In today's world good jobs are hard to find and once a person has found one, great effort should be taken in order to keep that job.  While many jobs are simple requiring no real orientation at all, there are still other jobs which provide an orientation program that explain in every detail the criteria, company history, detailed work descriptions, and several pages of documentation to study.

 

One example of an orientation program that provides excellent detailed job information is the United Nations.  NGOs at the United Nations are provided with: (1) Videos, (2) discussions on the history of the U.N., (3) Functional procedures between NGOs, (4) Relationships between NGOs, (5) Current activities of the U.N., (6) Discussions on the political, economic, and social fields of the U.N., (7) A walk tour at U.N. Library, (8) A reception, (9) Introduction about information resources for the U.N., (10) The NGO resource facility, (11) Arrangements for group programs, (12) How to obtain U.N. photos, (13) Accessing U.N. information by computer, (14) Programs on how to be an effective NGO, (15) Presentations are made, and finally (16) this U.N. orientation is provided annually!  The 1992 United Nations NGO orientation letter can be found here:

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It struck me as rather hypocritical that after receiving such a detailed orientation which takes 2 days to complete, and even being given film documentation as to all the facts and features of the United Nations, why the Watchtower leaders would go ahead and once again register in 1992, when they had previously been given a total tour of the criteria for NGOs in 1991 when they joined!  After all, the Watchtower's Governing Body already knew that the U.N. General Assembly members did (not) agree with those who believe in the concept of ideological Armageddon!

 

The Watchtower Society was aware of this fact because in their 1991 "Awake" magazine of September 8, page-3 the article states: "Mr. Guido de Marco, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, shared this optimism. He proclaimed glowingly: “The dawn of a new system based on friendship and cooperation between the major powers is on the horizon. . . . These developments have revitalized the United Nations Organisation.” He said that “the role of the General Assembly as the focal point of international discussion and deliberation, has been reaffirmed in an impressive manner.” Because of this, he further stated: “The world no longer lives in the shadow of a possible Armageddon sparked by ideological competition.”

 

Perhaps it could be said, that the Watchtower Society did not want to be looked upon as an organization judged as sparking ideological competition with the United Nations!  The Watchtower Bible And Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), decided to request disassociation from the U.N., in 2001.  In a letter dated November 1, 2001, to all their branch offices worldwide the Watchtower Society wrote the following: "Our purpose for registering with the Department of Public Information as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in 1991 was to have access to research material available on health, ecological, and social problems at the United Nations library facilities.  We had been using the library for many years prior to 1991, but in that year it became necessary to register as an NGO to have continued access."   (Watchtower letter can be found here.)

 

Several people I know, wondered if there had indeed been a change in 1991 as to using the United Nations library, as the Watchtower stated in their letter.  This is one of the answers we received back from the United Nations Librarian, quote: "Since 1946, the Dag Hammarskjold Library of the United Nations Secretariat in New York has arranged for the distribution of United Nations documents and publications to users around the world through its depository library system. At present, there are more than 400 depository libraries in over 140 countries maintaining United Nations material from the date of designation as depository to the present. The general public can consult the material free of charge at any depository library.   (Look under, What Is The Purpose Of The Depository Library System).

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I could not help but wonder after reading the above section of the Watchtower letter, if Jehovah's Witnesses realize the meaning of this admission!  Not only did the Watchtower leaders lie about being required to be an NGO to use the U.N. Library, but also, in all truthfulness, it would mean that Jehovah's Witnesses have been digesting research material from the Watchtower, that was actually prepared on the dinner table by an "un-clean beast" as the Watchtower describes it.  The Watchtower Society has referred to the United Nations several times by words that are not so pleasing to the ears! 

 

In the Watchtower of 1953, October 1, page 582, the Watchtower leaders said: ". In Revelation, chapter seventeen, this League of Nations or United Nations is itself pictured as a wild beast of scarlet color and with seven heads, upon which the prostitute woman Babylon the Great sits as rider."  Also,  some 20 years earlier, the Watchtower Bible And Tract Society published in their "Awake' of 1972 March 8, page-7, which states: "The situation in which the United Nations finds itself today is bleak. There is little hope for its betterment."

 

If the leaders of the Watchtower Bible And Tract Society already knew some 20 years earlier, and believed that the future of the United Nations was "bleak" and stood little hope for improvement, then why would they even dare to want to become a member of a falling U.N. organization anyway?

 

This kind of Watchtower and U.N. relationship certainly does not fit the description, of a body of men being directed by God as the sole channel for dispensing spiritual food for six million Jehovah's Witnesses, who are generally honest, loving, devoted, and law abiding citizens!  Rather, it appears to me, to be a body of men who have sold out their religious beliefs to apostasy in abandoning the very religious doctrines that many Jehovah's Witnesses have given their lives to uphold.

 

There is no doubt that the Watchtower leaders were given an orientation with the United Nations, but instead of being honest and fulfilling their job description, they were exposed and ran hastily when their orientation to apostasy was revealed.  It is to bad, that Jehovah's Witness members must continue on listening and obeying men who can not do their job!  In normal circumstances, wouldn't people in this category be fired?  I wonder if Jehovah's Witnesses have given that some thought?  Firing some of their leaders might make some improvements!

 

The November 1, 2001 letter from the Watchtower also stated: "Registration papers filed with the United Nations that we have on file contain no statements that conflict with our Christian beliefs."

 

In the above statement from the Watchtower's letter, I noticed that the word (papers) was plural!  This indicates that there were several registration papers filed.  I also noticed, that if being a member of the United Nations does (not) conflict with any of the Christian beliefs of the Watchtower Society, then why would the Watchtower disassociate itself from the United Nations it worked so hard to be a member?  This also tells the whole world, that Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide may become a member of the United Nations without compromising any of their Christian beliefs!

 

The Webster's Dictionary informs me that the word (apostasy) means: "The abandoning of ones religious or political beliefs."  When the Watchtower leaders received their orientation from the United Nations, and when they signed those registration forms they mention in their own letter, then they either allowed themselves to be orientated into apostasy, or there should be nothing wrong in Jehovah's Witnesses becoming a U.N. member even now!  Jehovah's Witnesses who thought about U.N. membership and have tried were expelled for apostasy by their Watchtower leaders.  So what does this say about the statement in the Watchtower letter concerning (no) conflict of Christian beliefs?  It says, that Watchtower leaders make rules and regulations for everyone else, but themselves!

 

Somehow, I don't think that Jesus Christ did things that way!

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