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Worship Jesus
Zion's Watch Tower 1880 Oct Page 2-3:
"It seems clear that His Divinity was retained in humanity because He repeatedly spoke of Himself as having come down from heaven, and because He, though passing through trial and sorrow as a man, was yet possessed of the authority and exercised the prerogatives of a God. He was the object of unreproved worship even when a babe, by the wise men who came to see the new-born King. Matt. 2:2-11. Even the angels delighted to do Him honor. "When He bringeth the first-begotten into the world, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him." Heb. 1:6. He never reproved any one for acts of worship offered to Himself, but when Cornelius offered such service to Peter--the leading apostle-- "he took him up, saying, stand up; I myself also am a man." .... Had Christ not been more than a man the same reason would have prevented from receiving worship...."
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Zion's Watch Tower 1892 May 15 Page 157:
“It is undoubtedly proper enough for us to address petitions to our Redeemer and Advocate, who loved us and gave himself for us....Although we are nowhere instructed to make petitions to him, it evidently could not be improper so to do; for such a course is nowhere prohibited, and the disciples worshiped him.”
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Zion's Watch Tower 1898 Jul 15 Page 216
“Question. The fact that our Lord received worship is claimed by some to be an evidence that while on earth he was God the Father disguised in a body of flesh and not really a man. Was he really worshiped, or is the translation faulty?
Answer. Yes, we believe our Lord Jesus while on earth was really worshiped, and properly so. It was proper for our Lord to receive worship in view of his having been the only begotten of the Father and his agent in the creation of all things, including man.”
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Watchtower 1939 Nov 15 Page 339
“Jehovah God commands all to worship Christ Jesus because Christ Jesus is the express image of his Father, Jehovah, and because he is the Executive Officer of Jehovah always carrying out Jehovah's purpose (Heb.:3-6).”
The Watchtower-1939 - JWS Online Library (jws-library.one)
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Salvation (J. F. Rutherford, 1939) Page 151
“The people of all nations who obtain salvation must come to the house of the Lord to worship there; that is to say, they must believe on and worship Jehovah God and the Lord Jesus Christ, his chief instrument (Philippians 2:10, 11).”
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Watchtower 1945 Oct 15 Page 313
“Now, at Christ's coming to reign as king in Jehovah's capital organization Zion, to bring in a righteous new world, Jehovah makes him infinitely higher than the godly angels or messengers and accordingly commands them to worship him. Since Jehovah God now reigns as King by means of his capital organization Zion, then whosoever would worship Him must also worship and bow down to Jehovah's Chief One in that capital organization, namely, Christ Jesus, his Co-regent on the throne of The Theocracy.”
The Watchtower-1945 - JWS Online Library (jws-library.one)
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Watchtower Society Yearbook 1945 Page 32
“and for public Christian worship of Almighty God and Christ Jesus”
1945_Yearbook.pdf (archive.org)
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Analysis
The Watchtower taught that you should worship Jesus until post-Knorr
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They then misquoted their previous teaching in their Yearbooks to try and hide this
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They admitted that the Bible teaches to worship Jesus, then hid that fact​
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They didn’t remove the command to worship Jesus from their statement of incorporation until 1999.
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Why would God anoint a Church in 1919 that wouldn’t understand worship correctly until nearly a century later?