Текст книги "Children of the gods"

Chapter 14

Since then, as Tamara returned from Zelenogorsk, her thoughts were always busy with work Nadya Timofeeva. The missing girl was so mysterious and strange that the best investigators in the country for six months to no avail trying to get it out. But it never got off the ground. And now Tamara Sosnowski was sitting at my computer and studied everything that concerned the loss of not only Nadia, but the cases of other missing children over the past time, which were never found. Several high-profile cases and the circumstances of children’s lives before their disappearance forced her to remember the conversation that took place in Zelenogorsk, about the sect, in which, according to his mother, allegedly is the girl. The fact that the brother of the mayor of the city is the rector of “Watchtower” or “Jehovah’s Witnesses” even more persuaded Tamara to this version. Here’s what she dug up on the Internet about this sect:

The founder of the sect is “the Watchtower Society” (since 1931 – “Jehovah’s Witnesses”) is Charles Taze Russell. Charles could not accept the doctrine of predestination and the existence of eternal torment, and his religious quest for the “true Church” led to the creation of their own doctrines.

In 1884 Russell registered a new Pittsburgh Corporation “the Society of the Zion Watchtower”, has published the six-volume series of books entitled “the Study of the Scriptures.” The seventh volume was published posthumously in 1907. These books laid the doctrinal basis of the doctrine of the Jehovah’s witnesses.

By Russell the Second Coming of the Messiah took place in October 1874, and from that date began the period of the harvest, that is, the gathering of the faithful followers of the Lord, or preparatory campaign to the battle of Armageddon.

Simultaneously with the development of his teaching Russell prepared organizational and technical base for its distribution. He managed to create a powerful disciplined organization and the publisher for printing their pamphlets and books, which millions of copies were distributed worldwide.

Creed

Yakovitskaya the concept is as follows. All Christian churches and secular authorities together constitute contemporary pagan satanic Babylon. Is condemned while the Christian teaching about the earthly world as God’s world. Instead, put forward a new regulation, by which the whole world is declared the world of Satan. However, Jehovah God (hence the name of the sect) had already intervened in “the cursed race of this world” and has predetermined its end. Signs of the coming battle with the forces of Satan. Now the task of the Jehovah’s witnesses is to proclaim to the people the will of Jehovah and to warn that the only way to save humanity from destruction in the upcoming battle of Christ with the earthly Kingdom of Satan is the transition to the sect of Jehovah’s witnesses now before Christ is not entered into battle with Satan.

Unlike the ruling in the Christian world the doctrine that the Bible is the main idea of human salvation, the Jehovah’s witnesses put forward a different position. They argue that the main idea of the Bible is the apology of God as the Almighty Creator of all things. Just because fall from heaven, Satan challenged God, questioned His omnipotence, Jehovah wrote in the Bible the main stages, during which people should be convinced of It’s omnipotence and the powerlessness of Satan to turn men away from God. Only when this main idea of the Bible, according to Jehovah’s witnesses, people will go the right way towards their salvation and gain the strength to confront the pernicious influence of Satan. The Jehovah’s witnesses consider the Bible only as a story event during which Jehovah reveals his will. But the Bible is dramatic work or, literally, in their words, “a Great drama”. Drama began in the garden of Eden with the fall of the first men and will end with the Armageddon on the planet. Now, according to the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses, this “drama” consists of a prologue, beginning, conflict and ending.

According to their doctrine, Jehovah had two spiritual sons: Christ and Lucifer. Lucifer was not only the son of the morning, the bright Archangel, but was obliged to control the behaviour of the first men. Adam and eve were perfect people. Lucifer was not happy with his situation and wanted to compete in power with Jehovah God. Mighty Lucifer decided to try to the first people – Adam and eve, giving them that eating from the tree of knowledge would bring not death, but a power possessed by God Himself. The first people plunged into the abyss of sin, the eyes have opened, they knew good, but he had no strength to do it, and know evil – he had no strength to fight him. However, their interpretation of the fall is significantly different from biblical. Eve sinned first, but Adam, say the Jehovah’s witnesses, seeing that the eve must die, voluntarily decided to share with her this lot. He’s so attached to his wife that parting with her, he in the future was painful for him. He voluntarily took the forbidden food and this conscious act by which he himself was sentenced to death. Having managed to seduce the first pair, Lucifer convinced myself that Jehovah is not Almighty, if not managed to prevent the fall of people – the crown of His creation. And if so, against God you can fight and more. Jehovah left Lucifer to exist for 6 thousand years, to prove to him the impossibility of the victory of evil over good.

