Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

November 16, 2019

“What is done in secret is done to protect the evil acts of the wicked so they can do their injustices in the name of justice, acts that those of the light hate!”

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

Ephesians 5:11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Rom. 3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3}
3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7}
3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8}
3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1}

Facts: “If the man who testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst” (Deut. 19:18-19).The Sages interpreted these verses as applying to witnesses who are in collusion with the plaintiff, witnesses who turn out not even to have been present at the site of the event about which they are testifying or were not present at the time about which they are testifying.[1]

The law regarding aned zomem (a plotting witness or witness-malefactor) is discussed in the Babylonian Talmud in the first chapter of Tractate Makkot in several contexts, including the question of how his punishment should be carried out: witnesses who conspired to get a capital conviction or a court ruling against someone financially have done to them what they actually plotted to have ruled on the other; whereas witnesses who sought to harm a person’s reputation or have the person exiled, by testifying that he is guilty of manslaughter, are subject to forty lashes.[2] Facts by By: Aaron Orenstein*