boyle

That’s what I like … short … to the point, and easy to read, and bold in presentation.
…… it also is a big plus to be true.

I hope you have a lovely rest of your evening! Thank you that we could talk, it was fun.  I will try to respond more tomorrow to the questions I missed tonight. Good night!

I'm going to go for now, @boyle, and try to get some sleep. I don't count sheep, but they say if you can't sleep well it's good to reflect on some of the wonderful things in the world. I hope you have a good rest of your night.🙂
 
 

Of course they saw Him. It's only since everybody's brains are so numb now that they can't even imagine seeing Him.

What are you talking about? Like, the Hebrews going around counting sheep in heaven?
 
 

Now @boyle, you know very well that Putin isn't Satan (although he does work under his jurisdiction.)
 
Anyway, we already wrote to Putin a few years ago in 2017...no need to write to him again. Bible prophecy shows his time is short. "And he will plant his royal tents between the grand sea and the holy mountain of Decoration; and he will come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him."

 
(Did also get to message the UK Parliament people too...)

I've taken action. I've already written (via email) to both the United Nations and the White House to tell them what their role is in Bible prophecy.
 
"And he kept staring at him to the point of embarrassment. Then the man of the true God gave way to weeping.  Hazʹa·el asked: “Why is my lord weeping?” He replied: “Because I know what harm you will do to the people of Israel. Their fortified places you will set on fire, their choice men you will kill with the sword, their children you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open.”  Hazʹa·el said: “How could your servant, who is a mere dog, do such a deed?” But E·liʹsha said: “Jehovah has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”"
 
(Alexander the Great was told how he figured in Bible prophecy. So was Cyrus, and Nebuchadnezzar.)
 
Jehovah always tells the finale from the beginning. Praise Jehovah.
 
 
 

There you go again, @boyle, throwing in an honest statement! "This is true." Thank you for being forthright about your situation. Yes, I can see how you can't be trusted to tell the truth - and, yes, I can see that you rather subvert the information by manipulating it. Amen!
 
Enjoy your afternoon, sweetie!😄😘💖

So I guess we can't trust the current jw's in being the one true religion since there are splinter jw's with their own version of the one true religion. It's almost like which version of the chocolate cookie is the best version since the original recipe came out!!!! Which version of the chocolate cookie is the current jw's?

Jesus said the congregations would be a mess. "Hold fast what you have until I come," he said. Most sheep do not think really deeply. That there would be a congregation is obvious from the scriptures. Jesus will fix it when he gets here. Jehovah's left His name on Jehovah's Witnesses. While they are messed up on many things, if you think from a practical point of view, it would be easier for Jesus to come fix up that organization and bring everyone together there than to just start over. Jesus' name means "Jehovah Is Salvation" and regardless of how you want to pronounce it, Jehovah's name means "He Causes To Become". If He can cause the dead to be raised and if He can heal the sick, then He can cause a messed up organization to become healed and alive in love and truth.

Yeah!
An unexplained down vote is like a chicken in a vacuum.
 

Hi, @derek1956, I hope you are well today my brother. I am just curious...heaven knows I am used to getting "the red downarrow" (it's a collector's item, you know) and I understand it from MoiseRacette and Boyle and some others, but I'm just curious - do you not want the little sheep to all be gathered back to the fold? I'm not really sure I understand why you were negative, you have the right to be, but I do value your input and I am curious as to your reasoning.

That is an interesting website to check out. I had stumbled upon it once before. Truly, the little sheep are scattered all over the place, as described in Ezekiel 34. Thankfully Jehovah will gather all of us together at the appointed time!
 
Some of the comments on that website are very insightful. Others are rather antiquated false teachings. I noticed on the "We Believe" section a "Chart of Ages" and also the following: "We are now living in the ‘time of the end...Jesus returned and has been invisibly present on earth since the early days of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society," (even though the Bible actually says Jesus has been invisibly present "all the days until the conclusion of the system of things," which means he has been invisibly present since he went back to heaven.)
 
They have some specific ideas about the literal Jewish nation that are not in harmony with what the scriptures teach. (Generally they seem to adhere to some things that were in the older publications.)
 
I did like this statement that they do believe: "It is wrong to SHUN or DISFELLOWSHIP brethren with honest different points of view," which makes sense when those "honest different points of view" are on matters of conscience. The entire modern "disfellowshipping process" has been overcomplicated.
 
Thank you for sharing the link, @Matthew9969! It will take a miracle for Jesus to get all these sheep back together from all the places they've been scattered, and it will take a miracle to remove all the weedy teachings that the Devil has sown. Thankfully, Jesus is a miracle worker!
 
"Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest season, I will tell the reapers: First collect the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them up; then gather the wheat into my storehouse."
 
"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."
 
(It's almost time for the harvest to begin.)

Found this interesting read....Who are the True Faith Jehovah’s Witnesses? Why did they break away from Bethel? « Beyond the Watchtower (beyondwatchtower.com)

I have been thinking of changing my screen name to Krypto, but the dry cleaners lost my red cape.

I wasn't there when the Flood happened. Were you there?
 
Jehovah could have put the people to sleep in death first and then swept them away. (Dead people sleep soundly during thunderstorms.)
 
Also, at different times Jehovah has "closed up the womb" of women. Like when "Jehovah had made all the women of the house of A·bimʹe·lech barren because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife." The Bible record shows that Noah and his wife didn't have more kids right away after Shem Ham and Japheth. It also shows that Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives didn't have kids right away either, even though people were quite prolific in those days. Jehovah knew the date He scheduled for the Flood. Is it possible there were no little kids or babies around when the Flood came, because Jehovah had closed up the wombs of all the women those fifty years they were building the ark? We don't know. We weren't there, but we do know Jehovah.
 
"Then Abraham approached and said: “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?  Suppose there are 50 righteous men within the city. Will you, then, sweep them away and not pardon the place for the sake of the 50 righteous who are inside it?  It is unthinkable that you would act in this manner by putting the righteous man to death with the wicked one so that the outcome for the righteous man and the wicked is the same! It is unthinkable of you. Will the Judge of all the earth not do what is right?”  
 
"Then Jehovah said: “If I find in Sodʹom 50 righteous men in the city, I will pardon the whole place for their sake.”"
 
""Say to them, ‘“As surely as I live,” declares Jehovah, “I will do to you just what I have heard you speak!  In this wilderness your corpses will fall, yes, the whole number of you from 20 years old and up who were registered, all of you who have murmured against me.  None of you will enter into the land that I swore to have you reside in except Caʹleb the son of Je·phunʹneh and Joshua the son of Nun. And I will bring in your children, who you said would become plunder, and they will get to know the land that you have rejected.""
 
"But Jehovah said: “You felt sorry for the bottle-gourd plant, which you did not work for, nor did you make it grow; it grew in one night and perished in one night.  Should I not also feel sorry for Ninʹe·veh the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 men who do not even know right from wrong, as well as their many animals?"
 
"For I will declare the name of Jehovah. 
Tell about the greatness of our God! 
The Rock, perfect is his activity, 
For all his ways are justice.  
A God of faithfulness who is never unjust; 
Righteous and upright is he."

Haha...actually first Jesus has to throw all the trash out of heaven (Satan hasn't been cast down here yet.) "Trash out of heaven" makes me think of this song...
 
 

@boyle, you know the great tribulation hasn't started yet - quit funnin'!
 
I need to get some rest. I hope you guys have a good rest of your evening. (I liked the kitten video!)☺️

You know … all this bickering back and forth, back and forth, reminds me of the Scripture that says “… Robots and A.I.s will inherit the Earth … ignore my first draft.”.

Speaking of "swimming" and "crap"...
 
"For the hand of Jehovah will rest on this mountain, 
And Moʹab will be trampled on in its place 
Like straw trampled into a pile of manure.  
He will slap out his hands into it 
Like a swimmer slapping out his hands to swim, 
And he will bring down its haughtiness 
With the skillful movements of his hands.  
And the fortified city, with your high walls of security, 
He will bring down; 
He will knock it down to the ground, to the very dust."
 
Jehovah's going to knock down all the crappy false teachings and set things straight.
 
@Pudgy, you said on another thread that you have three kids, correct?

Your “swimming” comment makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, perhaps you want to explain it?

FDS teaches that only 144,000 will go "be with God" and everybody else is chop suey. They are full of crap.
 
The Bible teaches that actually Jesus and the 144,000 will be here on earth during the 1,000 years bringing the garden back. At the end of the 1,000, Jehovah is coming.

Amen!

I have found that people that elevate philosophers and scholars and disparage plumbers, both their philosophy and scholarship is full of crap.

The overall discipline is Civil Engineering.
A subset of that is Sanitary Engineering, and “sewage plumbing” requires considerable education and engineering expertise to make sewage flow downhill without clogging the pipes or eroding them away etc., and building systems that are buildable, durable, and which someone can actually afford.
That which you disparage has saved more lives than doctors in preventing communicable disease.
Years ago the entire city of Chicago was raised up out of the lowland so sewage would flow downhill.