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What Did Jesus Say About ‘Hell’?

Posted by Brother John Jones on April 19, 2018
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What Did Jesus Say About ‘Hell’?



What Did Jesus Say About ‘Hell’?

“Jehovah’s Witnesses” teach that ‘Hell’ and ‘the grave’ are synonymous terms, that they mean the same thing, and are therefore interchangeable terms.

I know this well because I was taught this, believed it, and preach it to the public as one of “Jehovah’s Witness” the majority of my life. I began preaching this from door to door at age eight in 1959. I did so in ignorance of the real truth and because I was putting trust in “earthling man” and another human being’s reasoning ability. Christ had to cleanse my mind.

Here is the standard remarks of a “Jehovah’s Witness” about ‘hell’:

Quote:”Hell is the Grave ( the condition in which life ceases Eccl. 9:10 until such Time as The Resurrection of The Just and Unjust begins Acts 24:15. In KJV Old Testament the Hebrew word “ Sheol “ translated 31 Times Hell, 31 Times Grave, 3 Times Pit.”

“Jehovah’s Witnesses” have a habit mix things that shouldn’t be because they are things that have nothing in common with one another.

When Scripture speaks of “Gehenna”, “Lake of fire”, “Hell”, it is not referring to the common grave or state of the dead who have died the death due to original sin. ‘Hell’ is not the wages of sin as it is in the Adamic death we as humans suffer. ‘Hell’ is the wages for being wicked.

Today when most people use the term ‘hell’ they are not talking about the condition in common grave.

The word ‘Hell’ as most people use it, is not referring to common grave nor the state of the human dead from inherited sin.

We can know this for a certainty. It is IMPOSSIBLE for that to be the case because Jesus himself stated ‘who’ hell was created for and it wasn’t for humans. He refers to this state of existence as “the eternal fire”:

“Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!”

Matthew 25:41 Holman Christian Standard Bible

Jesus said that this state of existence was created for “the devil and his angels” and not a human being. So it is clear that ‘hell’ is not mankind’s resting place after death.

Why do I know Hell exist? Because Jesus said it does. Do you believe what Jesus says or do you find it necessary to modify his words to fit what you prefer to believe?

Hell exist because Christ said it does.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses” do not believe that we are ‘spirit creatures’ poured into fleshly bodies.

They believe that God’s “spirit” that is in us is basically some ‘atmosphere of energy’ or ‘air’ breathed into us by God at birth and at that then we become a “living soul”. They believe and teach that God’s spirit in us is like start up power and not a living thing…’alive’.

They refer to it as “God’s active force”.

But their other teachings certainly infer that ‘something’ survives death that can be asleep and awaken. But they deny man is a ‘spirit’ in flesh. If we are nothing but flesh with an ‘air’ of energy blown into us, then what is it that is sleeping then in death?

How do they make sense then of these words also uttered by Jesus?

“Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28

If nothing of us survives death of the body, how could his words above have any real meaning. What could possibly be a fate worse than death to an already unconscious spirit? Is the first resurrection’s purpose to wake the dead simple to inform them they won’t be being resurrected to life and to say to them “Now go back to sleep”? What purpose would that serve?

The Second Death is not Adamic death repeated.

That death is not the ceasing of our existence is clear in Jesus’ words that upon his arrival he summon all the dead from the tomb. Summon ‘what’ if nothing exist after we die?

John 5:28-29

“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.” New King James Version

“Jehovah’s Witness” beliefs about the ‘spirit’ aspect of human existence cuts off any further consideration that eternal torment in Hell is even possible.

The word ‘Hell’ as most people use it, is not referring to common grave nor the state of the human dead from inherited sin.

We know that for a certainty. It is impossible for that to be the case because Jesus himself stated ‘who’ hell was created for and it wasn’t for humans. He refers to this state of existence as “the eternal fire”:

“Jehovah’s Witnesses’ have no rational explanation of Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the wicked rich man. What Jesus said is impossible within their belief. They avoid discussion of this passage of Scripture as a result. It just doesn’t fit in to what they want to believe.

Watchtower Society disciples do not prove themselves to be disciples of Christ. “You cannot serve two masters”.

Matthew 6:24

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other;” King James Version

I am reminded of the situation between the devil and the woman Eve in the Garden of Eden and the scene of original sin.

There the devil posed a question to Eve that opened the door to Eve’s thinking independent from the express words of God. After God had unambiguously stated the penalty for disobedience to His command, the devil questioned whether it was so. It was a question that should have never been considered.

The woman Eve was even able to recite the commandment back to Satan. But the he was able to sow doubt in her mind as to whether God would really carry out what He said He would or that God even meant what He said. He asked Eve, ”Is it really so…?”

Even though Christ said Hell is real and exist, even though he states that it was created for Satan and his demons, even though he said those there will be tormented forever, even though he offers a parable of a man in Heaven and a man in Hell having a meeting after they both have died, “Jehovah’s Witnesses” do just as the Tempter did to Eve by casting doubt and confusion on something clearly stated by Christ Jesus about Hell.




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Resurrection–The Only Hope For A Future Life

Posted by Brother John Jones on April 18, 2018
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The Only Hope For A Future Life



The Only Door Into The Kingdom

The Only Hope

Hebrews 9:27

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

(KJV)

Every human must die one time.

Resurrection is the only door into the kingdom. It is the only hope the Bible teaches. Death is inescapable.

We determine what is to follow by our deeds during our lives. Which ever outcome, we will face death.

Many have falsely associated, “coming out of the great tribulation”, or surviving the tribulation, with the salvation of their flesh.

However, “coming out of the great tribulation” is about the survival of the ‘spirit’.

Revelation 7:15 states that the ones these words refer to are in Heaven, “standing before the throne of God”.

“Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”

I said to him, “Sir, you know.

Then he told me:

These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

“For this reason they are before the throne of God,
and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary.

The One seated on the throne will shelter them:”

These who, “come out” have had to have died because flesh and blood cannot enter Heaven.

In addition to that, the pattern God established only allows for anointed priest to enter the Temple Sanctuary.

The Messiah came out of a ‘great tribulation’ through enduring death. He surrendered his flesh but saved his spirit. His spirit was raised from the dead and when he returned to Heaven, he entered a brand new body.

‘Coming out of the great tribulation’ is not about the preservation of one’s fleshly body any more than it was for the Messiah. Like him, survival of the coming great tribulation or “coming out of the great tribulation” is a matter of preservation of the ‘spirit’ or the ‘real’ you.

The ones pictured in the book of Revelation as being seen before the throne of God, have come out of the final great tribulation upon the Earth in the same manner as Christ. They have saved their ‘souls’ by keeping spiritually pure and completely obedient to God’s will. They have surrendered their old fleshly bodies for new bodies in Heaven.

Its clear their survival has nothing to do with not dying nor does it have to do with humans living through the tribulation, the End, and never dying. One must come to grips with their own mortality.

Again, the Bible teaches, “all men must die one time”.

Hebrews 9:27

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”

(KJV)

It is a false expectation that you will enter the Kingdom of God and never face dying.

Where are those in union with Christ who have already died? Are they in Heaven?

The Bible states that those living at the Lord’s coming, those to pass into Heavenly life at death in “the twinkling of an eye”, would not precede those who have already fallen asleep in death.

This has led many to assume that the opposite is true. That those who are already dead get raised first.

In this way they are saying a raising to life in Heaven has already occured or is happening now.

Untrue.

The apostle merely pointed out that Christ brother alive when he arrives benefit from not having to sleep the Adamic death. But, they will arrive in Heaven simultaneously with their already deceased brothers.

Christ does not receive his ‘bride’ in bits and pieces but as a father presents a bride…whole, prepared, and fully adorned as the Bible tells us.

Remember, that Jesus said when he arrives, “all those both the righteous and the unrighteous” who sleep in death will hear his voice and rise to Judgment.

These ‘righteous’ are those call from death to heavenly life. This is the “first” resurrection. The “first resurrection will not occur until Christ returns. Therefore those who already have died in union with Christ remain asleep in death.

The rest of those who die in Christ return in a ‘second’ resurrection.




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The Tabernacle…God’s Pattern Of Heaven

Posted by Brother John Jones on March 10, 2018
Posted in: Heaven, Jehovah, Jesus, Religion, Seven Stars, tetragrammaton, Yahweh. Leave a comment



What are things like is Heaven?



Moses’s Tabernacle…A Pattern Of What Is Above

A Pattern Of Heaven

Hebrews 8:1-13 ISV

1 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven

2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this high priest had to offer something, too.

4 Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the Law.

5 They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy, a shadow of the heavenly one. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tent: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

6 However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

7 If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one,

8 but God found something wrong with his people when he said, “Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

11 Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because all of them will know me, from the least important to the most important.

12 For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds, and I will never again remember their sins.”

13 In speaking of a “new” covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.



It is good to carefully examine the patterns God gave us and particularly anyone who entertains the hope of serving above the firmament in Heaven as a priest, the pattern of the Temple/Tabernacle in particular.

We learn about the order, function, and manner of our role by studying this pattern. Hebrews chapter 8.

Moses served as a faithful steward in constructing the Tabernacle exacting according to God’s instruction and conducted Tabernacle functions ritually correct according to God’s instruction.

All Temple priest have the obligation to do so. They are highly conscious of the need of due diligence in handling their duties. To do all things “according to the pattern” God has given.

All these things being just a pattern or copy, point to something real and that reality exist in high Heaven above the firmament.

They point to the Firstborn, the only-begotten son of God, for whom all of this (creation) was created as a gift and as an inheritance.

Nevertheless, his Father required him to prove himself worthy. And he proved himself so as Hebrews 3:6 tells us he “obtained” this “special” ministry.

He was also as High Priest required to present a sacrifice. The High Priest in ancient Israel first presented a sacrifice in his own behalf and then for others. Our Lord presented one sacrifice at one time for all.

This Tabernacle and it’s sanctuary is formed of spirit creatures; Christ and the bride of the High Priest.

144,000 is a “great crowd” of people to have assembled at one time.


When John is shown a “great crowd” worshiping in the “sanctuary’, it could not have been a vision pertaining to human beings as this “great crowd” is seen “in the sanctuary” which is above the firmament in Heaven.

I have been to religious assemblies of over 70,000 attendees. I found crowds much smaller than 70,000 that I could not personally count. There were 70,288 in attendance at the Super Bowl football championship played in 2015. Imagine beholding that number of people together in one place at one time. Would you consider it to be a ‘great crowd’? Would you be able to count them?

144,000 is a number of individual persons that no one man could count alone. A city with a population of 144,000 would be considered a fairly large city. This “great crowd” is the assembly of Temple workers (the under priest class) standing in sanctuary praising God and Christ and rendering the sacred service exclusive to the priesthood.

That is why “they do not go out” (Revelation 3:12). They now reside in the sanctuary with Christ (the empty upper room until Jesus’ was resurrected to Heaven). Jesus said, “My Father has prepared a place for me and I must go a prepare a place for you”. The sanctuary (the Holy compartment) has become their permanent abode.

