Greetings ladies and gentlemen, Theo Hickmatt here. Friends call me Jason Zelda, singer-songwriter. You'll find my music at jasonzelda.com. I'm also the author of the interactive e-book, The Whistleblower's Lighthouse. You'll find that at jasonzelda.xyz. The Whistleblower's Lighthouse is an interactive e-book that you can use if you have friends or family who are trapped in the Jehovah's Witness cult and you need some ideas on how to get them out. The Whistleblower's Lighthouse interactive e-book is just the thing that you need. More than 500 pages of a PDF that can be used on your phone, it can be used on your tablet, your computer, pretty much anything that can run PDFs is going to play it. and you'll be able to use it. It has QR codes in there as well that'll take you to audio and video and websites and various other things that would help you get even more information about the topics that I'm talking about. So I hope you'll check it out. I've made it affordable for everybody. You can pay anything you want to pay over $3. So if you want to pay $3, you can download the PDF and it's yours forever to use however you want to use to reach people with the gospel, try to get people out of this cult. If you want to pay $30, if you want to pay $300, whatever you want to pay, I got it set up that way where you can pay whatever you want to pay, whatever you can afford, because I want everybody to be able to get it and be able to use it to reach your friends and family and get them out of the Jehovah's Witness cult. So today our topic is going to be the Jehovah's Witnesses during the Nazi Germany period and the things they didn't tell you about what they did back then. There was a lot of stuff that went on back then that the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses just simply don't tell the public because as long as you don't tell the public what you did, you'll get a lot of sympathy from the public. But if the public realized that part of the reason why you got in trouble was because you instigated it. If the public found out that part of the reason you got in trouble was because of self-inflicted wounds that you blamed on others when you knew you did it yourself. All of a sudden a lot of that sympathy will go away. Now I want to start off by thanking the Watchtower History Channel, Jeff and Paul. I've been friends with Jeff for years and I told him probably a year and a half ago that I was working on a video dealing with this topic and he told me that he and Paul are also working on the same subject and I know they have way more documentation than I do. Here's a picture of Jeff and you see behind him the huge library Watchtower books he has behind him and the same is true for Paul who has been collecting a whole bunch of these books as well Now neither one of these men just like myself neither one of us have ever been Jehovah's Witnesses, but we have this this Mission I guess you could say to just go and try to reach these people and try to get them out of the cult So that's where I am now. So I want to give them credit because I'm going to be using a lot of what they put in their series and adding it to the stuff that I'd already done. And I told Jeff a while back, I says, I'll hold back on doing my video series until you finish yours. I just didn't know when I said that back then that it was going to be about a year and a half before I could finally do my video. But I kept my word, and I held back on doing my video until they finished theirs. And I recommend you going to their channel, the Watchtower History channel. It's a blue and white logo. And it says WT History. And that'll be the one. And they have probably a few hundred videos there exposing the Watchtower. And they go through a lot of stuff, a lot of different topics and things. So I recommend you go over and check them out, subscribe to them, show them some love because I'm going to be utilizing some of their material here in this video to deal with the subject matter we're going to be dealing with. Now we're going to start off by dealing with the main characters in this play. Who are the people who were involved in this drama that's going to unfold during the World War II period? We're going to start off with Joseph Rutherford. Now there's a lot that's been said about Joseph Rutherford. A lot that's been written about Joseph Rutherford. And I'm not a psychiatrist and I'm not a psychologist. But I have taken time to take a look at Rutherford's history and his background with the help of the Watchtower History Channel as they went back and looked over his history and did a deep, deep, deep, deep dive. Deep dive. You see, they have way more documentation than me. They have access to books, magazines, microfilm, newspapers, videos, audios. They got way more stuff than me. So I took some time to literally watch hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of their presentations and learned a whole lot. What I'm doing here, by the way, is a no-wise, in any way, a summary of what they have over there. I don't even come close. These guys do incredibly good work and I give them two thumbs up for the work that they've done. Huge shout out to you Jeff. I'm hoping a lot of people go over and subscribe to you and watch your videos because there's a lot that you guys can learn watching their videos. Now with Rutherford, what do we know about Rutherford from the psychological background, from his family for instance? Well one thing that hit me really hard When I began to look into Rutherford's background is I wanted to know, oh, by the way, you see me looking down, by the way, I have a lot of papers and stuff here that I made copies and try to remember some of this stuff, because I got a lot of stuff I got to try to remember to do this video. So bear with me, please. What I learned a little bit about his family was very important. Rutherford was raised in a Baptist household. And he was raised in the 1800s, which means that he would have been raised on the King James Bible. He would have been raised by his parents being taught the real Word of God. But Rutherford didn't like what God's Word had to say. He mainly didn't like the doctrine of hell. Now, he had a Baptist minister, but sadly his minister said something to Rutherford that was unscriptural. And Rutherford was already on the edge as it was as a young man. that when his minister claimed that his wife, that Rutherford's wife was going to go to hell because she hadn't been immersed or baptized, that was the thing, according to the research, that ultimately pushed Rutherford over the edge. The issue is, Rutherford knew so little about what God's Word actually says. that he didn't even catch the fact that his minister had misquoted the Bible. And he got mad over a misquoting of the scripture. The Bible doesn't teach anywhere that your sins are forgiven through baptism. So that minister was wrong for telling Rutherford that Rutherford's wife was going to go to hell because she didn't get baptized. That is not scriptural. The King James Bible says it is by grace you're saved. Through faith. Not of yourselves. It's a gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast. You can't earn your way to heaven. That's true Christianity. The cults will teach you that you have to earn God's favor. True Christianity teaches us it ain't nothing we can do that's going to impress God. What are you going to do that's going to impress God? I mean, please. What am I going to do that's going to impress God? Nothing. What can we do that's going to top what Jesus did on that cross? Nothing. Nothing. So his minister said something to him that ticked him off. And what did Rutherford do? Well, according to the Sylvanere magazine, this was from 1913, it says, why Judge Rutherford turned from atheism. He left the faith completely because of what that minister said. He didn't just turn his back on the King James Bible. It said here, He became an atheist. Now that's a pretty big step to go. He turned his back on God altogether. And when you understand that Rutherford's foundation is not Christianity, it's atheism, it'll help you understand why he created such a self-destructive religion. because the majority of the teachings that Jehovah's Witnesses have today didn't come from their founder, Charles Taze Russell. It came from Rutherford. Now let's take a look into this and see how the Watchtower organization dealt with the issue of Rutherford being raised in a Baptist family and then rejecting the Word of God and becoming an atheist and turning his back on God altogether. Let's see how they dealt with that. This is from that souvenir This is from the International Bible Students Association from 1913. And those of you who know, know that that's what the Jehovah's Witnesses were calling themselves back then, the International Bible Students. So this is their own material telling you that Rutherford turned from being a Baptist to being an Atheist. Let's see what it says here. Let's put it on the screen. The highlighted part, he was naturally very devout, yet the logical reasoning of the successful lawyer all but swept his reverence for religious things into oblivion. You see, he believed like atheists believed, that their brain is going to get them out of everything. They're just going to ignore that God exists and go on with their lives as if everything's okay and everything's fine. They'll just ignore God and use their intellect to try to prove that God doesn't exist. The only problem is we're all going to die one day and you can't brain your way out of dying. And it's when you die that you realize, oops, you made a big mistake because it's then that you realize there is a God and you're face to face with him. and you spent your life rejecting him down here and you'll get