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"Give glory to Jehovah your God
Before he brings darkness
And before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You will hope for        the light...For I am with you, to save    you and to rescue you,” declares Jehovah."
Jeremiah 15:

Who is Gog of Magog mentioned in the book of Ezekiel?
When we compare all these Scriptural references about the final attack on God’s people, it becomes evident that the name Gog of Magog refers, not to Satan, but to a coalition of nations. Will this coalition be led by the figurative “king of the north”? We cannot say with any certainty. But this thought does seem to be in harmony with what Jehovah says about Gog: “You will come from your place, from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly, a vast army.”—Ezek. 38:6, 15.
Similarly, the prophet Daniel, who was a contemporary of Ezekiel, says of the king of the north: “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.” (Dan. 11:44, 45) This clearly parallels what the book of Ezekiel says about Gog’s activities.—Ezek. 38:8-12, 16.
What occurs next as a result of this final attack? Daniel tells us: “During that time Michael [Jesus Christ] will stand up [at Armageddon], the great prince who is standing [since 1914] in behalf of your people. And there will occur a time of distress [the great tribulation] 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.” (Dan. 12:1) This action on the part of God’s representative Jesus is also described at Revelation 19:11-21.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015364

Who is Gog of Magog mentioned in the book of Ezekiel?
When we compare all these Scriptural references about the final attack on God’s people, it becomes evident that the name Gog of Magog refers, not to Satan, but to a coalition of nations. Will this coalition be led by the figurative “king of the north”? We cannot say with any certainty. But this thought does seem to be in harmony with what Jehovah says about Gog: “You will come from your place, from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly, a vast army.”—Ezek. 38:6, 15.
Similarly, the prophet Daniel, who was a contemporary of Ezekiel, says of the king of the north: “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.” (Dan. 11:44, 45) This clearly parallels what the book of Ezekiel says about Gog’s activities.—Ezek. 38:8-12, 16.
What occurs next as a result of this final attack? Daniel tells us: “During that time Michael [Jesus Christ] will stand up [at Armageddon], the great prince who is standing [since 1914] in behalf of your people. And there will occur a time of distress [the great tribulation] 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.” (Dan. 12:1) This action on the part of God’s representative Jesus is also described at Revelation 19:11-21.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015364

"Give glory to Jehovah your God
Before he brings darkness
And before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You will hope for        the light...For I am with you, to save    you and to rescue you,” declares Jehovah."
Jeremiah 15:

Please post #StopJWBan 
For all the world needs learn                about  Jehovah!
"The nations will have to 
know that I am Jehovah!"
(Ezekiel 39:7).

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@Anna There is no One like Jehovah or His people! We are United! Not only will the world see this, but it will open more people interested in our work! Jehovah's Holy Spirit is a powerful force! "The nations will know that I am Jehovah!"(Ezekiel 39:7) Many others saying the same thing! 
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2012647?q=that+nations+will+know&p=par

Thanks for the pics!
I hate being a spoil sport, but most of us know no one important will read these, and if Russia has already made their mind up (which it probably has) then these letters won't budge them. However, they will know what they are about and who sent them, they will clog up the Moscow post office, they will bring worldwide attention, and most importantly, they will strengthen and encourage our friends in Russia. So I just mailed ours.

15 "gozaos con los que se gozan; Llorad con los que lloran". (Romanos 12:15.)

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#StopJWBan
Put everywhere! 
@Kurt
If you want to help about 200,000 of Russian Jehovah's Witnesses avoid being jailed on false, unjust, and absurd grounds, please join our campaign to promote the hashtag #StopJWBan across Twitter and any other social media. This would be our version of the global letter-writing campaign to Mr. Putin. You can post a suitable video (like this one), a piece from Jehovah's Witnesses websites, or anything you want to share, adding this hashtag. The more people will do it, the more likely it will appear in top Twitter trends, and this will create a powerful information wave. Ask power Twitter users and/or bloggers that you know to do the same. Don't stand apart, help us spread the word!
You may just click on this button to tweet instantly:
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Spread the word, help stop religious repressions, help #StopJWBan in Russia! https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODOurOrganization/pub-jwb_201703_14_VIDEO
 

