Page 8: The fact is that by the end of Christ Jesus' Millennial Reign - a little over a thousand years from now - the Paradise conditions of Eden will extend earth wide and planet Earth will be peopled with peaceful and happy descendants of the first human pair.
Correction: There will be a revolt against the reign of Jesus Christ after the thousand years.
Revelation 20:7-8 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
Page 8: Yes, we can take heart - our beautiful planet Earth is here to stay. May it be your privilege to survive the end of this wicked system of things, with all its earth-ruining practices.
Correction: The current earth will be replaced with a new earth.
Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
Page 12: DO YOU believe that Jehovah has an organization? If so, why do you believe it? You might answer: 'Well, we have a Kingdom Hall.'
Correction: Jehovah doesn't need an organization to do His will.
Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
Page 12: But if all we see and appreciate is here on earth, we do not have a total grasp of Jehovah's organization. Jehovah told Isaiah that the earth is only His footstool, but the heavens are His throne. (Isaiah 66:1)
Correction: Jehovah doesn't need an organization to do His will.
Revelation 4:11 "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created."
Page 13: However, if we want to perceive and appreciate Jehovah's organization with our eyes of understanding, we must cultivate a desire to study.
Correction: Christians will appreciate God through the study of the Bible not the Watchtower.
Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height; to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Page 14: Think of it, the very knowledge of the Sovereign Lord of the universe, his organization, and his purposes! In this regard, we can use spiritual picks and shovels. Those are Bible-based publications that help us to dig into Jehovah's Word and discern its meaning. - Job 28:12-19.
Correction: A true Christian will know Jesus Christ and in turn will know God.
John 5:37 "And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form."
John 8:19 Then they said to Him, "Where is Your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also."
Page 15: When you read chapter 6, verses 1 to 7, you should be impressed. Isaiah says that he "got to see Jehovah, sitting on a throne," and "seraphs were standing above him." They were calling out about the glory of Jehovah, extolling his holiness. You should be affected even by reading this account. What was Isaiah's reaction? "I proceeded to say: Woe is me! For I am as good as brought to silence (in Sheol), because a man unclean in lips I am, and in among a people unclean in lips I am dwelling; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of armies, himself!" How impressed he was with that vision! Are you?
Note: Isaiah saw Jesus Christ! Are you impressed?
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Page 16: Finally, we have Jehovah's Witnesses on earth meeting in their Kingdom Halls in order to learn how to do the Sovereign Lord's will.
Note: Jehovah's Witnesses should make daily Bible reading their way of life!
John 6:40 "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
Page 16: There remains the question, What does the heavenly organization have to do with the preaching of the Kingdom good news?
Answer: Nothing! The good news is Jesus Christ!
1 Corthinians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you; unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
Page 17: It can be said, as it was of the early Christians, that "truly as regards this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against." Just as the Jewish clergy of Christ's time fought tooth and nail to stop his ministry, so the clergy and apostates, in league with their political paramours, have tried to suffocate the great educational witness work of Jehovah's people. - Acts 28:22; Matthew 26:59, 65-67.
Correction: The early Christians called on the name of Jesus.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
Page 20: Jehovah is teaching this worldwide united brotherhood through his visible organization on earth - at Kingdom Halls, at conventions, and at assemblies.
Correction: The Holy Spirit teaches people through personal Bible study.
John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you."
Psalm 119:11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!
1 Corinthians 2:13-14 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 20: They know that their life-saving work is being directed from heaven, as Revelation 14:6 states.
Correction: True life-saving work is being directed by the Holy Spirit from within you.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Page 20: The preaching of the Kingdom good news exalts Jehovah's name. People are being invited to give glory to the Creator, God, not to creatures and blind evolution.
Correction: The preaching of the true "good news" will exalt the name of Jesus.
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
Page 21: We trust in Jehovah and his heavenly organization - Christ Jesus, the holy angels, and resurrected anointed Christians - who are alive forever!
