this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
If you live in a highly populated city that is known to have a lot of travelers particularity from Asia it would make good sense to wash your hands when you get home from doing things outdoors, such as working out of home, shopping whatever, until the known transmission of the virus is noted to be controlled. It will eventually due the travel restrictions being enforced.
Be safe and keep cool, its not the end of the world.
what is the benefit of god's kingdom?.
the watchtower said when it started out in 1879 that god's kingdom had already arrived in heaven in 1874 and that its work would be complete by 1914. .
with heroic slogans of "destroying the kings of the earth" and "all enemies of christ the king" etc by 1914, "god fearing" humankind was to have been restored to prelapsarian innocence and the earth to a global edenic paradise.
Well there would be a lot of benefits if it were real, but all the nice possibilities thought out by the bible writers were unfortunately fictional mythology.
The ancients asked for help to their specific worshiped gods they didn't have the knowledge of the world in which we lived so they had no others choice.
In other words they created their gods and also created ideas for help from those gods. ie sickness, war and strife and death.
In many ways the humans who lived in that era were much like the people living today
Partially yes but more so realizing the lies and corruption and what those lies and corruption were doing to people.
here's just a few random observations from tomorrow's wt study:.
jesus’ command to make disciples was not limited to christians living in the first century.
jesus concluded his instructions to his followers with the words: “i am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” (matt.
The corrupt false prophets that created the Watchtower Corporation and JWorg. only make other corrupt false prophets , apostasy and sin isn't related to righteousness
(referred to below: watchtower bible and tract society presidents: russell, rutherford, knorr, franz )did you know that from 1879 until 1954 ... ... the writings of c.t.russell, j.f.rutherford, nathan knorr, and the watchtower's own charter... ... agreed ... that jesus christ was to be worshiped?this fact has been cleverly and dramatically hidden by manipulation of older quotations.
______________________________________________________________________pastor charles taze russell answers the question for us.
see below zion’s watch tower 1898 jul 15 p.216“question: the fact that our lord received worship is claimed by some to be an evidence that while on earth he was god the father disguised in a body of flesh and not really a man.
Yes excellent work on that Terry.
One thing the WTS has always tried to do particularly when Rutherford took over the organization is distinctively separate from Christendom's practice of worshiping Jesus.
Christendom got it wrong we have it right.
The WTS men essentially placed themselves between Jesus and mankind, salvation through Jesus comes through them, not Jesus individually to mankind, righteousness in the eyes of god can only be achieved through them.
So you can see they strategically placed themselves in a position of power over all mankind.
"and this good news of the kingdom will.
be preached in all the inhabited earth for a. witness to all the nations; and then the end.
bible are more familiar to jehovah's witnesses than the.
Lets speak the truth and say the preaching work designated by the WTS had everything to do with proliferating the literature the WTS published.
The established American government made that all possible without controls, regulation or taxation.
They essentially went about marketing the gospel of Jesus in their own unique and self serving way
Sure it was a tainted commercialized version of the Gospel of Jesus but it worked, there are a lot of people who never read the bible carefully and the WTS leaders accepted and self assumed that.
(revelation 5:10) - and you made them to the god of us kingdom and priests, and they are reigning upon the earth.
(nwt kindom interlinear).
(revelation 5:10) .
Why is because the leaders and directors of the WTS were strategically endeavored to sell and proliferate literature and build a semblance of power around themselves.
Identifying themselves as the Faithful Discrete Slave, the anointed ones etc. (1919)
But in reality they were commercialized false prophets full of lies, corruption and sin.
Many times power and money have made men corrupt toward their own self serving means.
the march 2020 monthly program of jw broadcasting mentions child baptism a couple of times.. the first was in an interview with an 80-something jw who said that after he was baptized he prayed 'you can bring the end any time now jehovah', admitting that his likely reason was that he thought the end was imminent and he would die otherwise.
but then he goes on to recommend child baptism, saying it should be "for as young as they can possibly make it".. then regarding some large recent conventions, they mention that at one where almost a thousand were baptized, are large portion (no exact number given) were children..
Hey kids who wants to make a lifetime vow of devotion to the men who lead the JWS/JWorg, Jehovah's specially spirit directed chosen ones ? ,
......you'll make your parents and Jehovah very happy if you do.
......and who would like to donate the candy money your parents gave you to help in the world wide preaching work ?
what is the benefit of god's kingdom?.
the watchtower said when it started out in 1879 that god's kingdom had already arrived in heaven in 1874 and that its work would be complete by 1914. .
with heroic slogans of "destroying the kings of the earth" and "all enemies of christ the king" etc by 1914, "god fearing" humankind was to have been restored to prelapsarian innocence and the earth to a global edenic paradise.
From a theological perspective date setting as which the WTS/JWS leaders have done is an act unloyal apostasy for Jesus himself admonished his followers when on earth of doing just that, saying how dare you set a time upon god's own sacred time.
But selling the new Kingdom order as coming soon was a viable propagation for selling literature to the masses and those who believed in the bible.
They were essentially modern day false prophets active in sin.
The WTS has been selling a tainted commercialized version of the Gospel of Jesus for over 140 years.
1973mysterious lady (in the back bungalow).
me: driving a squad car for a private security service.
me: "warren's night off.
You were faithful and loyal to your wife good on you and you didn't buy cigarettes for her either.
I like your style Terry
