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Job “was subjected to indignities from base persons. He exclaimed: ‘I have become even the theme of their song, and I am to them for a byword. They have detested me.’” (The Watchtower, April 1, 1976, p. 197) The prophet Jeremiah too had “become a laughingstock to all the peoples, the theme of their song.” (Lamentations 3:14) Hence making songs about a person is a sign of disgust and mockery.

Jehovah’s Witnesses today imitate the mockers of the past by singing “songs … about Jehovah.” (The Watchtower, September 1, 1983, p. 32) Missionary Michel Bustamante did not refrain from “singing Kingdom songs that used Jehovah’s name often”, and so do Jehovah’s Witnesses up to this day. (2005 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, page 119). Although the book Sing to Jehovah contains only 135 songs, it mentions Jehovah 248 times – the previous songbook Sing Praises to Jehovah had even 545 occurrences.

With their Kingdom Songs – insulting Jehovah by their musical inferiority alone – they keep mocking the creator of music. There is no doubt that Jehovah gave David a prophetic vision of Jehovah’s Witnesses sitting in their Kingdom Hall and rising up for singing a Kingdom Song when he said: “Do look at their very sitting down and their rising up. I am the subject of their song.” (Lamentations 3:63, NWT 1984). But David replied: “You will give to them the insolence of heart, your curse to them. You will pursue in anger and annihilate them.” (Lamentations 3:65, 66, NWT 1984). This will happen soon.

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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

by processor in

i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

they will be published here:.

http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

processor

I have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in German, and will now start translating those into English. They will be published here:

http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/

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We shall dress with modesty (1Tim2:9), why dress like rich lawyers or wealthy financiers?

by Mr Fool in

in my point of view, modest clothing is simple and humble.

so why are jw-men dressed like they own a big company or are challangers to the president post?

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processor

No bank president I am aware of wears a $79.99 polyester special from Men's Wearhouse.

But all the members of the German Party "The Party" are wearing "gray C&A suits, off the rack for €49" (see here).

Still, yes, the JW dresscode is somewhat outdated. And at least in our congregation, no one cared whether clothes were appropriate or clean. It was just important that men had a tie and women had a skirt or dress. But it was ok when men had 40-year old, outwashed, too-big suits and white tennis socks; it was also ok when women had dirty t-shirts with cartoon print along with a skirt.

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1969 The Generation That Will Not Pass Away

by processor in

http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2013/10/1969-the-generation-that-will-not-pass-away/.

1969 the generation that will not pass awayas recorded at luke 21:24, jesus said: jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.

jerusalem had been the seat of rulership of the line of kings from the house of king david, who sat on jehovahs throne as representatives of god himself.

processor

http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2013/10/1969-the-generation-that-will-not-pass-away/

1969 – The Generation That Will Not Pass Away

As recorded at Luke 21:24, Jesus said: “Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.” Jerusalem had been the seat of rulership of the line of kings from the house of King David, who sat on “Jehovah’s throne” as representatives of God himself. (1 Chronicles 29:23) Jerusalem was thus a symbol of Jehovah’s rulership.

How and when, though, did God’s rulership begin to be “trampled on by the nations”? This happened in 587 B.C.E. when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians. “Jehovah’s throne” became vacant. The ‘trampling’ would end when Jesus became King. When would that grand event occur?

In a prophetic dream, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon saw an immense tree that was chopped down. Its stump could not grow because it was banded with iron and copper. An angel declared: “Let seven times pass over it.” (Daniel 4:10-16) The chopping down of the symbolic tree represents how God’s rulership, as expressed through the kings at Jerusalem, would be interrupted – for a period of “seven times.” How long a period is that?

The Aramaic word rendered “times” is ʽid·da·nin′ and can also be translated “years”; the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains regarding this verse: “times – that is, ‘years.’” (Daniel 4:15, Footnote) There are “365 days in a year” – “seven times” would therefore last 2,555 days. (“All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial”, page 281) On the basis of Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6, which speak of “a day for a year,” the “seven times” would cover 2,555 years.

The 2,555 years began in October 587 B.C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and the Davidic king was taken off his throne. The period ended in October 1969. At that time, “the appointed times of the nations” ended, and Jesus Christ was installed as God’s heavenly King.—Psalm 2:1-6; Daniel 7:13, 14.

Just as Jesus predicted, his “presence” as heavenly King has been marked by dramatic world developments – the first landing of man on the moon, the legalization of homosexuality in Germany, the first electronic mail. Such developments bear powerful testimony to the fact that 1969 indeed marked the birth of God’s heavenly Kingdom and the beginning of “the last days” of this present wicked system of things. (2 Timothy 3:1-5) “This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur,” said Jesus. (Matthew 24:34) But what is meant by the word “generation”?

In the movie The Generation of 1969, student Scott mentions “naked people giving us free food.” But “a historical generation is not defined by its chronological limits or its borders … What is essential to the formation of a generational consciousness is some common frame of reference that provides a sense of rupture with the past … This frame of reference is always derived from great historical events.” (Robert Wohl) From that point of view, the moon landing in 1969 and the sexual revolution starting in 1968 certainly formed a “frame of reference” to mark a generation.

What did Jesus mean when he spoke of a ‘generation that would not pass away’? The Greek word rendered “generation” in the Bible has been defined as, “Those born at the same time.” This definition embraces both those born around the time of a historic event and all those alive at that time.

If Jesus used “generation” in that sense and we apply it to 1969, then the babies of that generation are now 45 years old or older. And others alive in 1969 are in their 50’s or 60’s. There are still many millions of that generation alive. Some of them “will by no means pass away until all things occur.” – Luke 21:32.

Compare: What Does the Bible Really Teach?, page 215; The Watchtower, May 15, 1984, page 4

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Jehovah is King! New Light or muck up in 15/01/14 WT?

by wizzstick in

so the new jan wt article on "100 years of kingdom rulehow does it affect you?

" is up, which i think has its own thread.

but over on jwr poster cg4205 has noticed something that demands a seperate thread i think.. at the top of the article, in the can you answer box, it says:.