i haven't been to a meeting in a while, so i need a little update from an active witness....
...or at least an informed xjw.
i was listening to jr brown (http://www.wtmedia.org/jrbrown-interview-1.wma ) on the silentlambs website ( http://www.silentlambs.org/ ) and the reporter kept asking him to clarify the same issues over and over.
there has been some "new understanding" on this issue. That in fact they are only "blessed" by God.
They can’t say they are "directed" anymore unless they want to also admit they were directed in the wrong direction. Then they would have to say Jehovah's active force held the map upside down when they were handing out directions.
i just got my mini cooper back from the shop the other day.
it was looking great with all of the damage repaired.......... but then just a few minutes ago i was driving down the highway and something, i don't know what, but something very hard and heavy slammed into my hood ripping three gouges all the way through the stripes and paint and all the way deep into the metal.
what the hell???????
there used to be several books released at every summer convention.
there also used to be two 'awakes' a month published.. now, there are few books released, only pamphlets and no effort to rewrite the 'revelation book', just a list of changes to 'put in yourself'.
the 'awake' mag is down to one a month.. so...has the wtbts finally realised that there is far more money to be made investing in the property market than there is to be made in printing books to a captive audiance?
LOL! Pretty soon they will just hand out fortune cookies with new light notes inside.
i was looking at some scriptures and these popped out at me concerning 1914.
i'm not saying one way or another what it means, because i really don't know, have these scriptures been considered before?
this is at the last supper, jesus talks about he will eat and drink with the apostles in the kingdom of god: .
That wasn't really Jesus
why didn't the preaching work stop prior to 1975?
it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon either.
i raised this question before i stopped attending the meetings in the late 90's and the answer i was given was, "it has slowed down a lot and will eventually stop when the time is right".
jayhawk1
I remember asking an elder in service if there would be a point when the number baptized would be zero
What a good question, one I never thought to ask.
not going ahead of the faithful slave.
Speculating is their job even though they are supposed to have the wisdom to know better they do it anyway. I will NEVER get that no matter what excuses I hear.
why didn't the preaching work stop prior to 1975?
it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon either.
i raised this question before i stopped attending the meetings in the late 90's and the answer i was given was, "it has slowed down a lot and will eventually stop when the time is right".
Warlock My second understanding (must have been "new light") was, we would go right on preaching thru the Great "T" and Big "A".
This “new light” must have lit up after I left in the late nineties? I don’t remember it. With all the lights that have been lit, so far, it should be bright enough by now to see something real.
IP_SEC 'sides as 73, 75, and 75 rolled around, none of the marker prophecies were fulfilled to denote that the preaching should stop or change focus.
I was very young still during this time but remember it clearly and remember being pissed off because we were not being told to stop going out in service. Lol! I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with these people: It CAN'T happen in 1975 WERE STILL PREACHING! Hahaha.
W.Once I remember thinking how unfair it was to the commies that the preaching work wasn't going on there on a grand scale too.
I can remember thinking about all those people in 3 rd world countries that never even heard of a watchtower or awake and never would: this can’t be right, Jehovah will let them make it through Armageddon and they will be witnessed to after. Either way I knew something was wrong with the whole picture.
why didn't the preaching work stop prior to 1975?
it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon either.
i raised this question before i stopped attending the meetings in the late 90's and the answer i was given was, "it has slowed down a lot and will eventually stop when the time is right".
Because the evil Bethel Bubbas did not believe the crap they wrote and preached.
Sadly enough that's the only reason that makes much sense.
If they were waiting for their proper food to be delivered then they wouldn't be talking as though it's just around the corner because the preaching work coming to a stop was always a big part of the "last days", the really last of the last days.
i wouldnt mind purchasing a piece of bible software, has anyone got any good advice on a quality piece at a reasonable price please.
god bless .
- ade
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This one is kinda cool, you can listen to tapes of scriptures being read if you want.
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why didn't the preaching work stop prior to 1975?
it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon either.
i raised this question before i stopped attending the meetings in the late 90's and the answer i was given was, "it has slowed down a lot and will eventually stop when the time is right".
Why didn't the preaching work stop prior to 1975? It doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon either.
I raised this question before I stopped attending the meetings in the late 90's and the answer I was given was, "It has slowed down a lot and will eventually stop when the time is right".
How come the gb doesn't come up with a time to stop the preaching work but keep talking about the end being so close? So close to what?
They just keep going and going and going and going with the end so close.
can anyone explain the jw reason for this?
plum
since being in the jw org for close to 35 years (from infant) and recently leaving i have been studying topics like the trinity because i was never allowed to before.
i'm getting so many mixed reviews from the scriptures of whether the trinity is possible or impossible.
" and john 1:18 "no one has ever seen god, but god the one and only, who is at the father's side, has made him known.
So is Jesus a source of communication or a literal word? Is he a verb a noun or an adjective?
