‘scholar’ continues with the same vague nutbag interpretations that he’s done for years. Everything he says has been thoroughly debunked. Most amusing, his position requires a solstice on a date that is physically impossible. It’s just pathetic.
Posts by Jeffro
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129Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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Jeffro
Already trounced you at every turn before.
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Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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‘scholar’:
Current and past scholarship has validated 1914 CE
🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂
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Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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Rattigan350:
If prophesies called for Jesus to be king, and he hadn't yet, then that was yet for the future of his time.
No, they were just wrong. Just like you.
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Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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Rattigan350:
There are many prophecies stating that Jesus will become king. But he didn't. He lived and died and did not become king.
At least you got that part right.
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Are You Ready for the Most Important Day of the Year?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inluke 22:14 so when the hour came, he reclined at the table along with the apostles.
and he said to them: “i have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before i suffer; 16 for i tell you, i will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of god.” 17 and accepting a cup, he gave thanks and said: “take this and pass it from one to the other among yourselves, 18 for i tell you, from now on, i will not drink again from the product of the vine until the kingdom of god comes.”.
19 also, he took a loaf, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying: “this means my body, which is to be given in your behalf.
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Jeffro
I'm looking forward to when they say Nisan 14 will fall in mid-May like they insist happened in 588 BCE. 🤣🤷♂️
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Is there “new light” on 1914?
by wallsofjericho ini’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .
is this regarding 1914?
or micheal the arch angel?.
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Jeffro
Saying Jesus 'sits on his throne' at some future time is (intentionally) vague language. It isn't necessarily synonymous with 'being made king', and they can play games with Jesus 'sitting' and 'standing' at various times. But even if they completely move Jesus' supposed 'enthronement' away from 1914, that year is still crucial for their erroneous 'end of the 7 times', the 'start of Jesus' 'presence'', the 'start of the last days', and their claim of being 'selected in 1919'. So while it might sound significant, it's a bit of a non-event really. And their end-times doctrines still remain inconsistent with the supposed order of events laid out in the Bible anyway.
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2023 Yearly Report UNDER the Microscope
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/pi7sn2rnrke?si=lnvklqct6nuayv2q.
branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 85 (= down one from 86 from the previous year and quite possibly they are referring to the hong kong bethel that closed down recently).
number of lands reporting: 239 ( =the same as 2022).
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'Land' No. of Congs. New Congregations Publishers per Congregation Albania 83 0 65 American Samoa 3 0 41 Andorra 3 0 55 Angola 2567 28 64 Anguilla 1 0 55 Antigua 7 0 66 Argentina 1938 -7 79 Armenia 134 -1 84 Aruba 14 0 77 Australia 726 -13 97 Austria 283 -4 78 Azerbaijan 23 5 74 Azores 15 0 53 Bahamas 28 0 60 Bangladesh 6 0 56 Barbados 30 0 76 Belarus 82 -1 74 Belgium 338 2 77 Belize 53 -1 46 Benin 260 14 54 Bermuda 5 0 77 Bolivia 452 4 64 Bonaire 2 0 66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16 0 59 Botswana 42 -1 55 Brazil 12637 198 71 Britain 1599 -15 88 Bulgaria 57 -1 49 Burkina Faso 50 2 36 Burundi 374 93 46 Cambodia 17 0 65 Cameroon 500 1 86 Canada 1164 -13 102 Cape Verde 35 0 64 Cayman Islands 3 0 94 Central African Republic 64 -1 45 Chad 23 1 36 Chile 964 9 89 Chuuk 2 0 12 Colombia 2271 4 81 Congo, Dem. Republic of 4385 348 56 Congo, Republic of 123 7 73 Cook Islands 3 0 61 