At both the Lord’s evening meal and at Pentecost, the Lord chose to use an empty (unoccupied) upper room. There is significance in why he did so.

Our testing is in preparation for a most honored role of service. God in His wisdom chose to have His sons that He also selectively chose be tested to prove their worthiness of such honor. His only-begotten Son led the Way.



Jesus In The Sanctuary-John’s Vision

In the Revelation to John, he is seeing Christ standing in the Holy compartment of the Temple of God in Heaven. Before Him at a distance are seven golden lamp stands which He says represent the complete congregation of those to whom He is addressing.

They are out before Him because they are human beings made of flesh and as of yet are not where He is, which is in Heaven in the Sanctuary.

However, He is seen in the Sanctuary holding seven stars.

Note that these stars are in His right hand. His right hand would have to be connected to His right arm. His right arm would then have to be connected to His body. And His body while He is addressing John is standing with His feet planted in the Temple Sanctuary while holding these stars.

These must be existing spirit creatures as they are already with Christ while He is addressing the complete congregation represented by the lamp stands before Him.

Jesus actually says they are angels.

Revelation 1:20

20 Here is the secret meaning of the seven stars that you see in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Yet many do not believe Him. Some have the teaching that Jesus is calling human men ‘angels’. But nowhere in the Bible are men referred to as ‘angels’.

These angels minister where the lamp stands are. Therefore they as mortal beings are exposed to possible corruption or failure just as human beings are. They are not incorruptible. So He also warns them of the consequences of any deviation.

There have been Holy angels serving before God’s throne for eons of time. They have a share in priestly service (as the seven in the Revelation to John) and have not been forgotten or discarded. They now answer to Christ as their Master.

As you study the Temple references in Revelation realize that it’s pattern does not fit any of those of made by human hands in the past.

The pattern of the Temple in the Book of Revelation is according to the pattern shown to Ezekiel down to the thick walls between each compartment. These various functional compartment are within the Sanctuary. All Temple functions are carried out from within the Holy and not as before All Holy attendants and utensils are all assembled in the Sanctuary before the Most Holy. These ‘compartments’ are the residing place of the chosen children of God (the elect).

God’s family at that time will have brought under His roof and into His Tent literally. His son and bride together will exist there. Their going out will be as God ‘goes out’ and that is by His Spirit. They will have inherited the attributes of the Son and the Father.

This is the Great City, New Jerusalem, seen coming down out of Heaven. The City exist within the Temple Sanctuary from which blessings will flow throughout all Creation.






Matthew 24:45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?” (KJV)



“Who Really Is the Faithful and Wise Servant?” Matthew 24:45

 

What is required?

Whom has measured up so far?

This servant or ‘slave’ can only be approved (confirmed) after being both trained in priestly service and then thoroughly tested. Jesus has said approval will occur when he returns.

While it is possible to be born in a priestly lineage, one cannot be born a ‘priest’ of God.

To become a priest, a man would have be subjected to thorough instruction and rigorous training by the High Priest.

He must learn and understand the purpose and function of the priesthood, the duties of a priest, and how to carry them out precisely according to directives given by the High Priest.

All Temple priest underwent such training when God established the priesthood in ancient Israel. That Temple arrangement is but a pattern of the one in Heaven. Hebrews 8:25

That all cannot happen in a short period of time. It takes many years of growth and development; development especially of character. It takes many years for a human to become disciplined to strictly adhere to what is required and not be self-willed or arbitrary.

During their training, there is ongoing testing to identify strengths as well as areas in which that priest in training needs to exert more effort.

God does not test with evil. But He did permit Jesus to be exposed to the devil’s test. So too for those who follow.

That is how they are proven “faithful and true” as Jesus was declared at the end of his earthly life.

Since a priest can be called on at any time to perform any of the services in the house, he must be acquainted with all the duties and all of their requirements.

As you consider the question Jesus’ question quoted at Matthew 24, imagine working in a large mansion with many floors, each floor with many rooms.

Ask yourself, to the master of this house who among his servants would be of greatest value in service to him?

It would be the servant who has become the most familiar with the house. The one who knew what should be and what should not be present in the house, exactly where is was located, the various task, and how the various systems function. The most valued house servant is the one most versatile and useful to his master.

Clearly the servant who began his service at the lowest level perhaps even sweeping the basement floor and then over time successively moving up floor by floor while taking on more responsibilities would be of most value.

This servant would have obtained a comprehensive, thorough knowledge and would be more versatile and useful to his master. This one shows proof that they have lent themselves to the masters training and preparation program. They will have also exhibited due diligence and reliability….that they can be trusted.

This servant would have obtained a comprehensive, thorough knowledge and would be more versatile and useful to his master.



No one wants a leader who has never done the job! This kind of leader speaks about what he does not know by experience. Granted, there are many of such so-called leaders in this world. They are not leaders; they are mere taskmasters pushing someone else to do labor.

This is not the example Christ set. There are no such positions in Heaven.

Everyone works in Heaven because our Father and our Lord are workers who continue to keep working and the rest of the House follows their example.

Shaking someone else like a tree and then gathering their fruit is not an offering of your own. We must bear fruit of our own and bring it forth as an offering. We must produce.

Even Christ was not a ‘born’ leader. His father felt it good that He should groom and prepare him to be the Leader of all creation. His role as High Priest is the most critical to the house of God.

High Priest is the Chief Steward of God’s House.

Jesus stressed, “He, who would be greatest in the house of God, would least”, or would be ‘lessor’ before. Luke 9:46-49

At the time of Passover just hours before he was crucified, the Bible states, “He then took a towel, wrapped it around his waist and took a lowly position washing his disciple’s feet”, here setting an example of what he meant. John 13:3-8


Jesus Christ is God’s only approved ‘Faithful and Wise Servant’ who has been consecrated up to this moment and as Head of House he has set this example for any who will to be approved in His order.


He came from the highest possible station under God of his own free will to assume a role in the lowest order of intelligent beings…human and die.

It was a dirty task in the worst of conditions and there was no possibility of coming home alive.

He humbled himself in honor of his father willingly.

His ‘house servants’ that follow must show the same love for God and His house. Jesus said, “If you want to be my disciple, you must disown yourself and pick up your cross and follow me. Remember, that that earthly journey ended at Calvary in death.

As Jesus was fulfilling his earthly ministry, he was attentive as well as patient and did not deviate from faithfully following the course God mapped out for him to follow.

He withstood torment from the devil himself and yet he maintained his integrity even to death. His servants also have been being tested by the devil who attempts to break their integrity and they as well may have to die doing so.

It was only after Jesus had completed his earthly ministry and after he had been resurrected that he received the full value of the stewardship God entrusted upon him.

Yes, it is true that he has been blessed with God’s holy spirit from his begetting and he was again at his water baptism. Yet he had to go through a training and confirmation process created and arranged God.

Who really is the “faithful steward” to whom God as entrusted ALL of his belongings?

That is Jesus Christ, for whom God made ALL things as a gift of inheritance and has given him authority over ALL things.

No one lesser than Christ has been given all-encompassing authority over Creation (all of God’s possessions).

The priestly under class of priest who will serve Christ in Heaven will have had to meet the same requirements, be thoroughly tested out over his or her lifetime, and await until after his death on Earth for confirmation as occurred with Jesus our High Priest.




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Creation– Proof There Is A God

Posted by Brother John Jones on January 9, 2018
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Proof of God’s Existence

 



The levels of required proof



Proof

Romans 1:20-21 King James Version (KJV)

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Most Bible studiers are very familiar with the words of Scriptural text above. We often observe natural creation around us and clearly see evidence that is all must have had a Maker, a Creator. We see an order that simply could not have arisen of or by itself. That is what the verses quoted above are in essence saying.


Proof of that designed order can be seen at even a deeper level of physical existence. This article will reveal that pattern of order in a way that until recent times could not be fully appreciated.


The two objects to be considered could not be compared until modern technology allowed them to be. And yet, there is a third proof to be added to these two.

From The Macro To The Micro





Above is a pictorial illustration recognizable to be the known pattern of order of the “solar system of planets that the Earth is embedded in.

It has some key distinct features that are also recognizable.

We know that at its center lies the Sun. We know that each planet has a fixed orbit that has been thus far continuous. That each orbit has but one planetary body in it.

As illustrated below, these planetary bodies have sub-planetary bodies that act in conjunction with the planets by orbiting around them.



typical moon orbit



And a closer looks reveals other physical phenomena; comets, asteroids, and gas clouds that are interwoven into the solar system of planets that act in harmony with its workings and preservation.





It is hard to believe that all of this order came from a chaotic, uncontrolled diffusion of matter.

`Order` is a controlled `Effect` that has to have a controlling Causation. Stated simply, `Order`begets `Order`.

Stated simply, `Order`begets `Order`.

There had to be a PRIME MOVER

Those who believe in an uncontrolled ‘big bang’ creation are left to answer, “What or Whom was the prime mover?”. The concept of ‘Order‘ resulting from ‘Random Choas‘ is foreign to real science.

The Solar System is the first “object” of our comparison. And now the second.



Bohr model of the atomic structure at top and bottom. Rutherford model, center



 

At the left, is what is known as the bohr model of the atom (Rutherford model also shown). As with the Solar System of the Sun, it too has some key distinct features that are also recognizable.


First, the nucleus exactly like the Sun is the center mass that the electrons orbit in distinct valence bands. Two planets cannot share the same orbit around the Sun and the same is true of electrons as they orbit the single nucleus.


With the invention of powerful ‘Super Colliders’ like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland (below), gives humans the capability to examine the atom and atomic behavior at an incredible level. Research has revealed much more activity than has been presumed. Atoms are made not only of electrons, protons, and neutrons; but, they are also made of other smaller particles that act in conjunction with or upon the larger ones.

 





The Solar System and the atomic structure compare in ways that could not be the result of a coincidence. One from our vantage point is huge and the other is infinitesimally small. Yet they are the same basic pattern in design.





While explorers have located celestial bodies orbiting other celestial bodies in other regions of the universe, nothing like the highly complex solar system of the Sun has been found. In that regard, it remains totally unique.


This certainly does not fit with what is known about the ‘random drift’ or ‘splay’ of general uncontrolled diffussion. If you were to spray water from your water spray bottle forever, you would not see this phenomena.


There is no rational explanation other than these creations are the result of intelligent creation by a PRIME MOVER.
The Prime Mover who created all things is the One and Only, Almighty God.


And a third proof of fixed order in the universe rather than chaotic diffusion of matter is the fix order of the constellations.


If the universe is the result of some unprovoked mass ejection of matter in a great uncontrolled path of diffusion, then what explains the fact that the constellations, although complex in order, maintain that established order without flying away from one another in varying directions (non pattern-splay)?

Once again, this does not agree with what is known about the behavior of diffusion from a mass uncontrolled ejection of matter into space.


What controls them and what causes them to be bound together?




