John 12.24to28

Lazarus saw Jesus, but Jesus is so much like his Father. "If you men had known me, you would have known my Father also; from this moment on you know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him: “Even after I have been with you men for such a long time, Philip, have you not come to know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father also. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? The things I say to you I do not speak of my own originality, but the Father who remains in union with me is doing his works." The Bible says that Jehovah is coming to the earth. "“I am the Alʹpha and the O·meʹga,” says Jehovah God, “the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty."

Of course they saw Him. It's only since everybody's brains are so numb now that they can't even imagine seeing Him.

What are you talking about? Like, the Hebrews going around counting sheep in heaven?

Well, @boyle, if you've got it all figured out, then why are you still so sad and angry all the time? 😕😔

The GB has taught an illusion regarding Jehovah. They have taught that God only wants to hang out with part of His family and to abandon the other part. The GB has created divisions by saying "only the anointed get to be with God." They are telling illogical lies. God wants to be with all His kids. He is not partial. Here is what God's Word says: "Man also lies down and does not get up. Until heaven is no more, they will not wake up, Nor will they be aroused from their sleep. O that in the Grave you would conceal me, That you would hide me until your anger passes by, That you would set a time limit for me and remember me! If a man dies, can he live again? I will wait all the days of my compulsory service Until my relief comes. You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the work of your hands." It doesn't say "I will wake up and know that from a distance God is watching me." It says "You will call" meaning Jehovah God. And it says "I will answer you" meaning Job, and every human on earth alive then, will be able to talk with Jehovah face-to-face, just like Adam and Eve did in the garden (remember they hid "from the face of Jehovah".) It says that Jehovah will long for the work of "His hands". He wasn't far away from them in the garden. When Jesus woke Lazarus up, he said "Lazarus, come out!" Lazarus heard his voice. Then they hung out together. Here is what God's Word says: "For I well know that my redeemer is alive; He will come later and rise up over the earth. After my skin has thus been destroyed, While yet in my flesh, I will see God, Whom I will see for myself, Whom my own eyes will see, not someone else’s." Job was not "anointed to go to heaven in the kingdom government." He talked about being resurrected as a flesh-and-bone human here on earth. He said "while yet in my flesh, I will see God," and "whom I will see for myself," and "whom my own eyes will see, not someone else's." How much more clear can it get? (It's not an illusion. God's Word is rock solid. Praise Jehovah.)

Some people think there is no map and a compass wouldn't help at all, but they're wrong. Even though human behavior seems to have no logic, everything falls into place when we put Jehovah first. (That means talking to Him First. About everything. Not just relying on what others say. He can give us the Right Angle, even when we feel frustrated and lost. He has a better viewpoint, and perfect navigation.) "Search for Jehovah while he may be found. Call to him while he is near. Let the wicked man leave his way And the evil man his thoughts; Let him return to Jehovah, who will have mercy on him, To our God, for he will forgive in a large way." Sometimes when we've done really bad things, we think Jehovah could never forgive us. We feel really low. But Jehovah's thoughts are higher in love. His ways are higher in love than what we can imagine. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, And your ways are not my ways,” declares Jehovah. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So my ways are higher than your ways And my thoughts than your thoughts." Humans may seem illogical at times because of imperfection, the world may seem random and illogical at present, but Jehovah is never illogical.

@boyle, is this what it's like in your mind sometimes?...

Here is a reality: "The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. Into it the righteous one runs and receives protection."