Costa Rica 429 -6 74 Côte d’Ivoire 227 -4 53 Croatia 57 0 81 Cuba 1366 -33 63 Curaçao 24 -1 81 Cyprus 41 1 74 Czech Republic 217 5 76 Denmark 172 -2 84 Dominica 10 0 39 Dominican Republic 536 -3 71 Ecuador 1212 8 82 El Salvador 607 -47 62 Equatorial Guinea 30 -1 81 Estonia 54 -1 75 Eswatini 76 0 42 Ethiopia 206 23 54 Falkland Islands 1 0 12 Faroe Islands 4 0 33 Fiji 60 -2 49 Finland 272 -3 67 France 1461 -16 94 French Guiana 46 1 62 Gabon 59 0 75 Gambia 5 0 59 Georgia 224 0 84 Germany 2002 -18 86 Ghana 2484 88 61 Gibraltar 2 0 77 Greece 345 -9 80 Greenland 5 0 23 Grenada 9 0 58 Guadeloupe 118 0 71 Guam 9 0 77 Guatemala 825 -27 47 Guinea 27 2 43 Guinea-Bissau 4 0 48 Guyana 46 -1 70 Haiti 262 -9 66 Honduras 418 -11 52 Hong Kong 70 4 78 Hungary 283 -5 75 Iceland 7 0 57 India 999 52 57 Indonesia 491 15 62 Ireland 121 0 64 Israel 32 -1 65 Italy 2804 -39 89 Jamaica 152 0 71 Japan 2888 -5 74 Kazakhstan 229 -3 75 Kenya 605 -18 49 Kiribati 2 0 49 Korea, Republic of 1252 -9 85 Kosovo 8 0 29 Kosrae 1 0 9 Kyrgyzstan 86 -3 59 Latvia 29 -1 72 Lesotho 81 -1 48 Liberia 146 5 50 Liechtenstein 1 0 94 Lithuania 41 1 71 Luxembourg 31 1 70 Macao 6 0 61 Madagascar 841 15 46 Madeira 19 0 62 Malawi 1882 51 52 Malaysia 119 -2 47 Mali 6 0 58 Malta 11 0 77 Marshall Islands 4 0 31 Martinique 57 0 84 Mauritius 27 0 77 Mayotte 3 0 45 Mexico 12706 -175 67 Moldova 195 -6 91 Mongolia 8 0 51 Montenegro 7 0 53 Montserrat 1 0 35 Mozambique 1651 100 49 Myanmar 96 5 53 Namibia 47 1 55 Nauru 1 0 15 Nepal 43 0 65 Netherlands 346 -7 84 Nevis 1 0 76 New Caledonia 34 -2 77 New Zealand 170 0 85 Nicaragua 466 -5 61 Niger 9 0 36 Nigeria 6071 -10 62 Niue 1 0 19 North Macedonia 23 -1 53 Norway 162 -1 73 Pakistan 16 0 70 Palau 2 0 36 Palestinian Territories 2 0 38 Panama 310 -7 59 Papua New Guinea 89 -2 53 Paraguay 186 -11 59 Peru 1551 0 84 Philippines 3552 41 69 Pohnpei 1 0 50 Poland 1267 -5 91 Portugal 653 -3 80 Puerto Rico 227 -3 100 Réunion 41 0 84 Rodrigues 1 0 65 Romania 528 -5 75 Rota -2 Rwanda 593 31 53 Saba -3 Saipan 3 0 71 Samoa 12 0 44 San Marino 2 0 98 São Tomé and Príncipe 14 0 63 Senegal 29 0 52 Serbia 60 -1 62 Seychelles 5 0 68 Sierra Leone 42 1 56 Slovakia 134 1 84 Slovenia 27 -1 64 Solomon Islands 50 1 34 South Africa 1966 -33 50 South Sudan 34 1 51 Spain 1397 -19 87 Sri Lanka 98 -2 71 St. Barthélemy 1 0 37 St. Eustatius 1 0 27 St. Helena 3 0 38 St. Kitts 3 0 80 St. Lucia 11 0 70 St. Maarten 4 0 76 St. Martin 5 0 56 St. Pierre and Miquelon 1 0 17 St. Vincent & the Grenadines 8 0 35 Sudan 13 0 41 Suriname 55 -1 58 Sweden 280 -1 80 Switzerland 258 0 77 Tahiti 45 0 70 Taiwan 177 -2 64 Tanzania 417 1 48 Thailand 144 2 37 Timor-Leste 5 0 76 Tinian 1 0 10 Togo 363 14 63 Tonga 3 0 67 Trinidad & Tobago 130 0 80 Turkey 71 1 78 Turks and Caicos 7 0 47 Tuvalu 1 0 50 Uganda 175 8 54 Ukraine 1234 -195 85 United States of America 11942 -98 102 Uruguay 149 0 79 Vanuatu 13 0 46 Venezuela 1700 -14 78 Virgin Islands, British 4 0 55 Virgin Islands, U.S. 8 0 64 Wallis & Futuna Islands 2 1 31 Yap 1 0 31 Zambia 3605 76 59 Zimbabwe 961 -75 49 33 Other Lands 2778 -32 75 Grand Total (239 Lands) 118177 217 73 -
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Where’s the 2023 Service Report?
by slimboyfat inwhat’s keeping them?
this has got to be the latest it’s ever been.
maybe it’s the last one they’ll ever publish too, after dropping reporting hours for publishers ….
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Jeffro
The ‘growth’ in various European countries is mostly people who left Ukraine. Most of the European countries with growth did not have a corresponding increase in baptisms, and while there is some lag between ‘unbaptised publisher’ and ‘baptised’, it doesn’t account for it.
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2023 Yearly Report UNDER the Microscope
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/pi7sn2rnrke?si=lnvklqct6nuayv2q.
branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 85 (= down one from 86 from the previous year and quite possibly they are referring to the hong kong bethel that closed down recently).
number of lands reporting: 239 ( =the same as 2022).
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Jeffro
raymond frantz:
Total Congregations: 118,177 (=up from 117,960, a surprising increase but nevertheless a miniscule increase of just 0.18% OR 217 congregations. Of course the real metric here should be how many KH's closed down but of course they won't release this information. Is it possible that they artificially increase the number of congregations to show an increase? Quite possibly)
There was a net increase of congregations of 217, but it's not particularly impressive when it's broken down further.
