according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.
the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.
it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.
They avoid terms like rapture and second coming , they smack of Christendom and Bab. The Great....however they do believe that the anointed will be "taken" all at once at the end of things. Also, a visible sign of Jesus Christ will bpoccur in the heavens to show that this is IT!
Similar beliefs, different name.
I note they reiterated the fall of Bab the G in 1919 ( when Rutherford anc his mates were relased from prison) , so no backdown on tnat belief either..
here is video of one jw retirement care home that was abandoned leaving a whole lot of unused junk that should been properly removed .. what happened is a big question, it appears it was in radcliffe manchester uk.. another jah jireh home posted a cost of $3020.00 per month, so not for the poor jws out there.
does anyone out there know about this abandoned place ?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwsvsjququ&feature=emb_logo.
It is not an official WTS project. Jah-Jireh is a private company run by Witnesses providing care homes for Witnesses... ( using Jah's name to make money) I have known some who ended up there. I don't know about the cost of it, the ones I knew did not seem particularly wealthy.
This video is a disgrace . I questioned if was their place until I saw the WT stuff left around. I wondered if was the work of later vandals, but a mattress with crap still on it? Had to be original . Why were some personal possessions of the patients left scattered around?
What dubs would call a "bad witness"
hello forum.
my aunt, flyinghighnow, has passed away.
i don't know if you remember her, but she was a long time member.
This is sad news to me.
When Heather (FHN) was a regular on here we struck up a friendship. This followed posts that led to personal messages and then an e mail friendship tnat lasted some years.
She was a lovely lady who was very warm and outgoing. She helped me to get through difficult times and perhaps I added something to her too. We shared a lot of experiences , loved the same music and we had a lot of laughs.
So sad to hear of her passing at a young age ......it just ain'nt right !
When I say that I am sorry for your loss, rest assured that I really mean it. ... I send best wishes to all her loved ones and hope they are doing well .
Condolences. ..R I P Heather.
well these goof balls at jwbroadcast apparently think the study of pure science means not having any "practical application".
oi vey.
sanderson may speak russian but he is so ill educated he appears to think that researching a subject and formulating a theory about it means that's the end of it - in other words he's saying it has no practical use.
If nobody studied Science or Biology we would have knowledge of the wonderful natural world , which forms the basis of numerous Awake articles and nowadays videos.
Whilst it is true that knowledge can “puff up” that is not always the case. So many medical and scientific advances for the good of mankind have resulted from such study.
No Bro Sanderson, these statements are completely B.S. You may diss the study of insects but does not The Bible say “ Go to the ant you lazy one and observe its ways”
i am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?.
Of course they edit,.... and drop the old ones . That's what they do. If you have the WT Library it contains an update facility. I believe the online library goes to yr 2000 but also warns that electronic version may differ from the original printed ones.
although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".
the first paragraph asks '1.
what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?
We were saying in the 1960's , 70's, 80's and 90's that "the last days cannot last much longer, that's obvious "!
But they did... they last and last and keep lasting
...there are very few if any, that i would have willingly associated with.. my 'worldly(tm)' friends are all brilliant people.
they are nothing like the weirdos i had to put up with in the congregations.. what is your take on the people in the jobos as opposed to your associates now?.
I have often said that I still have to have some contact with my wife's current congo. It is better to be involved a little. It helps her ,or so I like to think, I provide someone she can moan to when the elders upset her and that policy has kept us happily still married.
So what about them as people? Most of them are on a different planet and don't know I exist. A few closer friends to her are good genuine people. One elder is friendly and at least tries to reach out... The other elders are completely indifferent to us both...
Back in the day when I was involved , I have known 2 or 3 really brilliant elders who could manage well and really cared. They are long gone now.
In short, dubs are just people like the ones you work with . If you're lucky you get on ok . That is all you can hope for
i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.
milwaukee.
berlin.
Seconded ! Merry Christmas to all ....Ho Ho Ho.....
...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.
do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?
you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.
Perhaps this information demonstrates why the text of their writing is so simplistic these days. It has to be easily translatable by an army of non scholarly translators.
Also, the message may be available in 1000 languages but how many people really know what JWs believe.?
the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .
ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.
i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.
Like others, The seeds were sown when the "generstion" prophecy was tampered with in the nineties. It seemed clear that were reacting to events rather than proactively telling things in advance. Some later, towards the end of the decade , I dared to think the unthinkable, and ask myself if it really was "The Truth" or just another religion of men.
That was it, scales fell from my eyes of perception and I have never doubted that conclusion. It took a while to back out ,fading gently , but here I am.... apostate, under the radar and happily still married to my dubby wife of many years .