The Holy Bible points to the only reasonable answer to these questions in Job 38:31-33.:


Job 38:31-32 Good News Translation (GNT);

31 Can you tie the Pleiades together
or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?

32 Can you guide the stars season by season
and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?

33 Do you know the laws that govern the skies,
and can you make them apply to the earth?

Another thing translation expresses it this way:

Job 38:31-32 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring out the constellations[a] in their season
and lead the Bear[b] and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of heaven?
Can you impose its authority on earth?


These are the words of the Creator Himself, as He reasons with His servant Job. In fact the entire chapter is Almighty God pointing to proof that there must be a Prime Controller and a Prime Mover of all things. And that is He.


Much of humankind has stubbornly rejected the clear proof of God’s existence for the very reasons stated in the Book of Romans in chapter 1 and verses 21 and 22.


Romans 1:21-22 Good News Translation (GNT)


21 They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.

They say they are wise, but they are fools; (GNT)

The similarity between the pattern of the construction of our solar system and that of the tiny atom, as well as the fixed, unchanging order of the constellations gives ample testimony to the existence of God.


Give Him the honor and praise He deserves.




PART TWO



I was taught in public school in 1960 that the solar system is an atomic structure and why.


I was shown diagrams of the solar system and the Bohr model of basic atomic structure side by side as I show in the article ‘Proof’ in an illustration. I was shown diagrams of the solar system and the Bohr model of basic atomic structure side by side as I show in the article ‘Proof’ in an illustration.


Since that time, teaching this truth has disappeared from curriculums and isn’t mentioned anywhere.


It is to cover up flaws in a big bang accidental universe. It cannot explain this order as a result of random diffusion.
The big bang was the only explanation they could think of to explain how the cosmic material got dispersed. But explosion collapse eventually. 
Evidence indicates the opposite is happening to the universe.


Basic physics never entered their minds.


What does physics 101 teach?





“A ball a rest when put in motion”…This is the beginning to understand the concept of how potential energy gets transformed or converted into kinetic energy.


That happens if the ball at rest is set in motion down a potential gradient slope. It falls some distance or height or potential drop.


So, instead of the initial mass at rest exploding, it was send down such a gradient carving it’s own path due to it’s enormous mass and momentum. Imagine a bullet being fired into a wall; a channel is made from motion and mass.


As it traveled down the slope, the friction caused from resistance to it’s forward momentum created a tremendously super-heated plasma cone that separated nuclear bonds and dispersed materials from the mass into it’s wake..the materials that make the physical universe. We are actually following the ball in what it is leaving behind as it continues it’s path forward.


This model explains why the cosmos shows signs of growth the not collapse. It is because the process is ongoing and has no reason to collapse.


The creation was orderly and it produced order. That’s why we behold order.


The big bang was all they could think of. They had a confirmation bias that excluded a truly objective search for truth. Things that disprove it are squelched and covered up.

The ‘Firmament’ and ‘Space’



Hebrew concept of the firmament above creation



Firmament is a descriptive word of Hebrew origin.


The Hebrew word for this is raqia (pronounced ra-KEE-ah). Biblical scholars understand the raqia to be a solid dome-like structure.


The Big Bang theory offers no explanation for how the space was created for an explosion to occur. How was the space produced and what is it contained within? According to the big bang approach, there is endless open space out there.


But remember, before anything occured the great mass sat at rest. It must have rested on a platform of greater strength of material in order for its weight to rest upon it. Therefore, not all is empty space. There must be a firmament above.


Examining a natural physics approach, the initial mass set in motion down a gradient would create a firmament, a substrate in a semi-softer material (similar to carbon or graphite but extremely densely dark matter) and leave substantial residual dust and debris from the carving.

That dust and debris are both heavy and they effect the disposition and placement of materials along the slope.


As it falls it creates a cascading carpet effect with internal eddies, vortexes, and depressions creating an internal ‘ripple’ effect down slope.


Motion is the ‘start up’ to energy conversion as physics 101 teaches us. And yet, it never entered the minds of scientist to put ‘motion’ into their calculus. Perhaps because ‘initial motion’ necessitates a ‘Prime Mover’ or Master Controller.

Albert Einstein’s theory regarding a “time/space continuum in operation in the universe involves a constant, (k) which is equal to ‘the angle of some fixed slope’.

Fluid dynamics play a key role in the perpetual motion of the cosmos making a time/space continuum possible.

The cascading residual dust plus the angle of slope are key how the universe is laid out like a carpet and provides a stream and direction for “time/space” to flow. It is the same principle of a stream water running continuously down a mountain side.


The Big Bang theory offers no fixed slope for a time/space continuum to exist. The explosion would propel materials in all possible directions. There would be no fixed slope and yet their diagrams mysteriously create one. Also an explosion will separate physical structures but will not separate atomic bonds or structures.



The Big Bang theory offers no fixed slope for a time/space continuum to exist. The explosion would propel materials in all possible directions. There would be no fixed slope and yet their diagrams mysteriously create one. Also an explosion will separate physical structures but will not separate atomic bonds or structures.




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Nisan 14 Sundown March 30, 2018

Posted by Brother John Jones on November 13, 2017
Posted in: Religion.


“Go to a certain man in the city,” he said to them, “and tell him: ‘The Teacher says, My hour has come; my disciples and I will celebrate the Passover at your house.’”


Nisan 14 begins sundown March 30, 2018



Nisan 14th begins at sundown March 30,2018 and ends at sundown March 31, 2018.

According to well kept records by the only people who could possibly be an ‘authority’, the Jewish people themselves, this is the night that the actual Passover took place and both Jesus and everyone else who had gathered in Jerusalem that evening where there to honor the occasion. The Bible states that Jesus like everyone else partook of the ritual Passover meal and then immediately after, instituted the Lord’s Supper.

Standard Jewish conversion calendar. Note the date corresponding to Nisan 14

Why Are The Jewish People The Only Legitimate Authority?

Paul states, “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God” (Romans 10:2-3).

The remarks Paul makes above are in reference to his own kinfolk, the Jewish nation of Israel. He knew how hard his people strive to keep the traditions of the Commandments, but could not be obedient in actually doing God’s will in obeying God’s righteous code of conduct. They substituted this kind of obedience with simply meeting the ritual requirements of the Law.

The Jewish people have been fastidious in the keeping of the ritual celebrations God commanded them to keep for thousands of years. It is their source of belief that they are pleasing the God of Abraham.

Yet the devil would have us believe that the Jewish people who have celebrated this occasion far longer than any non Jew even knew it existed, are wrong when it comes to interpreting their own calendar and when their special occasions occur.

Dating and keeping observances like the Passover is what the Jewish people have been faithful in doing for millenia.

This means that when he instituted the meal, it was at the beginning of the 14th, not the end (it was the end of the 13th, and the beginning of the 14th), and he was killed approximately 21 hours later, still on Nisan 14. After sundown began the next day, Nisan the 15th.

By the beginning of Nisan 15, Jesus had already died.

Reflect back for a moment to circumstances at the time of the literal  Passover in Egypt and how a day was considered by those given the command to observe it.

At the time God gave his Commandments to Israel, their day began with the evening beginning that particular day.

So, different from how we look at a day in which the evening is at its conclusion, the evening was at the beginning of a day.

So the eve of Nisan 14 is not at its conclusion since that eve is marks the beginning of the following day.

Note God’s instructions:

Exodus 12:18

EasyEnglish

In the first month, you must eat bread without yeast in it. Do this from the evening of the 14th day until the evening of the 21st day.

ISV

In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month, you are to eat unleavened bread.

KJVLite

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

NHEB

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

NHEB-HWHY

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

The evening of Nisan 14 is on the eve of March 30, 2018, which is why the Jewish calendar shows that date corresponding to Nisan 14 and not March 31, 2018.

God himself expressed the importance of keeping this observance according to strict adherance to His instruction. This would include its timing.

Exodus 12

“This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.”

Jesus was perfect in his obedience to God’s Law.




Similar Error In The Recent Past

Nisan 14, 2017 and Nisan 14, 2016

Nisan the 14th began at sundown April 10, 2017 and closed in the western hemisphere Tuesday April the 11th before sundown.

That can be verified by referring to a Hebrew calendar or even the Farmer’s Almanac.

Sundown April 11, 2017 started Nisan the 15th.

On the night of April the 11th 2017, Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrated the Lord’s Evening Meal the day after Passover, on Nisan 15.

If the original Israelites had done so, they would have died.

Last year (2016), Jehovah;s Witnesses around the world celebrated a full month ahead of Passover in the month of Adar II . They had their celebration on FEBRUARY 25, 2016.  Nisan 14 occurred on April 22, 2016.

Others Jehovah;s Witnesses can’t understand that Preparation day ended at sundown April 10, 2017, that Passover day began at that time, and that that is time when the Israelites locked themselves in their dwellings and quickly ate the meal. While inside that same night, God’s angel passed through Egypt but he passed over the homes that were marked with blood on their doorpost. (Foreshadowing the blood of Christ that covers and protects).

Some Jehovah’s Witnesses can’t seem to be able to tell time. And many who left the Organization because they saw them to be teachers of inaccuracies; still go to them to get information for instance, the proper time for the memorial celebration. They go to a polluted stream expecting to find clean water.




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Navigating Your Way Through Babylon

Posted by Brother John Jones on November 9, 2017
Posted in: apostasy, Babylon, Babylonian confusion, Bible Standards, faith, governing body, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, logic, mark of the beast, religion, Seven Stars, the great harlot, the two horned wild beast, tower of babel.

FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH SATAN’S LABYRINTH




Why sharpen your reasoning abilities now?

Posted originally September, 2015

Navigating Your Way Through Babylon

When you hear the words ‘Reason’ and ‘Logic’, what do you think?
Some people immediately are put off by the suggestion that we need to logically reason on matters. They somehow view logic as something foreign to “spirituality’.

The Bible teaches that God Almighty is a ‘God of Reason’. He is the One that designed us to have the capability to reason. Why would He create us with this ability if we were not to be expected to use it?

1 Peter 3:15

“But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;”

How can a person make a defense of their Christian faith unless they have based their faith on clear evidence and have reasoned on that evidence?

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.”

Almighty God himself encourages reasoning; even reasoning with Him. God certainly does not discourage a person from using the power of reason.

Isaiah 43:26

“Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; State your cause, that you may be proved right.”

Our beliefs should be tested. God challenges to us to “state our cause” and defend it.

Acts 17:1-3

“Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”

The earliest disciples of Jesus Christ reasoned with those they preached to, “giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead”. Evidence is found by ‘reasoning’ on facts.

1 Corinthians 13:11

“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.”

Paul was not satisfied with his current state of personal and spiritual growth and continued to advance through life in personal and spiritual growth. He no longer continued, ” to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child;”.

Isaiah 55:8-9

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Since God’s thoughts are “higher” than our thoughts, it should be obvious that we need to sharpen what reasoning ability we do have, in order to appreciate the higher and more lofty thoughts of God.

Romans 2:14-15

“For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,”

Using the Holy Bible as a ‘test rod’ to determine whether or not our thoughts and behaviors are consistent with the will of God, will either defend our spiritual stance or condemn it. The above Scripture also points out that reason affects everyones life; including the unbeliever.