Jehovah is not an apostate or disfellowshipped. Jesus is not an apostate or disfellowshipped. They are the ones doing the judging. "However, brothers, concerning the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you not to be quickly shaken from your reason nor to be alarmed either by an inspired statement or by a spoken message or by a letter appearing to be from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here." (Like saying: "1914! The kingdom is here!") "Let no one lead you astray in any way, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. He stands in opposition and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, publicly showing himself to be a god." (The governing body says they are gods, sitting in "Bethel" which means "The House of God".) "Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is acting as a restraint, so that he will be revealed in his own due time." (The angels have been acting as a restraint against the destruction of false religion, but not for much longer.) "True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who is right now acting as a restraint is out of the way." (The angels will let go of the restraint - then the UN will attack. The nations are already hungry for it. They've been held back until now.) "Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence. But the lawless one’s presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved." (Lying signs and wonders, as if they have God's backing for the things they do that are against the scriptures, like building manors for clergy who don't work secularly.) "That is why God lets a deceptive influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness." (They believe the lie that they will not be attacked when false religion is attacked. They are saying about themselves "we have peace and security" just like the rest of Babylon the Great who says "I sit a queen, I will never see mourning.") "Now as for the times and the seasons, brothers, you need nothing to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. Whenever it is that they are saying, “Peace and security!” then sudden destruction is to be instantly on them, just like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and they will by no means escape. But you, brothers, you are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you as it would thieves, for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to night nor to darkness." "Jehovah said to him: “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done in the city.” And to the others he said in my hearing: “Go through the city after him and strike. Do not let your eye feel sorry, and do not feel any compassion. Old man, young man, virgin, little child, and women you should kill off completely. But do not go near to any man on whom there is the mark. You should start from my sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were in front of the house. Then he said to them: “Defile the house and fill the courtyards with the slain. Go!” So they went out and struck down people in the city. While they were striking them down, I alone was left, and I fell facedown and cried out: “Alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Are you going to destroy all the remaining ones of Israel while you pour out your rage on Jerusalem?” So he said to me: “The error of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great. The land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Jehovah has left the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.’ But as for me, my eye will not feel sorry; nor will I show compassion. The consequences of their way I will bring down on their own head.” Then I saw the man clothed in linen with the inkhorn at his waist bringing back word, saying: “I have done just as you have commanded me.” Jehovah has not changed. Who are the "elders in front of the house" today? Where is the "sanctuary"? You are the one who knows. "Bethel means the House of God." It's not my word. It's Jehovah's Word. Jehovah is the One who tells us what is Real and what is an Unreality. He is the only one who can give a truly accurate assessment. What does He say about those who put worship of men ahead of worship of God? "Look! All of them are a delusion. Their works are nothing. Their metal images are wind and unreality." "The people who make them will become just like them, As will all those who trust in them." It's not my word, it's Jehovah's Word.

None of us can see perfectly. "Now to me it is of very little importance to be examined by you or by a human tribunal. In fact, I do not even examine myself. For I am not conscious of anything against myself. But by this I am not proved righteous; the one who examines me is Jehovah. Therefore, do not judge anything before the due time, until the Lord comes. He will bring the secret things of darkness to light and make known the intentions of the hearts, and then each one will receive his praise from God." We do our best to understand the illusions we see, the vision that comes back to our eyes and brain and gets interpreted as "reality" based on the knowledge we already have...but Jehovah sees the true hearts. It's only by means of His Word that we can "see" anything at all in truth. He has perfect vision. Though we are flying blind, His Word helps us fly with an accurate instrument reading. (Otherwise we wouldn't know anything at all.)

A mirror today is basically made of glass right? "But wisdom—where can it be found, And where is the source of understanding? No man recognizes its value, And it cannot be found in the land of the living. The deep waters say, ‘It is not in me!’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me!’ It cannot be bought with pure gold; Nor can silver be weighed out in exchange for it. It cannot be bought with gold of Oʹphir Nor with rare onyx and sapphire. Gold and glass cannot be compared to it; Nor can a vessel of fine gold be exchanged for it. Coral and crystal are not worthy of mention, For a bagful of wisdom is worth more than one full of pearls. The topaz of Cush cannot be compared to it; It cannot be purchased even with pure gold. But from where does wisdom come, And where is the source of understanding? It has been hidden from the eyes of every living thing And concealed from the birds of the heavens. Destruction and death say, ‘Our ears have heard only a report of it.’ God understands the way to find it; He alone knows where it resides, For he looks to the ends of the earth, And he sees everything under the heavens. When he set the force of the wind And measured out the waters, When he made a regulation for the rain And a path for the thunderous storm cloud, Then he saw wisdom and explained it; He established and tested it. And he said to man: ‘Look! The fear of Jehovah—that is wisdom, And to turn away from bad is understanding.’” "a good heart" (Better to have a heart of wisdom than a heart of glass...)

