mi first prophecy:.
friday afternoon: 4:20 teach your children to love gods kingdom!
new book/brochure for children based on the articles "teach your children" (appeared in watchtower public edition).
TheOldHippie is correct. Organization books are not available to the public. Perhaps it may be announced and congregations can request copies later in the year.
I don't think they will bother to update the Proclaimers book. The Divine Purpose book was never updated.
My guess is a new brochure about the organization keeping watch or perhaps a new 192 page book about the kingdom?
i'm not making a bold assertion here, just pursuing an idea.
what would have to happen to prove that the watchtower is probably "packing it up", conceding the field, retiring to their new headquarters in senescent peace?.
the dramatic changes we have observed are mostly motivated by money or legal concerns - but not all, as with cutting back on meetings.. you could reasonably have an old guard that still fanatically hopes for armageddon, any day now, while younger men keep their doubts private.
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info from someone at the regional convention:.
(sorry about the format).
matthew 6:33 keep on seeking first the kingdom.
Thanks for the info!
Looking forward to seeing if a new book is released on Saturday.
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please join with me, and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic wt with the front cover which boldly proclaimed that the generation of 1914 would never pass away.. the cover date of the that wt is infact this very day so let us raise a glass to this clear sign they have god's backing:.
in this the 100th anniversary of our lords return (invisibly of course brothers) it is a fine and appropriate thing to do..
I remember those special issues on 1914-there were 4 of them I think.
Witnesses are probubly encouraged (warned) not to read those issues! It is "old light, old truths".
my mother in law (in her 80's) just told me that she had the elders around to pick up her 'donation' pledge.
it was 'suggested that $20 a month was the average amount pledged but she could pledge more or less.
so, rather than an anonymous amount they have a signed document stating the amount of her pledge.
if an average of $20 was donated each month by each of the nearly 8 million witnesses the wts would collect almost 2 billion dollars a year!
your grandmother has the same attitude as my brother-put the organization (slave) first, obey the slave.
been lurking for a while on here and thought i'd jump in.
a great deal of many thoughtful posts on here but have to say am a bit turned off with the 'rabid apostate' ones!.
my history- was raised in a divided household, mum converted to jw when pregnant with me back in 1970, dad was never jw but was supportive of taking us to meetings, assemblies etc.
welcome Kikura!
You are very fortunate to have found a loving boyfriend and have a happy life.
I gave up meetings all together in 2005 yet the wts still has a weird kind of hold on me though I know the tatt. I wish I could break free completely.
I lost my faith in god after discovering the tatt.
this is one question that trinitarians try to avoid because they have created a very embarrassing problem.
the bible is very clear when the angel tells mary that holy spirit will overshadow her and she will become pregnant.
the angel does not say the father will overshadow her but the holy spirit will and if the holy spirit is a person that would make him the father of jesus.
So Jesus has a physical body in heaven (a man) while all the angels and Jehovah have spirit bodies?
But Jesus is 100% god as is his father and holy spirit-each is 100% god and equal to each other.
Is there a bathroom for Jesus in heaven? A farm to grow his food? a kitchen to prepare it in? Can the father and holy spirit also eat his food? Can the angels? Does Jesus share it with them? Will eating food make them have to go to the bathroom too?
Where in the Bible does it say Jehovah is the father of god?
When Jesus eats and is full do holy spirit and the father feel full too? When Jesus is hungry does the father and holy spirit feel hungry too?
So when Jesus goes to the bathroom do holy spirit and the father have to go too?
she and my dad brought us to the u.s. from ireland in hopes of giving the 4 of us kids a better life with more opportunities.. mom went to school in her village where her mother (my grandmother) was the teacher and the bible was part of the curriculum.
they even used the name jehovah.
her father was a plymouth brethern (think amish or quaker) who was shunned for the rest of his life for marrying my grandmother who wasn't "in the lord"...she belonged to church of ireland.. when the witnesses came to the door after we arrived in the u.s, mom was a shoe-in candidate for their recruitment.
exwhyzee-
Thank you for your post. Please accept my sympathy at the loss of you mom and dad.
My dear Mom who I miss so much died 14 years ago so this is the 14th Mother's day without her and the cult would not let me do anything special for Mom on Mothers day of course. Why did I listen to those hateful, self righteous idiots?
It is a difficult time as you say. I understand. My Mom died April 28, 2000 and my Dad Jan. 10,2006.
And I agree, it is a shame no one will take responsibility for ruining our lives with their false teachings.
the watchtower society is now wanting us to make "fixed donations".
this means they will be spaying and neutering the jehovah's witness population which has sadly become very overrun.
let's help them fix all those jw so they don't reproduce anymore cult spawn.
my jw brother & sister in law did not have children- they decided to wait because armageddon is so close. Now both are too old, no armageddon and no chance to have children thanks to obeying the slave!
police and other security services have been handed a list of banned books that they will seek to remove and destroy in raids planned for the future in azerbaijan.the list mostly contains muslim texts and books such as those by dr. said nursi a muslim theologian.
i addition , this list contains .... .
read the rest of the post here.
In years past they sent "generic" magazines to lands where the literature/work was banned. These magazines have no title, they do not say Watchtower or Awake and some make no mention of who publishes them, Watchtower, Jehovah's witnesses, etc so you can not see who published them. (Of course we know!)
They have the same articles each issue as the regular ones, but no identifying title thus making them hard to ban as they have no name!
I wonder if that will be the case with the magazines there.
And yes, this persecution from "Satan" is further proof of the world being against them and them being Jehovah"s organization-of course they will say that!