rejected up there and even though Rutherford didn't want to admit there was a hell he's not God God said there is and one thing that I try to tell people if there's no such thing as hell then what did Jesus come and die for us for? He's called the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Savior from what? If there is no hell, what's he saving you from? You gotta think it through. It says here, the future Mrs. Rutherford was a Presbyterian. the judge was sure she was better than he and more worthy of the love of God and men and the reward of heaven again he's thinking like an atheist because the Bible does not teach that you make it to heaven through your good works if you can make it to heaven through your good works Jesus would not have had to die for you Rutherford didn't know the Bible It says here, therefore when his Baptist pastor told him she was going to hell, fire, because she had not been immersed, and that he was going straight to heaven because he had been, his logical mind revolted and he became an atheist. It's right there in black and white. Right there in black and white. Written by the Jehovah's Witnesses themselves about him. in 1913. Now, why is this important? Watch what happens. Next highlighted section. The worthy judge leaned back in his chair and began to elaborate on how his attention had first been directed to the writings of Pastor Russell. and how he had tested and weighed every statement after he read them before making them his own. So, when his dad gave him God's Word, he said, I don't want that. I don't like what it says. But when he got a knock on the door, from Cole Porter's, followers of Charles Taze Russell, and they sold him books. Didn't give them away. Remember I told you in my original video, The Hidden History of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, they sold their literature back then for profit. And that's how the leadership of the group became so rich. The members didn't become rich, the leaders became rich. Because that money had to be turned in at the end of the day. The members did all the work. It's still that way today. The members do the work. The members build the Kingdom Halls. The members maintain the Kingdom Halls. The members clean the Kingdom Halls. They cut the grass. They pay the bills. The whole nine yards! And whenever the leadership wants, they'll pull that Kingdom Hall right out from underneath them, send them to another Kingdom Hall across town, and then the leadership will sell that Kingdom Hall for a 100% profit. Because the leadership didn't have to put a dime toward building it or maintaining it. And then tell the Jehovah's Witnesses, go build another Kingdom Hall. and the members never catch on that they're being used for free labor. He was offered the Word of God by his dad. He didn't want the Word of God because he didn't like what it said. So when followers of Charles Taze Russell comes along with their books, he accepts that. God's Word is not good enough for him. He'll take the words of Charles Taze Russell. He likes those words, the words of men. And I want you to notice what it says here, that last sentence, before making them his own. What I learned about Rutherford was this, Rutherford was the kind of guy, he's not what I would call an original guy. He's not a guy that would build a company from the ground up on his own. And if he trips and falls, pulls himself up by his bootstraps, as they say. No, no, no. When I was growing up, he'd be called a copycat. He'll let you do all the work and he'll take the credit. That's what he did with the Watchtower. He let Charles Taze Russell build that group up. And as soon as Charles Taze Russell died, before his body could barely get cold. Rutherford was already making moves to take over the group even though he knew as a lawyer that Charles Tate Russell had written a will and Rutherford was not supposed to be the next guy in line and he knew it but he didn't care. He didn't build the company but he took it over didn't he? And then what else did he do? He stripped it away from Charles Taze Russell by changing the rules to his rules and then in the 1930s changing the name to the name that he came up with and as I mentioned in my whistleblowers lighthouse interactive e-book I think he got the name Jehovah's Witness by reading one of Charles Taze Russell's studies in the scripture book where Charles Taze Russell goes to Egypt and he's doing measurements on the Great Pyramid and there was another guy there who was also doing measurements and this other person says to Charles Taze Russell that the Great Pyramid was Jehovah's Witness. It's right there in Charles Taze Russell's book and Rutherford would have been very familiar with the writings of Charles Taze Russell but he was not familiar with the Word of God. I think he got the term Jehovah Witness from reading Charles Taze Russell's book. But he never gave credit to the guy that came up with the term, did he? Nope. He last highlighted section says, this investigation was not made hastily. I spent years at it. I applied all kinds of tests. I dug up every record I could find. So he was willing to go through all that work. to verify Charles Taze Russell. But he was not willing to spend five minutes to go into the scriptures, the King James Bible, and find out if what his minister said was true. Because if he simply had, he would have realized that his minister had misquoted the scriptures and that could have changed the whole course of history. There would have been no reason to become an atheist. But let me ask you, since we understand now that Rutherford's foundation is atheism, we have to ask an honest question. Is an atheist going to bring you the true Christian religion? Is the atheist going to bring you the true Christian religion? No. No. They're not going to know what the Bible actually teaches. They don't have any interest in this book. And they certainly don't have any interest in the God of this book. No. They're not going to bring you the true Christian religion. Did Rutherford put together the true Christian religion? Because The Jehovah's Witnesses today, the majority of the teachings they have came from Rutherford. Did Rutherford put together the true Christian religion? The man whose foundation was atheism? Well, let's take a look and compare the teachings of Christianity with the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses. And again, I printed this from my Whistleblowers Lighthouse interactive e-book. A chart that I made comparing the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses to the teachings that we have been teaching as Christians for nearly 2,000 years. And let's see if they match. We Christians teach that Jesus is God. Jehovah Witnesses say He's not God. They say He's Michael the Archangel. We Christians teach that Jesus created all things. Jehovah Witnesses teach that Jesus Himself was created. It sounded to me like Jehovah Witnesses were being taught the opposite. Number three. Because Jesus is God, we worship Him. Jehovah Witnesses refuse to worship Jesus. Number four. You can know that your sins are forgiven through faith in Jesus. As Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, they're told to work for their God, but they're never told when they've done enough to please their God. That doesn't sound like Christianity to me. Let's speed it up. Number five, God reveals himself to us as the Godhead. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jehovah Witnesses say the Trinity is the doctrine of the devil. That's the opposite of what we teach. We teach that when Christian dies, they go to heaven. Joel Winnison teach only 144,000 go to heaven and everybody else got to stay on the paradise earth. That's not Christianity. We Christians teach that humans have a soul. Joel Winnison say they don't have a soul. They teach the opposite. Number eight. We teach the person can understand the Bible by reading it themselves. They don't need any external sources. Read the book and believe it. Joel Winnison told they have to trust a group of men in New York to explain the Bible to them through books and magazines and literature. That's not Christianity. Number nine, you cannot earn your way to God's favor. That's what fundamental Christianity has taught for nearly 2,000 years. It's by grace you're saved, not by your works. Joel Winchester told they have to earn their God's favor by going to multiple meetings a week and following this never-ending list of rules that their leaders tell them that they must do. Next up, we teach the Holy Spirit is God and has a personality, a body, the ability to speak and make decisions. Joel Winchester told that the Holy Spirit is an act of force. It's not Christianity, folks. Number 11, we teach that Jesus died on the cross. They used to teach the cross. Then they stopped and started teaching something different. That's not Christianity. We teach that somebody leaves the faith, you don't shun them. It's a story of the prodigal son who got all his goods and left home. His dad waited for him day after day after day to come home. And when he finally did come home, Did his dad say, well now that you're home, you're going to have to sit in the back and sit down in the basement and for the next few months until I, you know, say it's okay for you to come upstairs? Is that what happened? No. He didn't tell me I had to sit in the back of the house for months while everybody ignores him and shuns him. No. As soon as the father saw the son coming home, he didn't even wait. He ran out there to his son, wrapped his arms around him. Told them, put them clean clothes on them and let's have a feast. Let's have a party. My son's home. Is that what Jehovah's Witnesses do when somebody comes back into their group? No. That's