It hasn't happened yet...apparently this is a misunderstanding due to the langauge barrier...
Londo111
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Awake! to be part of Watchtower Public Edition!
by Atlantis inthis was posted on a jw site and it would be nice if we could verify.. .. .. as of february 2015, the awake!
will come as a part of the watchtower public edition instead of as a separate magazine.
this is a huge change... with serious cost savings.
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Awake! to be part of Watchtower Public Edition!
by Atlantis inthis was posted on a jw site and it would be nice if we could verify.. .. .. as of february 2015, the awake!
will come as a part of the watchtower public edition instead of as a separate magazine.
this is a huge change... with serious cost savings.
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Londo111
Eventually this will happen...either the Watchtower and Awake will be combined into one monthly magazine, or the Awake will be dropped altogether.
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Not on JW.org: SIX Texas victims acuse Jehovah's Witness Elder & Circuit Overseer of sexual abuse, and bring lawsuit against Watchtower for cover-up.
by Balaamsass2 insexual exploitation and abuse of six young children leads to lawsuit in dallas county.
dallas, oct. 23, 2014 /news.gnom.es/ six young adults, from north texas, all sexually abused as children, filed suit today in dallas, texas state court against three north texas jehovahs witnesses congregations (dallas, plano, and greenville), the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, and an elder.. sexually abused when they were ages 4 through 14, the plaintiffs were children of members of the dallas, plano, and greenville jehovahs witnesses congregations.
the suit states that they were repeatedly sexually abused and molested by an elder and an unknown regional circuit overseer, and that they and their families were threatened with discipline and harm if they disclosed the abuse to anyone.
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Sun Darkening eclipse
by prologos inin the greater seattle area, with some blue sky showing, does anybody see a partially covered solar disk?.
yes, with the whisps of cloud acting as a substitue filter, the moon has nibbled at the sun's right upper corner.
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Londo111
On the east coast, the sun was just getting below the treeline. I didn't see anything.
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2 reasons the 'overlapping anointed' idea generates no comfort for the WT writers.
by prologos in1) the general "wicked generation" has always members that live past 115 years, so without the ridicoulous overlap idea, it would have taken wt writers to 2030 for the start of pardise.. 2) the "all things take place" prophecy recorded in math 23-25 include the entering of the " goats into everlasting cutting off=armageddon; the sheep into everlasting life= paradise".
therefore: the generation of wt anointed overlappers dying before armageddon to be raptured, is not what jesus said.
he said the generation will not pass, will survive, be alive , witness the entering into paradise.
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Londo111
In a nutshell:
The Watchtower tried to explain the word ‘generation’ in Matthew 24:34 by referencing Exodus 1:6 to support overlapping groups.
However, Matthew was written in Greek and Exodus was written in Hebrew. To understand how the writer of Matthew understood the word generation, we must find out how the writer used the word throughout the book, and in its proper context.
In Matthew 23, in the denunciation of the Pharisees, we find Jesus saying in verse 36, “Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.” What things? The things revolving around the destruction of Jerusalem.
Matthew 24 is a continuation of Matthew 23. Any separation between these chapters, as we all know, is artificial. The narrative of chapter 23 logically continues in chapter 24. The entire context of chapter 24 is the destruction of Jerusalem.
Even verses 2-3 need be read without division: And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.” As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
Therefore, it is in this context, that of the things revolving around the destruction of Jerusalem, that verse 34 says, “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.”
Matthew 24 is set about 30 to 33 CE, while the destruction of Jerusalem was in 70. About 40 years. A generation.
Matthew 1:1-17 totally devastates any idea of an overlapping generation. It lists the generations from Abraham to Jesus. Verse 17 says, “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.”
Abraham is one generation, Isaac is the second, Jacob is the third, Judah, the fourth and so on. If we do the math, for instance from the deportation to Babylon to the birth of Jesus, it works out to be about roughly 40 years. The word generation is devoid of any sense of multiple overlapping groups.
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High Ranking Scientology Members Go Crazy
by lambsbottom inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg70fhg0wl4.
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Londo111
It's comforting to know that there are other former members of cults that are similarly mistreated besides us.
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High Ranking Scientology Members Go Crazy
by lambsbottom inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg70fhg0wl4.
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Who was the best batman?
by FL_Panthers init seems that batman has been portrayed by more actors than any other superhero.. who do you think has played the best in the role of bruce wayne/batman?.
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Londo111
Michael Keaton comes in second for me. As for Kevin Conroy, I love his portrayal, but I think a live-action actor and a voice actor are in different categories.
I like Adam West too...but that's pure comedy. I'm not sure comedy and drama can be compared either.
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2 reasons the 'overlapping anointed' idea generates no comfort for the WT writers.
by prologos in1) the general "wicked generation" has always members that live past 115 years, so without the ridicoulous overlap idea, it would have taken wt writers to 2030 for the start of pardise.. 2) the "all things take place" prophecy recorded in math 23-25 include the entering of the " goats into everlasting cutting off=armageddon; the sheep into everlasting life= paradise".
therefore: the generation of wt anointed overlappers dying before armageddon to be raptured, is not what jesus said.
he said the generation will not pass, will survive, be alive , witness the entering into paradise.
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Londo111
Thank you. Of course, it doesn't take much to debunk it.
The district convention this was announced at was the first one I missed…and felt really guilty doing so. I wonder what I would have thought if I had heard this. I keep wondering if the scales would have fallen off my eyes. It might’ve saved me a whole lot of grief.
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Service meeting video....what a non-event
by sir82 inat our service meeting we saw the video of a jw explaining his beliefs about 1914.. it was.....well, "underwhelming" does not do it justice.
what is below "underwhelming"?
"boringly tepid"?.
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Londo111
Ha! History-making! As if nobody had ever played a motion picture before an audience before...
Stop the press...forget the moon landing! This is more groundbreaking!