I, and a fellow pastor went into the coliseum meeting area, sat and listened to several presentations for about an hour, and then decided to leave the convention area to go outside and see if we could evangelize any JWs that were standing around. After striking up a conversation with a friendly female JW, I asked her, "How do the JWs define and mark out a false prophet?" After informing her that I was not a JW but was a Christian, she asked me why I would ask such a question and so I read to her the following verse from the JW's own New World Translation,
". . . when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at him." (Deuteronomy 18:22)I then attempted to read from my photocopies of the JWs false prophecies concerning the end of the world from their own literature and a blonde haired woman walking down the sidewalk stopped to eavesdrop our conversation for a few seconds. Once this woman saw what I was doing, she then notified several JWs and the woman I was originally speaking to was asked to step aside and four men quickly surrounded me and began to ask me why I was there, why I had to interrupt people during religious worship, and they then asked me to leave. Of course, we didn't prevent anyone from entering or exiting the facility, didn't force anyone to listen to us, and we didn't evangelize anyone when we were inside the facility. I simply wanted to do one-on-one evangelism on public property. The JWs that surrounded me then told me that they were going to have several men gather near to monitor me until security arrived so as to keep me from influencing other JWs. Since I was surrounded by anywhere from 4-10 men at one time, I decided to expose their false prophecies in a low-volume, open-air style to both them and any passersby.
