Emma Rose
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'Eh-yeh' 'Asher' 'Eh-yeh'
The Hebrew verb Ha-yah' means "become" or "prove to be", what He will become towards others.
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I think we all have our individual preaching methods and there is no 'set' answer to all. If what you do works for you, great
I'm not trying to make spiritual foie gras 🤣
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Time will tell but there seems to be 3 tiers active here.
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Jehovah will have His message preached to the extent He has foretold, there may be ways that reach those that have yet to hear, that we are unaware of. Who would have thought, as recently as last year, that we'd be carrying out that preaching work using electronic means.
It is not outside of the realms of possibility to consider Jehovah able to 'know' how a person 'would' react had they heard the good news. That's not what I'm saying will happen, I'm simply saying all things are possible with God, and some of those things may fall within the following scripture: Isaiah 55:9 - "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So my ways are higher than your ways And my thoughts than your thoughts"
That is what faith and knowing Jehovah results in, absolute conviction that what He has said He will do, His way.
- TrueTomHarley and Anna
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The fundamental difference between many here is the ability to anthropomorphise Jehovah God. Jehovah has written what he will do and He will choose the manner in which He carries it out, best left for Him to decide. Jehovah is never wrong but humans have the tendency to become overly concerned about matters that, not only do they not have the answers to, but also undermine their own faith and for whatever reason, that becomes a stone on a slippery pathway to self-justification and the ruination of their faith.
Let Jehovah carry out His will, He knows better than we do what He is doing.
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The title 'Elo'him' is used in the Hebrew scriptures for the following:
Jehovah (the true God)
Dagon (Philistine god)
Nisroch (Assyrian god)
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The Greek term for God, Theo-os for:
The true God
Zeus (Roman Jupiter)
Hermes (Mercury Novel)
It is essential to distinguish the true God by the use of His personal name Jehovah.
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It is helpful to go to our site jw.org and library, online library, publications, enter topic and type in "Questions from readers".
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James 1:13 "When under trial, let no one say: "I am being tried by God." For with evil things God cannot be tried, nor does he himself try anyone."
It is a 'sign' of the last days.
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Soft-pedalling the Bible's message is not going to help people.
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To know God's name Jehovah, is more than just an awareness of it's existence.
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On 6/12/2016 at 3:42 AM, Kenan said:
When asked during the Aust Royal Commission, if the members of the Governing Body consider themselves to be God's spokesperson on earth, Geoff Jackson said, "That would be presumptuous of us"
Indicating that perhaps Jehovah's Witnesses are not necessarily the only ones who recognize the TRUTH written in the bible.
There are obviously many not yet contacted through witnessing and more born every minute, whose heart only Jehovah can read.
Indicating humility.
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On 6/11/2016 at 8:16 PM, The Librarian said:
@Jay Witness The Nethinim class antitype applies to the helpers of the Governing Body who are not of the Anointed Ones. (144,000)
This new understanding came about around 1992. I believe Anthony Morris III proposed that article which was eventually published in The Watchtower.
As for some "Worldly" people (a term we try not to use in public) being the Nethinim class in "Paradise"... I guess we will just have to wait and see.
I, for one, would be excited to now that billions of people would be allowed to live in the new theocracy rather than be destroyed.
Maybe this will be part of the upcoming "New Scrolls"?
As for the Gibeonites, ... well.... that is a whole other question I will have to tackle later. 😉
Rev 7:14 Those that have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation.
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The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, begun in the 3rd century B.C.E.
It contained the divine name in the form of Greek characters or the Tetragrammaton.
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Exodus 9:16 But for this very reason I have kept you in existence: to show you my power and to have my name declared in all the earth.
It's quite possible that the Jews were concerned about non-Jews misusing Jehovah's name and so tried to keep it under wraps. As we can see from the scripture noted above, Jehovah is going to make His name known in all the earth. Isaiah 64:2 As when a fire ignites the brushwood, and the fire makes the water boil, Then your name would be known to your adversaries, And the nations would tremble before you!
Clearly, Jehovah's name would be known throughout the earth.
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1 hour ago, TrueTomHarley said:
I had my own experience of 30 years ago recounted to me by the one who was my companion at the time:
During one of the early pioneer schools, testing out what we had learned, we had been paired together. Upon my ringing the bell, the householder asked: “Are you Jehovah?”
”Oh, no,” I modestly replied. “I would never presume to call myself by the name of the Most High God. I am but a lowly servant of his, trying in my own imperfect way to serve him.” Thirty years later I ran across that companion again and she recounted how every time she reviewed it in her head, she was so impressed at my abject humility.
It never happened! She had reworked it in her head. Never trust urban legends.
What I had said when the good-natured woman asked “Are you Jehovah?,“ through the screen door, from the far-removed kitchen, for she was distracted in cooking, was: “Well—no, actually, I am not.” Whereupon she realized just what she had absent-mindedly said, and laughed uproariously at the joke.
We did end up having a pretty good discussion, and maybe it is from that circumstance that my companion elevated me to near sainthood. I’m not really all that deserving of it.
I wonder if that's what your companion was thinking they'd say
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There arose a superstition on the part of the Jews, concerning the utterance of Jehovah's name. I have experienced this whilst on the ministry. I knocked at a door and two men answered, I began to talk to them about the Bible and one of them asked who we were, I replied, "Jehovah's Witnesses", completely unaware of the small Mezuzah attached to the doorframe, he then put his finger to his mouth as if to say hush and closed the door. For me, that meant he recognised God's name, Jehovah.
Now I say, I worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Isa 42:8 I am Jehovah. That is my name; I give my glory to no one else, nor my praise to graven images.
Descriptive titles are:
God, Sovereign Lord, Creator, Father, the Almighty and the Most High.
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14 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:
Yes, but it would be partly offset by the fact that anyone coming close could be described as a Near Miss.
😄😄👍
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There would be catastrophic confusion if we were all called Mister or Miss
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4 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:
My favorite is one of those Hollywood blockbusters of decades past—I think ‘The Ten Commandments.’
Early on the distressed Israelites complain that they don’t even know their God’s name.
Later on they are as happy as pigs in mud. They have learned it. It is ‘The LORD.’
That's one of my favourites too, it is a fantastic film. I also have Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr.
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3 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:
Ha. I’ll get there in knowing what she is doing?
Or I’ll get there in knowing what I am doing?
Either one works.
Either or either 😉
Thought for the day- walking in the name of Jehovah
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