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Look! It was very good or: Evil in the Animal Kingdom
by TheOldHippie ini have fed a number of birds regularly thru winter, and among the species were some doves.
this spring, two of them took a liking for each other and teamed up.
for a couple of weeks, extensive construction work was jointly done and resulted in a nice little nest, undoubtedly a cosy home for the small family which expected to multiply.
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Alternative Daily Text for Tuesday, April 13, 2014
“On the mountains he has not eaten.” (Ezekiel 18:15, NWT 1984)
Ezekiel divided his contemporaries into two groups. On the one hand he mentioned someone who “he has eaten … upon the mountains” and said with regard to him: “A detestable thing is what he has done … He positively will not keep living … He will positively be put to death.” (Ezekiel 18:11-13, NWT 1984) On the other hand he spoke of a man who “happens to be righteous and … has executed justice and righteousness; on the mountains he did not eat.” (Ezekiel 18:5, 6, NWT 1984) He said about this righteous man: “On the mountains he has not eaten … my judicial decisions he has carried out; in my statutes he has walked … He will positively keep living.” – Ezekiel 18:15-17, NWT 1984.
So whoever ‘eats upon the mountains’ will be eliminated by Jehovah. To whom does this apply today? “Jehovah’s Witnesses are … streaming to ‘the mountain of Jehovah’s house’ in ever-increasing numbers” and taking “rich spiritual feasts” there. (The Watchtower, July 15, 2002, page 25; January 15, 1985, page 28) Thus as a group they “will positively be put to death,” that is, cease to exist.
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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor
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Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, April 11, 2014
“Out of the heart’s abundance his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45)
As Christians we must ‘guard what we feed our mind.’ (Awake!, June 22, 1984, page 5) When we need to decide whether a topic is worth pondering or not, we should follow Jesus Christ’s example. How did he feed his mind? We can learn this from his statements, for “what we usually talk about is a good indication of what our heart is set on.” – The Watchtower, October 15, 2001, page 23.
What did Jesus “usually talk about?” One of his favorite topics was wine; he talked about wineskins, vine dressers, vineyards, and a winepress. (Matthew 9:17; 20:1; 21:28, 33; 26:29; Luke 10:34; 13:6) “Jesus often drank wine” and told his disciples: “I am the true vine … I am the vine.” – The Watchtower, December 15, 1996, page 25; John 1:1, 5.
Are alcoholic beverages taking the first place in your life, too? If not, “it may be time to think seriously about the use of alcohol in your home.” (Awake!, February 8, 1975, page 18) As Christians we must “imitate the perfect example of Jesus Christ” and develop “a godly view of alcoholic beverages.” – The Watchtower, July 1, 1977, page 407; December 15, 1996, page 25.
Jesus did not only talk about wine though. Harlots, fornication, and virgins also played a major role in his stories. (Matthew 5:32; 19:9; 21:31, 32; 25:1; Luke 15:30) We should imitate him in this regard too. We must avoid being distracted by unimportant issues. A young Christian remembered: “I couldn’t concentrate on sex as long as I was concentrating on something else.” (Awake!, July 22, 1993, page 22) Whether we go for wine, virgins, or harlots – all Christians should heed the counsel: “Always look to the example and teachings of Jesus Christ, and do your best to imitate him.” – The Watchtower, June 15, 1976, page 380.
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Who here likes Eurovision?
by TimothyT inhey guys.. for those of you in europe, australia and even usa if you know it, who likes the eurovision song contest?
its great!!!
40 or so singers from all different countries all come together for a massive show where they all sing their song for 3 mins and then move on for the next singer.
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“I heard a voice coming from heaven … It was like the sound of rushing water and of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like people playing music … This large group sang a new song. They sang … in front of the four living beings and the twentyfour leaders.” (Revelation 14:2, 3, NLV)
Nearly 2000 years ago the apostle John saw in a vision the Eurovision Song Contest. He heard “people playing music” and drumbeats like “loud thunder,” since drums are playing a major role at this event. The musicians played “in front of the four living beings,” the usually two hosts and the cameramen. The “twentyfour leaders” depict the jurors who decide about the final score. Every participant sings “a new song” because according to the official rules the song “may not have been released publicly before 1 September of the year preceding.”
