Topics Started by raymond frantz

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Live long and prosper: WT JULY 2025
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"now more than ever, we need to focus on our hope.

because we are living in 'the last days' and we all have problems that are 'hard to deal with.

' (2 tim.
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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
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Memorial attendance
by Balaamsass2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
curious.

what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?
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What is really Babylon the great?
by Halcon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for believers of god and christ, it seems that it should be obvious that babylon the great of revelation should be all religions and spiritual practices associated with the one true enemy of christ...the devil, satan, the snake etc.

essentially any group or individual practicing and promoting witchcraft, sorcery, devil worshipping etc.

all things practiced in ancient babylon (the nation presumably used as the model for the one in revelation).. or is this too simple of an explanation?.
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WT June '25: Why Can't We Turn Studies Into Baptisms?
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/t_mpdwsqpy0?si=okf4bsfsqfed0szp.

study article 27 under the title :"help bible students to take a stand for the truth" paragraph 1 *did you have reservations about becoming one of jehovah’s witnesses?

perhaps you were afraid that your workmates, friends, or family would turn against you.
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WT June 2025: We Are Not Blind We Just Don't Know
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/7xumqjq3zfc?si=ivcg96t4dtgze4ft.

so this is from the brand new watchtower study edition of june 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title: modestly accept what you do not know, a let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “read matthew 24:36. we do not know when the end of this system of things will come.

even jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ he later told the apostles that jehovah, who is the great timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority.
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3 Changes The Watchtower Made on Babylon The Great in the Last 6 Months
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.

for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.

any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.
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Memorial Talk Training Video 2025 - Part 1
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/4upzvonzg10?si=1bdvv6qzcuj2fo6s.

oh, the joys of being one of jehovah’s witnesses, where you get to learn that heaven is a vip lounge for exactly 144,000 people—and sorry, everyone else, you're stuck in the “earth forever” section.

yep, you get to mow grass in paradise while the chosen few float around in immortal glory.
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Will They Change the Memorial Talk This Year?
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/o5almnehew4?si=kdgrjgbiutjkvcxe.

i’m hoping the memorial talk will be different.

change the talk!
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Why GB Distorts the Story of Job
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/lpwusxk8ckc?si=d4nb1ciwccql8dox.

a man, like new gb member jody jodele, dripping in wealth—$20,000 rolex, freemasonry ring, cushy life in upstate new york—pontificating about job’s suffering.

it’s a fair jab to question how someone so detached from hardship might approach a story of utter loss.