A Prophet Was NOT Among Them! Part 5

Welcome to Part 5 of 6 of my series "A Prophet was NOT Among Them!" I have taken up the WT challenge, "It is easy to say you are a Prophet of God but another thing to prove it. The only way to prove you are a Prophet is to review the record. WHAT DOES IT SHOW?" In Parts 1-4 I have looked at four WT prophecies. If they have not been fulfilled, "exactly as predicted," then they are a False Prophet.

The Prophecies I looked at:

Part 1--Prophecy of 1878--The End of the Harvest which is here. 

Part 2--Prophecy of 1914--The Destruction of Christendom and the End of Human Rulership which is here.

Part 3--Prophecy of 1925--Resurrection of the Patriarchs which is here.

Part 4--Prophecy of 1975--Armageddon Promised! which is here.

In each case, the foretold Prophecy DID NOT come to pass. Therefore, I have labeled the WT a False Prophet. In Part 4, I quoted the WT:

"Jehovah, the God of the true prophets, will put ALL false prophets to shame either by not fulfilling the false prediction of such self-assuming prophets or by having His own prophecies fulfilled in a way opposite to that predicted by the false prophets. FALSE PROPHETS WILL TRY TO HIDE THEIR REASON FOR FEELING SHAME BY DENYING WHO THEY REALLY ARE."

Has the WT engaged in this activity, denying who they really are, as we would expect from a False Prophet? WHAT DOES THE RECORD SHOW?

The official WT position on these false prophecies?

(1) The WT has said, “in their human fallibility, they misinterpreted matters.” (Awake!, March 22, 1993, pg. 4) However, Deuteronomy 18 does not have exceptions. If their argument is an exception, then in ancient Israel, any false prophet could say the same thing and then stick around to further deceive Israel.

(2) The WT says that they are not false prophets because their intentions were good. “JW’s, in their eagerness for Jesus’ second coming, have suggested dates that turned out to be incorrect.” (Awake!, March 22, 1993 page.) However, is eagerness an excuse? Check out 1 Sam 13:8-14 and see if God accepted Saul’s eagerness as a valid reason for disobeying the Word of God. Of course God did not, it is not an excuse.

(3) The WT states, “we never said these were the words of God.” However,  remember The Watchtower, 4-1-72, page 197, states, "So does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come? These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? . . . This "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.”

A Prophet Was NOT Part 6 is here.