THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

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  Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, February 23, 2014

  “Let me die with the Philistines!” (Judges 16:30)

  Samson was “one of Israel’s outstanding judges.” (Insight on the Scriptures, volume II, page 849) Once he “went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them together in pairs with oil-soaked rags around their tails. Then Samson took the foxes into the Philistine wheat fields that were ready to be harvested. He set the rags on fire and let the foxes go. The wheat fields went up in flames, and so did the stacks of wheat that had already been cut. Even the Philistine vineyards and olive orchards burned.” (Judges 15:4, 5, CEV) So he was an innovator of biowarfare – he utilized animals as weapons to take from his enemies their livelihood, so that many of them starved to death.

  Then he took direct action against the Philistines. First he “he went smiting them, piling legs upon thighs with a great slaughter.” (Judges 15:8, NWT 1984) Later he vaunted: “With the jawbone of a donkey – one heap, two heaps! With the jawbone of a donkey I struck down 1,000 men.” (Judges 15:16) He did not need modern weapons of mass destruction to kill great crowds of men; rather “Jehovah’s spirit empowered him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down 30 of their men.” – Judges 14:19.

  At the end of his life it became apparent that Paul counted him as a part of the “great cloud of witnesses” for good reason. (Hebrews 11:32; 12:1) He was present in the temple of the Philistines (that is, from his standpoint, infidels). There was a feast, and “Samson braced himself against the two middle pillars that supported the house, and he leaned on them with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other. Samson called out: ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ Then he pushed with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people in it. So he killed more at his death than he had killed during his life.” (Judges 16:29) So he became the first suicide assassin of human history.

  Whether we are preparing attacks with biological weapons, going to kill our enemies in an open fight or planning a suicide bombing – in any case “we rely on the same holy spirit that Samson did.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 2011, page 21) What a fine example he gave for Terrorists today!
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  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, March 1, 2014

  “Serve Jehovah with fear.” (Psalm 2:11)

  Servants of Jehovah are always living in fear. For example, “some Christians feel very guilty about not being able to do more in the ministry,” and therefor they are afraid of being destroyed at Armageddon. (The Watchtower, December 1, 1995, page 12) Jehovah’s Witnesses are always living in “fear of displeasing God.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 2012, page 23) Like the Hebrews, they “know the One who said: ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again: ‘Jehovah will judge his people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” – Hebrews 10:30, 31.

  Jehovah’s Witnesses are trying to ‘work out their own salvation with fear and trembling’ while “the wicked … always have it easy.” (Philippians 2:12; Psalm 73:12) “The wicked” do not “fear the very thought of disobeying God,” rather they heed Jesus’ advice to “never be anxious.” (Isaiah’s Prophecy – Light for All Mankind, volume II, page 392; Matthew 6:34) Disbelievers today are as “carefree” as were the people of Sodom who did not worship Jehovah. – Keep on the Watch!, page 23.
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  Hey Bernd, Is this your take on their daily text or is what you post from a subject of your choosing?

  Just asking because it doesn't match the daily text I see on the jw site and was wondering if yours might be different in Deutschland
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  it doesn't match the daily text I see on the jw site

  Of course. No, I do not take the daily texts from the WTS but my own ones. Theirs are always the same anyway.

  And, as said in the beginning, currently I am only translating the German texts that I wrote over the last 2 years to English.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Monday, March 3, 2014

  “See, you have become well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse does not happen to you.” (John 5:14)

  Jesus said these words to a former lame man whom he just had healed. We can learn two deep truths from his simple statement. First: “Sickness can be a direct result of sin” (though “each sickness is not necessarily a result of a specific sin”). (The Watchtower, October 15, 1981, page 5; August 15, 1982, page 31) Second: It is possible to sin no more. If the man would have been fated to sin, Jesus would not have instructed him to “not sin anymore.” But obviously Jesus expected that the healed man would heed his previous command: “You must … be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) Thus true Christians are perfect, as perfect as God. They can easily stop sinning. Only because of this they have “the prospect of living forever,” because “the person who sins will die.” – Awake!, October 8, 1988, page 25; Ezekiel 18:4, GWT.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Wednesday, March 5, 2014

  “So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil.” (1 John 3:10, NLT)

  Since “Satan often pretends to be “an angel of light,” it is not always easy to distinct the worship of Jehovah from the worship of Satan. (The Watchtower, August 1, 1991, page 9) However, the well-knownAwake! magazine named a unique feature that helps us unequivocally identify worshippers of Satan, that is: “It is the belief of Satan worshipers that the Devil rules the world.” (Awake!, October 22, 1989, page 6) To whom does this apply today?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses make no secret of their opinion “that Satan is the ruler of this world.” (What Does the Bible Really Teach?, page 31) They confess outright: “Satan the Devil is the ruler of this wicked world.” (The Watchtower, February 1, 2009, page 8) Yes, it is Jehovah’s Witnesses who believe that “the Devil rules this world.” (The Watchtower, October 15, 2005, page 29) Thus it is evident that they are “Satan worshippers.”
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  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, March 7, 2014

