John 12.24to28

(Thank you...Please, would you ask the @admin to delete my account and if possible my posts from this account and the one I had before? If it's possible. Please know I do keep you in mind in prayer. I hope you can have peace.🌷)

"...if a friend of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if there is not, it will return to you." (I tried. I can talk to a puppet, even an abusive one, but I don't like talking to that kind of puppet. Maybe I'll be back again someday. Ciao for now.🙂) I don't see any iron, @Pudgy, only soap and masks. I can see through them, Jehovah lets me see. The ransom is enough for anyone who wants it, but I can't stay if you don't even want to try. I truly wish you well.💝 Thank you for tolerating my awkwardness.😌

I know you're really talented at multitasking, research, character development, comedy, acting, and computer related technology stuff. Some people are talented at making cookies... ...or handling matters of justice...

@Fausto Hoover et al, it seems you need a friend more than I do, lol! Jehovah will always be your friend, if you call out to Him. I'm willing to be a friend too, but it's hard to see you with all those masks on. "Search for Jehovah while he may be found. Call to him while he is near. Let the wicked man leave his way And the evil man his thoughts; Let him return to Jehovah, who will have mercy on him, To our God, for he will forgive in a large way." (Isaiah 55:6,7) "...to you, O Jehovah, I turn. For you, O Jehovah, are good and ready to forgive; You abound in loyal love for all those who call on you." (Psalm 86:4,5) ("Fausto", what are you waiting for? 🙂) 💖💞🌷✨🥰🤗💝🌱🌿

"Therefore, openly confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. A righteous man’s supplication has a powerful effect. E·liʹjah was a man with feelings like ours, and yet when he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the land produced fruit." (James 5:16-18)

"For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies have understood this." (Deuteronomy 32:31) 😁

Some people try to live "the way of Faust", or something along the same lines. Others try to live "the way of Pharisees" or something along those lines. Been there, done that, both ways. If you can believe it, there is a way that is more fun... "Let the wicked man leave his way And the evil man his thoughts; Let him return to Jehovah, who will have mercy on him, To our God, for he will forgive in a large way. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, And your ways are not my ways,” declares Jehovah. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So my ways are higher than your ways And my thoughts than your thoughts." The Pharisaical way the GB describes "love" and "pure worship" and "joy" leaves out a lot of the fun. The clean joy of being young at heart and goofy and just having fun together in innocence and peace. Jesus knew how to have fun. He wasn't a stuff-shirt. He hung out with fishermen and other every-day fun people. "Lead me onto a rock that is higher than I am." (Psalm 61:2) The way to have "more fun" isn't to look down deeper into the pit of sordid behavior. It's also not to be all stuffy and sophisticated in fancy suits, banning beards and making rules about how to walk and how to talk and how to "count time". It's to recognize we're dust, be cool with it, enjoy being little, and look up to Jehovah, the Source of Love and Joyful Life... "...make my joy full by being of the same mind and having the same love..." (Philippians 2:2) When the mud is wiped out of our eyes, the view is more than superabundantly beyond all we could ask or conceive. It's not boring. It's more than what was sacrificed to get it. The joy to come is more than the selfish pleasure we give up or more than the sophisticated facade we give up. It is beyond expectation and understanding. But we have to trust Him and be willing to "take the chance" by letting go of the dungy stuff and the stuffy stuff. "Therefore, since we have these promises, beloved ones, let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. I do not say this to condemn you. For I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together. I have great freeness of speech toward you. I have great boasting in regard to you. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction." (2 Corinthians 7:1-4) "Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6) Jesus is way more fun than anybody else who ever lived.

I personally don't know what Prince and Michael Jackson believed but... Maybe the GB views it as the same difference between being "eccentric" and being "an apostate"? Who really is apostate anyways, lol? JWorg believes 1914 Jesus began ruling, FDS/GB idolatry, etc other apostate teachings...crazy! Good thing the ransom is big and Jesus is patient with all of us.☺️ And that the apostate teachings have an expiration date: when Jesus gets here he'll remove them...

I don't know, James, sometimes accordians are cool... 😁

🎶"What is love? Baby don't herd me..." Lol😆

?? Ero host or Era Host or Elo hist? https://typeset.io/pdf/the-ero-host-galaxy-of-grb-020127-implications-for-the-e32fb9bi48.pdf https://era.host/en/ https://gist.github.com/Ewpratten/04d2e1b371a722b2ed33b77f57215e2b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohist (I'm thinking you meant "Elohist" right? Must have been a typo? Or...)

?? 😆 https://www.thomascook.in/places-to-visit/unusual-customs-in-new-zealand-17702 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/zealand-sheep-protest-chants-video-sheep-respond-calls-20012015

A lot of Isaiah's prophecy is for "the final part of the days" during the 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation. During that time, Jehovah will cleanse away the apostasy from all the Christian denominations and Jehovah will guide His faithful people just like He did back in the wilderness with a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night. "When Jehovah washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion and rinses away the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst by the spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning, Jehovah will also create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over the place of her conventions a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a shelter. And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for refuge and protection from storms and the rain." (Isaiah chapter 4) The pillar of fire/smoke is figurative. During the "wilderness" time of the coming 3 1/2 years, Jehovah will make sure His faithful ones have direction. It will not be from a corrupt organization. Jesus will make it clear at the appointed time which way to go.

Isaiah chapter 2 Watchtower likes to say this already happened, but it hasn't happened yet... "In the final part of the days, The mountain of the house of Jehovah Will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, And it will be raised up above the hills, And to it all the nations will stream. And many peoples will go and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, To the house of the God of Jacob. He will instruct us about his ways, And we will walk in his paths.” For law will go out of Zion, And the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem." We are not in the final part of the days yet. The final part of the days is during the great tribulation. All of the so-called "Christian" denominations have various levels of apostasy in their ranks. The Watchtower has doctrines that are leftover from "magic/spiritistic" practices like the 1914-numerology-pyramidology-thing, as well as other false doctrines. The worship of the GB/FDS is a form of idolatry. When Daniel was describing the dream image to Nebuchadnezzar he said "you are the head of gold". When people are worshipped, it is as if they have become "images of gold and silver." Here is what God said in Isaiah chapter 2 about such "images"... "Their land is filled with worthless gods. They bow down to the work of their own hands, To what their own fingers have made... Man’s haughtiness will be brought down, And the arrogance of men will bow low. Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day. The worthless gods will completely disappear... In that day men will take their worthless gods of silver and of gold That they had made for themselves to bow down to And throw them away to the shrewmice and to the bats, In order to enter into the holes in the rocks And into the clefts of the crags, Because of the terrifying presence of Jehovah And his majestic splendor, When he arises to make the earth tremble in terror. For your own sakes, quit trusting in mere man, Who is only the breath in his nostrils. Why should he be taken into account?" All the denominations have their "images", men who are looked to for salvation rather than Jehovah. "In the final part of the days" Jehovah will make it clear how to worship Him correctly. True worship will be refined. Jesus said so in the messages to the congregations as recorded in Revelation chapters 2 and 3. The angels of the congregations will help with the process. (The "angels" are spirit creatures, not "elders" as the Watchtower likes to teach.) "The conclusion of this system of things" hasn't happened yet. It happens during the 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation. That's when this verse will be fulfilled too... "The harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will collect out from his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and people who practice lawlessness, and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be. At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Let the one who has ears listen."