Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen 543 Replies latest jw friends

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  Kosonen

  It is interesting how Zachariah got help to believe the message from God that the angel delivered to him:

  Luc 1:18 Zech·a·riʹah said to the angel: “How can I be sure of this? For I am old, and my wife is well along in years.” 19 In reply the angel said to him: “I am Gaʹbri·el, who stands near before God, and I was sent to speak with you and to declare this good news to you. 20 But look! you will be silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their appointed time.”
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  Queequeg

  "I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why."

  - Gabriel
  
  
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  Kosonen

  Where is this really or where will this happen and about whom is this? Who are these people that will live a peaceful life, that Gog will try to come to plunder?

  Ezechiel 38:10 (NIV) ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. 11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. 12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[d]” 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages[e] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’
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  Queequeg

  "One of the best ways to drain people's energy is via the internet."

  - Colin Robinson
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  Leathercrop

  Wtf, I'm a little confused with this topic...is it a serious one or a sarcastic one? Or both lol
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  Queequeg

  "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  - Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
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  Leathercrop

  As much as I'd like to disagree with old Friedrich, I can't. Which means it's both lol
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  Queequeg

  "Winner, winner, chicken dinner!"

  - Anonymous
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  stan livedeath

  
  Leathercrop2 hours agoWtf, I'm a little confused with this topic...is it a serious one or a sarcastic one? Or both lol

  its just the resident god botherer doing his thing.
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  vienne

  Leath,

  Koson thinks he has a unique commission from God. Some of the scriptures he quotes are pertinent to today. Most of his conclusions, when he cares to make them, are wild speculation. But that's the way with all specially (self)-chosen divine representatives, is it not?