"unverified video"
@drearyweather -
If you read the very next letter underneath that video link, the Legal Department themselves verify the video.
i have been thinking about this in relation to the directive given to elders to destroy any incriminating evidence they may have either on their pc`s ,e-mails , private notes in their possession, or notes in their witnessing bags ,etc.
to do with child sexual abuse they may still have in their possession.. isn`t that encouraging the elders to interfere with the justice system ?.
to break the law?.
"unverified video"
@drearyweather -
If you read the very next letter underneath that video link, the Legal Department themselves verify the video.
jerusalem will be trampled by the nations until the gentile times are fulfilled.
β luke 21:24 .
the bible book of luke records jesus prophecy of the last day with his parousia including the verse about the gentile times.
The context of Isaiah chapter 6 shows that Isaiah was a humble man who acknowledged his own imperfections. He wasn't going around "blaming" people for being stupid. The people were stupid of their own accord, and he was just observing it. It's the same thing that happened in Jesus' day. It happens today too.
Both Isaiah and Jesus made clear that the deficiency wasn't in the intelligence of the people who didn't understand. It was deficiency in their hearts. The people were stupid-hearted.
jerusalem will be trampled by the nations until the gentile times are fulfilled.
β luke 21:24 .
the bible book of luke records jesus prophecy of the last day with his parousia including the verse about the gentile times.
(@peacefulpete...But I do wish you well and hope you do have a "warm feeling" in your heart - π«Ά)
jerusalem will be trampled by the nations until the gentile times are fulfilled.
β luke 21:24 .
the bible book of luke records jesus prophecy of the last day with his parousia including the verse about the gentile times.
@peacefulpete, Is that what you think Jesus meant by "heart"? "A warm feeling"?
Matthew 13:15
"For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive, and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and get the sense of it with their hearts and turn back and I heal them."
(If you don't know what Jesus meant by "heart" then why do you think you know what he meant in all the prophecies? If you really think he meant "a warm feeling" then I can see why you are so off on those other things too...)
in the torah, where the need for sanctuary cities is being established, a hypothetical situation is described where a bloke is swinging an axe, and the axe head flies off and kills another bloke.
the dead man's brother is designated "the avenger" and pursues the original guy in order to kill him for being responsible for the death.
he is allowed to do so, if the original guy doesn't make it to a sanctuary city.
I don't know the details about all that stuff with Jaracz, I know there is some info on him in the CoC book, but I think the old ARC videos are quite eye-opening as to what goes on in JW-land in Australia, and it is also clear that Jehovah is with Angus Stewart in the courtroom and not Geoffrey Jackson, even if Jackson claims to be part of G.O.D. ("Guardians Of Doctrine", lolπ...)
Part 1 ARC, Day 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erWV8YnTFto
Part 2 ARC, Day 8
so after being rudely awakened by a cat fight outside (it's 3am here in the uk) and then proceeding to go outside to rescue my cats from the neighbourhood tom....... i'm now laying wide awake trying to make sense of jw "truth".
(it's all my mind does these days, the lights gone on and won't turn off).
anyway i found myself reading about the gb and came across these fellows , greenlees, chapman and chitty.
i dont usually bother to read your comments,--Easyprompt--thinking you were just another mere JW apologist bible thumper...but i was wrong !
youre just a bible thumper--of no fixed religion.
Haha! Took you long enough to figure that out...lolπ...
I am excited to share the good news that according to Bible prophecy the JWBorg/WTBT$/GB/FD$ will soon be erased by the governments! Everybody get footloose...
i have been thinking about this in relation to the directive given to elders to destroy any incriminating evidence they may have either on their pc`s ,e-mails , private notes in their possession, or notes in their witnessing bags ,etc.
to do with child sexual abuse they may still have in their possession.. isn`t that encouraging the elders to interfere with the justice system ?.
to break the law?.
i have been thinking about this in relation to the directive given to elders to destroy any incriminating evidence they may have either on their pc`s ,e-mails , private notes in their possession, or notes in their witnessing bags ,etc.
to do with child sexual abuse they may still have in their possession.. isn`t that encouraging the elders to interfere with the justice system ?.
to break the law?.
