Hi Gina:
Gina TP wrote:Christian Greetings,
I am a new "temp" on LWF and have Mary and Don to thank. Patience and kindness towards me is what Jesus would want. I intend to stay for my limited time to learn, search and make some good noise...
Great! I see you made your first post with us...very nice!:)
I am somewhat confused by so many different views within WT, LWF, Bible Students..all the while I was thirsting and still am for the truth. It will take some time for me to concentrate and stay on LWF tract.
I have met many sisters and brothers on Ewatchman, went away due to illness and hope to regain some insight into scripture again. My prayer now is to try to figure out this forum...I seem to thrive in the GB, but am lost easily....love, hugs and in christian Service I am...Gina
And you are not the only person "confused" either, I assure you. I say this because, in actuality, this is a most perplexing situation for anyone to face...agreed, in that today we realize, there are so many divergent viewpoints available for one to choose from. I dare say, even the WTS themselves, members of the writing department, service department and Governing Body members are somewhat surprised of the great difference of opinions surfacing today, even among Jehovah's Witnesses themselves, all openly being aired and made available now by way of the
Information Highway of the World the world wide web, the internet.
Why, think of the challenges facing the average Jehovah's witness today, so different from the past. Why now, instead of facing a person (in field service) who possibly had "heard" from someone that Jehovah's Witnesses didn't celebrate christmas, birthdays and the like and thus want to know why we teach this..Now people want to know,
"...So you guys don't believe Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 huh...but believe that date is 20 years off, in 607...right? Why do you say this?"
Yes now, the average Jehovah's Witness has to face such like questions, now in their door-to-door public ministry. Whew! Now, that would be a great challenge for a JW to overcome, because now, he is fighting the
collective intelligence of an INFORMED community, one unlike any the brothers at the kingdom halls have never, ever faced in the past. Yes, we live in the "information age" and that type of "knowledge" and awareness is readily available to the average "Tom," "Dick" and "Harry" who simply has a PC and local dial-up service for it.
In other words, the challenges facing Jehovah's Witnesses today, are so, so much greater than when I started out preaching the biblical message some 50 years ago as a kid.
One thing I wanted to mention to you, Gina, was to say in the overall sense... our message, which is called
The "Report," can be described as one that mimics and is reminiscent of the special message that Jesus and the prophets of old preached -- the persons Jehovah specifically used to
serve notice upon those transgressors of the Mosaic Law Covenant of the past, and the resulting outcome of such apostasizing away from God. -- See Isaiah 10:6; Also please compare Isaiah 53:1 with John 12:38 [see large print
New World Translation, footnote, where the WTS notes, the expression "thing heard" could have been rendered "Report."]
Gina, as you examine the
100 or so topics we have displayed on our discussion board, you will begin to notice many, many things the
YORWW Congregation teaches, actually finds it "roots" or beginnings within the Mosaic Law itself. Not, that we are advocating a full return to it, as those of Judaism do. No, but we often point out, there is much there in that particular Law of God, for study and meditation, than normally realized by those who teach God's Word today. And so, we are here to remind people of that fact.
In fact, many of the primary doctrines and teachings of the
YORWW Congregation, things we teach and our present understanding of scripture and prophecy, like the Scapegoat Law or Covenant itself and principles thereof, are certainly drawn from the Law of Moses. (Lev. 16) Also, the 2 Kingdom Concept, as well as the teaching that New Jerusalem will be finally realized as an EARTHLY government arrangement, rather than a heavenly one, can be said to be drawn from the Law of Moses also. So then all of these teachings, no question, do find their origin, premise and basis within the Mosaic Law Covenant itself. Yes, there is a very close tie-in and correlation with the Mosaic Law Covenant, the principles taught in that Law itself, with many of the unique teachings of the
YORWW Congregation.
In fact, we teach this special feature of our doctrine and special feature of Divine "Living Waters" itself, was even predicted to be such, as shown within the book of Revelation, where it mentions the "singing" of the "song of Moses." So then, this "singing" or preaching of such a special message, the "Song of Moses," was thus shown to be a future, grand event, where one day people would come to better understand the true, and
greater significance of that particular Law of God, the Mosaic Law, also what God originally intended by giving that Law, what it meant for the natural Israelites of ancient times, and of course, what it would prefigure, and foreshadow for God's Servants within our day and time. Yes, this is a very interesting concept, to be sure, for one inquisitive and diligent student of God's Word, to pursue. --
Revelation 15:3
So again, I hope you enjoy your stay with us, and we are looking forward to having many enlightening bible discussions with you on so many different topics, things of "serious concern" as Paul said coming from God's Word. -- Philippians 4:8
Glad to have you with us, here at LWF Discussion board!
Don (yorww)
Especially for one's who are use to being told what to think and believe (Hebrews 5:11) But after reading some of these articles, the "living waters" can actually help also (Matthew 13:15). But please be as the Beroean's were checking the scriptures and asking questions.
