Denise 8/3/25 Denise 8/3/25

NOAH: Who Was He? Part 1

Before Noah steps onto the scene, Genesis describes what the world was like in Noah’s days. It was corrupt, violent, completely lost and in opposition to God. So, how does the Bible describe the world at the time? Even Jesus, in reference to His coming kingdom, warns us of the “days of Noah” concerning what is still in our future and many would argue were in when Jesus walked among us and the days in which we continue to live. See Luke 17:20-37.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 7/27/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 7/27/25

Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Have One True God?

The next time the Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your door you may ask them, "Does your organization teach more than one true God?"

Almost without fail the sharp Witness will reply, “We only believe in one true God, Jehovah.”

Explain that you agree with this statement saying, “I also believe in only one true God and all other gods are false gods.”

Then ask, “How do you understand John 1:1 that teaches, ‘the Word [Jesus] was God?’”

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 7/20/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 7/20/25

Israel & the Watchtower Society

The Watchtower Society says today that the ‘Israel’ in Romans 11 is the 144,000 and not ethnic Jews or national Israel. However, the problem for Jehovah’s Witnesses comes further down in this same chapter when Paul says that the Jews (the Watchtower’s 144,000) are “blinded” (verse 25), and “enemies” of the gospel (verse 28). With these statements she realized that Paul could not be talking about the 144,000 when he calls them blinded and enemies. They must be ethnic and national Israel.

Dawne 7/13/25 Dawne 7/13/25

Book Review: Unveiling Grace, …Our Way Out of the Mormon Church, Part 3

THE PRE-EXISTENCE: “… before the creation of the world, Heavenly Father had sired and Heavenly Mother had borne millions of their spirit children. After the world was created, these spirits eagerly awaited to come to earth to receive physical bodies. Only the righteous spirits who had followed Jesus (not Satan [Jesus’s brother]) in the pre-existence war in heaven were allowed … to come to earth. They longed to be born into a “righteous” family (Mormon), in which they could learn the “true gospel of Jesus Christ” (Mormonism).” (p. 45)

Dawne 7/6/25 Dawne 7/6/25

Book Review: Unveiling Grace, …Our Way Out of The Mormon Church, Part 2

When the dark suited, well-groomed young men arrived at their door in the Wilders’ early married life, they began to present their flip charts of the time sharing what the Mormons wanted them to know about the Church.

Lynn says, “My analytical brain never slept peacefully back then. …I was so ignorant about Christianity, I didn’t even know intelligent questions to ask… The questions I conjured up came from what they presented to us.” (p. 39)

Dawne 6/29/25 Dawne 6/29/25

Book Review: Unveiling Grace Part 1

Unveiling Grace, by former Brigham Young University professor, Dr. Lynn K. Wilder, is an intimate look into not only her life and that of her family’s, but also of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, better known as the Mormon Church.

Lynn and her husband, Michael, joined the Mormon Church as young adults, newly married. Both had been raised in Christian homes, but Lynn, unschooled in the Bible, drifted in college when introduced to Freud, Darwin and Skinner among others. Michael, who believed in Jesus growing up, just couldn’t find a church that suited after leaving home.

Lindsay 6/22/25 Lindsay 6/22/25

Prayer of Anguish for Unsaved Loved Ones

Dear Lord, Heavenly Father,

It saddens me and my heart is anguished to see the ones closest to me that haven’t accepted You to be the Lord of their life, nor turned away from the things of this world. Lord, You declare, “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’” says the Lord. (Romans 12:19, NKJV) How much longer must I wait for the same love You showered upon me to save my loved ones from condemnation?

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/15/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/15/25

Why I Cannot be a Jehovah’s Witness, Reason #4

The Watchtower teaches that Jesus is the mediator only for the 144,000, not for the Great Crowd.

The WT teaches that the 144,000 are all believers from the time of the Apostles until 1935. They comprise the “Church,” the spirit-begotten believers who will go to heaven. There are only about 9,000 of these people alive today. [Our understanding is that there are very few left. The last ones would be from 1935 (or 1931) when they closed this group. After this point someone had to drop out for another person to take their place.]

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/8/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/8/25

Why I Cannot be a Jehovah’s Witness, Reason #3

The Watchtower has set up an image of itself as a prophet like Moses, or Elijah. However, when it is convenient, they admit they are just men who can make mistakes.

They can’t have it both ways. Either they are true prophets of God who do not make mistakes, or, they are just men who do err.

Here is what they have claimed:

The Governing Body of the Watchtower Society claims they are “The Faithful and Discreet Slave” of Matthew 24:45 “who alone can give spiritual meat in due season to the household of faith” (Watchtower, Feb. 1, 1952, p. 80).

