Where will the war in Ukraine lead to?

by Kosonen in

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there has been comments in the news recently that the war in ukraine could be the beginning to the world war three.. i would not be surprised if it is.

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the bible says a time will come when the peace will be taken from the earth.. revelation 6:4 another came out, a fiery-colored horse, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword.. have you heard what possibly this war in ukraine could lead to?.

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Faithful slave?
by Kosonen 14 years ago
I was batised when I was 13. Then 3 years ago I started to do what the organisation says about biblereading. To read a lot and to start the reading by asking guidance from Jehovah God. And often I have asked God to teach me someting new before the bible reading. And He have given me a lot of new understanding.

Kosonen: You wrote the above statement 14 years ago. Do you believe the Jehovah gives guidance to the Governing Body? How did/does God give you new understanding? Since Revelation was written in code, who really understands the code today? The Watchtower Society have failed in their predictions the last 140 years!

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Pat Robertson makes one last ''doomsday prediction''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

pat roberston,92, comes out of his million dollar mansion ( which his loyal followers paid for ) to continue his doomsday prediction.

pat needs to make one last appearance to show his followers he was right all along.

after all his failed predictions on his ''700 club,'' pat needs to show his followers that this ''doomsday prediction'' is a bible prophecy.

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Kenneth Copeland : Always a charlatan, making Covid-19 go away!

https://youtu.be/0JPRvxTjfOk

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Pat Robertson makes one last ''doomsday prediction''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

pat roberston,92, comes out of his million dollar mansion ( which his loyal followers paid for ) to continue his doomsday prediction.

pat needs to make one last appearance to show his followers he was right all along.

after all his failed predictions on his ''700 club,'' pat needs to show his followers that this ''doomsday prediction'' is a bible prophecy.

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I would say , to be fair to them , that UK JWs probably aren't as rabid as their US counterparts in general.

"Prosperity Gospel" preachers like Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar and Ken Copeland live in luxury with huge mansions and private jets. They put on a "holy act" to squeeze money out of naïve followers. They justify their lavish mode of travel by insisting they need private jets to effectively spread the word of God. Flying commercial airlines takes up too much time flying from city to city. A private jet gives them more comfort and more time to fleece their gullible followers.

MATTHEW 19: 21
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

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04-2022 Q from Readers on Divorce

by Rattigan350 in

any comments on the 04/2022 question from readers on divorce and remarriage.. "if a christian divorces his wife without scriptural grounds and then marries another person, how does the congregation view the previous marriage and the new marriage?".

why does that even matter how the congregation views anything?

they should be minding their own business.. if people move to a different area, the congregation wouldn't even know about.. (if a guy remarries a woman with the same first name, she would end up with the same name and no one would know).

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Foolednomore
I was Divorced from abusive partner. The congregation, the elders told me that I could not remarry. If I would remarry it would not be scriptural. This reason #15 why I'm no longer a Jw.

I don't blame you Foolednomore for leaving your abusive partner and the organization. Here is a Watchtower Study article where a physically abusive husband becomes a danger to his wife's health and her life. So, what is the Watchtower solution? You can separate or you can still remain with the unbelieving mate ( getting physically abused) and wait ( with more abuse) until he becomes a true worshipper. What a sick and disturbing article!

December 2018 STUDY ARTICLE :

Honor “What God Has Yoked Together”

17 Admittedly, there have been instances where an “unbelieving husband” seems to prove that he is not “agreeable to staying with her.” He might be extremely physically abusive, even to the point that she feels that her health or life is in danger. He might refuse to support her and the family or severely endanger her spirituality. In such cases, some Christians have personally decided that, despite what he might say, the mate is not “agreeable to staying” together and that a separation is necessary. But other Christians in comparably difficult situations have not; they have endured and tried to work at improving matters. Why?

18 In such a separation, the two are still marriage mates. If they lived apart, each one would face challenges, as mentioned earlier. The apostle Paul gave another reason for staying united. He wrote: “The unbelieving husband is sanctified in relation to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in relation to the brother; otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.” (1 Cor. 7:14) Many loyal Christians have remained with an unbelieving mate under very trying circumstances. They can testify that doing so was worthwhile in a special sense when their mate became a true worshipper. —Read 1 Corinthians 7:16; 1 Pet. 3:1, 2.

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Where are the Jehovah's Witnesses in Afghanistan?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

religion in afghanistan.

blue mosque in mazar-i-sharif is the largest mosque in afghanistan.

an estimated 99.7% of the afghan population ( 40,218,234 ) is muslim and most are thought to adhere to the sunni hanafi school.

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Religion in Afghanistan

Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif is the largest mosque in Afghanistan

An estimated 99.7% of the Afghan population ( 40,218,234 ) is Muslim and most are thought to adhere to the Sunni Hanafi school. Afghan Christians, who number 500–8,000, practice their faith secretly due to intense societal opposition, and there are no public churches.

Looks are there aren't many/if any. And if they do exist, they practice in secret. There isn't any Good News of the Kingdom being preached in Afghanistan. So what is the Watchtower's take on nations that never hear the good news? Isn't the Watchtower Society blood guilty due to them not preaching to these nations? And if God will resurrect all people who never had a chance to hear the good news, why preach to anyone?

