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Mark of the beast is a spiritual mark. If you like the human governments that act like spiritual beasts and promote them then you have a mark of the beast. I even have a personal view of spiritual beast like approach to authority also is beastly IMO. Similar to anti Christ being an attitude that's existed since the first century.

I wonder if somehow with economic problems every country has that the world will move to a digital currency and paper money will be useless. This digital currency will be a global currency...I dont know...my mind is wandering...lol

Yes, I absolutely loved the music video above all else, and did figure it was Romany/Gypsy style. Actually I imagined it could have been brothers from Carlos' little romany congregation. And on another note, I never really grasped the friends vs sons thing, neither the explanation about being declared righteous as friends of God vs being declared righteous for life. When I come across scriptures like Romans 5:1, I feel very strongly that they apply to me. The anointed can be addressed as children of God and also as friends of God, but so can the other sheep.

This is new. It seems to be urging me to either check error logs or refresh data. Has anyone seen this before?

I had to go through and manually reset all the dropdowns to the correct value. The Publisher app kept saying Hospitality was "Not Available" until I updated to 4.0.12. Now it works fine.

I definitely don't want to act as if I know better than the slave, because I definitely do not. I'm one of the domestics, and gladly submit to their direction. Lately, I've been thinking that since we’re so close to the great tribulation, and the mark of the beast will no doubt have its major fulfillment then, that we may get some refinements about this matter. But that's not the only reason. The slaves' teaching makes sense. However, some things cause me to wonder: Here's a post I made that I’m pasting from an old annual meeting speculation thread that I edited: I don’t want to speculate what I think the mark could be. But it appears it hasn't been fulfilled yet. Revelation 13:16,17 says the United Nations will put under compulsion all people, not just those they apprehend, to be marked, and that without this mark nobody can buy or sell. There have been some extreme pressures put on people by some governments to do things their way. But nothing like this from the United Nations. The United Nations has never demanded that all people comply with doing things their way so much that they prohibited people from being able to buy or sell. I know the slaves’ understanding on the prohibition to buy or sell, but I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being literal. This may be one of those scriptures that is best understood while undergoing fulfillment. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a talk warning us to watch how things develop in the future. It’s true that some governments have jailed and even killed our brothers and sisters for their nuetrality. However, Revelation 13:15 says it will be the image, or the United Nations that will impose this “mark.” As far as I know, the United Nations has never pressured people to do such a thing. Satan is so bent on seeing to it that as many people lose out on everlasting life as possible, that it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he caused his political system to pressure everyone to essentially chose between God’s kingdom or his during the great tribulation. The easiest way to get humans to comply would be to threaten their livelihood, their lives, since self-preservation is probably the strongest human “instinct.” After all, he’s the same one that said no human would serve God when threatened with death and tempted Jesus with food. There was a morning worship with brother Jackson where he said, ‘We’ll have to wait and see what pressure is put on Jehovah’s people’ during the great tribulation when speaking about the mark of the beast. I'm not saying I'm right. I may be as wrong as two left shoes. But it wouldn't surprise me one bit if satan, given his murderous personality, literally forces everyone to decide between his kingdom or Christ’s in some way during the great tribulation.

Tuesday, May 19 God has assigned the respective ones in the congregation.—1 Cor. 12:28. In the first century, some brothers were appointed as ministerial servants. (1 Tim. 3:8) It seems that they were the ones who performed the “helpful services” that the apostle Paul wrote about. Ministerial servants evidently cared for necessary matters so that the elders could focus on teaching and shepherding. For example, ministerial servants may have helped to make copies of the Scriptures or may have purchased materials needed for copying. Consider some helpful services that ministerial servants perform in your congregation. (1 Pet. 4:10) They may be assigned to care for congregation accounts or territories, to order literature and make it available to the publishers, to operate audio and video equipment, to serve as attendants, or to help maintain the Kingdom Hall. All these services are necessary for the congregation to function properly.—1 Cor. 14:40. w24.10 19 ¶4-5

Is there something about our current understanding that seems lacking? I'm asking not to accuse or counsel. It's a genuine question. Whenever we think something needs adjusted, it's because the current understanding doesn't make sense to us. Nobody picks a belief at random and feels it needs clarified "just because".