not Christianity they have over there. We teach it's okay to vote. We teach it's okay to join the military. We don't have some kind of dress code. They teach you're not supposed to vote. They teach you can't be part of the military. And they do tend to have a dress code. We teach there's a hell, they say there's not. And we can celebrate holidays and birthdays and as of right now they're told they're not allowed to do that. Now since they're a cult, their teachings and beliefs are subject to change. So all these things that they say they believe now, overnight they can change. Because their religion is not based on the solid Word of God that doesn't change. Their religion is based on the constant changing of their leadership's ideas, mind, and imagination. If the leadership says we have a new way of thinking, they'll go along with the new way of thinking. So their religion is not Christianity. And why would a man who has an atheist background put together the true Christian religion? He couldn't do it. He doesn't know the Bible in the first place to do it. So what did he do? He created a religion that teaches the opposite of Christianity and then convinced the gullible who didn't know the Bible in the first place that it actually was Christianity and they fall for it. It's shameful. And that's part of why I do what I do. I think there's a lot of people out there who want to become Christians. But there are cults in the way. And they're pretending to be us. And they lure that person in and they put that person to work, making them think they have to work to earn God's favor. And they end up wasting that person's life. And this is not a video game. This life runs out. You don't hit the reset button and get to start all over again. And it breaks my heart when I see people out there wasting their lives. in a cult. It breaks my heart when I read and watch videos and things about Jehovah's Witnesses who were willing to be persecuted, tortured, jailed, put into concentration camps and in some cases killed because they were following the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses and they thought they were following the teachings of God. How many of the Jehovah's Witnesses who were going through all that persecution over there in Germany. How many of them would have still gone through it if they had known about this? What were American companies doing working with Hitler and his war machine? How deeply involved were Ford and General Motors in Germany's production of war materiel using slave labor? How did these companies operate producing war materiel to both the United States, its allies, and Nazi Germany? After the war, both were subsequently charged with aiding and abetting the Holocaust, in essence playing both sides of the war for profit. In Germany, General Motors and Ford were critical in building and maintaining Germany's war machine. In July 1938, following the German annexation of Austria, Henry Ford accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. This was the highest medal that Nazi Germany could bestow upon a foreigner. and Hitler admired Ford's anti-Semitic outlook and kept an autographed photo of Ford which he prized. The major portions of their profit was the use of slave labor by the Third Reich. Ironically, one of Henry Ford's stipulations for hiring workers were no Negroes or Jews. This here was released by the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford Motor Company. Investments of US companies in Germany during the Nazi period. Who was investing in Germany? Who would have been investing in the Nazis at that time, by the way? If you're investing in Germany at that time, you were investing into the Nazis, because they were the ones in charge. Put it on the screen. How many Jehovah's Witnesses would have been willing to be tortured, arrested, imprisoned, persecuted, put into concentration camps, and in some cases killed, if they had known that number 47 on the list of corporations that had invested in Germany during the Nazi period, number 47 on the list, what does it say highlighted there on your screen? The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. So while Jehovah's Witnesses were told you can't join the military and many Jehovah's Witnesses ended up in the concentration camps because they wouldn't join the military. Does this King James Bible say thou shall not join the military? No. Is this King James Bible against Christians getting in the military? No. Isn't one of the titles for God the Lord of Hosts? Yeah. What's a host? What is the host? The Lord of Hosts. Didn't God help Israel fight many battles in the Old Testament? Wasn't David a mighty warrior? And so was Samson and many others in the Old Testament. Yet the Watchtower says you can't be in the military. And at the same time they're telling their members you can't be in the military. They invested money to the Nazis. to the Ford Motor Company that was building the weapons of war for World War II. They thought they were dying for God. And Rutherford played them all for fools. And the leadership to this day still holds up that generation for standing firm against the Nazis. When if the truth be told, the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses set them up. They set them up. As you're going to see in this series, they set them up. That was somebody's mother, somebody's dad, somebody's son, someone's daughter. The leadership of the group couldn't care less. They were in America. They didn't have to go to the concentration camps. And if you watch the series over at the Watchtower History Channel with Jeff and Paul, they'll point out to you that a lot of the Jehovah's Witness leaders in Germany, they saw what was coming. And what did they do? Did they warn the flock and say, hey guys, Hitler's about to come into power. It's not going to be very good for us. If you have the means, you need to get out of Germany. Did they do that? No. Did the leadership in Brooklyn or in Pennsylvania that has tons and tons of money, according to this document here, how much did they contribute to the Nazis? Let's see, $597,595. That's a half a million. Half a million dollars. That's a half a million dollars they contributed to the Nazis. While telling their people, you can't have nothing to do with the military. But what do you expect from a religion whose leader at that time's foundation was atheism? He doesn't know the Bible and doesn't have that respect for life that reading this Bible gives you. He played them for fools. And the leadership of the group to this day still benefits from those people out there who got hurt, persecuted, imprisoned, and in some cases killed. And they write articles about these people to try to recruit more people into the Watchtower while they hide the fact of the things that they did behind the scenes that caused the problems in the first place. So the cover-up of Rutherford's atheism begins in the Watchtower publications. This one here, Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers book. This is what they write about Rutherford. Let's see what they left out. Joseph Franklin Rutherford was born of Baptist parents on a farm in Morgan County, Missouri, USA on November 8, 1869. When Joseph was 16, his father consented to his attending college provided that he pay his own way and that he pay for a hired laborer to take his place on the farm. A determined young man, Joseph secured a loan from a friend and managed to go to college while also studying law. Okay. They skipped over the part about him becoming an atheist. What happened there? The next highlighted section here, matter of fact, let's go ahead and read it down so people don't think I'm trying to skip over anything. It says, after completing his academy education, Rutherford spent two years under the tutelage of Judge E.L. Edwards. By the time he was twenty, He became the official court reporter for the courts of the 14th Judicial Circuit in Missouri. On May 5, 1892, his license to practice law in Missouri was granted. Rutherford later served for four years as a public prosecutor for Boonesville, Missouri. Still later, he served on occasion as a special judge in the 18th Circuit Court in Missouri. That is why he became known as Judge Rutherford. Interestingly, To help pay his way through school, Rutherford sold encyclopedias from house to house. It was not an easy job. There were many rebuffs. On one occasion, he almost died when he fell on an icy stream while calling on farms. He promised himself, when he became a lawyer, if anyone ever came to his office selling books, he would buy them. True to his word, he accepted three volumes of Millennial Dawn from two Coleporters who appeared at his office early 1894. Well, this is a very watered-down version of his story. They left out his atheism, and they gave the impression that these Coleporters just gave him some books from Charles Taze Russell. They didn't just give him those books. They sold him the books. But they didn't put that in there. They sold their literature back then. They didn't just give it away. So here in their Proclaimers book, which is their own history book, they leave out the important fact that Rutherford left the Baptist beliefs and became an atheist. They have them going from home to college to the cult. They left the atheism out. Rutherford took over the group and once he took over the group he had access to their printing presses. Once you have access to the printing presses you can print Any kind of publication you want, book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, brochure, you name it, if it's printed page, you own the printing presses, you can do it. Well, the Jehovah's Witnesses had access to a secret newspaper. There were some people who didn't want to have much to