Prologue. Jehovah God does. As a great Artist, the Word builds and builds from all non-existent. In amazement stood the angels, wondrous hymns of the celestial music penetrate the subtle world of light given the laws of the Universe, the way of the stars, orbits of planets, they are created micro and macro worlds, given the nature of the statutes. Slender singing praise of the Creator, the light of heaven, there is complete harmony, and love encompasses and pervades all.

The onset of action. And here are the first people in innocence are in the garden of Eden. Jehovah God allows one of His spiritual sons, to prestupnitsa and Lucifer to tempt the first couple. The first eats the fruit of eve, yielding to the persuasion of Lucifer. Adam, learning that eve had become mortal, varies in their choice (to stay with God or to die with eve), but still chooses the latter and takes the forbidden food. Therefore, “the lust of the flesh” (tastes good), “the lust of the eyes” (beautiful view) and “the pride of life” (compared to God) become the dominant instrument of satanic temptation in the subsequent history of mankind.

But this sin Jehovah, our loving heavenly Father, has ordained for the atonement of Jesus Christ, His second spiritual son, remaining faithful to Him, so the next stage “Drama.”

Conflict. Satan (those became Lucifer after the fall of the first people at fault) throws an open challenge to God; he wants to take away from Him all the people and pokloniti already under the name “tribes, peoples, tongues” on that cursed Adam in the earth, that shall bring forth thistles and thorns, but already have a considerable population.

And here I century BC the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to seek and to save that which was lost, i.e., all who will accept His atoning sacrifice. But this is not enough. Should membership in the sect of Jehovah’s witnesses, as a precondition of salvation. After all, expelled from Paradise Satan who tried to tempt spiritual brother (of Christ) in the wilderness, has now arranged for himself a Kingdom, and increasingly bitter struggle with his Jehovah. It is the Kingdom of Satan is extensive: begins with all, without exception, churches to political parties, government agencies and organizations, to social, international and informal associations. One of the main strongholds of Satan – the United Nations.

Christ atoned for the sins of the people on the tree (cross the Jehovah’s witnesses do not recognize, arguing that the Savior was just nailed to the post), Lucifer confounded, but their positions do not pass. The struggle with the forces of good tightened. Its various forms, the scope large, the forces involved in it are innumerable.

The final. Jehovah God sends Christ again to earth, but in invisible form, for the punishment of Lucifer. In Armageddon, the Holy war, Christ with His army destroys Lucifer and all of his supporters. On a planet establishes the millennial Kingdom of Christ, where you will get 144 thousand leading brothers Corporation and the most faithful followers of the sect of Jehovah’s witnesses. (However, for them does not have the meaning of the word Saint. The Scriptures “… and 144 thousand… not defiled with women” because they have no monastic institution).

Jehovah justified. Justice has been done. All Jehovah’s witnesses will be resurrected in the flesh, and will reign on earth. Restored the present theocratic world state headed by Jehovah God and His Angel Son – Jesus. All Christians of other faiths, denominations, sects, other religions will be destroyed at Armageddon. Hell no, for hell is in the literal understanding of “the grave”, therefore, all Jehovah’s witnesses and the unbelievers will just go into oblivion.

Here are the main concepts in the understanding of the word of God sect “witnesses”. Its leaders prudently declared, that to interpret the Bible only through secondary sources, coming from Brooklyn – center jehovism. Such back-up in understanding the word of God is, in particular, the magazine “Watchtower”. In the title of this journal this note: “the Watchtower announces a Kingdom of Jehovah”. On the reverse side of the cover sheet explanation: “the Purpose of “Watchtower” is the glorification of Jehovah God as sovereign Lord of the Universe. She watches world events that fulfilled biblical prophecy. It is there for all people the good news that God’s Kingdom will soon destroy those who oppress their fellowmen and that it will turn this planet into a Paradise. It encourages faith, now the ruling King of God, Jesus Christ, the shed blood Which gives humanity the opportunity to receive eternal life. “Watchtower” published by Jehovah’s Witnesses since 1879, does not participate in political struggle. She adheres to the Bible as its authority. This magazine is published in 111 languages of the world, its average circulation 15290000 copies.

