For 46 years
Jehovah's Witnesses compromised their
worship in Mexico to retain ownership of material property .
1995 Yearbook p.211-213 states that from 1932-1943 the Watchtower was
registered as a religious organization. However the government required that
all property used for religious purposes become federal property. For that
reason the Society changed their registration to a "Cultural Society"
that educates. This meant that the brothers can no longer sing, pray and use
the Bible in their "cultural" meetings. This way they sacrificed the
worship of Jehovah, singing praises to him and using the Bible because owning
their property and assets was much more important than praying, singing &
using the Bible. They made the Government believe that they just educated
people culturally and were NOT IN ANY WAY a religious organization.
99.9% of Mexican Witnesses today don't realize that the Governing Body CHOSE
to do away with public worship in order to keep their assets. Even traveling
overseers believe the evil demonic Mexican Government opposed their worship
when in actuality it was deliberately CHOSEN BY THE GOVERNING BODY.
They could've kept praying, singing and using the Bible at meetings but they
would have to surrender their Kingdom Halls, Branch facilities, Assembly Halls
to the Federal Government. When the laws changed (late 80's early 90's) and
religious organizations were allowed to keep their own property, the Governing
Body changed their registration as they were no longer a Cultural Society and
the brothers were told they can now sing, pray & use the Bible at their
meetings.
The naive sheep of course saw this as Jehovah's blessing and shed tears of
joy when they were told the news. All along it was the Governing Body that
compromised the worship of God for their own benefit.
Here's the quote from the 1995 Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses
La Torre del Vigía de
México—A Cultural Society
You will recall that back in 1932 La Torre
del Vigía de México had been authorized by the government. However, there were
obstacles because of the restrictions that the law imposed on all religions.
Objections were raised to the house-to-house activity of the Witnesses, since
the law stipulated that ‘every religious act of public worship must be held
inside the temples.’ For the same reason, objections were raised to our
conventions in public places. This was a problem, because these conventions
were constantly getting larger. Owning property also presented problems,
because the law required that every building used for religious purposes had to
become federal property.
For these and other reasons, the Society
decided that it would be wise to reorganize, with a view to giving greater
emphasis to the educational nature of our work. Therefore, on June 10, 1943,
application was made to the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs to register La Torre
del Vigía as a civil society, and this was approved on June 15, 1943.
With this rearrangement, singing at our
meetings was discontinued, and the meeting places became known as Halls for
Cultural Studies. No audible prayers were said at meetings, though nothing
could prevent a person from saying an earnest prayer silently in his heart.
Every appearance of a religious service was avoided, and truly our meetings are
designed for education. When Witnesses in other lands began to call their local
groups “congregations,” the Witnesses in Mexico kept on using the term
“companies.” House-to-house visits by the Witnesses continued, and with even
more zeal; but direct use of the Bible at doors was avoided. Instead,
publishers learned the texts by heart so that they could quote them. They also
made good use of the book “Make Sure of All Things,” which is a
compilation of Scripture quotations on many subjects. Only on return visits and
on studies (which were termed “cultural” instead of “Bible”) was the Bible
itself used.
The principal work of Jehovah’s Witnesses
remained the same, namely, preaching the good news of God’s Kingdom.
"*** yb95 pp. 211-213
Mexico ***
"In 1989, with the approval of the Governing Body, a letter was written
to all the “companies” saying that as of April 1, we would be operating in Mexico
as a religious organization."
yb95 p. 233 Mexico
During this same time period (1943 - 1989) the WT hypocritically printed:
*** w79 5/15 p. 21 par. 15 Prayer in These “Last Days” ***If
we compromise in order to avoid persecution, then, of course, there would be no
need to keep on praying. This would not only indicate a lack of faith, but
would also result in our losing the evidence of being one of God’s Christian
servants.
*** w74 4/1 p. 202 Does Fear of Neighbor Control Your Life? ***Those
few of Jehovah’s witnesses who denied their faith while in the German
concentration camps during World War II were held up to ridicule before the
entire camp by the Nazi officers, reviled as hypocrites and cowards. Some of
them were asked, “Now that you have denied your God Jehovah, what god will you
serve?”
*** w70 4/1 p. 219 par. 16 When Building Disciples, Motivate the
Heart *** (Malawi)When a Christian witness of Jehovah of Ntifinyire
Village was beaten for refusing to purchase a political card, Banda’s youths
took a knife and made cuts encircling his arms and then his legs and inflicted
many cuts on his head. Other Witnesses had six-inch nails driven into their
feet, bicycle spokes were forced through their legs and then these Christians
were told to run. Still others were tortured with a burning stick placed
against their arms, legs, head and entire body. Still these Witnesses refused
to compromise their religious beliefs or deny their God Jehovah under such
barbaric torture. You may be called upon someday to prove your faith. How will
your faith stand up?
*** w57 8/15 p. 496 par. 11 Happy Are the Peaceable ***Though
total support and worship is demanded by Satan’s organization today, true
Christians follow the example of the faithful Hebrew men of old, who refused to
compromise their worship, even though threatened with death.
*** w57 2/1 p. 75 Faith Conquers the World ***Christendom
likes to sing hymns about “Dare to be a Daniel, dare to face the foe,” but by
their course of action they show that they do not have the faith of Daniel.
They see only some visible enemies and even with them they compromise.
*** w52 5/1 p. 264 par. 17 1914 a Marked Year! ***Thus in
spite of Satan’s ironlike governments and their strong powers of persecution
Jehovah’s people in all ages have stood apart and survived. It is only those
who have shown a lack of faith and who compromised that would take themselves
out from under God’s special care.
I'm sure that the prophet Daniel would be very proud of them for following
his example of non-compromise.