do with Jehovah's Witnesses or the International Bible Students or whatever name they wanted to use back then, but no problem. Rutherford had his hands in a newspaper called the St. Paul Enterprise. St. Paul Enterprise. You'll see here, let me go ahead and show the camera here. St. Paul Enterprise newspaper, you'll see here, big picture of Rutherford. But over here, a little tiny picture of the founder, Charles Taze Russell. Why are you so small, Mr. Russell? Why did Rutherford make himself so much bigger than you? Oh, because he took over your group when he wasn't supposed to. So you shrink and he gets big. People say Jehovah's Witnesses, they're not political. They don't get involved in politics. Right. They don't put the politics in their Watchtower magazine. The politics will go in their Uplift publications. And back in those days, the other publications where they would talk the politics was the Golden Age magazine and the St. Paul Enterprise. Rutherford was heavily involved in politics. Heavily involved, and we're about to get into that in a moment. He was He was deep into politics. Let's get into a little bit more about his background here. This is from the St. Paul Enterprise. This issue with the big picture of Rutherford on there and a little tiny picture of Charles Taze Russell over here. It says here, talking about Rutherford, reared by Baptist parents as a youth, he united himself with the Baptist church and was active and zealous in that denomination. His fiancée, Miss Mary Malcolm Fetzer of Boonesville, Missouri, whom he married December 31st, 1891, was a Presbyterian. Years later, Mr. Rutherford met the late Pastor Russell and greatly admired him. In 1906, acting upon Pastor Russell's request, he began the preparation of a book entitled Man's Salvation from a Lawyer's Viewpoint, which he afterward published and freely gave away to his clients, his lawyers, friends, and many others. And... they skipped over the fact that he became an atheist before he joined the group. They left that part out again. Rutherford had control over what they were writing in this paper. He didn't want people knowing anymore about his atheism. He had a plan. He was going to take this group over when he got a chance. He didn't want them to know who he really was. 1975 yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. Rutherford is long dead and gone. What are they saying about Rutherford? Let's see what it says here. 1975 yearbook. From Sister Ross, the elder's natural sister of Joseph Franklin Rutherford, A.D. Schroeder learned this. Their father was a staunch Baptist out of Missouri where the family lived. Her younger brother Joseph never could accept the Baptist hellfire teachings. This resulted in many heated debates in the household even before they had heard the truth. Her brother always had been one of strong convictions with a deep sense of justice. From youth he wanted to be a lawyer and a judge. Their father wanted them to stay on the farm rather than go to college and study law. Joseph had to get a friend who would loan him money. not only to hire a replacement for him on his father's farm, but also to finance his studies in law. So once again, in the 1975 yearbook, they mention the fact that he did not like the teaching of hell. They leave out the fact that because he didn't like the teaching of hell, he became an atheist. They left the atheist part out again. Is an atheist going to create the true Christian religion? No. Did Rutherford create the true Christian religion? Because the majority of the teachings they have today came from Rutherford. When you understand that his foundation is atheism, it helps you understand why this group is so destructive. It helps you understand why it's so destructive. Now, Rutherford felt that his dad didn't give him enough support. But Rutherford was not going to accept the responsibility that his dad wanted him to grow up to be a Christian, trying to teach him the King James Bible and his son wanted nothing of it. And he wonders why his dad won't go along with him. And according to Jeff over at the Watchtower History Channel, he came across a very rare letter that appears to be an original. It was actually found in an old Watchtower book. It appears to be a letter that Rutherford wrote to his family where he was talking about the fact that he didn't want to return back home he had two brothers and he had ticked off one of his brothers so much according to the letter he was scared to go back home for fear that his brother would kill him check out the Watchtower History channel they got a lot of stuff over there that I think you'd be interested in Watch all those videos back to back to back to back because they come like in a series. You'll be surprised the stuff you learn about that cult. So he felt he didn't have the support of his dad. He felt he didn't have the support of his brother. So down inside he's wanting the acceptance of a man. But he wasn't getting it from his dad he felt. He wasn't getting it from his brothers. So when he leaves home, he goes searching for rich, powerful, influential men to try to win their approval. His foundation? Atheism. He doesn't know this book. He doesn't know this book. So who does he begin to latch on to as we're explaining now who the characters are? that make up this drama. Before we get into the first person who Rutherford decides that he's going to try to latch on to, a man who had a serious impact on Rutherford in a very negative way. I want to take the time to do something for someone who I consider a very dear friend. Since I have you all here, you guys are like my family, I want to do something nice for a friend. At least I consider this person a friend. I made a video already, a little commercial, for my friend. Her name is Candice Lambert. She put together a company called The Green Ring. And I want to let her talk just for a few minutes. Just bear with me, guys. She's an ex-JW, just like you guys. And I'm sure there's a lot of you out there that would love to be able to reach out and support another XJW who's trying to do something good. Do you have any friends that are single and they're searching, like me? 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I can't reach her for nothing. So go ahead and tell her Jason Zelda sent you. And show her some love. I'd appreciate it. Now let's get back to this. Joseph Rutherford leaves home. He feel like he's been rejected by his dad. He feel like he's been rejected by his brother. He wants the love of a man. He wants a father figure. So he latches on to a politician by the name of William Jennings Bryan. He latches on to this man and holds him up as being his father figure. even to the point that Rutherford as a grown man is dressing like William Jennings Bryan, following William Jennings Bryan around, speaking for William Jennings Bryan, stumping for William Jennings Bryan, and writing about William Jennings Bryan in various publications. It's almost as if he wanted to be William Jennings Bryan. Because even in this article here from Time Magazine, very famous article, many of you are familiar with it, California Cults, where they were talking in Time Magazine about Rutherford putting together a cult called Jehovah's Witnesses of a group of people that would obey him, which is exactly what he did. And here's what they had to say about Rutherford when it comes to William Jennings Bryan. Judge Rutherford was born on a Missouri farm. Practiced law at Bonneville. acquired a circuit judgeship, continued practice in St. Louis, Kansas City. He accompanied the late William Jennings Bryan on his first presidential campaign tour, announcing him as appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world. Mr. Bryan's example inspired Judge Rutherford to wear habitually a black bow tie. Rutherford, long after William Jennings Bryan was dead and gone, is still dressing like him. Now, William Jennings Bryan, in his day, was super famous. This guy was off the charts famous. He was running for President of the United States. His face was appearing in newspapers and magazines. Back in those days, you gotta understand, there was no cell phones back then. Didn't exist yet. No computers. No high technology like we have today. The main way people got information back then was the printed page. Newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, brochures, and the radio. Those are the main ways. So, here we have William Jennings Bryan appearing in newspaper after newspaper after newspaper after newspaper after magazine after magazine. This guy was super famous and here's Rutherford wanting this guy's attention so bad. He's holding this guy up as a father figure. He's dressing like him the whole nine yards. But William Jennings Bryan had some really bad issues. This video is from the Watchtower History channel. Listen to what they have to say about William Jennings Bryan and the Klan. Bryan died right after the end of the trial. So in the days following the Scopes Monkey trial, Bryan was delivering several speeches in Tennessee, died in his sleep from what is possibly a stroke. Bryan was so popular that A year after the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where Brian refused to make a hard stance against the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan also wanted to be a part of the Democratic National Party. Brian was a Christian fundamentalist. The Klan in the 1920s was also coming to be Christian fundamentalists, just like Brian. So on August 8th, 1925, the Ku Klux Klan brought 30,000 members to Washington, D.C., 22 abreast and 14 rows deep, and they paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue. The data in this is interesting because this was August 8th, 1925. The Ku Klux Klan, not only in