This open letter is especially addressed to the recent additions to the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Gage Fleegle, Jeffrey Winder, Kenneth Cook, Jody Jedele, and Jacob Rumph. A personal copy is being mailed to each new member.
Over the past three decades, I have written dozens of letters to the Governing Body. Obviously, though, its members have changed over the years. Newer members may not be aware of all that has been conveyed and the nature of the message. To be sure, the many messages I have published are something that Watchtower loyalists would not even admit to reading or openly discuss with other brothers, since the message contradicts and reproves the so-called faithful and discreet slave. The mere fact that I would refer to the slave in such a way (“so-called”) is no doubt regarded by you as apostate blasphemy. And that, my brothers, is the reason for this open letter.
When the first edition of Jehovah Himself Has Become King was published in 2005, gift copies were sent to all individual members of the Governing Body and all branch offices of the Watchtower worldwide. On page 45, under the subheading: Who Really Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?, the case was made that Christ has not come and appointed the faithful slave over all of his belongings. It seemed like common sense. An Lo! In 2013, the Watchtower revised its teaching and shifted the second appointment from 1918 to an indefinite point in the future when Christ comes. (Subsequent editions of the book dropped the discussion on the appointment of the slave over all of the master’s belongings.)
However, even though the Watchtower now recognizes that the appointment of the faithful slaves over all the master’s belongings will take place when the Son of man arrives unexpectedly like a thief in the night, the Governing Body still refers to itself as the faithful and discreet slave. Evidently, you have not gotten the sense of it. No wonder Jesus repeatedly said, ‘Let he that has an ear hear.’ Are you still unaware of the reason Jesus posed it as a question, that is, who really is the faithful and discreet slave? It is not up to us to provide the answer. It is a rhetorical question. For anyone to declare themselves faithful and discreet—as the Governing Body has done—is presumptuous.
Surely, no one would dispute the faithfulness of the apostle Paul. Yet, the inspired apostle explained to the Corinthians the following: “A man should regard us as attendants of Christ and stewards of God’s sacred secrets. In this regard, what is expected of stewards is that they be found faithful. Now to me it is of very little importance to be examined by you or by a human tribunal. In fact, I do not even examine myself. For I am not conscious of anything against myself. But by this I am not proved righteous; the one who examines me is Jehovah. Therefore, do not judge anything before the due time, until the Lord comes. He will bring the secret things of darkness to light and make known the intentions of the hearts, and then each one will receive his praise from God.” – 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Again, if all appointed stewards of God’s sacred secrets are waiting to be ultimately examined by Christ when he comes, and only then will they be found faithful by the Lord, how is it that the Governing Body has already declared itself to be faithful and discreet?
Are you—the self-proclaimed faithful and discreet slave—unaware that when Christ comes as the refiner and laundryman, he will punish all of his appointed slaves with varying degrees of severity? If the messenger of the covenant has already come, as the Watchtower proclaims, why does Malachi pose the question: “But who will endure the day of his coming, and who will be able to stand when he appears?” Why should we any longer embrace the delusion that Christ appeared in 1918 and the Bible Students endured the day of his coming? If Christ came in 1914 and has been present, why are we waiting for him to come again? No one can offer a sensible explanation.
Have you never read Jesus’ more extensive discussion of the outcome for the slaves he appointed to feed his domestics in the 12th chapter of Luke? In answer to Peter’s inquiry as to whom his words were addressed, Jesus said: “Who really is the faithful steward, the discreet one, whom his master will appoint over his body of attendants to keep giving them their measure of food supplies at the proper time? Happy is that slave if his master on coming finds him doing so! I tell you truthfully, he will appoint him over all his belongings.” (42-44)
Even though we can confidently expect that some slaves will be approved and appointed over all of the master’s belongings, not all will be. That is evident by what the Lord stated next: “But if ever that slave should say in his heart, ‘My master delays coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that slave will come on a day that he is not expecting him and at an hour that he does not know, and he will punish him with the greatest severity and assign him a part with the unfaithful ones.”
As one might expect, the same July 2013 article that somewhat revised the Watchtower’s understanding of the second appointment also stated that the existence of an evil slave is purely hypothetical, contradicting Christ’s clearly stated future judgment that some individuals among the self-declared faithful and discreet slave will not be found faithful.
