“It is not Happy people that are Thankful, but Thankful people who are happy”
So where ever there are people there is an opportunity to be kind. I decided to make a list of how I can be thankful and show it to others.
First, ALL THANKS goes to GOD and JESUS for Life and Love.
Thanks for leading me to the Bibles’ 66 books instead of the many endless writings of men. Death will take me before I finish these, but thanks.
I would never try to persuade others to leave their religion. I just want to be free to worship Jehovah, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit without persecution from family or friends because I choose to leave their long-held religion. They are happy and I love that and want to be happy in my worship also.
Here are some of my personal heartfelt thankfulness.
- I am thankful I had my son and granddaughter visiting with me during the holidays.
- I am thankful that I can be a part of life and not afraid of it.
- I will complain less and breathe more.
- I will Let Be, Let Go, Let God.
- I will make the choice to let go of negative thoughts and fill my mind with positively thoughts.
- I will realize humans are a walking breathing wonder created by God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
- I will give thanks for another day of giving, loving life, and hate no one.
- I will consider how fortunate I am and give myself the gift of being joyfully me.
- I will change myself and communicate with love, not apprehension.
- I will pray every day and often for myself and those I love and am not so fond of. My grandchildren will take priority in my life now that my kids are grown.
living in fear is not what Jehovah wants Jehovah wants us to call on the name of Jehovah for the kingdom of God to come mountain call on the name of Jehovah thank you.
I told my daughter Makayla Davis when she was a child then you do not have to be a part love Jehovah’s witnesses organization do have salvation and to be a part of paradise Earth 🌎 that the ark is Jehovah God spirit God’s spirit is the ark and you can have God’s spirit anywhere on Earth billions and billions and billions of people will be resurrected that’s what the thousand Year millennium is for. this is coming from my spirit anointed person
Hello Kevin and nice to hear from you. I have learned that the thousand years will not see billions and billions that have died resurrected. We were told incorrectly. The Bible actually says there is a first resurrection that will include many of the righteous dead and whomever Christ decides comes back. Which may be billions.
However we were never told about the Throne judgment where all will stand before Jehovah and be judged. The Lamb’s Book of life will be present. Those in the first resurrection won’t have to worry about this judgement period as they are in the Lamb’s book of life.
This may take thousands of year to resurrect and judge every person that has lived.
This takes place after the devil is thrown into the Lake of Fire and any one not in the Book of Life will also be thrown there.
So we were not taught the Bible but was taught what Russell and Rutherford thought these scriptures said. Totally ignoring the Great throne judgement.
It is not true that the Governing body is the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 and 14.
The Bible is very clear that these are Jewish non married males.
So conversely, they are not the ones mentioned for the first resurrection only. There will be many resurrected during the thousand years in the first resurrection.
The Great throne Judgement of Revelation 20 is also a resurrection of what appears to all others that were not included in the first resurrection.
The Bible does not say how long this judgement period is but it states that there will be an accounting for all things done.
He is a Just and Righteous Holly God and Jesus has paid the price for all that want too can submit to the Will of Jehovah.
I agree with your statement that you don’t have to belong to a man made organization such as the watchtower society to get the favor of Jesus and Jehovah or to receive the Holy Spirit.
But they too fall under the paid for sacrifice of Jesus. Many are in religious organizations and not in Christ but they do learn something about the Bible.
So I say Holy Spirit is active now and many men within the local congregations of the watchtower organization are leading the flock in critical thinking. They aren’t suppressing thoughts that align with the Bible.
It would be nice if witnesses would take responsibility for their spiritual health, but they have been taught to rely on the governing body to do their reading and teaching. Laziness yes.
Youtube is a great source of information on what is going on with Israel.
Daniel foretold that knowledge would abound and it is on Youtube. Check out some of the Minitries.
I will began work on BereanBible.net to bring it up to date. I have been so busy lately that I have been learning and speaking face to face with people rather than on the platforms. Take Care
Resurrection; to stand before God and receive the reward for your actions.
(1 Corinthians 15:51-52) 51 Look! I tell YOU a sacred secret: We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, during the last trumpet. . . .