  “Carry on as men.” (1 Corinthians 16:13, NWT 1984)

  ”Those charged with oversight of a congregation are described in the Bible as being males. The 12 apostles of Jesus Christ were all males, and those later appointed to be overseers and ministerial servants in Christian congregations were males.” (Reasoning From the Scriptures, page 432) But unfortunately, “men think,” hence they are less prone to the pseudo-religious moronism spread by Jehovah’s Witnesses. (Making Your Family Life Happy, page 52) That is why “fewer men than women are embracing the Kingdom message” and there are more women than men in the congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  Are these congregations lacking leadership? True, “since ancient times qualified ‘older men’ have been used to take the lead in the affairs of Jehovah’s people.” (The Watchtower, September 1, 1983, page 18) But according to the Bible, “Christian women [are] to carry on as men.” (The Watchtower, October 1, 1982, page 25) Some women even “act with more understanding than older men.” (Psalm 119:100) And “the time left is reduced,” hence it is appropriate that Jehovah now also uses women as “men to take the lead in spiritual matters.” – 1 Corinthians 7:29; The Watchtower, November 15, 2011, page 28.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, March 8, 2014

  “You brought us into a hunting net; you put a crushing burden upon us.” (Psalm 66:11)

  How has Jehovah “brought us into a hunting net?” By using “fishers of men” who are “catching men alive.” (Mark 1:17; Luke 5:10) “Jehovah has put a deceptive spirit in the mouth of all … [his] prophets,” and “we have entered … into water” and were baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses. (1 Kings 22:23; Psalm 66:12, YLT) “Through his ‘faithful and discreet slave’” God “put a crushing burden” in form of field service, meetings, Watchtower volumes, incompetent elders and countless commands of men “upon us.” – Our Kingdom Ministry, May 1985, page 3.

  Then, however, Jesus words were fulfilled toward us: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Through personal experiences in the congregation, by own research, of due to loving care from apostates we came to “know the truth” about God, his word, and his witnesses. Our new knowledge “brought us to a place of relief.” (Psalm 66:12) “For such freedom Christ set us free.” – Galatians 5:1.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Friday, March 14, 2014

  “Really, during the nights my kidneys have corrected me.” (Psalm 16:7, NWT 1984)

  “Those whom Jehovah loves he reproves.” (Proverbs 3:12) And “at … times correction from God may be … painful.” (The Watchtower, September 1, 1981, page 17) This is obviously what David experienced. Jehovah caused him to feel pain in his kidneys, so that he was “reproved by pain on his bed.” (Job 33:19) Hence, if we have nephralgia next time, we should not see a physician (2 Chronicles 16:12) We must rather endure “the pain of correction” and ask ourselves, ‘What sin have I committed?’” – The Watchtower, December 1, 1977, page 721.
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  Alternative Daily Text for Saturday, March 15, 2014

  “Moab is my washbasin.” (Psalm 60:8)

  Jehovah God called Moab ‘his washbasin.’ Does that mean that God has a wash from time to time? Should we, as “imitators of God,” also wash ourselves? (Ephesians 5:1) No, that is not the case. According to the reference work Insight on the Scriptures, the reference to the “washbasin” rather “indicated contempt.” (volume II, page 861) After all, it was David who attributed these words to God. How is David connected to Moab?

  God foretold through his prophet Balaam: “He [a future king] will certainly break apart the forehead of Moab.” (Numbers 24:17) This was fulfilled when “David … conquered the land of Moab. He made the people lie down on the ground in a row, and he measured them off in groups with a length of rope. He measured off two groups to be executed for every one group to be spared. The Moabites who were spared became David’s servants.” – 2 Samuel 8:2, NLT.

  So God did not have a wash in his washbasin; rather he ‘broke it apart.’ Thereby he gave us an example, since washbasins are a real danger for all true Christians. Jesus pointed out that hand washing is a “tradition of the men of former times,” thus a pagan custom. (Mark 7:3) “The proud religious law-keepers and all the [apostate] Jews never eat until they wash their hands.” – Mark 7:3, NLV.

  In actual fact, the custom of hand washing – and of washing in general – comes from the pagan goddess Hygieia. Even the word “hygiene” is derived from her name. No wonder that God despises ‘washbasins’ and uses this term as a swearword! May we never get enmeshed in any ritual acts in honor of Hygieia!