Isaiah 1:18-19

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool. “If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;”

Here is a clear invitation by God to reason. Not just to ‘reason’; but to reason with Him.When examining the pattern of ancient Babylon and then comparing the traits found in modern “Babylon the Great”, the subject of ‘reason’ plays a significant role.

https://brotherjohnsite.org/page-5-tutored2learn-learn-to-think-tutorial/



 

Babylonian Traits of Behavior

When examining the pattern of ancient Babylon and then comparing the traits found in modern “Babylon the Great”, the subject of ‘reason’ plays a significant role.

Are you dazed confused?

God put the workers of the Tower of Babel into a ‘confused’ state to break up their works. Since they were no longer able to converse because their languages had been confused, they could not continue their plan. They were unable to ‘reason’ with one another.


Later in Daniel’s time, God caused King Nebuchadnezzar to go and live as the ‘unreasoning’ beast of the fields for 7 years.

He exhibited the behaviors of like a ‘wild beast’ and he thought unreasonably.

Today, we see humankind on a grand scale behaving in a confused, unreasoning manner. They think and act as the unreasoning wild beast do. What occurred at the Tower of Babel and what occurred to Nebuchadnezzar is happening to all who remain under a demonic spell that the devil has cast.

False teacher makes followers eat grass like an animal

Many will claim that they have ‘escaped’ “Babylon the Great”. But reason says that that cannot be true. While many have escaped the clutches of false worship, they have not escaped the global-reach of Satan’s influence. His influence effects more than organized religion.

It was not until King Cyrus came and overthrew the Babylonians that the captives were freed.

There is a big distinction between being ‘free’ from the corruption of the devil’s empire (not touching the unclean thing) and being out from under its global influence and its ability to affect you.

 

So, we remain physical captives of Satan’s global empire until the time the “Greater Cyrus”, the resurrected Jesus Christ appears and will break once and for all times, the Babylonian yoke of slavery.

A person cannot simply ‘walk’ out of “Babylon the Great”. One cannot just simply, “get away”. Was that to be expected? Think of Jesus words in the Revelation He gave to John.

In the vision Christ Jesus gave to John that is recorded as the Book of Revelation, it opens by stating that John was by Spirit, “put into seeing symbolic events that referred to the Day of the Lord, the Day of his Second Coming, the Last Days.

9 “I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of God’s word and the testimony about Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

So those involved in the messages Christ is giving are souls alive at this time. And also given that these are messages to the “angels” of the churches (congregations, assemblies), then the condition apply to these body members.

In His words to the church in Pergamum, Jesus describes their environment and their current living circumstances clearly.

The Letter to Pergamum

12 “Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum:

“The One who has the sharp, double-edged sword says: 13 I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is! And you are holding on to My name and did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan lives.”

The Lord’s indicate an ongoing struggle against ungodly thinking and behavior in an extremely vulnerable proximity to the center of the devil’s operation. He did not instruct them to move somewhere else. Just as being under the dominance and control of the city-state world empire Babylon did not require one to be within the city’s ‘official’ walls (where the throne of the king was), being near the devil’s center of activity is in reality any different than being on the far-flung edges of his empire Babylon the Great.



 

Babylon the Great, the Demon-Controlled World Empire

Satan is the ruler of the present global system.


Babylon the Great is a pervasive demon-inspired Global Culture. This demon-controlled World Empire controls governmental authority, exchange of goods, and set the ethical/moral/social norms.

That power continues to exist and exert itself on ALL of humankind. A key to it’s powerful hold is the element of ‘Blackmail’.

Sometimes a visual illustration can effectively reinforce a thought or concept much better than words alone.  The graphic illustration you see above is simple and yet thought provoking, deep in implications.

The scenario is well depicted as from the Book of Revelation and is quite recognizable.

It is significant as it’s pattern follows through being acted out in the social behavior of human beings.

This form of ‘enslavement’ (the wild beast is enslaved against it’s own will) exist throughout the world from top highest governmental relationships all the way through society to relationships among individual family members in the confined quarters of a single home. The whole world lies in the power of the “wicked one”.

The snare of entrapment centers on personal desire for immoral things and then the desire to hide one’s complicity so as not to suffer loss.

A person then falls into a baited trap:
Seduction, compromised interest, secrets that must remain secrets, and blackmailed into submission.

Ask: How does a prostitute gain control over a powerful man? Blackmail. All the “disgusting things” in her cup.

She holds these secret liaisons over the heads of the kings of the earth and blackmails them into obedience.

As you look at the illustration, try to appreciate how pervasive and manipulative this wicked spirit has been and how widely blackmail is practiced today over millions, controlling great masses of people.

Surely, the wild beast has great cause to hate the mysterious Great Harlot that sits astride it’s back.

—————–The “Wormwood” Effect——————-

Wormwood is a result of mixing pure water (truth) with poison (lie). That is a process of adding something to something else.

The pure water is the knowledge from God received from accepting the Holy Scriptures as written.

Drinking this knowledge in itself, requires no special powers of discernment.

Woodworm is adding spurious teachings that distort the pattern of teachings one learns from reading God’s word the Bible. It results in a mixed ‘cup’.

Wormwood applies much more broadly than religious/specific teachings.

Wormwood poisoning can be seen in all social settings humans engage in. The lacing of truth with lie is everywhere.

The best admonition is that each person individually, pay attention to the water source they are drinking from.

The pure knowledge of God will not make you doubt or be confused.

This poison water flows from out of the demonic kingdom of confusion, Babylon. It’s purpose is to make a person question their own perception of reality and the foundation of their faith. Its purpose is to cause doubt, unsureity, and indecisiveness.

These two books are the Watchtower’s most in depth considerations of its interpretation of the Book of Revelation.

These two books are the Watchtower’s most in depth considerations of its interpretation of the Book of Revelation.

The Identity of Babylon the Great”

The identity and scope of “Babylon the Great” is being revealed as the unfolding of events and circumstance reveal it. The word ‘revelation’ literally infers an unfolding exposé.

What was once considered to be correct conclusions of Babylon the Greats’ identity and nature must now be reconsidered.

As a child studying the “Babylon the Great has Fallen” book (mid 1960’s), I wondered how man could get rid of all religious worship in opposition to the true God. It was taught for decades that the United Nations was the “wild beast” in the Revelation to John and it would destroy all false worship.

I could not imagine how a group of humans could possibly accomplish this feat and how long it would take them to do it.

How do you destroy false religion without destroying the people who practice it? False worship isn’t buildings. It’s people and their practices.

It would require a house by house search of the entire world!

Much religious is secretive and not practiced in open sight. As the Bible testifies, people have gone to great lengths to practice pagan rituals. They did so from roof tops to remote sites in the woods according to Scripture.

Recall that in early human history it was customary for individuals to keep personal idols to false gods upon their person.

Think of what that would take to stop false worship globally.

False worship is practiced in every inhabited place on earth.

The belief Jehovah’s Witnesses have that all false worship will be destroyed before the end comes, is based on the phrase they have heard repeated over and over again in their publications and talks, “Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion”.

This statement cannot be found in Scripture and makes Babylon the Great synonymous to and limited to organized false religious worship.

Given that mankind is on the brink of self destruction, the vastness of the task of stopping false worship, and the time it would take to accomplish this feat if even possible…it seems quite implausible.

After the “beast” has turned upon it’s rider (the great harlot) those remaining will still be worshiping the chief demon and his demon angels. This attack results only in a change in the hierarchy of demon authority and it’s control structure. Satan’s system is based on competition and a pyramidal scramble to it’s top.

In the Revelation, the dragon (Satan) gives his power to the beast and it is an image of that beast that is made and it is what is to be adored and worshiped.

It is not the rider (the great whore) who is the object of worship.

Since the beast has the power, the question arises: How does the harlot who sits astride the beast maintain control over it; it being more powerful?

Seduction, secrets, and blackmail.

So long as the demons are in power there will continue to be ‘false worship’.

That will not end until our Messiah, Jesus Christ, returns and cast the demons out of this realm of existence.

Come Lord Jesus.

It would be good to re-examine one’s thoughts on this matter.

Failure to Grasp the Understanding of End
Time Prophecy

You may be familiar with the Watchtower publication, “Revelation, Its Grand Climax At Hand!”. It was first published in 1984 and was offered to the public, as well as used as an internal study tool for over 20 years.

This book was being studied by Jehovah’s Witnesses in their weekly book study (this is their choice of words) up until as recently as the year 2007.

So, attempting to prognosticate Biblical prophecy by the Watchtower is not something in the distant past as they are now claiming.

If you can obtain a copy of this book, you will probably be amazed at some of Watchtower’s interpretation of the Book of Revelation and its fulfillment.

An example would be the interpretation of Revelation chapter 9 concerning the “locust” released from the abyss by a fallen “star” or angel (see Revelation 9:1).

According to their teaching, their spiritual leaders were released from their ‘spiritual abyss’ by the demons.

Have they been guided by ‘true’ spiritual light shed by Christ? Evidently not. He would not have lead them to confuse unholy acts with righteous ones or to identify the unholy as Holy.

Progressive understanding is much like a vision-scene that is crystallizing.

Increasing light as the day advances clarifies a dull image. What is in darkness appearing unclear, becomes solidly distinguishable in brighter light.

If someone appears to be Abraham Lincoln in low light, bright light should not reveal that it was Donald Duck all along!

Increased understanding is not a new understanding.

When your view/beliefs morph into something different, that isn’t the light getting brighter at all; that is a change to something else unlike what you saw at first.

The reasoning of Watchtower defenders is used by all false prophets when their predictions fail to materialize.

Is the Bible all symbolism?

The Literal vs the Symbolic: Is Armageddon ?

a Real War

Armageddon is God’s Holy war of Divine intervention into this realm. It is a supernatural event. Holy Scripture calls it, “the Great Day of God the Almighty”.

This war is wage against real creatures (angels) cast from that supernatural dimension of creation, Heaven.

Armageddon is a war to rid creation of these creatures and all of their seed in fleshly form.

Falsely defining the nature of the “Great war of God the Almighty” as an internal struggle among elements currently present in this realm, denies the necessity of Divine intervention to overthrow the devil. It also denies the need for Jesus, who is also real and not symbolic, to come and set creation free.

Ask yourself: At the end of what you see and have defined Armageddon to be, where will Satan and his demons be standing?

How and at what point are these wicked angels fought against and conquered literally?

Symbolic speech is used to describe real things. Symbolic speech is not for the purpose of creating more symbolism. At what point does one accept what the Bible says literally?

The ongoing spiritual struggle is preliminary to battle of Armageddon and cannot bring what only Christ can bring by fighting and winning.

The demons desire that those seeking to follow the will of God to be unsure, doubtful and confused. The Bible warns to not be turned aside by some ‘new’ teaching or interpretation. But to keep with the true gospel that we received by Spirit at the first.

How many of us were taught or have believed that Armageddon is any thing other than described in the Bible and here?

The devil and his fellow fallen angels were ousted from Heaven as a result of war. They had to be thrown out.

