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Is Russia clamping down on Jehovah Witnesses? BBC News
Russia’s Supreme Court has begun hearing a government request to outlaw the Jehovah’s Witnesses and declare it an extremist organisation. The justice ministry has already placed its headquarters near St Petersburg on a list of extremist groups.

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@The Librarian Got two more videos if you want them? ???

How many of you love your husbands? ha ha ha.. Very Funny ? ????
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There was a group of women gathered at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with your husband.
The women were asked, ‘How many of you love your husbands?’
All the women raised their hands.
Then they were asked, ‘When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?’
Some women answered today, some yesterday, some didn’t remember..
The women were then told to take their cell phones and send the following text to their respective husband: I love you, sweetheart.
Then the women were told to exchange phones and read the responding text messages.
Here are some of the replies:
1. Eh, mother of my children, are you sick?
2. What now? Did you crash the car again?
3. I don’t understand what you mean?
4. What did you do now? I won’t forgive you this time!!!
5. ?!?
6. Don’t beat about the bush, just tell me how much you need?
7. Am I dreaming? ???????
8. If you don’t tell me who this message is actually for, you will die today…!!!
9. I asked you not to drink anymore!!
and the best one
10. Who is this?

@Queen Esther The motto of the story is this for success in a marriage: First Love one another, Communication is essential, and a three-fold cord with Jehovah most important! There also must be forgiveness openly between two, husband and wife.
@Dr Ira Byock, MD states in his book; "The Four Things That Matter Most"
Four simple phrases, "Please Forgive me," "I forgive you," "Thank you," "I Love you". If we practice these life-affirming words in our day-to-day lives it not only will improve our emotional well-being, bring more Love and respect between Husband and Wife. It gives us also wisdom to honor others, and what we really want from those who really matter to us. 
Of course Jehovah will also Bless a three-fold cord with him that shows their Love and Devotion to Him and each other. 
Hope this helps? ????

@Queen Esther When we become perfect that is wonderful! Satan is attacking families and marriage. Good words, love and care and communication are what the Bible teaches. We have the Owners manual, yes, I enjoyed this book. It is a national best seller. I am a open minded person and share and encourage as many as I can. There is nothing in this book against the Bible, I've been able to help others learn much. We can all decide when we need research on matters of happy communication, it's not something we learn easy. Personalities can be very different and our protection yes is God's Words. Thank you for your thoughts, I enjoy sharing and communicating and this book also helped me. Agape, ???

@John Lindsay Barltrop Did I read on Russia that material was put in KH's by the Russian Orthodox Church? In the statement that means she's in hot water too?! It might mean soooon to get rid of Babylon the Great? What a "swift pitch" that would be? Politics and Church is ready to disagree some more of course. But think a minute, who puts in the thoughts to destroy Babylon the Great? I know you know. It could be instantly! Think on that one? Good night from USA. 
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@John Lindsay Barltrop Did I read on Russia that material was put in KH's by the Russian Orthodox Church? In the statement that means she's in hot water too?! It might mean soooon to get rid of Babylon the Great? What a "swift pitch" that would be? Politics and Church is ready to disagree some more of course. But think a minute, who puts in the thoughts to destroy Babylon the Great? I know you know. It could be instantly! Think on that one? Good night from USA. 
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But how do we know that the name didn't come from Queen "Esther" or the fact that eggs have cholESTERol?
In any case, I think that eggs should be OVOIDed.

@JW Insider   J O K E R...... 

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@AllenSmith Interesting! Mystical I did read in my links also. Do you have the link where this is from? Thank you for your research. People really don't understand what all this means. Through the ages and different countries we still see how false ideas even continued to be taught. Are we not happy to know the Truth of God's Word? One day, all these false teachings will be gone! Let God's Kingdom come!
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@AllenSmith Interesting! Mystical I did read in my links also. Do you have the link where this is from? Thank you for your research. People really don't understand what all this means. Through the ages and different countries we still see how false ideas even continued to be taught. Are we not happy to know the Truth of God's Word? One day, all these false teachings will be gone! Let God's Kingdom come!
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@John Lindsay Barltrop I love that song too! We have a beautiful future. Thank Jehovah and His Beloved Son! ?? Have a wonderful day! Off to my meetings here. Keep your eyes ? on the prize. ???

EASTER—FERTILITY WORSHIP IN DISGUISE
Promoted as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection, Easter is actually rooted in false religion. The name Easter itself has been linked to Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn and of spring. And how did eggs and rabbits come to be associated with Easter? Eggs “have been prominent as symbols of new life and resurrection,” says the Encyclopædia Britannica, while the hare and the rabbit have long served as symbols of fertility. Easter, therefore, is really a fertility rite thinly disguised as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection.*
Would Jehovah condone the use of a filthy fertility rite to commemorate his Son’s resurrection? Never! (2 Corinthians 6:17, 18) In fact, the Scriptures neither command nor authorize the commemorating of Jesus’ resurrection in the first place. To do so in the name of Easter, therefore, is to be doubly disloyal.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102008072
Yes, Easter is not a Christian Holiday as you see, what does the Christ have to do with colored eggs? I have a funny picture but maybe you'd wouldn't like it? It just shows us there is no Christ in Easter. 

