Today's text: Armageddon's Gonna Kill You, (In One Sentence)

by Open mind 21 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Open mind

  My Jezebel wife read today's text to me this morning. (without a headcovering BTW) . She zeroed in on this tasty little morsel of Spiritual Soylent Green.

  "This pointed to a greater destruction that awaits many professed Christians and those of other religions."

  This sentence is a pretty good CURRENT LIGHT sound bite to keep in mind for the next JW who says we don't think everyone's going down at Armageddon.

  Here's today's text in it's entirety.

  *** Text for Sunday, February 07, 2010 ***
  Text for Sunday, February 07, 2010
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  ? es10 p. 19 February
  Sunday, February 7
  How are you to flee from the judgment of Gehenna?—Matt. 23:33.
  Gehenna was a valley area outside the walls of Jerusalem where rubbish and the carcasses of dead animals were burned. Jesus used Gehenna as a symbol of eternal death. His question about escaping from Gehenna showed that those religious leaders as a class were fit for everlasting destruction. (Matt. 5:22, 29) The Jewish leaders compounded their sins by persecuting Jesus and his followers. Later, as John and Jesus had warned, God’s day of wrath came. In that case, “the coming wrath” was centered on one particular locale, Jerusalem and Judea, so it could have been possible to flee in a literal way. (Matt. 3:7; Luke 21:20) The wrath was expressed when Jerusalem and its temple were destroyed by Roman armies in 70 C.E. Many of the city’s inhabitants were killed or taken captive. This pointed to a greater destruction that awaits many professed Christians and those of other religions.—Matt. 24:21. w08 6/15 1:3-5

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  Found Sheep

  wow!!
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  shamus100

  SEE YOU IN GEHENNA, OPEN MIND!
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  mrsjones5

  Not many folks on the outside will read that daily text so what I get from it is the bOrg telling the rank and file that if you dare to leave and join another religion you will die. So that message is not for everyone on the outside, it for the rank and file jws.
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  Open mind

  Shamus: Not if I see you first!

  On a closer reading, the last sentence of today's text is fairly well equipped with weasle room.

  "many professed Christians" will be destroyed.

  JW: "Sure. That includes a fair amount of JWs. We just can't say for sure who."

  The second part of the sentence could be taken to mean that ANYONE belonging to "other religions" will be destroyed. But you could, if you put on your JW weasle hat, apply the word "many" to the people of other religions as well. It all depends on how you interpret the sentence.

  Writing Department, I SALUTE YOU!

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  villabolo

  Can we roast some marshmellows in Gehenna?

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  poppers

  Can we roast some marshmellows in Gehenna?

  Yeah you can, but they will taste like burning flesh.
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  agonus

  "those religious leaders as a class were fit for everlasting destruction." THOSE religious leaders. Not ours. Them. Not us. Never us. Always them.
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  Heaven

  This kind of fear mongering is another reason I was repelled by this group instead of attracted to it. It's not Win-Win.

  I clearly remember as a teenager deciding that I was 100% O.K. with not making it through Armageddon or having eternal life. A huge weight was lifted off my spirit and soul that day.
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  Open mind

  Excellent point on it not being aimed at the general public Josie.

  If you wanted to get any mileage out of this you'd have to say somthing like: "A JW I know in California, (that would be me) let me know about today's text because he was concerned for my life. "

  All true and not quite as weasley as the Watchtower.

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