They are not liking to surrender or go quietly from this realm either; especially knowing what their final destiny to be.

Armageddon is a war involving real spirit creatures (angels) in real combat. It is not symbolic of something occurring internally amongst the affairs of man and it is not a war of words among human beings.

Wormwood affects ALL human dialogue and it is not limited to religious matters alone.

Struggling Against Demonic Attacks and Demonic Influences”

ephesians-6-12

At this time, just before the conclusion of the system of things (Daniel 7:25), the chosen children of God are under extreme harassment by the chief demon, Satan the devil. As the prophet saw, he would orchestrate events in such a way as to confuse and disorient the chosen ones so that they would not be perceptive as to where they stand in the stream of events and times according to God. That prophecy assures that he would have certain success in doing so for a period. But not for the complete period as it would be cut short and interrupted.

These things are concerning the last days or the conclusion of the system of things. That is borne out by the words of the following verses that could only pertain to the end times.

Satan’s deception is fully at work at this time and explains the many competing opinions of where we stand in conjunction with the End. Most people have either been waiting so long that they are unsure why things are “delaying”. While others have convinced themselves by their own observations that this or that needs to occur, so it couldn’t be now.

The Lord will catch them because it was that they relied on their own perceptive powers. They are inattentive and will be caught asleep. But God’s children are not like these sorts.

Added to this are the torments that this wicked world inflicts on all who will not conform and submit to it and the devil.

The artifacts of the occult and demonology are embedded or emblazoned everywhere one can see. They are on all the high places as much today as they where in ancient times. Many items people innocently purchase or possess are branded with symbols related to the worship of false gods. There is a current U.S. television series that portrays the Nephilim as “victims”… as fallen angels who want to be “righteous” but the holy angels are hunting them down. So that the bad becomes good and what is Holy and righteous is cast as bad. This is purely debased and demonic reasoning.

There is a significant trend of mother’s instilling thoughts and teachings of witchcraft and homosexuality in the minds of children at a very early age. It is a type of programming or conditioning to ensure they develop these traits. It is a sort of social engineering.

Witchcraft has become socially acceptable entertainment under sleek packaging like “Harry Potter” which is ladened down with demon iconography. (A witchcraft ‘How To’ Guide)

We do indeed have a wrestling not against blood and flesh but we are at war with wicked spirit creatures in heavenly place; there they remain unseen harassing God’s true servants. They hunt like Nimrod all the loyal ones. They possess his spirit; the spirit of the Devil. They (the fallen angels) have existed from before the beginning of human history. They just find and use different bodies along the course of time.

You have brothers and sisters who are fully engaged in this struggle as the Devil more than anything else wants to corrupt their (the elect) souls.

Prayer request:

I asked that you include in your prayers your brothers who are involved in an intense struggle with wicked people and wicked angels in unseen places. Pray that they keep faithful and mindful that they fully discharge their obligation unto the Master, Lord Jesus Christ.

The combination of events that are now occurring should be enough to know what time it is and that now is the time.

May our Father’s grace and blessings flow to both of you and may Lord Jesus be your constant guide.

In Romans chapter 1, Paul explains why people act in ungodly ways. It is because they desire ungodliness. Paul states that God yielded them over to the spirit they were following. Paul details how both their thoughts and their behaviors would stink deeper and deeper into mental and spiritual darkness and unreasonabilty.

Jude 10 puts it this way,

“But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts—by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish).”  AMP

Unreasoning and Confusion are traits associated with Babylon from the time of the tower build, to the time of Nebuchadnezzer, to this very day.

A page has been created to help all who desire to do so, to sharpen their reasoning skills.

It is designed to help organize thought process according to logical, methodical progression in order to make sound decisions.

https://brotherjohnsite.org/page-3/

A Learning Center

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1914 C.E… A case of Mistaken Identity/Is 607 B.C.E. a Valid or an Invalid Date?

Posted by Brother John Jones on June 6, 2017
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The‘Golden Image’….A case of Mistaken Identity


1914 kings have had their day30incheswtext


This post is concerning an important number in the minds of all who have been taught as Jehovah’s Witnesses. This brief article will not way dispute the understanding that we have been taught concerning the significance of this ‘number’ as it relates to Bible prophecy.And,there is ample evidence that this prophetic time period did begin about 606/607 B.C.E.

It is not about varying arguments about interpreting the prophecy concerning the ‘gentile times’ found in the Book of Daniel.

This article is about how Jehovah’s Witnesses view the prophecy. It accepts the beginning date of 606/607 B.C.E. as the starting point when God removed the crown and scepter of Divine sovereignty. That the period of the “appointed times of the nations” (Gentile Times) was to last 2,520 years till end. And that in correlation with other Scripture, that the end of this period would as well mark the beginning of “the last days”. During these last days, the One with the right to rule (Lord Jesus Christ) would appear and re-establish the presence of Divine rulership.  It does not agree with the common assumption of when this prophetic period expired.

The number “1914″ is a very significant number.

Please remember the title of this article as you read.

After a brief introduction into the subject, you will be directed to other post url’s that contain all of the arithmetic in detail including a mathematical plot of the question of what C.E. year marks the end the Gentile Times.

IF YOU BELIEVE as Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in the significance of the number “1914″ in fulfilling the completion of the GGentile Times (appointed times of the nations), then please take note.

Yard to meters….gallons to liters….etc. When going from one standard of measure to another, naturally some mathematical conversion is necessary. That is important to remember.

These facts that are easily verifiable:

The number “1914″ is a number derived from subtracting 606/607 from the number 2,520. That number is: 1914 lunar calendar years that were remaining till expiration when the Common Era calendar came into use. That number is defined therefore as: 1914 lunar-years counting down.

According to the calendar used in the Bible, that “1914″ is equal to 1914 times 360 days; which is equal to 689,040 days.

Our current Common Era calendar is based on a 365 day year. 1914 C.E. is therefore equal to 1914 times 365 days; which is equal to 698,610 days.

They do not equal and therefore are not the same. There is a difference  of 9,570 days between the two calendars . In Common Era years that equals 26.21 years.

Because of this difference, there is a 26.21 common era year deviation from the original “1914″ we started with.

Since “1914″ is a number in a sequence of numbers counting down, mathematically it is a negative number  (-1914) . And because it is used to find the difference between the two calendars, that result is also a negative number (-26.21 C.E.).  


-26.21 C.E. is the conversion factor.

This all reduces to a simple addition of the two numbers.


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The mathematics involved in solving this problem is not as straightforward as a person might intuitively think.

The plot below is based on the equation at the bottom.  That equation is the mathematical representation of the question:  What C.E. date corresponds to the end of the Gentile Times?   The associated articles explain what the correct date actually is, as is based on the standard applied mathematics for a problem with these parameters and factors.

According to what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe about the interpretation of this prophecy, the date 1914 C.E. is a false image  (a false positive)  of that  number’s real value. This mistaken identification has altered man’s perception of where he actually stands in the stream of time and events. Please consider Dan. 7:25.


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Is 607 B.C.E. a Valid or an Invalid Date?

Is 607B.C.E. worthy to be considered as a valid date or not?

For your consideration.


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There are several factors that must be scrutinized before one can develop an accurately informed opinion as to whether or not the date 607 B.C.E. is a “valid” date.

The use of the word “valid” is critical of course, because it must first be understood:

Valid of or for what exactly?

What purportedly is supposed to have occurred at that time?

The answer is contained in the Holy Scriptures.

The period of the “gentile times” or  “appointed times of  the nations” is an issue of sovereignty,  kingship, and dominion.

Note Ezekiel 21

English Standard Version

25 “And you, O profane and wicked one, prince of Israel, he whose day has come, it he time of your final punishment, 26 thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted. 27 A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.”

“Remove the turban and remove the crown” is the Scriptural demarcation for the start of this period of gentile domination.

This has nothing to do with the physical destruction of the city of Jerusalem.

The city and Temple both were reconstructed shortly after the exile.

What did not return was the nation’s sovereignty.  From the fall of the last king in the Davidic line until the destruction in 70 C.E. by the Romans, Israel existed as a vassal state to a greater national power. (gentile power)

Logically if it were linked to Jerusalem’s actual destruction which was around 587 B.C.E.  the numbers wouldn’t reconcile.

In 2 Chronicles 36:17-23, Almighty God himself through His prophet, stated that the captivity that would mark the beginning of the gentile time period was to last 70 years.


This event marked the withdrawal of God's sanction of the kingship.

This event marked the withdrawal of God’s sanction of the kingship.


New International Version

17 “He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. 18 He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. 19 They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

20 He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.

22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

23 ‘This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord their God be with them.’”

587 B.C.E., minus the 70 years of captivity period, would produce 517 B.C.E. as the year the release would have to had to occur. But we know for a fact that the captivity ended when King Cyrus conquered Babylon between 539 B.C.E. and 536 B.C.E. This would mean the captivity was only some 50 years long and not the 70 God had pronounced.

Therefore, it is impossible for the destruction of the city of Jerusalem to be the starting point of uninterrupted gentile domination of the Earth.

The gentile times was to be a period during which there would be an absence of a Divinely sanctioned representative of Sovereignty ruling in kingdom of man.

There are indicators that mark when this time period began.


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King Josiah was the last faithful king who sat on the throne of his forefather David.

He died about 609 B.C.E. and was succeeded by his son Jehoiakim who reigned between 609 and 598 B.C.E.

Jehoiakim was an unfaithful despot who was overthrown.

The overthrowing of the anointed King of Judah has to be a marking point because “the turban was lifted and the crown removed” from Jehoiakim because of his rebellion against God.

2 Kings chapter 24:1-6 chronicles these events.  Jehoiakim is there described as a “vassal” to the gentile King Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel reports that in third year of Jehoiakim’s reign, Jerusalem came under siege by King Nebuchadnezzar (606/607 B.C.E.)

Daniel 1:1 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1 “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.”

His son Jehoiachin was also wicked. He reigned a brief 3 months and was led off into captivity in shackles to Babylon by the king of the gentiles; well before Jerusalem was destroyed.

As regards his successor Zedekiah, there is a notable sign too about his appointment.

Another apparent marker of Israel’s having been yielded over to continuing gentile domination was the installation of Zedekiah by the gentile King, Nebuchadnezzar.

Wiliam F. Albright dates the start of Zedekiah’s reign to 606 BCE, while E. R. Thiele gives the start in 597 BCE.[1] On that reckoning, Zedekiah was born in c. 627 BCE or 618 BCE, being twenty-one on becoming king. Zedekiah’s reign ended with the siege and fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar II, which both Albright and Thiele agree took place in 586 BCE, though more recent evidence dates the fall of Jerusalem to 587 BCE.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedekiah

Any of these time frames, place the effects of gentile domination closer to the death of the last faithful King Josiah,the overthrowing and the carrying off into captivity of the last wicked of king to rule officially, Jehoiachin.

This was the period from 609 to 598 B.C.E.

Again, this is a prophecy about sovereignty and sovereignty has to do with kingship and dominion.

