"Abraham had come out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and he did not want that city any more. He and his son Isaac and grandson Jacob wanted a better place, that is, one belonging to heaven, a city government, namely, the government or city that God has prepared and in which the promised Seed or Offspring of Abraham will be God’s King. This is the “kingdom of God,” or “the kingdom of the heavens,” as these two expressions are interchangeable, the expression “the heavens” having reference to God. Under that kingdom of the heavens or kingdom of God Abraham, Isaac and Jacob expected to live on earth". (Watchtower 3/15/1962 Questions From the Readers)
I also checked the Kingdom Interlinear Bible Hebrews 11:8-19. Not able to able find any information on "city government" in those verses. What do you guys think?
How do the Jehivah's Witnesses get "city government" out of "heavenly city"?
by I_love_Jeff 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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I_love_Jeff
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I_love_Jeff
OOOO shoot, I spelled Jehovah incorrectly...oops.
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blondie
*** w81 3/15 p. 30 Questions From Readers ***
Hebrews 11:8-10 referred to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and showed that Abraham left the city of Ur of Chaldea and that he and Isaac and Jacob lived as nomads until Jacob transferred down to the land of Egypt in the days of his son Joseph. So during that period of time they did not live in a settled, established place like a city. Nothing in the Hebrew Scriptures says that God promised these three men a “city having real foundations, the builder and maker of which city is God.” That is Paul’s comment on the matter. Doubtless that expression refers to the established government of God by the ‘seed of Abraham,’ under which government those three patriarchs will live on earth and gain human perfection by the end of the thousand years.—Gal. 3:16.
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I_love_Jeff
Blondie you should see the response that CF gave in the link I provided. LOL!
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blondie
The WTS likes to make connections where there is no bible basis but covers there ass with words like "doubtless" or "evidently"and "apparently."
*** w12 4/15 p. 23 pars. 5-6 Jehovah Knows How to Deliver His People ***
At that time, Noah was 480 years old. (Gen. 7:6) Some 20 years later, in the year 2470 B.C.E., Noah’s sons began to be born. (Gen. 5:32) About one hundred years remained before the Flood was to begin, but Jehovah had still not revealed to Noah the special role he would play in preserving the human family. How long would God wait before he told Noah?
6Jehovah apparently waited decades before revealing to Noah what He was going to do.
*** w12 1/15 p. 10 par. 5 Learn Watchfulness From Jesus’ Apostles ***
Paul, Silas, and Timothy had left the city of Lystra in southern Galatia. Days later they reached a Roman highway leading westward to the most populated region of the district of Asia. They wanted to take that road so as to visit cities where thousands of people needed to hear about Christ. But something stopped them in their tracks. Verse 6 says: “They went through Phrygia and the country of Galatia, because they were forbidden by the holy spirit to speak the word in the district of Asia.” In some undisclosed manner, the holy spirit prevented the travelers from preaching in the province of Asia. Evidently Jesus—by means of God’s spirit—wanted to guide Paul and his companions in a different direction.
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seekchristonly
Good question
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