What Stephen Lett told me about the anointed!

What Stephen told me about the anointed.

[Barry]

I am anointed, and still have God's holy spirit. I was disfellowship 10 years ago now, for wanting to discuss with the elders something in 1 Thessalonians 4, 16-17 that are father showed me, i honestly thought they would be glad. I did everything correctly, i wrote to the governing body first, and told them i was going to do as they had said was the right thing to do in the awake article, , it said go and talk with two elders, or two mature brothers. So i did. then when i had a shepherding call i mentioned the above to one of the elders, he was instantly very disrespectful to me, it didn't mater that i had wrote to the governing body. What happened there started a chain reaction, one elder who had been appoint a week before tuck it upon himself when he saw me in discussion at the next meeting with the elders that had come on the shepherding call . He openly said that I was going to get disfellowship and he did. by the way none of them the three elders that were involved new anything about it not even the scripture, i had been a j w all my life, i am now in my sixties.
I still have the holy spirit that came to me and anointed me, since then are farther has shown me other things to strengthen me though this difficult time.
I am not afraid.

God bless you

[universeworld]

In 73 I was not on board with 1975, which brought hatred down on me from the 3 anointed in our Congregation. So 2 times they tried to disfellowship me accusing me of smoking first, then the second time it turned into outright slander by one of the anointed and he was publicly reproved for that but not removed as an Elder. Anyone else would have been disfellowshipped but he was not. Yet he never spoke to me again after that. So I would say he was not repentant. You are correct in that the Faithful Slave use to be all 144, 000 anointed but finally just GB for basically legal real estate reasons. So the GB is now in control of all properties. 🤔🤫 don't tell the 🐑 the truth! But as you also know the announcement was not that he stepped down, but that he is no longer a GB member. Same way they would announce the removal of an Elder or Ministerial Servant. But it does raise a lot of questions about are GB members really the Faithful Slave? 🤔 and can one who claimed to be of the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class appointed by Jesus himself be stepped down by other Faithfu Slaves? Could the Apostles remove other Apostles?Not very Discreet is it?

[inagoodplace]

I remember a elderly brother that was anointed in the 1960s. Patriarch of not only the family but congregation. He disagreed with something that was being changed. He was in his 90s. They disfellowshipped him and said he was no longer going to be with Jehovah. This hurt my heart and brain. Because he was anointed. They were not. He was old. They were not. He had empathy. They did not. How dare they say Jehovah turned his back on this sweet old brother. Jehovah wouldn’t do that. But men do. And did. He died from a broken heart. And old age. Sad that they couldn’t let it go. Sad they couldn’t listen to an old man that had more love and experience. After being one of the first to follow and go through so much persecution and misery and then have the one thing you have defended in your life taken away by men, not god. It was one of the many things that made me feel this was not the “TRUTH”.

[Mabeylater]

Nine MEN with the control WE give them.
Never again!!!!

[livingatwhittsend]

That was the belief when I was a JW as well. Although my mother believed she was anointed & started partaking.. everyone thought she was crazy. After quite a few years, she was sick & elderly and wasn't able to get to the passover, and nobody turned up to take her to the meeting. She came to the realization that she wasn't anointed. As heaven & earth would have moved to get the emblems to her. I just thought how ignorant the elders were for treating her so badly. Nothing was said about her not having the earthly hope. 🤷‍♀️

[EfrainRiveraJunior]

That's what I was told as well. Either you are in or out, but never demoted to an Earthly Hope.

[proveitoso]

Thank you for letting us know this information :)

[tammyg]

Thanks Brandy for the insight. Nice seeing you again. Watchtower will pay for what they have done. Take Care.

[gjr-DFW]

I wonder how many other Sundays was uncle Tony out there 'conjuring up Spirits', Irish Spirits, to be exact - whilst we was clamped down in congregation meetings?

[reginaldedison]

If he’s removed from online articles and publications then that’s the tell tell sign

[rockpadstudios]

it's easy to make it up as you go along - Lett knows this more than most

[vintage]

Brandy,
I was friends with Steven Lett's first cousin, Becky. I won't put her last name here. She married and they became "apostate". I would love to find her again, now that I've awakened. My Father had been in prison with Becky's Father during WWII, so you can see how much this would mean to me. Becky would be about 75 years old now.

[K-Fred]

Thank you for sharing this. It's nice having the insight from your perspective.

[Ed]

Thanks Brandy for the update... This understanding is my recollection and I go back to the 60.... Great to see you looking well and going forward with your life.... Sent from the UK...

[joachimgoethe]

I faded from the watchtower corporation 27 years ago. I've had no regrets since in doing so. Evidently, I'm not alone. Defunct kingdom halls with, "FOR SALE" signs posted are becoming more commonplace.

[danlandavazo]

Great questions! I've struggled. Sister full time pioneer. brother in law Elder all nephews. JW. LOVE THEM ALL!
They love me. Guess I'll always be the black sheep. Jesus will find me.

[raysamuels]

Amazing that they can just make stuff up and millions of people around the world act like it's manna from heaven.

[fifthdimension]

If you want an explanation of the when, why, who and how the anointed class are selected and operate, find a recording of Abbott & Costello's baseball skit entitled "who's on first, what's on second" That would just about be the same logic.

[kdrazalotg-usa]

Very interesting! Thanks for helping us figure out this

[trentmonaghan]

Good question. I had never thought of that before.