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Encouraging scriptures for the day
by Kosonen 543 Replies latest jw friends
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vienne
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Kosonen
After we have cut bonds with the Watchtower organization, is there a danger that our spirituality could be in danger?
Matthew 12:43 “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through waterless places in search of a resting-place and finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will go back to my house from which I moved,’ and on arriving, it finds the house unoccupied but swept clean and adorned. 45 Then it goes and takes along with it seven different spirits more wicked than itself, and after getting inside, they dwell there; and the final circumstances of that man become worse than the first. That is how it will be also with this wicked generation.
Matthew 24:9 “Then people will hand you over to tribulation and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name. 10 Then, too, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another.
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Queequeg
"There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up."
- Leslie Jordan
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Duran
“It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.”
– Frank Drebin
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vienne
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. - John Madden
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Kosonen
Hello brothers, a question for you all: What prevents you from understanding things in the Bible? Why not ask that in a prayer?
Matthew 13:13 That is why I speak to them by the use of illustrations; for looking, they look in vain, and hearing, they hear in vain, nor do they get the sense of it. 14 And the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled in their case. It says: ‘You will indeed hear but by no means get the sense of it, and you will indeed look but by no means see. 15 For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive, and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and get the sense of it with their hearts and turn back and I heal them.’ 16 “However, happy are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear.
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Queequeg
"Arrogance is the surest path to failure."
- William Butler Yeates
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Duran
"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." - Woody Allen
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Kosonen
The coming of the Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:3 I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days dressed in sackcloth.”
7 When they have finished their witnessing, the wild beast that ascends out of the abyss will wage war with them and conquer them and kill them. 8 And their corpses will be on the main street of the great city that is in a spiritual sense called Sodʹom and Egypt, where their Lord was also executed on the stake
At the same time as the seven headed beast begins to have authority over the earth, two God’s witnesses will be witnessing in opposition to the world and the seven headed beast of Revelation 13. They will be invincible for 1260 days. But after that the beast in Revelation 18 will kill them.
They will be like prophets in Bible times, like Moses and Aaron or like Elijah and Elisha. Those prophets in ancient times were active in a small geographic scope, but the two coming prophets will prophesy to the whole world and they will as the Revelation tells be able to strike the earth with plagues, just as Moses and Aaron could do in Egypt.
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Queequeg
"I feel so sorry for your wife and children, you do not have all the moomins in the valley."
- Queequeg