Playing with the notion of the need for secondary sources for understanding the Bible, in particular, one of the leaders of the Corporation Rutherford wrote: “Man quench his thirst from the well only if there is a bucket to get water from the well”. That’s because the “Watchtower” is the “spiritual pot” for Jehovah’s witnesses, which they derive from the Bible all that is necessary for the believer to understand and reach the way of salvation.

The Concept Of God. A distinctive feature of the “witnesses” in the doctrine of God is that they deny the dogma of It, as one in essence but three in Persons, i.e. denying the Holy Trinity. God, according to them, there is one Almighty God. Christ is not equal to Jehovah.

The purpose of the redemption. The redemptive feat of Jesus Christ is seen as a personal sacrifice for the sinner alone grandparents, but not for all. The law Jehovah God demanded that Adam lost innocence was sacrificed perfect human life. But sin is already at the genetic level has taken possession of man, all the death, for it is written, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (ROM. 3, 23). “There is none righteous…” (ROM. 3, 10). Then Jehovah decided to make such a perfect man My second spiritual son, Jesus Christ. By the will of Jehovah, Christ was reincarnated from the spiritual beings in human creation, becoming perfect, unlike other people that inhabited the Land. He died on a pole as a man to atone for Adam’s sin, but was resurrected not after the flesh but in the spirit, i.e. as a spiritual being with a divine nature. Humanity has a chance for salvation because Jehovah gave this law to His spiritual Son.

About the coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.According to the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses, the invisible Christ came to earth in 1918, and now resides on earth, struggles with the forces of Satan. The visible manifestation of this struggle they believe the first and second world wars. They are carefully watching the political events in the world, local conflicts on the continents and in the regions, international changes and statements of political leaders, so that in the light of the need to submit atrofirovany and filtered in Brooklyn information to his followers as another sign of impending Armageddon. Center “demons run this world” is declared by the United Nations. Another important sign of the coming of Christ to earth is the existence and the activities of their Corporation in Brooklyn. They argue that the Corporation arose on the destiny of Jehovah, and their story goes with the old Testament, when witnesses (i.e. Jehovah’s witnesses) of God, the Jews persecuted and stoned, and in the New Testament the first “Jehovah’s witness” was the Protomartyr Stephen (acts. 7, 59).

The doctrine of the Holy Spirit. The Holy spirit, according to Jehovah’s witnesses, not a person, not a Hypostasis of God, an invisible but effective force that emanates from Jehovah. A kind of energy, which in itself is dead without the source. Sometimes in polemics, they are compared with the rechargeable battery that powers the lights. No battery and no voltage…

The soul of man. Here, the witnesses all agree in the doctrine of the Adventists on the state of the soul after death of the body. First of all, they, like the Adventists seek to prove that in the Bible, the soul is understood life. Showers are people and animals that are dying, cease to be a reality. Accordingly, with the body dying and the soul. This interpretation on the absence of the soul receives its full completion at the end of “the great drama”, where the battle of Armageddon will erase everything, “not Jehovists” in oblivion.

About Armageddon. In 1918 the Lord Jesus came to earth, began to gather faithful and loyal to Him force for the future of Holy war with Satan. At His side will be 144 thousand supporters of the most consistent and faithful members of the Corporation who have died before Armageddon. But the Lord will resurrect them for such a Holy and necessary things. This battle will happen in Palestine near mount Gar-Megiddo (i.e., Armageddon). Here the place name and gave the name to the event, i.e. war. After the victory over the forces of evil and then their complete destruction, the earth will be renewed to manage Jesus to 144 thousand faithful. It would be complete theocracy and harmony, renewed Earth will become a flourishing garden, will be resurrected and all the other followers of the “Society”. Diseases, worries, fear, sadness and frustration will not. No nation, army, borders, government agencies and others. The singing of the Jehovah’s witnesses (Illintsi) in one of his hymns:

Everywhere the Holiness people.