@The Librarian The picture gives it away with being red and crosses on them? Have you read anywhere these are used in Greek Orthodox Churches?  ??

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17:07 , 09 April 2017   TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN: Jehovah's Witnesses called an ambulance for the Justice Ministry
AUTHORGrigory LurieBishop Doctor rides, he goes through the snowy plain, 
Powder healing people, it's lucky. 
A man and a cat will take that powder, 
And sadness will recede, and longing will pass ...
In this favorite song of Uncle Fyodor (who still does not know it, please google the video "Man and Cat"!) The hope of the doctor does not have time to come true, but the door of opportunities is still open. In the real biography of the real Fedor Chistyakov everything turned out even more difficult, but after a few turbulent years, he was in a place where he managed to stabilize. And a few years later - to return to the concert activity. And this is the place in which he is still and still - the very thing where people have taken the informal self-name "witnesses". And formally - "Jehovah's Witnesses".
Jehovah's Witnesses are not only a religious phenomenon, but also a social phenomenon. And as a social, for my taste, they are much more interesting. They are an ideal test provocation for hidden infections of political regimes.
Infected regimes of the twentieth century reacted to the "Witnesses" almost the same way and almost instantly:
"In their numerous publications ... they mock the state and the church, maliciously distorting the biblical illustrations. Their methods of struggle are characterized by a fanatical impact on their followers ... "
This is a quote from the classics of the genre - the decree of the Reichspresident, at that time Paul von Gindeburg, "On the Protection of the German People and the State" of February 28, 1933. It was only the second month of Hitler's rule. Within a year of this decree, all the religious organizations of the Witnesses in the Third Reich were banned. Compare (I quote from the same article):
"... under the guise of studying the doctrine and performing religious rituals, encroached on the rights of citizens, urging them to abandon public activity, from their political rights, and also prompted them to refuse to fulfill civil obligations imposed by the Constitution of the USSR and other Soviet laws."
This is 1984 (I miss Stalin's time and Khrushchev's persecution of religion for obvious reasons).
Such a stormy reaction to test provocation is a sure sign of the infection of the political regime. What kind of infection has our state now picked up? The question is not why our Ministry of Justice has never been distinguished by strong political health, but only about why it is right now that it is straight so covered? Here comes this to the Supreme Court and says: "And forbid me to here a whole religion! And, by the way, then later, when you forbid, take away all the property from her. "
The court is not used to deny the Ministry of Justice. But it's one thing - when something is more correct to understand what is legally required, and another - when the respected client, and suddenly ... In general, yes, this is the most: "The doctor is going-going ..." He must be in time!
The court is wasting time. This is the stage that we see now. The court is not enthusiastic about the prospect of letting the Russian state jump on the same hummocks that even the much more serious regimes of Hitler and Stalin did not pass.
Unlike the Justice Ministry, the court does not associate particularly close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. This is for the ROC, Jehovah's Witnesses - a strong competitor: 170,000 "witnesses" - comparable to the number of active parishioners of the ROC, that is, only ten times less.
But the ROC would not be able to inspire the state persecution of "witnesses", if officials did not decide that "witnesses" to all strangers and everyone are disgusted. It turned out that "witnesses" were strangers, yes, but only in the religious sense. And humanly, no. The current braking of the court is, I think, the result is not so much the expected protests of human rights defenders, as the unexpected protests of Christians and some of the Muslims. Religious people realized that an attack on "witnesses" is an attempt to breach the legislation on freedom of conscience to further reformat it under the ROC as state religion.
Obviously, this will not only concern religious people. "Witnesses" have not phoned our apartments for a long time already. But do we need calls instead of them at the door from the people's squad of the local deanery of the ROC?

But he was pierced+ for our transgression;+
He was crushed for our errors.+
He bore the punishment for our peace,+
And because of his wounds we were healed.+
 -  Isaiah 53:5. (700 years earlier)
 
