Whose witnesses are Christians supposed to be?
Who are Jehovah's Witnesses?
Any arguments about Jesus being Jehovah aside, what does Jehovah's Witnesses' own New World Translation says about who are Jehovah's witnesses and who are Jesus' witnesses? First of all, who does the Bible say Jehovah's witnesses are?
The Jews
Isaiah 43:10 - "'YOU are my witnesses,' is the utterance of Jehovah, even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me, and that YOU may understand that I am the same One.'"
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Who
are Jesus' Witnesses?
The prophets
Acts 10:42-43 "Also, he ordered us to preach to the people and to give
a thorough witness that this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living
and the dead. 43 To
him all the prophets bear witness,
that everyone putting faith in him gets forgiveness of sins through his
name."
The Scriptures
John 5:39 "YOU are searching the Scriptures, because YOU think that by
means of them YOU will have everlasting life; and these
are the very ones that bear witness about me.
The Father
John 8:18 "I am one that bears
witness about myself,
and the Father
who sent me bears witness about me."
The Holy Spirit
John 15:26-27 "When the helper
arrives that I will send YOU from the Father, the spirit
of the truth,
which proceeds from the Father, that
one will bear witness about me;
27 and YOU,
in turn, are to bear witness,
because YOU have been with me from when I began."
Christians with the Holy Spirit
Acts 1:8 "but YOU will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon
YOU, and YOU
will be witnesses of me
both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the
most distant part of the earth."
Additional
from Revelation
John was imprisoned on Patmos for bearing witness to Jesus
Revelation 1:9 "I John, YOUR brother and a sharer with YOU in the
tribulation and kingdom and endurance in company with Jesus, came to be in the
isle that is called Patmos for speaking about God and bearing
witness to Jesus."
The remaining ones of the seed of the woman have the work of bearing witness to
Jesus
Revelation 12:17 "And the dragon grew wrathful at the woman, and went
off to wage war with the remaining ones of her seed, who observe the
commandments of God and have the work of bearing
witness to Jesus."
The Great Harlot is drunk with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus
Revelation 17:6 "And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of
the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses
of Jesus."
John and his brothers have the work of witnessing to Jesus
Revelation 19:10 "At that I fell down before his feet to worship him.
But he tells me: 'Be careful! Do not do that! All I am is a fellow slave of you
and of your brothers who have the work
of witnessing to Jesus.
Worship God; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires
prophesying.'"
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