John 12.24to28

I hope so to. I hope those that are stubborn now will see the light again. Or that they will see it for the first time.💖Unhindered and unencumbered by the false God-dishonoring traditions of the lawless ones who teach divisions as doctrines rather than teaching the unadulterated truth about the Love of God for His Children.

If you're talking about me (I know you like to call me unrepentant and disfellowshipped and apostate even though I don't agree with you on those labels) I can't save anybody. I can only beg a person, "please, become reconciled to God!" I can supplicate Jehovah for a person with tears. I can beg Jehovah to help them. But that person still has free will, and at the end of the day, they have to make the choice. (The "day" hasn't ended yet, thankfully...)🙂 "Please, become reconciled to God!"💖

We know when Jehovah uses his holy spirit to make his Word clear to us. He does that when we ask Him to. We only have to ask Him. You say in prayer, "Jehovah, I know Jesus is right here, and he knows what these verses mean. Please, Jehovah, will you let Jesus pour out your holy spirit so I can understand too?" It's not complicated. Even a kid can do it. Jehovah is the one who is going to expose the apostates in the organization. When the great tribulation starts, everyone will know that the governing body didn't tell the truth about a lot of things.

Not just Putin, but all world leaders along with false religion that is tethered to the UN. It's not just one single entity; it will be the entire world. I was talking specifically about the last verses of Daniel chapter 11. "But reports out of the east and out of the north will disturb him, and he will go out in a great rage to annihilate and to devote many to destruction. And he will plant his royal tents between the grand sea and the holy mountain of Decoration; and he will come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him." That is talking about Putin. He is coming to his end soon "and there will be no helper for him." (When the prophesies in Daniel chapter 11 talk about a ruler coming to his end, it isn't talking about the end of the world system. It's talking about when a ruler dies or loses a battle. Putin "coming to his end" means because he will lose his war. It's not talking about the end of all human governments, as the next verse shows.) "During that time Miʹcha·el will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of your people. And there will occur a time of distress such as has not occurred since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, everyone who is found written down in the book." While Putin is losing, or "coming to his end with no helper for him", that is when Jesus takes the throne in heaven. Then the great tribulation begins. The tribulation will last 3 1/2 years. The UN will be the dominant world power for that time.

True followers will continue if they stay in union with Christ. That is the only way to be "true". Jesus said: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. He takes away every branch in me not bearing fruit, and he cleans every one bearing fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Remain in union with me, and I will remain in union with you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in union with me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing at all. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown out like a branch and dries up. And men gather those branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in union with me and my sayings remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will take place for you. My Father is glorified in this, that you keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love. If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love." Disfellowshipping is fruitless. Those men teaching such doctrines are about to be removed. We must show love in order to remain in the "vine".

There isn't any other "spiritual food" talked about in the Bible except for Jesus. He is the only "spiritual food", and that was figurative. God's Word is food for us. That whole "give his domestics food at the proper time" is just an illustration about keeping on the watch. It has nothing to do with publishing books or producing videos. The only "elder" talked about removing people from the congregation is the bad brother John talked about in 3 John: "Not being content with this, he refuses to welcome the brothers with respect; and those who want to welcome them, he tries to hinder and to throw out of the congregation." John said he was coming to deal with the situation. "That is why if I come, I will call attention to the works he is doing in spreading malicious talk about us." He said he would "call attention" to what the guy was doing. John showed that disfellowshipping is wrong. "He refused to welcome the brothers with respect." Ignoring someone is refusing to welcome them with respect. "He tries to hinder" them and "to throw them out of the congregation." What does that sound like to you? Disfellowshipping. God's Word says it is wrong to disfellowship.

People can make up stuff if they want, but Jehovah knows what His words mean. Everyone else will know too when it happens. Of course not, but they are slaves to the god of this world. Do you think Satan will save them? Satan can't even save himself. I hope those doing unrighteousness at present wake up because they are beloved. Jehovah will save them if they call on Him. There is still time, even during the 3 1/2 years of the tribulation. There is still time. Jehovah isn't like what the GB teaches.

From where I am situated, I can see that the Watchtower leadership is about to be in a train wreck. It's like watching a train wreck about to happen, and desperately trying to wake up the people and get them to pay attention but they won't wake up. Realistic view: Putin is coming to his end and there is no helper for him, per Daniel chapter 11. During that time Michael will stand up, per Daniel chapter 12 - that is when Jesus takes the throne in heaven. At that time, he will throw down the Devil. The wicked one will get the UN to attack religion. It will be quick. The Watchtower leadership will have no clue what is coming upon them because they say "we have peace and security in Watchtower land." They are going to be completely blindsided, not because they haven't been warned (because they have been warned) but because they are too prideful to listen to the lowly ones who Jehovah sends to show them the obvious in the Bible.