Read up in the Insight book on "Man of lawlessness" and under anti-Christ.... to understand exactly how long this phenomenon has been around and what its way of operation would be....its MO (Modus operandi).
Important to know as Muslims believe the anti-Christ (Dajjal) will appear and he will be a one-eyed Jew (and most believe and army of 70,000 Jews). Isa (the Muslim Jesus) will come and kill the Dajjal with the sword and all these Jews. Literal warfare because they believe Jesus will come back in the flesh..... such as false Christians also believe.
I usually use Revelation 12 which shows that Jesus is already ruling ' invisible' in heaven and the "sign" of his rulership is Satan on the earth and the subsequent escalation of problems.  Jesus will fight the battle of Armageddon (not in the flesh with a literal sword but with an army of angels!)
We do not have to fight as Jesus is the one appointed to do the job.  We may be tempted to get involved but we must fully understand the MO of this man of lawlessness so we are not deceived.
Jesus warned that this man of lawlessness will appear and sit in the place of God as a god..... although this refers to false Christians (Matt 13), this same MO can also be attributed to Mohammad as he took the place of Christ and vehemently denies the death of Christ. To be a Muslim one has to believe that Mohammad replaced Jesus.
It is sad that muslims have to say PBUH (peace be upon him) every time they mention his name but they do not have such a honorary sentence every time they speak of God!

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MISSIONARIES IN GUINEA
Sign of the Kingdom Hall. Neighbors tied his sheep to the metal studs. The missionaries say that it is a nice decoration, sheep announcing the Fine Shepherd Jesus Christ and the Great Shepherd Jehovah God! 

MISSIONARIES IN GUINEA
This is the brother Joseph, responsible for carrying literature that arrives to the country, to the Hall of the Kingdom with his motorbike.

MISSIONARIES IN GUINEA
The soil of the Kingdom Hall is scrubbed with plenty of water.

MISSIONARIES IN GUINEA
In the absence of appropriate premises, is decided to hold the Assembly of circuit in the same Kingdom Hall. Quickly the brothers and sisters begin cleaning.

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The lounge is crowded. Soon those living near the Hall, are at home to a Chair or ask simply borrowed a neighbor. Now are giving the discourse of baptism, their is two candidates

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All come to witness the baptism. The majority has never seen a real baptism. All expressed amazement and excitement

5 "Let my steps stay on your tracks
So that my feet will not stumble."
(Psalm 17:5)
37 "You will make room large enough   for my steps under me;
And my ankles will certainly not wobble."
(2 Samuel 22:37)
4 "When I call, answer me, O my righteous God.
In the distress you must make         broad space for me.
Show me favor and hear my prayer."
(Psalm 4:1)
 8 "For you have rescued my soul     from death,
My eye from tears, my foot from stumbling."
(Psalm 116:8)
10 "From such a great thing as death    he did rescue us and will rescue us;    and our hope is in him that he will     also rescue us further."
(2 Cor.1:10)
18 "When I said: “My foot will certainly move unsteadily,”
Your own loving-kindness, O Jehovah, kept sustaining me."
(Psalm 94:18)
 
9 "I will walk before Jehovah in the lands of those living."
(Psalm 116:9)

16 “However, happy are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear."
(Matthew 13:16)
11 "In reply he said: “To you it is granted to understand the sacred secrets of the Kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not granted." 
12 "For whoever has, more will be given him, and he will be made to abound; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
(Matthew 13:11,12) jw.org

"The trumpeters and the singers were as one in causing one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah." — (2 Chron. 5:13)
During Solomon’s reign, music was featured in pure worship in a large way. At the inauguration of the temple, there was a full-scale orchestra, with a brass section composed of 120 trumpets.
(2 Chronicles 5:12) and the Levites that were singers belonging to all of them, namely, to A′saph, to He′man, to Je·du′thun and to their sons and to their brothers clothed in fine fabric with cymbals and with stringed instruments and harps, were standing to the east of the altar and along with them priests to [the number of] a hundred and twenty sounding the trumpets; soon as that joyful sound had gone up, “the house itself was filled with a cloud,” indicating Jehovah’s approval. 
How thrilling, how awe-inspiring it must have been to hear the sound of all those trumpets along with thousands of singers blending as one! 
Music was also used in worship by the early Christians. Of course, first-century worshippers met, not in tabernacles or in temples, but in private homes. Because of persecution and other factors, the conditions under which they met were often less than favorable. Still, those Christians did praise God in song.
SING TO JEHOVAH

I found this to be very useful, I intend to print it off and show it to my Bible Study. Thanks a lot.