Washington, D.C., but in South Dakota, Ohio and other places, burned crosses as a memorial for William Jennings Bryan. Bryan's funeral was July 31st, 1925, just a week previous. And so the Klan used it as a means to try to promote their ranks. Now, here we go once again, another tie in and another irony. Okay, the Klu Klux Klan is having a ceremony for Brian, who was Rutherford's mentor, who admittedly, and even Time Magazine, as we showed from the Time Magazine article, looked up to, emulated, dressed like him. The Klan is throwing a bash literally for that type of person. Would the Klan honor Malcolm X, Martin Luther King? No. Brian. And remember this Democratic National Party Convention in 1924 that we know Rutherford attended because Brian was there. That's when the Democratic Party was considering bringing the KKK onto the the democratic platform. And of course they didn't do it, but Brian didn't criticize or condemn the Klan as he should have. And he was very soft on them. And neither did Rutherford. And neither did Rutherford. And Rutherford, just a few days later at the Watchtower Jehovah's Witness Convention, literally having the same exact opinion. Remember, that was the same Democratic National Convention where Rutherford tried to convince Bryan again of his Watchtower theology. Can you imagine what the two were talking about? So you see there, something was going on between William Jennings Bryan and the Klan that they would love him that much. Now, did this rub off onto Rutherford, who's looking up to William Jennings Bryan as a father figure? Yes, it did. We got an article here from Rutherford. And once again, I'm going to hand you off to the Watchtower History Channel, as they're going to point out to you that same way William Jennings Bryan, so did Rutherford. But the watchtower doesn't tell their members about this part of their history. They had their own radio station in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. CHUK were the call symbols and that's the radio station there and some photos from inside the radio station. So here's a book, On Air Radio in Saskatchewan, by Wayne Schmalz. And in it, it says, Saskatoon's second station, run by the International Bible Students Association, opened in 1924. Basically, they tried to shut the radio down, and a little bit of this story is in this book, On Air Radio in Saskatchewan. In January 1927, the Saskatoon Board of Trade requested that the Bible Student Station be prohibited from preaching sermons over the airwaves except on Sunday. Yet, this event was not important. A letter in the Saskatoon Daily Star showed that the Board of Trade did not support its subcommittee and ten numerous letters and petitions were signed by non-Bible students indicated that the station's sermons were reasonably popular throughout Saskatchewan. So they were trying to shut down the station. Why? So in Penton's book, one of his first books, and this was written when he was still a Jehovah's Witness, And I've talked to him recently and he said, you know, this could stand a rewrite because he was just trying to defend the society back at that time. And a lot of this also got incorporated into and updated in Apocalypse Delayed, which is not completely favorable to the society, of course, but it tries to be accurate to the history and the documentation. So in his book, Penton says, on January 7th, 1927, The radio director for the Department of Marine and Fisheries sent a memorandum to Alexander Johnston claiming that the radio station, Washour radio station, Chuck was in trouble again. He went on to tell his superior about the Ku Klux Klan programs, which he stated had been investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and reported to the police, to the department by them. So basically they were selling time to other people and they were selling Radio Time to the Ku Klux Klan in Canada. And then the Ku Klux Klan broadcast their programs through Watchtower's radio stations. This is all new to me. I never read or heard this. So it's basically like the neutrality. If we can make a buck, we don't care who we make ourself to or for. Yeah. And again, it's, again, that change of perspective of when do they, Watchtower, really become moneymakers? Here's a real good example of that. It's during that Rutherford regime, right? Well, they perfected it in the Nazi regime after the KKK, as we've shown. So there you have it. Rutherford had a radio station in Canada we already knew about the radio station in America WBBR but how many Jehovah's Witnesses knew about their radio station in Canada? you see as long as the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing the left hand is going to keep thinking that the right hand is doing what the left hand's doing. As long as the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses don't tell their members that in America they wouldn't dare air Ku Klux Klan programs on WBBR. But in Canada? Yeah, no problem. You'll be surprised. how often nonsense like that happens. In my Whistleblowers Lighthouse interactive e-book, I talk about, or I write about, how the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses claim that their group is unified worldwide. They all study the same books, they study the same magazines, and blah blah blah. And I showed you a case in point where you have two Watchtower magazines. One's in English, one's in Spanish. The covers are identical. but the articles on the inside are different. Why do they make identical covers to make it look like it's the same magazine, but the articles on the inside are different? It ain't saying the same thing on the inside. And this particular one I was pointing out, in the English version, under questions from readers, they were telling the English-speaking people, we're not going to use Johannes Grieber, the spirit medium, we're not going to use him anymore in support of our views because of his ties to spiritism. But in the Spanish version, questions from readers, they're not talking about Grieber at all. They're talking about a completely different subject. And the Jehovah's Witnesses are left to think, hey, it's got the same cover, it must be the same book in the other language. And it's not. You're being played for fools. Because in English, yeah, they stopped using Grieber. We haven't been able to find them using Grieber recently. But in Spanish? I believe there, what was it? I might have been aid to Bible understanding in Spanish. They still use Grieber, the spirit medium. So they tell the English speaking people, we're not going to use Grieber anymore. But in Spanish, they keep using Grieber. They're playing their members for fools and their members think they're in a Christian religion and they don't realize they're being played for fools! giving their money to the organization, giving their lives to the organization, giving their talents to the organization. And for what? You're not in a Christian religion. I've already pointed that out. You're not in a Christian religion. You're in a religion that is anti-Christian. It's teaching the opposite of what Christians have taught for nearly 2,000 years. And in order to back it up, they had to write their own custom-made Bible version. And in my interactive e-book, The Whistleblower's Lighthouse, I have a technique in there to show Jehovah's Witnesses that their New World Translation is not trustworthy. It's a custom-made translation. And it's an easy way to show them that their version is custom-made, designed to teach their teachings. And when their teachings change, the leadership just updates their Bible and comes out with a new version of their Bible. And they get so excited, hey, a new version of the New World Translation, wow! And they don't even realize, wait a minute, the leadership claims they get all their teaching from God. So if God's talking to the leaders, when they came out with their Bible in 1950, that should have been the end of it. No need for updates. This King James Bible is over 400 years old. No need to change it. No need to change this. The only thing that's been changed in this is spelling of words. Because back in 1611, they spelled words kind of funny back then. A little hard to read it sometimes when you read it from the old ones. So they updated the spelling as the language matured. But the doctrines and the verses and everything else stayed the same. You can't say that about the Jehovah in this Bible. You go to the 1950 edition of their Bible, in Hebrews chapter 1, Jesus was worshipped. You go to the next edition of their New World Translation, the worship's gone. They took the worship out. There's a big difference from going from worshipping to not worshipping. Far different than updating spelling, which is what they had to do with the King James, that the King James Bible had to be updated to keep up with the spelling of words as the language was changing over time. But the doctrines never changed. The verses never changed. And as many of you know, I have a King James Bible that's over 300 years old. And I was able to compare it with my King James Bible I have here that I have today. And word for word, verse for verse, it says the same thing. It's just they spelt words kind of funny back then. It's funny for us. It wasn't funny for them. They could read it. We can read it, it just takes a little while to get used to how the words are spelled. But this is the kind of thing that we're up against. As Christians, I want people to come to Jesus for forgiveness of sins. But the cults keep getting in the way. So as a Christian, I have an obligation to defend my faith. If you want to be a Christian, there's one way to go about doing it. You pray and you ask Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins. Let him know you're sorry for