Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen 543 Replies latest jw friends

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    Here is something encouraging for those who wish prophecies in the Bible get their fulfilments. Before the arrival of God's kingdom the sevenheaded beast has to be empowered and the related prophecies to get their fulfilments. Specifically the aspect of the mark of the beast and the worship of the beast.

    Here is the latest video from Alex Jones.

    https://madmaxworld.tv/watch?id=65846132d73929b3eeea1910

  • TD
    TD
    “She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, she who made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality!”

    You're familiar with the goddess Dea Roma, right? You're aware that she was a female personification of Rome? You're aware that the Jews of the time period hated Rome and called it a second Babylon? And that they especially hated Dea Roma and called her the mother of prostitutes?

    How would the target audience have interpreted the label, "Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots"? Would they have perhaps interpreted it within the social and political context in which it was written?

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    That's how it was. Revelation 17:9 explains: This calls for a mind that has wisdom: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. 10 And there are seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet arrived; but when he does arrive, he must remain a short while. 11 And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also an eighth king, but it springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.

    So the powerful woman called Babylon the Great first was in Egypt and dominated over it. After that it dominated the following empires.

    1 Egypt, 2 Assyria, 3 Babylon, 4 Medo-Perse, 5 Greece.

    At the time of apostle John Babylon the Great dominated the Roman empire. And I see the so-called Western world to be a continuation of the Roman empire. That is the 6th head, king and mountain.

    The 7th head, king and mountain will be the seven headed beast in Revelation 13 that is: “the other has not yet arrived; but when he does arrive, he must remain a short while.”(verse 10)

    It will rule for 42 months.

    Babylon the Great will dominate that beast.

    And after that Babylon the Great will sit above the 8th king for even a shorter time. The 8th king seems to become the UN later on. Because the end goal is to make the UN the final world government.

    So Babylon the Great is an entity that has migrated from Egypt about 3000 years ago and ever since dominated every following empire by spiritism.

    Revelation 18:24 …and by your spiritistic practices all the nations were misled.

    Freemasonry has its roots in ancient Egyptian mysticism.

    The fact is that even today the world is ruled by what today is Freemasonry. This practice of spiritism and mysticism has dominated all the empires/kings Revelation 17 refers to.

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    We don’t have to worry about losing the possibility to enjoy the richness of good things Jehovah God has created for life on earth through Jesus, his only begotten son.

    If God has not called you to be with Jesus as a king and priest, then you can be sure life will be wonderful on earth forever as God’s word the Bible teaches.

    Think about the richness of species God has created. All the innumerable animals and plants and microorganisms. Who would put such great thought and effort into creating all this and then destroy it?

    And what we have today is nothing compared to the goodness that will exist when the earth becomes paradise.

    Revelation 7:16 They will hunger no more nor thirst anymore, neither will the sun beat down on them nor any scorching heat, 17 because the Lamb, who is in the midst of the throne, will shepherd them and will guide them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe out every tear from their eyes.”

    Isaiah 11:1 A twig will grow out of the stump of Jesʹse, And a sprout from his roots will bear fruit. 2 And the spirit of Jehovah will settle upon him, The spirit of wisdom and of understanding, The spirit of counsel and of mightiness, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And he will find delight in the fear of Jehovah. He will not judge by what appears to his eyes, Nor reprove simply according to what. 4 He will judge the lowly with fairness, And with uprightness he will give reproof in behalf of the meek ones of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth And put the wicked to death with the breath of his lips. 5 Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, And faithfulness the belt of his hips. 6 The wolf will reside for a while with the lamb, And with the young goat the leopard will lie down, And the calf and the lion and the fattened animal will all be together; And a little boy will lead them. 7 The cow and the bear will feed together, And their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the bull. 8 The nursing child will play over the lair of a cobra, And a weaned child will put his hand over the den of a poisonous snake. 9 They will not cause any harm Or any ruin in all my holy mountain, Because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah As the waters cover the sea. 10 In that day the root of Jesse will stand up as a signal for the peoples. To him the nations will turn for guidance, And his resting-place will become glorious.

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    Does the Watchtower organization follow Jesus’ instruction about preaching? According to Jesus, should Christians go frequently back to people that are not interested in the Good news about God’s Kingdom?

    Luke 10:8 “Also, wherever you enter into a city and they receive you, eat what is set before you 9 and cure the sick ones in it and tell them: ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But wherever you enter into a city and they do not receive you, go out into its main streets and say: 11 ‘We wipe off against you even the dust that sticks to our feet from your city. Nevertheless, know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you that it will be more endurable for Sodom in that day than for that city

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    People today are usually careful about their personal hygiene. People want to be physically clean. But there is another kind of hygiene that is equally important. And lack of it is in fact shameful.

    Jesus gives a whole list of such things.

    Mark 7:20 Further, he said: “That which comes out of a man is what defiles him. 21 For from inside, out of the heart of men, come injurious reasonings: sexual immorality, thefts, murders, 22 acts of adultery, greed, acts of wickedness, deceit, brazen conduct, an envious eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, and unreasonableness. 23 All these wicked things come from within and defile a man.”

    Revelation 21:8 speaks about similar things:

    But as for the cowards and those without faith and those who are disgusting in their filth and murderers and the sexually immoral and those practicing spiritism and idolaters and all the liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This means the second death.”

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    2 Corinthians 4:2 (Darby Translation) But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    Every Christian who teaches should direct people to Jesus Christ instead of human religious leaders.

    1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all …

    John 14:6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

    Romans 10:17 So faith follows the thing heard. In turn, what is heard is through the word about Christ.

    2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were dulled. For to this present day, the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read, because it is taken away only by means of Christ.

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    Jesus’ sudden arrival will be majestic, when he comes to take his chosen ones to heaven

    Mark 13:24 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling out of heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. 26 And then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. 27 And then he will send out the angels and will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from earth’s extremity to heaven’s extremity.

    Luke 21:25 Also, there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation. 26 People will become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But as these things start to occur, stand up straight and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is getting near.”

  • Kosonen
    Kosonen

    Matthew 24:14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

    Mark 13:10 Also, in all the nations, the good news has to be preached first.

    Luc 24:46 and he said to them, “This is what is written: that the Christ would suffer and rise from among the dead on the third day, 47 and on the basis of his name, repentance for forgiveness of sins would be preached in all the nations—starting out from Jerusalem. 48 You are to be witnesses of these things.

    This work is nearing its end. I think more than 99% of the world’s adults have heard about Jesus and the message that he died for our sins. Surely the majority of them have heard the teaching that Jesus will return to judge the world also.

    The message will surely become even more frequent in the mass media when the end time persecution of Christians begins. Also the two witnesses will get much attention in all the world during their 42 month witnessing. (Revelation chapter 11)

    So there is no doubt that the good news about Jesus will be preached in all the world before the end comes.

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