John also saw an “angel flying in midheaven.” (Revelation 14:6). “Angel” means “messenger,” and obviously the angel symbolizes a modern communication satellite. The European Broadcasting Union and its members use such satellites “to declare [the Eurovision Song Contest] as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth.” (Revelation 14:6, NWT 1984) But God’s Word says regarding the TV viewers: “Day and night they have no rest, whoever receives the [TV program].” (Revelation 14:11) God even adds, “Happy are the dead,” because they do not have to endure the TV program anymore. – Revelation 14:13.
Fortunately, the whole event lasts only for a few days. Finally John “saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire” – obviously the stage that is equipped with modern LED technology. “Those who had won the victory … were standing on the glassy sea. They were … singing.” (Revelation 15:2, 3, GWT) So the Eurovision Song Contest ended in John’s vision; “and there came out of the … [concert hall] the seven … [musicians] who were bringing the seven plagues” and went home. (Revelation 15:6, WEY) And “the whole … [population of Europe] now rests, free of disturbance” – Isaiah 14:7.
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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor
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Alternative Daily Text for Thursday, May 8, 2014
“Look! Here is water; what prevents me from getting baptized?” (Acts 8:36)
After only few minutes of Bible study, an Ethiopian man asked Philip whether he could get baptized. Philip acted presumptuously and readily “baptized him,” completely ignoring theocratic procedure. (Acts 8:38) He rather should have waited until the Ethiopian would have breathed the wish to accompany him in the field ministry. Then he should have informed the coordinator of the body of elders, so that he could have ‘arranged a meeting of two elders (one being a member of the Congregation Service Committee)’ and the Ethiopian. The Elders would have tried to find out whether the Ethiopian ‘believed that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and if he knew and believed the basic teachings of the Scriptures so that when asked questions, he would not have answered according his own ideas.’
They would have verified that he was “heeding the Bible’s command to associate with Jehovah’s people at congregation meetings,” that he ‘knew what the Bible teaches about fornication, adultery, polygamy, and homosexuality, and if he was living in harmony with such teachings.’ They would have asked him whether he knew “the Bible’s prohibition of drunkenness,” and they would have checked if he was “free from all nonmedical use of additive of mind-altering natural or synthetic substances.” They would have made sure that he saw “the value of avoiding unwholesome association.” Furthermore they would have investigated whether ‘he had definitely broken off membership in all false religious organizations with which he might have been affiliated, and if he had ceased attending their meetings and supporting or sharing in their activities,’ and also if he was “free from all involvement in the political affairs of the world.”
Finally they would have “encouraged [him] to begin sharing in the field ministry as soon as possible and to turn in a field service report at the end of the month,” and informed him that “a Congregation’s Publisher Record card is made out in his name and included in the congregation file.” (Organized to do Jehovah’s Will, pages 79-81) After he would have regularly turned in a field service report during a number of months, he could have apprised the coordinator of the body of elders of his decision to get baptized. The coordinator of the body of elders would have assigned three different elders to discuss 35 questions about “elementary bible teachings,” 32 questions about “Jehovah’s righteous requirements,” and 37 questions regarding “Jehovah’s arrangement of things” with him.
If the Ethiopian would have confidently and correctly answered all 104 questions, the elders would likely have allowed him to get baptized. He would have been baptized at the next convention. One year later, the secretary would have ‘notified the coordinator of the body of elders that the publisher has been baptized one year,’ and the coordinator would have ‘arranged for two elders, one of them being the Ethiopian’s group overseer, to meet with the baptized publisher … to provide encouragement and helpful suggestions.’ – Shepherd the Flock of God, pages 17, 19.