That there will be some who are unfaithful is evident by what Jesus said next: “Then that slave who understood the will of his master but did not get ready or do what he asked will be beaten with many strokes. But the one who did not understand and yet did things deserving of strokes will be beaten with few. Indeed, everyone to whom much was given, much will be demanded of him, and the one who was put in charge of much will have more than usual demanded of him.”
According to the heavenly Master who initially appointed a few slaves to feed his little sheep, there are only two outcomes. Both the faithful and unfaithful slaves will be punished. The unfaithful slave will be beaten with many strokes and put out of the house and assigned his portion with the hypocrites; whereas, even the faithful slave will also be beaten, but with a few strokes. But why? The distinction is their motive. The evil slave is willfully disobedient. The other slave who was put in charge erred due to ignorance.
Is it not true that all men who are vetted for the Governing Body have to be “Society men” through and through; thus, thoroughly indoctrinated and consequently incapable of questioning their “mother,” being steeped in error—institutionalized in theocratic blunder? That sort of error is forgivable. By the way, as regards your organizational “mother,” please consider Hosea 4:5: “So you will stumble in broad daylight, and the prophet will stumble with you, as if it were night. And I will silence your mother.”
What evidence is there that anyone has beaten his fellow slaves? It is true, the unfaithful slave only speaks in his heart, saying: ’My master is delaying.’ But his unfaithfulness is outwardly manifest. It is not that we are the judge of others as individuals. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the Governing Body—as an institution—has engaged in this beatdown of what Jesus described as his male and female servants. How so?
Let us examine the facts. When the pandemic began in 2020, the Governing Body initially said vaccination was a personal medical decision. However, the next year, when the vaccines were touted as the way to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and unvaccinated persons were demonized as posing a threat to public health, the Watchtower was all in. It was no longer a personal decision. The Christian course was to vaccinate oneself to protect one’s brothers from infection. David Splane went so far as to point to heaven to 
imply that Jehovah knows that the vaccines are safe and effective. It turns out that they were neither.
Over time, it has been proven beyond dispute that the vaccines were ineffective in preventing infection in those who received the jabs and did not prevent contagion. Getting vaccinated did not protect others, and the unvaccinated were not a threat to anyone’s health. It was all a fraud funded by the Wall Street money machine. Worldwide, many millions died from reactions and various complications from the vaccines. Anyone who denies this is either woefully ignorant or a perverse liar. Sadly, no doubt many of Jehovah’s Witnesses have had adverse reactions, and not a few have died as a result of taking the injections, while the unvaccinated among Jehovah’s Witnesses have been made to feel as if they have been disloyal to Jehovah.
Not only did the Governing Body heartily endorse the ineffective and dangerous vaccines, giving them Jehovah’s blessing, but elders were threatened with judicial action if they dared to warn the male and female servants in their respective congregations about the dangers of the untested mRNA injections. If that is not evidence of beating his fellow slaves, what is?
Given the Watchtower’s many recent money-making schemes, including selling off hundreds of Kingdom Halls solemnly dedicated to Jehovah, there is little reason to doubt that the Watchtower received its share of the billions and billions of dollars dispersed under the guise of pandemic relief, much of which was earmarked specifically for church leaders to promote vaccines among their members.
While we cannot say for certain that the Watchtower received money to promote the deadly vaccines, Jehovah surely knows. As Paul said, when Christ comes, “He will bring the secret things of darkness to light and make known the intentions of the hearts.”
However, we do have prophecy. The secret things that Christ will bring to light were foreseen long ago by God’s unfathomable mind. I refer you to the 11th chapter of Zechariah: “This is what Jehovah my God says, ‘Shepherd the flock meant for the slaughter, whose buyers slaughter them and are not held guilty. And those who sell them say, “May Jehovah be praised, for I will become rich.” And their shepherds have no compassion for them.’” (4,5)
In this instance, the buyers of the flock who have bought and indiscriminately slaughtered Jehovah’s sheep are the globalist institutions such as the United Nations and its World Health Organization, whose primary benefactor is Bill Gates, an avowed billionaire Malthusian. Who can deny that the Watchtower has had an unseemly fixation on the United Nations and its every utterance? So far, none of the legal authorities have taken action against the pharmaceutical cartel or the compromised medical authorities who were paid not to treat patients with safe and effective drugs. They are all guilty of genocide—a genocide that surpasses even Hitler’s Holocaust.