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/1/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 6/1/25

Why I Cannot Be a Jehovah’s Witness: Their False Doctrines, Reason #2

The doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses are in diametric opposition to historic biblical Christianity. There is no significant area of agreement. They are wrong on just about everything.

Among the most essential doctrines denied by them are the deity of Christ, the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the bodily resurrection of Jesus, His visible second coming, hell, the nature of man, the gospel, and many more.

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Why I Cannot Be a Jehovah’ Witness: Their False Bible, Reason #1

Approximately one-third of the New Testament is written against error, either to warn believers about false teachers, or to answer their false doctrines. And, all but one book of the New Testament contains some warning or admonition against heresy. The reason is simple: it really does matter what a person believes.

… The New World Translation is a mistranslation of the Scriptures. It has been changed in key places to promote the doctrines of the Watchtower Society. Revelation 22:18-19 condemns such adding to, or, taking away from what God has said to us.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 5/11/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 5/11/25

Doublethink

Doublethink!!! The art of self-contradiction without being noticed.

Any Bible-based cult must distinguish itself from every other group’s expression of Biblical teaching. Otherwise, the cult’s followers might get the idea that there is somewhere else to go if they have a disagreement with the cult.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 5/4/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 5/4/25

Who Joins Spiritually Abusive Groups?

The question of who joins high control religious groups seems like it would have a simple answer. It does not. Nor is there a simple answer to how it happens. The starting place should be the question of what disposes a person to spiritual abuse? Why is a person vulnerable? What differences in people make one vulnerable and another not so vulnerable?

Here is a list that may help you think it through. Which of these statements fit you?

Lindsay 4/27/25 Lindsay 4/27/25

Excommunicated

Back in 2008, I was excommunicated as Jehovah’s Witness from the Watchtower Society. I did not yet know the Lord Jesus. But that night—the same night I was excommunicated—I felt a ball and chain fall off of me. I paid the price of losing my relationship with my parents and sister. I went on to live a very sinful life, as I thought I was free to live how I wanted to.

I had to endure heartache, guilt, rejection, depression, anxiety, and fear, at times in and out of the emergency room for panic attacks and health related issues, not realizing these were lies from the enemy.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/20/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/20/25

What Is God’s Name?

Jehovah’s Witnesses have very little understanding of the Name they have taken for themselves. The origin of the Name is in Exodus 3, where a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus as “the angel of the Lord” says His name is I Am. In Hebrew the Angel of the Lord said, “ehyeh asher ehyeh” which was translated as “I Am that I Am.” It means “I Am the Eternal” which tells us the Angel of the Lord was the pre-incarnate Jesus. The Hebrew behind I Am is the origin of Yahweh.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/13/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/13/25

Israel Reborn

(Frank Scherschel The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up the ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.(Isaiah 11:11-12)

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/6/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 4/6/25

Concerning Mormon Authority & Blacks in the Priesthood

Joseph Smith’s First Vision. Mormons teach that in the pre-existence Lucifer began a war in heaven over the rejection of his plan of salvation. One third of the sons of God sided with Lucifer, one third fought against him, and one third failed to be valiant in the struggle.

Brigham Young said these non-valiant sons of God were cursed from ever holding the Mormon priesthood. So they can be identified they were given the mark of Cain, which Mormons say are the Negro, or dark skinned, features.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/30/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/30/25

The Bodily Resurrection

When we share the Bible with a Jehovah’s Witness, we should emphasize what is most important for them to know. We must let them know that the bodily resurrection is of “FIRST IMPORTANCE.”

My recommendation is that we should focus our witness to them on a topic that is essential to the Gospel. It also helps that this doctrine is very clear in the New Testament. There are no interpretive or textual problems. There are also a lot fewer verses to cover than other key doctrines like the Trinity [which, in Make Sure Ministries’ opinion, is not a subject that should be approached in early conversations, but rather just the deity of Christ].

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/23/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/23/25

Ancient Heretics: Marcion

Marcion, born in Pontus (modern day Turkey) about 85 AD, was one of the more significant of the gnostic heretics. The impact of his teachings and movement are largely unknown today. However, many of his doctrines survive in modern heretical movements.

Gnosticism holds that the material world is evil but the spiritual realm is holy. This led to heretical views that Jesus was not genuinely a flesh and blood man but a manifestation. You will find Gnosticism in modern cults such as Christian Science, among others.

David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/23/25 David Henke, Watchman.org, slightly edited with permission 3/23/25

Ancient Heresies: Docetism within Christian Science

Most of the earliest heresies in Christianity originated from the gnostic influence on the Church that was so prevalent at the time.

Christians are aware that what we read in the New Testament is frequently a response, or reaction, to what was going on in the Church at that time. Much of the New Testament is a record of the application of revealed Truth to a contemporary problem. Someone might think that what was going on two millennia ago is not quite relevant to our circumstances in a modern world. This is not true at all.