"For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, and he goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he is. But the one who peers into the perfect law that belongs to freedom and continues in it has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; and he will be happy in what he does."

Poor George! Sounds like he got some things Upside Down (like some people do regarding God's love...🤪🙃) I guess we all get some things upside down sometimes.🙂🫶

I'm not afraid to say that I ratted out @Moise Racette once when he was that Australian reincarnation. I don't care what you say for the most part @boyle, but I do share some of what goes on here with my kids, and I don't like when you call me anything in the drunken sailor vocabulary range. Call me an apostate, blasphemer, ugly, cross out my words, whatever, I don't care. But I will press the "report" button if you start using foul mouthed potty-words. I know you'll just come back in another profile anyway, so it's not like you really get "zapped" for good. (Funny, does the Admin have that same coffee cup? I know Moise likes coffee too. Hmm.) How about a coffee break? "Composed probably between 1732 and 1735, the cantata is essentially a miniature comic opera that tells the story of a disgruntled father, Schlendrian, who argues with his caffeine-obsessed daughter, Lieschen, about what he perceives to be her bad habit of indulging in too much coffee." (Bach and the Coffee Cantata loc.gov) (Lyrics: https://www.good-music-guide.com/reviews/044lyrics.htm) (Pretty hilarious story, not my cup of tea really, since I quit coffee and drink tea now, but funny nonetheless. "Coffee break" music, lol.)

Dogs are cool. I've never had a Siberian husky. We've had a dachshund, a Plott hound, and right now we have a terrier mix. We just took her for a walk. A Tripp Trail Trip. Want to join us? (We saw a bunch of miracles. There are rainbows in the dark - rainbow trout down in the dark of the brook where no one can see them. We didn't see any today on our walk, but we have other times. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not there.) Some people think I'm a pest. I must admit, I do bug people sometimes. Even bugs can walk on water, with God's help. He helps me "walk on water" (figuratively speaking) every day. I know He does that for a lot of people. Did you know that wintergreen berries can survive the whole winter and still taste refreshingly minty and crisp the next spring? We didn't eat any today, but we did on our last hike. Jehovah can make things endure even after a season in the cold. This whole system of things has been a trip. We'll get through it. Jehovah is taking the lead. He'll get us through the days ahead. Miracles do happen. "And Abraham named that place Je·hoʹvah-jiʹreh. This is why it is still said today: “In the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided."" "This is the message that we heard from him and are announcing to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him. If we make the statement, “We are having fellowship with him,” and yet we go on walking in the darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. However, if we are walking in the light as he himself is in the light, we do have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." "The one who says he remains in union with him is himself under obligation to go on walking just as that one walked." "But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and is walking in the darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes." "I rejoice very much because I have found some of your children walking in the truth, just as we received commandment from the Father." "And this is what love means, that we go on walking according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should go on walking in it." "No greater joy do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth." The real way to "be free in 2023": "But when one turns to Jehovah, the veil is taken away. Now Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom. And all of us, while we with unveiled faces reflect like mirrors the glory of Jehovah, are transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, exactly as it is done by Jehovah the Spirit." "Keep on speaking and behaving in such a way as those do who are going to be judged by the law of a free people. For the one who does not practice mercy will have his judgment without mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment." "Be as free people, using your freedom, not as a cover for doing wrong, but as slaves of God." Because "a live dog is better than a dead lion". (By the way, Jehovah God is the Best Master.🌿🌳🌲🌱🦮 He's given all of us joy while we've endured this entire dark season.💖) Tripp Trail Trip.mov