Any date suggested should be marked with signs that indicate a change from Divinely consecrated rulership to uninterrupted rulership by gentile nations.

Truthfully, I do not follow how C.T. Russell and the WTS arrived at the date 607 B.C.E. as a legitimate starting point of the gentile times, but the date itself is consistent with the relevant factors marking their begin.

What isn’t accurate is the teaching that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 B.C.E. and that  the beginning of the appointed times of the nations was linked to that event. (The destruction of the city)


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This is an example of mixing ‘apples’ and ‘oranges’ and causing predictable confusion.

Most people refuse 607 B.C.E. simply because of the false connection to the destruction of Jerusalem. So they hear nothing beyond that error. Oral traditions and not the Holy Scriptures set Jerusalem’s destruction and the desolation as the beginning point the gentile times began. These were effects of that shift that had already been ongoing.

Absent of that, 607 B.C.E. is a year within reason, viable on its own merit.  And, 537 B.CE. + 70 years if captivity equals 607 B.C.E.

Whereas if one claims that the fall of the city of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. was the starting point; that will not reconcile with the date Cyrus freed the captives nor did it mark the beginning of gentiles exercising continuing sovereignty over Israel.

The devil knows that all he need do is slightly distort a reality to succeed in misleading.  This is a mixture of truth and falsehood that must be separated; which means it cannot be accepted in whole as valid, but neither should the interpretation in its entirety be rejected.

C.T. Russell was a mixed seed of good and evil personified.  He drank from two different spiritual cups and became a brook babbling both sweet and bitter water. He in turn, produced an organization and a message of like kind.

This operation of error also involves the projected date 1914 C.E.

1914 lunar years (360 days per year) counting down, cannot equal 1914 common era years (365 days per year). 





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  • Prophecy—-The Ripple Effect



    Prophecy has a Ripple Effect

    Prophecy has a Ripple Effect



    Prophecy's effects can be compared to a stone dropped into the center of a pond. Visualize the concentric circles that form from the epicenter and spread out across the pond. Over time these rings cover the entire pond.

    Each ring is an identical harmonic reproduction of the initial ring. So that no matter where you are positioned spatially in the pond, you see the same thing.

    You can see prophecy's fulfillment everywhere. But there is a critical 'epicenter' to it. These epicenters are circumstances involving 'special' judgements in addition to those common to all mankind.

    Following are a few renderings of 2 Thessalonians 2:8 which reveals how the man of lawlessness is brought to an end.

    2 Thessalonians 2:8

    BBE And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;

    EasyEnglish Then people will see the man who completely refuses to obey God. But when the Lord Jesus will come, he will kill that man. Jesus will kill him with the words that Jesus speaks. Jesus will kill him with the very bright, powerful light that shines from Jesus himself.

    ISV Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, rendering him powerless by the manifestation of his coming.

    NHEB Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

    The Easy English gives the fullest interpretation as it points out how the Lord brings this "man of lawlessness" to his end. That is by revelation of the truth.

    "Jesus will kill him with the words that Jesus speaks. Jesus will kill him with the very bright, powerful light that shines from Jesus himself."

    "Words" will kill the man of lawlessness. Words that the Lord will provide. We certainly don't have an expectation that we will hear His voice from Heaven doing any speaking. Or at least, not prior to His arrival.

    He speaks through his servants he has assigned to do so at the appointed time. As now we live near the close of this period of time, and also knowing that the "hour of test" must also occur before the end of this period, time has to be extremely short. And before this, the man of lawlessness is to be killed.

    Since Christ will judge angels and flesh, and both the living and all who have died, the application of Biblical prophecy has to be more far reaching than the activities of a small modern day group as Jehovah's Witnesses.



  • What Did Jesus Say About Hell?

    What Did Jesus Say About ‘Hell’?

    “Jehovah’s Witnesses” have been taught that ‘Hell’ and ‘the grave’ are synonymous terms that mean the same thing and are therefore interchangeable terms. I well know this because I believed it and preach it to the public as a “Jehovah’s Witness” the majority of my life. I did so in ignorance by putting trust in “earthling man” and someone else’s reasoning ability.

    Here is the standard remark of a “Jehovah’s Witness” about ‘hell’:

    Quote:”Hell is the Grave ( the condition in which life ceases Eccl. 9:10 until such Time as The Resurrection of The Just and Unjust begins Acts 24:15. In KJV Old Testament the Hebrew word “ Sheol “ translated 31 Times Hell, 31 Times Grave, 3 Times Pit.”

    “Jehovah’s Witnesses” mix things together that shouldn’t be because they have nothing in common with one another.

    When Scripture speaks of “Gehenna”, “Lake of fire”, “Hell”, it is not referring to the common grave or state of the dead who have died the death due to original sin. ‘Hell’ is not the wages of sin as it is in the Adamic death we as humans suffer. ‘Hell’ is the wages for being wicked.

    Today when most people use the term ‘hell’ they are not talking about the common grave.

    “Jehovah’s Witnesses” do not believe that we are ‘spirit creatures’ poured into fleshly bodies. They believe the “spirit” in us is basically some atmosphere of energy breathed into us by God at birth and then we become a “living soul”. That God’s spirit in us is like start up power and not alive. They refer to it as “God’s active force”.

    But their other teachings certainly infer that ‘something’ survives death that can be asleep and awaken. But they deny man has a spirit. What is sleeping then?

    That death is not the ceasing of our existence is clear in Jesus’ words that upon his arrival he summon all the dead from the tomb. Summon what if nothing exist after we die?

    This belief about ‘spirit’ cuts off any consideration that eternal torment in hell is even possible.

    The word ‘hell’ as most people use it, is not referring to common grave nor the state of the human dead from inherited sin.

    We know that for a certainty. It is impossible for that to be the case because Jesus himself stated ‘who’ hell was created for and it wasn’t for humans. He refers to this state of existence as “the eternal fire”:

    “Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!”

    Matthew 25:41 Holman Christian Standard Bible

    Jesus said that this state of existence was created for “the devil and his angels” and not a human being. So it is clear that ‘hell’ is not mankind’s resting place after death.

    Why do I know Hell exist? Because Jesus said it does. Do you believe what Jesus says or do you find it necessary to modify his words to fit what you prefer to believe?

    Hell exist because Christ said it does.

    “Jehovah’s Witnesses’ have no rational explanation of Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the wicked rich man. What Jesus said is impossible within their belief.

    They avoid that passage of Scripture as a result. It just doesn’t fit in to what they want to believe.

    Watchtower Society disciples are not disciples of Christ. “You cannot serve two masters”.

    I am reminded of the situation between the devil and the woman Eve in the Garden of Eden. There the devil ask a question that opened the door to Eve thinking independent from the express words of God. After God had unambiguously stated the penalty for disobedience to His command, the devil questioned whether it was so.

    Eve was even able to recite the commandment But the devil was able to cast doubt in her mind as to whether God would carry out what He said He would do…that God didn’t mean what He said…”Is it really so…?”

    Even though Christ said Hell is real and exist, even though he states that it was created for Satan and his demons, even though he said those there will be tormented forever, even though he offers a parable of a man in Heaven and a man in Hell having a meeting after they both have died, “Jehovah’s Witnesses” do just as the Tempter did to Eve by casting doubt and confusion.

  • Identifying Those Branded By The Beast


    The beast-mark is a brand of ownership that is identifiable.

    The mark of the beast is a brand of ownership that is identifiable by behavior.



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    Who has the mark?



    What Is The Mark Of The Beast?


    The original Greek word translated as 'mark' or 'imprint' referring to that received from the beast according to Strong means:

    From the same as G5482; a scratch or etching, that is, stamp (as a badge of servitude), or sculptured figure (statue): - graven, mark.

    Only those conforming to the will and dictates of the "wild beast" will prosper and being unhindered. So we see the most wicked of people doing well as a reward for worshipping the beast and bearing it's 'mark'.

    The number six is only significant in Scripture as a symbol of imperfection, a missing the Divine mark of purity, 7. Six falls short and does not measure up.

    Six is representative of falling short or missing the mark.

    Thorough corruption involves corruption of the three key elements that make us: spirit, mind, and body.

    666 is representative that one has completely corrupted themselves in spirit 6, mind 6, and finally body 6.

    Revelation 13:11-17

    11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it talked like a dragon.

    12 It uses all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and those living on it worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.

    13 It performs spectacular signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people.

    14 It deceives those living on earth with the signs that it is allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who was wounded by a sword and yet lived.

    15 The second beast was allowed to impart life to the image of the first beast so that the image of the beast could talk and order the execution of those who would not worship the image of the beast.

    16 The second beast forces all people—important and unimportant, rich and poor, free and slaves—to be marked on their right hands or on their foreheads,

    17 so that no one may buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the beast’s name or the number of its name.
    
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  • No Justice In The Land



    The Scriptural passages cited below are text that express God’s concept of what both REAL justice is and what is a miscarriage of justice on the part of corrupt judges and other high officials sworn to uphold justice.

    As you consider these Biblical verses, compare them to what you are able to observe in the behavior of your court officials and Judges. What has been their behavior?

    Deuteronomy 16:18-20
    18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

    19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

    20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

    Proverbs 17:23
    23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

    Select capable men from all the people–men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain–and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. Exodus 18:21-22

    Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. Leviticus 19:15

    I charged your judges at that time: Hear the disputes between your brothers and judge fairly, whether the case is between brother Israelite or between one of them and an alien. Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it. Deuteronomy 1:16-17

    Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly. Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 16:18-20

    Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for man, but for the Lord, who is with you whenever you give a verdict. Now let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery. 2 Chronicles 19:6-7

    Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Psalm 58:1-3

    Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9

    Your hands are full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:15-17

    Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them. Isaiah 1:23
    Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch men. Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor. Jeremiah 5:26-28

    The leaders judge for a bribe, priests teach for a price, and prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.” Micah 3:11

    Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire–they all conspire together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. Micah 7:3-4

    Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! She obeys no one, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God. Her officials are roaring lions, her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning . . . the unrighteous know no shame. Zephaniah 3:1-5

    In the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matthew 7:2

    You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Romans 2:1

    If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will always be secure. Proverbs 29:14

    Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for man but for the Lord, who is with you whenever you give a verdict. Now let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery. 2 Chronicles 19:6-7


  • Mixing Christianity With Mysticism


    What is Mysticism? The belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience (as intuition or insight)

    What is Mysticism?
    The belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience (as intuition or insight)



    .Mixing Christianity With Mysticism


    What is Mysticism?

    The belief that direct knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through subjective experience (as intuition or insight)

    What is a 'mystic'?

    The definition of a mystic is a person who tries to gain religious or spiritual knowledge through prayer and deep thought.

    However, according to traditional thought, mysticism isn't faith, belief, principle or dogma. A mystic has to be born to have this innate gift of a certain temperament and outlook on life.

    The Christian mystic believes in and relies on their personal thoughts, believing these to be of Divine origin, rather than what can be discerned from simply reading and accepting what written Scripture says.


