OK the last three days I have been working a ton and have not had the time to read the responses from my other posts but I intend to as soon as I have a minute. This June 15th WT seems to be filled with outrages stuff. Or maybe I am just really tired and sick of this religion. My husband is still going and sometimes I just want to scream. I listen to the CD's while I am driving just to keep up with the stuff that my husband may through at me. This way I know what could be coming at me. Some I know think it is crazy but as long as I am married I am still attached to this religion wither I like it or not.
OK so on page 18 of the WT it talks about Satan. This is really long and I do not know how to scan it so I will type it out. Here it is.
"To hinder us from spreading the good news, Satan and the demons are actively trying to disrupt happy families and congregations. They try to sow discord, knowing that internal divisions are destructive. (Matt. 12:25) In combating their evil influence, we do well to follow Paul's counsel: "A slave fo the lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all." (2 TIm. 2:24) Remember that our fight is, "not against blood and flesh, but....against the wicked spirit forces."To succeed in this fight, we need to employ spiritual armor, including "the equipment of the good news of peace."
From outside of the congregation, Jehovah's enemies launch vicious attacks on his peaceful people. Some of these enemies assault Jehovah's Witnesses physically. Others slander us in the press or in the courts. Jesus told his followers to expcet this. (Matt. 5:11,12) How should we react? We must never "return evil for evil," in word or deed.
Regardless of what the Devil brings upon us, by "conquering the evil with the good," we can give a fine witness. For example, a congregation on one Pacific island rented a hall for the Memorial. Learning of this, local church officials told their parishioners to gather in that hall for a church service at the time scheduled for our event. The chief of police, however, ordered the church officials to make the hall available for the Witnesses by that time. Nevertheless, when the hour came, the hall was filled with church memeber and their service began.
While the police were preparing to clear the hall by force, the church president came to one of our elders and asked: "Do you have something special planned for this evening?" The brother told him about the Memorial, and the man replied: "Oh, I didn't Know!" At that, a policeman exclaimed: "But we told you this morning!" The churchman turned to the elder and with a sly smile said: "What are you going to do now? We have a hall full of people. Ar you ging to have the police chase us out?" He had cunningly maneuvered matters to make the Witnesses appear to be the persecutors! How would our brother respond?
The Witnesses offered to let the church hold a half-hour service, after which the brothers would proceed with the Memorial. The church service ran overtime, but after the church members filed out, the Memorial went ahead. The next day, the government convened an official board of inquiry. After considering the facts, the board obliged the church to announce that the cause of the problem had been, not the Witnesses, but the president of the church. The borad also thanked Jehovah's Witnesses for their patient handling of a difficult situation. The Witnesses' efforts to "be peaceable with all men" had borne good fruit."
OK I am tired of typing but how crazy is this. Is this truly the only experience that they could come up with?
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