school for kingdom evangelizers office guidelines skeog-e 10/14.
and to help you prepare for the ske .... bscc tests and answer keys.
Notice the play on words in discussing appointments? On the one hand they are talking about individuals whereas the Governing body is a group.
The Governing Body is appointed by Jesus.
Would they mind telling us how the Governing Body members are appointed?
just a quick question.
who actually writes the awake!
and the watchtower publications ?
I believe it is mostly done at Bethel and branches. Unannointeded Brothers could only write non biblical articles, that may have changed. The GB authorise the article's.
dear budgetarian grocery-buyers,.
i am an artist though hardly a starving artist.
some of my patrons kindly feed me and i do have my well-stocked freezer.
I've been buying short cut bacon. It is only the top part of the bacon which has the most meat and less fat. When it's on special I will buy a kilo or two, break it up into much smaller quantities, put it in freezer bags and freeze it.
It's a great addition to many dishes for extra flavour and I don't add extra salt. It can also serve as the only meat in some dishes, with very little needed. That includes fried rice, spaghetti sauce and baked potato dishes.
One of my favourite soup's is split pea. Soak the dried split peas overnight then cook with plenty of water, bacon or bacon bones, a little grated carrot and finely diced onion and celery. Celery is a great addition in any soup, it adds a lot of flavour.
............into believing that inferred "statements" are actual facts, while never stating anything!
w07 1/1 p. 28 pars.
11,12 "the first resurrection"—now under way!
These are some quotes from JW Files, there may have been earlier statements made by Rutherford
These angels are invisible to human eyes and are there to carry out the orders of the Lord. No doubt they first hear the instruction which the Lord issues to his remnant and then these invisible messengers pass such instruction on to the remnant. The facts show that the angels of the Lord with him as his temple have been thus rendering service unto the remnant since 1919.” (Vindication III, 1932, pg. 250)
The Lord Jesus came to his temple in 1918 and that would mark the time of the cessation of the work of the holy spirit as an advocate, helper and comforter for the members of the church on earth." (Preservation, 1932, pg. 202-203
............into believing that inferred "statements" are actual facts, while never stating anything!
w07 1/1 p. 28 pars.
11,12 "the first resurrection"—now under way!
They are constantly doing this and it is very deceitful. I think at times they also use this method to introduce new teachings or thoughts then wait some time to see how the idea is accepted and if it goes well then they start teaching the idea as an accepted doctrine.
The Watchtower article in your OP appears to be written to explain when the chosen ones were resurrected but also to explain how they knew the Great Crowd was identified around 1935. In order to substantiate their reasoning they introduce a new thought which is that the resurrected anointed are communicating with them. However, there are some serious problems which they may not have realized (or it may have been on purpose to see how the idea would go down).
In the Proclaimers book of 1993, page 708, they had clearly stated that this type of communication was out of the question by stating “those who
make up the one true Christian organization today do not have angelic
revelations or divine inspiration”
I've previously written some comments about this 2007 article and they are as follows -
The GB claim they are not inspired but only
directed by God's Holy spirit through diligent research, meditation and prayer
to come to understand the Bible. There is one particular teaching that the GB
admit that they believe their understandings are not known to them purely on
this basis and that is identifying the Great Crowd in 1935. It was around that
year that Rutherford believed the Great Crowd was being drawn to their
organization.
As we know, before
1935 all JWs (or bible students) were considered to be anointed with a heavenly
hope. How did Rutherford come to this knowledge? There is nothing
in the bible to back up this claim - that is there is nothing in the bible to
identify the year of 1935 or thereabouts (and there is still no specific date identified) as being the year that the Great Crowd would now come
into the congregations. There are no prophecies that the GB use to back the
claim, their is no time line and nothing in the bible that identifies this
period as being so significant.
God's Kingdom Rules Ch 5 states "In 1935 came a
brilliant flash of spiritual light. At the convention held in Washington, D.C.,
the great multitude was identified as an earthly class, the same as the sheep
in Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats."
How would he explain what
this brilliant flash of spiritual light actually is. No amount of research or
reading the bible would give Rutherford this brilliant flash because there is
nothing in there that supports the idea that they would be identified in 1935.
W 07 1/1 "11 What, then, can we deduce from the fact that one of the 24 elders identifies the great crowd to John? It seems that resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today. Why is that important? Because the correct identity of the great crowd was revealed to God’s anointed servants on earth in 1935. If one of the 24 elders was used to convey that important truth, he would have had to be resurrected to heaven by 1935 at the latest. That would indicate that the first resurrection began sometime between 1914 and 1935. Can we be more precise?"
Back to this 1935 teaching. It was Rutherford that revealed this
idea. However, the 2007 article with all it's indecisive words, do not attribute the idea to him, or it even being a possibility. The GB still accept the concept as truth and they know that Rutherford was
wrong in other matters. They accept it today without any biblical basis but on the basis that it may be from a spiritual source. They have already shown that they accept lies as truth and think they only need to wait on God to reveal
corrections, it doesn't make sense. Are these corrections through the same source (the resurected anointed) that they are not even sure about or some other source? If their not sure who is communicating with them then how can anything be trusted other than what is clearly written and provable from the Bible?
It is pretty obvious to any Christian that receiving
communications from a supernatural source that proves to be false has to be
from Satan.
i still go to the meetings because of my in wife and it came about that the elders knew of my pissed off attitude about the society getting involved in the un.
so the elders said they could help me get over that and wanted to meet with me.
now just to let you know, i have only told my wife and her mom so far about it, that's it.
LevelThePlayingField, did you ever work out who spoke to the Elders and what they said?
had two lovely jws (stephen and ruth) visit this morning.
this was our second study in the last 2 weeks.
they first knocked on my door (bell is out) 3 weeks ago and i shared my testimony and we arranged to meet last tuesday which we did.. our first study went like this:.
have all the leaks at ny bethel been discovered, or are there still some who are revealing the inner secrets beforehand?
i haven't seen anything here about the annual meeting just a month away now.
anyone have any real info on it?.
I would think it was going to be a bragging session about Warwick. That should inspire all the Bethelites they just kicked out.
had two lovely jws (stephen and ruth) visit this morning.
this was our second study in the last 2 weeks.
they first knocked on my door (bell is out) 3 weeks ago and i shared my testimony and we arranged to meet last tuesday which we did.. our first study went like this:.
i sat in town recently, right in the window of a nice wee pub.
within minutes i realised that i had a perfect view of a jw cart and the two ridiculously dressed jw's (they have absolutely no individuality at all.
what's more, they all look like they're going to a funeral).
Who even knows what the message is that they want to convey? They have a campaign for this and for that. One month they focus on a leaflet the next month, on the Awake. It's not as if they are seeing the same people.
The message of the good news is simple but I doubt you would find one person who would tell you that is what the JWs are preaching. It's got lost in all their printed material and in their weekly ministry practice sessions.