    Mystic Bibles or mystifying the Holy Bible

    Mystic Bibles or mystifying the Holy Bible


    They read Scripture and then mystify them into a symbolic code, which THEY must tell you the interpretation of.

    While some Scripture is written in symbolic terms, the overwhelming amount of text is not.

    Within the context, the Bible it makes it clear when text is symbolic.

    Jesus makes clear at the beginning of his revelation to John that it symbolic language about real things.

    ASV Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

    That is not true of his words at Luke 21. The word 'sign' is used differently than it is in Revelation.

    In Luke 21, he is given signs of real conditions that would be happening prior to his Coming and would signal entry into the "Last Days".

    ASV Luke 21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

    He also says of this sign:

    ASV Luke 21:34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare: 35 for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.

    Clearly his sign effects all on Earth so could not be fulfilled upon a small group whom much of Earth inhabitants know nothing of.

    In the Revelation, 'sign' is used in reference to a 'coded' message written with symbolic terms. But even here not all things referred to are merely symbolic.

    It mentions 'Heaven' which is real; it mentions 'angels' which a true believer accepts as real living creatures; it speaks of a war between real, living creatures and that war is a real war.

    The mystic doesn't believe any of these to be actual things; but, only symbolic of other things.

    So to them, the Battle of Armageddon is a war of 'words' in which the devil will be destroyed. You cannot destroy a real living creature {angel} with mere words. Satan is not going to just disappear. Nor is the cleansing of the physical Earth going to occur by simple 'talk'.

    The mystic sees Luke 21 as a coded message and not the Lord giving a sign of literal events that could be watched for to know when his arrival was eminent. They claim that his sign is fulfilled within the body of Christ even though Luke 21:10 speaks of "kingdoms" plural.

    These mystical interpreters have tunnel vision when it comes to understanding the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and turn a blind-eye to the things we can see individually with our own eyes worldwide that are fulfilling Jesus' sign.

    They make hypocrites of themselves as they left the Watchtower Organization because the Governing Body claimed to have this same special ability which their fellow professed anointed brothers could not possibly possess.

    And now here they are presenting themselves as special in this regard, but in their own right. Somehow it is suppose to be different. Hypocrites!

    They teach demon-inspired expressions that mislead blind cult-like followers as recompense due to their error.



  • Locust



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    "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power."
    Revelation 9:3 KJV

    The Watchtower Society teaches that the locust described in Revelation chapter 9, were their spiritual leaders in 1919 A.D.

    (See "Revelation Its Grand Climax At Hand!" pages 143-154)

    Revelation 9:1 tells us that these locust were released by a "falling star" or a fallen angel. So, they are attributing their rescue from an "abyss of spiritual inactivity" in 1919 to a demon.

    These locust were permitted to torment only those that did not have the "seal of the living God."

    If these locusts really pictured the anointed brothers of Christ, they would not have had to be instructed not to "harm" one another.

    Fooled by as John puts it, "what 'seemed' to be gold crowns on their heads, the Watchtower leaders have assumed that these locust must be righteous. They saw these as the kingly crowns to be yet granted to the elect. (page 146)

    They have based interpretations of Revelation chapter 9 on what is written later in Revelation chapter 20. That is a huge mistake. In Revelation 20, the circumstances have changed.

    Revelation 20:1 refers to a later time when another angel is seen "coming down (not falling down) holding in his hand the key to the abyss". At this time, that authority will have been returned to the One that has the right.

    They teach that this latter angel is the same angel who has authority over the abyss in Chapter 9 (Abaddon, "The Destroyer"). That is an assumption.

    Revelation chapter 9 is about fallen angels, jurisdictions under their control, and demonic activities. It has nothing at all to do with righteous activities direct by Christ.

    Who are the Locust? What do They Do?

    As noted in reading, Revelation chapter 9 foretells of the unleashing on humankind of 'locust' by a fallen angel called "the Destroyer".

    These demon spirits have been unleashed and they orchestrate anarchy by permitting people and groups of people to act out in anti-social, disruptive behaviors.

    This is occurring on a global scale.

    Today the grossly mentally ill wander the streets of community behaving in both bizarre and socially disruptive manners. Yet it is tolerated.

    Criminals dangerous to society at large are released from prison unreformed back into communities. Yet it is tolerated. Plagued severely as the Revelation to John foretold, yet they refuse to repent and turn away from worshipping demons.

    It is obvious to most reasoning people that to allow these things is causing social disruption and dysfunction...the goal of anarchist. Their intent is to destroy the social fabric of humanity as Satan's goal is to disrupt and destroy the fabric of creation.


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    What is happening is not the result of coincidence or accident. It is the result of a plan foretold about in Revelation chapter 9.

    These demons have opened the door to open incorporation into mainstream society. Now even public buildings are adorned with images of the occult. All the while, they have suppressed pure worship of the true God.


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  • Cast Into Insanity by God


    from the light into the dark


    God is responsible for casting those who reject what is truth and what is real into spiritual and mental dense darkness which is manifested in the deprave behaviors we observe today. What lead to Him to "give them up" to their hearts desire?
    These replace the truth with a lie and substitute reality with a falsehood.

    The apostle Paul explains:
    Romans chapter 1 ESV

    18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, {who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth}. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, { have been clearly perceived}, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. {So they are without excuse}. 21 For although {they knew} God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

    24 {Therefore God gave them up} in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 {because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie} and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
    26 {For this reason God gave them up} to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error."

    The bracket words highlight two things. First, that whom is being spoken against knew the truth but refused to act in accordance with the truths they clearly knew.
    Second, that as a result, God yielded them into depraved insane thinking and conduct.

    These ones denied the reality of the existence of God himself and, for themselves, replaced him with false reality gods.


    2 Thessalonians 2:10,11

    2 Thessalonians 2:10,11


    In the following passage, Paul reaffirms his understanding of the mass depravity the wicked.
    It should be no less than the same conditions in these days only amplified.

    2 Thessalonians 2:10-12English Standard Version (ESV)

    10 "and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, {because they refused to love the truth and so be saved}. 11 Therefore God sends them {a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness}."

    These verses clearly indicate that those who do not love the truth (which it is understood to live in agreement with it), are purposefully given into that delusional mental state by God as punishment.

    So it should be clear that we are designed to adhere to the truth in order to keep our mental faculties.

    It is also clear that Jehovah God wants us to avoid the world(s) of illusion. So it makes sense that refusing to deny reality is the only way we can insure we are obedient to the One who is real.
    We must actively reject unreality and accept what is real whether good or bad.


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  • Fulfillment of A Dream


    What modern Rulership has fulfilled this prophecy?

    What modern Rulership has fulfilled this prophecy?


    Daniel chapter 2- Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

    Daniel 2

    1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

    2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

    3 The king said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream.”

    4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Aramaic language, “O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

    5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing is gone from me: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a rubbish heap.

    6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”

    7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

    8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.

    9 But if you do not make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until such time that things might change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”

    10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

    11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

    12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

    13 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be killed.

    14 Then Daniel returned an answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon;

    15 he answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

    16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

    17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

    18 that they would seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

    19 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

    20 Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.

    21 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

    22 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

    23 I thank you, and praise you, God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and has now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”

    24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said this to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

    25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him, “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

    26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”

    27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded is such that no wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, can show to the king;

    28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

    29 as for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.

    30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

    31 You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was extraordinary, stood before you; and its appearance was awesome.

    32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

    33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

    34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

    35 Then was the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

    36 This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

    37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

    38 and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.

    39 After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

    40 The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.

    41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

    42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

    43 And whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix with one another but they shall not hold together, even as iron does not mix with clay.

    44 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

    45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.“

    46 Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him.

    47 The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret.”

    48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

    49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.
    New Heart English Bible

    We live in the age of the crumbling "feet and toes". And we must keep in mind that this image portrays the succession of world rulership.

    Which rulership fits the description that was given to Daniel by the angel today?


    

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  • What Is Faith?


    "The assured expectation of things hoped for."

    "The assured expectation of things hoped for."


    The suggestion that 'faith' and 'reason' are incompatible is a based on a false dichotomy. Neither faith nor reason need be mutually exclusive of one another.

    ;In fact, having faith in something "unseen" can at times be the only reasonable response. The force of gravity is an example. You cannot see nor hold it, but deductive reasoning gives you confidence that it exist.

    The following is an excellent treatment of this subject.

    IS FAITH REASONABLE?

    ;By R. Herbert, January 31, 2014
    Faith, Hope and Wishful Thinking
    All definitions of faith involve the idea that it is a response to something intangible or unseen. The dictionary tells us that faith is “belief with strong conviction; firm belief and complete trust in something for which there may be no tangible physical proof.” The Bible puts it this way: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1).

    Although many secular people reject this concept outright, as though being certain of what we cannot prove is intellectual weakness of some sort, a kind of glorified hope or just wishful thinking, the truth is that we all live by faith in our everyday lives. We plan things for future dates not knowing that we will be there at that time. We arrange to meet a friend somewhere for coffee, and we go to meet the person although we may not have any firm physical proof he or she will show up. It is not that we go hoping that perhaps our friend will show up - we plan and we go because we are sure the person will be there. We have a kind of faith that our friend will appear.


    Below is Hebrews Chapter 11 from the New Heart English Translation which uses Hebrew name pronunciations.

    Confidence and assurance are produce of a reasoning process. One draws a conclusion based on past evidence. It is a matter of deductive reasoning

    Hebrews 11

    1 Now faith is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see.

    2 For by this, the people of old were attested.

    3 By faith, we understand that the ages were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

    4 By faith, Habeil offered to God a better sacrifice than Qayen, through which he was attested as righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and though he died he still speaks through it.

    5 By faith, Khenuk was taken away, so that he would not see death, “and he was not found, because God took him away.” For before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

    6 Now without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

    7 By faith, Nukh, being warned about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared a ship for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

    8 By faith, Avraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.

    9 By faith, he sojourned in a land of promise, as a foreigner, living in tents with Iskhaq and Yaquv, the heirs with him of the same promise.

    10 For he looked for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

    11 By faith, even barren Sarah herself received power to conceive when she was past age, and gave birth, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

    ;12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

    ;13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

    15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

    16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

    17 By faith, Avraham, being tested, offered up Iskhaq; and he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18 even he to whom it was said, “In Iskhaq will your descendants be called;”

    19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

    20 By faith, Iskhaq blessed Yaquv and Isuw, even concerning things to come.

    21 By faith, Yaquv, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Yauseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

    22 By faith, Yauseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

    23 By faith, Mushe, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

    ;24 By faith, Mushe, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

    ;25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

    26 considering the reproach of the Meshikha greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

    27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

    28 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

    29 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

    30 By faith, the walls of Irikhu fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

    31 By faith, Rakhav the prostitute, did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

    32 And what more should I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gedeun, Baraq, Shemshun, Naphtakh, Dawid, Shemuyel, and the prophets;

    33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

    34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

    ;35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

    36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

    37 They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they were killed with the sword. a They went around in sheepskins b and in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, mistreated

    38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

    39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, did not receive the promise,

    40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

    The worshippers of the true God have every reason to be confident that He will fulfill all that He has promised them just as those in the past had.




