Their method of "organize" the activity at three levels - congregations, branches and headquarters make it possible to find the "mark" of it - of the beast, I mean.
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School for Congregation Elders
by C.O.B.E.Beef ini attended the school late last year, and it was an emotional and mental rollercoaster for me.
i was already divided in my heart to say the least.
one of the instructors stayed in my home for the week, and my family genuinely enjoyed his company.
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Strange e-mail from Romania
by jakes ini received this strange e-mail from romania.
to worship god in spirit , it means to have the understanding of his word , in spirit .
what is the truth ?
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interesting this letter....
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My thoughts about John 16:1-3
by TimothyT inthe gospel according to john is my favourite book of the bible.
i've just picked up where i left off reading it at chapter 16. i havnt looked at the bible since being disfellowshipped and i read the first 3 verses:.
1 i have told you these things so that you wont abandon your faith.2for you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for god.3this is because they have never known the father or me.. jesus encouraged his disciples not to lose their faith, it seems when they would be thrown out of the religion they belonged to.
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Timothy,
I am so glad that you love the Bible , and read it !
I also read the Bible and here is what I have found :
greetings to you
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TRUTH
by redhare67 inif god is almighty, would he not have preserve the true church that jesus and the apostles build today?
instead of letting satan and apostates infiltrated the true church,so that its true teaching and the true church perished or was rejected by both jehovah and christ because of apostacy!if the true church survived and is with us today, where do the jehovah s witness organisation stand?.
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If the true church survived and is with us today, where do the jehovah s witness organisation stand?
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"Bible Chronology" and the "Seventy Years"
by Doug Mason into arrive at its date of 607 bce for jerusalems destruction, the wts uses what it calls bible chronology.. this bible chronology says that since the seventy year period ended in 537 bce, when 70 years are counted back this provides the 607 bce date for jerusalems destruction.. the wts says its bible chronology method is superior to the secular uninspired chronology provided by secular sources.. does the wtss bible chronology align with the bibles teachings on the seventy years?
is its method the valid way to determine when jerusalem was destroyed?.
these matters are discussed in my study, which is available at:.
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Too much time spent studying chronology would make/transform the Christian into an historian....
and God does not require that / He helps us through His Spirit to discern from Bible what is useful for us
God points toward the "chronology of the latter days" wich is good to be understood
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Something the "Watchtower" left out
by Doug Mason inthe october 1, 2011 watchtower article when was ancient jerusalem destroyed?
includes the following statement.. .
there is also strong evidence from cuneiform documents that prior to the reign of nabopolassar (the first king of the neo-babylonian period), another king (ashuretel-ilani) ruled for four years in babylonia.
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Something the "Watchtower" left out :
it is the "teaching of Christ" they have left out !
9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
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1874, 1914 and 1943
by TD ina persistent meme that floats around on jw related internet forums holds that christ's second coming was moved forward 40 years (i.e.
from 1874 to 1914) in the year 1943.
(this appears to be based primarily on a statment in the book god's kingdom of a thousand years has approached on page 209 and to a lesser degree, a footnote at the bottom of page 133 of the publication jehovah's witnesses - proclaimers of god's kingdom.).
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djeggnog , I don't know who you are, but I recommend to you this study:
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As of today, I will no longer be one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
by Knowsnothing ini spoke with my mother, told her everything, my doubts, my fears, my sins.
it came rushing out.
my mother is devastated.
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Hello KN !
"The truth shall make you free" / it implies a little knowledge from Bible ! The Knowledge as Jesus is giving to those asking !
I believe in Father and His Son , and after I became "free" from organizations, this is what I have been helped to understand:
The Kingdom of God – when in Heaven ? — according to “Jesus’ teaching”
Are JWs Exclusively God’s People?
The "latter days" chronology revealed
I hope the knowledge of the truth shall make you free...in Christ !
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The Real Issues Facing former Jehovah's Witnesses
by AllTimeJeff inon internet forums such as these, it is to be expected that there will be people who want to save jw's.
esp from (thinking for) themselves.. however, the real dillema's facing an ex jw who leaves, whether on their own terms or being disfellowshipped are real and haven't changed.. .
lonliness, how to make friends, is a big issue.. fear, esp fear based on superstition, a fear of god and of the future that is not in any way based in proveable fact.. education, how to think and reason critically to avoid being taken advantage of is a big challenge.. love, sex, and how to navigate your way around all of that hot mess.. geez, yeah, forgot.
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The real issue facing former Jehovah's Witnesses is who they are.
That's very true !
the situations we are experiencing these times reveals what we have deep in our hearts / who we really are / the hidden things of our hearth.....
...according to what is written Mark 4
22. For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.
and this action of "revealing of all hidden things" means "judgment"
Ecclesiastes 12
13. This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
14. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. -
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Watching the Leadership Crumble
by Damn The Watchtower ini watch the watchtower leaders crumble, slowly crumble.
one nonsensical move after the other.
you have no idea how this makes me feel.
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When God sent Moses to Pharaoh, He armed him with the demand "Let My people go, that they may serve Me." At one point Pharaoh was okay to let them go on his (Pharaoh's) own terms. One of the teachings here ... Israelites could not serve YHWH when service was regulated by any other master than YHWH. The way JWs follow and believe the WT teachings amount to idolatry.
One cannot serve 2 masters - God and the WT corporation.You said it right !
YHWH promise is here: Micah 7:
15. As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.
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TODAY is the most appropriate time to "seek for God's Kingdom" as Jesus said (Matt 6:33) !
Why ?
Because today it is happening as prophesied : "that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands , and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold;"
"a stone" is God's Kingdom coming on earth , and it is disintegrating the "unity" between iron and clay
"this stone" "brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold" , that is, the whole image that the GB has built that their own "God's organization" means "God's Kingdom on earth" is demolished
THIS is God's Judgement upon Babylon the Great(all false worships) and her "daughter" the WT "form of worship"- Isaiah 47
the lovers of God's righteousness have to be happy now !
this is YHWH's action:
25. And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel (the GB) , whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, 26. thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this shall be no more the same;
exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
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