Carol Ann Torres

Warwick, NY: World Headquarters
Highlights of the Past Year
2017 Yearbook
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22 "And you will be hated by all people on account of my name, but the one who has endured
to the end will be saved."
( Matthew 10:22)
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After  the  green  parrot...  now  a  new  one  ;-)   helping  us  alot  by  preaching !
Yes,  we  know,  Jehovah  using  also  animals  for  that,  like  the  doggie  for  blind  humans...  Suddenly  we  got  a  new  Brother !
Jehovah  can  see  into  our  hearts ❤
 

Doomsday Fears Loom to a
Large Nuclear War?
One nuclear explosion can instantly obliterate a city—a somber fact that was demonstrated twice in August 1945. A nuclear explosion is horrendously powerful, destroying and killing by means of blast wave, wind, heat, fire, and radiation. Radiation also contaminates food and water. 
A nuclear war would cause tons of dust to be thrown into the air, blocking sunlight and causing global temperatures to plummet. Food crops and other plants would die. Without food to eat, humans and animals would die of starvation. Some nine countries are said to have the capacity to launch nuclear attacks. A few other nations appear to be in the process of developing their own nuclear weapons. And terrorist organizations are only too eager to get hold of them.
“Nuclear weapons remain the gravest and most immediate threat to human civilization. . . . There are still some 25,000 nuclear weapons worldwide . . 