  • Wormwood


    They Acted In Direct Defiance Of God’s Warning

    New Heart English Bible

    Revelation chapter 22,

    18 “I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

    19 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will l take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.”

    By mixing their personal history and stories with the Book of Revelation and then claiming that these events were the fulfillment of specific prophecies contained in the Book of Revelation, the Watchtower organization has done precisely what the above Scripture expressly states not to do. That is what book such as “Babylon the Great has Fallen God’s Kingdom Rules” and “Revelation-Grand Climax Is At Hand!” do.

    Having done so, they not only taught this mixture to their followers; but also distributed it to the world in massive distribution campaigns over decades.

    The angel sent to John was perfectly clear in stating what the consequences would be.

    “Repent therefore and turn around so as to get your sins forgiven.” Acts 3:19


  • ————“Man in a Box”? ———-


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    CONDITIONING and MIND CONTROL

    Experimenters will place a mouse into a box that is a totally controlled environment.

    They do this for various reasons including what is known as 'Conditioning'.

    They can introduce or remove anything into the box they choose. It is a totally controlled environment.

    The controller habituates the mouse to some routine of task that the mouse realizes that if it performs, it will receive a reward (for instance a food pebble).

    Generally, the mouse will be so engrossed by this routine that it will lose it's awareness of other things going on in the box.

    A predator or some other threat can be introduced into the mix by the experimental controllers and the unsuspecting mouse stays unaware until it is too late to defend itself.

    Such experimental methods are taught and learned as part of the Human Psychology disciplines.

    These methods can be and are applied to human subjects.

    You have intelligence, whereas that poor mouse did not.

    Knowledge of the existence of these methodologies can help one from falling victim to them.

    Key elements to conditioning are:

    Controlled/conditioned environment. Conditioned stimuli. Conditioned response.

    The mouse is not an intelligent creature as you are and doesn't have the advantage you have by being forewarned.

    If the mouse had known that there were controllers outside controlling it's mind, behaviors, and destiny; I imagine that if it could not escape, he would at least resisted their efforts with all it's might


  • Taking God and His Word Literally


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    Literal or Figurative?

    Genesis 3:1-5 New Heart English Bible

    Genesis 3

    1  Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really a said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

    2  The woman said to the serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

    3  but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

    4  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

    5  for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

    Satan, the serpent, was the first creature to question whether or not God's words are to be taken at face value... literally.

    He put forth a question to Eve that opened the door to her second-guessing what she clearly had been told concerning God's commandment. She was even able to recite it when questioned.

    But the devil was able to convince her that Almighty God needed an interpretor to explain hidden nuances in what He has said. That even though isounded an awful lot like she would die it she ate the forbidden fruit, she hadn't got the whole picture and so he appealed to her selfish desires and convinced her of something else.

    HE CONVINCED EVE THAT THE 'DEATH' GOD HAD SPOKE ABOUT WASN'T REAL...THAT IT WAS SYMBOLIC...NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.

    Today many of his weeds try to confuse truth-seeker believers by telling them they can't ttake the Bible literally and that it doesn't really mean what it says.

    This opens the door to alternative reasonings that ignore what God has had written in Scripture.
    Sounds familiar doesn't it?

    Where figurative speech and/or symbolisms are being used in Scripture, it is clearly stated within the context. Otherwise there is no reason not to take what is written most literally.


  • Godly Contrition



    In Sackcloth and Ashes



    Can there be forgiveness of our sins without proper remorse?

    Pride will not allow the wicked one to admit and then accept responsibility for their wrong doing.

    The wicked one is more concerned about what humans think of them than how they stand before God.

    They will not acknowledge their fallen condition.

    "Contrition is a key factor in true repentance. Without it, we are like the proud Pharisee, going through the motions of religion but harboring arrogance in our hearts.

    Contrition agrees that a heart intent on following Christ must reject evil in all its forms. A contrite heart harbors no thoughts of repeating its sin; rather, it seeks the strength of God to overcome sin and move on toward holiness (1 Peter 1:15–16)."

    Continue reading at:
    gotquestions.org


  • ——-Cognitive Dissonance——-


    Cognitive Dissonance's adverse effects

    Cognitive Dissonance's adverse effects


    Cognitive Dissonance--Individual and Group

    "The theory of cognitive dissonance, proposed by Festinger (1957, 1958, 1964), has been proposed to explain a series of key observations. For example, if individuals are instructed to present some speech, their subsequent attitudes are more inclined to align with this presentation. However, this pattern of findings arises only when individuals are not granted conspicuous incentives to present this speech."

    The way you live versus 'reality' can create dissonance.

    The way you live versus the way you know you should live can create mental conflict (angst) creating cognitive dissonance.

    "The key premise is that individuals experience a sense of unease or discomfort, called cognitive dissonance, when they experience or manifest two cognitions that contradict one another. They might, for example, believe they are typically an altruistic person but then recognize that, nevertheless, they seldom donate money or time to charity. Any such inconsistencies between their attitudes or beliefs and their behavior will provoke this sense of dissonance. Dissonance manifests as feelings of guilt, shame, embarrassment, anxiety, anger, or other negative affective states.

    Dissonance does not tend to arise unless several conditions are fulfilled. First, individuals must feel they can control their behavior& they need to experience a sense of personal responsibility (e.g., Beauvois & Joule, 1999). Second, although some contention remains (e.g., Harmon-Jones, Brehm, Greenberg, Simon, & Nelson, 1996), the behavior is usually regarded as consequential and potentially aversive (Cooper & Fazio, 1984). Third, the cognitions need to be relevant to the self (Aronson, 1969)

    Individuals experience a profound motivation to alleviate this sensation or feeling (see Elliot & Devine, 1994). To ameliorate dissonance, individuals can engage in various processes, all intended to align these cognitions with one another.

    First, they might, for example, change their belief or attitudes. After failing to donate money to charities, for example, they might form the belief that such donations are ultimately futile.

    Second, individuals could trivialize the domain or context. They could, for example, convince themselves the behavior is inconsequential (e.g., Simon, Greenberg, & Brehm, 1995).

    Third, they could deny responsibility for their behavior--an inclination that curbs the negative affect that dissonance evokes (Gosling, Denizeau, & Oberl?, 2006). Similarly, they might justify their behavior, attempting to demonstrate to themselves that such acts do not conflict with their beliefs or attitudes. They could highlight, either to themselves or to someone else, they could not readily access their money. In other words, responsibility is not only a necessary condition to generate dissonance& personal responsibility can be denied to curb dissonance as well.

    Finally, at least in some settings, individuals could change their behavior--and, in this instance, begin to donate money. Individuals might, for example, sometimes express positive attitudes about safety. Nevertheless, the same individuals might engage in unsafe sexual practices. After they become aware of this contradiction, they are more likely to buy more condoms (Stone, Aronson, Crain, Winslow, & Fried, 1994). These behaviors, then, overcome the aversive sense of dissonance."

    There is mass cognitive dissonance today on all social group levels.

    Behaviors do not align with present realities. Most of the world lives in some state of denial.

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    http://www.sicotests.com/


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  • The Value & Meaning of Circumcision



    The Greater Meaning

    The Greater Meaning



    Many have been taught to believe God's requirement of circumcising was nothing more than a superficial mark of identification. It was much more.

    The 'mark' of most importance was a mark of cleanness. God was separating His people apart and teaching them to live cleanly by behavior.

    Some other cultures practiced circumcision, including the Egyptians who adopted the practice when the Hebrew children resided in Egypt.

    Others like the Philistines did not. David called Goliath an, "uncircumcised Philistine".

    God knew the uncleanness spread by uncircumcision.

    The uncircumcised soldiers of the nations brought diseases with them to Europe in two world wars as the medical article below cites. Why were so many uncircumcised in the 1940's is a good question to ask.

    God's simple instruction to the Hebrews was not to mix with gentiles because they would become unclean.

    The Pattern

    The Bible likens Satan the devil to the "filthy foreskin".

    His seed does not issue forth from the shoot or the natural creation of God.

    His seed is the scum that collects beneath the foreskin and inflames and corrupts God's creation.

    The Law of God was that on the eight day after birth, the Priest should take that foreskin outside the city wall and tossed it into the Valley of Hinnom, Gehenna, the Lake of Fire.


    The Uncircumcised And The Spread of Disease


    "US Army report by General John Patton stated that in World War II 150,000 soldiers were hospitalized for foreskin problems due to inadequate hygiene, leading to the statements: “Time and money could have been saved had prophylactic circumcision been performed before the men were shipped overseas” and “Because keeping the foreskin clean was very difficult in the field, many soldiers with only a minimal tendency toward phimosis were likely to develop balanoposthitis [Patton, 1987b]. Army urologists stated “Had these patients been circumcised before induction [into the Army] this total would have been close to zero”. In the Second World War Australia had to send urologists to circumcise all of its troops fighting in the North African campaign who were not already circumcised [Short, 2006]. Similarly sand was a problem for uncircumcised men during the Gulf War in Iraq (“Desert Storm”) in the early 1990s [Gardner, 1991; Schoen, 2007e].

    As discussed in section 4 on the history of circumcision, the Judeo-Muslim practice of circumcision quite likely had its origin in Egyptian civilization. There is ample evidence of circumcised mummies at the time the Hebrews inhabited Egypt, as well as illustrations of the operation itself and of circumcised Pharoahs, dating back to 3,000 BC [Weiss, 1997].

    The Judeo-Muslim practice of circumcision quite likely had its origin in Egyptian civilization, where there is evidence of a circumcised mummy at the time the Hebrews inhabited Egypt, as well as illustrations of the operation itself and of circumcised Pharoahs, dating back to 3000 BC [Weiss, 1997].

    Although the sand theory is compelling, another suggestion is that the Egyptians could have circumcised themselves and their slaves to prevent schistosomal infection [Weiss, 1997; Weiss, 2004]. Urinary tract obstruction and hematuria are common in localities such as the Nile Valley that are inhabited by the blood fluke, Schistosoma haematobium. The preputial sac would undoubtedly possess the adverse ability of being able to hold water infected with the cercaria stage of the life cycle of this parasite and so facilitate its entry into the body. It has also been suggested that the Egyptians believed that when a snake shed its skin, and emerged bright and new again, it was undergoing rebirth. Since they thought by shedding its skin the snake became immortal that humans might do the same by causing the “shedding” of the foreskin.

    The perpetuation of the procedure by the Israelites (and thus Jews) may have subsequently been driven by a desire to maintain cleanliness in an arid, sandy desert environment. When the Israelites were held in bondage in Egypt the men were all circumcised. After Moses led them out of Egypt a ritual of circumcision on the 8th day post-partum was instituted as a “covenant with God”. (Of course this tradition was then lost during their wanderings, and was re-instituted later, as described in section 4 on the history of circumcision.) The Prophet Mohammad, born in hot, dry, sandy Saudi Arabia, was also circumcised as are all Muslims today."

    Reference:
    http://www.circinfo.net/what_caused_many_cultures_to_remove_it.html.


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