"This is not the Governing Body saying this. This is Jehovah speaking to you..."
Yeeesh. What pompous, self-important hubris...
"Brothers and sisters if you are not having your family worship night, you will not be ready for survival at Armageddon . The Governing Body has worked hard to convey the seriousness of this arrangement. It cannot be underestimated. Now, you have a choice as to whether or not you will listen to the counsel, but remember, you've been warned... Since time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all, you could die this afternoon. As you sit there are you certain that your course of life would guarantee that you are in Jehovah's memory, and you would receive a resurrection?"
Same old BS... Still beating that same old drum. We heard stuff like that in the 1960's - this bro's statements are almost a word-for-word repetition of that same pre-1975 "Armageddon is coming" scare propaganda.
Bro Morris said, "I was in Vietnam . I have seen mass death....human casualties. I have smelled burning human flesh after a helicopter crash. I saw only a glimpse of what it will probably be like at Armageddon. We must be prepared."
Good grief. I smelled burning human flesh when I was only 5 years old - my family lived next to the old Stapleton Airport in Denver. A passenger airliner came in too low - came in short of the runway, and this happened in daylight, oddly enough - and ripped its belly open, including the fuel tanks, and burst into flames as it slid onto the runway apron. (Probably happened sometime in 1957 or '58...) I remember sitting on top of my kiddie jungle gym, watching the smoke rise from the burning wreck and smelling the stench - that's something I'll never forget - in the air all through our neighborhood, as the airliner burned. Many people lost their lives; emergency response wasn't prepared for something like that and the fire trucks took too long getting out to the wreck...
But that terrible tragedy didn't make me - a tiny little 4 or 5-year-old - think that 'God' was going to destroy humanity...
BTW, MeetingJunkieNoMore, "Is that why God had the Bible written 2000 years ago?"...
The latest info available from reliable archaeological sources is that the oldest bit of writing that can be established as being part of the 'bible' is approximately 3,500 years old. Just a "Johnny-come-lately" holy book/religion when one compares that to the age of certain Egyptian holy texts written on pyramid walls [don't remember which pyramids; sorry 'bout that...] which are at least 1,000 years OLDER than the 'bible'; Goddess worship [worship of various goddesses] which is AT LEAST 35,000 years old, and the religion(s) of the Australian Aborigines, which is at least 40,000 years old and may be as old as 80,000 years old...
babygirl30, LockedChaos, Ynot, Blondie... Good ones!! Zid