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What is really Babylon the great?
by Halcon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for believers of god and christ, it seems that it should be obvious that babylon the great of revelation should be all religions and spiritual practices associated with the one true enemy of christ...the devil, satan, the snake etc.

essentially any group or individual practicing and promoting witchcraft, sorcery, devil worshipping etc.

all things practiced in ancient babylon (the nation presumably used as the model for the one in revelation).. or is this too simple of an explanation?.
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Insight Book LIES - then tells the TRUTH!
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it-1 p. 493 communication - "when the circumcision issue was resolved by the governing body in jerusalem......".

it-1 p. 881 galatians, letter to the - "by reason of a revelation, paul, with barnabas and titus, went to jerusalem regarding the circumcision issue; he learned nothing new from james, peter, and john, but they recognized that he had been empowered for an apostleship to the nations.

" (galatians 2:1-10).
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King of the North / South predictions
by Gorb in
1. jw
2. friends
during my jw.org lifetime since 1970 (2008 we faded out of it all) i read and heared a lot of the king of the north and the south.. but about an aliance between the two kings, that was not a jw.org scenario, wasn't it?.

g..
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The King of the North as you Never Heard ity Explained Before
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/w32nome-k20?si=a8bhxh5tjrkomgzq.

rather than seeing the king of the north as the final opponent of god’s people, i propose that daniel 11 points to a completely different figure.

while the watchtower society focuses on the struggle between these two kings, they overlook a third entity mentioned in verse 40, but let’s ready this verse first from the new world translation.
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JWs and Christmas
by Rnadomchris83 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been lurking around here for years.

i'm not a witness, but my in-laws are.

my wife grew up in it but was never baptized.
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Do JW's believe that TWO nations were created?
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
one at pentecost 33 c.e.

or were they "overlapping nations?".

w02 8/1 p. 12 par.
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Jesus the Maintenance Man
by peacefulpete in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i posted on another thread what i thought was an interesting angle, seldom discussed regarding the role of god/logos in holding creation together and its maintenance.

most moderns think of the universe as a self-perpetuating machine, but ancients looked to the god/s to ensure order continued and fertility returned year after year.

we read, throughout the ot, of jews performing prescribed ritual and festivals to ensure god's blessing and providence.
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Jesus Christ Will Arrive Within The Next Four Minutes! (parody)
by Nathan Natas in
1. social
2. humour
yes, you read that correctly!.

jesus h. christ will arrive within the next four minutes!

in fact, by the time you read this, he may have alreadt arrrived!.
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Annual Report
by St George of England in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

george.
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Is the Watchtower Ultimately a Creation of Fallen Angels?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a watchtower in ceremonial magical tradition is a tutelary spirit of one of the four cardinal points or quarters (east, south, west and north).

in many magical traditions, they are understood to be enochian angels... originating with the enochian tradition of john dee, a version of it was popularized by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, which became hugely influential in modern western esotericism, including wicca.

the watchtowers are invoked during the ritual of casting a magic circle.. .