Dance ladies-girls

Gentle, wise and singers

God’s twine monogram

Sing to Him and about Him.

Everywhere is heard the game:

Alleluia and Hooray.

Organizational structure. At the head of the sect is the so-called “Leading (or Ruling) the Corporation”, or the Reign of Jehovah’s Witnesses, located at the world main Department in Brooklyn, new York, USA. Steering the Corporation (or the administration) consists of men and the world is watching the activities of sectarians. In the theology of the sectarians of the Brooklyn management Corporation is referred to most often is “the faithful and wise servant” (FWS), and “anointed remnant”, “princes”, “true Church,” “the sacred balance”, the “sacred band”, the “little flock”, “the anointed followers of Jesus Christ”, “the co-rulers of Christ in the Realm”, “spiritual partakers of Christ in heaven”, the “Elijah Class”, sometimes just “the anointed one” or “the saints of the most high”. According to the teaching of sectarians, the “faithful and wise servant” is the channel of communication with Jehovah. Outside of participation to which we cannot comprehend his wisdom: “All who wish to know the Bible should appreciate that the “manifold wisdom of God” can be found only through the communication channel – “faithful wise servant” used by Jehovah”. In the terminology of sect “communication channel” or “channel of truth” is called and all the whole organization, but especially Brooklyn management Corporation internally (i.e., within the common “link” has a special “channel of truth” through which spiritual food is distributed”). Members of the Brooklyn leadership of the Corporation are part of the “God of heaven” and are members of the sect “the real power that Jesus taught to pray”.

At the head of the Brooklyn governing the Corporation (Board) is the President and Vice President. This “Rule” works through six (seven according to others) committees. Authorized representatives of the “Ruling Corporation” control the Watchtower Society in new York, an office in England, as well as other legal organizations, including more than 15 “zones” around the world, driving the representatives of the branches in each zone. At the moment there are 98 branches. Each of them ruled by the Committee a number from 3 to 7 members. The country in which the branch is divided into areas, which are in turn divided into districts. In each district about 20 meetings. The regional supervisor periodically visits areas of their field. In each area 2 times a year for conferences. The district superintendent supervises the activities of the district “meetings”. In the main “congregation” – elders who are subordinate to the district superintendent.

Affiliates in each country are legally registered so that no sect can derive the maximum benefit from their status. Immediately after the death of this administration – “the saints of the most high” is guaranteed, according to their doctrine, an immediate “resurrection to immortal life, and they continue to serve Jehovah in heaven. They are not in that sleep of death for a long time, but ‘suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye’ put on immortality”. The remaining ordinary “sheep” (“servant”) upon the death turn into “nothing”, because the human soul on the “new doctrine,” Leading corporations are not. Information about “turned into nothing” or “not anointed”, is contained in the “memory” of Jehovah, which “remembers” about them, pre-creating “heaven on earth”, and will make them again and have settled in well all a familiar world filled with food, clothing, good work, etc.

Until recently, the activity of “Jehovah’s Witnesses” was banned in the following countries: Spain, Greece, Romania, Dominican Republic, Malawi, etc. Unlimited freedom of action missionaries of the society have in many African countries – Angola, Benin, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and others. The number of sectarians has now reached more than 12 million people. They are grouped into 89 000 meetings.

The branches of the company “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. In the organizational structure of the sect below the Brooklyn leadership of the Corporation are far-flung branches, or so-called “Weili” coordinating and guiding the work of sectarians in the countries, regions, districts. Branches of the sect are placed in a specially built buildings are not just houses or “houses of culture” faithful “witnesses”, and some mystical “structures associated with the worship of Jehovah in our day”. Bethel is also called the “House of God” where “every any purpose – whether for work on the machine, the printing of spiritual food, washing clothes, cooking, working in the kitchen, or anywhere else – everything is a sacred Ministry.” This appointment at the branch for a member of the sect “has primacy before other activities” and requires “humility, submission and obedience to the guidance given by the Company”. The Russian branch of the organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, officially called “Religious Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses”, registered in Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation, but managed by a parent organization from new York that is registered there as a publisher. Governing body of a regional religious organization in the CIS countries is the Management center (Bethel). The center was established “Ruling Corporation” in March 1991 in Moscow. Management centre is headed by a steering Committee composed of elders, local religious communities, appointed “Ruling Corporation”. Management the center shall establish a local society, gives instructions about the beginning of their religious activities and their termination, and appoints and dismisses officers (elders), office assistants (deacons), public speakers (preachers) and other Ministers. The final decision on all of the above takes, however, the “Ruling Corporation”. At the head of the Management center is the focal point.

