by A Believer 183 Replies latest jw experiences
You'd find it more rewarding and less painful to slam your head into a brick wall.
I pity them.
They've spent the last 24 hours desperately trying to find anywhere which might help but can only find a passage where people are using illustrative language. Whilst standing in a part of the temple which uses the wrong greek word!
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 JehovahAs the waters cover the sea.+10 In that day the root of Jesʹse+ will stand up as a signal* for the peoples.+To him the nations will turn for guidance,*+And his resting-place will become glorious.
And I saw standing in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a lamb that seemed to have been slaughtered,having seven horns and seven eyes, and the eyes mean the seven spirits of God that have been sent out into the whole earth.
So where are the four living creatures?
Where are the elders?
The lamb?
A Believer...copy and pasting bits of the Bible isn't forming coherent logical arguments.
It just shows you know how to use ctrl c and ctrl v.
5 For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come, about which we are speaking.
5 “Happy are the mild-tempered,*+ since they will inherit the earth.+
29 The righteous will possess the earth,And they will live forever on it.
18 For this is what Jehovah says,The Creator of the heavens, the true God,The One who formed the earth, its Maker who firmly established it,Who did not create it simply for nothing, but formed it to be inhabited:“I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
The Bible says Earth wasn't created to be inhabited and that meek ones will possess the earth. If you're understanding is that everyone becomes angels that is against what it says.
Those passages are just poetic passages. Look:
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth
God doesn't actually have a mouth, and there isn't a rod hanging out of it!
They're not meant to be taken literally.
They were written when the Jews were in exile. They were passages about the restoration of Israel!
If you're understanding is that everyone becomes angels that is against what it says.
At no point have I ever suggested anything like that.
The angels in that passage are in heaven.
The same words are used on the great crowd. This tells you where the great crowd is.
A B:" -- meek ones will possess the earth--
Wt teaches that the meek ones are the anointed, (all the bible was written for them, remember?). so: The 144k will be in heaven, absentee landlords, lording it over the earth's trillions, Great!
