Encouraging scriptures for the day (page 39)

Leathercrop

@kosonen,

I'm going to play devil's advocate here and ask, do the scriptures really say humanity will pick up where Adam and Eve left off? Or is this an inference?

Sometimes Virgo is like arrayed in the sun. Sometimes the moon is beneath her feet. But Serpens keeps standing before the woman. This screenshot is taken from the Stellarium Mobile - Star map app I just downloaded. I set the time to 2017, September 23. On that day the sun and moon and the planets were positioned at Virgo as seen in the screen shot.

How come that there is such a striking similarity with Revelation 12:1-4?

How come that Revelation 12 seems to talk about the constellations Virgo, the virgin and Serpens, the Serpent?

Revelation 12:1 Then a great sign was seen in heaven: A woman was arrayed with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of 12 stars, 2 and she was pregnant. And she was crying out in her pains and in her agony to give birth. 3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Look! A great fiery-colored dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and on its heads seven diadems; 4 and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth, it might devour her child.

Kosonen

"Leathercrop: I'm going to play devil's advocate here and ask, do the scriptures really say humanity will pick up where Adam and Eve left off? Or is this an inference?"

Yes, that's the core beliefs Jehovah's witnesses have convinced their members to believe with all the scriptures from the Bible that point to this.

I studied the "Live for ever" book before I was baptised in 1988. It had wonderful paradise pictures and scriptures added to them.

Leathercrop

Yes, that's the core beliefs Jehovah's witnesses have convinced their members to believe with all the scriptures from the Bible that point to this.

It is true that this is what JWs have been convinced of, but is it truly a clear teaching in the Bible?

Kosonen

How to obey Jesus in this regard?

Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘Unreasonable one, this night they are demanding your life from you. Who, then, is to have the things you stored up?’ 21 So it goes with the man who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

32 “Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom. 33 Sell your belongings and give gifts of mercy. Make money pouches that do not wear out, a never-failing treasure in the heavens, where no thief gets near and no moth consumes. 34 For where your treasure is, there your hearts will be also.

Queequeg

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

- Robert Benchley

Leathercrop

My question - It is true that this is what JWs have been convinced of, but is it truly a clear teaching in the Bible?

Kosonen's answer -

How to obey Jesus in this regard?

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Hehehe...I guess I stumped him...

Kosonen

Hi Leathercrop,

What do you say about this ? :

Could Jehovah God abandon his original purpose with mankind?

Genesis 1:26 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every creeping animal that is moving on the earth.” 27 And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them, and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth.”

Luke 14:28 For example, who of you wanting to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, he might lay its foundation but not be able to finish it, and all the onlookers would start to ridicule him, 30 saying: ‘This man started to build but was not able to finish.’

Kosonen

Jehovah God surely wanted that people would not die. But every person has to show if they want to follow God's reasonable rules.

Genesis 2:15 Jehovah God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to take care of it. 16 Jehovah God also gave this command to the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Isiah 55:11 So my word that goes out of my mouth will be. It will not return to me without results, But it will certainly accomplish whatever is my delight, And it will have sure success in what I send it to do.

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