Does the Governing Body Of the Jehovah's Witnesses still believe ...?

Question

That the United Nations is still Satans organization, this after they joined the UN in 1991.

Answer 1

That really depends, I think on how they feel. The governing body has changed their minds in the past and hidden it from Witnesses. A great example is concerning 1914.

Answer 2

Unlike other religions where their governing bodies are made up of paid and/or elected elitists, the Governing Body of the witnesses are made up of the rank and file of the witnesses. They do not hold this position for life, nor get paid. They spend time in the position than rotate out.

As all JWs learn the same way, the Bible as a whole and not the sum of its parts, than they would continue to follow the concept that all the nations of the world, and their representatives, will be destroyed by God in the end. Why would God destroy them if they were truly follows of his?

Actually, most every religion has stated at one time or another that the UN is backed by Satan.

Only the Vatican has standing to join the UN, as they have recognized embassies throughout the planet. Other religions are registered with the UN, in that the UN monitors the spread of religious beliefs on the planet and reports on their size. A recent report stated that their numbers are growing in Cuba where they are allowed to do the house to house work for over 20 years.

Answer 3

As an organization, the Jehovah's Witnesses religion rejects these allegations, and refuse to discuss such lying nonsense.

http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/
However, individual Witnesses (independent of any "official" branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses) have thoroughly refuted these shameless anti-Witness accusations, using actual scanned images of the UN's own documents.
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/


Jehovah's Witnesses never joined the United Nations, in 1991 or any other year. They used the UN's libraries, which are used by tens of thousands of scholars, educators, students, and writers in New York City.

Years ago, a volunteer from the Watchtower Society filled out a one-side-of-one-page document requesting approval for him and his colleagues to use the libraries at the United Nations (which are only 5 miles from WT offices).

At the time no signature was even required on that form. Each accepted applicant was designated by the UN and became listed as an 'NGO' (a "non-government organization"). The term is not specific to the UN and everywhere else on the planet the term "non-government organization" simply implies that the entity is:
1. Not a government entity; and
2. An organization (rather than a person)

Sooner or later, the annual renewal began requiring a signature, which a WT representative submitted each year thereafter. According to the form itself, the signature simply verified that this was a bona fide request.

At some truly arbitrary point, some United Nations bureaucrat decided that the term "non-government organization" (which had been and still is used millions of times each day by thousands of agencies of all types around the globe) was a special term! This bureaucrat decided that the term "non-government organization" meant that the organization endorses the UN!

Existing UN NGO's were not asked to enumerate this supposed endorsement. This incredibly presumptuous change was not even formally communicated to renewal applicants, and there was nothing on the renewal form which could possibly be interpreted as authorizing this remarkable conceit.

Weeks or months after the renewal request was submitted and accepted, the UN bureaucracy finally sneaked this ridiculous after-the-fact assumption into two sentences of fineprint at the end of a boilerplate booklet sent to non-government organizations.

For decades, Jehovah's Witnesses had discussed the United Nations as a human counterfeit of God's global Messianic Kingdom government. Suddenly, enemies of Jehovah's Witnesses pretended that Jehovah's Witnesses must actually be in some kind of secret alliance with the UN (apparently along with the thousands of other library patrons). Jehovah's Witnesses acted quickly to distance themselves from the idea that they endorsed ANYTHING associated with the United Nations. They "tore up" their library card, as it were, and formally renounced the idea that Jehovah's Witnesses had ever endorsed the UN.

The matter is unconfusing and straightforward to any fairminded person. The remarkable conspiracy theories of anti-Witness critics fail to explain any possible benefit to Jehovah's Witnesses from "the secret alliance" (which also involved the thousands of other library patrons).

Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", Jehovah's Witnesses continued to publicly denounce the ungodly nature of the UN. Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", Jehovah's Witnesses continued to be widely persecuted in dozens of countries. Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", the UN continued to be consistently unsympathetic to religious persecution.

The conspiracy theorists and anti-Witnesses are illogical and wrong regarding their accusations that Jehovah's Witnesses' status as a "non-government organization" supposedly indicated some endorsement of the United Nations.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20010201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011015/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_08.htm

Answer 4

Some people just cannot accept the truth can they?

The Witnesses say they needed to use the library at the UN however according to the UN you do not need to be affiliated to them to do so.

However the witnesses are NOT allowed to question so how are they to know the truth of such matters.

Answer 5

Do you really believe religious organizations can become members of the United Nations? Do you really believe making such a blanket allegation will hold water with thinking people? Do you believe it is proper to use this forum for using inflammatory speech to incite dissension or for asking sincere questions?

Hannah J Paul

Answer 6

the Jehovah Witnessses never joined the UN and never will.

Answer 7

You bet. If you follow the logic threads that they have, you will wind up with your head tied in a knot.

Answer 8

they didn't join it - how pathetic - as someone answered on a similar question they aren't a country! - ha