Jack Ryan

WASHINGTON DC – President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and their wives attended Thursday evening meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Washington D.C. The surprise appearance of the first families of the US drove many others to the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Though their visit was unannounced, ushers, preferably called ‘attendants’ by the religious organization received the Trump, Pence and wives and offered them front row seats. Trump was seen shaking hands with almost the entire congregation after the service and also picked copies of the groups publications ‘Watchtower’ and ‘Awake!’. White House spokesperson told the media present that “the surprise visit to the meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses is to console all its members across the globe over Russia’s ban on its activities”. The presence of the dignitaries were acknowledged during the announcements segment of the service but Trump did not give a speech at the service. Trump connection to the Jehovah’s Witnesses came to public after his in-law Jared Kushner purchased the religious group’s buildings in Brooklyn. Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on April 20, 2017 that the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization should be closed down and no longer allowed to operate legally in Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling, which affects more than 100,000 Jehovah’s Witness worshippers across Russia, is a serious breach of Russia’s obligations to respect and protect religious freedom. https://www.bamstrend.com/52904.html

I see this brother all over Facebook denouncing apostates. Is he one of the anointed ones?

I see this brother online a lot over the past few years and I'm wondering if he is officially sanctioned by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society? Here is his website where he uses our official kingdom melodies etc as background music? http://www.fiskilis.gr Just curious.

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They started out with a $3,500 carry-over but by the end of the day they were short $25,000. The speaker eloquently beseeched the audience to go the ATM machines and give their generous contribution or at least their widow's mite. After the sessions were over, our friend who attended walked from one end of the assembly hall and then to the other end and noticed long lines up to both machines with people who couldn't wait to run up their credit cards. Later in the car, even his hard-core JW wife mentioned that she wondered how it cost that much for a one-day assembly in a building that was fully paid for. I'm guessing maybe a paedophile lawsuit happened during the interval.

These are the 8 designated party conventions for 2017. They are for those who know they are special and get to go expenses paid and for those who are willing pay dearly to feel special. They are guaranteed to be blessed with a visit from a GB member. Some will be featured on JWTV. To emphasize the exclusivity, only certain countries are invited to each convention. The countries that get invited usually only get one choice. For example the Japanese can only go to Indonesia. But some get two choices, like Russians, who can choose Indonesia or Kazakhstan. Croatians can drive to Vienna or Milan. But Americans got invited to all 8 parties. Are you "special" enough to be chosen?

Would you have followed this man? Watchtower 1941 Sep 15 p.287 "Why, then, should a man who has the prospect before him of being of the great multitude now tie himself up to a stack of bones and a hank of hair?" (Applause)" This was a quote from J,F, Rutherford in a convention talk. Vindication I (1931) pp.156-157 "The women make monkeys or dupes of men. The men have become effeminate, soft and easily influenced, and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home. For instance, when men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby elevate her to a place above men. The men remove their hats upon entering an elevator, if a woman is present; and these things are said to be acts of respect and to show that a man is a gentleman. But it is subtle, and the real meaning is much different from that. It is a scheme of Satan to turn men away from God and from his announced rule of the proper position of man and woman. The Lord has declared that no effeminate man shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. (1 Cor. 6:9) This proves that the scheme or habit of paying homage to women is not of God, but from the great enemy of God. It is a veneer of being a proper thing, and therefore it is more subtle than otherwise." Golden Age 1930 Apr 2 p.446 "Whether the identity of the sexes, as such, will be preserved, we do not know. There have been some well authenticated instances in which women have been transformed into men, and it is possible that this transformation may become general and we shall all be brothers together." Skip to 36:31 Children of the King by JF Rutherford

Remember a few years ago Watchtower literally 'siezed' all individual congregation bank savings around the world above what was needed to cover basic kingdom hall monthly expenses? A new March 30, 2017, BOE letter has just gone out to congregations in Spain, which, more or less, explains that congregations bank account funds no longer entitle congregations to reduced banking fees. (See copy of actual paragraph below.) The letter asks "What is the cause?" Note that the very next sentence does not actually answer the question but rather makes a general comment on what the reader already knows about the world of finance. It says "As you know, sitnificant changes have taken place in the overall financial situation." It does not explain what these changes are. It could be anything. The rest of the letter explains that 1,900 individual congregational bank acoounts, which were drained of funds, no longer qualify for zero or low fees. As if the JWs in Spain don't have enough problems as it is. March 30, 2017 TO THE BODIES OF ELDERS, CIRCUIT OVERSEERS AND ASSEMBLY HALL SERVANTS THAT HAVE ACCOUNTS IN BANCO BBVA Re: New Agreement with BBVA for 2017 y en español: 30 de marzo de 2017 A LOS CUERPOS DE ANCIANOS, SUPERINTENDENTES DE CIRCUITO Y SIERVOS DE SALONES DE ASAMBLEAS QUE TIENEN CUENTA EN EL BBVA Asunto: Nuevo convenio con el BBVA para 2017 March 30, 2017 TO THE BODIES OF ELDERS, CIRCUIT OVERSEERS AND ASSEMBLY HALL SERVANTS THAT HAVE ACCOUNTS IN BANCO BBVA Re: New Agreement with BBVA for 2017 30 de marzo de 2017 A LOS CUERPOS DE ANCIANOS, SUPERINTENDENTES DE CIRCUITO Y SIERVOS DE SALONES DE ASAMBLEAS QUE TIENEN CUENTA EN EL BBVA Asunto: Nuevo convenio con el BBVA para 2017 CONDICIONES DE SERVICIOS BANCARIOS PARA TESTIGOS CRISTIANOS DE JEHOVÁ HQ getting a kickback from the bank for having all congregations using the 1 bank, while congregations are paying the fees? just a thought

