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by raymond frantz 18 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Genesis 49:22-26
22 "Offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, Joseph is the offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by the fountain, that propels its branches up over a wall. 23 But the archers kept harassing him and shot at him and kept harboring animosity against him. 24 And yet his bow was dwelling in a permanent place, and the strength of his hands was supple. From the hands of the powerful one of Jacob, from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel. 25 He is from the God of your father, and he will help you; and he is with the Almighty, and he will bless you with the blessings of the heavens above, with the blessings of the watery deep lying down below, with the blessings of the breasts and womb. 26 The blessings of your father will indeed be superior to the blessings of the eternal mountains, to the ornament of the indefinitely lasting hills. They will continue upon the head of Joseph, even upon the crown of the head of the one singled out from his brothers.
Here is another prophecy that helps cement what is actually happening in the final days with regard to; "the wild beast" and its profound connnection to the "sons of Jacob" mentioned in Genesis Chapter 49.
All you have to do is contemplate the adjectives and verbs in these sciriptures to understand the implication:
Daniel 7:7-8
7 "After this I kept on beholding in the visions of the night, and, see there! a fourth beast, fearsome and terrible and unusually strong. And it had teeth of iron, big ones. It was devouring and crushing, and what was left it was treading down with its feet. And it was something different from all the [other] beasts that were prior to it, and it had ten horns. 8 I kept on considering the horns, and, look! another horn, a small one, came up in among them, and there were three of the first horns that were plucked up from before it. And, look! there were eyes like the eyes of a man in this horn, and there was a mouth speaking grandiose things.
Daniel 7:23
23 "This is what he said, ‘As for the fourth beast, there is a fourth kingdom that will come to be on the earth, that will be different from all the [other] kingdoms; and it will devour all the earth and will trample it down and crush it.
Micah 3:1-4:1
3 And I proceeded to say: "Hear, please,YOU heads of Jacob and YOU commanders of the house of Israel. Is it not YOUR business to know justice? 2 YOU haters of what is good and lovers of badness, tearing off their skin from people and their organism from off their bones; 3 YOU the ones who have also eaten the organism of my people, and have stripped their very skin from off them, and smashed to pieces their very bones, and crushed [them] to pieces like what is in a widemouthed pot and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot. 4 At that time they will call to Jehovah for aid, but he will not answer them. And he will conceal his face from them in that time, according as they committed badness in their dealings.5 "This is what Jehovah has said against the prophets that are causing my people to wander, that are biting with their teeth and that actually call out, ‘Peace!’ that, when anyone does not put [something] into their mouths, also actually sanctify war against him, 6 ‘Therefore YOU men will have night, so that there will be no vision; and darkness YOU will have, so as not to practice divination. And the sun will certainly set upon the prophets, and the day must get dark upon them. 7 And the visionaries will have to be ashamed, and the diviners will certainly be disappointed. And they will have to cover over the mustache, all of them, for there is no answer from God.’"8 And, on the other hand, I myself have become full of power, with the spirit of Jehovah, and of justice and mightiness, in order to tell to Jacob his revolt and to Israel his sin.9 Hear, please, this, YOU head ones of the house of Jacob and YOU commanders of the house of Israel, the ones detesting justice and the ones who make even everything that is straight crooked; 10 building Zion with acts of bloodshed and Jerusalem with unrighteousness. 11 Her own head ones judge merely for a bribe, and her own priests instruct just for a price, and her own prophets practice divination simply for money; yet upon Jehovah they keep supporting themselves, saying: "Is not Jehovah in the midst of us?There will come upon us no calamity." 12 Therefore on account of YOU men Zion will be plowed up as a mere field, and Jerusalem herself will become mere heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house will be as the high places of a forest.4 And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream.
Genesis 49:1-2
49 Later on Jacob called his sons and said: "Gather yourselves together that I may tell YOU what will happen to YOU in the final part of the days. 2 Assemble yourselves and listen, YOU sons of Jacob, yes, listen to Israel YOUR father.
Hope that helped
abe
I don't believe in any prophecy. The serpent healer in the Mosaic account dealth with the serpent healer, not the Logos.
Attaching Jewish thought to Christianity gave it legs. Ancient religions were respected. New ones were not.
@Band
Exactly Christianity needed some ancient roots so they just stole Judaism and basically replaced all its core tenants. Gone were the exculsive jews only membership, circumcision was also removed, the sabbath,and so on. Everything jewish was basically deleted.
Sorry to be pedantic Raymond, but the plural of Prophecy is Prophecies, surely ?
And mP, you mean Tenets, surely ?
I have never seen a "Bible prophecy" that stood up to scrutiny, there ain't no such animal.
@phizzy
Exactly there are no bible prophecies, except the ones where you have to pretend and assign new definitions to keywords, and even then it never adds up.
I love Ezekiels prophecy about Tyre being destroyed forever. You can show a jW tyre on Googlemaps and they still believe Ezekiel.
One that was quoted to me as proof was that the nation of Edom would disappear, what a great prophecy ! more or less bound to come true some time, all nations go in the end, give it long enough. Despite that, the context of the "prophecy" is the demise of Edom and the success of israel.
Whoops, Israel was subjugated by the Romans long before Edom disappeared, the "prophecy" did not come true.
Ablebodiedman, you are certainly attentive.
The "constant feature" is a reference to the Lord's Supper. This was eventually replaced in Christendom under Catholicism with the pagan Easter celebration c. 736 AD, and thus the "constant feature" was considered to have been removed and a period of apostasy set in at that time for 1260 years from 736 to 1996 AD. The temple in its right condition arrives after "2300 evenings and mornings" which is 1150 years past 736 AD and thus in 1886 BCE. The temple in its right condition refers to a sect that would begin to celebrate the Lord's Supper correctly, thus reestablishing the "constant feature". Thus the true temple was the sect known as the Bible Students and later JWs. But even though chosen to be the true temple, they were corrupted early on. They were allowed to operate and be the temple from 1886-1996; but after that, they are cast out as apostate.
Also, Genesis 49 confirms TWO MESSIAHS. This only reflects the first and second coming. Christ appears in the flesh in the earth twice. The first time he comes through the tribe of Judah, but the second time through the tribe of Joseph.
So all this has been fulfilled... Regarding Joseph it says " 26 The blessings of your father will indeed be superior to the blessings of the eternal mountains, to the ornament of the indefinitely lasting hills. They will continue upon the head of Joseph, even upon the crown of the head of the one singled out from his brothers."
As far as Daniel and the fourth beast is concerned, the 4th beast represents what we consider to be the "Illuminati" and the "little horn" with the eyes that is so effective in the world is the CIA. That the CIA is connected to and controlled by "Skull and Bones" is rather common knowledge in conspiracy theory folklore.
Much of what has been prophesied has now been fulfilled, including the chronology.