.....can you clarify one of your doctrines for me?.
re chap.
27 p. 178 par.
So let me get this straight: you're saying that myriads of God's angels did an impersonation of Usain Bolt and ran off in the other direction when confronted by lil' ol' Satan???
The answer to your question is in the Revelation climax book, Chapter 27, Para 23
confusing standards or hodge podge?.
what is this about beards i never got the hang of from day one?
are beards ok or not?.
Zindagi - So any elders or co's about can you explain what principle is being applied to all three?
Zindagi, Why don't you ask the elders in your congregation, after all they are the ones who have taken the decisions?
By the way, I think you are from a congregation in India. Because such disorders happen in India more often.
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
steve - BTW, up until the 2016 Service Year report, percentages were based on average numbers for that year for each country - since 2017, percentages are based on peak numbers for each country’s previous years peak numbers.
Hi Steve,
As per my calculations, it seems that even now the percentages for each country is based on average publishers and not peak publishers.
For e.g.
While New Zealand peak publishers grew by 1%, the yearbook shows % growth as 0%.
The peak publishers in India grew by 3%, but the yearbook mentions the growth as 4%.
Worldwide peak publishers grew by 1.5%, but in the yearbook they have mentioned % growth as 1.4%.
Hence, they still calculate the growth in terms of average publishers.
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
See details of the global preaching work of Jehovah’s Witnesses from September 2017 to August 2018.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/
Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 87 (2017 - 90)
Number of Lands Reporting: 240 (2017 - 240)
Total Congregations: 119,954 (2017 - 120,053)
Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 20,329,317 (2017 - 20,175,477)
Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 19,521 (2017 - 18,564)
Peak of Publishers *: 8,579,909 (2017 - 8,457,107)
Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982)
Percentage of Increase Over 2017: 1.4 (2017 - 1.4)
Total Number Baptized *: 281,744 (2017 - 284,212)
Average Pioneer * Publishers Each Month: 1,267,808 (2017 - 1,249,946)
Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 446,642 (2017 - 439,571)
Total Hours Spent in Field: 2,074,655,497 (2017 - 2,046,000,202)
Average Bible Studies * Each Month: 10,079,709 (2017 - 10,071,524)
do you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?
anyone?.
Hi Vienne,
Harry Peloyan joined bethel in 1957 while this book was released in 1959. I am not sure that he would be given the job to write this major historical 320 page book just within 2 years of joining Bethel.
Barbara Anderson in one of her posts mentioned that John Wischuk wrote this book
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/242276/kingdom-proclaimers-book-who-wrote-this-pile-sht
the link bellow is sort of ok. i could not find a decent article in english language about this, but russian media is exploding.
2 days ago a teenager killed 19 people and injured dozens and committed suicide.
he was raised in a jw family.
There was a Russian JW who was found with WW 2 souvenirs - Orphan Crow
Seems that it belonged to the unbelieving husband of a JW woman:
Editors note: In written comments, Jehovah's Witnesses' spokesperson Jarrod Lopes said that the explosives seized in the raid were World War II relics that belonged to the husband of a Jehovah's Witness who is not a member of the group himself.
a few of you follow our research into watch tower history.
i've posted a rough draft of a chapter from upcoming volume 2 of separate identity.
on-point comments are welcome.
Strange.
I found that June 1882 information in the book written by Hudson, Bible Students in Britain - A Story of a Hundred Years.
Or maybe, June 1882 was a group meeting (sort of informal), and 1883 it was organized or recognized as a class (congregation)?
a few of you follow our research into watch tower history.
i've posted a rough draft of a chapter from upcoming volume 2 of separate identity.
on-point comments are welcome.
Hello Vienne,
The information you have collected is astounding. Since my interest lies in History, I wanted to confirm one detail that you have mentioned under the column "Glasgow/Scotland":
Albert Hudson, editor of Bible Study Monthly, a British Bible Student publication, says that the first organized meetings were in Glasgow starting in 1883. He presents no other details
However, I found some information mentioned by AO Hudson - when I was going through in the following link :
http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/contents/history/british%20history.htm
Now, in June 1882, little more than six months after the distribution of the booklet in this country, a dozen people in Glasgow, chiefly men folk, commenced to hold a regular meeting for the study and discussion of the Bible in this light. This was the first Bible Students’ meeting in this country, so far as records and recollection can tell. Rather appropriately, perhaps, it was a humble beginning. The organizer and leader of this initial meeting was apparently a man in a lowly walk of life—his name is lost to history—...
I am not sure but wanted to confirm from you which of the dates is accurate: 1882 or 1883.
i'm a member on jw talk (until now at least) and have been regularly checking up on their thread regarding the annual meeting.
there hasn't been a great deal to report on except for this recent post that has been made.
i may get outed but that's no loss.
It is absurd to think that the Bible ever had in mind anything other than the political powers of its own time in the second century BCE. Why should we today be the focus of all the attention?
This is because Daniel wrote that God told that the prophecies aren't for his time:
As for you, Daniel, keep the words secret, and seal up the book until the time of the end.e Many will rove about,* and the true knowledge will become abundant
many don't know that at least 2 of current governing body are not honest about even their name.
mark sanderson is actually douglas mark sanderson.
stephen lett is mark stephen lett .
Interestingly, on JW Broadcasting, Lett is always mentioned as "M. Stephen Lett". Check in the Morning Worship section:
