Awake 22.8.01 Coping With Post-Traumatic Stress
The ‘Awake’ article deals with the tricky and sensitive subject of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Certainly there are many grievous situations that bring about this situation today. The article, of course, pointed to the time when PTSD would be done away with. Check out the quote below.
Unprecedented Distress Now
Sadly, it should be no surprise that rapes, murders, wars, and needless violence abound today. Why? Because Jesus Christ characterized our time as one in which there would be an “increasing of lawlessness.” He added: “The love of the greater number will cool off” Matthew 24:7, 12.
In recent years traumatic stress has become all too common often as a result of the very events that Jesus foretold. As recorded in the Bible in Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13. and Luke chapter 21. Jesus said that in this world’s time of the end there would be international wars, natural disasters, and increased lawlessness and lovelessness. Yet, as Jesus also observed, relief is not far off.
After describing a worldwide epidemic of trauma and the start of “great tribulation” to fol1ow, note what Jesus said people should do: “Raise yourselves erect and lift your heads up because your deliverance is getting near.” (Matthew 24:21-31:
Luke 21:28) Yes, as world conditions worsen, we can be sure that great tribulation upon this distress-causing system of things will culminate in the end of all wickedness and the ushering in of a righteous new system—I John 2:17: Revelation 21:3,4.
In a perverse way the article overlooks the biggest atrocity and cause for PTSD ever….the WTS Armageddon. A time of unparalleled brutality that even the worst atrocities committed by man could not come close to equaling.
*** Rbi8 Zechariah 14:12 ***
12 “And this is what will prove to be the scourge with which Jehovah will scourge all the peoples that will actually do military service against Jerusalem: There will be a rotting away of one’s flesh, while one is standing upon one’s feet; and one’s very eyes will rot away in their sockets, and one’s very tongue will rot away in one’s mouth.
This is gleefully explained with relish by our WTS buddies who are clearly enthused by the prospect.
*** pm 392 21 Theocracy Triumphs over All the Nations ***
Tongues have rotted away. Powers of vision will suddenly go black, so that the fierce-eyed attackers can only strike out blindly against the object of their attack. Eyes have rotted away! Muscles and sinews of highly trained, physically developed warriors will lose strength, resilience, moveableness, as they stand on their feet ready for do-or-die action, not while they are lying on the ground as dead corpses. Flesh that clothes their skeletal structure has rotted away! The scourge hits suddenly, also, at the horses, the mules, the camels, the male asses and any other sorts of domestic animals that are in their military camps. Mobile equipment for the attack is helplessly immobilized!—Zechariah 14:12, 15.
Not a pretty sight but plenty of body mush for the kids to slide in the next day….before the birdies can do a clean up.
*** w80 2/15 23 Festival to Be Celebrated by Billions ***
Their corpses will be like bodies left on a battlefield as carrion food for scavenger birds to eat.
Then back to good ole hard work burying those bones. It may take a while and the kids may come across the odd skeleton here and there while playing out…but eventually it should all get done.
** w53 12/15 763 Questions from Readers ***
Yet the survivors of Armageddon will not let the earth lie littered with bleached bones, but will bury them to cleanse the land, as Ezekiel 39:12 states: “And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.” The Mosaic law declared unclean for seven days anyone touching a corpse, and the land would likewise be polluted by such remains. For an executed criminal to remain exposed was a defilement of the land, and the law required his burial to avoid this. (Num. 19:11; Deut. 21:23) Topheth of the Valley of Hinnom was defiled by its becoming a dumping place of garbage and dead bodies. (2 Ki. 23:10) Hence in time there must be a burial of the bones of those slain at Armageddon, but only to cleanse the land, and not to memorialize their existence or imply hope of resurrection.
Yup that’s how PTSD was finally overcome.
Mind you I think anyone witnessing, men ,women and children’s faces being melted away, the flesh consumed by carrion birds and thereafter burying the remains might be in need of some sedation themselves.
ISP