"That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned." (Romans 5:12)
 

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Who Really Is Jesus Christ?
“Now when he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was set in commotion, saying: ‘Who is this?’ The crowds kept telling: ‘This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee!’”—MATTHEW 21:10, 11.
WHY did the arrival of Jesus Christ* in Jerusalem on that spring day in 33 C.E. cause such commotion? Many in the city had heard about Jesus and the extraordinary things he had done.          They kept telling others about him. (John 12:17-19) Yet, little did the crowds know that in their midst was a man whose influence would spread around the world and span the centuries down to our day!
Consider a few examples of the far-reaching influence that Jesus has had      on human history.
The calendar commonly used in many parts of the world is based on the year when Jesus is thought to have been born.
Some two billion people—about a third of the world’s population—call themselves Christians.
Islam, with more than a billion members worldwide, teaches that Jesus is “a greater prophet than Abraham, Noah, and Moses.”
Many of Jesus’ wise sayings have, in various forms, entered everyday speech. Among them are the following:
Jesus’ influence is beyond question. Yet, people hold widely different ideas and beliefs about him. Hence, you may wonder, ‘Who really is Jesus Christ?’ The Bible alone tells us where Jesus came from, how he lived, and why he died. Knowing those truths about him can have a profound effect on your life—now and in the future.
“Jesus,” the personal name of this prophet from Nazareth, means “Jehovah Is Salvation.” The word “Christ” is a title that means “Anointed One,” signifying that Jesus was anointed, or appointed by God to a special position. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011241#h=1:0-19:0

The Grandest Witness Ever! Thank you Jehovah! Your Name is truly Blessed throughout the whole earth ? 
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9 And I say “I will not mention him, nor speak again in his name”—and there is in my heart the like of a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I get worn out with holding in and cannot do it." (Jeremiah 20:9) NWT.   jw.org
“I Will Saturate the Tired Soul”
Jeremiah’s discouragement may, in part, have come from his hometown. He grew up in Anathoth. That was a Levite city a few miles northeast of Jerusalem. The prophet would have had acquaintances and perhaps relatives in Anathoth. Jesus said that a prophet has no honor in his homeland, and this was true of Jeremiah. (John 4:44) 
The townspeople went beyond being disinterested in or disrespectful of Jeremiah. At one point, God said that “the men of Anathoth” were “seeking for [Jeremiah’s] soul.” They belligerently said: “You must not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you may not die at our hand.” What a threat from neighbors and possibly relatives, who should have been on his side!—Jer. 1:1; 11:21.
Jeremiah faced far more than verbal threats from people back home. One instance centered on a notable man in Jerusalem, a priest named Pashhur.* Upon hearing a divine prophecy, “Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him into the stocks.” (Jer. 20:1, 2) 
Those words probably meant far more than a slap on the face. Some conclude that Pashhur had Jeremiah beaten or flogged with up to 40 stripes. (Deut. 25:3) 
While Jeremiah was suffering physically, people may have been jeering him and screaming abuse, even spitting on him. It did not end there. Pashhur had Jeremiah put in “stocks” overnight. The Hebrew word used suggests that the body was twisted and bent. Yes, Jeremiah was cruelly forced to suffer a painful night, probably fastened in a wooden frame.
How did such treatment affect Jeremiah? He said to God: “I became an object of laughter all day long.” (Jer. 20:3-7) It even crossed his mind to cease speaking out in God’s name. 
You know, however, that Jeremiah could not and did not do that. Rather, the divine message he was commissioned to deliver was “like a burning fire shut up in [Jeremiah’s] bones,” and he had to speak for Jehovah.—Read Jeremiah 20:8, 9.

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"Jehovah’s spirit enveloped Gideon."—(Judg. 6:34)
The book of Judges is replete with accounts of humans who “from a weak state were made powerful.” (Heb. 11:34) 
By means of holy spirit, God impelled Gideon to fight in behalf of His people. The army Gideon assembled, however, was outnumbered by the Midianite menace 4 to 1. 
Yet, Jehovah twice decreed that Gideon scale back the army until the enemy outnumbered Israelite fighters 450 to 1. (Judg. 7:2-8; 8:10)
If a stunning victory was to take place, who could brag that it was wrought by human effort or wisdom? Jehovah’s power to save is infinite. He can deliver his people from any predicament, even doing so by using those who appear weak or helpless. 
Sometimes we may feel outnumbered or in desperate straits. However, we can draw abundant guidance and reassurance from God’s Word and through his spirit-directed congregation. (Rom. 8:31, 32) 
Jehovah’s loving promises fortify our faith and convince us that he really is our Helper!    jw.org