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Old 09-15-2021, 06:27 AM
 
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human rulership. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
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Old 09-15-2021, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human rulership. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
What is your definition of "false" religion?
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Old 09-15-2021, 07:44 AM
 
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A more reasonable focus would be taking what Jesus already described and taught to fight religious nonsense and trouble now, around us, in our own lifetime. Not sit back and watch things crumble, with a "someday" Jesus will fix everything for us.

If we're not part of the solution, we're part of the problem, and might just get swept up with the rest of the trash.
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Old 09-15-2021, 07:58 AM
 
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A more reasonable focus would be taking what Jesus already described and taught to fight religious nonsense and trouble now, around us, in our own lifetime. Not sit back and watch things crumble, with a "someday" Jesus will fix everything for us.

If we're not part of the solution, we're part of the problem, and might just get swept up with the rest of the trash.
After reading The Late Great Planet Earth in 1973, I was convinced we would never see 1980. But in regard to being swept up like trash with the rest of them? Your probably right. I do know God promises to destroy the destroyers of the Earth. I do believe we are destroying the Earth right now. Did you know they find micro plastics basically in any fish caught today? We dump a ton of plastic into the ocean...every MINUTE. The bible says He comes when men cry... 'Peace and Safety" kind of like where we are headed? People think that verse means there is peace and safety around them then why would they exclaim it? It could be "We want a return to normal" possibly. Plus, the strange tides Jesus predicted, moon turning red (red in my neighborhood from the fires), signs in the heavens (millions of UFO reports since 1948), earthquakes, plagues, yes, we've always had them but not in rapid succession like birth pangs. Hold on to your seats, the tilt a whirl ride is spinning faster and faster. I'm probably wrong like the other million failed predictions but you have to admit, if man is responsible for the current mass extinction going on, think about it....
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Old 09-15-2021, 08:17 AM
 
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human rulership. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
11"To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."
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Old 09-15-2021, 08:26 AM
 
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human rulership. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
When?

1874? X
1914? X
1925? X
1951? X
1975? X
2000? X

I'd say a perfect record of being WRONG reveals WHO the false prophets really are.
https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php


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Old 09-15-2021, 09:04 AM
 
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Not until the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

"It is by Mary that the salvation of the world has begun, and it is by Mary that it must be consummated...

But in the second coming of Jesus Christ, Mary has to be made known and revealed by the Holy Ghost, in order that by her Jesus Christ may be known, loved, and served...

God, then, wishes to reveal and discover Mary, the masterpiece of His hands, in these latter times...

Being the way by which Jesus Christ came to us the first time, she will also be the way by which He will come a second time, though not in the same manner. Being the sure means and the straight and immaculate way to go to Jesus Christ, and to find Him perfectly, it is by her that the holy souls, who are to shine forth especially in sanctity, have to find our Lord. He who shall find Mary shall find life ; that is, Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. But no one can find Mary who does not seek her ; and no one can seek her, who does not know her : for we cannot seek or desire an unknown object. It is necessary, then, for the greater knowledge and glory of the Most Holy Trinity, that Mary should be more known than ever.

Mary must shine forth more than ever in mercy, in might, and in grace, in these latter times: in mercy, to bring back and lovingly receive the poor strayed sinners who shall be converted and shall return to the Catholic Church; in might, against the enemies of God, idolaters, schismatics, Mahometans, Jews, and souls hardened in impiety, who shall rise in terrible revolt against God to seduce all those who shall be contrary to them, and to make them fall by promises and threats; and, finally, she must shine forth in grace, in order to animate and sustain the valiant soldiers and faithful servants of Jesus Christ, who shall do battle for His interests.

And, lastly, Mary must be terrible to the devil and his crew, as an army ranged in battle, principally in these latter times, because the devil, knowing that he has but little time, and now less than ever, to destroy souls, will every day redouble his efforts and his combats. He will presently raise up new persecutions, and will put terrible snares before the faithful servants and true children of Mary, whom it gives him more trouble to surmount than it does to conquer others.

It is principally of these last and cruel persecutions of the devil, which shall go on increasing daily till the reign of Antichrist, that we ought to understand that first and celebrated prediction and curse of God, pronounced in the terrestrial Paradise against the serpent. It is to our purpose to explain this here, for the glory of the most holy Virgin, for the salvation of her children, and for the confusion of the devil."

Quotations taken from A Treatise on the True Devotion by St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort which is in the public domain
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Old 09-15-2021, 09:46 AM
 
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human rulership. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
So have you been born again?
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Old 09-15-2021, 07:57 PM
 
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So have you been born again?
JWs will usually balk at that term. It's called "putting on the new personality" or at least it was when I am in. If I remember correctly they throw in some mind of Christ stuff as well.


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Christians appreciate knowing the truth! We have learned how to live in order to avoid the course of those in the world. Being “alienated from the life that belongs to God,” they “are in darkness mentally.” (Eph. 4:18) We have been taught to make our minds over from worldly thinking by stripping off the old personality and putting on the new.​—Eph. 4:22-24.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/201999041
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Old 09-15-2021, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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What can Christians look forward to in the near future? We will see Jesus move into action to eliminate false religion as well as corrupt human ruler ship. A great crowd will receive his protection and survive the upcoming great tribulation, with the prospect of enjoying the blessings of an earthly paradise eternally. A vast number will be resurrected and will have the opportunity to be liberated from all the effects of our inherited sin, raised to perfect physical and spiritual health. That will be the blessings of the Kingdom we that we all pray to come
I see that already happening within those who are alive and well spiritually on this planet.
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