ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.
according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.
this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.
Ok I'm going to break with tradition THIS ONE TIME
and pause my trademark snark
Long story short
Satan the Devil
Ref Ezekiel Book "The Nations Shall Know Blah Blah"
(Theyve probably burned them all as per incriminating stupid information
contained therein)
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as baptized or unbaptised witnesses, no one ever discussed or even mentioned (at least in my jw experience) this topic: .
"we are preaching about the good news of the kingdom.
why do we preach about only one hope - living on earth?
Um "we are preaching the good news of the kingdom"
Did you actually say this at the door?
I was always trying to figure how Matt 24:14 was going to be preached
When would what we said was anything but lol
Almost always some WT/AW cover article as rehearsed at the service
meeting,
Sigh
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my dearest dad is 90 years old today.
we are far away, separated by geography, but never will i allow an organisation that indoctrinated false love separate me from my dear dad.
i love my dad and we had our differences but never will i allow that organisation take away my love for my dad.. happy bithday dad.
I hear you Rebel
A principle reason I faded
Which wasn't easy
Was to stay in contact with my 85 yr old mother
Best wishes
Peace
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lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.
i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".
this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.
There is no academic consensus on the existence of Jesus Christ,
Reference: "On the Historicity of Jesus" -Richard Carrier Phd
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now that im not longer a jw this verse puzzles me.
being born and raised a witness, this verse confirmed to me that jesus was talking about a paradise on earth.
but now that everything the witnesses taught is 99.99% incorrect can somone explain what he was getting at here?
after we heard some time ago that before the time of russel there was no "faitful slave" or no anointed ones who formed a faitful slave class, now we learn that we dont know if before russel there were not "faitful ones" or "anointed".
indeed jackson says that we know the bible teaches that throughout the history there would be a large number of "sons of the kingdom" ..or anointed ones.. beginning from this month in several projects including a film about christian bible translators who gave an example of "faithfulness" and "discretness" in translating the bible, the christian bibletranslators and missionionaries who used "jehovah" by the way are receiving ultimate praise of the governing body, in the first place at the moment is shown the video about tyndale, wo so is very much supposedly a "faithful one" and perhaps even "anointed" because he loved the bible.. jackson says that those early missionaries of the christendom already "preached the message" before russell.
january broadcast.
Is this the man who testified are ARC?
Mr Jackson with all due respect is not playing with a full deck
I could spend my time listening to his broadcasts
Like my elderly shut in mother who needs her daily fix of religion
Or I can actually try to preserve my remaining brain cells
Considering something of consequence,
Some of us are trying to distance ourselves from these quacks
now that im not longer a jw this verse puzzles me.
being born and raised a witness, this verse confirmed to me that jesus was talking about a paradise on earth.
but now that everything the witnesses taught is 99.99% incorrect can somone explain what he was getting at here?
If you research this you should find this updated (many years ago)
"understanding"
Who was Jesus talking to here?
Those with the "heavenly" Hope
He meant "inherit" in the sense that his listeners would rule over the Earth
Its all interpretation
And can change from one minute to the next,
Fun eh?
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first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").
she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?
you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .
My mother did that
Me: "I don't want to talk about it"
(Firmly but not nastily)
"You don't want to talk about it?"
"No""
It's helpful at this point if you can move to something else
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(If I'm dealing with a more pushy individual they don't hear from me again)
regarding what happened post russell in 1917, if you ask a jw, they'll say it was the fault of the ousted board members who were 'self willed'.
if you ask an ex-jw, they'll say it was a 'power grab' by rutherford.
the latest yearbook elaborates on the situation:.
Political infighting
And legal maneuvering was what was going on here,
If there is a god
I wonder if this is what he wants
For his humble worshippers
This is what happens in the world of autocratic organized religion
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i have often seen many categorise the organisation in different ways.
some say cult, some say high control religion.
cult or high control religion?.
I think these words are immaterial,
Does a group allow you freedom to think,
To formulate your own opinions
And express them
To act freely
Without coercion
If not
Are you free to leave without punishment
If not
Why would you join a group that does not recognize these basic
freedoms?
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