When we stand before God, we all do it at the same time, those alive at the time and those in the grave. Those living, and this means those legally having crossed from death to life, receive life permanently. For those in the graves of remembrance, this will be a return to life or existence again. They are also along with those who have crossed from death to life and still existing, considered by God legally alive. This is why they are in the tombs of remembrance.
Resurrection: to stand before God and receive the reward for your actions.
The rest of those in the grave receive a resurrection to judgment. This means that they are left in the grave. Those left in the grave are turned over to Jesus, making him now the “king both of the living and the dead” to await the coming destruction as the great question of God’s sovereignty is answered. The result is that those left unconscious in the grave along with Satan are cast into the lake of fire, the second death.
The “first resurrection” is simply those who are in God’s memory and stand before him first, resulting in a return to existence.
As seen by those left in the grave, you do not have to physically stand before God to receive, participate, in a resurrection event.
No one can be destroyed until the question of God’s sovereignty is finally answered: “why does God have the right to decide right and wrong for us?”
The witnesses, like all provisions/divisions from Christ’s congregation that have a fixed “doctrine”, have a lot of wrong, illogical reasoning in their fixed framework or lack of framework, You may disagree with “fixed”, but you have probably tried to reason with them.
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In reality or realities, God’s and any others, frame of mind, is what everything is about. Your frame of mind, how you reason on things, determines your actions. So one with Jesus, as Jesus is one with God, is a statement of common frame of mind, common “ground”. This is what “walking with God” is all about.
These simple realizations of terms such as resurrection, and phrases like “walking with God”, “upward path”, “UPward call” all relate to your frame of mind, Jesus’ frame of mind, God’s frame of mind. These must be heard with “ears”, “eyes”, given by God through the “spirit of adoption”, leading to the twinkling when through the receiving of your complete inheritance of holy spirit, you finally meet Jesus, “see” Jesus in the “air”, the frame of mind you are now “under”, Jesus having replaced the old god of the air, Satan. Only those who formerly saw in “hazy outline”, and are referred to as the “great cloud” of followers because of this, will see Jesus’ coming. Only they have eyes to see and ears to hear. In this way the prophecy is fulfilled, “and every eye will see”.
(Revelation 1:7) . . .Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him. . .
We leave you with this thought and I wish you “well”.
(Philippians 4:4-7) 4 Always rejoice in [the] Lord. Once more I will say, Rejoice! 5 Let YOUR reasonableness become known to all men. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving let YOUR petitions be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God that excels all thought will guard YOUR hearts and YOUR mental powers by means of Christ Jesus.
It is heart warming to hear your explanation of denominations/provisions to you daughter. We all at the crossing from death to life legally receive a “token” of adoptive spirit. This is based on heart condition and an understanding of who Jesus was and is. No man can judge if this has actually occurred, except the man that realizes a straight path of logic has begun to be revealed ahead of him in logical footsteps as he follows Jesus’ trail of logic. On this realization and exercise of pursuit, and stand taken we, stand individually before God. It’s important to remember teachers are there to serve us not to look up to.
(1 John 2:20-21) . . .And YOU have an anointing from the holy one; all of YOU have knowledge. 2. . .
But he who guarantees that YOU and we belong to Christ and he who has anointed us is God. 22 He has also put his seal upon us and has given us the token of what is to come, that is, the spirit, in our hearts.
(2 Corinthians 2:14) . . .But thanks be to God who always leads us in a triumphal procession in company with the Christ and makes the odor of the knowledge of him perceptible through us in every place!
(Luke 11:52) 52 “Woe to YOU who are versed in the Law, because YOU took away the key of knowledge; YOU yourselves did not go in, and those going in YOU hindered!”
(2 Corinthians 6:18) . . .“‘And I shall be a father to YOU, and YOU will be sons and daughters to me,’ says Jehovah the Almighty.”
(Ephesians 4:4-6) 4 One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.
*** it-2 p. 999 Son(s) of God ***
This must mean, then, that the revelation of the sons of God in glory opens the way for others of the human family to enter into a relationship of actual sonship with God and to enjoy the freedom that accompanies such relationship.
