Well, simply JWs have misinterpreted what Babylon the Great is. That is the problem. Babylon the Great is simply not a symbol of all the false religions of the world.
Kosonen
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Were JWs Right That There Would Be A Time When Governments Would Go After All Religion?
by minimus inthey have predicted this for years.
religions of the world would become attacked by the governments.
the only difference is when they go after jehovah’s witnesses, then jehovah god will step in and destroy the governments..
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Is it okey to express your love for Jesus currently as a Jehovah's witness?
by Kosonen inis it okey to express your love for jesus as a jehovah's witness?.
it should be, even though it would lift some eyebrows in the congregation.
let's see what jesus said:.
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Kosonen
Sea Breeze, yes you are right. And the scripture you quoted show it well.
I wonder when the JWs will realize that one day they have to praise also Jesus for their salvation if they truely will be part of "the great crowd"? How ironic that "the great crowd" in Revelation 7:10 is said to praise not only God but also Jesus for their salvation. "And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
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Is it okey to express your love for Jesus currently as a Jehovah's witness?
by Kosonen inis it okey to express your love for jesus as a jehovah's witness?.
it should be, even though it would lift some eyebrows in the congregation.
let's see what jesus said:.
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Kosonen
Sea Breeze, truth_b_known and wokeup, thanks for your comments. I agree with you that some things should be corrected in the understanding of the truth within the JWs.
Let's pray that it happens!
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Is it okey to express your love for Jesus currently as a Jehovah's witness?
by Kosonen inis it okey to express your love for jesus as a jehovah's witness?.
it should be, even though it would lift some eyebrows in the congregation.
let's see what jesus said:.
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Kosonen
Is it okey to express your love for Jesus as a Jehovah's witness?
It should be, even though it would lift some eyebrows in the congregation. Let's see what Jesus said:
"In turn, whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly show myself to him.” (John 14:21)
Or the following statements of apostle Peter:
"in order that the tested quality of your faith,...., may be found a cause for praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you never saw him, you love him. Though you do not see him now, yet you exercise faith in him and are greatly rejoicing with an indescribable and glorious joy, 9 as you attain the goal of your faith, your salvation." (1Peter 1:7-9)
The problem with the WT organization in this respect, I experienced, that the love for Jesus is not taught adequately at the meetings.
Commonly at the meetings it is said that all Jesus did and said was for God's glory.
True in some way. But I got the impression from the WT organization that we should restrict our feelings for Jesus. Because otherwise it would compete with our love for Jehovah God.
But that would be the same as to say that we should not grow in our love for each other, because that would compete with our love for Jehovah.
How then to arrange our love for Jehovah God and Jesus and our fellows and even our enemies so that our love would be properly tuned?
I think this is only possible by prayer and by the help of God's power, the holy spirit.
As a conclusion let's remember Jesus said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
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Are the rocks and mountains in Revelation 6:16 symbolic?
by raymond frantz inon a recent jw.org video update joel dellinger makes thr case that the phrase " they keep saying to the mountains and to the rocks: “fall over us" in revelation 6:16 is a reference to symbolic mountain like organisation at the time of the end.what do you think?.
https://youtu.be/y7gzbkcbl8c.
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Kosonen
Could it not be as simple as bunkers? Were do people flee during bombardments?
"Then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great." Revelation 16:21
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Is it difficult to believe in a loving God?
by Kosonen inis it difficult to believe in a loving god?.
if yes, i understand you.
it has been difficult to me too.
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Kosonen
Is it difficult to believe in a loving God?
If yes, I understand you. It has been difficult to me too. But finally recently things have cleared up for me significantly. And I want to share that with you.
We have heard that God is love. (1John 4:8)
How far reaching is then God's love? Is God's love for his creation greater than his love for Himself?
I believe that yes it is.
Jesus said that no one has greater love than to die for another person. (John 15:13)
Yes, Jesus loved the mankind so much that he subjected himself to death, and on top of that a very painful death. He had to do that to defeat Satan and die for our sins so that we can be freed from the death that we deserve as sinners.
How is God's love manifested in this? First of all, this arrangement was God's arrangement to be able to forgive us. And secondly God showed his surpassing love to Jesus his Son by rewarding him for his suffering with all He could reward him with.
After Jesus' resurrection God gave to him all he had, as Jesus said: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth." (Matthew 24:18)
And Jehovah God honors Jesus by letting him sit at his right hand and get honor and thankfulness along Himself. For example this scripture confirm that: And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”(Revelation 7:10)
"And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all the things in them, saying: “To the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.” The four living creatures were saying: “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshipped. (Revelation 5:13,14)
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Some developements toward microchipping humans
by Kosonen inmany people took the covid vaccine and the boosters.
looks like those controlling such world wide campaigns have more in store for the humanity.
the powerful organization world economic forum says that the covid pandemic has started the digitalization and surveillance of everything.
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Kosonen
https://banned.video/watch?id=6262f3c355239723cef1e906
This was powerful! The powers behind the world agenda seem to want to eliminate our free will with surveillance technologies under our skin.
If this is not end times, then what is?
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Some developements toward microchipping humans
by Kosonen inmany people took the covid vaccine and the boosters.
looks like those controlling such world wide campaigns have more in store for the humanity.
the powerful organization world economic forum says that the covid pandemic has started the digitalization and surveillance of everything.
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Kosonen
Hi BoogerMan, nice to hear your comment. I am also watching for the "sword stroke" according to the Revelation 13. It should constitute a serious debilitating happening to one country.
When the truckers protested in Canada in the beginning of this year I asked if this is the "sword stroke"? Or should the "sword stroke" be something involving weapons, because it is called in the Revelation a "sword stroke"? Could it be Ukraine? Or is it a happening that has not begun yet? I am not sure yet.
I hope the war in Ukraine ends soon. It would be nice if it then fulfilled the prophecy about the "sword stroke". I have to wait and see.
After the "sword stroke" heals tough times begin for christians.
And I am very much waiting to flee to a wilderness together with brothers and sisters. I think the flight of the symbolic woman in Revelation 12 is about that.
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Some developements toward microchipping humans
by Kosonen inmany people took the covid vaccine and the boosters.
looks like those controlling such world wide campaigns have more in store for the humanity.
the powerful organization world economic forum says that the covid pandemic has started the digitalization and surveillance of everything.
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Kosonen
Many people took the Covid vaccine and the boosters. Looks like those controlling such world wide campaigns have more in store for the humanity. The powerful organization World Economic Forum says that the Covid pandemic has started the digitalization and surveillance of everything. Now they want to be able to surveil us not only from the outside of the body, but inside too. For that they want to implant us with technoligies that will connect our bodies to the internet, in other words microchips. And their Forth Industrial Revolution is about hacking our bodies and brains.
Will they be able to make people take such inventions into their bodies? I think so. If they decide that people can not buy food without such implantable microchips, I think the majority will accept them. Just like the majority accepted to be vaccinated with the Covid vaccines. Now we have seem how forcefully the governments of the world can on a world wide scale together push for the same thing.
Could it not be next time about the fortold "mark of the beast" in Revelation 13:16,17:
"It puts under compulsion all people—the small and the great, the rich and the poor, the free and the slaves—that these should be marked on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and that nobody can buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name."
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Where will the war in Ukraine lead to?
by Kosonen inthere 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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RULES & REGULTIONS: How does God give you new understanding?
It just happens sometimes while I am reading the Bible or searching for news on the internet.
Like Jesus said keep on knocking and it will be opened to you.
Sometimes I ask questions in prayer and sometimes right away I can see the thing differently and understand.