Seems that, so far, only one source mentions JWs.... Following are Google Translated (into English) links: http://www.framtidinord.no/ntb/innenriks/2017/03/31/Drapssiktet-fremstilles-for-varetekt-i-Steinkjer-14528768.ece http://www.innherred.no/nyheter/2017/03/30/Far-i-60-%C3%A5rene-d%C3%B8de-i-Steinkjer-14529836.ece http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/krim/steinkjer-drapet-drapssiktet-soenn-paagrepet-i-naboens-hage/a/23963572/ http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/mann-24-siktet-for-a-ha-drept-faren-sin-i-steinkjer/67445413

Google translate: The Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses April 1, 2017 TO ALL MEETINGS Theme: Using the Synodal Translation of the Bible in New Conditions Dear brothers! From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for your active participation in the campaign to write letters. Your participation in this campaign was a clear testimony of brotherly love in action (1 Peter 2:17). At the same time, we realize that the most important thing that we can do to support our brothers facing persecutions is to offer our prayers to Jehovah for them.(Read 1 Timothy 2: 1--4.) As already reported, the Ministry of Justice wants to impose a ban on the activities of the Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. If the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decides to ban, this will negatively affect more than 175,000 of our brothers and sisters, on their honorable duty to carry God's words from door to door. Perhaps opponents think in this way to hinder the preaching work, but our main tool is the Bible, and we can participate even more diligently in the preaching work (1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 6:17). Although the translation of the New World has helped us for many years to better understand the truth and carry the message of the Kingdom of God to other people, but in the new conditions that have arisen in Russia, we must start using the synodal translation of the Bible again. This is necessary to avoid accusations of distortion of God's word from the world of Satan and discourage our opponents until the verdict of the Supreme Court. Your brothers, A copy of the district overseers Note for coordinators of councils of elders. Please ensure that this letter is read at the next meeting on weekdays, and also at a weekend meeting. Do not post this

Ma was in the kitchen fiddlin around when she hollars out... "Pa you need to fix the outhouse!" Pa replies, " there ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse." Ma yells back, "Yes there is now git out there and fix it." So... Pa mosies out to the outhouse, look's around and yell's back, " there ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse!" Ma replies "Stick your head in the hole!" Pa yell's back "I ain't sticking my head in that hole!" Ma says "ya have to stick your head in the hole to see what to fix." So with that, pa sticks his head in the hole and looks around and yells back, "Ma there ain't nuthin wrong with this outhouse!" Ma hollars back, " now take your head out of the hole!" Pa proceeds to pull his head out of the hole, then starts yelling, " Ma! Help! My beard is stuck in the cracks in the Toilet seat!" To which ma replies "Hurt's , don't it?!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/abxn5gc5zj2hhr6/C-20170112CO-E.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/dyam5yq6ka5fogc/tg-E.pdf?dl=0

Jehovah's Witnesses asked to hide a one-million-euro entrepreneurial hole at a Northern Spain supply firm. The cult appealed to the "peace" of the congregation to pressure the co-owners of the firm and prevent them from reporting the case to ordinary justice. The case concerns a well-known construction supplies company based in a large northern city. The company, founded in 1975, belongs to a family that has been a member of the Witnesses since it was born. When one of the parents died in 2014, one of the daughters inherited a share in society. The rest of the capital remained in the hands of his relatives. "ONE MILLION EUROS" When the citizen received the shareholding inheritance, she discovered a remarkable puff in the firm in what seemed a solvent company, according to the documents to which this newspaper has been able to access. According to the documents in the hands of several congregations of Witnesses in the northern area, the partner would have discovered the suspicious sale of an industrial warehouse and diversion of funds. Likewise, the creation of a very similar company with a similar name emerged, a redirected web portal and an identical telephone. With this stratagem, the parallel merchant would have taken the goodwill, the merchandise and the clientele. The complainant estimates that the loss caused by the alleged unfair administration totals one million euros, 400,000 euros in diverted funds and 600,000 in goods transferred to society B. THE WITNESSES SUGGEST TO BE SILENT As a Jehovah's Witness by birth, the neighbor came to the internal justice of the millenarian cult. Its first complaint of 2014, to which this newspaper was able to accede, suggested that its partners had committed fraud, unfair competition and irregular administration. The response of the head office of the denomination in Spanish Bethel was very clear. "We want to encourage you to apply the biblical principles in all your decisions and not to be carried away by the emotions," says the letter. SECOND COMPLAINT Not content with the answer, the affected ones took another step. They sent an official letter to the headquarters of the Witnesses in which they insisted on indications of fraud. In addition, they called for the creation of an internal committee to investigate what happened. Again, the leadership of the cult responded ( letter enclosed ) calling on the family to avoid ordinary justice. "Is the money and the rights, or the peace and family unity of the congregation more important to us?" asks a passage from the response letter. "We are sure," continues the letter, "that as Christians who wish to do things in Jehovah 's way you will strive to follow these and other advice." PRESSURES In the rest of the documentation, the affected people emphasize the pressures received. As the documents read, the businesswoman is affiliated with the denomination's internal justice administration circuit that has been relentless with her even though she would have delivered money to the family society when she needed it. According to the latest communication with Spanish Bethel, the citizen has now turned to the Witnesses legal department at the world headquarters in the United States to try to reopen the investigation.

A father complains that several policemen beat his 15 year old son "because the family is Jehovah's Witness and the black race" http://www.martinoticias.com/a/cuba-golpiza-menor-estacion-policia-moron-/140761.html

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338

Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Watchtower leadership in Australia testify

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