The 'Democratic' Republic of Congo (with a 12% increase, 9% of which was newly baptised) got 348 new congregations. (Note that these increases include compensating for the decreases during COVID, not able to preach, delaying baptism etc. Actual increase since 2019 is 8.06% or about 2% per year.)
Brazil got 198 extra congregations, even though it reported growth of 0% (actually a net decrease of 3,336 publishers).
Not very surprisingly, the number of congregations in Ukraine went down (by 195).
All up, 1061 congregations were dissolved, offset by 1490 added in other 'lands'.
'Land' New Congregations Ukraine -195 Mexico -175 United States of America -98 Zimbabwe -75 El Salvador -47 Italy -39 South Africa -33 Cuba -33 33 Other Lands -32 Guatemala -27 Spain -19 Germany -18 Kenya -18 France -16 Britain -15 Venezuela -14 Canada -13 Australia -13 Paraguay -11 Honduras -11 Nigeria -10 Korea, Republic of -9 Greece -9 Haiti -9 Argentina -7 Panama -7 Netherlands -7 Moldova -6 Costa Rica -6 Japan -5 Hungary -5 Poland -5 Romania -5 Nicaragua -5 Côte d’Ivoire -4 Austria -4 Kazakhstan -3 Dominican Republic -3 Finland -3 Puerto Rico -3 Kyrgyzstan -3 Portugal -3 Saba -3 Fiji -2 Sri Lanka -2 Papua New Guinea -2 Malaysia -2 Taiwan -2 Denmark -2 New Caledonia -2 Rota -2 Lesotho -1 Guyana -1 Norway -1 Botswana -1 Serbia -1 Latvia -1 Slovenia -1 Armenia -1 Equatorial Guinea -1 Curaçao -1 Belize -1 Belarus -1 North Macedonia -1 Estonia -1 Israel -1 Suriname -1 Central African Republic -1 Sweden -1 Bulgaria -1 Peru 0 Switzerland 0 Vanuatu 0 Albania 0 Eswatini 0 Senegal 0 Mayotte 0 Trinidad & Tobago 0 Kiribati 0 Sudan 0 Cambodia 0 Réunion 0 New Zealand 0 Mali 0 Kosrae 0 Tuvalu 0 Chuuk 0 American Samoa 0 St. Barthélemy 0 Palau 0 Greenland 0 Turks and Caicos 0 Virgin Islands, British 0 Pohnpei 0 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 Bermuda 0 Guam 0 Mongolia 0 Samoa 0 Montserrat 0 Guinea-Bissau 0 Virgin Islands, U.S. 0 São Tomé and Príncipe 0 Macao 0 St. Vincent & the Grenadines 0 Uruguay 0 Kosovo 0 Croatia 0 Dominica 0 Barbados 0 Andorra 0 Jamaica 0 Azores 0 St. Kitts 0 Cayman Islands 0 Aruba 0 St. Martin 0 Seychelles 0 San Marino 0 Bahamas 0 Saipan 0 Cape Verde 0 Tahiti 0 Martinique 0 Grenada 0 Gabon 0 Yap 0 Tinian 0 St. Eustatius 0 Nevis 0 Niue 0 Cook Islands 0 Guadeloupe 0 St. Lucia 0 St. Maarten 0 Madeira 0 Nepal 0 Antigua 0 Rodrigues 0 Montenegro 0 Timor-Leste 0 Marshall Islands 0 Bangladesh 0 Faroe Islands 0 Iceland 0 Gambia 0 Pakistan 0 Palestinian Territories 0 Bonaire 0 Mauritius 0 Malta 0 Liechtenstein 0 St. Helena 0 Anguilla 0 Nauru 0 St. Pierre and Miquelon 0 Niger 0 Gibraltar 0 Falkland Islands 0 Ireland 0 Tonga 0 Georgia 0 Cameroon 1 Tanzania 1 Lithuania 1 French Guiana 1 Namibia 1 Solomon Islands 1 Luxembourg 1 Cyprus 1 Wallis & Futuna Islands 1 Slovakia 1 South Sudan 1 Sierra Leone 1 Chad 1 Turkey 1 Belgium 2 Burkina Faso 2 Guinea 2 Thailand 2 Colombia 4 Hong Kong 4 Bolivia 4 Myanmar 5 Czech Republic 5 Liberia 5 Azerbaijan 5 Congo, Republic of 7 Ecuador 8 Uganda 8 Chile 9 Benin 14 Togo 14 Indonesia 15 Madagascar 15 Ethiopia 23 Angola 28 Rwanda 31 Philippines 41 Malawi 51 India 52 Zambia 76 Ghana 88 Burundi 93 Mozambique 100 Brazil 198 Congo, Dem. Republic of 348 Grand Total (239 Lands) 217