watchtower 1953, may 1st, pg.284, par.16.
16 is the watch tower bible and tract society god’s woman or universal organization?
scan: https://docdro.id/qiltnwd: .
Semantics.......
The WTS is not Gods Woman of Rev 12, neither is it a Universal org. , being only. an earthly legal corp. for the doing of Gods will, they say.
But to get them to say that the "Society " in all its guises and the congregations of J W are not God's earthly org and G B were not the F and D Slave......... that would be something .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhd-xbj9yoq.
@ kevini love your dubtown videos.
but this video - where you tell something about yourself - is the most valuable of all previous videos.
Thanks Jehu, and Kevin......That was good for me today.
For the first time in years I took some flack from the family for quitting "The Truth" and I was feeling down . Kevin put into words what I feel inside.....that you cannot exercise doublethink and believe that they are guided by H/S while continually excusing them for being wrong.
Elapsed time since 1914 and a logical humanitarian abhorance of an Armageddon slaughter, means that they cannot be right.
Thanks again Kevin, we think alike
and you just knew you would be listening to them when you were old but with a strong dose of nostalgia.. - when i'm 64.
- those were the days.. - naturally..
As the o/p says:
Yes, very astute... must have been written by an older person.
My choices go back further... Rock Around the Clock... Bill Haley , started the rock scene in Britain, perhaps Elvis Heartbreak Hotel.
you can listen here:.
https://youtu.be/ofmsypm50n8.
I am afraid the above posts are correct. .. But I bet you feel better for having done it.
since they’ve announced the dates for the next 3 memorials, no talk about this “may be our last one!”.
since they’ve announced the patterson construction project will take 3 years to complete.
let’s also not forget when they designed warwick, they spent money on expensive energy saving technology to save millions in the long run, years and decades in the future.
Buildings? They used to say ........ ' we dont know when ghe end will come. If we get no use from it this side of Armageddon, so what. .? If it should be half built , no matter. When the end does come we know the Lord expects to find us busy in the service, so we keep going , and going'
That is called covering your a##.
i'll play devil's advocate.... true, the mosaic law code prohibited the eating of blood.
but jesus fulfilled the law covenant thus wiping out all the laws previously set.
but then later, (through god's spirit, of course wink wink) the abstaining of blood was again brought to followers of christ.
Things forbidden to Jews are fine for J W’s , “ old law done away with” by Christ.
When I read yesterday’s thread about Horshoe crab blood in medical use it , made me think that they don’t care about fish blood - even large fish like salmon and halibut . An angler may bleed one but commercial fishing does not.
Since The Bible does not mention fish in the blood prohibition and Jesus is recorded as eating fish, I guess that is why they are happy with it.......... Thankfully.
archived story from http://www.detnews.com
wednesday, june 15, 2005
blood of the lowly horseshoe crab helps save humans
A more recent link confirms the above info... fascinating. Not many dubs know that !
hm of you with a divided house have to put up with this?
in this house its walking a mine field.. also our little cat has been gone for some 24 hours and her absence is also my fault apparently..
“I can only guess but I think its because she believes that we alone live in dull reality but all other jw are outrageously happy all the time; and this happy face for the meeting/convention is what she wants 24/7.”
Hm, yes, I used to get down over that... when I was a naive dub. I bet though when Mrs Zeb goes to a meeting she has a Kingdom Smile too.
Funnily enough, after I stopped believing, after initial trauma at home married life improved greatly. I guess we were not competing .
Good luck mate..
when was that first preached , with the book babylon the great has fallen gods kingdom rules ,the 1970`s ?
where they claimed that false religion had a fall in 1919 and that it was continuing to that day .
however today we see not babylon the great that is falling ,but the jehovah`s witnesses religion that are on the decline ,selling off branches , kingdom halls in one place after another throughout the earth .. and only a couple of years ago they were predicting they would be needing thousands of kingdom halls to be built for the expected influx of new worshippers ?
Sure they do....
Eg. The glossary on Jw library
"the religious entity called “Babylon the Great” is described in Revelation as a prostitute because she has consorted with the rulers of this world for power and material gain.—"
Since I dont read Italian the article meant nothing to me