I suspect that pretty soon there will be new information about the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation 13:16, 17. It's one of those verses that you can't be dogmatic about the fulfillment until it takes place. But I wouldn't be surprised if we get a talk saying that we will have to see how things unfold and that the fulfillment may be different than what was taught previously.

so far so good, this site seems like a lot of work, so I do appreciate that part

I totally understand I just hoped maybe someone had a similar issue. I sent in a ticket and this was the reply which didn't help since I had been through all support info multiple times: Thank you for your message and positive comments. We’re sorry to hear you’re having problems.This feature has been explained in Help & Support, please see Help > Scheduling Help > Public Talks Local > Hospitality

Benjamin, I'm sorry that you are having trouble. Your best option is to open a ticket with the developers of NW Scheduler: https://nwscheduler.com/support-contact-us/ We are just users like yourself, we do our best to help but cannot change anything in the app.

I did see those and checked every one of those conditions but still no button. Our very kind PTC has been patiently waiting on me; I have been messing with this for a few days now. Request Hospitality via NWP The Request Hospitality button will show on NW Publisher app if all the following is true: App Settings > Allow Hospitality Requests is ticked Hospitality Status is either Unconfirmed or Confirmed The person has Person > Assign > Hospitality ticked No one else has already been assigned Hospitality

There was a recent change to the 'Public Talks - Local' section of NWS.. specifically to the 'Hospitality' option. Before, there was only a checkbox to select if the speaker was available or not. That has now changed to it having it's own drop-down field. The instructions I found previously seem to be up-to-date. https://nwscheduler.com/how-to/schedule/schedule-public-talks-local/#Request_Hospitality_via_NWP

Very odd we have been using the feature for a while now maybe two years. So I think I am up to speed on how to make it work. And this is a recent issue with the request button gone. Using NWS 8.1 #1453 / NWP 4.0.12

Disregard my previous post. We don't use the hospitality request feature but I turned it on to test. Followed their instructions at https://nwscheduler.com/how-to/schedule/schedule-public-talks-local/#Request_Hospitality_via_NWP. Everything appears to work for us, including having the request button show up in the NWP app. Using NWS 8.1 #1453 / NWP 4.0.12

We don't use the hospitality request feature but I turned it on to test. Followed their instructions at https://nwscheduler.com/how-to/schedule/schedule-public-talks-local/#Request_Hospitality_via_NWP. Everything appeared to work, including having the request button show up in the NWP app. However, when importing the request via NWS, it does not show up as scheduled in the Public Talk - Local section or in the weekend meeting info in NWP.

It progresses as you age. In my experience there is no silver bullet. The animal protein isn't a complete answer as i was vegan for 7 years. helped for awhile but it came back. I will say fresh fruit even though spikes blood sugar it also lowers much faster then starches. best habit is to read every single ingredient list and know how to spot processed foods. even the new fad to process "organic" foods. I have been trying "parasite" herbs. kinda helps some but i did notice appetite is way less.

So curious if anyone has seen this. I am updated in both Scheduler and Publisher. The option to select 'Hospitality' is gone? We have been using this feature for a year now with no issues, I unchecked that option in App settings. Sent the data, then back and re-ticked the box and sent the data. Additionally, the PT entries have the hospitality option checked. Re-checked the settings option, added a different mail and still no joy. Any ideas on the fix? I sent a request to support, and their kind but generic reply was thoroughly check the help/support section. Which I had done before contacting them. But I went through the steps again and supplied all the screen shots. Has anyone dealt with this?

Thanks for sharing.

No, we have not had any negative issues. We anticipated there would be some unexpected hiccups but there really haven’t been. The key is communication. Weeks before the first coordinated update we created a WhatsApp group thread called Shared Persons. The thread is not used for anything else except NWS. All the elders and ministerial servants get the same messages at the same time. They know when the coordinated update will take place. They know when there is a green light to use NWS again after everyone is updated. We also can send reminders, work arounds for new issues, and answer questions. This WA thread alone has saved me a lot of phone calls and texts from individual brothers with tech issues.

I would have 1 Person and 24 Duties waiting for me to send. I have no idea where that came from but after clearing or sending it several times it seems to have gone away.

Same here

I have done Roth conversions every year since I retired. I am in a very low tax bracket and will fill the bracket with a conversion without exceeding the bracket. I'm positioned very well for RMDs.