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(Acts 2:29) “. . .Men, brothers, it is allowable to speak with freeness of speech to YOU concerning the family head David, that he both deceased and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. . .34 Actually David did not ascend to the heavens..."

ALONG WITH Job, Sarah, Moses, Abraham,etc.

(Job 14:12-14) “. . .Man also has to lie down and does not get up. ...... Nor will they be aroused from their sleep. 13 O that in She′ol you would conceal me, That you would keep me secret until your anger turns back, That you would set a time limit for me and remember me! ...."

--COULD IT BE then that he will be among those who will be remembered & resurrected to earth once Armageddon is over with?

John 5:28-29) “. . .Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life.."

--What are your thoughts?

......COULD IT BE that the main hope for most of dead mankind is to be brought back to the earth to have the opportunity of everlasting life as the:

(Psalm 37:29) “29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it.”

(Matthew 5:5) “5 “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.”

--AND AS he promised in his long range promise for the majority of mankind:

(John 5:28-29) “. . .Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life,. . .”

--What are your thoughts??

....along with Revelation 12:10 where it states:

“. . . And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “NOW HAVE (my caps)come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ. . .”

--AND IF THE DISCIPLES of Christ asked for a particular sign, could this indicate invisibility?

MATT: 24:3-NEW LIVING TRANSLATION:

"Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?[a]”

--ALSO IN VIEW OF :

(2 Peter 3:3-4) “. . .For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? ...."

--WHAT WOULD they be ridiculing if it was not his invisible presence?

--COULD IT BE his visible appearance as some say?

--WAS THERE a date in which the ridiculing would start as to this invisible "presence--since the text above says "NOW HAVE COME......"?

.......EZEKIEL 18:25 (NEW INTERNATIONAL READERS VERSION)

25 "But you say, 'What the Lord does isn't fair.' Listen to me, people of Israel. What I do is always fair. What you do is not.

NEW LIFE VERSION:

25 "Yet you say, 'The Lord is not doing what is right.' Listen, O people of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?"

(Ezekiel 18:25) NWT

“25 “‘And YOU people will certainly say: “The way of Jehovah is not adjusted right.” Hear, please, O house of Israel. Is not my own way adjusted right? Are not the ways of YOU people not adjusted right?”

--What were the ways & things that Israel of old accused God of not being fair?

--AND how might that apply today?

....Jehovah's Witnesses are correct in emphasizing that we entered in the "short period of time" ALSO known as the "last days" of this corrupt system IN 1914?

--Could it also be that the applying of what Jesus said at Matthew 24:3,7,8 about the "sign" of the "end of the age" or "conclusion of the system of things"--had indeed started in 1914 along with his invisible "presence" in Kingdom power making ready to bring on Armageddon? (Rev. 12:10)

--Do the following comments lend credence to Jesus words that since 1914 things are esculating as he said "a beginning of pangs of distress"?

>> “Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. . . . Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 the whole thing came to an end.”—British statesman Harold Macmillan, The New York Times, November 23, 1980.

>>“It is indeed the year 1914 rather than that of Hiroshima which marks the turning point in our time.”—René Albrecht-Carrié, The Scientific Monthly; 7/1951

...MATTHEW 24:3,7,8>>when he answered the question posed about "the conclusion of the system of things"; "end of the age" OR "that the time's up"(THE MESSAGE):

7 "For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a BEGINNING of pangs of distress."

--COINSIDING WITH Revelation 12--

12 "On this account be glad, YOU heavens and YOU who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to YOU, having great anger, knowing he has a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.”

*IF NOT 1914 >> WHEN WILL, (DID) the "short period of time" ; in agreement with Dan. 12:4 "TIME OF THE END"---BEGIN?

** WHAT OTHER time period in history other than 1914 >>would fit what JESUS & others have said such as:

>"It is indeed the year 1914 rather than that of Hiroshima which marks the turning point in our time.”—René Albrecht-Carrié, The Scientific Monthly, July 1951?

....what then CANNOT be said of those who truly continue to worship Yahweh or Jehovah as did Christ, Abel, Noah, Abraham , Sarah, Moses, Matthew, Luke , John etc. as far as being apostates?

...in accord with this information:

*** it-1 p. 126 Apostasy ***

"This term in Greek (a·po·sta·si′a) comes from the verb a·phi′ste·mi, literally meaning “stand away from.” The noun has the sense of “desertion, abandonment or rebellion.” (Ac 21:21, ftn) In classical Greek the noun was used to refer to political defection, and the verb is evidently employed in this sense at Acts 5:37, concerning Judas the Galilean who “drew off” (a·pe′ste·se, form of a·phi′ste·mi) followers. The Greek Septuagint uses the term at Genesis 14:4 with reference to such a rebellion. However, in the Christian Greek Scriptures it is used primarily with regard to RELIGIOUS DEFLECTION (my caps); a withdrawal or abandonment of the true cause, worship, and service of God, and hence an abandonment of what one has previously professed and a total desertion of principles or faith."