Eventually, terrorists will get the bomb.”—Union of Concerned Scientists.
Bible’s version of what the future holds paints a more reasonable picture. According to the Bible, for a certainty, a great change is coming. But survival is guaranteed to all who do God’s will. 
Furthermore, the Bible does not foretell that the earth will be blasted to a cinder or frozen like an ice cube. It will be transformed into a global paradise.
Will the earth and the human race be destroyed?
“The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”—Psalm 37:29.
Will any humans lose their lives?
“The upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.”—Proverbs 2:21, 22.
Has God acted against ungodly people in the past?
God “did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people; and by reducing the cities Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come.”— 2 Peter 2:5, 6.
Can we know the date when God’s judgment will come?
“Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”—Matthew 24:36-39.
Though the Scriptures give us but a glimpse of what lies ahead, they assure us that humanity is not doomed. The future will be glorious beyond our ability to comprehend. You can count on that, confident that what Jehovah God has promised, he is also able to do.
How is the earth also protected?
Van Allen radiation belts (cross section)
A radiation belt is a zone of energeticcharged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind that is captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. The Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily created. The discovery of the belts is credited to James Van Allen, and as a result the Earth's belts are known as the Van Allen belts. Earth's two main belts extend from an altitude of about 1,000 to 60,000 kilometers above the surface in which region radiation levels vary. Most of the particles that form the belts are thought to come from solar windand other particles by cosmic rays.[1] By trapping the solar wind, the magnetic field deflects those energetic particles and protects the Earth's atmosphere from destruction.
The belts are located in the inner region of the Earth's magnetosphere. The belts trap energetic electrons and protons. Other nuclei, such as alpha particles, are less prevalent. The belts endanger satellites, which must have their sensitive components protected with adequate shielding if they spend significant time in that zone. In 2013, NASA reported that the Van Allen Probes had discovered a transient, third radiation belt, which was observed for four weeks until it was destroyed by a powerful, interplanetary shock wavefrom the Sun.[2]
NOW ARE YOU IN FEAR OF NUCLEAR WAR OR DEVASTATION OF OUR PLANET? 
Rest your hope in a all-wise loving Creator that will not let the righteous be destroyed or his beautiful earth be destroyed with all living things. 
God made the earth to be inhabited by humans—to be a lush, global paradise of delight, not a wasteland. Isaiah 45:18 describes Jehovah as “the Creator of the heavens, He the true God, the Former of the earthand the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited.”
God has long promised that humans who choose to obey him would reside forever on this earth in peace. Micah 4:4 promises: “They will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.” Thus, according to God’s purpose, the earth must remain eternally as mankind’s home, or else his promises would be in vain.—Psalm 119:90; Isaiah 55:11; 1 John 2:17.
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"O love Jehovah, all YOU loyal ones of his. The faithful ones Jehovah is safeguarding."
(Ps.31:23.) NWT
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"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish."
(Ecc.3:11) NWT
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Detail from the “House of Eternity” of the Royal Prince Khaemwaset, son of King Ramses III, QV44, west ‘Uaset’-Thebes:
the God Shu (wearing the feather) and King Ramses III (wearing the Red Crown with three uraei)
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‘Strengthen Yourself by Jehovah’
David’s fear of Jehovah did more than just restrain him from doing wrong. It strengthened him to act decisively and wisely under difficult circumstances. For a year and four months, David and his men took refuge from Saul at Ziklag in the Philistine countryside. (1 Samuel 27:5-7) 
Once while the men were away, marauding Amalekites burned the city and carried off all the men’s wives, children, and flocks. Upon returning and seeing what had happened, 
David and his men wept. Grief quickly turned tobitterness, and David’s men spoke of stoning him. Though distressed, David did not despair. (Proverbs 24:10) 
His fear of God moved him to turn to Jehovah, and he “took to strengthening himself by Jehovah.” With God’s help, David and his men overtook the Amalekites and recovered everything.—1 Samuel 30:1-20.
A Precious Heritage
 “Come, you sons, listen to me,” wrote David. “The fear of Jehovah is what I shall teach you.” (Psalm 34:11) 
As a father, David was intent on passing on to his children a precious heritage—the genuine, balanced, wholesome fear of Jehovah. 
By words and by deeds, David portrayed Jehovah, not as a demanding and fearsome God, ready to pounce on any infraction of His laws, but as a loving, caring, and forgiving Father of His earthly children. “Missteps who can keep track of?” asked David.
Then, indicating his confidence that Jehovah is not constantly scrutinizing our errors, he added: “Hold me clear of unnoticed things!” David was sure that if he put forth his best effort, his words and thoughts could be acceptable to Jehovah.—Psalm 19:12, 14, Byington.
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“Keep on the watch. . . because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”—MATTHEW 24:42.
Jesus gave this warning: “Keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
But know one thing, that if the householder had known in what watch thethief was coming, he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.” (Matthew 24:42, 43) So Jesus likened his coming to the arrival of a thief—unexpected.
Because we truly love Jehovah, we find the greatest delight in doing his will. (Psalm 40:8;Matthew 26:39)
And we want to serve Jehovah forever. That prospect is not less precious just because we must wait a little longer than we may have expected.
Above all, we keep onthe watch because we eagerly anticipate what Jehovah’s day will mean for the accomplishment of his purpose.
Our earnest desire to please God moves us to apply thecounsel of his Word and give his Kingdom first place in our life. (Matthew 6:33; 1 John 5:3)
Let us consider to keep  on the watch it should influence the decisions we make and the way we live our life each day.
Jesus said: “Just as the days of Noah were, so thepresence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so thepresence of the Son of man will be.” (Matthew 24:37-39)
What can we learn from that? If any of us are allowing mundane concerns—even the normal activities of life—to crowd out the spiritual activities that God urges us to keep in first place, we need to think seriously about our situation.—Romans 14:17.
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9 "For evil men will be done away with,
But those hoping in Jehovah will possess the earth."
(Psalm 37:9) NWT 
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TIME  DISCOVERS  TRUTH 
23 "And I will certainly magnify myself and sanctify myself and make myself known before the eyes of many nations; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’"
( Ezekiel 38:23) NWT
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Stand Still and See the Salvation of Jehovah
Jehovah’s Witnesses Public Talk Recording 

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8:12 "Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying: “I am the light of the world."
"Whoever follows me will by no means walk in darkness, but will possess the light."
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“For This I Have Come Into the World”
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2  Sister- girlies  ready  for  telling  the  people  about  the  everlasting  Kingdom ❤ Their  smile  is  showing,  they  want  work  it !  May  Jehovah  bless  them ;-)

