ablebodiedman - along with what you posted are also the scriptures where Jesus says that you will be killed yet not a hair on your head will fall. How can that happen? Well, the WT itself likens disfellowshipping to putting to death, since laws today don't allow putting to death physically.
EndOfMysteries,
I am inclined to agree.
Ever heard of the term; "character assasination"?
Isn't that what Jesus Christ told us would happen:
Matthew 5:11-12
"Happy are YOU when people reproach YOU and persecute YOU and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against YOUfor my sake. 12 Rejoice and leap for joy, since YOUR reward is great in the heavens; for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to YOU.
Revelation Chapter 11 literally translated says; "and seven thousand names of men were killed by the earthquake"
(See the NWT footnote.)
In a Character assasination it is a persons name that is killed!
Consider once again what they say regarding a disfellowshipped person from the Kingdom Hall platform:
[Name of person] is no longer a Jehovah's Witness
Their name is killed!
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