(Jeremiah 8:6) “. . .Each one is going back into the POPULAR COURSE (my caps), like a horse that is dashing into the battle.  .”

Proceeded by:

(Jeremiah 8:5,6) “. . .Why is it that this people, Jerusalem, is unfaithful with an enduring unfaithfulness? They have taken hold of trickiness; they have refused to turn back. 6 I have paid attention, and I kept listening. It was not right the way they kept speaking. There was not a man repenting over his badness, saying, ‘What have I done?. . .”

.. Each one is going back into the popular course like a horse that is dashing into the battle."

(Applicable to any activity of claimed worship of the true God)

--DOES IT SEEM that Church Christians would rather go along with what is "popular" like blood transfusions, gambling etc. RATHER than follow the true principles, laws & teachings of the Bible?

--IS POPULARITY a new type of "christianity" OR an offshoot of false religion?

....JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are being proved correct on their stand for the sanctity of blood(Acts 15:28,29) & for health reasons ESPECIALLY by religiously predjudiced people?

....The Boston Globe Magazine reports that blood specialist Dr. Charles Huggins admits that blood “must be considered unavoidably non-safe.” He describes blood as “the MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE (my caps) we use in medicine.” Since early 1989 the number of infectious diseases blood banks typically test for has increased to five (HTLV-I, associated with adult T-cell leukemia, syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, and hepatitis C). However, according to AMERICAN RED CROSS authority S. Gerald Sandler, “it seems that it’s only a matter of time until we find another rare disease spread by blood transfusion"

....JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are being proved correct on their stand for the sanctity of blood & for health reasons.?

....The Boston Globe Magazine reports that blood specialist Dr. Charles Huggins admits that blood “must be considered unavoidably non-safe.” He describes blood as “the MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE (my caps) we use in medicine.” Since early 1989 the number of infectious diseases blood banks typically test for has increased to five (HTLV-I, associated with adult T-cell leukemia, syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, and hepatitis C). However, according to AMERICAN RED CROSS authority S. Gerald Sandler, “it seems that it’s only a matter of time until we find another rare disease spread by blood transfusion"

.....AND finish by 75--OR was it just a statement of fact on how long mankind had been on the earth?

IN one of our books , we had on chart that 1975 would end 6000 years of man's existence, a comment on that transcript by an official of our society:

jv chap. 8 p. 104 Declaring the Good News Without Letup (1942-1975)

" F. W. Franz gave the concluding talk. He began by saying: “Just before I got on the platform a young man came to me and said, ‘Say, what does this 1975 mean?’” Brother Franz then referred to the many questions that had arisen as to whether the material in the new book meant that by 1975 Armageddon would be finished, and Satan would be bound. He stated, in essence: ‘It could. But we are not saying. All things are possible with God. But we are not saying. And don’t any of you be specific in saying anything that is going to happen between now and 1975. But the big point of it all is this, dear friends: Time is short. Time is running out, no question about that."

". . .For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”

---IS It because:

1) They ignore the true proclaimig of the "last days" ; "time of the end"? Matthew 24:14;2 Tim.:3-1-5; Dan. 12:1-4)

2) They love this sick and corrupt system "world"?(1 John 2:15-17)

3) They do not believe the flood happened earthwide ?(2 Peter 3:5-7;Matthew 24:36-39)

4) They do not believe in Christs promised special "presence" ("parousia")prior to his bringing on Armageddon(Matthew 24:3, 7,8,14; Rev. 12:7-10,12)?

5) OR-- All the above & short summation as why it all comes together?

--NO PRIZES, just some sober thinking as to how deep we are in the time of the end!

Thank you....

.....happenings AND never have changed that application of that date to the amazing prophecy of Christ at Matthew 24 :3-12,14 for over 100 years, :

***The New York World of August 30, 1914, explains: “The terrific war outbreak in Europe has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy. For a quarter of a century past, through preachers and through press, the ‘International Bible Students’ [Jehovah’s Witnesses] . . . have been proclaiming to the world that the Day of Wrath prophesied in the Bible would dawn in 1914. ‘Look out for 1914!’ has been the cry of the . . . evangelists.”29

--AND IN OUR TIME IS STILL considered UNIQUE:

“In 1914 the world lost a coherence which it has not managed to recapture since. . . . This has been a time of extraordinary disorder and violence, both across national frontiers and within them.”—The Economist, London, August 4, 1979.

“Civilization entered on a cruel and perhaps terminal illness in 1914.-Frank Peters, St.Louis Post Dispatch,Jan. 27,1980!

.......being part of the trinity; being part authorship of the obscene hellfire; that he had an immortal soul that took the place of the resurrection & that he and Jehovah God predestined every good & horrifying thing that has happened to humanity?

