Bible Speaks

ARchiv@L: Not following directions though? We must respect guidelines. I shared it, then people complained so I took it down. I know Jehovah will give us everything at the right time. Agape, Bible Speaks ???

I also have that same question. How is it possible to see the invitation on the internet, before the official invitation !!
it means that if I see it on the internet, then someone else already had added it. 
thank you.

It that a Witness site? Some people are upset it's not on jw.org? Is it legit? 
Thank you, 

Where do babies come from? The Aztec answer: the 13th heaven, the highest heaven of all. It was called Omeyocan which in Nahuatl means “the place of duality.” In Omeyocan a female god and a male god – or perhaps one god with dual forms – shaped and made each baby’s soul.
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Pioneer Meeting in Venezuela Carabobo state.

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JW Literature stand in India
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A JW sister in Indonesia won’t let a little water stop her from preaching
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Very excited to be part of the International Campaign for the Memorial Watchtower Magazine, April 11, 2017

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Happy doing cart witnessing near a pharmacy
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Doomsday Clock Inches Closer to Midnight – Now 2.5 Minutes
Thu, 01/26/2017 - 10:29am34 Commentsby  Seth Augenstein - Senior Science Writer - 
@SethAugenstein
Photo: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 
The world has inched closer to global disaster, according to the latest update to the Doomsday Clock.
The Clock was advanced 30 seconds forward this morning, to “two and a half minutes to midnight,” during the annual Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The reason was continued nuclear proliferation and climate change, after it had remained at three minutes to midnight for two consecutive years.
But one major factor is additional international political upheaval.
“The political situation in the United States is of particular concern,” the Bulletin board said, at the press conference and in an op-ed. “Making matters worse, the United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts (nuclear and climate).”
They cited the ascendancy of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America just last week. Ever since last Friday, Trump has been constantly followed by an aide carrying the nuclear “football,” to launch global thermonuclear war within minutes.
Trump, like past presidents, has not ruled out first use by the U.S.A.
“I’d be the last one to use the nuclear weapons, because that’s sort of like the end of the ballgame,” Trump said at a town hall on the campaign trail last March.
Russia, which interceded on behalf of Trump in the November election, has 1,800 missiles active capable of striking North America. Some 1,400 U.S. warheads are pointed in the opposite direction. 
The Doomsday Clock was founded by a group of scientists at the height of the Cold War, in 1947. At that time, the Soviet Union was still two years away from testing its own atomic bomb, and the Clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. The clock has reflected the belief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists whether humanity and the Earth are advancing toward global disaster.
Two minutes to midnight was as close as the world has ever come to global catastrophe. The last time it was set there was 1953 – and it was a response to the first thermonuclear weapons, H-bombs tested by the United States in October 1952, and by the Soviet Union just nine months later. Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, the nuclear standoff in the Caribbean that nearly resulted in global war, the clock was still seven minutes away from the ultimate reckoning. The icy relations between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. reached another peak in 1984, amid breakdown in arms-reduction treaties.
The farthest it drifted away from midnight – the metaphorical nuclear Armageddon – was 17 minutes, as the Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight in 1991.
But the Doomsday Clock has gradually advanced over the last quarter-century. Continued tensions between the U.S. and Russia never really led to the dismantling of the huge WMD stockpiles – and nations like North Korea have gradually joined the nuclear club. In 1998 alone the clock jumped from 14 minutes to 9 minutes, based on the nuclear tests of both India and Pakistan months before. Terrorism and climate change have also contributed to the step-by-step advance of the Clock.
The last advance was from 2014 to 2015, from four minutes to three minutes, as the Bulletin cited the dangers of unchecked climate change and aging nuclear arsenals that had not been reduced in years.
The Clock was only updated at times of massive changes in the international scene for decades. But the announcement of its position has since become an annual January event. 
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https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODMusicVideos/pub-jwb_201702_8_VIDEO
 
 

3 "From far away Jehovah appeared to me and said:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.
That is why I have drawn you to me with loyal love."
(Jeremiah 31:3) NWT
jw.org
 

The Bible was written over 1600 years.
It's history & prophecy are   linked to seven world powers.
Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medical-Persia, Greece, Rome, and Anglo- America.

The Bible is trustworthy & reliable & inspired of God & its message is one of hope for the end to the suffering caused by human misrule. 

16 "All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness,"
 17 "so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work."
(2 Timothy 3:16,17) NWT jw.org

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/view-bible-tract/how-do-you-view-the-bible/#?insight[search_id]=02748435-f773-4159-bbf0-8925c08f73b0&insight[search_result_index]=6

God's Witnesses in Ancient Times
Israelite parents witnessed by teaching their children about God's dealings with their forefathers 
When to instructed to observe the Passover each the people were told:
 26 "And when your sons ask you, ‘What does this observance mean to you?’" 27 "you must say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he plagued the Egyptians, but he spared our houses.’” Then the people bowed low and prostrated themselves."
( Exodus 12:26,27) NWT
Parents may also have explained to their children that when Moses first approached Egypt's ruler to ask permission for the Israelites to worship Jehovah in the wilderness:

"But Pharʹaoh said: “Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah at all, and what is more, I will not send Israel away.”
(Exodus 5:2) NWT jw.org

"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."
(Job 14:14,15). jw.org

A lot to read. Good Homework!
 