What directives for destroying evidence are we talking about? Can someone post it here?
Shawn Bartlett JW Training Video on destroying documents...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM3gbGKiFX4
2020 Email from the Legal Department expressing regret over exposure regarding destroying child sex abuse documentation in the congregations...
https://files.accessjw.org/s/yym8aNJzAqr9jEc
2012 Letter to elders telling them not to cooperate with police or secular investigators unless instructed to by the branch after calling the Bethel Legal Department...
https://files.accessjw.org/s/X2mJqM6M2ySTsxF
2012 Letter to elders telling them not to warn the congregation about sexual predators unless they get permission from the Service Department...
https://files.accessjw.org/s/DC9wK9kZ7DSNJNQ
.........by the elite in the wtbts, who then became the self-proclaimed "faithful slave.
" (sans divine interference!).
as attested to countless times in decades worth of literature.. all succeeding members were then "personally selected" by existing "slave" members.
Yeah, the WTBT$ GB/FD$ acts like a false prophet.
They have said that all other religions will be attacked first, and then when the UN/nations come after JWBorg then Jesus and the angels and 144,000 will save them. They misapply Ezekiel 38 to back up that view.
What's funny is that Jehovah is going to show that the WTBT$ GB/FD$ are false prophets by allowing the UN/nations/governments to BEGIN their attack on religious institutions at the Bethels. The studios, the Bethels, the KHs, the real estate, the investments - POOF! Gone, "like smoke", because the GB/FD$ are the worst apostates, claiming to represent Jehovah by name all the while hurting His kids and teaching falsehoods. The governments are about eat all their assets up.
(Incidentally, Ezekiel 38 isn't even talking about Armageddon or the great tribulation. It's talking about the attack of "Gog of Magog" which Revelation 20:7-10 clearly says doesn't happen until the end of the 1000 year reign.)
Jehovah hasn't changed.
Ezekiel 8:12,13
"He said to me: βSon of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each one in the inner rooms where his idols are displayed? For they are saying, βJehovah is not seeing us. Jehovah has left the land.ββ And he went on to say to me: βYou will see detestable things that are even more terrible that they are doing.β
Jehovah sees what those fakers are doing at Bethel. He will make an accounting.
Ezekiel 9:5,6
"Go through the city after him and strike...You should start from my sanctuary.β So they started with the elders who were in front of the house."
so after being rudely awakened by a cat fight outside (it's 3am here in the uk) and then proceeding to go outside to rescue my cats from the neighbourhood tom....... i'm now laying wide awake trying to make sense of jw "truth".
(it's all my mind does these days, the lights gone on and won't turn off).
anyway i found myself reading about the gb and came across these fellows , greenlees, chapman and chitty.
No, the "144,000" number is not figurative. The context and the rest of the Bible shows that it is a literal number.
There was a representative sample out of ancient Israel selected to work at the temple in a priestly capacity. They weren't any better than their brothers. (In fact, Levi was one of the sketchiest dudes in Jacob's family.) They numbered the Levites and numbered the guys in Israel and the difference in firstborn represented was made up for by a certain compensation because it had to be exact. It was a measurable number.
In Revelation, after talking about the set number 144,000 of those who serve in that specific assignment as priests in the heavenly kingdom capacity, it contrasts that to the great crowd of people "that no man is able to number".
The comparison between a set number and an amount "no man is able to number" shows the 144,000 is literal.
(Other times in the Bible something similar...Joseph interpreted Pharoah's dreams - the cows and wheat were symbolic but the "seven" was literal years. Also Nebuchadnezzar's dream that Daniel interpreted, the tree was figurative, symbolic of Nebuchadnezzar, but the seven times were seven literal years.)