The process of sanctification is through learning the truth and receiving the token of the Holy Spirit that purifies the heart and conscience and acknowledges you as a son awaiting adoption. Keep in mind when reading in the Insight on the Scriptures and other publications of the organization that not all writers understand this connection to Yahweh or the need for every person possible to return to the household of God.
(Luke 11:52) 52 “Woe to YOU who are versed in the Law, because YOU took away the key of knowledge; YOU yourselves did not go in, and those going in YOU hindered!”
“Key of knowledge”, the organization has long held that without an accurate understanding of the resurrection hope, faith is useless.
God is a distinct being in identity. I believe you can agree that his mind is higher than ours. His mind certainly is made up of all his thoughts, including his memory and is separate from ours. I believe you can also understand this.
According to present truth in the organization, at death you cease to have existence and to exist. I believe it clearly states as you probably know not one part of you exists after death.
After many encounters with committees and elders during my 45 or so years in the organization, I was always struck by how blindly the elders and members would state this and then try to talk about being asleep in the grave. The organization’s present truth says that a new body is created and then from God’s memory the new mind is reprogrammed with your exact thoughts. I am sure you have spotted the problem as they did when you quote, “not one thing is left after death”. God’s thoughts as well as his memory are “his”.
So you see according to the present truth, you or anyone for that matter, will not “inherit”, will not be “raised up”. Yes the committees and the elders always arrived at this same conclusion, and in my case always recommended that I write the organization.
This is one of many misunderstandings the organization holds as all earthly organizations do.
Jesus, as always, shares or demonstrates the path to understanding. He was as his brothers in all respects. The basis of his identity, was his life force as the organization acknowledges. “ Only in this way could the child born be the same individual as the son of God.”
But when Jesus dies, the organization does not follow through reasoning on the process of the “preserving alive” of identity in the grave. To be the same person as the son of God in heaven who was transferred it follows that Jesus had to be unconscious, “asleep in the grave”, which as it is said is funny enough in that they give a very accurate explanation of our loved ones asleep in the grave.
Only in this way, when Jesus stands before God in a resurrection event and is again given existence, could the being be the same as the one transferred.
Yes new body, thoughts from heaven and earth returned to this new mind and its capacity for consciousness, but the identity of the original Son maintained by the life force being preserved and brought forth from the grave.
It is in this way that you have a hope of “continued” existence, even though you only exist, in the grave.
(2 Timothy 2:8) 8 Remember that Jesus Christ was raised up from the dead and was of David’s seed, according to the good news I preach;
(Romans 12:1) 12 Consequently I entreat YOU by the compassions of God, brothers, to present YOUR bodies a sacrifice living, holy, acceptable to God, a sacred service with YOUR power of reason.
(Acts 9:21-22) . . .” 22 But Saul kept on acquiring power all the more and was confounding the Jews that dwelt in Damascus as he proved logically that this is the Christ.
(2 Corinthians 13:5) 5 Keep testing whether YOU are in the faith, keep proving what YOU yourselves are. . .
the lake of fire symbolically means the second death. we are all not intended to die when we are made perfect. the sand that cannot be forgiven is when a person sins against the holy spirit of God that’s when a person is perfect and sins against God. Jehovah God intends for everybody to live in a perfect body with a perfect mind that way if you sinned against God you are making your own choice God wants to adopt spiritual sons of Israel 144000. the Earth is going to be filled with people there’s only 8 million Jehovah’s witnesses God indeed wants to save all mankind. I’m looking forward to the billions of people that have lived on planet Earth gaining a perfect bodyand a perfect mind so they won’t die unless they sin against the holy spirit of God. the only way a person can receive the second deathsinagainst the holy spirit God will resurrect every person who ever lived and give them a perfect mind and body.
Mankind must pass from death to life in this system. When you cross from death to life you inhabit the tent/body/earth, that will be changed or transformed at the Twinkling. So the difference between the beast of the field and those being saved is the awareness of Jesus and his Father. God extends to save the entire “inhabited” earth. To treat the spirit of adoption and spirit of understanding as ordinary, means there is no longer a path to forgiveness. You are dead or die, dead, to remain in the grave, until the second death. Remember like resurrection, death is a conditional process. Those perfect in the new system will as Adam and Eve receive judgment as will those already in the grave, as they receive a resurrection result of the second death, destruction. It makes it more apparent that teaching the truth Jesus revealed of his Father’s will, is life saving,(those who have life/crossed over) when you see that “few” find the narrow gate.
life been hard on a lot of us it’s good to know the God’s kingdom will come an everlasting life I believe I will be a part of and a lot of Jehovah’s witnesses are having a hard time in countries the band the activity in Russia the have a propaganda law they believe the Jehovah’s witnesses teach they have the only true religion and they are the only way to God that’s why they banned Jehovah witness religion many Jehovah’s witnesses are in jail in Russia for going against what do Russian government believes is Jehovah’s witness are Jehovah’s witnesses propaganda as long as the Russian government is on Earth it’s unlikely the law will ever be changed. it’s good to know we have a real Jehovah God and a real Jesus Christ you do not have to go through religion to get to God you can simply worship God in your home with your own family Christ will defend the family if any government tries to take family worship away globally.
Wow Kevin I just saw this and I am so sorry for not answering in a timely manner. Glad to see you are doing so well. I am doing just great. I have been trying to tie up loose ends on some projects of our nonprofit before the new period begins in September. Thank you for the report on what is happening in Russia.
Our family relations are healing and I too agree we don’t have to worship our Father within the confines of an organization. Yet I feel those that want or need this oversight have the right to do so. Harm is done when one or both attempt to control and force their decisions on each other.
Jesus will arrive in Jerusalem soon and He will bring all worshippers of Jehovah together.
Take care of yourself and we will open up the Support Group the First Saturday in September.
Your sister and friend in Christ, Jacqueline
sorry if this post twice.
(Matthew 21:43) . . .This is why I say to YOU, The kingdom of God will be taken from YOU and be given to a nation producing its fruits.
Note the (K, upper case) Kingdom of God was already among the “Nation” of Israel. This Kingdom or in Jesus’ case (k,lower case) kingdom means range of influence. The true “Jew” was under God’s influence (Kingdom) and following God.
(Matthew 5:3) . . .“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
The one most conscious of his spiritual need was among mankind, Jesus. This is why the “kingdom (k, lower case) of the heavens had drawn near.
(Matthew 6:9-10) . . .“‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.
Drawing closer to God meant that the Kingdom of God, those on earth needed God’s “spirit of adoption” poured out on them and the “spirit of understanding” also, so that they could understand and follow the upward path to, “come”, draw closer to God so that the will of God could be understood and followed as it is in heaven.
(Matthew 6:33) . . .“Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness. . .
So the kingdom (K, upper case) of God was about to be turned over to Jesus and become the kingdom (k, lower case) of Jesus, (his) kingdom of the heavens. “Keep on, then, seeking” was a process of reasoning on the Steps of reason that Jesus shared so that we too could take or in other words follow the “upward path” to a frame of mind that will be one with Jesus and God.
Mankind was only promised to inherit the earth, not heaven. Jesus as an offspring of Abraham secured that promise of inheriting the earth for us. Jesus then as the first born Son of God, inherited, as the “law” foreshadowed, a two-part inheritance from his Father. First, the (lower case) kingship over the earth and then the (lower case) kingship over heaven. This is why our citizenship on earth can be reserved for us in heaven, because our king is there and rules over heaven and earth.
For those who are having trouble with the (lower case/upper case) statements, it helps to remember that God was before all and over all, so anything related to him is absolute or God’s Kingdom (upper case). Then came the fall and everything was no longer under God’s influence. Once things are put back into order by Jesus through his influence or lesser kingdom, lower case, Jesus will himself be subjected to his Father again.
In the time of the end, we have an advantage over the scholars and translators, the opportunity to have an overview. This opportunity is supplied by our time and the Spirit of understanding. The truth is as it is said, hidden from the intellectuals. The truth is a path of basic logic, step by step, simple as in the need to use upper and lower case to show prominence and authority.
May the peace that excels all thought be with you brothers and sisters.
Ted let me know if I collapsed the wrong one. (your double comment).