he has inadvertently moved the timing of the beginning of the last days to the future.
this kind of scriptural error is the direct result of superficial bible reading.
according to luke 21, first comes the persecution then the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, fearful sights etc.
Anyone who has carefully read and compared the accounts would see that at significant points they do not match up. But sadly, Anthony Morris, not being a good Bible student, chose the wrong account to highlight.
Why those differences exist should be crystal clear to the 7 men who are leading Jehovah's Witnesses to their spiritual doom...but then again maybe not.
The Governing Body and most of their Helpers are truly Biblical illiterates. They do not have God's spirit.
Frank
he has inadvertently moved the timing of the beginning of the last days to the future.
this kind of scriptural error is the direct result of superficial bible reading.
according to luke 21, first comes the persecution then the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, fearful sights etc.
Brother Anthony Morris has made a critical scriptural error in the July Broadcast. He has inadvertently moved the timing of the beginning of the last days to the future. This kind of scriptural error is the direct result of superficial Bible reading. He is poorly educated in Bible research. This from a man who claims to be of the anointed and demands that all Jehovah's Witnesses follow his "suggestions" on all things spiritual.
In his July Broadcast brother Morris addresses the topic of persecution. He asks his audience (at about 9:20) to read Luke 21:12-19, but first before actually reading the scripture he said this:
"We might mention that here Jesus was not referring to what would happen back then in the first century, this was a prophecy about the future. He was describing what would transpire now before the the end of the evil system under Satan’s control." (emphasis added)
Then he reads Luke 21:12,
“But before all these things happen, people will lay their
hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and
prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my
name." (emphasis added)
Brother Morris has forgotten the first rule of understanding the Bible- CONTEXT!
What are "all these things" referred to in verse 12? All the things which the persecution would precede? Brother Morris, read it carefully again: "But before all these things happen..."
The "things" Jesus was referring to are the things he had just spoken of: (verses 9-11)
"Furthermore, when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified. For these things must take place first, but the end will not occur immediately.” Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs."
Then Jesus went on to say: "But before all these things happen, people will lay their hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name."
According to Luke 21, first comes the persecution then the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, fearful sights etc.
But Brother Morris says: "We might mention that here Jesus was not referring to what would happen back then in the first century, this was a prophecy about the future. He was describing what would transpire now before the the end of the evil system under Satan’s control." (emphasis added)
If you are correct, Brother Morris, if the persecution Jesus described is to happen "now" before the end of the system then what Jesus said in the previous verses: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs" is YET IN THE FUTURE because the persecution occurs, first, before all these things!
Your poor Bible reading skills have inadvertently moved the signs of the time of the end into the future. What else have you misunderstood? Time will tell.
Just keep broadcasting.
Frank
they take our trust our love our youth our family our friends our life our hopes our happiness our children our parents our vitality our minds our hearts.
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then they kill us.
They take our trust our love our youth our family our friends our life our hopes our happiness our children our parents our vitality our minds our hearts.
Then they Kill Us.
just asking about this "new light" of the 7 member of the governing body (the gb-7) being the fds.
what is the point?.
what biblical "argument" have they given about that ?
The Governing Body proclaimed themselves the Slave because they believe themselves to be anointed, or claim to be anointed, and put in charge of Jehovah's organization. The reality of course is that they are just ordinary men charged by other ordinary men to lead a religion.
Small, sad, men who do not know their left from their right. Men who have no spiritual clothes and must rely on their Helpers to blindly lead and point the way.
By the way, the monthly JW Broadcast is late.
say you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.
no watchtower in your life.
but the experience you have now you could keep.
greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.
and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.
but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.
a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
)"
nobody is better at explaining deep subjects and making learning exciting and fun than isaac asimov.. keep this list (and links) for use in getting your school age kids accurately informed about science and developing a keen and rational mind.. isaac asimov's "science fact" masterpieces :.
how we found out about microwaves - isaac asimov.
how we found out beginning of life - isaac asimov.
An open mind seeks to examine all views and possibilities. An open mind is not restricted to one view or possibility. An open mind is not settled with clinging to what they believed yesterday or today. An open mind is free from fear. An open mind does not follow anyone.
An open mind is never content to simply "know" but rather to continually seek to know even when the knowing is uncomfortable or unacceptable. Even when the knowing destroys one's firm beliefs or disbelief. An open mind is not fixed.
a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
)"
Q. Who prepared your defense? Freddie Franz?
History
a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.
(i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.
)"
So why did God allow barbaric laws to be part of his "inspired" book?
They were not "barbaric" at the time. Do you actually think that laws allowing women's rights, rights of slaves, of homosexuals, of freedom of religion, of all the freedoms we have today, would have been accepted by the Jewish men of Moses' day? Would the men of the time bent their backs to such laws? No! They were not ready.
