Encouraging scriptures for the day (page 18)

Kosonen

From what kind of context come these prophecies?

Mark 14:27 And Jesus said to them: “You will all be stumbled, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered about.’

Matthew 2:15 He stayed there until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what was spoken by Jehovah through his prophet, saying: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Zecharia 13:6 And if someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘Wounds I received in the house of my friends.’” 7 “O sword, awake against my shepherd, Against the man who is my companion,” declares Jehovah of armies. “Strike the shepherd, and let the flock be scattered; And I will turn my hand against those who are insignificant.” 8 “And in all the land,” declares Jehovah, “Two parts in it will be cut off and perish; And the third part will be left remaining in it.

Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a boy, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more they called them, The more they went away from them. They kept sacrificing to the Baʹal images And offering sacrifices to the graven images. 3 But it was I who taught Eʹphra·im to walk, taking them in my arms; And they did not acknowledge that I had healed them. 4 With the ropes of men I kept drawing them, with the cords of love; And I was to them like one lifting a yoke from their jaws, And I gently brought food to each one.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself: If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this system of things, let him become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own cunning.” 20 And again: “Jehovah knows that the reasonings of the wise men are futile.”

Queequeg

Beware of an over-pious ignoramus and of one badly trained.

– The Talmud

Big Dog

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Diogenesister

Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes
Hemmed in like a boar between archers
Her very Lowness with her head in a sling
I'm truly sorry, but it sounds like a wonderful thing

"I say, Charles, don't you ever crave
To appear on the front of the Daily Mail
Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?" Ooh, ooh, ooh
And so I checked all the registered historical facts
And I was shocked into shame to discover
How I'm the 18th pale descendant of some old queen or other

Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?
Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?
As some 9-year-old tough, who peddles drugs
I swear to God, I swear, I never even knew what drugs were
Ooh, oh-oh, ooh

So I broke into the Palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said, "Eh, I know, and you cannot sing"
I said, "That's nothing, you should hear me play the piano"
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things

But when you're tied to your Mother's apron
No one talks about castration, ooh, oh-oh, ooh
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like love and law and poverty, ooh-ooh
(These are the things that kill me)

We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair, ooh
(These are the things that kill me)
All their life, they make love and then pierce through me

Pass the Pub that saps your body
And the church who'll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb

Pass the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb

Life is very long when you're lonely

The Queen Is Dead

(1986) The Smiths

Queequeg

I didn't know we could quote song lyrics! Yessss!!!

Fisherman

Psalms 94:23 — And he will turn back upon them their hurtfulness And will silence them with their own calamity. Jehovah our God will silence them.

“And you will tread the wicked underfoot, for they will be like dust under the soles of your feet on the day when I take action” — Mal 4:3 ( Sounds like an allusion to Gen 3 serpent too )

Kosonen

Why are prophecies precious?

1 Thessalonians 5:20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt.

1 Corinthians 14:4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up a congregation.

Today we cannot prophecy, but we can try to understand which prophecies apply to our current time.

1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the undeserved kindness meant for you made a diligent inquiry and a careful search. 11 They kept on investigating what particular time or what season the spirit within them was indicating concerning Christ as it testified beforehand about the sufferings meant for Christ and about the glory that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were ministering, not to themselves, but to you, regarding what has now been announced to you by those who declared the good news to you with holy spirit sent from heaven. Into these very things, angels are desiring to peer.

Queequeg

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty, but a fools wrath is heavier than them both.”

- Dune

Kosonen

1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God,

But we are bombarded by the spirit of the world from work mates, school mates, radio, YouTube, internet, computer games, TV shows, worldly music, news channels, advertisement posters, etc.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3 Yes, among them we all at one time conducted ourselves in harmony with the desires of our flesh, carrying out the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and we were naturally children of wrath just as the rest.

Romans 12:2 And stop being molded by this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over, so that you may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Who wouldn't like to get out of this system of things if it was possible?

Kosonen

In the first speech of the Annual Meeting a Governing Body member stated that The Governing Body does not need to apologize for doctrinal errors, because Jehovah God had not given them a correct understanding. He also assured that the Governing body's doctrinal errors would remain until Jehovah deems it necessary to correct them. As if it's not their own fault.

This reasoning is not correct. On the other hand, the word of God says:

James 3:1 My brothers, do not be many to become teachers, knowing that we will receive a more severe judgment.

Mark 9:42 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who have faith in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone, driven by a donkey, were put around his neck, and he was thrown away. at the sea.

Adam and Eve's excuses did not sit well with God.

Genesis 3:11 Have you eaten of the fruit of the tree that I forbade you to eat? » 12 And the man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate it. » 13 Then Jehovah God said to the woman, “What have you done? » The woman replied: “The serpent deceived me, and I ate. »

There are thoughts in the Bible why God does not let us know or understand, in the worst case Saul and Eli are warning examples.

After God no longer approved of king Saul:

1 Samuel 28:6 He inquired of Jehovah many times, but Jehovah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by the Urim, nor by the prophets.

1 Samuel 3:1 Meanwhile, young Samuel was serving Jehovah under the direction of Eli. In those days it became rare for Jehovah to speak to men; the visions were few.

Obviously because Jehovah God was not happy with the high priest Eli.

Encouraging scriptures for the day

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