your sins. Because no sin is in heaven. You gotta have all that sin washed off of you before you get there. And there's only one that can wash it off, and that's Jesus. You can't do it yourself. I can't do it for you either. Jesus said, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Jesus said, I'll in no wise cast you out. He already knows what you've done. You can't hide it from him. He already knows. Why don't you pray right now and just ask Jesus, please forgive me of my sins. Please. Fill me with your spirit so I won't want to do the things that you don't want me to do. And understand that we cannot earn our way to heaven. We cannot earn our way to God's grace. This Bible never teaches you can earn God's grace. Grace is not something you earn anyway. A gift is not something you earn. A gift is freely given. A wage is something that you earn. So you got Rutherford here. He's following William Jennings Bryan. William Jennings Bryan, the Klan loved him. William Jennings Bryan also hated Jewish people. And this was going to begin to rub off onto Rutherford over time. It's going to begin to rub off onto him, and rub off onto him, and rub off onto him. And he's going to start taking the things that he's learning from William Jennings Bryan. These anti-Jewish conspiracy theories that William Jennings Bryan and others from his data were going to be talking about was feeding Rutherford And Rutherford started integrating these things into the Jehovah's Witness religion as doctrines. And the Watchtower History Channel, again, did an amazing job breaking all this stuff down. And for those of you who are watching, I want you to understand, the Watchtower History Channel, they don't do videos like I'm doing. It's two guys who've done the homework. They've read all these books and watched these videos and documentation and the microfilm. They've gone into them, the newspaper. They spent so much time and energy putting this stuff together. And what they try to do, they try to put together what they would classify as a fair and balanced view. Because they don't want to come across as biased to the left or biased to the right. They just want to say, OK, here is what we found out. Some of the things that they found you couldn't find unless you had access to things like microfilm. Not many people have access to microfilms. Okay? They had to go through the microfilms and find these old rare newspapers that were talking about Rutherford and William Jennings Bryan and these other people are going to be talking about. And when they begin to put all the pieces together, you sit back and go, whoa, that's where all that came from. People say, Jason, how do you put together these videos? How do you get all this information about us? I said, look, the truth, when it comes to these cults and stuff, the truth is out there. The problem is, it's scattered. There's a little bit in this book, a little bit in that book, a little bit in this video, a little bit in this documentary, a little bit over here. And you got to take all that stuff over time and be patient, find it all, bring it together, and then break it down and organize it and then sit down in front of the camera and say okay here's the story based upon all the pieces that I've been able to find and for these guys over here I commend them because they found a lot of pieces that's why there's so many videos over there that they have to keep breaking these videos down Some of them are over an hour, some are less than an hour, but it's just so much documentation there. And again, the videos that I put together are made to be watched, not just listened to, because I put stuff on the screen that you need to see to back up the things that I'm saying. And one thing that got my attention about the Watchtower History Channel, Jeff and Paul, is that when they say stuff, they put it on the screen so you can see it. They put it on the screen, they back up their documentation. They back it up with documentation. They back up their evidence with documentation. And if you want to get my attention, you want to tell me something new, you want to try to convince me of something, back up your evidence with documentation and you'll have my attention. Rutherford latched onto this man, William Jennings Bryan and William Jennings Bryan's bad philosophies. began to wash off onto Rutherford over time. Spending more and more time with this guy. His bad influences is washing off onto Rutherford. And Rutherford, as I mentioned, he's not an original kind of guy. He is a copycat. So to copy William Jennings Bryan is no problem. He's already copying how he dresses. He's already following the guy around and speaking for the man and pretending he is the man. So copying this guy's bad philosophies is not going to be very hard for him to do. He's a copycat. That's what copycats do. They copy what other people do. And they take the credit for themselves, of course. There was somebody else who Rutherford wanted to get the attention of. Again, father figures. He's looking for to replace his dad who he felt wasn't very supportive when in actuality his dad just wanted Rutherford to be responsible. And being responsible is just not something Rutherford wanted to do. Did he ever take responsibility for what he did that caused the Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany be killed in concentration camps? No. What did he do? I'll tell you. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. One more guy that Rutherford really wanted to get the attention of was one of the richest men in the world. Again, he's going after rich, influential, powerful men. He wants their approval. His atheist background gives him no foundation to stand on, so he's willing to go with any wind of doctrine that comes down the path. It just happens to be that he is now taking in the breeze from people who are anti-Semites, people who hate the Jewish people, seem to be people that Rutherford was gravitating toward. You got William Jennings Bryan on the one hand, and now you have Henry Ford. of the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford, in his day, he was considered a genius. The things he was able to do, the cars he was able to produce, and the assembly line, and all the stuff that he did. He was considered a genius for most of his life. Near the end of his life, he was shown to be a rather foolish man. but sadly by the time the people figured out that this guy didn't know his head from a hat rack when it came to a lot of things in history by the time he reached that point he had already done so much damage he was like the cold front that's coming in and behind the cold front are the tornadoes that's about to come in and do the damage. Because the foundation that Henry Ford laid down caused a lot of damage. It far exceeds the good deed of making the Ford car and the assembly line and all that stuff. the damage this man caused. You just can't put it to words. But nobody really seems to talk about it these days. But Henry Ford hated Jewish people. And for some reason, Judge Rutherford wanted this man's approval. Just like he wanted William Jennings Bryan's approval. But you see, with William Jennings Bryan, Rutherford, as they say today, he jumped the shark. Because he tried to recruit William Jennings Bryan and make him into a Jehovah's Witness. Let me hand you guys off again to the Watchtower History Channel. and let them tell you about Rutherford trying to recruit William Jennings Bryan. After all that time of speaking for him and doing all this stuff for him, he's thinking now I'm finally gonna win this guy's attention. I'm gonna bring him into the cult and make him one of my servants. And it didn't work. Take it away, Jeff and Paul. I'll be right back. One of the newspaper articles about this at the time says, Rutherford failed to convert Bryan to Russellism, opposed to prohibition, but comes out in favor of bobbed hair. J.F. Rutherford, president of the Russellites, told the convention today that he had failed in an attempt recently to convert William Jennings Bryan to the belief of Pastor Russell that millions now living will never die. Brian is on the wrong track and is doomed to failure in his efforts to reform the world, said Rutherford. The world needs enlightening, not reforming. I tried to win Brian to our way of thinking while he was in New York at the Democratic Convention, but I don't think I got very far. Rutherford, successor to Pastor Russell, started a movement against statutory morality at a convention when he declared, morals cannot be enforced by law. I abhor liquor myself, but I am unequivocally against prohibition. It is certain to increase the rate of liquor rather than to decrease it. I am against anything that interferes with the personal rights of men. And of course, we know Rutherford was himself bringing in alcohol illegally from Canada, according to the testimony from Walter Salter. Rutherford jumped the shark and tried to recruit William Jennings Bryan, and it didn't work. Didn't work. Rutherford starts pursuing after Henry Ford. But Henry Ford's anti-Semitism was well documented. and he did the documentations because back in those days when you purchased a Ford vehicle you didn't just get a car truck no no no no you're dealing with Henry Ford you didn't just get a car truck you got a free subscription to Henry Ford's newspaper the Dearborn Independent just for buying his car you got a free subscription And the people who were selling the Ford cars were told by Henry Ford, basically you have a quota. You're going to get these newspapers out there and you're going to get everybody subscribed to this newspaper. And what was he promoting in the newspaper? Anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, among other things. Turning