Therefor let us never be as careless as Philip, but let us “willingly submit ourselves to the direction given by the Governing Body and cooperate with the appointed elders in the congregations.” (The Watchtower, January 15, 2010, page 32) Only then “all things … [can] take place decently and by arrangement.” – 1 Corinthians 14:40.
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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor
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Alternative Daily Text for Wednesday, May 7, 2014
“So these men … were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.” (Daniel 3:21)
The pagan king Nebuchadnezzar threw three men “into the burning fiery furnace” because they refused to worship his gods. (Daniel 3:14, 21) This is not the only Bible account that puts furnaces in a negative context. The prophet Hosea condemned the apostate Israelites: “All of them are adulterers, like a furnace.” (Hosea 7:4, NWT 1984) So furnaces were as bad as adulterers – and back then, adultery was one of the worst crimes imaginable. Adulterers had to “be put to death without fail.” – Leviticus 20:10.
The Bible further mentions a “metalsmith” making idols “over the coals,” that is, by the help of a furnace. (Isaiah 44:12) On another occasion, apostate king Jehoiakim “was sitting … with a fire burning in the brazier before him,” and he used this kind of oven to burn the scroll of the prophet Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 36:22, 23) “The slaves and the officers” of the High Priest also “were standing around a charcoal fire they had made” during Jesus’ conviction. (John 18:18) Is it not interesting that the Bible mentions fires and furnaces so often in regard to Gods enemies? This shows without doubt that God does not approve the use of furnaces and heatings. This is probably also the reason why “faithful Abraham … went out from the Chaldean city of Ur,” since Ur was the birthplace of central heating. – Insight on the Scriptures, volume I, page 974; Bringing God’s Word to the Nations.
Does this mean that Christians should not heat at all? Yes, since God himself declared that “the earth will never cease to have … cold and heat.” (Genesis 8:22) The winter cold is an order from God, that is why the apostle Paul served him “in cold and lacking clothing.” (2 Corinthians 11:27) Therefor let us imitate the faithful worshippers of old by living with “no covering for the cold.” (Job 24:7) If we live in a house with heating, we should follow Abraham’s example and move out immediately. Only then we might have a chance to survive “the day … that is burning like the furnace.” – Malachi 4:1, NWT 1984
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Alternative Daily Text for Sunday, May 4, 2014
“Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.” (Matthew 6:32)
Jesus told his disciples: “God your Father knows what things you are needing.” (Matthew 6:8, NWT 1984) Does this mean that Christians do not have to worry about anything because God cares for them? No, this is not the case. The key to understanding Jesus’ words can be found in another statement that he made a white later: “Two sparrows sell for a coin of small value, do they not? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.” – Matthew 10:29.
So God also “knows” when birds “fall [dead] to the ground, and still “as many as 988 million birds die annually in window collisions” alone. (The Washington Post) Millions more are killed by cats and other predators, or dying from starvation or disease.
What can we learn from this? Granted, God knows when birds “fall to the ground” – but they do “fall to the ground.” God knows that they perish, but he does nothing about it. In the same way he cares for Christians: God ‘knows what things they are needing,’ but he does not give these to them.
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Alternative Daily Text for Thursday, May 1, 2014
“Pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name is Nabal, and stupidity is all he knows.” (1 Samuel 25:25, HCSB)
In the article “Wives – Deeply Respect Your Husbands,” the Watchtower asked its readers: “What can wives learn from the example of such Bible characters as Abigail?” (February 15, 2007, page 21) The answer is apparent, for today’s text is a fine example of “Abigail’s humility, deep respect, and clear thinking.” (The Watchtower, November 1, page 11) Christian women of today should imitate “her being respectful and mild.” – The Watchtower, August 15, 1976, page 484.
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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor
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Alternative Daily Text for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
“Master, leave it alone for one more year until I dig around it and put on manure.” (Luke 13:8)
In the first place, the parable of the barren fig tree was fulfilled by Jesus himself. “During … [the] fourth year of his ministry, he is … symbolically digging and putting manure around the Jewish ‘fig tree’ by zealously preaching and teaching in Judea and Perea.” (The Watchtower, October 15, 1988, page 8) His teaching was “manure.” Back then, “dung was used as manure,” and in the Bible, “dung or manure is also employed as a simile.” (Insight on the Scriptures, volume I, pages 658, 659) So, in a spiritual sense, Jesus spread dung in Judea and Perea.
