Depending on how you define "acceptable sacrifices." Jesus' sacrifice is once for all time, therefore animal sacrifices would be phased out (Hebr. 10:12). Now it is the sacrifices of lips and good deeds: "With such sacrifices God is well pleased." (13:15, 16).
Posts by Vidqun
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8Who's got it wrong - Daniel or the evil slave?
by BoogerMan inw98 2/1 p. 22 par.
16 - "what of the dead who are resurrected on earth?...they also will have to love the name of jehovah, ministering to him, offering acceptable sacrifices......".
(daniel 9:26, 27) "and after the 62 weeks, mes·siʹah will be cut off, with nothing for himself.....and at the half of the week, he will cause sacrifice......to cease.
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YouTube advice on “Types of People to Avoid”
by LongHairGal ini was doing some heavy duty binge watching on youtube.. there are lots of helpful topics including ‘how to declutter your home’, ‘things you shouldn’t tell people’ and several videos on ‘types of people you shouldn’t have in your life as well as types of behavior you shouldn’t tolerate’ (especially after a certain age).. what i got out of it (most i already knew but was nice to see it mentioned):.. first, you should live life authentically, especially at an older age.
you should be free of other people’s opinions, judgments and expectations of you.
you should be free of this as you have accumulated enough wisdom in life to know what serves you and that other people’s opinions do not define you; you should not be guilt tripped into doing favors or being exploited (financially or time wise) by anybody manipulative or irresponsible, etc… walking away is not ‘selfishness’ but ‘self care’.. it was mentioned in all of them to remove people from your life who are critical and fall into these negative categories whether they be family or other.. (the name of jehovah’s witnesses was nowhere mentioned - but i was struck by the fact that all these negative things appear in spades in the jw religion (and probably in some other religions as well).. watching all of this just reinforced what i knew for many years: ..the best thing i did was to ‘fade’ from the religion and get out of that environment!.
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Vidqun
LongHairGal, it boils down to removing toxic people from your life. Here's a list of their qualities. Surprise, surprise! The Witnesses as a group qualifies in all respects:
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KING OF THE NORTH ATTACKs 0.001% OF JWS
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/qn2dewyxlzu.
forget about ufos and orbs darting through the skies of new jersey, or the peculiar fog and bizarre weather gripping parts of the world lately.
none of that is on the watchtower’s radar.
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Vidqun
IMO the big picture is still developing: A unipolar grouping vs. multipolar grouping give you a bipolar world. And that is exactly what is happening. Anglo-America and allies vs. Sino-Russia and followers are diametrically opposed to each other. While the United States as hedgemon is diminishing, the King of the North "shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt." According to the prophecy, the Cushites (black nations) and Libyans (Arabic nations) become footstep followers of the King of the North, which is happening right now (Dan. 11:43 ESV). Precious things [commodities] of Egypt, i.e., the world will come under control of the King of the North. Sure looks that way.
Anony mous, just a reminder. Ukraine is a proxy war waged by NATO. None of NATO's wonder weapons have made a difference. I think the Russians are doing quite well, having so far taken over approximately 20% of Ukraine (and counting). But of course, if you follow the war through MSM, then: "Ukraine is winning!" And as Lindsey Graham used to say: "Let's fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian. It's a bargain!" And now there's the Oreshnik. Seems like nobody wants to take it on.
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"Yahweh" pronunciation is more correct (w60 8/1 pp. 453-455)
by psyco in.
https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1960561 (substitute .borg with .org)furthermore, today in every jw publication the tetragrammaton is rendered as yhwh which is more preserved by yahweh than by jehovah..
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Vidqun
Here's Nehemian Gordon, a Karaite Jews opinion. According to him Jehovah is not that far from the truth. He explains why he thinks so:
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Pidgin English
by markweatherill inhttps://www.jw.org/hwc.
i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.
they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..
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Vidqun
Armageddon in Pidgin English = Big Buggerup!
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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?
by minimus inmost of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.
i’m not confident with dr. fauci.
i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.
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Vidqun
poorly educated halfwits telling highly educated people they don't know what they are doing
Yup, Riley. For a change, most halfwit JWs were encouraged to take the vaxx, which means they listened to the highly educated people to their sorrow. Notice what's happening in Australia. Their vaxxes were especially contaminated by plasmid DNA from the manufacturing process. Safe and effective you say!
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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?
by minimus inmost of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.
i’m not confident with dr. fauci.
i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.
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Vidqun
Mickey mouse, "herd immunity" is a pipe dream. The vaccine developers can never keep up with the latest variants. As they vaccinate, the resistant variants flourish. The viruses will always be one step ahead.
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Prepare to get Pelted by Symbolic Hailstones
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/idhmflud3p4?si=9xc4svrhxslduwvz.
so david schafer a member of the teaching commitee and a helper to the governing body has come out yesterday with a new video that goes through the king of the north, the hailstones message and other things in the wake of the possibility of a ww3 and especially now that tensions are escalating with russia so he is making quite a few end time arguments and i will be expanding on those one by one but today let's see what he has about the hailstones message of the end(video) so this is the paragraph in question, paragraph 14 from article 20 of the watchtower 2020 study edition: "sometime after the start of the great tribulation, “the kings of the entire inhabited earth” will form a coalition of nations.
(rev.
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Vidqun
The 10 plagues of Revelation, similar to the 10 plagues of Egypt, are literal. Specifically Rev. 16:19 is literal according to the context. One cannot view the first half of a passage as literal and the second half as symbolic. It's either literal or symbolic.
18 And lightnings and voices and thunders occurred, and a great earthquake occurred such as had not occurred since men came to be on the earth, so extensive an earthquake, so great.
19 And the great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell; and Babylon the Great was remembered in the sight of God, to give her the cup of the wine of the anger of his wrath.
20 Also, every island fled, and mountains were not found.
21 And a great hail with every stone about the weight of a talent descended out of heaven upon the men, and the men blasphemed God due to the plague of hail, because the plague of it was unusually great. (Rev. 16:18-21 NW)P.S. Perhaps they got the idea from Isaiah. He informs us that divine hail "will sweep away the refuge of lies," it being mentioned alongside justice and righteousness (Is. 28:17 ESV). Nothing to do with hail-like judgment messages directed at the nations.
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Biden gives the order to Zelenskyy to Use the long range missiles to hit the interior of Russian territory
by liam inthe war in ukraine has now escalated.
europe is now talking of getting involved in the war to curb the north korean armies that are helping russia.
putin has warned that this will now give him no choice but to retaliate against nato nations.. the biden administration and the democrats in congress want to make sure that the war escalates to such a point that trump won't be able to bring peace to the war in ukraine.
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Vidqun
Riley, you pumpkin. Escalation means nuclear war. So, hold on to your helmet and relax.
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Vidqun
Not sure what's happening here. A glitch in the matrix?