how could the passover be on the same day as feast of unleaven bread?
matthew 26:17 says it was the first day of unleaven cakes/bread and they were asking where to prepare the passover.
but leviticus says the passover was on the fourteenth and the feast of unleaven bread/cakes was on the fifteenth, next day after passover.
How could the passover be on the same day as feast of unleaven bread? Matthew 26:17 says it was the first day of unleaven cakes/bread and they were asking where to prepare the passover. But Leviticus says the passover was on the fourteenth and the feast of unleaven bread/cakes was on the fifteenth, next day after passover. Was there a mistranslation here in Matthew? This is a question for believers only, please. Thank you:)
LL
put yourself in the org's position - distasteful as that is - and come up with a solution to solve the problems of not only recovering their stock market losses, but also, ensuring an increase in their dwindling revenue stream.. the major problem is, donations are voluntary (with no future guarantees) whereas pledges are compulsory - in the heart and mind of the giver!.
however, far too many will probably forget/refuse to keep up their monthly tax - with no way of knowing who is 'paying the man', and who is not.
master stroke - make plan a 100% certainty to fail in the first year, based on the 'anonymity' of the setup.
Hey Searcher,
These elders down here tried to have all of us sign out a form, stating that we would allow the society to withdraw what ever amount we had put on the forms on a monthly basis. They kept the pile of forms at the back on the literature counter so everytime we were to go an get a territory or mags, there was those stupid forms. No one bit and the forms soon disappeared. Only one is up on the back board and if we want, we have to ask for one. All the halls around here have them. I sent one to Barbara Anderson a couple of years ago. If I find the other copy, I will put it on here or maybe Barbara can put it on here.
this article is sickening, not a single word about love towards others, care for the needy or any kind act.
but since i worked 72 hours each week in a hotel restaurant, i first had to make some changes.. i asked my boss whether he would allow me to work 60 hours instead.
i next asked to be allowed to work only 36 hours per week, or 6 hours on 6 days, and that request was also granted.
He's just letting you know that if none of you behave and kiss their butts then he will make sure none of you will see your loved ones ever again because he's in charge of what's on earth (the resurrection) and in heaven (Jesus). Next they will say they have the power to resurrect. They are no different then the faith healers you see on TV. In the end you pay for it one way or another.
i did not know anything about ttatt while attending the meetings.. .
ttatt=the truth about the truth..
A few months and stopped cold turkey. Elders didn't hunt us down until nine months later to finalise the process. Had we known of this site and TTATT before they came to our door, we would have never joined. We will never be apart of Babylon the Great and that's exactly what hubby called the two elders who were sitting outside our property for three hours that morning to df us. And yes, that's exactly how they df'd him. When he tried telling them that the apostles were no longer the fds according to their doctrine, the one idiot pointed at him and called him an apostate and said he was df'd right there on the spot. They told him the apostles are most definitely the fds. Hubby walked back towards the house waving bye bye with his back towards them yelling out glad it's not you that will be my judge.
when jws come around with their articles asking "is god cruel?
", i often point them to genesis 22:2:.
2 then god said, take your son, your only son, whom you loveisaacand go to the region of moriah.
If it's to make us think then why go up on to a mountain where no one could see what he was doing? Just like Moses, no one saw what he was doing on top that mountain as well when he brought down the tablets. Just a question. Don't beat me up guys:)
when jws come around with their articles asking "is god cruel?
", i often point them to genesis 22:2:.
2 then god said, take your son, your only son, whom you loveisaacand go to the region of moriah.
Read Gen 22:5. Abraham told the attendants that he and the boy were going to go worship and then the both of them would return. They knew they they would be returning before they left for the mountain. Why else would they tell the attendant that they would return? That whole chapter is a foreshadow of the Messiah's coming(verse 13)
i am a newly unbaptised publisher.
recently i found out i need to have major surgery and the jw's tried to rush a blood card in my hand.
i was so relieved when the elders said i could not have one until i was baptised.. but they rushed to get me copies of the blood videos.
Don't know how you got a blood card if your not baptised yet. There was an unbaptised publisher in our hall who had two elders go over to her home and watch the blood video with her. They couldn't do any more for her because she wasn't baptised. It was sad for she was roughly seventy years old and has cancer. All she wanted was to make sure when she goes into the hospital that one of them would be by her side. The one elder who watched the video with her was on the hospital liason committee and even he said he couldn't go in because she wasn't baptised. I thought that was just sickening. What was wrong with just going in as a supporter or just a friend? Yet when it came to my worldly fleshly brother who was about to die, his jw wife had her circuit overseer and an elder from the hospital liason committee by his bedside until he pulled through. By brother had been out of the religion for over twenty years and then this happened and now he's back in it. Shit for brains!!!!!!!
Wishing you all the best with your surgery,
LL
when i saw this article's title in the latest kingdom ministry - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/278822/1/june-2014-kingdom-ministry-km-06-2014-pdf - i was delighted!!.
i thought, "at last, we are all being encouraged to visit our poor brothers & sisters in nursing homes, who feel abandoned!.
nope, that's not it - it's all about targetting non-witnesses in those establishments, and get them to sign up for "bible" studies.
For sure it's about the money. They've had 100 years plus to do this type of work and didn't do it. They need their wills. And yes most are mentally or physically disabled to a degree. I have never seen a jw even pull their parent or aging parent out of the old folk homes and bring them to a meeting. Only one in our hall brought his grandmother a couple of times to a meeting until he was made a ms and then that stopped. The nursing home is right next door to the kingdom hall. They don't care about the elderly ones in the halls now. Their lucky if they even get a hello. This just sickens me to no end.
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
If these elders dare to knock on my door to encourage me to come back I will tell them "wish I could afford to go, maybe someone can pay for my seat or glad I don't have to go for the year since I'm all paid up." I wonder if the hall is all paid up for the year, if these goons will even care if people are at their meetings. It's all about the dollar. Next the other contribution boxes will be taken down and they'll have to pass a resolution for that. Then the lunchroom will disappear, washrooms and then the building. I would pay to never have watchtower exist or their wicked rules!
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
It's a wait and see game with nothing to lose. I've already lost all my family and friends so this is just pure entertainment. Not worth the blood pressure going through the roof. Nothing is in stone yet!
I wouldn't lay it past the elders if that were to happen with them going over their income taxes. (I realize that it's not in stone yet so chill out and please no name calling) I remember an elderly sister who lived alone and all her kids are living in the US. The elder was taking her into the second school to discuss what she could afford to give for donations as well as to go over her will. Later on her one son came up to visit her and said to me how he couldn't understand how this elder was in charge of her will and bank account. He was mad. That sister is in a home for the elderly with both her legs off and no one to visit her. Not even that elder! It's all about the money and for sure I can see the society targeting old folks homes so they can prey on them next.
