.....with the name "Jehovah."
In all my years, I've never seen such overkill in any JW publication. Is the org worried about something?
Maybe these scriptures slipped the minds of the Writing Committee:
Christians were to be witnesses of Christ, not Jehovah:
(Matthew
10:18) ....before
governors and kings for my
sake,
for a witness....
(Mark
13:9) ...be
put on the stand......for my
sake,
for a witness
to
them.
(Luke
24:48) You
are to be witnesses
of
these things.
(John
1:15) (John
bore witness about him, (Jesus)
(John
5:37) And
the Father who sent me has himself
borne
witness about me.
(John
8:18) ...bears
witness about myself, and the Father..bears
witness about me.”
(John
15:26, 27) ....bear
witness about me;
and
you,
in turn, are
to bear witness....
(Acts
1:8) ..witnesses
of me
in
Jerusalem,.....the most distant part of the earth.”
(Acts
9:15, 16) But
the Lord said to him: “Go! because this man is a chosen vessel to
me to bear my
name to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel.
For I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my
name.”
(Acts
10:39) And
we are witnesses of all the things he did.......
(Acts
10:43) To
him
(Jesus)
all the prophets bear witness....
(Acts
13:31) .......These
are now his
witnesses
to the people.
(Acts
22:15) because
you are to be a witness for him
(Jesus)
to all men......
(Acts
22:20) and
when the blood of Stephen your
witness...
(Acts
23:11) ....witness
about me
in
Jerusalem,.....also bear witness in Rome.”
(Acts
26:16) .....a
witness .....................respecting
me.
(1
Corinthians 1:6) ...the
witness about
the Christ has
been made firm among you,
(1
Timothy 2:6, 7) ...this
is
what is to be witnessed to in its own due time.
(2
Timothy 1:8) ....the
witness about our
Lord.......
(1
John 5:9) ....this
is the witness God gives, the witness.....about
his Son.
(Revelation
1:9) ......bearing
witness concerning
Jesus.
(Revelation
12:17) ....have
the work of bearing witness concerning
Jesus.
(Revelation
17:6) ......and
with the blood of the
witnesses of Jesus.
(Revelation
19:10) ....witnessing
concerning
Jesus...the
witness concerning Jesus...”
(Revelation
20:4) ...for
the witness they gave about
Jesus......
......and Christians
were never told to do anything
in/for God's name. Christ's
name
was to be their focus:
(Matthew
5:11) “Happy
are you when people...say every sort of wicked thing against you for
my
sake.
(Matthew
12:21) Indeed,
in his
name nations will hope.”
(Matthew
10:22) And
you will be hated by all people on account of my
name,......
(Matthew
18:5) …receives
one such young child on the basis of my name receives me also.
(Matthew
18:20) For
where there are two or three gathered together in my
name,....
(Matthew
19:29) .......for
the sake of my
name......will
inherit everlasting life.
(Matthew
24:5) ...for
many will come on the basis of my name,...
(Matthew
24:9) .......and
you will be hated by all the nations on account of my
name.
(Mark
9:37)
...on the basis of my name....
(Mark
9:39)
….will do a powerful work on the basis of my
name...
(Mark
13:6) Many
will come on the basis of my name,...
(Luke
9:48)
Whoever receives this young child on the basis of my name receives me
also.
(Luke
9:49)
….we saw someone expelling demons by using your name.
(Luke
10:17) “...even
the demons are made subject to us by the use of your
name.”
(Luke
21:8)
...for many will come on the basis of my name,...
(Luke
21:12) ......brought
before kings and governors for the sake of my
name.
(Luke
21:16, 17) .......and
you will be hated by all people because of my
name.
(Luke
24:47) ...and
on the basis of his name, repentance for forgiveness of sins would be
preached in all the nations.
(John
2:23) .....many
people put their faith in his
name........
(John
5:27, 28) .....in
which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his
voice..
(John
14:26) But
the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name,
(John
15:16) ......no
matter what you ask the Father in my
name,
(Acts
2:38) Repent,
and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
(Acts
3:6) In
the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!”
(Acts
4:10) .....in
the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,
(Acts
5:40) .
. .and ordered them to stop speaking on the basis of Jesus’
name.
(Acts
5:41) ....counted
worthy to be dishonored in behalf of his [Jesus'] name.
(Acts
9:14-16) .....all
those calling on your
name.....he
must suffer for my
name.”
(Acts
10:48) .....he
commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
(Acts
11:26) ..........the
disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts
16:18) “I
order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
(Acts
19:5) On
hearing this, they got baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
(Acts
21:13)
...but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the
Lord Jesus.....
(Acts
22:16) ....get
baptized, and wash your sins away by your calling on his name.’
(1
Corinthians 6:11) ...been
declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(2
Corinthians 5:15) .....no
longer for themselves, but for him
who
died for them.
(Philippians
2:10) .....so
that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend......
(Hebrews
13:15) Through
him
(Jesus)
let
us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of
our lips that make public declaration to his*
name.
(Revelation
2:3) ....and
you have borne up for my
name’s
sake...
(Revelation
2:13) ......and
yet you keep on holding fast my
name,.
. .