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“Observe Intently” Jehovah’s Handiwork: Jesus encouraged us to “observe intently the birds of heaven” and to “take a lesson from the lilies of the field.” (Matt. 6:26, 28)
Doing so can deepen our faith, instill confidence in the Creator, and build appreciation for Jehovah’s wisdom, saving power, and love.
Rather than be unduly distracted by the works of this world, make the time and effort to observe the wonders of Jehovah’s creation, and reflect on what it tells us about our God.—Ps. 19:1.
19 "The heavens are declaring the glory of God; The skies above proclaim the work of his hands." ( Psalms 19:1) NWT Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single drop waterfall by the volume of water flowing over it. Located on the Potaro River in the Kaieteur National Park, it sits in a section of the Amazon rainforest included in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana and claimed by Venezuela as Guayana Esequiba. It is 226 metres (741 ft) high when measured from its plunge over a sandstone and conglomerate cliff to the first break. It then flows over a series of steep cascades that, when included in the measurements, bring the total height to 251 metres (822 ft). While many falls have greater height, few have the combination of height and water volume, and Kaieteur is among the most powerful waterfalls in the world with an average flow rate of 663 cubic metres per second (23,400 cubic feet per second).
Kaieteur Falls is about four times higher than Niagara Falls, on the border between Canadaand the United States, and about twice the height of Victoria Falls, on the border of Zambiaand Zimbabwe in Africa. It is a single drop waterfall.
Upriver from the falls, the Potaro Plateaustretches out to the distant escarpment of the Pakaraima Mountains. The Potaro River empties into the Essequibo River which is one of the longest and widest rivers in South America and the longest river in Guyana.
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Kaieteur Falls is a very large waterfall which lays on the  Potaro River,  Kaieteur National Park in Guyana (not to be confuse with Ghana which is in Africa). Kaieteur Falls drop from a staggering height of 225 meters (more than 4 times the height of Niagara  falls). These falls are not the tallest in the world but the joining of  the water volume & the height of the drop – together these qualities makes it to be one of the most  powerful waterfalls anywhere on the globe.
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Isaiah 60:22 Says:
The little one will become a thousand
And the small one a mighty nation.
I myself, Jehovah, will speed it up in it own time.
This Bible promise have fulfill in Jehovah's Orpanization.    HOW?
Just 7 brothers started Jehovah's Witnesses, but today, let us see how many they are now.
2016 Grand Totals of Jehovah's Witnesses.
* Branches of Jehovah's Witnesses: 89.
* Number of Lands Reporting: 240.
* Total Congregation: 119,485.
* Worlwide Memorial Attendance: 20,085,142.
* Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 18,013.
* Peak of Publishers in Kingdom Service: 8,340,847.
* Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 8,132,358.
* Percentage of Increase Over 2015: 1.8.
* Total Number Baptized: 264,535.
* Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 459,393.
* Average Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 1,157,017.
* Total Hours Spent in Field: 1,983,763,754.
* Average Bible Studies Each Month: 10,115,264.
* Special Pioneers, Missionaries, and Circuit overseers Worldwide: 19,818.
After looking at all this increase, we can be sure that, Jehovah is really working hard to speed up the work of his people.
Since we know this;
May all of us, young or old, keep on "having plenty to do in the work of the Lord!"
Thank You.
In the photo, Me and some of my fellow friends of Jehovah in Australia, Nigeria, Philippines, and USA.
From your fellow friend of Jehovah, Brother Kingsley.
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Heavenly halo lights up the Arctic -
OUR FATHER IS THE FATHER OF CELESTIAL LIGHTS, WHERE THERE IS EVERY GOOD GIFT AND PERFECT PRESENT! - DON'T FORGET HE IS WITH US! WHO WILL BE AGAINST US? NO ONE IN HEAVEN OR EARTH ~
Now you need to read the rest of the story! ~
(James 1:17) . . .Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the [celestial] lights, and with him there is not a variation of the turning of the shadow."
Atmospheric optics turn sunlight into a celestial display as seen from Summit Station in Greenland on Oct. 14. Ed Stockard, one of the workers at the federally funded research station, says the display includes a halo, sun dogs, an upper tangent arc and more. "My eyelashes froze together, and my cheeks were getting nipped pretty good," Stockard writes.
By Alan Boyles
Is this heaven? No, it's Greenland — lit up by a dazzling display of refracted sunlight.
These pictures are from Ed Stockard, who's part of the team at Summit Station on the peak of the Greenland ice cap. The research facility, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, serves as an observation post for the complex interactions between the atmosphere and one of the world's biggest reservoirs of ice.
The station is also an observation post for sky phenomena ranging from the northern lights to sun halos. And judging by his Flickr photo gallery, Stockard is getting an eyeful this season.
But there's more than meets the eye: Over at the Atmospheric Optics website, Les Cowley points out 11 separate optical phenomena that are on display. The combination of halos, arcs, sun dogs and a sun pillar has earned Stockard's Arctic scene a place as the Optics Picture of the Day.
You don't have to live in the Arctic to see the sun's weird effects. In midnorthern latitudes, this time of year brings misty days, and even some days when ice crystals hang in the air. That's prime time for halos, sun bows and moon bows, fog bows and more.
Cowley's website guides you through all the magic that the air can provide — and for still more examples of that magic at work, click on the links below.
 
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/__utma=238145375.993224729.1347141046.1350878253.1350917302.7&__utmb=238145375.3.10.1350917302&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1350878253.6.4.utmcsr=nbcnews.com
 
 
 

Does your love for others and yourself reach beyond miracles?
Love is a true quality of God and His image.
We are made in God's image. Display it more to others? Now that is the miracle.
God Jehovah shows His miracles every day to us! 
Branch out your love? He is to us in so many ways, His Son was the greatest miracle of all!
His creation reminds us all around us...nothing is without us being in awe!
Love is a Tree from which grow Miracles.
Every Branch is an Inspiration.
Every Leaf is Beauty at its most Profound.
Life is a Tree of Love and those who Embrace the Natural Beauty of its Spirit will Blossom into Bliss...
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