Doug

It really seems so. I can't imagine what a successor administration would look like. As fast as things are happening now, three years is a lot of time. Not that Armageddon will happen and be over within three years, but the GT certainly could begin before this administrations term ends.

The following statements come from our special edition of the Watchtower ~ An End to War, How? God will end human governments by means of what the Bible calls the war of Armageddon. God will replace human governments with his Kingdom. God's Kingdom will destroy the instigators of war, Satan and his demons. God's Kingdom will remove wicked people who refuse to stop fighting or disrupting the peace of others. It's hard to imagine a message more blunt, more hard-hitting, than the above. But it very well may be.

Hi Leslie. Well, it said the good news will be preached to the last hour. But it didn't elaborate on the circumstances. We can use our imagination. The good news will be a lifeline that people can grab if they have some understanding, some awareness, of what's really going on. But the vast majority will be overwhelmed with the problems related to the great tribulation and take no note of the opportunity they have. And, while the current understanding is that the good news will be preached until Armageddon, we don't know how that message will be delivered. I wasn't contradicting anything you posted, I was just embellishing on it. Thank you for your post.

Context is very important here. This is during a tribulation such as has never occurred before, and will be cut short lest no one should survive. In the midst of that, the good news will continue to be preached. Some, possibly many, will join us. No doubt the celestial phenomenon will help open their eyes. But the vast majority will view the good news message as delusional rubbish. Whatever the people decide, they will have had every possible opportunity to take sides with Jehovah and live.

Yes. When I pray to Jehovah I remember the ones in prison as we have been encouraged to do. Now, I include our undocumented brothers and sisters as well. May Jehovah's spirit rest upon them and may they stay close to him. ❤️

Satan cannot force people to act against their own will. w18 May pp. 22-26 "Know Your Enemy". I knew this was published, but to save time I asked Gemini to find it for me. It took 10 seconds. I look forward to the time when we can ask JW.org questions in our own words and get the references.

And so we must be very, very close.

Yes, they would. The first thing the dictator does is to cut communication to the outside world. Can't have anybody witnessing their brutality. In June 2025 Iran shut down the Internet throughout the country for 12 days. This meant that the airports, banks and practically every other business could not function. Today, Internet traffic in Iran is down 35-80%. They are throttling it this time. On the subject of the regular guy reporting what's really going on, as opposed to the legacy news outlets, let's not forget Minnesota. Father and son free-lance journalists Nick Shirley blew the lid off the fraud and corruption going on in Minnesota. To date, over 1,000 arrests and it's just getting started. The so-called legit news outlets paid no attention over the past 10-15 years. In 2015 David Daleiden conducted an undercover report about the sale of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood. As far as so-called legit news outlets, I think the days of Woodward and Bernstein are long gone. Those outlets tell you what they (their Board and their stockholders) want us to think and believe. Congressman Francis E. Walter said in 1956: "One may say that he who controls the media of mass communication, controls the minds of men". The Internet and mobile phone cameras are changing that.

Hopefully from someone honest and impartial with no agenda reporting live from their basement. Possibly the most famous and most studied piece of film is the 26.6 seconds of the JFK assassination recorded on 8mm Kodachrome by ordinary citizen Abraham Zapruder. If not for the guy in the basement, a lot of Truth would have never seen the light of day.

How ironic - The "religious" man can see the writing on the wall.

That's right!!!! They could berm the US out. Like my driveway when I get home

If the rules of engagement are Snowballs Only

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday. Interesting observation by the Associated Press: The 15-member council has been surprisingly inactive on the issue of Venezuela for the last several months, even as US posturing and boat strikes in the Caribbean increased.

Further on "excuses": Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) and Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have issued warnings of a potential large-scale false=flag incident around the Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 6 or 7. The assessment of this potential attack is that a religious site, or a site with a high symbolic significance, will be attacked and there will be many civilian casualties. And, fragments of western drones salvaged from the war will be planted as "evidence" of western involvement, setting peace talks back to square-one. This sounds like a script from Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne movies. But, with the latest out of Venezuela, maybe this potential false-flag plan will not even be needed? I saw one news headline that said Russia condemns the "aggression"

Interesting distinction. I can imagine a tourist coming back from Rome with a souvenir T-shirt "I went to the Vatican and all I got is a lousy T shirt". I wouldn't view the T shirt as an idol. So, I'm trying to imagine a tourist in the year 600 C.E. coming back from a Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Lands with a small vessel decorated with an ornate cross and the Greek inscription "Lord's blessing from the holy places" merely as a reminder of their vacation. It's possible! This got me thinking about the televangelists that used to beg for money on TV. They offered "seed" gifts to make the transaction feel more real. Popular gifts were "anointed" prayer cloths, or handkerchiefs. The preacher would claim to have personally prayed over the cloth, maybe even wiping his forehead with it, and it would bring luck and fend off calamity. Another hot gift was a small bottle of Jordan River water, or olive oil, and the donor was told to dab some on their doorposts (seriously!!). Jim Bakker took a new approach , he offered Survival Food Buckets to his donors, to survive the coming apocalypse. Jim is still working the gullible. After doing 5 years in prison, his ministry was ordered to pay $156,000 in restitution after he falsely claimed "Silver Solution" cured COVID19. Oh, well. From the Byzantine era down to today, "there's nothing new under the sun".