By Gary Brown Jr.
October 14th, 2001
An article by the Guardian (see link below) titled “Jehovah’s Witness link to UN Queried” exposed the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York (WTBTS of NY) as being associated with the United Nations (UN) Department of Public Information (DPI) registered as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO). Further investigation reveals that not only is this true, but that they have been registered with the DPI since 1992 and began their application for association in 1991. What is even more revealing is the fact that within a few days of this discovery being made public, the WTBTS of NY requested termination of its association with the DPI. On October 9th, 2001 the DPI made a decision to grant the Watchtowers request for disassociation.
“Jehovah’s Witness link to UN Queried”
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,565005,00.html
“’Hypocrite’ Jehovah’s Witnesses abandon secret link with UN”
www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,574175,00.html
United Nations Department of Information homepage with association criteria:
www.un.org/partners/civil_society/ngo/ngos-dpi.htm#top
Photocopy of faxed letter concerning disassociation and other relative documentation:
http://www.randytv.com/secret/united_nations_2001.htm
The criteria is quite interesting; in particular, an NGO must support and respect the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and an NGO must have the commitment and the means to conduct effective information programs with its constituents and to a broader audience about UN activities by publishing newsletters, bulletins and pamphlets…
This is antithetical to the Watchtowers view of the United Nations:
“
With the war of the great day of God the Almighty impending,
why trust in a refuge, such as the U.N., that cannot prove trustworthy?
Mankind’s only hope for permanent peace is God’s kingdom.” Awake! 2/8/67 pg. 4
“ What a disgusting thing in God’s sight that religio-political
alliance responsible for killing his Son. A similar disgusting
conspiracy was to be a feature of Jesus’ second presence. It is
here now. Today that
religio-political world alliance against
God’s kingdom finds its most powerful expression in the
clergy-blessed United Nations. What a disgusting thing this
clergy-supported alliance that stands before the attention
of the people where God’s kingdom should stand!”
Watchtower, 1961 pg. 630
Also read the article “Their Refuge a Lie!”,
Watchtower 6/1/91 which incidentally was during the year they were applying for
association with the DPI!
And even more damaging is the Watchtower issue of 5/1/99’s article entitled, “Let the Reader Use Discernment”:
“ In
a prophecy with implications for us today, Jesus outlined
a composite sign that included wars, food shortage, earthquakes,
pestilences, and persecution of Christians preaching about God’s
kingdom. (Matthew 24:4-14; Luke
21:10-19) Jesus also offered
a clue that would help his
disciples to know that the end was
close—a ‘disgusting thing that causes desolation standing in a holy
place.’ (Matthew 24:15) Let us
reexamine those meaningful words
to see how they can affect our lives now and in the future.
Demonstrating the confidence of Jehovah’s servants that this
prophecy would be fulfilled, The Watchtower of January 1, 1921,
focused on it in connection with developments in the Middle
East. Subsequently, in its December
15, 1929 issue, on page 374,
The Watchtower definitively said:
“The whole tendency of the
League of Nations is to turn the people away from God and from
Christ, and it is therefore a desolating thing, the product of
satan, and an abomination in the sight of God.” So in 1919 “the
disgusting thing” appeared. In
time, the League gave way to the
United Nations. Jehovah’s
Witnesses have long exposed these
human peace organizations as disgusting in God’s sight.
….this beast is supported by world rulers. Details supplied
in the prophecy help us to identify this symbolic beast as a peace
organization that came into existence in 1919 as the League of
Nations (a “disgusting thing”) and that is now the United Nations.”
Anyone who wishes to verify this information may contact the United Nations DPI section at:
Department of Public Information
Room S-1070L
United Nations, New York, N.Y. 10017
Fax (212) 963-6914
Phone (212) 963-8070 or (212) 963-6842
Or (212) 953-1842