knock, knock: Shedding light on Jehovah's Witness at the door Ruth Baker
Knock, Knock unveils the mystery of the obsure methods employed by this cult. It is a vital key to understanding how & why they become J.W.s and develop a closed mind. It will also equip Chrisitians to protect themselves and challenge them to boldly speak the gospel to everyone.
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Witnessing methods that
just don’t work and why
This chapter is probably the most important information
a Christian can have in order to adequately understand the
closed mind of a Jehovah’s Witness. I know there are many
Christians who not only want to give a proper defense of the
Gospel, but also want to extend spiritual help, spiritual help
that leads to salvation and eternal life. Too often, though,
Christians get angry, frustrated, and disheartened because
every avenue that is taken seems to meet a rebuttal or refusal
of some kind. Nothing seems to work. Here are a few meth-
ods Christians have used that just don’t work and why.
Religious Handouts /Literature
Have you ever tried to give Christian literature of some type
to a Jehovah’s Witness? Or have you told them you will take
their material if they take yours? If you have, you know ? rst-
hand that they refuse it. But why?
Their ? rst response to you may be they don’t need it.
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While J.W.s do believe that they have the only true belief, it
goes much deeper than that. Once again, it is fear grounded
in their false doctrine. Let me explain since I’ve been there
and done that.
Jehovah’s Witnesses have a well-developed doctrine
based on Babylon the Great as recorded in Revelation 14: 8
and Revelation 17. They teach that Babylon the Great, the
harlot who sits on a many-headed, scarlet colored beast, is
Satan’s worldwide organization of false religion. This empire
of false religion has adulterated herself with governments
and the world in general. It is full of false worship, idolatry,
idolatrous symbols, and demons. But who or what constitutes
Babylon the Great in their reality? You may have guessed it
already: Every religious belief and denomination in the world
with the exception of Jehovah’s Witnesses, whether it is
Christian or non-Christian. It then extends to include each
person belonging to these so-called false religions.
Therefore, when one of them comes to your door and
you say you have your own belief and church, they instantly
and subconsciously identify you with Babylon the Great-
with Satan’s organization. In their strong conviction, that
also means your literature is Satan’s vehicle to promote false
religious teachings.
So, this is the way it goes. They will preach to you because
of Jesus’ command to go into the world and make disciples.
They also feel that placing the written word through their
literature will open the door of setting you free from Satan’s
clutch. However, they will not take any of your material
because they have been thoroughly programmed not to take
any religious material. To do so would leave them open to
possible delusion and demonic attack. It would be a rare
occurrence for any one of them to even touch it because it
would make them guilty by association and transfer. Let
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me recap the following main points for clarity, just in case I
haven’t explained it clearly enough along the way:
1. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that all belief and
religious systems except theirs is Satan’s reli-
gious empire, Babylon the Great.
2. All people who believe in any religion but theirs
are in spiritual darkness and under Satan’s
control.
3. All religious materials, symbols, rites, etc., are
satanic.
4. For any J.W. to take part in any way, e.g., taking
religious publications, puts them in danger of
possibly falling prey to Satan.
5. They are endangering their eternal life by tak-
ing material because it opens them up to aban-
doning God’s true religion and organization,
which leads to separation from Jehovah. If
this happens, then it results in bringing God’s
wrath and eternal destruction upon them at
Armageddon.
Consequently, the efforts of many well-intentioned peo-
ple who write up pamphlets, books, etc., to give J.W.s at the
door are usually in vain. I’m not accusing anyone of trying to
scam Christians. It’s just that most people do not understand
why a Witness will not take the literature regardless of what
it may be-whether it is free or you take their literature. The
truth is plain and simple-Jehovah’s Witnesses simply will not
take them because they perceive them as a potential satanic
foothold.
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Personal Testimonies
Let me say ? rst of all, that personal testimony of God’s work
in anyone’s life is powerful. Essentially, experience is greater
than any other type of argument that can be made. It brings
glory to God by showing how His mercy, power, and grace
have worked and are still working. I’m not advocating that
personal testimonies are useless. I do not aspire to stand in
the place of God. You must let personal prayer and the Holy
Spirit be your guide. Testimonies, nevertheless, are greatly
ineffective with Jehovah’s Witnesses as a whole. Why?
Again, their mind is almost totally closed when you
speak of supernatural experiences. This condition also stems
from a deeply ingrained false doctrine regarding the Holy
Spirit. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the Holy Spirit is not
a person or being of any kind. Rather, they claim the Spirit is
God’s power that God pours out upon whomever and when-
ever He desires. They explain God’s power, or to use their
phrase “God’s active force,†as a force such as lightning or
electricity. It comes and it goes, but never stays in one place
and is never in all places at the same time. Thus He created,
anointed, destroyed, led, and gave inspiration by this force.
I could go into many details about their rejection of
the Trinity doctrine, which is at the bottom of this doc-
trine. However, I must keep this section simple and to the
point: What is really behind their rejection of your personal
testimony?
Jehovah
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