmaster Watchtower Information Service

The ancient Chinese tactic Sun Tzu who lived 2,500 years ago once said: "If you know your enemy and yourself, you will win every battle." Even though the Watchtower Society (WTS) forbids its members to know their enemy, the Society itself listens to this old wisdom as shown by Watchtower Information Service' site statistics. The WTS is a regular visitor of my site. Sometimes the brothers on Brooklyn Bethel visit my site on two successive days (see fig 1 & 2)!

Although I don't see the WTS as my enemy, Watchtower Information Service is, in the definition of the Watchtower, an apostate website. And an apostate is in the eyes of the Organisation a dangerous enemy. In the October 1, 1993 Watchtower on page 19 we read:

"Regarding them, the psalmist said: "Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you? With a complete hatred I do hate them. They have become tome real enemies." (Psalm 139:21, 22) It was because they intensely hated Jehovah that David looked on them with abhorrence. Apostates are included among those who show their hatred of Jehovah by revolting against him. Apostasy is, in reality, a rebellion against Jehovah. Some apostates profess to know and serve God, but they reject teachings or requirements set out in his Word. Others claim to believe the Bible, but they reject Jehovah's organization and actively try to hinder its work. When they deliberately choose such badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of their makeup, then a Christian must hate (in the Biblical sense of the word) those who have inseparably attached themselves to the badness. True Christians share Jehovah's feelings toward such apostates; they are not curious about apostate ideas. On the contrary, they "feel a loathing" toward those who have made themselves God's enemies, but they leave it to Jehovah to execute vengeance."

From a tactical viewpoint it's logical that the WTS is keeping an eye on apostate websites. I comprehend that. But it isn't fair that some brothers on Brooklyn Bethel are allowed to monitor websites run by former Witnesses while the rank and file Jehovah's Witnesses may not even touch so called apostate material. With buzz words like "spiritual pornography" and "dining at the table of demons", Jehovah's Witnesses are warned against information provided by former members and others who don't share the doctrine of the Watchtower.

Will the brothers on Brooklyn Bethel also check the latest porn sites so that they are better prepared to give "spiritual food at the proper time" about the dangers of pornography…