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”Jehovah leads and feeds those in the earthly part of his organization by means of “the faithful and discreet slave” under the direction of Christ, the “head of the congregation.” w16 November pp. 14-18 If these men were “inspired”, the above statement would be true. It takes inspiration from Holy Spirit, for them to receive Christ’s direction. Spirit must be infused in the person to guide them in the way of Christ; but we have it in print, that it is not the case with the GB. 1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:24 Instead, they rely on the voting system. It once was a required two-thirds majority in favor of passing new rules or doctrine; which at least you could understand …
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Watchtower 1964 January 15 pp.63-4 Questions from Readers According to the Bible at Deuteronomy 22:23-27, an Israelite engaged girl threatened with rape was required to scream. What is the position of a Christian woman today if faced with a similar situation? Is she to scream even if an attacker threatens her life with a weapon?-M. U., United States. According to God's law an Israelite girl was under obligation to scream: "In case there happened to be a virgin girl engaged to a man, and a man actually found her in the city and lay down with her, you must also bring them both out to the gate of that city and pelt them with stones, and they must die, the girl for the r…
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My mother, little sister, and I attended three wonderful days of spiritual instructions ? Writing a caption on this amazing convention that we have been blessed with is nearly impossible since every word that comes to mind seems so poor compared to what I actually feel! ? This convention was a blessing from Jehovah. He provides exactly what we need when we need it. It reminds us that we are all like Jonah. Imperfect humans. We have the desire to do what is right but sometimes we don't get it right. But Jehovah is guiding us all the way ????? I still get goosebumps when i reflect on this convention, last day particularly. All three days were so full of Jehovah's ex…
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Two of the six residence buildings are now occupied. See what else has been accomplished. Source
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It appeared in the widely used book: You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth -1982 Were they saying she was a "hussy" back then because she was showing "knee"?
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President Trump will protect religions in the USA via this new task force.
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https://alamosanews.com/article/alamosa-resident-dead-arrest-warrant-issued-for-husband Alamosa resident dead, arrest warrant issued for husband By: Ruth Heide - Updated: 21 hours ago Recent news, here: https://alamosanews.com/article/arrest-warrant-issued-in-stabbing-death
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What is it like to be a Jehovah’s Witness family in Ireland? 'It is a very joyful life and we are very, very happy'
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A 30-ish, I would guess, reporter attended one of this year's regional convention, this one in New Orleans, and wrote some reasonably nice things about it. He didn’t fall upon his face and do a Zechariah 8:23 – ‘We will go with you people, for we have heard that God is with you people’ – but considering his non-religious reporter background, I’ll take what he did write and thank him for it. You don't have to quibble over every little thing. Since I have time on my hands, and no, I was not notified by an attendant (guard), let me see if I can respond to a few things he raised. His words are in italics. Mine in regular font. The Jehovah's Witnesses' Annual Convent…
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Anastasia Makivich says: "I'm new here. I was baptized at our regional convention 2018, Saturday -7th July. It was the day I will remember forever. I'm glad to be one of Jehovah's servants Thank you for sharing your Video you are welcome! Welcome our dear sister Anastasia  ? .•*¨`*•..¸???¸.•*¨`*•. ?
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The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a Florida trucking company after a former driver sued the company for religious discrimination. The lawsuit accused the company of retaliatory action after denying the driver Sundays off work to attend Jehovah’s Witnesses services. On July 27, the appellate court panel affirmed a Middle District of Florida district court’s decision to award Indian River Transport summary judgment for alleged religious discrimination against Bobby Walker, a former driver. Walker resigned after what he felt was retaliation from the company for requests for all Sundays off work. Walker filed the lawsuit against Winter Hav…
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Waits several thousand years before destroying Satan. But the Bible says god is not slow? Please explain.
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The Farley Road Kingdom Hall sold recently for some serious coin. https://www.mlslistings.com/property/ml81703019/16769-farley-rd-los-gatos-ca-95032/8884933 http://markstevensen.com/IDX/16769-Farley-Road-Los-Gatos-CA-95032/81703019_REIL/0005606 This was a rare triple Kingdom Hall with a duplex on the property typically used for traveling overseers. It appears this Realtor has been busy. He sold another Kingdom Hall in a nearby city (Menlo Park) back in Dec 2017. https://www.mlslistings.com/property/ml81685442/811-bay-rd-menlo-park-ca-94025/8713375
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An article in The Sunday Times, a British national Sunday newspaper and 'sister' paper to The Times (that only prints from Mon to Sat). The Sunday Times has a circulation of around 720,000-copies each Sunday making it Britain's largest-selling 'quality press / broadsheet' Sunday newspaper.