Doomsday Clock Inches Closer to Midnight – Now 2.5 Minutes
Thu, 01/26/2017 - 10:29am34 Commentsby  Seth Augenstein - Senior Science Writer - 
@SethAugenstein
Photo: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 
The world has inched closer to global disaster, according to the latest update to the Doomsday Clock.
The Clock was advanced 30 seconds forward this morning, to “two and a half minutes to midnight,” during the annual Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The reason was continued nuclear proliferation and climate change, after it had remained at three minutes to midnight for two consecutive years.
But one major factor is additional international political upheaval.
“The political situation in the United States is of particular concern,” the Bulletin board said, at the press conference and in an op-ed. “Making matters worse, the United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts (nuclear and climate).”
They cited the ascendancy of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America just last week. Ever since last Friday, Trump has been constantly followed by an aide carrying the nuclear “football,” to launch global thermonuclear war within minutes.
Trump, like past presidents, has not ruled out first use by the U.S.A.
“I’d be the last one to use the nuclear weapons, because that’s sort of like the end of the ballgame,” Trump said at a town hall on the campaign trail last March.
Russia, which interceded on behalf of Trump in the November election, has 1,800 missiles active capable of striking North America. Some 1,400 U.S. warheads are pointed in the opposite direction. 
The Doomsday Clock was founded by a group of scientists at the height of the Cold War, in 1947. At that time, the Soviet Union was still two years away from testing its own atomic bomb, and the Clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. The clock has reflected the belief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists whether humanity and the Earth are advancing toward global disaster.
Two minutes to midnight was as close as the world has ever come to global catastrophe. The last time it was set there was 1953 – and it was a response to the first thermonuclear weapons, H-bombs tested by the United States in October 1952, and by the Soviet Union just nine months later. Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, the nuclear standoff in the Caribbean that nearly resulted in global war, the clock was still seven minutes away from the ultimate reckoning. The icy relations between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. reached another peak in 1984, amid breakdown in arms-reduction treaties.
The farthest it drifted away from midnight – the metaphorical nuclear Armageddon – was 17 minutes, as the Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight in 1991.
But the Doomsday Clock has gradually advanced over the last quarter-century. Continued tensions between the U.S. and Russia never really led to the dismantling of the huge WMD stockpiles – and nations like North Korea have gradually joined the nuclear club. In 1998 alone the clock jumped from 14 minutes to 9 minutes, based on the nuclear tests of both India and Pakistan months before. Terrorism and climate change have also contributed to the step-by-step advance of the Clock.
The last advance was from 2014 to 2015, from four minutes to three minutes, as the Bulletin cited the dangers of unchecked climate change and aging nuclear arsenals that had not been reduced in years.
The Clock was only updated at times of massive changes in the international scene for decades. But the announcement of its position has since become an annual January event. 
IMG_6816.mov

https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODMusicVideos/pub-jwb_201702_8_VIDEO
 
 

Pray to a Star or to the Creator Who Will Hear You? ?? ?? ??
The vastness of the stellar creation adds infinite force and meaning to the Creator’s statement at Isaiah 40:26: “Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.” (Compare Ps 147:4.) 
The reverent psalmist was led to say: “When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have prepared, what is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and the son of earthling man that you take care of him?”—Ps 8:3, 4.
The tremendous forces that determine the relative positions of certain stars according to physical laws are indicated by God’s questions to Job: “Can you tie fast the bonds of the Kimah constellation, or can you loosen the very cords of the Kesil constellation? Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth constellation in its appointed time? And as for the Ash constellation alongside its sons, can you conduct them? Have you come to know the statutes of the heavens, or could you put its authority in the earth?” (Job 38:31-33; 
 
4 "He counts the number of the stars; He calls all of them by name."
  ( Psalms 147:4)
The reverent psalmist was led to say: “When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have prepared, what is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and the son of earthling man that you take care of him?”—Ps 8:3, 4. jw.org
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3 "From far away Jehovah appeared to me and said:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.
That is why I have drawn you to me with loyal love."
(Jeremiah 31:3) NWT
jw.org
 

The Bible was written over 1600 years.
It's history & prophecy are   linked to seven world powers.
Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medical-Persia, Greece, Rome, and Anglo- America.

The Bible is trustworthy & reliable & inspired of God & its message is one of hope for the end to the suffering caused by human misrule. 

16 "All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness,"
 17 "so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work."
(2 Timothy 3:16,17) NWT jw.org

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/view-bible-tract/how-do-you-view-the-bible/#?insight[search_id]=02748435-f773-4159-bbf0-8925c08f73b0&insight[search_result_index]=6

God's Witnesses in Ancient Times
Israelite parents witnessed by teaching their children about God's dealings with their forefathers 
When to instructed to observe the Passover each the people were told:
 26 "And when your sons ask you, ‘What does this observance mean to you?’" 27 "you must say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he plagued the Egyptians, but he spared our houses.’” Then the people bowed low and prostrated themselves."
( Exodus 12:26,27) NWT
Parents may also have explained to their children that when Moses first approached Egypt's ruler to ask permission for the Israelites to worship Jehovah in the wilderness:

"But Pharʹaoh said: “Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah at all, and what is more, I will not send Israel away.”
(Exodus 5:2) NWT jw.org

The Ark is considered the greatest of all hidden treasures and its discovery would provide indisputable truth that the Old Testament is hard fact. Its recovery remains the goal of every modern archaeologist and adventurer. Its purpose was as a container for the ten commandments given on stone tablets by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. According to the book of Exodus, the Ark is made of shittim wood (similar to acacia) and gold-covered inside and out. It was topped by a mercy seat comprising two cherubs also made of gold. It was believed to have powers due to several events, including causing the death of a man, who attempted to steady the Ark as the oxen hauling it stumbled, bringing down the walls of Jericho in one battle, and showering misfortune on the Philistines after they captured it in another. There are several speculations around the final resting place of the Ark, and whilst it would take a shrewd operator to find it, it would need a brave or even foolhardy person to open it!

"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."
(Job 14:14,15). jw.org