Did not the Governing Body praise Jehovah for providing what they insisted were life-saving vaccines? And is it now a coincidence that the Watchtower registered three private hedge funds immediately after the pandemic waned to invest their ill-gotten booty, effectively partnering with the den of thieves on Wall Street? Is not the word of God true in your case: “How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness used to lodge in her, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, and your beer is diluted with water. Your princes are stubborn and partners with thieves. Every one of them loves a bribe and chases after gifts. They do not grant justice to the fatherless, and the legal case of the widow never reaches them.” – Isaiah 1:21-23
Jerusalem was the birthplace of Christianity, and the first-century governing body was headquartered in the holy city. But when the Lord returns to inspect Jehovah’s spiritual temple, also known as the antitypical Jerusalem, he will again be forced to throw out the money changers and merchants who have set up shop there.
Time will fail me if I speak of the tens of thousands of victims of child sexual predators, predators that the Watchtower has adroitly protected from prosecution to protect the name of Jehovah from reproach. Or the way the Governing body has watered down the message, diluting their beer with water, as it were. Of course, the Watchtower applies the denunciation in the first chapter of Isaiah to Christendom. But if that is the case, may we expect Jehovah to make Babylon’s blood-red sin as white as snow?
Neither will time allow me to speak of the operation of Satan that exists in the form of the Watchtower’s invisible parousia hoax attached to 1914, except to say that World War Three will topple it like a whitewashed wall.
If the Governing Body identifies as the faithful and discreet leaders of symbolic Jerusalem, then it is they of whom God speaks in Isaiah, saying of them: “Therefore, I am the One who will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their discreet men will be hidden.” – Isaiah 29:14
Surely, Jehovah God will not work “wonder upon wonder” with the clergy of Christendom. But in what way has the wisdom of the discreet men been hidden? It has to do with their inability and unwillingness to discern the error of 1914 and Russell’s invisible parousia.
Consider one example. In all editions of the book, and many articles and videos besides, I have brought to the attention of the Governing Body not only the absurdity of Rutherford’s interpretation of Joel, particularly regarding the locusts representing Jehovah’s Witnesses, but also the significance of the locust onslaught. Finally, at the 2019 Annual Meeting, the Watchtower ditched Rutherford’s interpretation. Astonishingly, though, now the Watchtower asserts that the locusts of Joel do not represent anything except the Babylonian hordes that sacked Jerusalem. This is very deceptive—intentional deceit on the part of someone. Besides the fact that the prophecy of Joel doesn’t even mention Babylon, how can the prophecy of Joel have no modern fulfillment, given that Joel uses the expression “the day of Jehovah” five times?
No wonder the opening words of the prophecy are addressed to the spiritually drunken elders, saying to them: “Hear this, you elders, and pay attention, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers? Tell about it to your sons, and let your sons tell about it to their sons, and their sons to the next generation. What was left by the devouring locust, the swarming locust has eaten; and what was left by the swarming locust, the unwinged locust has eaten; and what the unwinged locust has left, the voracious locust has eaten. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken from your mouths. For a nation has come up into my land, mighty and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its jaws are those of a lion.”
Jehovah’s land in this instance is not ancient physical Israel. Did not Jesus foretell that Jerusalem would be desolated during a time of great tribulation? The Watchtower’s folly ought to be evident, given that in the prophecy of Joel, God exhorts the people to congregate and for the priests and ministers of the altar to plead with Jehovah for salvation. That was not God’s instructions through the other prophets to the literal inhabitants of Jerusalem under siege. They were ordered to fall away to the Chaldeans, to abandon the doomed city.
Furthermore, the locusts are depicted as bringing devastation upon the entire world. Is that merely hyperbole? No. The tribulation will shut down the worldwide work of Jehovah’s Witnesses. That is what the prophecy speaks to, where it says: “The field has been devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain has been devastated, the new wine has dried up, the oil has failed. Farmers are dismayed, vinedressers wail, because of the wheat and the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. The vine has dried up, the fig tree has withered. The pomegranate, the palm, and the apple, all the trees of the field have dried up; for joy has turned to shame among the people.” – Joel 1:10-12
Does not the Watchtower refer to the world as a field and the Christian work of preaching the good news as “field service”? What, then, does it mean that the harvest has perished? Are you not men of discernment capable of deciphering Jehovah’s sacred secrets?