people against the Jewish people. You see, the thing that really gets me about haters If you want to hate somebody, that's on you. But what is it about haters that they're not satisfied with them just hating the person? They want others to hate the person they hate. So they're willing to lie about the person that they hate to make people who like that person hate that person. I've had it happen to me. I've had it happen to me. Somebody who I really liked, cared about, used to talk on the phone all the time, cutting up, having a great old time, and somebody comes along and tells my friend a lie that was so over the top, I didn't think my friend would actually believe it. Knowing my personality, my friend should have known there's no way Jason Zott would do that. But this hater who has popped up many times in social media and I've had to block this person over and over and over and over and over and they keep popping up. Cost me my friend who used to call me all the time has never called me again since that person did that and I'm like really? That's messed up. I still hear from my friend from time to time But I never again got a phone call. To hear my friend's voice. To hear my friend's laughter. Because we used to cut up on the phone and have a great time. Why can't haters just hate by themselves? Why do they got to get other people involved? Henry Ford hated the Jewish people, so in his Dearborn Independent newspaper, he is trying to get others to hate the Jewish people too. And if that wasn't enough, he owned a printing press. You own a printing press, you can print anything, books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, you can print it all. So he also is printing this other book called The International Jew, attacking the Jewish people. And if that wasn't enough, he is also publishing another book. This book came out of Russia in the early 1900s. I actually think it came from the pit of hell itself and surfaced in Russia and then was distributed out to the rest of the world. That's my idea. The name of the book was called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was cleverly written in a way to make it appear that the things that are written in this book, to make it appear it was true. And it made the Jewish people look really, really bad. It was designed in such a way that when certain world events happen, people who had read that book would go, wait a minute, that book said that this thing would happen. That book must be true. When it was all lies. And this Protocols book was responsible for so much death and persecution of the Jewish people. And the book was lies. it was lies but it was so clever the way they put it together they made it appear to be true and the haters read the book and they spread the book they begin to push it out to others to get others to hate the Jewish people and Henry Ford was one of them And one of the things that really gets me about haters is when you show them that the person who they're hating didn't really do the things that they're accused of, they will find an excuse to still hate the person. I guarantee you right now, I can say two words And some of you are going to cringe. When ten years ago, if I said the exact same two words, you would not have had anything bad to say about the person. But I'm not going to say the two words. Because I don't want to distract you from this. I know if I say the two words people's minds are going to be distracted from that point forward. So I'm not going to bother. But just do me a favor. If you hate somebody, keep it to yourself. I think you'll understand when you realize what happened with Henry Ford. This man that so many people looked up to is using his influence to turn people against Jewish people. And he's printing this protocols book that's filled with lies. And when he was told that it was a forgery, he was told that it was lies. What was his reaction? His reaction was, it's not up to me to prove that what's in that book is true. It's up to the Jewish people to prove that what's in that book is false. What? That's the same upside-down logic that Jehovah's Witness leaders use when it comes to the cross. In my interactive e-book, The Whistleblower's Lighthouse, I have a nice section on the cross where I get into the history of the cross, even recent archaeology that has been found of people who had been crucified, verifying that yes, it was cross, not a stake. But in my interactive e-book, I go into this issue of the cross and I deal with it. And I show you that the Jehovah's Witnesses in their Watchtower magazine, and I'll point out which one it is, the leadership actually admitted they have no proof for the torture stake. They actually came out and admitted it. They said they hope someday archaeologists will prove them right. And then they turn around and they do the Henry Ford dance. It's not up to us to prove that Jesus didn't die on a, you know, cross. It's up to Christians to prove that he didn't die on a stake. What? You come up with a weird teaching and it's up to us to prove? No, it's up to you to prove that your weird teaching is right. And they admitted in the article, they don't have any proof. So why do they teach it? Because their foundation came from a man whose foundation was atheism. That's why. He created an anti-christian religion. That's why. They're not going to turn their back on the anti-christian religion because they're making too much money up there. They're making billions of dollars teaching false religion. You think they're going to stop? We'll see how much that money helps them when they breathe their last one on this earth, because we're all going to die one of these days. And we'll see how much that money helps them when they stand before the Jesus they rejected. We'll see what happens then. Because there's a judgment day for all of us, that we're all going to stand before the Lord. Henry Ford is spreading all this anti-Jewish hatred, publishing all these anti-Jewish books. And little did he know that on the other side of the world, there was a young man in Germany who held him up as a father figure. See, I tell people, when you post stuff online, please be careful what you post. That person cost me a very dear friend. Not just one, two friends. That person, my hater, cost me. Two people who I love dearly, still love them dearly, but they won't speak to me because this person lied about me. I tell people, if you're gonna post something online, please be careful what you post. Even if it's against somebody. Because you never know who's watching. You never know who's listening. You never know who looks up to you as a father or mother figure. And you don't even know it. And you post something online and they're gonna believe what you posted. They're gonna believe you're telling the truth. And here's Henry Ford piping out all this anti-Jewish nonsense onto the world, using his power, his money as influence, instead of building people up, tearing down the Jewish people. On the other side of the world in Germany, there's a young man who holds up Henry Ford as a father figure. He would get Henry Ford's publications translated into German so that he could read them. He idolized Ford. And he believed Ford. And he believed Ford when Ford was pushing all this anti-Jewish nonsense. And there came a point in this kid's life that he grew up. And he's been being told by Henry Ford that the Jewish people were the problem, the Jewish people were the problem, the Jewish people were the problem. So he decided if they're the problem, then whenever he gets the power to do so, he'll be the final solution. And I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. That young man in Germany who was feasting on the vomit of Henry Ford. was Adolf Hitler. How the world would have been a different place if Henry Ford would have just kept his hate to himself. But he influenced Adolf. Here's a picture of Adolf and I want you to notice in this picture whenever he has pictures taken they have to be staged And in this picture here, as you're going to see, he is sitting there and notice behind him is a huge portrait of who? Henry Ford. Notice Henry Ford is doing a pose as he's sitting and Adolph is doing the exact same pose. The picture was staged because Adolph wanted it staged. because he was sending a message to Henry Ford. That just like he's duplicating Henry Ford's pose, he's letting Henry Ford know. They're on the same page. He's sending a message. There's another picture again of Adolf. A different picture. This time he's standing up. In the background, the powers that be blurred out the picture. They didn't want you to see what's in that picture in the background. Notice this is a color picture. They didn't want you to see who's in the background. But over the Watchtower History Channel, they were able to get a hold of software that would remove the blur and find out what's the picture behind them. And lo and behold, when you remove the blur, Looks like it's Henry Ford again. Adolf idolized Henry Ford. And Henry Ford poisoned the mind of Adolf with his anti-Jewish nonsense. And because of Ford, you ended up with Adolf. And because of Adolf, you ended up with millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of Jewish people dead. And here's Joseph Rutherford wanting to get Henry Ford's attention. In his book, Vindication, he actually takes time to send a message to Henry Ford, saying, I'd like to have Henry Ford read my book, Vindication. Please show me some attention, Henry Ford, please. Show me some attention. Here's Henry Ford sitting next to William Jennings Bryan. Birds of a feather flock together. Ain't no Joseph Rutherford there though. But he's sitting there following these men. Listening to these men. Believing these men. And allowing these men