"Friendship with the world"
In view of the facts presented here, including not only the requirements for NGOs published by the UN itself, but also the abundant evidence that the Watchtower fulfilled their obligation as an NGO by informing the public about the United Nations activities; as well as the corroborative proof of direct participation by Watchtower officials in numerous political conferences, including signing a petition, the Watchtower’s deceit and hypocrisy is laid bare.
Regardless of the seemingly noble motive for such political involvement, does acting in behalf of humanitarian or even theocratic objectives ever justify making friends with the world? Where is the trust and fear of God? If it is “Jehovah’s organization,” as it is purported to be, the consequences for the Watchtower’s duplicity in spiritually prostituting itself with her strange bedfellow cannot be understated. The Bible speaks very plainly to Christians on the matter at James 4:4, which reads: “Adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.”
But was the Watchtower’s activities as an NGO really as serious as all that? Yes, at least according to the Watchtower it is very significant. Here is what the January 1st, 1978, Watchtower said about Christendom giving its support to the UN:
“Christendom’s “works” have included her giving support to man-made schemes for peace, whereas Jesus taught true Christians to pray for God’s kingdom as the instrument for bringing peace to this earth. (Matt. 6:10) Catholic and Protestant leaders alike have hailed the United Nations as ‘man’s last hope for peace.’”
As has been shown, though, all NGOs associated with the UN are required to lend their support by conducting information campaigns in behalf of the United Nations, which the Watchtower, incontrovertibly, carried out. That means that the Watchtower, and by extension all of Jehovah’s Witnesses, are guilty of indirectly supporting a manmade political scheme. Ironically, in its condemnation of Christendom, the Society inadvertently condemns itself with the following statement taken from the November 1st, 1972, Watchtower:
“Logically, then, Christendom, by belonging to the United Nations, is for human (not divine) rulership…Christendom has belied her name, and there is no excuse for it.”
If Christendom is inexcusable and has belied her claim of being Christian “by belonging to the United Nations,” how much more so is the Watchtower’s partnership with the United Nations inexcusable? At least Christendom has been open and honest about their support for the United Nations; whereas the Watchtower is guilty of gross hypocrisy. The Watchtower has behaved just like an immoral adulteress; sneaking surreptitiously in the shadows and lying when found out. Admittedly, these are strong words. Is it really fair to accuse the Watchtower of practicing idolatry, spiritual prostitution and hypocrisy? Again, according to the Watchtower's own words in condemnation of Christendom, the answer is yes:
“Christendom's perpetual friendliness with the politicians, and military forces and the big business profiteers of this world is a public scandal… The religious sects of Christendom have committed spiritual adultery also "with their dungy idols." One of the latest and biggest things to be idolized by her is the "image" of the symbolic wild beast of world politics, namely, the United Nations, to which most of the professedly Christian nations belong.”— The Nations Shall Know
If Christendom’s “perpetual friendliness with the politicians” is a public scandal, the Watchtower's secret liaison with the United Nations is more reprehensible by reason of the fact Jehovah’s Witnesses boast of being untainted by such worldliness. In what way has Christendom idolized the United Nations that the Watchtower has not? While the Watchtower may not have blasphemously proclaimed the UN or League of Nations to be the political manifestation of the kingdom of God on earth, as some of the clergy of Christendom have done, yet, if the United Nations is really the "disgusting thing" of prophecy, as Jehovah’s Witnesses believe, does not the Watchtower’s constant attendance to its every utterance amount to glorifying a "dungy idol," as Jehovah expressed it?
The fact is that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society became political partners with an agency of Satan's world and the evidence abounds testifying to the fact that the Society has subserviently carried out the obligation of that partnership. Not only that, but in their service to the United Nations the Watchtower has misappropriated the use of resources (both human and material) that are dedicated exclusively to Jehovah God. In Jehovah's judgment that amounts to spiritual prostitution, idolatry and apostasy.
There are unavoidable consequences for such wickedness.
In 1951, more than a half century ago, the September 15th issue of the Watchtower boasted that Jehovah’s Witnesses were “refusing to enter partnership with the abominable League of Nations or the United Nations.”
O how things have changed!
No wonder Jehovah expresses his own disappointment and astonishment at the deplorable hypocrisy of his organized people, saying at Isaiah 1:21: “O how the faithful town has become a prostitute!” In view of the Watchtower’s practicing the very thing they have roundly condemned Christendom for doing, it can be better understood why Jehovah long ago stated at Ezekiel 7:27: “According to their way I shall act toward them, and with their judgments I shall judge them; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.”