1. IF HE SAID to you, NO , Jehovah God is indeed my God & Father and I never even thought of approaching any equality with him--WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

2. IF HE SAID no I never taught anything that even resembles hellfire, purgatory, limbo--What would you say?

3. IF HE SAID , no Neither Jehovah God or myself ever practiced predestination and caused unbelievable hurt to humanity, by bringing them into evil circumstances, that they could not avoid--WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

4. IF HE SAID , no I was resurrected by Jehovah God, and in no way did I ever teach the idea of immortal soul--What would you say?

---REALLY WHAT WOULD you say to the Son of God, concerning those issues that I listed--if he would return visibly as many say he will?

....and benefited by the discipline in accord with the admonition at:

1 Cor. 5:9-13

--ALSO NOTE THIS observation:

*** w82 4/1 p. 13 Insight on the News

“Doing It Right”

--A recent editorial in the Sun of Gainesville, Florida, contrasted the so-called Moral Majority with Jehovah’s Witnesses in their approach to morality. “[The Witness] publication, The Watchtower, provides the instructions—most of them reassertions of long established principles,” noted the Sun. And “the offender who resists ‘loving concern’ is apt to be ‘disfellowshipped,’ which means dismissal from the congregation. . . . The discipline may offend some Americans, but it is entirely proper for Witnesses to enforce their own fellowship rules. It is a voluntary association, and the exit is easy for anybody who wants out....

..In the opinion of the Sun, this mixing of religion and politics is unconstitutional, and therefore the Moral Majority is “doing it wrong and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are doing it right"

.....following God's law on abstaining from blood, -AS STATED, by Luke the physician?

**ACTS 15:28,29 (HCSB)

28"For it was the Holy Spirit's decision........29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. (A) If you keep yourselves from these things, YOU WILL DO WELL"( my caps).

--AND ALSO take this warning:

.....Dr. David Crombie, Jr., chief of surgery at Hartford Hospital, candidly admits: “I was raised in medicine AT A TIME (my caps) when blood was thought of as A TONIC. Now it’s thought to be A POISON.”

**Bloodless Surgery Gains Momentum

--In late 1996 a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A., joined 56 others across the country that have “bloodless centers for Jehovah’s Witnesses,” reported The Hartford Courant. ........"

***OUR STAND is primarily Scriptural but there are many comments like above!

--SO WHAT do you choose RUSSIAN ROULETTE or as ACTS 15--stated?

--And why?

...is it , that many want to make it a person?

--AND WHY do many deny it is God's "active force" OR "power"--RATHER than a separate person, that he uses in various ways as is stated in:

--LUKE 1: AMPLIFIED BIBLE:

35"Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God."

AND AS a seed:

**1 Peter 1:23 AMPLIFIED BIBLE:

23"You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal [a]origin ([b]seed, sperm), but from ONE THAT IS IMMORTAL (my c)by the ever living and lasting Word of God."

THE MESSAGE:

22-23 "Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself"

...ALLOW such identification by association of Christ being Michael The Archangel , when in the very same sentence of 1 Thess. 4:16, Christ is clearly connected as calling with a "voice of an archangel"?

--IN JOHN 1, Christs name appears some 16 verses after the "Word" is mentioned, showing much latitude!

-- AND WHY IS IT SIMILARLY AT Isaiah 9:6 where several titles are assumed to apply to Christ , YET there is no where in the Bible that any of the Bible writers call CHRIST: Mighty God, Prince of peace, wonderful counselor or eternal father?

--AGAIN WHY IS THE PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION not accepted of Christ & Michael indeed being one & the same as at Rev. 12:7, 10 ,where both Christs name & Michaels name appear together in different authorities--YET IS NOT--- allowed by trinitarians?

--SHOULD NOT THE DISPLAY of such great authority by Michael & Christ, help us to reason that there would be no other angel but Christ as Michael with such afforded authority & power?

"Decades before that date, there was an organization of people who were making known the significance of 1914. The New York World of August 30, 1914, explains: “The terrific war outbreak in Europe has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy. For a quarter of a century past, through preachers and through press, the ‘International Bible Students’ [Jehovah’s Witnesses] . . . have been proclaiming to the world that the Day of Wrath prophesied in the Bible would dawn in 1914. ‘Look out for 1914!’ has been the cry of the . . . evangelists.”

--NOTE PLEASE "through preachers and through press"!

--OF INTEREST is that the SO-CALLED "big mistakes" of our society were not published, and yet we have people lying about what was "officially" stated and ridiclule us concerning the things that have taken place since 1914 , that have strong earmarks of "the time of the end"!

--WHY SUCH BIAS, when Jesus own words stated of a specific time period referred to as the "time(period) of the end" (Matth. 24:7,8