Doug

Both. I'm inclined to think that a tactical nuclear weapon will be used somewhere, and that will be the catalyst.

EXACTLY! They aren't all going to wake up one day and turn over their precious sovereignty as if they all had a lobotomy. There will be a reason, but we will know what's going on.

AI is like the reincarnation of the Tower of Babel. Jehovah found it necessary to intervene with mankind's ambitions and capabilities. Will Jehovah again intervene? Or, will the GT be the answer?

If the high prices are due to war and supply-chain issues ~ why are the oil and gas companies making huge profits?

I was looking up something about Joshua , and I noticed the reference to Joshua 1:8 shows w26.12 28.

It does sound meaningless . . just a cliche', like "Keep on believin'" I remember very clearly my first day in service after 9/11. I stood in the territory and looked down the street. EVERY house had an American flag on display. I just thought "Oh boy - here we go".

My philosophical thought of the day: Any tool can be used for a bad purpose. A hammer can be used to build a house, or to bludgeon a skull. In addition to the warnings mentioned, the news reports that the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen tried using Anthropic to help them build a missile. We are back to the Tower of Babel scenario - more bad will come from technological advancement than good.

I was home in California. An employee called with the news. She was hysterical. Turned on the TV and watched the second plane. I went to work. It felt surreal, but on Thursday I called a vendor to get a status on a shipment coming from the east coast. They told me traffic was shut-down on the interstate highways. Nothing was moving.

It was also reported that the temperatures this summer have been the highest ever recorded.

Yes. The new Secretary-General will start in January. The new one will need to have the approval of all 5 Permanent members of the Security Council and at least 4 members of the current 10 non-permanent members. Also, the new Secretary-General can't be from any of the permanent member nations. I think the new SG will be instrumental in the outworking of Rev 17:17, while Trump is President.

This is imperative! w26 January pp. 22 "Rather than dwell on the challenge that you are facing, focus on your appreciation for all that Jehovah has provided - including the ransom arrangement".

If there were such an adjustment . . . we should roll with it . . . but, I think many would be stumbled. It would feel as if we really don't know anything. Maybe it's not that Jehovah has picked the year, month and day. Maybe it's that Jehovah has already decided "when mankind reaches this point of debauchery". That would align with his move against Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. He acted when the situation called for action. Another way the FDS has explained the timing is "this system will not go on for one day longer than justice requires", and "Patience must yield to justice", etc. That leans toward the Nimrod example. In any case, Mt 24:34 will be fulfilled.

Featured on our Home Page is the article What Does the Bible Say About Nuclear War? A few snippets from the article say ~ There is the fear that the use of just one small-scale nuclear weapon will ignite a full-scale nuclear war that will devastate our world. Will God permit nuclear war? The Bible does not say. It does say that "fearful sights", or terrifying events , would occur in our day. Even if man were to use nuclear weapons again, God would not allow the situation to escalate to the point of global annihilation. In the news today is an article about the Pentagon drafting a new nuclear strategy designed to give the USA more options for using shorter-range nuclear weapons. The theory is to have credible limited-response options short of an all-out strategic exchange. Our website provides us, and the public, with the comfort of knowing this planet will not be destroyed, even if there is some use of nuclear weapons again!

"If God did not permit their wickedness, if he intervened with force to prevent it, their chorus of protests that their freedoms were being infringed upon would rise to the high heavens! They actually want him to permit their personal wickedness, but they want to be able to sow it without reaping its consequences". Never heard it expressed so well. Imperfect humans want to lie occasionally, cheat a little, sin by commission or by omission. We imperfect humans want to do those things from time-to-time, we just don't want to get in trouble for doing them. We may even feel it's righteous under certain circumstances. "There is no man that does not sin" Ec 7:20, 1 Kings 8:46

Beautiful, Hubert ! May we see one another as Jehovah does.