Angels were sent to the wrong place!

by abiather 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  abiather

  I was reading the portion for the Christmas eve.

  An angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds and told them: "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.” ….. Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying:“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” (Luke 2:8-15)

  If God had sent the same army of angels to the place where Jesus was being tried under false charges and had them repeat those sayings, tailored to the need of the hour, Pontius Pilate, would have ordered the death punishment of the REAL/SADISTIC culprits, instead of Jesus!

  And not only Pilate, the whole Roman Empire would have embraced Christianity (thus pre-empting all the later persecutions brought on innocent Christians)
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  prologos

  that would have changed history, and we would have not have the wt today, with all its acrutements.no preaching work, all that must have been in God's plan of the ages. and

  he had had planned the whole bethlehem /calvary thing right back in eden. requiring a sacrifice, providing the sacrifice, accepting the sacrifice.

  the angels worked according to plan, to SCRIPT.
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  Laika

  The whole Roman empire did embrace christianity. I'm not convinced this was a good thing.
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  abiather

  prologos:

  Even that script (if at all there were one) was back-fired!

  Ransom teaching is only perpetrating what it was supposed to do away with! Have you not heard JWs (or anyone elser for that matter) praying? We thank you for the blessings … and on the basis of ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ we seek your forgiveness for our sins! Thus Jesus’s death became a license to continue sin and to CONTINUE SEEKING FORGIVENESS!
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  abiather

  Laika:

  What the Roman Empire embraced was the 4th C distorted version of Christianity--that was under Constantine.

  What I was referring the pure Christianity of 1st C, directly linked to Jesus Christ!
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  designs

  There never was a "pure christianity".
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  abiather

  A country will not send a costly missile if the desired result is not going to happen.

  Similarly, God will not send a team to accomplish practically nothing while the same team can accomplish immense results if they were sent later at right time to right people!

  What was best for God—sending the army of angel at the time of Jesus’ birth to some shepherds—which brought no gain, or to send the same team at the time of Jesus’s trial, to Rulers or Jurists who can bring about much gain in favor of God’s purpose?

  The very fact that army of angels were sent once means they can be sent again for a worthwhile cause. If they are not sent for the right cause and at right time and to right people means they have not been sent at wrong time at wrong place and to wrong people.

  God will not perform wasteful acts—hence army of angels coming to shepherds makes no sense, serves no purpose!