My dear, I think it's you who's not getting it. Disfellowshipping is a God-dishonoring doctrine. Because of this, the wrath of God is coming. The wicked ones in the organization who promote disfellowshipping are about to be removed. They are the ones contaminating the congregation by not listening to Jesus' clear instruction. They are the ones spitting on the ransom and they are the ones not obeying the commandment: the Kingly Law of Love. Jesus is going to have the angels involved in removing the wicked. It's not the elders who will do it. It's the angels. When Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon, the righteous survived because the angels protected them. When Rome destroyed Jerusalem, the righteous survived because they obeyed and got out ahead of time. When the UN destroys the Bethels, the angels will make sure the righteous ones are okay (although surely it would be less traumatic for those people to flee the Bethels ahead of time if they have any sense.)

"A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw. Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it, for the appointed time is near." The wicked are not slaves of the true God. They are slaves of other gods. Some wicked ones will repent, because they are beloved and their hearts might wake up. (I hope they wake up!) The ransom is enough for them. "‘All those for whom I have affection, I reprove and discipline. So be zealous and repent." "And the spirit and the bride keep on saying, “Come!” and let anyone hearing say, “Come!” and let anyone thirsting come; let anyone who wishes take life’s water free."

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Man-made disfellowshippings do not reflect Jehovah's justice. Jehovah's name has been reproached by the disfellowshippings. The men apostatizing are those ones ordering and carrying out the disfellowshippings. Jehovah knows which ones are being ignorant and which ones are being evil on purpose. He will let Jesus do the judging. That hour has not come yet.

Shouldn't this be in general to mean the wicked? I didn't write it. It's Jehovah's Word. He is the One who said it. The wicked in false religion, Babylon the Great, include the subset of wicked in Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah is the true God, but there are some individuals among His Name People who do things just like Babylon the Great. Zechariah chapter 5 talks about taking "wickedness" out of Jehovah's people and depositing her in "Shinar" or "Babylon" where wickedness belongs. Jesus will remove the wicked elements from the organization. He said that Satan had sowed seed of weeds among the wheat. Jesus has not removed the weeds yet. He will soon.

I wasn't alive back then, so, no.

Yes. It happened before. Isaiah prophesied that the "hail" would be the nations attacking Jehovah's name people and it happened. Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. There is all kinds of historical and archaeological evidence of that destruction. It was a "strange deed" by Jehovah. He will do it again. He said so in Revelation. The message was to the congregations.

I agree with you there. I read somewhere that some people stumbled when they read the words of Leviticus 21:18 "If there is any man who has a defect, he may not approach" as a priest. I think maybe the people who stumbled over this verse didn't realize Jehovah was aware the ancient Israelites were overly attached to physical things. They couldn't handle Moses being gone for a few weeks before they made that golden calf. They were not as a group super "spiritually" minded. If they saw a priest with any physical deformity, who knows if they'd start thinking that's how Jehovah looked and then trying to deform each other to fit in...similar to what the other nations round about did. The people were prone to bad conduct and the rules Jehovah put in the Mosaic Law were mostly to protect kids. The fact that Jehovah is not prejudiced against deformed or odd people shows in that He chose all kinds of nutcases to be anointed priests in the Kingdom arrangement. 🤪

You mean, apostasy?

Because of God's indignation against some in His organization, He is sending the "hail". Regarding hail, Isaiah 28 says... "And I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the leveling tool. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will flood out the hiding place. Your covenant with Death will be dissolved, And your agreement with the Grave will not stand. When the raging flash flood passes through, You will be crushed by it. As often as it passes through, It will sweep you away; For it will pass through morning after morning, During the day and during the night. Only terror will make them understand what was heard.” For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the woven sheet is too narrow to wrap up in. For Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Pe·raʹzim; He will rouse himself as in the valley near Gibʹe·on, That he may do his deed—his strange deed— And that he may carry out his work—his unusual work." Jehovah was talking to His Name People. "So hear the word of Jehovah, you boasters, You rulers of this people in Jerusalem, For you men say: “We have made a covenant with Death, And with the Grave we have made an agreement. When the raging flash flood passes through, It will not reach us, For we have made a lie our refuge And we have hidden ourselves in falsehood.” The hail in Revelation is talking about hail also on Jehovah's Name People. "The first one blew his trumpet. And there was hail and fire mingled with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green vegetation was burned up." The "blood" shows there are bloodguilty ones in the organization, and the "hail" will be at the beginning of the great tribulation when the figurative hail sweeps away the lies. The UN will attack false religion, starting at the Bethels, because they are the physical headquarters just like Jerusalem was a physical headquarters for Jehovah's name people in the past. The faithful ones in the organization will be okay, that's why it says only "a third" are figuratively burned up.

