They all look funny with facial hair. Grown men finally growing a beard because a least 5 of 9 GB Dudes voted yes. Dudes this congo has probably never met. Followers of men they are.
This is not worshiping God. This is watchtower indoctrination meeting laced with some bible verses taking out of context. True worship involves prayers, adoration, meditation.
19. What apostasy developed by the end of the first century, and what did this lead to in later centuries? The authors are silent about one important point. What? We're looking at the context of chapter 20 (we don't like context, preferring to build teachings on verses taken out of context - this is a separate topic). *Acts. **20:17**,29,30* (KJV) 17 "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called *the elders of the church."* 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, *not sparing the flock.;* 30 *Also of your own selves shall men arise,* speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.*" Here, Paul clearly indicated that apostates would appear, first of all, *from among responsible Pastors.* Because, "the fish always rots from the head. *Responsible pastors,* not ordinary believers, *will be dangerous.* Only the elders have the opportunity and authority to lead the congregation wherever they want and *teach what they want.* Ordinary Publishers *can't do this* - no one will listen to them. If such a person becomes an apostate, *it's not a big deal,* because the shepherds will expel him and that's it. But if a pastor departs from the truth in order to draw the disciples after him, who among the members of the congregation will punish him?* Nobody! This is why the shepherds of Jehovah's people are dangerous at all times: those who focus on the shepherds more than on Jehovah, and make their trust in the shepherds blind, without testing them according to the word of Jehovah (contrary to Acts.17:11) - *he risks being led not by Jehovah,* but by the shepherds. If the shepherd deviates from the truth, all those who blindly trust him will also deviate. Those who sit in the assembly at the top are more dangerous than those who leave the assembly, since the supreme pastors are listened to, but the departed are forgotten. It was this thought from Acts 20 that the authors kept silent about. Yes, that's exactly what happened in the 2nd century. And by the 4th century, Christianity had already been diluted with non-Biblical teachings - we all remember the Council of Nicaea. And the methods of leading the flock away from Jehovah from the apostate pastors (the lawless of all times) are not so obvious: they do not lead the people away from Jehovah openly, otherwise it is easy to recognize their apostasy. They are dangerous because they encourage them to serve Jehovah, *while pursuing their own goals* (they lead the disciples after themselves, not to Jehovah and not to His Christ, Acts 20:29,30). Therefore, the theft of the flock is implicit: by developing the fruit of idolatry among Jehovah's people, they replace Jehovah with themselves and *they put themselves in the place of God, and by putting their own word in the place of God's word,* but they rely on the Bible, as it were. And so they push Jehovah and His word out of the minds and hearts of Jehovah's people *into the background.* As a result, all the servants of Jehovah, worshiping lawless shepherds, *sincerely believe that they worship Jehovah* because they are deceived by the cunning of such shepherds (read Paul's warning again - *2 Thess.2:2-4,9,10* ). Well, the fruit of the lawless can be both material and spiritual. *Spiritual is idolatry.* And the material one is lawlessness, which is increasingly visible to outsiders, and not just to individual thinking co-believers. Today, this pattern can clearly be observed among us, Jehovah's Witnesses. Alas! That is why the name of Jehovah is blasphemed among the nations today (the entire Internet is filled with defamatory information, and it is not always false, alas) The history of God's people of the 1st century was repeated. In the 1st century, Jehovah's servants trusted and obeyed their leaders. *And together, all together,* they rejected Jehovah's son, Jesus, by killing him. See *Acts 3:14-17.* Paul's prophecy from 2 Thess. 2:2-4 has been fully fulfilled by Jehovah's people before our eyes (since about 2000). For Paul was putting a lawless man in the Temple of Jehovah *before Armageddon.* And today, at the time of the New Testament, *Jehovah has no other Temples than the spiritual one.* Well, if Jehovah's Witnesses are not God's people, *then the man of iniquity from 2 Thess.2:2-4 must be sought elsewhere.* But whatever happens in God's people today, *one should never leave one's meetings* (texts for reflection: Hebrews 10:25; Mark 7; Mat.23:2-4; Rev 3:1-4; Ps.119/118:165; Rom.8:28 and 1 Peter 4:17 )
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Wonderful meeting my dear brothers and sisters
From México City, really appreciate your meeting. Alexander.
I felt a strong sense of unity and love in the congregation. ❤
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They all look funny with facial hair. Grown men finally growing a beard because a least 5 of 9 GB Dudes voted yes. Dudes this congo has probably never met. Followers of men they are.
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This is not worshiping God. This is watchtower indoctrination meeting laced with some bible verses taking out of context. True worship involves prayers, adoration, meditation.
19. What apostasy developed by the end of the first century, and what did this lead to in later centuries?
The authors are silent about one important point. What?
We're looking at the context of chapter 20 (we don't like context, preferring to build teachings on verses taken out of context - this is a separate topic).
*Acts. **20:17**,29,30* (KJV)
17 "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called *the elders of the church."*
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, *not sparing the flock.;*
30 *Also of your own selves shall men arise,* speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.*"
Here, Paul clearly indicated that apostates would appear, first of all, *from among responsible Pastors.* Because, "the fish always rots from the head.
*Responsible pastors,* not ordinary believers, *will be dangerous.*
Only the elders have the opportunity and authority to lead the congregation wherever they want and *teach what they want.*
Ordinary Publishers *can't do this* - no one will listen to them. If such a person becomes an apostate, *it's not a big deal,* because the shepherds will expel him and that's it.
But if a pastor departs from the truth in order to draw the disciples after him, who among the members of the congregation will punish him?* Nobody!
This is why the shepherds of Jehovah's people are dangerous at all times: those who focus on the shepherds more than on Jehovah, and make their trust in the shepherds blind, without testing them according to the word of Jehovah (contrary to Acts.17:11) - *he risks being led not by Jehovah,* but by the shepherds.
If the shepherd deviates from the truth, all those who blindly trust him will also deviate. Those who sit in the assembly at the top are more dangerous than those who leave the assembly, since the supreme pastors are listened to, but the departed are forgotten. It was this thought from Acts 20 that the authors kept silent about.
Yes, that's exactly what happened in the 2nd century. And by the 4th century, Christianity had already been diluted with non-Biblical teachings - we all remember the Council of Nicaea.
And the methods of leading the flock away from Jehovah from the apostate pastors (the lawless of all times) are not so obvious: they do not lead the people away from Jehovah openly, otherwise it is easy to recognize their apostasy. They are dangerous because they encourage them to serve Jehovah, *while pursuing their own goals* (they lead the disciples after themselves, not to Jehovah and not to His Christ, Acts 20:29,30). Therefore, the theft of the flock is implicit: by developing the fruit of idolatry among Jehovah's people, they replace Jehovah with themselves and *they put themselves in the place of God, and by putting their own word in the place of God's word,* but they rely on the Bible, as it were.
And so they push Jehovah and His word out of the minds and hearts of Jehovah's people *into the background.*
As a result, all the servants of Jehovah, worshiping lawless shepherds, *sincerely believe that they worship Jehovah* because they are deceived by the cunning of such shepherds (read Paul's warning again - *2 Thess.2:2-4,9,10* ). Well, the fruit of the lawless can be both material and spiritual.
*Spiritual is idolatry.* And the material one is lawlessness, which is increasingly visible to outsiders, and not just to individual thinking co-believers.
Today, this pattern can clearly be observed among us, Jehovah's Witnesses. Alas!
That is why the name of Jehovah is blasphemed among the nations today (the entire Internet is filled with defamatory information, and it is not always false, alas)
The history of God's people of the 1st century was repeated. In the 1st century, Jehovah's servants trusted and obeyed their leaders.
*And together, all together,* they rejected Jehovah's son, Jesus, by killing him. See *Acts 3:14-17.*
Paul's prophecy from 2 Thess. 2:2-4 has been fully fulfilled by Jehovah's people before our eyes (since about 2000).
For Paul was putting a lawless man in the Temple of Jehovah *before Armageddon.* And today, at the time of the New Testament, *Jehovah has no other Temples than the spiritual one.* Well, if Jehovah's Witnesses are not God's people, *then the man of iniquity from 2 Thess.2:2-4 must be sought elsewhere.*
But whatever happens in God's people today, *one should never leave one's meetings* (texts for reflection: Hebrews 10:25; Mark 7; Mat.23:2-4; Rev 3:1-4; Ps.119/118:165; Rom.8:28 and 1 Peter 4:17 )
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