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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/we-want-to-sacrifice-to-jehovah-our-god/

  Alternative Daily Text for Wednesday, December 18, 2013

  “We want to … sacrifice to Jehovah our God.” (Exodus 5:3)

  “We will surely make whatever sacrifices Jehovah asks of us.” (The Watchtower, October 15, 2008, page 29) The inspired account in the book of Exodus shows clearly why we need to offer sacrifices to God and what kind of sacrifices please him.

  Moses told Pharaoh: “We want to … sacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise, he will strike us with disease or with the sword.” (Exodus 5:3) So the right motivation for bringing sacrifices to Jehovah is fear of being punished by him. Not for nothing, the psalmist urged all people: “Serve Jehovah with fear.” (Psalm 2:11) The apostle Paul confirmed this when he advised the Philippians: “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” (Philippians 2:11, KJV) “’Jehovah will judge his people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” – Hebrews 10:30, 31.

  What can we present as a sacrifice to God? Jehovah explained in reference to a bull: “Its dung, you will burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.” (Exodus 29:14) Back then, dung was an acceptable “offering to Jehovah, a pleasing aroma.” (Exodus 29:19) But “in the Christian congregation, Jehovah does not require us to offer such formal, material sacrifices.” (The Watchtower, October 15, 2009, page 3) Today we have to turn to the ‘faithful and discreet slave’ in order “to offer up spiritual sacrifices.” (The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life, page 118) Thus we need to offer spiritual “dung,” that is, “something worthless.” – Christian Dream Symbols.

  “Many [Jehovah’s] Witnesses … contribute time and money to accomplish the preaching of the good news of the Kingdom.” (The Watchtower, August 15, 1953, page 490) But since everything that we teach will eventually be replaced by ‘brighter light,’ these witnessing efforts are “something worthless,” so to speak, ‘spiritual dung.’ (Proverbs 4:18) Are we not happy that we can have a share in the greater fulfillment of Exodus 29:14?

  
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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/jehovah-was-with-judah/

  Alternative Daily Text for Tuesday, December 17, 2013

  “Jehovah was with Judah.” (Judges 1:19)

  Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that soon “Satan the Devil … [will use] his atheistic hordes to attack Jehovah’s people, to plunder and destroy them,” but then “Jehovah will step in and fight for his people.” (Worldwide Security Under the “Prince of Peace”, page 153) They say, “Jehovah will fight for us as he did in the days of Joshua and other loyal leaders in Israel.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 1986, page 18) This leads to the question, How did Jehovah fight “in the days of Joshua and other loyal leaders in Israel?”

  The inspired account says: “Jehovah was with Judah, and they took possession of the mountainous region, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had war chariots with iron scythes.” (Judges 1:19) Though Jehovah was successful in the rough “mountainous region,” he was powerless before the “war chariots with iron scythes” used in the lowland. Some time before, when fighting against the Egyptians, he had been walking across the battlefield and “taking wheels off their chariots.” (Exodus 14:25) But decades had passed; military technology had advanced. The iron scythes of the Canaanite war chariots deterred him from sabotaging their wheels. Yet this was not the first time that God lost a battle. Centuries before he had to admit to Jacob: “You have fought with God … and have won.” – Genesis 32:28, NLT.

  3000 years have passed since the war against the Canaanites, and war technology has advanced substantially. Instead of “war chariots with iron scythes,” modern armies have atomic bombs, long-range missiles, and submarines at their disposal. In the upcoming “war of the great day of God the Almighty” his servants will be equipped only with “sword” and “bow,” and they will ride on horses. (Revelation 1:16; 6:2; 16:14) Maybe God will “call fire down from heaven,” but this will not be an issue for modern air defense systems. (Luke 9:54) Moreover, in the past God could never fight alone; though he supported them, the Israelites had to slaughter their enemies by their own hands. (Joshua 10:10; 1 Samuel 19:8; 1 Kings 20:21; 2 Chronicles 13:17) But since his modern worshippers “refuse to go to war” and to “do anything else that is in connection with the war,” they can not hope for victory. (The Watchtower, October 15, 1987, page 7; 1989 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, page 116) And even if they would get ‘brighter light’ and go to war, Jehovah’s fighters with bow and arrow could not compete with modern weapon systems. – Proverbs 4:18.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Monday, December 16, 2013

  “They have set up princes, but I did not know it.” (Hosea 8:4, NWT 1984)

  Many “people today are tired of living under the eye of God.” (The Watchtower, December 1, 1994, page 5) But is fearing “that God is watching continually what we do” justified at all? (The Watchtower, June 15, 1977, page 355) What does the Bible say?

  At the very beginning of human history, Adam and Eve “hid from the face of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden. And Jehovah God kept calling to the man and saying to him: ‘Where are you?’” (Genesis 3:8, 9) Apparently God did not know where the humans sojourned and what they did. Centuries later God saw from heaven that some people were building a tower, but he was unable to recognize details. Thus he had to come “down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.” – Genesis 11:5, NLT.

  In Abraham’s day God came to know from hearsay that something was wrong in Sodom and Gomorrah. Therefore he went for a visit to his friend Abraham, and to him “Jehovah said: ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great … I will go down to see whether they are acting according to the outcry that has reached me. And if not, I can get to know it.” (Genesis 18:20, 21) Evidently he was unable to see the events in these cities from his heavenly home. Rather, he had to go there in person to “get to know” what happened. Even later Jehovah was upset because the Kingdom of Israel had not informed him of political changes. He complained to Hosea: “They have set up princes, but I did not know it.” – Hosea 8:4, NWT 1984.

  Obviously Jehovah did not know where Adam and Eva hid themselves. From heaven he could not see the construction of the Tower of Babel and the events in Sodom and Gomorrah. Also he did not realize the appointment of new princes in Israel. How is that possible? A psalm from David provides the answer: “The eyes of Jehovah are on the righteous.” (Psalm 34:15) Thus Moses, David, Jesus, and other “righteous” had always been under his surveillance and accordingly were reproached by him regularly. But Adam and Eve after they sinned, Nimrod, the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the princes of Israel were not numbered among “the righteous.” Hence Jehovah ignored them for the most part.

  Since there will “be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous” anyway, we do well to prove to be “unrighteous.” (Acts 24:15) In that case, when finally “the dead … [will be] judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds,” most of our “deeds” will not be recorded in these “scrolls.” – Revelation 20:12.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, December 15, 2013

  “You did not come back to me.” (Amos 4:10)

  Problems can arise even in Christian marriages, for example if the husband spends too much time on congregation matters of if the wife spends too much money on witnessing cases. But God “knows better than anyone else the way to a happy family life. And He has put the key at our fingertips in … the Bible.” (Kingdom News No. 32, page 2) Husbands whose wives committed adultery can follow Jehovah’s example, for “although Jehovah honorably fulfilled his role as Husband, the nation of Israel became an unfaithful wife.” (The Watchtower, August 1, 1995, page 10) How did Jehovah try to save his marriage with the nation of Israel?

  Looking back over this time, he said: “I … caused a lack of bread in all your houses; but you did not come back to me … I also withheld rain from you three months before the harvest … I struck you with scorching heat and mildew … The locust would devour your fig trees and olive trees; and you still did not come back to me … I sent among you a pestilence … With the sword I killed your young men and captured your horses. I made the stench of your camps rise up into your nostrils; but you did not come back to me.” (Amos 4:6-10) Jehovah spared no effort to regain the love of his unfaithful “wife” – he struck the Israelites with famines, bad harvests, epidemics, poverty, death and many other plagues.

  Christian husbands of today can do the same. They could cage unfaithful wives, withhold food and drink from them, or intentionally give them foul or poisoned food so that they get sick. As the ultimate measure they could kill their wives and hope that in the resurrection they will feel their “first love” again. (Revelation 2:4, NASB) But what if a wife does not respond to these loving measures?

  In that case Christian men should consider that the same happened to Jehovah. He brought ever stronger diseases and plagues over his wifelike people – “but you did not come back to me.” (Amos 4:10) “Jehovah, in effect, divorced himself from the nation” of Israel when he realized that his marriage was beyond remedy (Awake!, February 8, 1994, page 21) Christian husbands can do the same and so “become imitators of God.” – Ephesians 5:1.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, December 14, 2013

  “Woe to those who yearn for the day of Jehovah!” (Amos 5:18)

  “Jehovah’s Witnesses have kept busy while awaiting Jehovah’s day.” ( The Watchtower, October 1, 2004, page 22 ) They “are ‘awaiting … the day of Jehovah,’ looking forward to relief when he eliminates all ungodly men.” (The Watchtower, April 15, 2007, page 19) “At that time none of Jehovah’s faithful servants, the only ones surviving, will mourn over the destruction of the wicked. To the contrary, they will rejoice.” (The Watchtower, June 1, 1977, page 345) “When the wicked [all humans who are not Jehovah’s Witnesses, including their relatives] die,” they say, “certainly there would be no sorrow when Jehovah destroys these wrongdoers. Rather, there would be joy because they had been removed from the scene.” (The Watchtower, November 1, 1982, page 16) “Reason will there be for the surviving worshipers of Jehovah God on earth to rejoice and cry out ‘Hallelujah!’ when he gloriously completes the destruction of man’s old order.” – Man’s Salvation Out of World Distress at Hand!, page 280.

  Jesus though had prophesied that some people would pose as God’s channel of communication: “’Master, we preached the Message … our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.’ And do you know what I am going to say? ‘You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here.’” (Matthew 7:22, 23, MSG) Not for nothing, Jehovah instructed the prophet Amos to write down the warning: “Woe to those who yearn for the day of Jehovah!” (Amos 5:18) Eventually, Jehovah’s Witnesses will come to an inglorious end.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, December 13, 2013

  “Let them serve as food for you.” (Genesis 1:29)

  Shortly after their creation, God instructed humans: “Here I have given to you every seed-bearing plant that is on the entire earth and every tree with seed-bearing fruit. Let them serve as food for you.” (Genesis 1:29) He strictly charged them use “every seed-bearing plant” and “every tree with seed-bearing fruit … as food.” Thus we need to add some plants to our diet if we want to please God.

  In a salad, we could use the seeds of the Castor oil plant, definitely a “seed-bearing plant.” Worldly scientists claim that “this plant is the most poisonous in the world” because it causes “nausea, diarrhea, tachycardia, hypotension and seizures” as well as “a burning sensation in mouth and throat, abdominal pain, purging and bloody diarrhoea.” Supposedly “death can be expected to occur within 3–5 days.” – Wikipedia.

  But we must use ”every tree … as food” too, for example the Thuja. Its oil causes “asthma attacks, intestinal irritation, excess stimulation of the nervous system, and spontaneous abortion” and “seizures as well as damage to the liver and the kidneys … Deaths have been reported. Skin or eye contact … can cause severe irritation or burns.” Thuja also contains thujone which “is known to cause muscle spasms, seizures, and hallucinations” and to “damage the liver and the kidneys.” (Cancer.org) But aconite, hemlock and belladonna must not be missing from a Christian’s diet too. What God himself designates as food for us can’t be bad.

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  wednesday, december 11. his heart did not prove to be complete with jehovah.1 ki.

  will we let solomons course be a warning example for us?

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  Solomon must have used imperfect reasoning to get around what God commanded

  Still, he was 'the wisest man who ever lived'. If even HE used imperfect reasoning, what about the GB members then?

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  Alternative Daily Text for Wednesday, December 11, 2013

  “He was wiser than any other man.” (1 Kings 4:31)

  “King Solomon [was] one of the wisest men who ever lived.” (The Watchtower, May 15, 2007, page 14) “Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. He was wiser than any other man.” (1 Kings 4:30, 31) Since “wisdom usually comes with age,” we should expect that Solomon’s wisdom reached its climax in old age. (Making Your Family Life Happy, page 164). Which wise decisions did Solomon make when he was well along in years and wisdom?

  The Bible reports that “in Solomon’s old age,” he ceased “trusting only in the LORD his God, as his father, David, had done.” (1 Kings 11:4, NLT) While his wisdom increased, he realized “that it would not be sufficient for someone … simply to go along with the religion of our parents.” (The Watchtower, March 15, 1981, page 4) As he finally understood, it can be “proper to leave the religion of one’s parents” if it proves to be wrong. (Reasoning From the Scriptures, page 324) Thus he freed himself “from religious falsehood” and the concomitant restrictions, “and Solomon did what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah.” (1 Kings 11:6; Our Kingdom Ministry, February 2002, page 1) If we are still enslaved by the Watchtower organization or by another cult, we should ask ourselves: “What is the wise course to follow?” – The Watchtower, May 1, 1970, page 271.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Tuesday, December 10, 2013

  “As the one dies, so the other dies.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19)

  Wise King Solomon said that animals die just like humans. And as is known, “death … is a direct result of sin and rebellion against God.” (The Watchtower, August 1, 1996, page 7) Does this mean that animals sin too and die therefore?

  Yes, God’s word plainly shows that this is true. The Mosaic Law contained instructions for “donkeys” and “domestic animals,” for example, they were not allowed to work on the Sabbath. (Deuteronomy 5:14) But just as humans, so did the animals prove to be sinners. Eventually the prophet Jonah had to prompt the inhabitants of Nineveh: “Let them cover themselves with sackcloth, man and domestic animal; and let them … come back, each one from his bad way.” – Jonah 3:8, NWT 1984.

  What should animals do to be saved? The psalmist invites them: “Praise Jehovah from the earth … you wild animals and all you domestic animals.” (Psalm 148:7, 10) Thus they should visit the congregation meetings with us, so that they have the opportunity “to praise Jehovah in the congregation.” (The Watchtower, April 15, 2007, page 23) Domestic animals must share in field service too; that’s why the Bible urges all homeowners: “Ask, please, the animals, and they will instruct you.” – Job 12:7.

  In ancient times, God occasionally had to “cut off … earthling man and domestic animal.” (Ezekiel 14:19, NWT 1984) Hence, many domestic animals will be destroyed at Armageddon. Only those “who are sighing and groaning” will survive. (Ezekiel 9:4) When our “domestic animal has sighed” and had a regular share in field service and in the congregation meetings, it might be saved. – Joel 1:18.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Monday, December 9, 2013

  “You are worth more than many sparrows.” (Matthew 10:31)

  Jesus Christ forcefully showed that God is involved in the death of every single sparrow. He said: “Aren’t sparrows sold for next to nothing? … Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s consent.” (Matthew 10:29, 20, CJB) Though sparrows are virtually worthless, God makes every single one “fall to the ground” at the time he deems advisable. Estimates say that there are “at least one billion sparrows” in Canada alone, and millions of them die every day. (The Boreal Forest at Risk) God decides to let a Canadian sparrow “fall to the ground” more than ten times per second, and in the remaining time he takes care of the sparrows in other parts of the world.

  To his disciples, though, Jesus said: “You are more valuable to … [God] than a whole flock of sparrows.” (Matthew 10:31, NLT) A typical “flock of sparrows” is comprised of about 50 animals, an amount that ‘falls to the ground’ according to God’s will in less than a second. But he considers all Christians together “of more value than a flock of sparrows,” so he will wait more than a second before he lets them “fall to the ground” dead. – Matthew 10:31, BBE.