Former Jesuit Alberto Romero Rivera said some pretty amazing things.
One of them, published both in the comic Alberto and in The Force, is that
the Jesuit Order had intentionally infiltrated various groups of all kinds,
from Christian churches to cults, to ultimately get all of them
doing the pope's bidding.
He even stated the amazing concept that the Jesuits got into the rabidly
anti-Catholic Jehovah's Witnesses. JWs are known for saying that
everyone is pagan, except for them. They are not like anybody else
in the entire world!
I searched some rare old books, and even read articles
on the JW website that made me start to wonder
if Alberto was right.
But what I found was nothing like what I expected.
Would you like to see?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are experiencing a bit of a dilemma.
On the one hand they want to be distinct from
all the religions of the world, and of all the religious groups.
But what makes them distinct keeps getting smaller.
Jehovah's Witnesses like to say that they can use any Bible,
including the King James. But in fact,
they hate the King James, because it opposes
all their basic doctrines.
Let's take a walk through history.
In 1882, as I said in another vlog, Charles Taze Russell justified his
not believing Christ was God, or that the
Godhead was three in one, by what Bible?
The King James?
No, it was the 1881, English Revised Version, the ERV,
based on Westcott and Hort's Greek text.
That was the first Bible to remove 1 John 5:7
("the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one"), without so much as a note
to say they took it out!
In 1931, when Joseph Franklin
(Judge) Rutherford needed a name for his
splinter group of followers, which Bible did he use?
The King James?
No, it was the 1901 ASV, American Standard Version
of the ERV, that he used for Isaiah 43:10
"Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah," Witnesses --Jehovah--
"and my servant whom I have chosen..."
The "Servant" was changed from Jesus Christ,
prophesied in Isaiah 42-53. Rutherford now said
the "servant" were the Jehovah's Witnesses
themselves!
Back then Jehovah's Witnesses looked
very different. Rutherford openly accused
the Roman Catholic religion of being "The Great Harlot"
of Revelation.
And all the way back to 1882, of course, as I said,
they said that the Roman Catholic leadership
created the doctrine of the Trinity from paganism,
and added 1 John 5:7 into their Bible.
So check this out. This is a 1942 edition of
The Emphatic Diaglott (ED), (In other words,
it's a Greek interlinear, with Greek,
and English underneath it.) published by the
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. It's missing
"the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one" from 1 John 5:7.
It even says in John 1:1 of Jesus, "the Word was A god."
I'll give you some pictures in a link up here,
that you can go to, and you can see
photographs of these for yourselves.
But what manuscript was this based on?
Let's take a look. "The Vatican Manuscript,"
what we call Vaticanus. And it has notes on every page
saying "Vatican Manuscript" to show what it says.
But they didn't change John 9:35, where Jesus asked
the healed man who was born blind,
"Dost thou believe on the Son of God?"
That's still there.
Let me read what happened next
from the King James. [John 9:35-38] So Jesus said
to the man born blind, "Dost thou believe on
the Son of God?" 36 "He answered and said,
Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him,
and it is he that talketh with thee. 38 And he said, Lord, I believe.
And he worshipped him."
That was a verse that helped a Muslim friend of mine
who was also a Mason to become a Christian!
So that could not do. So immediatedly they started
making another Greek interlinear.
In 1969 they came out with The Kingdom Interlinear Translation
of the Greek Scriptures, the KIT. In that one
John 9:35 says instead, "are you believing into
the son of man?" [instead of Son of God]
And like other Alexandrian Bibles it has that.
And of course, it also removes the Godhead
from 1 John 5:7 and it also says "a god" in John 1:1,
and many more things.
But here's the irony: the Jehovah's Witnesses
aren't looking so different anymore. You know why?
Because they use the same corrupted text
as all the other King James haters.
At one time they looked different. They accused the Catholic church
of adding the Trinity in 1 John 5:7. But then, what do you know?
Starting in 1964, during Vatican II,
the Catholics started backing the exact same text the JWs use!
So almost no one has the Trinity in 1 John 5 anymore,
even in modern Bible translations, all over the world! And
almost every Bible translation is "Vatican Approved" since 1965!
As I've said before, the fruit of those Bibles
in the churches is evident.
The Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible, the NWT, New World Translation,
doesn't teach that Christ is God. Big deal.
In many verses, neither do the Bibles
of the Protestants or Catholics!
Do you see the problem?
How can you run a distinctive religion,
when almost everyone is starting to disbelieve
the same things you do? Also since Vatican II,
almost everybody uses the same Greek text and
the same Hebrew text --even the same Latin text!
So how do Jehovah's Witnesses distinguish themselves
from Protestants and Catholics? It's like they are
all on the same side.
And to top it off, the Kingdom Interlinear of 1969
has been said by at least one scholar to be just as valid
as anyone else's interlinear.
Ooh, I didn’t show you this. Take a look!
Right here on page 9.
"The Greek text that we have used as
the basis of our New World translation
is the widely accepted Westcott and Hort text (1881),"
(see, I wasn't making it up)
"by reason of its admitted excellence.
But we have also taken into consideration other texts,
including that prepared by D. Eberhard Nestle
and that compiled by the Spanish Jesuit scholar
José María Bover and that by
the other Jesuit scholar A. Merk."
You know, what's the difference?
It's starting to look like an alliance --an unholy alliance--
between the Catholics and JWs, against those
King James Bible believers.
Why is there such an unholy alliance between
the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Roman Catholic Church?
Because the Catholics created the Bible
that the Jehovah's witnesses use to go against the basic doctrines
that we find clearly stated in the King James Bible.
Are you with me?
They both now use the Alexandrian Bible,
because that is the Bible that the Devil created
to fight against the King James and all the other preserved Bibles.
It starts to make you wonder if the only people who are actually
against the Jehovah's Witnesses are the King James Bible believers!
Isn't that interesting! The JWs are running out of people
to disagree with!
In the end, all the JWs really seem to offer
is another authoritarian structure for former Catholics
and people who want to be told what to do.
But even that isn't very original, is it?
You want somebody to lord it over you,
and tell you how to earn eternal life?
Big deal! The Catholics have had
that game going for centuries. You like going door to door
to sell your religion? Hop on board!
The Mormons have been doing that, as well.
And some Baptists, but that may be
too "independent" for you.
Let's face it: what difference does it make,
if the people you are trying to fight disbelieve the same thing?
At this point, all the Jehovah's Witnesses
really have to offer is another belief system
using the exact same Greek and Hebrew text
as the Protestants and Catholics. No wonder the JW's
membership is declining. They can find Christ-doubting texts
almost anywhere --except in the King James Bible.
It's starting to sound like former Jesuit
Alberto Rivera was right. He told Jack Chick
decades ago that the Jesuits
infiltrated the Jehovah's Witnesses, to turn it into a place
where former Catholics could go, and the Catholic system
could still keep their hands on their necks.
In the end, the Jehovah's Witnesses
are just another religious choice in the move
for one world Bible for one world religion.
Because they all agree, more or less,
except those who trust the King James,
or other preserved Bible, as God's preserved words.
That's why the Jehovah's Witnesses
hate the King James, because that's about
all there is left to hate!
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.