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    APOSTASY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T

    1 Timothy 1:19, 20 and 2 Timothy 2:16-19 have everything to do with apostasy. Apparently, you have not grasped what "the truth" is, the complete body of accurate knowledge as found in the Bible. Nor have you accepted what Greek lexicons have established as to the meaning of apostasia ("a...
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    PREPARING FOR THE COMING TRIBULATION

    Did you not read what the apostle Paul wrote to the Hebrew Christians, that Jesus "manifested himself once for all time" at Hebrews 9:26. Hence, Jesus "manifested himself once for all time" when he arrived on the earth as the Messiah in 29 C.E. Once he provided the ransom in 33 C.E., he will...
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    PREPARING FOR THE COMING TRIBULATION

    If one were to closely examine the Greek word parousia, it can be established as meaning "presence". For example, at Philippians 2:12, the apostle Paul contrasts the Greek word parousia with the Greek word apousia. There he says: "Consequently, my beloved ones, in the way that you have always...
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    APOSTASY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T

    If you were to trace the root meaning of apostasy, it can be found that the Greek word apostasia (G646, meaning "a falling away, defection, apostasy", Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 67) is the feminine form of apostasion (G647) at Matthew 19:7 that is rendered as...
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    PREPARING FOR THE COMING TRIBULATION

    There are events and situations that happen before the "great tribulation" can begin according to Jehovah God's "appointed time". After telling them that the temple would be destroyed, four of Jesus apostles asked Jesus a composite question three days before his death: "Tell us, When will these...
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    The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is

    It is important to note that the "image" of the "wild beast"(Rev 13:14) comes into existence through the efforts of the political "wild beast" that has "two horns like a lamb" (Rev 13:11), the Anglo-American world power, that has been in existence for almost 100 years. This "wild beast" is set...
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    APOSTASY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T

    Jesus foretold that true Christianity that he established and went into operation on Pentecost 33 C.E., would apostasize or fall away. The word apostasy comes from the Greek apostasia and is used at 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (as well as apostasian at Acts 21:21) means "a falling away, defection...
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    The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is

    It is unmistakable that that there are a wide range of views on who "the scarlet-colored wild beast" is, but in reality, there can be only one correct understanding, for Jesus said that "a house divided against itself cannot stand."(Matt 12:25) Our Creator, Jehovah God, had Revelation written...
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    The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is

    I must say that you have the Scriptures confused, for your interjecting the word "generation" or speaking of a ' seven year tribulation' that some obtain from Ezekiel 39 (the "tribulation" is not a literal seven years but symbolic just as "Gog" is not literal but symbolic of Satan) has nothing...
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    Identifying The Eight Kings Of Revelation 17:10

    Jehovah is Latin as is Jesus as is all the rest of the names in the Bible. In fact, the name Jesus means "Jehovah is Salvation", for the first two letters Je are derived from Jehovah. If Jehovah is to be cast aside, then so should the name Jesus as well as all other Latin names. Many of the...
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    The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is

    You are confusing the "wild beast" of Revelation 13:3, whereby it says that "one of its heads (was) slaughtered....but its death-stroke was healed", showing the ' seventh king' (Anglo-American dual world power) as having suffered such a severe blow during World War I that it seemed as if had...
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    The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is

    At Revelation 17, there is seen a "harlot" that rides the back of a "scarlet-colored wild beast" that is "full of blasphemous names and having seven heads and ten horns".(Rev 17:3) This "scarlet-colored wild beast" is seen at verse 8 as "the wild beast that you saw was, but is not, and yet is...
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    The 144,000

    I have no need to change my version, for the New World Translation is one of the most accurate Bibles that a person can possess. For example, at Revelation 1:1, the Greek master text, The New Testament in the Original Greek, by Greek scholars Westcott and Hort translates the Greek word esemanen...
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    The 144,000

    The nation of natural Israel have been rejected as God's people. Jesus told the nation three days before he died: "Did you never read in the Scriptures (at Psalms 118:22), ' The stone (Jesus Christ) that the builders (the nation of natural Israel) rejected is the one that has become the chief...
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    The 144,000

    Revelation 1:1, 3 says: "A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it signs through him to his slave John.....Happy is he who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who...
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    The Significance of the 144,000

    The 144,000 have great significance (noting the number at Revelation 7:4 and 14:1), for they are part of an arrangement or "administration" (Greek oikonomian, meaning "the management of a household", Eph 1:10) by Jehovah God to restore mankind to perfection that Adam lost for his offspring in...
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    Identifying The Eight Kings Of Revelation 17:10

    Though Orthodox Jews may have thoughts of restoring the temple in Jerusalem, this has no backing from Jehovah God. Jesus showed that Jehovah clearly "broke ranks" with the Jewish nation, telling them that "your house is abandoned to you !" and then completing this by saying (quoting from Ps...
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    Identifying The Eight Kings Of Revelation 17:10

    There is no temple to be built upon what you call the "Temple Mount" in Jerusalem. With the temple in Jerusalem having been abandoned by Jehovah God as Jesus said in 33 C.E.(Matt 23:38), and later destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E., it was "a shadow of heavenly things".(Heb 8:5) This pictured...
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    Identifying The Eight Kings Of Revelation 17:10

    The Bible unlocks itself, in which Scripture interprets Scripture. For example, at Daniel 7, there is seen a succession of world powers starting with the one then in existence, ancient Babylon. Babylon was followed by Medo-Persia in 539 B.C.E., then Medo-Persia by Greece in 331 B.C.E., and...
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    An early Christmas message from Jesus … Enjoy!

    The acceptance of Christmas as a religious holiday has grown even among those who do not claim to be Christian, in such lands as Japan whereby only 1.2 percent profess Christianity but some 71 percent are agnostic or atheistic, Hong Kong, in which only 7.9 percent profess to be Christian but are...