(I did do transcription online for work for a little while, lol...) Take the red pill. The truth one. (The God of Truth is the source of truth. He's got better qualifications than any dog doctor anyday...) It's got chocolate coating to make it go down easier. (Dogs don't do well with chocolate usually, but there are exceptions with miracle pills.) Miracles do happen. ☺️ Praise Jehovah. (Nothing is impossible for God. "With God, all things are possible." Jehovah Causes To Become. And He Always Wins! 😁)

Like "Scarlett O'Hara", some people make a spectacle for a Purpose or Cause that has no true love for them. Unrequited love and Non-Right Love Triangles. How sad. Scarlett's dad told her the only thing worth "fighting for" is land. He was wrong too. Love is the only Agenda worth "fighting for". Thankfully, our weapons are not physical... "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things. For we are overturning reasonings and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God..." What the exJWs do at the Capitol...will it change the heart of the governments? No. The government doesn't love them. Never will. However, Jehovah can change the heart of the government when He wants to... "A king’s heart is like streams of water in Jehovah’s hand. He directs it wherever He pleases." "For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, yes, to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished." It's not wrong to share truth, and the proposed signs on the free2023 website definitely share truth. Jehovah loves them, those exJWs who have been hurt and who care about others. They care because Jehovah cares, and their love and their abhorrence at the injustice reflects Jehovah's love and Jehovah's abhorrence at the injustice. Jehovah says, "Vengeance is mine. I will repay." Jehovah shows in His Word that He is going to allow the nations to be used as the rod of punishment against all false religion. At the end of the day, it will be clear how Jehovah feels about everything going on in the organization bearing His Name. "Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth, as in heaven." Jesus is coming to clean up the organization bearing God's name. All the "chaff", those who exalt themselves over others while telling lies about God (like the governing body does for instance) and any others who misuse their authority to lord it over others as "benefactors" they will be removed if they refuse to repent. If they refuse to change and repent, they will be "gone with the wind." "His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor completely and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with fire that cannot be put out." Jesus will gather back all the real little sheep, including those little sheep who are currently residing in exJW-land. He knows where they are, and who they are. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" "My bones were not hidden from you When I was made in secret, When I was woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes even saw me as an embryo; All its parts were written in your book Regarding the days when they were formed, Before any of them existed." The One who can read the DNA can read the heart too. He covers all the negative parts with the absolute value of the ransom blood. Problem solved. God's Love, "it's the only thing that lasts." "Before the mountains were born Or you brought forth the earth and the productive land, From everlasting to everlasting, you are God." God's love is eternal. Praise Jehovah🥰

Whether you're using "SOH CAH TOA" and division or whether you're using "SHO CHA TAO" and multiplication, the answer for the sine of 30 degrees for a right triangle is always going to be the same because of the universal law regarding right triangles. If you get a different answer than 1/2, it's not because the law changed. It's because of operator error. Maybe you made a miscalculation somewhere, maybe somebody gave you the wrong angle, maybe your calculator's broken, maybe you didn't have enough coffee that morning, whatever. "God is Love." Is there "cognitive dissonance" in the congregation? It's not because the universal laws changed. Jehovah is still God. "God is Love." There is cognitive dissonance because of operator error, miscalculation, by the governing body and others. They gave the wrong angle. That's why things don't add up. There's no need to get out a shotgun and blow up the calculator, or to burn the paper, or to claim "there must not be a Triangle" just because of operator error. Just wait. Right triangles haven't really changed. Neither has somebody else I know... He said: "I am Jehovah; I do not change." Because "God is Love" hasn't changed, we can be confident He will fix it. It's not complicated. We have love because He has love. If we would fix it, He will fix it. A good parent knows how a good parent thinks. He's the Best Parent. For those who can see truth, it's only because the God of Truth gave it to them, because their heart is in harmony with His heart to that degree. "God made man in His image." The mirror is a little hazy right now, but it will be made clear in time. Wait for it. (It's worth waiting for.) "Love never fails. But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially, but when what is complete comes, what is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a child. For now we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face-to-face. At present I know partially, but then I will know accurately, just as I am accurately known. Now, however, these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love." Praise Jehovah, the One who is drawing all Lovers of Truth, because of His Love for them.💖