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What is your agenda, @Pudgy?🙂 (I thought Darby Conley wrote "Get Fuzzy"?)

Some elders aren't going to be able to take anyone's burden shortly. They are going to have their hands full with their own burdens. "The fifth angel blew his trumpet. And I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key to the shaft of the abyss was given to him. He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun was darkened, also the air, by the smoke of the shaft. And locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and authority was given to them, the same authority that the scorpions of the earth have. They were told not to harm the vegetation of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads." The locusts in Joel were the Babylonians who came to destroy Jerusalem because Jehovah's Name People were naughty. A faithful remnant survived. The locusts in Revelation are the UN who will come to destroy the parts of Jehovah's Witnesses that reproach Jehovah's name. Faithful individuals will be okay. The locusts will harm "only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads..." in other words, the fakers, the wolves in sheep's clothing. Revelation shows that the "star that had fallen from heaven to earth" is Satan. Jesus will soon kick Satan out of heaven. The locusts "have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name is A·badʹdon, but in Greek he has the name A·polʹlyon." (Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destruction. Judas Iscariot and Achan were also called "sons of destruction". The king of the abyss is the Devil. He will soon cause destruction to all religious institutions.) The elders don't know what is coming because the governing body is asleep and hasn't warned anybody. Jesus has allowed the governing body to be asleep since they wouldn't listen to Jesus' counsel about not lording it over others.

Here's some context from Second Peter to show that "the elements" and "the heavens" is talking about the organization being refined during the great tribulation... "They consider it pleasurable to indulge in luxurious living, even in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes who revel in their deceptive teachings while feasting together with you. Their eyes are full of adultery and are unable to desist from sin, and they entice unstable ones. They have a heart trained in greed. They are accursed children. Abandoning the straight path, they have been led astray. They have followed the path of Baʹlaam the son of Beʹor, who loved the reward of wrongdoing, but was reproved for his own violation of what was right. A voiceless beast of burden speaking with a human voice hindered the prophet’s mad course. These are waterless springs and mists driven by a violent storm, and the blackest darkness has been reserved for them. They make high-sounding statements that are empty. By appealing to the desires of the flesh and with acts of brazen conduct, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error. While they are promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for if anyone is overcome by someone, he is his slave." The context of the book of 2 Peter shows it's talking about in the congregation. "...the heavens will pass away with a roar, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be exposed...the day of Jehovah, through which the heavens will be destroyed in flames and the elements will melt in the intense heat! But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell." It's talking about removing the "high" authorities in the organization, the governing body. When Jesus takes the throne in heaven, he's going to clean the organization. "They revel in their deceptive teachings while feasting together with you." The leaders in the organization teach false doctrines. Scriptures in Jude harmonize with Peter's words to show it's the wolves in the congregation being talked about here. "They have followed the path of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wrongdoing." Balaam claimed to be a prophet of Jehovah, but he was just in it for the money and prominence. "They make high-sounding statements that are empty." Like "we love you very much" and fancy prophetic 1914 predictions that are bogus and not based on what the scriptures really say. The "last days" Peter talks about is similar to where Paul talked about the "last days" IN THE CONGREGATION. 2 Timothy 2 and 3 was talking about bad things going on in the organization. Peter's words about the heavens intensely hot is related to the Revelation scene here: "The second angel blew his trumpet. And something like a great mountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea. And a third of the sea became blood; and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were wrecked." The ruling authorities in the organization will be removed. They are bloodguilty in Jehovah's eyes. They will be figuratively "burned up" just like Jesus said. He said he would send his angels to remove the weeds and burn them up in the figurative furnace. "Outside is where the weeping and gnashing of their teeth will be." No longer ruling over people like worldly kings with slaves. Jesus said it would come like a thief in the night.

Interesting. Which god? Thank you for clarifying that for me. 😉 Some people "oppose the standard" because they were stumbled by those who seem to be "leaders" in the organization. "But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled." Jehovah understands when a person has been stumbled. Jehovah's really, really mad at those men taking the lead who have stumbled so many little ones. Very soon everybody will know how mad, when the first religion attacked by the UN is the one that bears Jehovah's name. Jehovah can raise up the heavy hearts - if only they would humble themselves just for a moment to ask Him! 😬🙏💔❤️‍🩹💪

Hi, @boyle! How was your day today? Did you have a nice day? Thank you. 🙂 I pray that you have strength for your daunting tasks. There is a lot of work to do.😁 Thank you for working so hard. May Jehovah bless your heart with courage and strength as you keep working in love.💞 How did your daunting tasks go? I hope they went well. I prayed for you that Jehovah would bless you with a nice day and that you would know Jesus carried out those nice things for you.

You are the one saying it.🙂