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Jehovah sees all and will use this and other events affecting his named people to further his will. We just need to have faith and rely on the blessings from Jehovah. Keep our eyes on the prize and pray for endurance for all the brotherhood.  

Jehovah sees all and will use this and other events affecting his named people to further his will. We just need to have faith and rely on the blessings from Jehovah. Keep our eyes on the prize and pray for endurance for all the brotherhood.  

Jehovah sees all and will use this and other events affecting his named people to further his will. We just need to have faith and rely on the blessings from Jehovah. Keep our eyes on the prize and pray for endurance for all the brotherhood.  

19:10 July 17, 2017 the Supreme Court of Russia has missed the last chance to restore law and justice for the 175,000 Russian citizens professing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Only a 20-minute meeting took a panel of three Supreme Court judges, to leave unchanged the decision taken earlier by the judge Yuri Ivanenko, the liquidation and ban any and all registered organizations of the religion. Since there is no more effective domestic remedies, the believers will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights and other international organizations.

Moscow   17 July, 19:45SporPRe   TASS NEWS   Russian Supreme Court upholds ruling to disband Jehovah's Witnesses organization
Society & Culture  July 17, 19:42 UTC+3  The resolution took immediate effect
Share 0                               © Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Appeals college of the Russian Supreme Court has upheld an earlier ruling of the court to quality the Jehovah's Witnesses center as an extremist organization, to disband it and to ban its activities on the Russian territory.
By passing the resolution, the appeals college down an appeal filed by the Jehovah's Witnesses.
 
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"The passed by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on April 20 shall remain unchanged and the appeal shall not be entertained," the presiding judge said.
The resolution took immediate effect.
  The defense attorneys of Jehovah’s Witnesses are planning to appeal the ruling of the Russian Supreme Court on disbanding the organization at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), attorney Viktor Zhenkov said.
"The chapter has not been closed yet. Since the Supreme Court has violated not only Russia’s legislation but also the norms of international law, we will appeal this decision at the ECHR," Zhenkov said.
More:http://tass.com/society/956654

12  “But before all these things happen, people will lay their hands on you and persecute you,+ handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name.+ 13  It will result in your giving a witness." LUKE 21:12,13.

One of Jehovah’s Witnesses ponders his place in the universe
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Lesson for today  (Phil 2:3)  
3 "Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with humility consider others superior to you."
PEOPLE today take great pride in personal accomplishments, and they are often quick to boast about them. Christians are different. They refrain from overemphasizing their own accomplishments, even those having to do with true worship. While they rejoice over what Jehovah’s people accomplish as a whole, they keep their individual contribution in the background.
They realize that in Jehovah’s service, right motives are more important than personal accomplishments.
Anyone who is eventually given the gift of eternal life will have gained it, not by personal accomplishments, but through faith and by God’s undeserved kindness. This may be a challenge, especially if we happen to be in a position of responsibility.
Perhaps the difficulty arises because we have been influenced, to a certain extent, by the spirit of competition so prevalent in the world today.
Possibly, as children we were taught to compete, either with our siblings at home or with our classmates at school.
We were perhaps constantly urged to reach out for the honor of being the school’s star athlete or its top student. Of course, giving our best in any proper undertaking is commendable.
However, Christians do so, not to call undue attention to themselves, but to benefit fully from the activity and perhaps to benefit others as well.
However, aspiring always to be praised as number one can be dangerous.  
Yes, we can draw comfort and encouragement from knowing that we can be saved, not by works alone, but by Jehovah’s undeserved kindness!  
http://m.wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2005404?q=life+accomplishments&p=par

16 "You open your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing."
             (Psalms 146:16) NWT jw.org IMG_6019.MP4

Lesson for today.
(John 9:31)  "We know that God does not listen to sinners,  but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to this one." 
Clearly, those who show contempt for God’s laws or pray with improper motives cannot expect to be heard by God. Those who disregard God’s Word and law, shedding blood and practicing other wickedness, do not receive a favorable hearing from God; their prayers are “detestable” to him. (Pr 15:29; 28:9; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4) The very prayer of such ones can “become a sin.” (Ps 109:3-7) King Saul, by his presumptuous, rebellious course, lost God’s favor, and “although Saul would inquire of Jehovah, Jehovah never answered him, either by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.” (1Sa 28:6)
Jesus said that hypocritical persons who sought to draw attention to their piety by praying received their “reward in full”—from men, but not from God. (Mt 6:5)
The pious-appearing Pharisees made long prayers, boasted of their superior morality, yet were condemned by God for their hypocritical course. (Mr 12:40; Lu 18:10-14)
Though they drew near with their mouths, their hearts were far from God and his Word of truth. Finally, when we pray about something, we must do everything we can to work at what we are praying for.
For example, if we pray to Jehovah for our daily needs, then we can’t be lazy and expect Jehovah to give us everything even though we are able to work for it.
We must work hard and accept whatever job we are able to do. (Matthew 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Or if we pray to Jehovah for help to stop doing something wrong, we must avoid any situation that could tempt us. God does not accept all prayers.
How, then, can we pray with the assurance that our prayers will be accepted?
Faithful people to whom God listened in former times approached him in sincerity and with the right heart attitude.
They showed faith and backed this up with fine works. We can be assured that Jehovah will listen to those who approach him in like manner today.  
The prayers of those who profess to serve Jehovah but at the same time practice works that conflict with his laws become like an offensive odor to him. (Proverbs 15:8)
Let us, then, continue to keep all aspects of our lives clean so that our prayers are like sweet-smelling incense to God. Jehovah delights in the prayers of those who follow his righteous paths.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102015157#h=1:0-26:217

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Biblical King Hezekiah Official Seal Found in Ancient Trash Dump...
A 2,700-year-old royal seal bearing the mark of the biblical King Hezekiah has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The tiny oval piece of clay bears the impression of a sun with two wings turned downward, flanked by two ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that symbolize 'life'.