In our time it is “Jehovah’s Witnesses who are carrying out the good work started by Jesus Christ.” (The Watchtower, March 15, 2000, page 8) “Millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are … preaching and teaching” today, spreading “magazines, books, and brochures.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 1987, page 18;2008 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, page 144) Thus these publications, “especially The Watchtower,” are the Greater Dung. – 1994 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, page 201.
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Alternative Daily Text for Monday, April 28, 2014
“The lion will eat straw like the bull.” (Isaiah 11:7)
As is known, “the Bible says that in the garden of Eden the diet of the animals was vegetation.” (Happiness – How to Find It, page 188) “None of the animals in the garden of Eden were killers,” rather they “had a vegetarian diet in Eden, as did humans.” Only after Adam and Eve sinned, “the animals … began to live off one another.” (Awake!, October 8, 1982, pages 10, 11) “Further, during the Flood of Noah’s day, eight humans and ‘flying creatures and all moving animals of the ground’ were obliged to live on vegetable matter exclusively for more than a year,” proving “that animals and humans were meant to be vegetation eaters.” – Awake!, January 8, 1983, page 28.
Also in the future paradise “animals will be at peace with one another, able to be around one another without risk.” (The Watchtower, December 15, 1991, page 30) Lions “will eat straw” or other vegetarian diet, just like all other animals. Even the polar bears at the North Pole and the penguins at the South Pole will eat grass which will grow there in abundance. Spiders will create “intricate webs” in order to catch leaves flying around. (Awake!, July 8, 1972, page 5) “The cheetah finds the open grasslands ideal footing for its lightning-quick sprints. Its lean body blurs as it races across the plains in pursuit of prey” consisting of grass blades and other plants. (Awake!, February 22, 2003, page 16) Even crocodiles will eat vegetables growing underwater or in the proximity of the shore; fish will no longer eat other fish or shellfishes. Carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap and carnivorous mushrooms like the lawyer’s wig will change their dietary habits and live on vegetarian diet.
Granted, “the earth [will] cause grass to sprout, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees,” but it remains to be seen whether it will be enough to feed all humans and animals. (Genesis 1:11) Antelopes will no longer be eaten by lions, but maybe they will starve because lions have eaten up all the grass. However, the dietary change will have more far-reaching effects. The human population is growing above average in times of peace, and the same will apply to the animal population when there is “peace among animals.” (The Watchtower, February 15, 1996, page 18) Some animals reproduce rapidly, for example, “the common brown rat … the black rat … and the house mouse” – a single female of these “can produce 2000 descendants in one year.” (Stopest) Mice and rats have many natural predators in our day, but once these have become vegetarians, a single mouse can have roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 descendants within only ten years. Thus the “abundance of grain on the earth” will not persist because mice and other animals will eat it up in a minimum of time. “On the top of the mountains it will overflow,” not of food, but of mice, rats, hares, birds, and many other fast reproducing animals. (Psalm 72:16) The oxygen content of the air will also be reduced, since “phytoplankton account for half of all photosynthetic activity on Earth … [and are] responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere,” but it will be the exclusive source of food for all sea dwellers in paradise. – Wikipedia.
In summary: “God’s restoration of Paradise on earth through Christ” will cause an extreme shortage of grass, grain, and other vegetables. (The Watchtower, September 15, 2007, page 12) Animals will reproduce without hindrance. If there would not be food shortage and lack of oxygen, earth would be covered with a meters thick layer of mice, rats, worms, and other animals after few years. Then the survivors will rightly proclaim: “The former things” – lush meadows, biodiverse forests, full pantries – “have passed away.” – Revelation 21:4.
