FOREWORD

It seems most timely that this release comes as a rapidly shifting world scene unfolds, and with it mounting issues within the Watchtower organization, no less! Membership numbers are down; litigation is up. Kingdom halls built by brothers and sisters— and dedicated to Jehovah God— have been sold off by the same organization that encouraged the brothers and sisters to build, serving their local area’s needs— yet now serve as cannabis shops, adult stores, and businesses-for-profit. The legal fiscal losses by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society? Millions in donated funds by the brothers and sisters around the globe have gone to pay for child sexual abuse lawsuits, as the friends are the financial source through donations that keep the organization going— sincerely given donations by the brothers and sisters, no less. And there remains the matter of the Society’s securing NGO status to the United Nations, and when faced with discovery, placed blame on the United Nations, deflecting from the remaining question: then why didn’t the Society simply say “No.”

As in “No part of the world.”

Moreso, the decision to subsequently publish articles in the organizational literature expressing support for the United Nations makes the “We did it for a library card” statement rather hollow.

Over the last two decades, this book has stood as an appeal from Robert to the leadership of the Watchtower organization especially, to consider the stern words of a loving Father which Jehovah inspired men before this day to record as His counsel for His people in the last days; Robert’s driving hope: that they reflect hard upon the institutionalization of error in the organization— an error anticipated by scripture!

The response from the leadership of the Watchtower organization was not unexpected: expulsion. Robert was summarily disfellowshipped and labeled “apostate” for pointing to the Bible’s own message.

Others would similarly find themselves cast from the congregations— disfellowshipped for their own acts of “apostasy”— as determined, in each case, by those taking the leadership’s authority to protect the institutionalized error in the organization rather than face it as God commands.

Most would go on with bitterness, and find their answers in anti-JW communities, joining their voice with others who have nary a positive thing to say of those whom they formerly worshipped alongside, and shared in the ministry alongside.

Others would lose their faith altogether, unable to account for organizational error because the Watchtower had not taught the brothers and sisters to look for it, except where Christendom was involved. In the end, they dismiss Jehovah’s existence entirely, becoming atheist.

Some, however, have read Robert’s written appeals to scripture and found their faith bolstered, even restored, as they did what Robert earnestly desires the Watchtower leadership to do: examine the Bible, see whether these things are so.

Even so, there is little to be found here in these pages to make either side— the anti-JW crowd or the pro-JW crowd— happy.

The anti-JW side angrily rejects this work because it never promotes departure from the Watchtower organization, even in the face of error within the Watchtower organization: this work gathers the evidence necessary to prove that it is the presence of error that establishes that Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to be Jehovah’s people on Earth today.

And this work affirms that the impending judgment will begin with the house of God… as the wicked and evil are dealt with in judgment, and the brothers and sisters who have placed their hope in Jehovah God will remain. Robert has gone to great lengths to establish this scripturally, to those who are willing to listen and consider.

The pro-JW side angrily rejects this work out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the very men fostering the error within the Watchtower organization, rather than staying loyal to Jehovah God. In effect, declaring: if Jehovah wanted the Governing Body to know these things, He would’ve made sure they knew, Himself, not through someone they’ve already dismissed as beneath notice.

It is easier, it seems, to accuse Robert of being an apostate, an opposer, as someone who is merely seeking a following of his own because pride has set him above the wisdom and insight of the leaders of the Watchtower organization, whom— the pro-JW side insists— Jehovah Himself appointed through His son to feed the people of God today. This, in the face of abundant Biblical historical evidence of the outcome when one places loyalty to a mortal man or an organization over Jehovah. The Bible is clear: God’s people have a long history of killing off those whom God calls to serve as a forewarning of another approaching judgment.

Enduring the relentless spite and disdain of both sides for these last two decades would not have been possible, had it not been for Jehovah’s blessing and support for Robert’s efforts to continue to write both in admonishment and encouragement… and the number of those brothers and sisters who have expressed their appreciation has continued to grow over the years, and I include myself in that number.

—Timothy B. Kline, January 10, 2026