Correction: A true Christian will place their trust in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
Page 22: "You, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, the one too little to get to be among the thousands of Judah, from you there will come out to me the one who is to become ruler in Israel, whose origin is from early times, from the days of time indefinite." (Micah 5:2)
Note: Jesus Christ had no beginning since He is from time indefinite.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Page 22: Jehovah, the Source of wisdom, created his first Son as his 'earliest achievement,' to use the inspired expression recorded by King Solomon in the book of Proverbs. After Jesus' sojourn on earth and his return to heaven, he testified that he was indeed "the beginning of the creation by God." As wisdom personified, the prehuman Jesus declared: "When (Jehovah) prepared the heavens I was there." - Proverbs 8:22, 23, 27; Revelation 3:14.
Note: As the Word of God, Jesus Christ began creation.
Note: The Watchtower declares that God was mindless at some point in time past.
Colossians 2:1-3 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 22: From the start, God's Son received a unique assignment, that of being "master worker" alongside his Father.
Correction: God created everything all by Himself.
Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, Who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
Note: The phrase "God's Son" does not appear in the Bible.
Page 22: Jehovah later invited his firstborn Son to share in the creation of humankind. "Let us make man in our image," he declared, "according to our likeness." (Genesis 1:26)
Correction: The architect and builder was God alone.
Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Note: Firstborn in regards to Jesus Christ is defined as having the preeminent position.
Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Note: Every human being has a composite trinity!
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pages 22-23: John's words draw attention to another privilege that God's Son enjoyed, namely, being a spokesman. From the beginning, he served as the Word. Thus, when Jehovah spoke to Adam, and later when he addressed Adam together with Eve, he likely did so through the Word.
Note: The Watchtower declares that God was speechless at some point in time past.
John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Page 23: Having witnessed what happened in Eden, the Word realized that as the primary part of the woman's "seed," he would become the target of vicious hatred.
Correction: Jesus knew from the beginning that He would die for our sins.
Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Page 23: Indeed, in his role as archangel, the Word is known as Michael, whose name means "Who Is Like God?" and indicates how he champions Jehovah against all who aspire to usurp God's sovereignty. - Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7-10.
Note: Jesus Christ is never called Michael in the Bible.
Matthew 1:23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."
Pages 23-24: Michael opposed this but submissively deferred to the authority of his Father, Jehovah. 'Not daring to bring a judgment against Satan in abusive terms,' Michael warned Satan: "May Jehovah rebuke you." - Jude 9.
Correction: Jesus Christ did rebuke Satan.
Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.'"
Matthew 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Note: The same Greek word kurios translated Jehovah in Jude 9 is also found in Jude 17.
Jude 1:17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Jehovah (kurios) Jesus Christ:
Page 24: Imagine Joshua's surprise when the stranger revealed his identity, saying: "No, but I - as prince of the army of Jehovah I have now come." Little wonder that Joshua fell on his face before this exalted representative of Jehovah, no doubt the prehuman Jesus who would later become "Messiah the Leader." - Joshua 5: 13-15; Daniel 9:25.
Note: Angels do not accept worship.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
Page 24: In 778 B.C.E., the year Judean King Uzziah died, God's prophet Isaiah beheld a vision of Jehovah on his lofty throne. "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" asked Jehovah.
Note: Isaiah saw Jesus Christ.
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Page 25: As Jesus prayed, the heavens opened, and the holy spirit descended on him. Imagine the flood of memories that came to mind as he recalled the countless millenniums he had served alongside his Father as master worker, spokesman, prince of God's army, and as the archangel, Michael.
Correction: Both the Father and Son are called Jehovah and declared God.
Isaiah 44:6 "Thus says the LORD (Jehovah), the King of Israel, AND his Redeemer, the LORD (Jehovah) of hosts: 'I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.'"
Page 25: Drawing attention to Jesus' role as Spokesman, Paul wrote: "God...has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son...through whom he made the systems of things." Whether this refers to Jesus' role as "master worker" at creation or to his involvement in God's progressive arrangements for man's reconciliation, Paul here adds his testimony to Jesus' prehuman existence. - Hebrews 1:1-6; 2:9.
Note: Jesus Christ was never a angel.
Hebrews 1:13-14 But to which of the angels has He ever said: "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
Page 25: Jehovah lovingly responded to Jesus' loyal course by resurrecting him and then welcomed him back home to heaven. What a sterling example of integrity through aeons of time Jesus has left for us! - 1 Peter 2:21.
Note: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit raised Jesus Christ up from the dead.
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.