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  1. That's genius. Never thought it would be so easy! Don't know what Anna would say!
  2. They are encouraging us to eat more walnuts as it is a healthy kind of fat. Therefore Date-Walnut Bread is a great choice. Like how you savour eating good food. Looking forward to your secret recipe for Banana Bread.
  3. Good to know you can remember the ingredients and the methods. Glad you enjoyed going back to old recipes but please continue with the vegetables and substitute them for some of the cheese, hamburger/mincemeat for their health-giving benefits and because of your age. Don't forget you were young then. I think you said grade and grading respectively in two instances, where I believe you meant grate and grating. There is nothing like going back to eating foods you partook of when you were young. All the best!
  4. What is the subject the person is being examined on?
  5. Lending a scriptural passage alluded to above by Arauna. 2 Samuel 24:10-14 10 But David’s heart* was struck with remorse+ after he had numbered the people. David then said to Jehovah: “I have sinned+ greatly by doing this. And now, Jehovah, please forgive your servant’s error,+ for I have acted very foolishly.”+ 11 When David got up in the morning, Jehovah’s word came to Gad+ the prophet, David’s visionary, saying: 12 “Go and say to David, ‘This is what Jehovah says: “I am giving you three options. Choose the one that I should bring on you.”’”+ 13 So Gad came in to David and told him: “Should seven years of famine come on your land?+ Or should you flee for three months from your adversaries while they pursue you?+ Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land?+ Now consider carefully what I should reply to the One who sent me.” 14 So David said to Gad: “It is very distressing to me. Let us fall, please, into the hand of Jehovah,+ for his mercy is great;+ but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”+15 Then Jehovah sent a pestilence+ on Israel from the morning until the designated time, so that 70,000 of the people from Dan to Beʹer-sheʹba+ died.+ 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah felt regret* over the calamity,+ and he said to the angel bringing destruction among the people: “It is enough! Now let your hand drop.” Jehovah’s angel was close to the threshing floor of A·rauʹnah+ the Jebʹu·site." Read on, to verse 24, it is interesting. This discussion has gone way too far over the brink. Hope the scriptural passage can redeem and refresh in some way.
  6. Yes, and we learned recently that by and large God's people went into captivity to Babylon the Great (Christendom, etc) around 200 CE and emerged again around 1919 liberating light again began to shine - Bible Students Association, etc). So we are looking at the King of the North from thenceforth, when true worship was revived. (This is not to say that Jehovah had no worshippers on earth during that long period - we had Bible translators that persisted even unto death; non-Trinitarians burned to the stake, scientists and artists who definitely believed in God like Sir Isaac Newton, etc) There was no organized true religion during that period until 1919. Jesus said the wheat and the weeds would grow together until the last days, the harvest time. (Matt 13:25-30) So there were wheat-like persons who believed the Bible and worshipped to the best of their ability and perception during that period. As the True God, he must have Witnesses. (Isaiah 43) False gods have none. We learned recently that it was not in 1776 when America gained Independence but later when Britain and America began to cooperate together that the Anglo-American world power came into force. So Britain-America has been the King of the South for some time now. (Was looking for this information yesterday but I did not find the source, so this is just all from memory and perception.) Perhaps JWI, Arauna or someone else may wish to bring out these points better. I am a bit busy today.
