so jesus said in acts 1:8 .... you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you,+ and you will be witnesses+ of me in jerusalem,+ in all ju·deʹa and sa·marʹi·a,+ and to the most distant part* of the earth.. .
witnesses of jesus and not jehovah.
so i was a witness for years.
In verse 7, he also told them to stay away from time-related predictions, speculation, prophecy. "it is not given to you to understand time, that the father has put in his own jurisdiction", so:
preach about Jesus, if you must, but:
leave time alone, it is the latter day forbidden fruit. the father has put time in his own jurisdiction. Even Einstein struggled with it, and on and on.
ok, so i don't know if this is "old news", and if this has been seen, and or mentioned already.
if it was, i do apologize, but i feel i have to mention what has been seen on tv, within the past 24 hours.. first off, i would like to say that i did not personally see this commercial.
however, it was seen by someone that i can verify 100% is telling the truth, as it was my own father who saw it.
when the ambulance chasers advertise with: "are you a JW that raped a child? " I would be really worried about the numbers, because there is good money to be made in defense too.
actions and consequences of lot’s wife vs. actions and consequences of david.
genesis 19 talks about how sodom and gomorrah were destroyed.
david under any law: yes, under the law of moses crime: adultery and murder consequence: nothing but blessings from god.
Even before David had Bathsheba brought to him, he had already broken the 10 commandments, by [visually] coveting his neighbour's wife,
David is wt's favoured character too, getting away with murder, it is easy, if you have the army to protect you.--so: wt's mistakes are excused too, because the top brass can make no mistakes that have no meaning, after all, God has put them place and not removed them.
my mom, while pregnant with me, was one of thousands of jw volunteers to work on the construction of this once beautiful assembly hall in south florida circa 1984. it had a beautiful pond, waterfall, and even a resident alligator.
many remember it as well for it's huge plaster murals on the walls showing scenes of paradises.. pics as it was before (sorry for the low quality, struggled to find good pics of the auditorium as it was, if you have any good ones, do share them):.
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I remember feeding the "resident alligator" there. It all looked like paradise a lot, but it was not, the critter was a carnivore.
while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.
i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.
does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.
dis-appear? The various appointed "servants, overseers" in the congregation.
Eph. 4:11-- gave some as shepherds, teachers--13. until we all attain to the oneness in the faith, and the accurate knowledge--"
If the purpose of the teachers and shepherds is the perfecting of individuals the flock, their tenure, is limited, to the time until that is achieved.
i have seen some discussions related to the "kingdom" book, and the recent studies, but, i didn't see the one pertaining to the second chapter of the "kingdom" book.
i may have missed it.
if i have ...mea culpa.. chapter 2, paragraph 29 & 33.
baker: "#9-- the only channel for dispensing spiritual food. Since 1919, the glorified Jesus Christ has been using that slave to help his followers understand God’s own Book-- ( yesterday's wt study. )
The spiritual food that the f&d slave dispensed in 1919 was: " The world has ended, Millions now living will never die, ." so to help us understand that:
the wt slave predicted then, that there would be > 2 000 000 ~100 year old jws now? If Armageddon came in the next 3 years? if not, will the OS, Great Crowd have to start overlapping too? some help that is.
This lying omission F&DS self promotion stinks. Eigenlob stinkt.
next time a jw says that to me, i will ask him to read the following from "what does the bible really teach":.
watchtower itself uses this illustration.
so why is it that they throw apostates out of the congregation?.
so, Jackson testifying in Australia was not speaking as a part of the F&DS? or the GB? not in quorum?
Today's study , Nov 2016 page 15, par 7 was interesting; The first century Governing body, (that was not then the faithful & discreet slave) meeting in quorum? and par 10, " - Jehovah rides on this chariot,--" boy that is a jerky ride these days,
been reading this site for awhile now.
i have had a long and often tragic life as a jw.
my story is so long because i'm pretty old :) i feel sad i've been locked in fear and guilt for my entire life.
Welcome, do not forget the words to "not lose your first love" of "The truth about the truth". I have been baptized for 60, was nearly of the perfect man baptism age (<30), started to wake up at the 1960s, superior authority flip,
my advice: get a good grip on real life, make your time/ life experience the "now", count. come to term with the truth, that you should live a quality life now.
''i liked it better 2000 years when i preached in synagogues,in the fields,by the sea,in the temples,on mountaintops and valleys.now,i've been reduced to making small talk and handing out leaflets to our summer convention titled,''remain loyal to jehovah.''.
''this stupid convention is 80 miles away,3 full days in the middle of summer,bagging your own lunch,paying for hotel and food,and ''making sure you do not reserve seats.''.
'' i hope no one answers the door.''.
why do you knock on doors? before you left, you could just walk in without even opening them *** and where is your i pad?
*** to convince the doubting house holders aka Thomases? we have a very hard time doing that by knocking. it is like knocking our heads against a wall.
next time a jw says that to me, i will ask him to read the following from "what does the bible really teach":.
watchtower itself uses this illustration.
so why is it that they throw apostates out of the congregation?.
The world is the wonderful place it is, because of kids like this, and institutions that have helped budding geniuses. On average, pupils will always produce better results than their teachers, otherwise we would be still swinging in the trees.
Apostates will always have the very ideas that will appear as wt's new light in later publications. (at least as examples of more mirth)
This illustration is used to freeze any advanced thinking in the new recruit's (bible study's) mind.