Primary structure – the meeting. The primary organizational unit are the “Assembly” of members of the sect, who hold their meetings in the so-called “Halls of kings.” Every meeting holds five meetings a week, including classes in the program “school of theocratic Ministry”, a study of the “Watchtower” and others. In every meeting there is appointed elder and his assistants, such as supervisor meetings, office helpers, etc. who carry out Ministry in meeting, training, supervision of the “purity of the congregation” and the preaching activity on the territory entrusted to them. They are trained in the “School improvement service” and “the School of Royal service”, prepared by the office elders and assistants to theocratic assignments”. Each year, the sect also conducts recruitment campaigns – regional, regional and international congresses. Most impressive was the Congress in 1993 in Kyiv, at the Republican stadium has gathered more than 64,000 people. During this event, the initiation into a sect took 7 402. In recent years, Russia has conducted one to two dozen congresses.

All the members of the sect are called to continuous preaching of the doctrines of the sect throughout his life: “Witnesses do not devote to the service of some an hour or two a week. They devote to the service of life.” Preachers of the sect differ in varying degrees preaching Ministry, but conditionally they can be divided into ordinary sectarians and those who are working to promote professionally, being on the content of a sect, the so-called “pioneers”. There is a regulated mode of operation, depending on qualifications ranges from 60 to 140 hours per month. The most promising pioneers of service with experience an average of 12 years receive an invitation for further study of missionary activity in “Bible schools Watchtower Gilead”. Graduates of the school of “Gilead” receive missionary appointment in any country irrespective of the wishes: “Missionaries do not decide for themselves where they will live and what work to perform.”

“Instructions” Brooklyn of the Corporation to the members of the Assembly of the sect about the relationship with neapolitani. The Corporation requires from his subordinates “to restrict the communication with those who devoted themselves to Jehovah.” This does not exclude the situation when the servant of Jehovah should not show sympathy, for example, when a close friend or relative deprived of “communication” (in other words, was expelled from the Assembly of the sect), and not “reported”, not to succumb to the feeling of pity – such a firm stance might even encourage the sinner to repent. In other words, a firm stance can be applied to the mother, father, husband, wife… If a member of a sect met with a man who does not share the views of the leaders of the sect, he urges “to stop destructive relationship, before there was irreparable harm, because such relationships are not like God, but also threaten the happiness and well-being of a man,” or “worse”, he will become an apostate, who will again be “in the darkness of Christendom and its doctrines, such as belief, that all Christians go to heaven”, is passionately desired and “joyful obedience to government” and “administration” of the sect (Brooklyn Corporation).

All niegowski religious organization referred to as their “Satan” (“What organizations can exist outside the true congregation? Only Satan’s organization”), which will be destroyed at Armageddon (“Jehovah will destroy the bad people that are not corrected”).

Printed publications of the sect. Own publishing company in Brooklyn originated in 1927. It currently includes a complex of 7 buildings plus the office building. There are auxiliary production facilities for 3,000 workers. Working in all the institutions of the sect, including the headquarters for the zealots money is rarely paid. The main press organ of the sect is “the Watchtower”, which is published in 120 languages with a circulation of more than 16 million copies monthly. In addition, the magazine “Awake!” a monthly with a circulation of about 13 million copies in 75 languages. All these editions are printed at the same time, so all the “witnesses” receive the same information at the same time. Other publications include brochures type “enjoy life on earth forever!” (more than 72 million for 198 languages) or “Behold I make all things new,” “Government that will bring Paradise”, with similar circulations. Books of the sect are also published millions of copies, for example: “You can live forever in Paradise on earth” (67 million copies in 114 languages). Distribution of magazines and books occurs during home visits, in the distribution in the streets, bazaars, gas stations, public transportation, on airplanes – wherever possible and is a duty for all members of the sect.