Bible Truths
This is God's personal name. Many people don't know it and even fewer people use it.
What is Jehovah?
He started our religion.
Jesus. (Trick question :))
He fulfilled dozens of prophecies just by being alive, doing his job, and dying.
As a sign of the love Jehovah's Witnesses share, this is the term we use to refer to all Witnesses everywhere.
What is "the brotherhood", or "our brothers".
Just like in the first century, this group of faithful, experienced, anointed brothers has been entrusted with making sure all of Jehovah's servants are spiritually fed.
Who is the Governing Body? (Or, the faithful and discreet slave)
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/jehovahs-will/jehovahs-witnesses-governing-body/
Some people believe sinners go here to burn forever when they die. They are only half right.
We take translation of the Bible and Bible-based publications very seriously, which is why they are now available in this many languages.
The first prophecy in the Bible - about two seeds - is found here. It was the first prophecy uttered and will be one of the last fulfilled.
What is Genesis 3:15?
Because we care about all true Christians around the world, we donate to this one central fund to help support Kingdom interests wherever there is a need.
What is The World Wide Work?
Although our congregations used to hold elections for one Company Servant to take the lead in worship and preaching, now every congregation has this, based on first century congregations.
What is a Body of Elders?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/jehovahs-will/congregation-elders/
A lot of people believe we all go to Heaven when we die, but the Bible actually teaches that most people will be going here instead.
What is the grave? (Trick question. :))
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/good-news-from-god/why-did-god-create-the-earth/
Jehovah's Witnesses can be found in this many lands around the Earth, all learning and teaching the same information.
Zechariah prophesied about this many people doing something to a Jewish person's clothes.
The organization spent $214 million in the 2018 service year caring for these groups of full-time servants so they could concentrate on their ministry without needing to work full time to support themselves.
Who are special pioneers, missionaries, and circuit overseers?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/2018-service-year-report/2018-grand-totals/
These brothers are entrusted with handling practical responsibilities in the congregation so the elders can concentrate on shepherding and teaching. (Some Bible translations call them "deacons".)
What are ministerial servants?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/jehovahs-will/ministerial-servants/
The true understanding of Christian neutrality is based on these words, which Jesus said about his disciples in prayer.
What is "They are no part of the world just as I am no part of the world."
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/political-neutrality/
This is what our brothers and sisters called themselves before adopting the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931.
What is Bible Students?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/jehovahs-will/why-called-jehovahs-witnesses/
Daniel's prophecy about a huge tree being chopped down is one of the scriptural basis for our belief that God's Kingdom was established in Heaven in 1914, this many years after the fall of Jerusalem.
Jehovah's Witnesses are often among the first groups to respond to these increasingly common events because we "do good toward all, and especially to those related to us in the faith."
What are natural disasters?
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/assist-with-disaster-relief/
This group of hundreds of traveling brothers and their wives were reassigned as special pioneers in 2014, in part because they had no first century equivalent.
What is District Overseers?
As the disciple James summarized, these are the only things forbidden in the Mosaic Law that we still need to "abstain from" today.
These hardworking ministers used to have to log 120 hours per month in the ministry, but they don't all have to do that anymore.
What are special pioneers?
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&srcid=jwlshare&prefer=lang&docid=1102014940
This prophet's denunciation against Edom was fulfilled over 400 years later when the last of the Edomites were conquered by and assimilated into the Jewish kingdom.
Who is Obadiah?
It was during this famous event that Jesus told his apostles, "by this all will know you are my disciples: if you have love among yourselves."
What is The Lord's Evening Meal?
https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/books/john/13/
This is the "chain of command" that was in place in the first century and is also active in our organization and congregations today.
1. Jehovah -->
2. Jesus -->
3. The Governing Body -->
4. Circuit Overseers (appointed traveling overseers like Paul) -->
5. Bodies of Elders -->
6. Individual Christians
BONUS: How do we all get to "bypass" this arrangement? And, why don't we just do that all the time?