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This afternoon (Saturday) was our weekend meeting, and the public speaker said that at the Orangeburg, SC Assembly last weekend it was said that the Brotherhood had dropped to 7,500,000 worldwide. It was my impression that we were at somewhere around 8.2 million, and growing. That means (if true) that even with several BILLION HOURS of public witnessing .... there was a net LOSS of 700,000 JWs. So, have we actually had that much decrease, and does anybody have any "official" numbers to verify what I heard today from the platform?
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What was the point in creating them in the first place?
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Bombay HC tells woman not to expose her autistic son to any faith other than Zoroastrianism The father’s lawyer alleged that the mother and a close relative had taken the son to someplace in Virginia where he was apparently exposed to another religion. Written by Sailee Dhayalkar | Mumbai | Published: July 30, 2018 The mother has accepted the condition and has given an undertaking to this effect to the court. (Express photo) About https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_Express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Express_Limited Source | Link: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/bombay-…
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Apostasy 'Kingdom Hall' Filming Location The location of the real Kingdom Hall used for the external shots in the movie 'Apostasy' is at Foundry Street, Oldham, UK (the internal shots where done elsewhere) Although the actual main KH sign is different, note how the 'meeting times' on the left-hand side of the front door looks the same! Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/oJvTKDyv1N72 Google StreetView: https://goo.gl/maps/tv548bce6ht The Kingdom Hall, which is next to a large College, has now been sold and converted into a coffee shop called.... 'Koffee Kingdom'! https://www.instagram.com/koffeekingdom/
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“Become steadfast, unmovable, always having plenty to do in the work of the Lord.”—1 Cor. 15:58."Kingdom Truth" District Conventions held in the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Canada. [2,247,486 publishers with 206 countries reporting in 1981, 3.3% increase over the 1980 service year, 43,870 congregations.] see w82 vol., pgs. 26-29. yb82-E * Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnessesw-E * The Watchtowerg-E * Awake!le * Enjoy Life on Earth Forever!You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth -1982Dwelling Together in Unity (revised)sm * The Time for True Submission to God - intended for MuslimsIn Search of a Father - intended for Hindus Photo needed... previou…
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POPE FRANCIS TRIES HIS HAND AT TECHNOLOGY PREDICTIONS A paper from the local Vatican press office, http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino.html , L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO, has reported on a speech that Pope Francis gave last month while looking out from above Vatican Square and addressing a crowd of visitors below. Most of the speech was intended as spiritual encouragement in a changing world. I'll only attempt to quote a very small portion of the article that deals with a specific technical prediction: Looking out over a crowd of persons, mostly tourists in Vatican Square, Pope Francis was no doubt responding to the sea of smartphones aimed up at …
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Learning to be trustworthy is not just for teenagers. Source
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            Satan and his false religions have been hiding GodÂ’s Sacred Name for 2,000 years! “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.” (Psalms 83:18 KJV)  This scripture is not often referred to by the religious leaders of Christendom.  The scriptures go on to say, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:3 KJV) The scriptures state what is necessary in order to be saved. “For if you publicly declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from …
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Is your dog a jw too? ?
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After more than 100 days of unrest, a full-fledged war has broken out, as they are using military weapons. Paramilitaries are on every street corner, arresting young people and killing civilians. Already 500 dead, 600 missing and 3,000 wounded. The Aid we are sending down there is for our ACTIVE brothers and sisters. Rest assured that we are not sending $ and aid to help any inactive brothers or even worse disassociated or of course disfellowshipped ones. Thank you all for your assistance and may Jehovah bless you. Jehovah's people are being taken care of
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I don’t think anyone is wishing harm to others. But I think a lot of ex JWs are (understandably) going to feel bitter because when typhoons who did kill innocent people deposited sand elsewhere, the JW org didnÂ’t mention the sadness of the deaths, just made it sound like Jehovah sent sand to help with building a Kingdom Hall, yay! ItÂ’s a disgusting attitude that I never fully realised till I got out. I remember when the Twin Towers fell, and it was announced that no JWÂ’s had been in the towers at the time. Like thatÂ’s what matters? Well I suppose everyone else was going to die at Armageddon anyway... (sarcasm). Any loss of life is sad, youÂ’re absolutely right…
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