Posts by raymond frantz

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

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Having been in his congregation Wilmslow for almost 20 years I can confirm that Lloyd and his sister enjoyed preferential treatment due to daddy being a prominent elder. His sister divorced her husband and to avoid being disfellowshipped she used the "mental issues" card from the Shepherding book. Im sure her daddy coaxed her into it.The congregation has shrunk from 120 publishers to less than 60 in less than 10 years because of this toxic family

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What do you know about Tartarus?

by raymond frantz in

sometimes a word can change everything and this is the case here with a word that appears only once in the bible but reveals so much about the powers of darkness, the influence of greek literature on the first apostles and finally and more relative to 1the intellectual dishonesty of the watchtower when it comes to presenting information from extra biblical sources.so if you like stories about the fallen angels and hollow earth stay presented from an exjw perspective watch this video.

https://youtu.be/zuv6zsuntci.

raymond frantz

Sometimes a word can change everything and this is the case here with a word that appears only once in the Bible but reveals so much about the powers of darkness, the influence of Greek literature on the first apostles and finally and more relative to 1the intellectual dishonesty of the Watchtower when it comes to presenting information from extra Biblical sources.So if you like stories about the fallen angels and hollow earth stay presented from an exjw perspective watch this video

https://youtu.be/ZuV6zsUnTCI

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Here's a question that I guarantee no one has ever thought of!

by nowwhat? in

unlike men who took no note, surely the fallen angels knew of gods plan to flood the earth, so why didn't they build an ark(s) for their nephilum sons?

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Have you ever read the book of the giants? Many answers are there

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Mark Noumair latest video on persecution on jw.org

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/tbbxaasj6ki.

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YOUR NAME IS IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE DAY YOU ARE BORN ONLY YOUR ACTIONS CAN BLOT YOUR NAME , 3 VERSES:

Psalm 139:16

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;

And in Your book were all written

The days that were ordained for me,

When as yet there was not one of them

Exodus 32:31-33

Then Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves. But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!” The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

Psalm 69:27-28

Add iniquity to their iniquity,

And may they not come into Your righteousness.

May they be blotted out of the book of life

And may they not be recorded with the righteous

THOSE TAKING THE MARK OF THE BEAST ATE TREATED AS NON HUMAN, AS THEIR NAME NEVER EXISTED IN THAT BOOK:

Revelation 17:8

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come

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Pandemic as part of Bible prophecy?

by truthseeker in

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i was thinking that since russell started the movement in 1879 which became jehovah's witnesses in 1931 never has there been a period in time when all their activities just - stopped.

especially the preaching work.. do you think they will find some obscure verse in daniel that talks about this period of time and try to make a greater fulfillment?

like the 70 weeks of years or the 42 months?

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They lack the intellectual capacity to make these connections anymore

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Mark Noumair latest video on persecution on jw.org

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/tbbxaasj6ki.

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https://youtu.be/tbBXAASJ6kI

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How many partakers are here?

by bola in

i am partaking of the bread and the wine today.

who else is partaking also?.

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I took from the emblems for 2 years before my departure, it's Christians were meant to do for the past 2000 years

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Is Bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding the prelude to the great tribulation?

by Disillusioned JW in

is bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding a prelude to the great tribulation?.

full disclosure: i still don't believe in the bible's claims about the existence of the supernatural, even of jehovah god (i'm an atheist and a scientific/philosophical naturalist), but i am asking this question because recent events are starting to seem (to me) to fit well the description of some prophecies in the bible.

consider the following.. several hours ago (on 11-26-2021) as i was about to enter a local fred meyer store of my city (in suburb or small city in the metro area of a large city) a person i know told me that a moment earlier a person left the store in a hurry with a cart load up with unpaid merchandise (i think i was told it was groceries but i don't remember that for sure).

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“Let the oceans roar and foam” (Psalms 46:3a,NLT)
There is only one other occurrence where the Bible speaks of the activity of the oceans being a sign of the times of the End, and that is when Jesus made mention of it in Luke 21:25, NLT: “And there will be strange signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And here on earth, the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides.”
The verse is talking about “echos thalassis” which can only be explained as noises coming from the sea. The word “echos” appears only a couple more times in the New Testament. For example, in the book of Acts 2:2, we read about the “noise(=echos,) like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting(in the upper room at the Pentecost)”. Although most translations render Luke 21:25 as “roaring and tossing of the sea” this is not the word for word translation of the first and only few render as sounds. For example the Aramaic Bible in Plain English speaks of “the alarm of the sound of the sea.”
Unfortunately for us Jesus didn’t elaborate on what these “sounds” will be like, but we do see as a result of these “sounds” the nations will be perplexed as to their nature, origin and how to deal with them. Considering that man currently possesses technology that can record and detect objects deep under the surface of the oceans, it remains to be seen what exactly these sounds will be like.
God put in place many restrictions upon nature for the protection of mankind. These restrictions will be removed during the End. We read in Proverbs 8:29: “I(=wisdom) was there when He(=God) set the limits of the seas, so they would not spread beyond their boundaries. And when he marked off the earth’s foundations.”
What is more interesting is that the book of Revelation speaks of the planet Earth as being void of oceans at the end of the thousand years of Millennial Rule. We read in Revelation 21:1″ I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.“
Consider for a moment the fact that the current constitution of the planet where 71% is covered by water is not God’s original purpose for the planet but the result of the destructive after-effects of Noah’s Flood when God deluged the Earth with massive quantities of water in order to destroy the Antediluvian World. We read in Genesis 7:11:“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.”
Most of the water currently occupying the oceans was at one time part of the “great deep” ocean under the earth. Will God return the planet to its previous state with cataclysmic events during the End? Are these “sounds” coming from the oceans part of this planetary change? It remains to be seen.

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