HISTORY OF EARLY WATCHTOWER
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2010-12-03 – Discussion re- JWs Faith In Action DVD
The New Jehovah’s Witness Movie, “Faith in Action” covers the history of the early Watchtower, focusing on the life and ministry of Pastor Russell. Is this movie accurate? Does it omit any important facts and events? Is the part about J. F. Rutherford accurate? Former JW and Bethelite, David Stein will interview former JWs and historians to get to the truth and fill in the details. After the interview, each of you will have the opportunity to communicate with us and with all those joining us for this webcast scheduled for 7:00 pm US Central Time on Friday, Dec 3, 2010.
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What a nice post. I genuinely enjoy reading these sorts or articles or blog posts. I can?t wait to determine what other people have to say.
Al – In all fairness, I am not sure why the JW Organization would want to promote the Free Masons. I don’t claim to be an expert here, so I could be missing something. Maybe they were just using a famous inquisition torture picture??? I don’t know. John Coustos was arrested by the Portuguese Catholic Inquisition. After questioning he was sentenced to the galleys for Freemasonry and for his refusing to turn Roman Catholic. Although I am not a Mason and would disagree with any mystical connections, I can’t deny that a few of the Founding Fathers and over a third of the Generals in the Continental Army were Masons. Perhaps there is more to the Masons than I know. I have never really made a study.
Al, now I have to look at the whole DVD agin to see what you see. Thanks.
I saw the whole thing… it was a tribute to freemasonry starting with John Coustos (the grand master of a masonic lodge in Lisbon, Portugal)… you’ll notice two illustrations of him being tortured. Also, all the historical figures highlighted in this production were or had direct links to freemasonry. If you look up the credits at the end of the movie, you’ll notice that the watchtower gives special thanks to entities that have direct links to freemasonry and even thank the freemason authors of the books that were cited. No doubt that Society owes a lot to the freemasons and this movie is just the start… there will be a lot more to come… keep your eyes open…
I’ve just watched the entire production , have to say I thought the quality of the production was excellent , although the history is obviously biased towards the JW perspective. I thought they did a pretty good job on their portrayal of Russell and I really hope it makes current JWs want to research further . Perhaps it will have a greater impact than given credit for – it left me asking many more questions as I think from my perspective , they glossed over or omitted alot of important detail .