Do not ignore your spiritual hunger ..,.study the Bible and get your questions answered, what are you waiting for? Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
7 "But the end of all things 
has drawn close. Therefore, 
be sound in mind, and be vigilant with a view to prayers."
(1 Peter 4:7
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People who are not happy with themselves, cannot possibly be happy with anyone else....
15 "All the days of the afflicted   one are bad, But the one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast."
16 "Better is a little in the fear of Jehovah, Than great wealth along with anxiety."
  (Proverbs 15:15,16)
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8 ....The One who turns deep       shadow into morning,
The One who makes day as dark as night,
The One who summons the waters of the sea
To pour them out on the surface of the earth—Jehovah is his name."
(Amos 5:8)
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Sometimes more is not better, it's just more....
5 "Let your way of life be free of the love of money, while you are content with the present things.
For he has said: “I will never leave you, and I will never abandon you.”
( Hebrews 13:5)
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7 "Jehovah the God of the heavens.....
(Genesis24:7)
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24 "No resident will 
say: “I am sick.”
The people dwelling 
in the land will be 
pardoned for their error."
       (Isaiah 33:24)
"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” (Rev.21:4,5)
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Lesson for today. 
19 "Truthful lips will endure forever, But a lying tongue will last for only a moment."
        (Prov 12:19)  
Be Careful of What You Plant. An emperor in the Far East was growing old and knew it was time to choose his successor. 
Instead of choosing one of his assistants or his children, he decided something different. 
He called young people in the kingdom together one day. He said, 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next emperor. I have decided to choose one of you.' 
The kids were shocked! But the emperor continued. 'I am going to give each one of you a seed today. One very special seed…. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come back here after one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed. I will then judge the plants that you bring and the one I choose will be the next emperor!' 
One boy named Ling was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly told his mother the story. She helped him get a pot and planting soil and he planted the seed and watered it carefully. Every day he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other youths began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. 
Ling kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks went by. Still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants but Ling didn't have a plant, and he felt like a failure. Six months went by, still nothing in Ling's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. 
Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Ling didn't say anything to his friends. However he just kept waiting for his seed to grow. 
A year finally went by and all the youths of the kingdom brought their plants to the emperor for inspection. Ling told his mother that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But honest about what happened. Ling felt sick to his stomach, but he knew his mother was right. He took his empty pot to the palace, when Ling arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other youths. 
They were beautiful in all shapes and sizes. Ling put his empty pot on the floor and many of the other kinds laughed at him. A few felt sorry for him and just said, "Hey nice try." 
When the emperor arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted the young people. Ling just tried to hide in the back. "What great plants, trees and flowers you have grown,' said the emperor. Today, one of you will be appointed the next emperor:' 
All of a sudden, the emperor spotted Ling at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered his guards to bring him to the front. Ling was terrified…"The emperor knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me killed!" 
When Ling got to the front, the Emperor asked his name. ’My name is Ling,' he replied. All the kids were laughing and making fun of him. The emperor asked everyone to quiet down. He looked at Ling and then announced to the crowd, 'Behold your new emperor… His name is Ling!" 
Ling couldn't believe it. Ling couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new emperor? 
Then the emperor said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone here a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds which would not grow. 
All of you, except Ling, have brought me trees and plants and flowers, when you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Ling was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new emperor."
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust. 
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends. 
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness. 
If you plant perseverance, you will reap victory. 
If you plant consideration, you will reap harmony. 
If you plant hard work, you will reap success. 
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation. 
If you plant openness, you will reap intimacy. 
If you plant patience, you will reap improvements. 
If you plant faith, you will reap miracles. 
But If you plant dishonesty, you will reap distrust. 
If you plant selfishness, you will reap loneliness. 
If you plant pride, you will reap destruction. 
If you plant envy, you will reap trouble. 
If you plant laziness, you will reap stagnation. 
If you plant bitterness, you will reap isolation. 
If you plant greed, you will reap loss. 
If you plant gossip, you will reap enemies. 
If you plant worries, you will reap wrinkles. 
If you plant sin, you will reap guilt. 
Remember your graves because your way passes over it. You will be dealt with as you deal with others, you will reap what you sow and what you send today will meet you tomorrow. 
So be careful what you plant now, it will determine what you will reap tomorrow, The seeds you now scatter, will make life worse or better, your life or the ones who will come after. 
Yes, someday, you will enjoy the fruits or you will pay for the choices you plant today. http://www.english-for-students.com/be-careful-of-what-you-plant.html

4 "They will sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one will make them afraid, For the mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken."
(Micah 4:4)
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Patterson Bethel in the wintertime
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