are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?
if this is true then how long should it take?
as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.
Have a look at any of the evangelical TV channels - they're all saying that we're living in the last days, and they're all asking for your cash!!!!
If the "world" is coming to an end soon, why do they need my filthy lucre?
Does that sound like any ORG you can think of? 🤣
pretended to be a mormon for a day so as to visit their holy site hill cumorah.
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photos of some signage and monument of angel moroni giving a revelation to joseph smith:.
The Moronic statute looks interesting.
an article on rnz, a news site in new zealand.. https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018901718/something-evil.
It's long overdue for authorites in major countries to review the T & C's of charities.
Bottom line: Any person in any country has the right to "shun" anyone they choose to, for whatever reason.
But, when it's the hierarchy of a tax-free multi-national business empire - posing as a "Christian charity" - who forces its membership to do so, then the gloves should come off and the full force of human rights laws implemented.
Unless "shunning" is publicly announced as a personal decision, then tax-free status should be withdrawn!
in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.
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@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.
In this JW training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other JW's by pursuing Higher Education. 🤣
per request from petrw🙂, some revelation stuff.... .
the four horsemen didn't start in 1914 or earlier- the timing is once jesus is enthroned in heaven.. .
the winds of destruction are on the religious institutions.. .
@ easyprompt - You said, "He is allowing the nations to devour the religious institutions, (plural) represented by Babylon the Great."
IMO, BTG appears to be a singular entity, not several, and she is the preeminent force/cabal which is and has been in united opposition to Messianic truth & believers - as indicated by Revelation 17:5 - "On her forehead was written a name, a mystery*: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes and of the disgusting things of the earth.”"
All the other lesser "prostitutes" are her progeny who merely folllow in BTG's footsteps.
I'd say that the WTBTS & CCoJW's qualify admirably as "mummy's offspring."
*As for BTG herself, when "she" is destroyed, the mystery will be sol - ved. (said in a Clouseau accent!)
let's assume that the bible is god's word and the men who wrote it were borne along ( inspired ) by holy spirit.
if one sets out to deliberately malign the bible, would that be considered a sin against the holy spirit?.
I once asked a dyed-in-the-wool JW couple, "If I went out into my street with a hammer and killed two men with it, would I be charged and found guilty of murder by a courtroom judge & jury?"
Them: Yes."
Me: "But what if the two men were terrorists with swords, trying to decapitate my neighbour?"
Them: Ah, yes........it would depend on........
Me: Yes - it would depend on my motives! In other words, when any person claiming to be a Christian is eventually judged, their judgment will be based not on what they did, said, or thought, but purely on their motives.
I concluded with, "Thank goodness my judgment won't be done by men!"
i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.
here are a few ideas.
-do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.
@ exBethelite noe PIMA - You asked, "Which other organisations have love amongst themselves as Jesus said would be his true disciples?"
I would rephrase your question thus: "Which other organisation uses diktats, coercion & punishments to force its members to maintain a facade of unity of thought and love?"
p.s. Without question!!!!
per request from petrw🙂, some revelation stuff.... .
the four horsemen didn't start in 1914 or earlier- the timing is once jesus is enthroned in heaven.. .
the winds of destruction are on the religious institutions.. .
"When Jesus is enthroned, he'll clean things up and get rid of the divisions".....
.....as shown by, Revelation 2:22 - Look! I am about to throw her into a sickbed, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation.......
.....followed by, Revelation 7:14 - "And he said to me: “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation..." (the one he mentioned about 8 minutes previously)
JW's will be sorely disappointed when their G.T. expectations don't materialise.
jehovah' witnesses are taught to believe that romans 6:7 refers to a person's own literal death:.
watchtower may 15th 1982, pp.
8,9 - "the bible explains that at death a person is set free or released from any sins he committed.
@ Sea Breeze - JW's annually reject the offer of the New Covenant, because they are told by the G.B. that they are a "type/antitype" for the foreigners in Exodus who were not participants of the Law Covenant.
wt 98 2/1 p.19, par. 6 - "Further, other sheep lay hold of the new covenant just as foreigners of old laid hold of the Law covenant. In what way? Not by becoming participants in it but by submitting to the laws associated with it and benefiting from its arrangements."
If only JW's would open their silver-sword and read Deuteronomy 29:10-15. (But the truth would hurt 😥)
jehovah' witnesses are taught to believe that romans 6:7 refers to a person's own literal death:.
watchtower may 15th 1982, pp.
8,9 - "the bible explains that at death a person is set free or released from any sins he committed.
@ Sea Breeze - Thanks so much for that little gem which I missed - w85 12/1, p.11.
What an excellent article for JW's to read and consider! For example, p. 9 par. 6:
"By his undeserved kindness, Jehovah accepted Jesus’ sacrifice in behalf of Adam’s descendants. It was an equivalent, or corresponding, sacrifice seeing that, as a perfect man, Jesus bought back what the perfect man Adam lost."
If Jesus' sacrifice was equivalent/corresponding to what Adam lost for his descendants, namely everlasting life on earth, then how do 144,000 of Adam's descendants miraculously get a free pass into heaven - as kings? 🤔It doesn't correspond, does it?