As regards the timing for the outbreak of the day of Jehovah, or the Lord’s day, there is no use debating, arguing, or denying. It is done. Jehovah has already laid it all out. You have read it many, many times: “Now as for the times and the seasons, brothers, you need nothing to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. Whenever it is that they are saying, “Peace and security!” then sudden destruction is to be instantly on them, just like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and they will by no means escape. But you, brothers, you are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you as it would thieves, for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to night nor to darkness.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:2-5
If you read the context in the fourth chapter, Paul was writing to the Thessalonians about the presence of Christ and our being gathered to him. And why do those brothers, including us, not need anything more to be written to us concerning the times and seasons for the parousia and the day of Jehovah? Because Jesus has already informed us that he is coming as a thief in the night to commence that judgment, beginning first with the house of God and those slaves who have been appointed to feed Christ’s sheep.
What then is the sudden destruction, and who will it come upon? The Watchtower says it is Babylon the Great. That cannot be true. Again, there is no reason to argue or debate. Jesus said that when nations and kingdoms go to war, accompanied by famines, pestilences, and great earthquakes, these things will be the beginning pangs of distress and a precursor to the presence of Christ. Paul alluded to this analogy when he said that sudden destruction will be upon them, just as birth pains on a pregnant woman.
Given the fact that the Watchtower has absurdly claimed that the head of the seven-headed beast of Revelation suffered the foretold mortal head wound as a result of the First World War—a deathblow from which it apparently recovered so quickly that no historian is even aware that Britian and America collapsed then—we may expect the sudden destruction to come in the form of the catastrophic crash of the present Anglo-American unipolar world order—followed by the imposition of a dictitorial global government, which Revelation identifies as an eighth king. Or are you unaware of what is rapidly developing in the world? Are you not watchmen, manning the proverbial watch tower, keeping watch on the world’s affairs? Do you consider it unworthy of mention that two countercurrents have come to the fore since the re-election of Donald Trump?
On the one hand, we have an American president who seems determined to not only end NATO’s (London’s) proxy war against Russia, but to defy London’s longstanding policy of preventing any American-Russian alliance, an alliance President Trump is moving towards by normalizing relations with Moscow. At the same time, or more than likely, in reaction to Trump’s efforts to bring the US and Russia into a friendly relationship, the lords of the British imperial system are determined to set off a global conflagration by igniting hotspots around the world with the intent of collapsing the financial system that they control through the central banks in order to prevent the great powers from coming into a cooperative alliance in a multipolar world.
Are you—the seers and prophets—unaware that Bible prophecy indicates that the king of the north will succeed all the way to the end, which includes subjugating the king of the south? You might want to revise that bit of Watchtower interpretation—not that it would make any difference at this late stage.
Really, the only question that is left unanswered is who is willfully opposed to Christ and who has been led along in error out of ignorance? Hopefully, for your sakes, it is the latter.
By the way, one of the newer members of the Governing Body recently stated that the faithful and discreet slave, also known to themselves as the “prophet-class,” has no reason to feel embarrassed or to apologize for getting prophecy wrong. I would only ask you to read and meditate on the following passage from the 13th chapter of Zechariah: “In that day each of the prophets will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not wear an official garment of hair in order to deceive. And he will say, ‘I am no prophet. I am a man cultivating the soil, because a man bought me when I was young.’ And if someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘Wounds I received in the house of my friends.’”
Looking to the future, I feel your embarrassment. And what is the “house of my friends”? It must be Bethel. I can hear some of you saying already that you did not claim to be the faithful and discreet slave, and disavowing ever having claimed to be Jehovah’s spokesman and the sole interpreters of prophecy. ‘I am just a lowly publisher, like you. I am no prophet.’ Indeed, but what are those wounds on your back between your shoulder blades? Could those be the lashes caused by the Master’s whip? No doubt.
Let’s hope you’ll only be beaten with a few strokes and not many.
Jehovah’s Watchman