  7. All governments have the 'sword' or else they cannot maintain the peace and good order. Note what the apostle Paul said in the Christian era at Romans chapter 13 verses 1 and 4: 1 " Let every person be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. ....4 for it is Gods minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God's minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is bad." In the 20th century BCE when Joseph was administering Egypt I would think that things were even stricter. Also in the period when he Jewess Esther was Queen of Persia (some time between the period 493 to 475 BCE) use of the sword was fairly liberal; one could not come in to the King unless he/she were invited. They did so under the penalty of death. When Adam an Eve listened to Satan and sinned, God knew that human kings/governments would come on the scene. That is why he told Samuel, that the Israelites did not reject him, Samuel, it was Jehovah whom they rejected when they asked for a king. As early as Genesis 49 we see prophecy relating to the the coming of royal offspring eventually leading the Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who was to be the root of David. His throne would eventually be a heavenly throne and has in fact become so. Therefore what human kings/governments do is allowed by God to keep order on earth. There is no record, as far as I remember, of Joseph's dealings with ordinary citizens but whatever he did seemed was fair and in good taste. He was later given total power over everyone in the Egyptian realm except for Pharaoh himself. Pharaoh recognized in 30-year-old Joseph the man wise enough to administer affairs during the time of plenty and the time of famine. Joseph was therefore constituted second ruler in Egypt, Pharaoh giving Joseph his own signet ring, fine linen garments, and a necklace of gold and other trappings of high office. Fast forward to when his brothers came to Egypt to buy food, he sent them back to fetch his younger brother and gave them a series of tests to see if their murderous attitude had changed. He then revealed himself to them, hugged them and cried profusely and told them: "Now do not feel hurt and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here; because for the preservation of life God has sent me ahead of you. For this is the second year of the famine in the midst of the earth, and there are yet five years in which were will be no plowing time or harvest. Consequently God sent me ahead of you in order to place a remnant for you men in the earth and to keep you alive by a great escape. So now it was not you who sent me here, but it was the true God." Genesis 45;1-8; 14,15. Being a ruler did not stop him from being a servant of God; even if he had to order the execution of thieves it would not have stopped him from being righteous in God's eyes, because God had given that authority to the state. That Joseph was approved by God is seen in the fact that the twelve tribes of spiritual Israel mentioned in Revelation 7 verse 8, includes his name, whereas in the literal twelve tribes of Israel his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, are mentioned. Also in the Christian Greek Scriptures Joseph is included in the "great cloud" of Witnesses whose faith is worthy of imitation. It mentioned at verse 22 of chapter 11 of Hebrews that "By faith Joseph, nearing his end, spoke of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and he gave instructions concerning his bones. We see his actual request at Genesis 50:24,25. That this was carried out we see in the record at Joshua 24:32: "The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that Jacob had acquired from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for 100 pieces of money; and it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph." I wanted to include God's approval of the worship of the Syrian war chief Naaman on becoming a worshipper of the True God but don't wish to be too long. Check the record at 2 Kings 5:15-18. However, for Christians it is a little different. The apostle Paul goes further than Jesus in explaining the spirit of the Christian law. Since Jesus's ransom sacrifice, all nations are one under Christ. When Peter cut off the high priests ear in the garden of Gethsemane at the time of Jesus' arrest, Jesus healed it and restored the ear and rebuked Peter., saying those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. He had told Christians to be neutral in John 17:15-17, namely "..They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world." That the character of a soldier was not in keeping with the character of a Christian, the apostle Paul wrote to Titus and Timothy: 1 Tim 3:2, 3: 2 "The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent (or a smiter - footnote), but reasonable, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money...". History of the first century Christians show they did not take jobs which entailed violence of any sort, but they cooperated with those who had the sword by obeying the laws of the land. (Romans 13)
  8. Re-read the Acts of the Apostles, the book of Revelation and the Yearbooks especially the ones on Germany and Malawi and see if you still feel so. Will quote one from the book of Revelation. Revelation 12:9-11: 9 "So down the great dragon+ was hurled, the original serpent,+ the one called Devil+ and Satan,+ who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;+ he was hurled down to the earth,+ and his angels were hurled down with him. 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven say:“Now have come to pass the salvation+ and the power and the Kingdom of our God+ and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!+ 11 And they conquered him+ because of the blood of the Lamb+ and because of the word of their witnessing,+ and they did not love their souls*+ even in the face of death."
  9. Only thing we should be sure to remember is Daniel 11 and 12 - King of the North in the time of the end. Read over Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy, chapters 15 and 16, which are being played out now, mostly in Russia, but might soon apply to other areas. Remember we are neutral in these conflicts and to pray for our brothers.
  10. At least accrediting Jehovah is better than saying it evolved from something.
  11. Judas was appointed by Jesus also, and he was of the heavenly calling. And I agree with the last sentence above by Bro Tom Harley. By the way Adam was made by God, and appointed to take care of all the earth and the animals. But he used his free will in the wrong way.
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