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Revelation—What It Means for Your Future

17 Who will benefit from these wonderful provisions? First of all, the great crowd of Armageddon survivors, along with any children who may be born in the new world. But Revelation chapter 20 also promises that the dead will be resurrected. (Read Revelation 20:11-13.) Faithful “righteous” ones who died in the past along with “unrighteous” ones—who did not receive an adequate opportunity to learn about Jehovah—will all come back to life here on the earth. (Acts 24:15; John 5:28, 29) Does this mean that everyone will be resurrected to life on earth during the Thousand Year Reign? No. Those who wickedly rejected the opportunity to serve Jehovah before their death will not be raised to life. They had their chance and proved that they were not worthy of life on the Paradise earth.—Matt. 25:46; 2 Thess. 1:9; Rev. 17:8; 20:15.

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Pat Robertson makes one last ''doomsday prediction''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

pat roberston,92, comes out of his million dollar mansion ( which his loyal followers paid for ) to continue his doomsday prediction.

pat needs to make one last appearance to show his followers he was right all along.

after all his failed predictions on his ''700 club,'' pat needs to show his followers that this ''doomsday prediction'' is a bible prophecy.

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Pat Roberston,92, comes out of his million dollar mansion ( which his loyal followers paid for ) to continue his doomsday prediction. Pat needs to make one last appearance to show his followers he was right all along. After all his failed predictions on his ''700 CLUB,'' Pat needs to show his followers that this ''doomsday prediction'' is a Bible prophecy. This doomsday predication might bail him out of his slump in ''false predictions,'' before he dies.

His 92 year old oxygen starved brain tells him that God is compelling Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine and use Ukraine as a staging ground to prepare for the ''end times'' invasion of Israel.

Pat Robertson ends with, '' Watch what's going to happen next. You read the Bible because it's coming to pass.''

Pat your end will be here sooner than the ''end times''! Pat, go back in hiding before you get caught scamming old grandma's money!

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Did you ever have an “Olaf” moment.

by Slidin Fast in

did your class mates queue up to have sex with you?

it happened to olaf according to today’s wt.

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All the broken hearts in the world still beat

Let's not make it harder than it has to be

Olaf... pressure will not be easy to resist

Girls chase Jehovah's Witness boys like you

No one in your congregation will know

Your Bible's high moral standards you will try to tow

Olaf...We all love you so!

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Did you ever have an “Olaf” moment.

by Slidin Fast in

did your class mates queue up to have sex with you?

it happened to olaf according to today’s wt.

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Some girls in his class took this as a challenge and tried to persuade Olof to have sex with them. But Olaf ''stood firm'' for what is right. And this was not the only pressure he faced.

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Did you ever have an “Olaf” moment.

by Slidin Fast in

did your class mates queue up to have sex with you?

it happened to olaf according to today’s wt.

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8 Consider what you can learn from the experience of a young brother named Olaf. * His classmates pressured him to engage in immoral conduct. When he explained that Jehovah’s Witnesses live by the Bible’s high moral standards, some girls in his class took this as a challenge and tried to persuade him to have sex with them. But Olaf stood firm for what is right. And this was not the only pressure he faced. Olaf says: “My teachers tried to convince me that I should pursue higher education because it is prestigious. They told me that without it, I would not succeed in life.” What helped Olaf to resist such pressure? He mentions: “I developed close relationships with those in my congregation. They became like a family to me. I also started to study the Bible more seriously. The more deeply I studied, the more I became convinced that this was the truth. As a result, I was determined to serve Jehovah.”

Olaf's classmates: '' Olaf, even though you have never held hands or kissed a girl, we want you to engage in immoral conduct.''

Olaf : '' I'm a Jehovah's Witness. I will only date fellow female Jehovah's Witnesses, and in due time only have sex when I get married to a fellow believer.''

Girls in his class: '' How much does anyone want to bet that we can get Olaf in bed, just like Samson in the old testament had lust in heart and eventually visited prostitutes and had an affair with Delilah?''

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Fearmongering news on JW.ORG : Russia Invades Ukraine

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russia invades ukraine.

in the early morning hours of february 24, 2022, russia began a military invasion of ukraine, despite the efforts of world leaders to avoid war.

how might this military conflict affect the world?

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Of course, the JWs have always been wishing for the end to come.

Retirement and we were promised to not get old and die.

I was a young teen in 1974. The frenzy that the world would end in 1975 was real. I was told that if I wasn't baptized before Armageddon arrived, I wouldn't survive and make it in the new system. I got baptized in the summer of 1974.

Brothers were selling their businesses. They went out in full time service to preach the remaining time we had. 1975 came and went. Many brothers and sisters never came back. They were disappointed and couldn't deal with the consequences of being lied to by the Watchtower Society.

Then after the disappointment of 1975, the Watchtower Society wrote a Watchtower article blaming the members and not the Watchtower Society on the 1975 debacle.

Here is the thread I started 15 years ago on the Watchtower article where they blamed everyone but themselves:

I walked out in the middle of the Watchtower Study yesterday............

Clearly, Jesus was concerned that his followers too could become distracted by Satan's world, even to the point that they might "return to the things behind." (Luke 17:22, 31) And, indeed, this has happened to some Christians. For years such ones longed for the day when Jehovah will put an end to this wicked world. However, when Armageddon did not occur by the time they expected, ` they became disheartened. Their confidence in the nearness of Jehovah's day of judgment faded. They slowed down in the ministry and gradually became so involved in the mundane matters of life that little time was left for spiritual matters. (Luke 8:11, 13, 14) In time, they `returned to the things behind'--how sad!

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