Revelation 4:4 describes these resurrected ones as seated upon thrones with golden crowns upon their heads. The glory of royalty awaits anointed Christians. But there is more.
What? A set of steak knives?
3Mozzies
***w092/15pp.24-26pars.3-7they"keepfollowingthelamb"***.
3 jesus has appointed the faithful and discreet slave "over his domestics," that is, the individual members of the slave class, "to give them their food at the proper time.
" he has also appointed the slave "over all his belongings.
Revelation 4:4 describes these resurrected ones as seated upon thrones with golden crowns upon their heads. The glory of royalty awaits anointed Christians. But there is more.
What? A set of steak knives?
3Mozzies
if you carry or have a handgun at home for protection how do you keep it loaded?
light fast loads?
heavy slow penetrating loads?.
If you don't like guns feel free to make snide comments and look down your nose.
I don't own a gun and don't look down on gun owners. Sooner7nc do you live in a dangerous area?
Have you ever needed to pull it out to protect yourself?
According to this web-site I personally would want to own a gun if I lived in South Africa! Scary amount of people murdered with firearms.
3Mozzies
in greek, meaning to 'transform.'.
i remember giving a talk as a ministerial servant which included this analogy.
it was supposed to be an illustration of how one changes from the filth of the world to the beauty of being a christian.
Thanks for sharing jambon1. Sounds all to familiar to most of us.
I was often suicidal. I was more often than not depressed. I was dejected. I had been let down. I had let myself down by being sucked into this racket of a religion.
Toward the end of my time as a JW, I would have happily driven my car into a tree.
Sounds like me when I was a JW
"Jehovah's people are the happiest on earth" ... what a bunch of BS!!!
Glad you broke free and are finally enjoying life.
3Mozzies
this past week i flew out of town to attend a seminar for work, then afterwards i drove 150 miles extra to go and visit my dad.. two years ago my mom died, and the lack of concern/caring from the so-called "friends" from two different states was a major reason why i walked away from the jw religion.. anyway, my dad is depressed and his local hall has him doing more fs, and attending the meetings,,, ok so that could be a good thing for him.. but i noticed that service and meeting attendance is the only thing that they are pushing on him.
nobody seems to check up on him, he just jumped at the chance to go out to eat with me.
and the negativity !!!
That's so very sad 'man in black' I feel for you.
This cult takes peoples lives and turns it into hours/meeting attendance/donation$, just a robot with a number, no love, no dignity. What a waste of human life.
I hate TW$ with a passion!!!!
3M
i am new here, so i felt that i should share my experience, my thoughts, my feelings and my total and complete change of heart.. i have posted bits and pieces about me and what happened, here is the whole story.. i was born into the religion from 1 parent that was born into it as well and another that was brought in as a child, i did as i was instructed to do.
i was punished when i made my parents look bad at the kingdom hall, i was taken outside and spanked as a child for falling asleep at the forever long and drawn out boring meetings.
it really drove the nail home that i was insignificant when i would see and hear my father asleep and snoring after he had not 'spared the rod', who was going to take him outside and punish him?
Thank you so much for sharing your story I<3MYGod!
Wow, what a roller coaster of Hell/Crap/Shit/Happiness!!! Being a JW should be illegal, bloody religion should be banned! Destroys people to the core, then some of us wake up and pull ourselves together and live happier outside of the Kingdumb Hell. Quite a few commit suicide, so sad. The others that are still 'in' are blind/slave/mind controlled robots.
So glad you found peace in the end . . .
BTW: Welcome to the forumand the human race!
3Mozzies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlscy3fzczu.
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3mozzies.
one of my favorite experiences ever was when bro.
barr was the bethel speaker at one of our district conventions.
he was sitting in the section where i served as an attendant.
@MrMonroe - I was at that convention at the Melbourne Tennis Centre. I saw the camera crew and thought that they were just doing a small piece for the news. Then I saw it on the 'Sunday' show on Ch9. I asked my JW friend if he saw it too, his response threw me off: "No! that was an apostate program, so I didn't watch it" I thought WTH! Apostate! Yeah right, apostate my a$$, they showed how some people were molested while attending our meetings. I was a believing JW at the time but didn't think of that as apostate...
This 'friend' is still a JW. People really do buy the crap the slaaaaave tells them. So sad.
Here's the transcript of that program: Go HERE
To download 2 small (6mb files) of the program go HERE and scroll down the page until you see the Ch9 'Sunday' logo.
HERE is the story on Ch9's website.
Here is an updated video of that story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4ISURP8M8
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@therevealer - Thanks for the story. Back when I was a believing JW, I would of thought how nice as well, now I see it for what it really is 'Creature Worship'. You are so right.
3Mozzies
don't know if this has been posted here.
it's making the rounds on some jw sites.
this is a transcript of the new dvd: jehovah's witnesses, faith in action, part 1: out of darkness:.
Are they now saying that Jesus didn't come in 1914 after all?
No, they expected Armageddon and to be raptured to heaven in 1914.
Nut jobs!
3Mozzies
questionsfromreaders.
the answer to the second question of this section appearing in the november 15 issue drew many responses and further questionings.
without being dogmatic, it stated that it seemed scriptural to believe that children executed in jehovahs battle of armageddon would not be resurrected.
don't know if this has been posted here.
it's making the rounds on some jw sites.
this is a transcript of the new dvd: jehovah's witnesses, faith in action, part 1: out of darkness:.
Thanks Cabasilas
—Narrator—
Rather than giving in to disappointment over what did not happen in 1914, the Bible Students kept their minds open to the significance of what had taken place. The world war and its aftermath had become the world-shaking events proclaimed by Russell almost 40 years earlier. The Bible Students were coming to the realization that Christ's presence began in 1914, and that the world's last days were underway! Two months after Russell's death, Joseph Rutherford was appointed to oversee the work.
Three lies right there!
What a joke that DVD is, a real piece of work, rewriting their own history.
3Mozzies