People of the Tower Quotes

“It is a mystery why a holy Jehovah has allowed evil for this span of time. I suspect the possibility of evil was allowed, to allow us the freedom of choice. For if evil was impossible how then could there be a choice?”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our spirits yearn to know Jehovah. Thus to place these mundane things before me as enticing items is really to insult me. That is why I say it is folly to run after anything else than for what Jehovah has created us for.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“perfect—Cain rose up and slew his brother Abel. For Abel’s sacrifice, an innocent lamb, had found favor with Jehovah. This, Noah said, showed that those who rebel against Jehovah always hate those who obey Him. Abel was also a prophet and warned his brother of his sinful path. Abel paid for his warning with his life. The event also showed a prophet’s fate. The way of Cain, a man of the world, warred against the way of the Spirit of Jehovah, against a man of the spirit.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, had also been the first to start his own religion. He came to Jehovah not as Jehovah decreed, with an innocent lamb slain for his sins, but with the fruit of the field. Cain toiled in the ground cursed by Jehovah, and after stabbed by thorns and with blistered hands he brought to Jehovah his best. He had worked his way to Jehovah. He had taken what would forever be known as the ‘way of Cain.’  He tried to purchase Jehovah’s favor through his best effort. For Cain it was with his best fruits and grains, first grown in the ground by hard labor and then harvested by the sweat of his brow. He rejected Jehovah’s revealed way. Sacrificing a lamb, ah, so bloody and crude and barbarous, and showing that man’s sinfulness required something that man himself would never be good enough to pay for—it was an insult to a proud man, and Cain was very proud.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“I’ve bemused you with these tales of the devil and his ancient offer of knowledge, that he uses what seems so good in order to bring about such evil.”  Noah brooded.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“Those who rebel against Jehovah always want others to join them. They are never secure unless the world does likewise, unless the world agrees with them.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower