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  Attention! Memorial Invitation 2014! Rectified version available! ;)

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  there are some fake memorial invitations in circulation!

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  Attention! There are some fake memorial invitations in circulation! Please use only the correct ones:

  www.jw.org/mi14_E_new.pdf
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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

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

  they will be published here:.

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  it doesn't match the daily text I see on the jw site

  Of course. No, I do not take the daily texts from the WTS but my own ones. Theirs are always the same anyway.

  And, as said in the beginning, currently I am only translating the German texts that I wrote over the last 2 years to English.
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  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/serve-jehovah-with-fear/

  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, March 1, 2014

  “Serve Jehovah with fear.” (Psalm 2:11)

  Servants of Jehovah are always living in fear. For example, “some Christians feel very guilty about not being able to do more in the ministry,” and therefor they are afraid of being destroyed at Armageddon. (The Watchtower, December 1, 1995, page 12) Jehovah’s Witnesses are always living in “fear of displeasing God.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 2012, page 23) Like the Hebrews, they “know the One who said: ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again: ‘Jehovah will judge his people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” – Hebrews 10:30, 31.

  Jehovah’s Witnesses are trying to ‘work out their own salvation with fear and trembling’ while “the wicked … always have it easy.” (Philippians 2:12; Psalm 73:12) “The wicked” do not “fear the very thought of disobeying God,” rather they heed Jesus’ advice to “never be anxious.” (Isaiah’s Prophecy – Light for All Mankind, volume II, page 392; Matthew 6:34) Disbelievers today are as “carefree” as were the people of Sodom who did not worship Jehovah. – Keep on the Watch!, page 23.
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  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/let-me-die-with-the-philistines/

  Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, February 23, 2014

  “Let me die with the Philistines!” (Judges 16:30)

  Samson was “one of Israel’s outstanding judges.” (Insight on the Scriptures, volume II, page 849) Once he “went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them together in pairs with oil-soaked rags around their tails. Then Samson took the foxes into the Philistine wheat fields that were ready to be harvested. He set the rags on fire and let the foxes go. The wheat fields went up in flames, and so did the stacks of wheat that had already been cut. Even the Philistine vineyards and olive orchards burned.” (Judges 15:4, 5, CEV) So he was an innovator of biowarfare – he utilized animals as weapons to take from his enemies their livelihood, so that many of them starved to death.

  Then he took direct action against the Philistines. First he “he went smiting them, piling legs upon thighs with a great slaughter.” (Judges 15:8, NWT 1984) Later he vaunted: “With the jawbone of a donkey – one heap, two heaps! With the jawbone of a donkey I struck down 1,000 men.” (Judges 15:16) He did not need modern weapons of mass destruction to kill great crowds of men; rather “Jehovah’s spirit empowered him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down 30 of their men.” – Judges 14:19.

  At the end of his life it became apparent that Paul counted him as a part of the “great cloud of witnesses” for good reason. (Hebrews 11:32; 12:1) He was present in the temple of the Philistines (that is, from his standpoint, infidels). There was a feast, and “Samson braced himself against the two middle pillars that supported the house, and he leaned on them with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other. Samson called out: ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ Then he pushed with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people in it. So he killed more at his death than he had killed during his life.” (Judges 16:29) So he became the first suicide assassin of human history.

  Whether we are preparing attacks with biological weapons, going to kill our enemies in an open fight or planning a suicide bombing – in any case “we rely on the same holy spirit that Samson did.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 2011, page 21) What a fine example he gave for Terrorists today!
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  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/in-faith-all-of-these-died-although-they-did-not-receive-the-fulfillment-of-the-promises/

  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, February 22, 2014

  “In faith all of these died, although they did not receive the fulfillment of the promises.” (Hebrews 11:13)

  In his letter to the Hebrews, the apostle Paul referred to Abraham. (Hebrews 11:8) “Because of Abraham’s great faith, Jehovah promised to give the land of Palestine to his offspring.” (The Government That Will Bring Paradise, page 5) No doubt, “Abraham demonstrated faith in Jehovah’s promises” – but “it is noteworthy that Abraham did not during his lifetime receive the inheritance of the land promised to him. He also did not see his seed become ‘like the grains of sand that are on the seashore’ … These promises went unfulfilled.” – The Watchtower, September 15, 2011, page 26.

  Later, God promised Moses to bring him and his people “to a land good and spacious, a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:8) But “like Abraham, Moses did not experience the fulfillment of God’s promise … Moses was told: ‘From a distance you will see the land, but you will not go there.’” (The Watchtower, September 15, 2011, page 19) Centuries later, “Jesus’ disciples were still expecting an earthly reign of the Messiah.” (The Watchtower, April 15, 1981, page 15) “Even after Jesus’ death and resurrection his disciples still expected the establishment of an earthly kingdom.” – The Watchtower, May 15, 1978, page 21.

  Thousands of years after these events, Charles Taze Russell promised “that the ‘battle of the great day of God Almighty’ … will end in A. D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth’s present rulership.” (Millennial Dawn, volume II, The Time is at Hand, 1889 printing, page 101) In 1920, after Russell’s death, Joseph F. Rutherford promised “that the old order of things, the old world, is ending and is therefore passing away, and that the new order is coming in, and that 1925 shall mark the resurrection of the faithful worthies of old and the beginning of reconstruction,” and he called this promise “positive and indisputable.” – Millions Now Living Will Never Die, page 97.

  Since the resurrection of Abraham failed to materialize in 1925, Rutherford promised again in 1938 that his followers would only have to “wait a few years, until the fiery storm of Armageddon is gone.” (Face the Facts, page 50) In the following decades, “the generation that saw the start of this age of lawlessness in 1914” was the object of promises. (The Watchtower, July 1, 1980, page 4) But “in faith all of these” – Abraham, Moses, Russell and his followers, Rutherford and his followers, virtually all of the ‘generation of 1914’ – “died, although they did not receive the fulfillment of the promises.” – Hebrews 11:13.

  Today Jehovah’s Witnesses look forward to another one “of these divine judgments,” and they “expect the fulfillment of it very soon.” (The Watchtower, February 1, 2000, page 8) “Accordingly … [they] expect the great tribulation to begin soon.” (The Watchtower, May 1, 1999, page 16) “With eager anticipation … [they] await that new world.” (The Watchtower, April 15, 2010, page 11) But like Abraham and Moses, like all of God’s worshippers of old, like all Jehovah’s Witnesses before them and like all “true Christians” after them, they will ‘die in faith and not receive the fulfillment of the promises.’
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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/one-time-samson-went-to-gaza-and-saw-a-prostitute-there-and-he-went-in-to-her/

  Alternative Daily Text for Thursday, February 20, 2014

  “One time Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.” (Judges 16:1)

  Worshippers of God never steered clear of prostitutes’ houses. “When Judah saw … [Tamar,] he thought she was a prostitute, since she had concealed her face. So on the way, he turned aside, approached her, and said, ‘Come on! Let’s have some sex!’ … So he .. had sex with her.” (Genesis 38:15-18, ISV) Centuries later, Joshua sent out two spies, and “the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.” (Joshua 2:1, NLT) Samson followed the example of these faithful role models; he “went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.” – Judges 16:1.

  Did the conduct of these men displease God? Not at all, for Judah became an ancestor of the Messiah, and the two spies were blessed by Jehovah, too. (Joshua 6:20) Even “the prostitute Rahab … received God’s approval because of what she did.” (James 2:25, GWT) And the apostle Paul ranked Samson among the “‘great cloud’ of good examples.” (Hebrews 12:1, The Watchtower, July 1, 2000, page 21) Consequently Christian men today also also obliged to ‘go in’ when they encounter a prostitute or come across a brothel.

  This truth from God’s word sheds also light onto Jesus’ words towards the Sadducees. He told them: “When people come back to life, they don’t marry.” (Matthew 22:30) Not for nothing, Jesus promised his male listeners: “Prostitutes precede you to the Kingdom of God.” (Matthew 21:31, ABPE) Along with many other women, Rahab “will return to her hire and prostitute herself … Her profit and her hire will become something holy to Jehovah.” (Isaiah 23:17, 18) Their occupation will be simplified because “the Creator of human reproductive power will himself justly regulate its use … There will be no need for abortions.” (Awake!, April 8, 1988, page 27) What wonderful prospects lie ahead!
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  "Other sheep" are no longer cockroaches but "voracious locusts"

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  some new light hidden in the new nwt.. .

  old: what was left by the caterpillar, the locust has eaten; and what was left by the locust, the creeping, unwinged locust has eaten; and what the creeping, unwinged locust has left, the cockroach has eaten.. new: what was left by the devouring locust, the swarming locust has eaten; and what was left by the swarming locust, the unwinged locust has eaten; and what the unwinged locust has left, the voracious locust has eaten.. .

  previously the "locusts" have been the anointed, and the locusts being joined by coackroaches has symbolized the anointed being joined by 'other sheep.

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  Some new light hidden in the new NWT.

  Old: What was left by the caterpillar, the locust has eaten; and what was left by the locust, the creeping, unwinged locust has eaten; and what the creeping, unwinged locust has left, the cockroach has eaten.

  New: What was left by the devouring locust, the swarming locust has eaten; And what was left by the swarming locust, the unwinged locust has eaten; And what the unwinged locust has left, the voracious locust has eaten.

  Previously the "locusts" have been the anointed, and the locusts being joined by coackroaches has symbolized the anointed being joined by 'other sheep.' But according to the new NWT, the 'other sheep' are no longer the Cockroach Class but rather the Voracious Locust Class.

  See also http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/what-was-left-by-the-caterpillar-the-locust-has-eaten-and-what-was-left-by-the-locust-the-creeping-unwinged-locust-has-eaten-and-what-the-creeping-unwinged-locust-has-left-the-cockroach/
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  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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  Alternative Daily Text for Wednesday, February 19, 2014

  “What was left by the caterpillar, the locust has eaten; and what was left by the locust, the creeping, unwinged locust has eaten; and what the creeping, unwinged locust has left, the cockroach has eaten.” (Joel 1:4, NWT 1984)

  “The prophet Joel likened the work of God’s people to a series of plagues by insects … Jehovah’s people are like … swarms of insects.” (Live With Jehovah’s Day in Mind, page 172) The prophet Joel mentioned locusts and cockroaches, and “these locusts picture the anointed remnant of Christians.” (The Watchtower, May 1, 1992, page 11) But who today make up the cockroach class?

  According to the aforementioned Watchtower issue, “the locust plague is succeeded by a huge plague of cavalry. How true this is today, as the few thousand remaining anointed Christians are reinforced by more than four million ‘other sheep.’” Hence the “cockroach” from Joel’s prophecy symbolizes the ‘great crowd of other sheep.’ Today “Jehovah’s anointed locusts” are “joined by … Jesus’ ‘other sheep.’” (The Watchtower, May 1, 1998, page 10) “Advancing like an army [they] enter into houses, and devour everything in their path … What a vivid portrayal of the perseverance and thoroughness of God’s people in carrying out the witnessing work in modern times!” – The Watchtower, July 15, 2008, page 4.
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  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

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  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/these-enemies-of-mine-that-did-not-want-me-to-become-king-over-them-bring-here-and-slaughter-them-before-me/

  Alternative Daily Text for Tuesday, February 18, 2014

  “These enemies of mine that did not want me to become king over them bring here and slaughter them before me.” (Luke 19:27)

  If you didn’t know who made this statement, you might attribute it to Joseph Stalin, Emperor Nero or an Egyptian Pharaoh. “But who said those words? It was a man who most people might think would never issue such a harsh order. He put those words into the mouth of the king about whom he was speaking in a parable or prophetic illustration of his. But he was really speaking for himself, inasmuch as he himself was the one pictured by the king in the parabolic illustration.” (The Watchtower, December 1, 1973, page 709) Indeed, there is no doubt that Jesus was referring to himself.

  No wonder that this Bible verse was covered only five times in the whole Watchtower literature from 1930 to 2013 – less than once in 16 years on average. But it shows clearly that Jesus is not always as “lowly in mind, humble, loving, compassionate, [and] merciful” as he is usually described by Christians. (The Watchtower, August 1, 1999, page 15) No, when he will be King, “Jesus will use his power” only for those “who obey him.” (Learn from the Great Teacher, page 176) But people who disagree with his style of government “have no hope of survival” of course. (The Watchtower, September 15, 1988, page 15) Jesus considers such individuals “enemies,” and he will have them slaughtered before his eyes just like a human tyrant. “His rule not only would end poverty and hunger” but also freedom. – Insight on the Scriptures, volume II, page 71.

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  Are you doing this for yourself or just hoping for a few lightbulb moments from the lurker/uncommitted crowd?

  Well, both! For myself, for the entertainment of apostates, and for lurkers ...