to fill his mind with lies against the Jewish people. lies that we're going to turn into doctrines that Jehovah's Witnesses today still follow. Whether it's the blood transfusion rule, that ain't come from the Bible. That ain't come from the Bible at all. I've already done a video on my YouTube page, The Bible and Blood Transfusions. I show you, it didn't come from the Bible. I show what the Bible says about blood transfusions. And I show you how wicked the Jehovah's Witness leadership is because they came out with the Elder's Handbook and in the Elder's Handbook they have written in there that if a Jehovah's Witness gets a blood transfusion if they are repentant afterward. then the elder is not to issue any heavy penalties on them. They're not to kick them out. They're not to shun them. They're not to disfellowship them. They're to counsel them, and they are to take away some of their privileges for a while. They can't have the microphone. They can't do the little small things around the hall, just for a period of time, but they'll get it back down the road. But you see, the members of the group are never shown that book. so they don't know that when they need a blood transfusion that they have an option to actually take one because they're never shown the book the elder knows what's in the book but he's under orders from the leadership that you're not to tell the members what's in the book and on top of that some of these elders are part of what they call the liaison committee that when they hear about a Jehovah's Witness that needs a blood transfusion, even though they know in their handbook there's no penalty for getting a blood transfusion if the person is repentant afterward, they're still not going to go and tell that person, go ahead and get the blood transfusion and just repent afterward and you're cool. No, they're not going to do that. They will go to that hospital and they will obstruct and they'll do everything in their power to make sure that Jehovah's Witness does not get a blood transfusion even if it means that Jehovah's Witness dies. And that, in my book, is evil. Do the elders love their power so much that they will look their so-called brother or sister in the face and tell them they love them? And then when that brother is dying on a hospital bed because they need a blood transfusion and that elder knows that in his handbook It says there's no real penalty for getting a blood transfusion. They'll just lose a few privileges for a period of time. Yet they refuse to tell that Jehovah that you can get the blood transfusion and save your own life. They refuse to tell him. And they'll obstruct and allow that brother or sister to die. That's evil. That ain't right. And that's one of the reasons why myself, who've never been a Jehovah's Witness, is trying to do all that's in my power to stop people from joining this group. This is evil. And they're trying to pass that off as being Christian. No, that ain't Christian. That's not my faith. That ain't from this book. Ain't from this book. These are the players in the drama. Rutherford, William Jennings Bryan, Adolph, Henry Ford. There are some more minor characters, but we're dealing with the major characters. This is just the beginning of a video series hidden from Jehovah's Witnesses. The Hidden History. of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society I hope you'll come back for the next video as we get into what ended up happening William Jennings Bryan is dead Henry Ford has been discredited but Rutherford has been taking in all of their garbage for years and years and years. He has no foundation. His foundation is atheism. There's no foundation there. He's taken in all this bad information and he doesn't have the Word of God to filter it out. He doesn't know the Bible. So what's going to end up happening now? What happened in Germany? Why did it happen? And what role did the Jehovah's Witness leaders and members play in getting themselves in trouble because they were following Rutherford when they thought they were following God? They thought they were God's witnesses, Jehovah's witnesses, but they were actually Joseph's witnesses. The atheist who's going to pretend to be a Christian and take over a group and turn it into one of the most anti-Christian religions this world has ever seen. But it looks so pretty on the outside. But those of you who've been on the inside and have managed to make your way out of the maze, you know, don't you? You know what it really is. Some of you went in as a family and you came out by yourself and your family is still trapped in the maze. If you have friends or family that are still trapped in that cult, Get a hold of my interactive e-book, The Whistleblower's Lighthouse. It's located at jasonzelda.xyz jasonzelda.xyz Available for any price you want to pay over $3.00. Get it. Get the information. Use it. I put a year of my life, all my free time for the most part for a year, to put together this more than 500-page interactive e-book. for you. And I'm wanting you to use it. That's why I've taken the time to put it as a PDF so that anybody can use it on pretty much any platform. Now, for those who've asked me to put my book on Kindle, I've gone through the process of scanning my book and making a Kindle version. And it's up on Amazon right now. Now, I don't have the ability on Amazon to set the price to whatever I want to set it to. I would love to be able to set it just like I have on my site that you can pay whatever you want to pay over $3, but they don't allow that on Amazon. They have so many fees that they want you to pay when you sell a book that I have to have the price at a certain rate just to make anything of a profit. And I don't like having the price like that, but again, if you don't want to pay anything like that, and I don't want you to have to, just go to my website, JasonZelda.xyz, JasonZelda.xyz. In some cases, you got to type www.JasonZelda.xyz. Either way, go to your search engine, type in Whistleblowers Lighthouse, if you have to, if you're having trouble getting to the site. And go ahead and get it. and use it to try to win your friends, your family, people you meet on the street who are involved in the cult. Use the information that's in there to try to get them out. There's a lot of documentation in there, a lot of information in there that can be used to help get people out of this cult. I don't want your friends or your family members to be the next ones to become the victims of the leaders of this group that have used their members as pawns, as you're going to see in the upcoming videos, using their members like pawns. Because the leadership of the group profits every time a Jehovah Witness goes down. They benefit every time a Jehovah's Witness goes down. They benefit every time a Jehovah's Witness is arrested. They benefit every time a Jehovah's Witness gets persecuted. They benefit every time a Jehovah's Witness gets killed doing what their leadership tells them to do. And I'll explain all that in the upcoming videos. Before I leave out, I want to say thank you to those of you who have been praying for me. I spent the last three years or so in and out of hospitals. A lot of surgeries and stuff and a ton of hospital bills. But by God's grace, by the grace of Jesus, I sit here before you making videos again. My test that came back the day before yesterday, I used to be at this level up here, which meant that I had cancer. I've had the Haifu surgery. If you're out there and you are a man and you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, look into Haifu, H-I-F-U. We're not talking about something, some fringe medical nonsense. This was done by Vanderbilt. They're the ones who did the work on me. They're not clowns. They know their stuff. We're not talking some way-off-the-wall Watchtower, you know, Miracle Wheat nonsense. They did an operation on me that required no radiation and no side effects. And my levels used to be 4+, which meant I was in the cancer range, because anything above 3 would mean you have cancer. When my source came back, my results came back a couple of days ago, my number is now 2.44. 2.44. I would say the cancer surgery was a success. I still have another result that I'm waiting to get back, and that'll be the final one. But it looks like right now, I am well on the road to recovery. And I want to thank those of you out there who prayed for me, who took the time to have me in your prayers. You don't know how much that means to me. As a single guy living here by myself, lots of bills to pay, rent's outrageous, and I got to do it all by myself. And I'm working 50, 55-hour, 60-hour weeks just to pay bills. But I ain't making no excuses. Someday a lady will come in my life, it'll be great. But until then, I gotta do it by myself. So I hope y'all continue to stand with me. I hope y'all continue to stand with me. Continue to keep praying for me. And know that I love you guys from the heart. I care about you guys. Check out my music site, JasonZelda.com. I put up some new music where I'm using AI. You'll be shocked by how good this music is. It's really good stuff. It's really good stuff. So I'm going to let you guys go. It's been a long video. But there's more to come. There's more to come. So until next we meet, folks, I'll see you guys down the road. And if you guys enjoy the work that I do here, I thank you guys for coming. If you all want to donate, A link will be provided down in the description section. Please just click on the link. It'll take you right there. Every bit's appreciated. I put a lot of work into these videos and I'm really hoping these videos helps a lot of people out. So I look forward to hearing from you guys down the road. Me and you, you got me. Me and you, you got me. Me and you.