Your general statements are prima facia delusional. Several DOZEN times I have asked you for specifics, and you ALWAYS choked. Regarding truth and finding answers... "certainly because of his bold persistence" "So I say to you, keep on asking, and it will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking, it will be opened." "So follow the way of good people And stay on the paths of the righteous, For only the upright will reside in the earth, And the blameless will remain in it. As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous will be torn away from it." (Wait for it. The answers always come eventually.🙂)

You are the one pushing their hate, you described it very well: "GB-hate and a twisted understanding of the scriptures focused on" their "own" GB "ego/interpretation". They are a danger to the congregation, as you will soon see when the UN attacks the Bethels and the GB did NOTHING to protect the sheep there, because the GB are spiritually asleep. You yourself have said it. The GB are anointed and they believe themselves to be privileged or special and they are intelligent. You are the one pushing their hate and twisted understanding. Your actions speak louder than your words.

Every time you open your mouth you spew bitter hate. You think you are righteous to do so when the bible clearly shows that God is the judge of all. So I leave it at that. You still have time to repent. (Is there an echo in here?)

@Arauna, you just exposed your own heart. I do not believe myself to be privileged or special. I know how low I am. You are the one showing hate and you just told me what is in your own heart when you opened your mouth. When I put the little "thank you" icon (I don't know what those things are called, the little up or down arrows or smiley icons you can put on a post...) on your info about the UN changes, I put the little "thank you" icon because I thought it was nice you were willing to "talk" on the same thread I'm on, since I've been labeled as belonging to a caste too low for most "Jehovah's Witnesses" to condescend to talk to. I thought that was brave of you considering the flack you could get for it, and I thought it was motivated by love. So I wanted to say "thank you". I didn't watch but a few seconds of those videos you posted, and I think it's nice you are interested in Bible prophecy, but I would recommend you take your own advice and stick to the Bible instead of rants by worldly media sources. I do not hate the men on the governing body. I love them and I wish they would turn around. I have written to them more times than I can count, and it's motivated by love. I already told you before that I swallowed down every teaching of the GB and it wasn't until after they "disfellowshipped" me that I opened my eyes and realized that a lot of what they were selling isn't in harmony with the scriptures. Jesus foretold there would be wheat and weeds in the congregation. Some of what the GB teaches is wheat, and some is weeds. I don't know if you've noticed, but I like to talk about "love" a lot. You showed some love by being willing to comment on the same thread as me, since I am currently viewed as the lowest caste of society by any "Jehovah's Witness" in "good standing" and you could get some flack for that from the other scribes and Pharisees. I think you are brave for doing that - most "Jehovah's Witnesses" wouldn't do that, they have too much fear. Good job throwing out fear. You would do well to acquire some more love so that you could see even more clearly. Competition and pride do not make for clear reading glasses. I don't need your approval to serve Jehovah. I will speak the words Jehovah gives me regardless of your inaccurate opinions or undeserved reproach. Someday you will apologize. I forgive you. It appears to me the only one showing bitterness or hate here at present is you, but you can change that if you want to. "@boyle" and "@Pudgy" are just putting on a wrestling match for entertainment purposes. Speaking of U 2 and entertainment...

Now @boyle, you know very well that Putin isn't Satan (although he does work under his jurisdiction.) Anyway, we already wrote to Putin a few years ago in 2017...no need to write to him again. Bible prophecy shows his time is short. "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." (Did also get to message the UK Parliament people too...)

I don't know about any of that stuff, @Space Merchant, I just know what the Bible says. The UN will attack all religious institutions. The US/UK will be involved in precipitating that event. Jehovah is the One who tells the finale from the beginning. He uses witnesses to tell what He's going to do. We have to bear witness to the truth, even to those in high stations. They will have to know that He Is Jehovah. It's going to be really awful for the 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation, but God's Love and love for each other will get us through.

Hope you have a lovely day, @boyle!🥰