Jesus House Discovered in Nazareth! 

Sisters braving the Bad weather in Maastricht, Holland
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As Librarian said, a true genius...........in more ways than one..........here we have a brilliant man in the scientific field, and yet humble enough to believe in God, whereas many scientists (who may also be brilliant in their chosen fields) believe in evolution and/or would rather "play god" than believe in a grand creator...........and his sentiments on the importance of love are very revealing.
He will certainly be an interesting man to talk to during the millennium..........and "probably eternally???"

Usually when we refer to the "faithful and discreet slave" parable, we are really referring to the parable of 'the faithful and the unfaithful slave' found in Matthew 24:45-51. In fact, the parable of the "faithful and discreet slave" is also found in Luke, where the expression is changed a bit to "the faithful steward, the discreet one . . . that slave."
(Luke 12:42-48) 42 And the Lord said: “Who really is the faithful steward, the discreet one, whom his master will appoint over his body of attendants to keep giving them their measure of food supplies at the proper time? 43 Happy is that slave if his master on coming finds him doing so! 44 I tell you truthfully, he will appoint him over all his belongings. 45 But if ever that slave should say in his heart, ‘My master delays coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that slave will come on a day that he is not expecting him and at an hour that he does not know, and he will punish him with the greatest severity and assign him a part with the unfaithful ones. 47 Then that slave who understood the will of his master but did not get ready or do what he asked will be beaten with many strokes. 48 But the one who did not understand and yet did things deserving of strokes will be beaten with few. Indeed, everyone to whom much was given, much will be demanded of him, and the one who was put in charge of much will have more than usual demanded of him.
"That slave" is given the assignment to feed the master's "body of attendants." If he obeys, he gets a promotion, and if he disobeys he is punished. This is the exact same idea as in Matthew 24, except that there are only about 15 words referring to what happens if this slave obeys and 150 words in the section about what happens if the slave disobeys. That's about 10 times as much space given to the idea of disobedience versus obedience. In Matthew it's only about 3 times as much space given to the idea of disobedience.
That might explain why the verses in Matthew are referenced so much more often in Watch Tower publications and talks. The Watchtower has, of course, minimized the idea of any potential disobedience:
*** w13 7/15 p. 24 “Who Really Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?” ***
Was Jesus foretelling that there would be an evil slave class in the last days? No. Granted, some individuals have manifested a spirit similar to that of the evil slave described by Jesus. We would call them apostates, whether they were of the anointed or of the “great crowd.” (Rev. 7:9) But such ones do not make up an evil slave class. Jesus did not say that he would appoint an evil slave. His words here are actually a warning directed to the faithful and discreet slave.
  Notice that Jesus introduces the warning with the words “if ever.” One scholar says that in the Greek text, this passage “for all practical purposes is a hypothetical condition.”
This is an adjustment to the doctrine held just up until the change in 2013. Prior to the quote above (originally presented at the Annual Meeting in 2012) the idea about the evil slave was just the opposite: that the "evil slave" came directly from the ranks of the "faithful slave."
*** w04 3/1 p. 13 pars. 2-4 ‘The Faithful Slave’ Passes the Test! ***
The expression “that evil slave” draws our attention to Jesus’ preceding words about the faithful and discreet slave. Yes, the “evil slave” came from the ranks of the faithful slave. How?
3 Before 1914, many members of the faithful slave class had high hopes of meeting with the Bridegroom in heaven that year, but their hopes were not fulfilled. As a result of this and other developments, many were disappointed and a few became embittered. Some of these turned to ‘beating’ their former brothers verbally and consorting with “confirmed drunkards,” religious groups of Christendom.—Isaiah 28:1-3; 32:6.
4 These former Christians came to be identified as the “evil slave,” and Jesus punished them with “the greatest severity.” How? He rejected them, and they lost out on their heavenly hope. They were not, however, immediately destroyed. They first had to endure a period of weeping and gnashing of teeth in “the darkness outside” the Christian congregation. (Matthew 8:12) Since those early days, a few other anointed individuals have shown a similar bad spirit, identifying themselves with the “evil slave.” Some of the “other sheep” have imitated their unfaithfulness. (John 10:16)
Now, of course, the "faithful slave" is made to be the equivalent of the Governing Body since 1919. (The Governing Body has only existed in its current form since the early to mid-1970s.) For this reason, evidently, it would no longer be appropriate to consider or expect that the evil slave might come from the ranks of the Governing Body. Continuing this teaching would likely create a measure of suspicion and questioning of the Governing Body itself.

That  works  so  sweet  with  your  nice  posting ❤  Thank  you ;-)
 
 

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Look  up  to  the  wonderful  creations  of  JEHOVAH❤  The  whole  universe  and  the  earth....
“Look up, please, to the heavens and count the stars, if you are possibly able to count them." / Gen. 15:5
ITS  REALLY  A  WONDER !!

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