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Wednesday, June 24 I am coming against you in the name of Jehovah of armies.—1 Sam. 17:45. Likely while he was still a teenager, David visited the army camp of the Israelites. He found that the soldiers were terrified because a giant Philistine named Goliath had come out to “taunt the battle line of Israel.” (1 Sam. 17:10, 11) The soldiers’ fear was a result of their focusing on the giant and the taunts they heard on the battlefield. (1 Sam. 17:24, 25) David, however, viewed the situation from a different perspective. He viewed what was happening as a challenge, not merely against the battle line of Israel but against “the battle line of the living God.” (1 Sam. 17:26) David had Jehovah foremost in mind. David trusted that the God who had helped him when he was a shepherd would help him again in this situation. Certain of God’s backing, David faced Goliath and, of course, he won!—1 Sam. 17:45-51. w24.06 21 ¶7

I understand what you are saying, I'm just unclear of what sin is in a world whose only rule is "don't eat from that tree". Maybe you are right and Satan condemned himself the moment he said something untrue or the moment he rebelled against Jehovah's leadership - I just don't feel confident enough to make that claim even though it rings true for me.

Just in time for the 2000th anniversary of Jesus ministry and sacrifice. 😁

Good news according to Jesus schedule so far 2024 - 1 2025 - 2, 3 2026 - 4, 5, 6 2027 - 7, 8 My current hopeful guess is 2028 - 9, 10, 11 2029 - 12, 13, 14 2030 - 15, 16 2031 - 17, 18 I think the last 4 episodes are going to be showed by 2 because they will have to be extremely emotional. Another, more cautious option: 2028 - 9, 10, 2029 - 11, 12 2030 - 13, 14 2031 - 15, 16 2032 - 17, 18 It could be like the brothers decided to slow only 2 episodes per year but this there are 3 because sermon on the Mount was easier to shoot. (Guess again)

Exciting add on to Obsidian. I have not used Obsidian for years, so I installed it again and looked at your plugin. As usual i like your work. Best regards Kenneth

NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy Goddard Space Center 23 June 2026 10am ID weic2612c By piercing through thick dust, new details of galaxy M82 shine through. The James Webb Space Telescope has provided an in-depth look at edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82), a prototypical starburst galaxy that is forming stars 10 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy. This dynamic environment has previously garnered observations by many observatories, including the Hubble and retired Spitzer space telescopes. First imaged by Webb in 2024, a team of astronomers has recently revisited the scene with the telescope as part of an imaging survey, seeking to untangle the complex evolutionary history of this one-of-a-kind galaxy. Their observations reveal millions of stars and powerful outflows of gas and dust. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-pinpoints-millions-of-stars-within-cigar-galaxy/ Video link: Pic Description: Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary history. This Webb and Hubble composite image includes 16.5 million stars (blue-white), dust grains (red-orange), and ionized hydrogen gas (yellow). Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Adam Smercina (STScI, Tufts), Thomas Williams (University of Manchester); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Pic 2 (Bottom) Description: This side-by-side comparison shows the same region of M82 as seen by Hubble (left) and Webb (right). Hubble’s visible-light view is limited because of the amount of dust within M82, which shrouds the galaxy’s details. Bright, bluish light radiating from the centre is due to star formation. A notable thick lane of dust, black in the centre and red around the edges, diagonally stretches across the scene. Thinner strands and clumps of reddish dust cover the majority of the view.

We absolutely do know. The Bible is pretty clear. (Romans 6:23) 23 For the wages sin pays is death. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=45006023&srcid=share (James 1:15) sin, when it has been carried out, brings forth death. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=59001015&srcid=share Sin results in death. Everyone that sins is subject to death. Challenging Jehovah's sovereignty is a sin. For challenging Jehovah, Satan will die. He must die. Likewise, we know that Jehovah would never allow Satan to go and seduce a separate alien species as if Satan had free reign to corrupt the entire universe while he awaits execution. Jehovah's word is clear. If you know your bull is in the habit of hurting people and you don't restrain it, then you are responsible. After the first act of rebellion, Jehovah's justice forces him to restrain Satan so he does not hurt anyone innocent.

@Eryk Nice! That's a lovely tool. Thank you. I managed to get the interlinear with Strong's back in my JWLibrary on Windows.

Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well. I saw the post about jwlIntegrator and thought the initiative to create tools for our community was really interesting. I don't want to cause any drama or undermine the developer's effort in any way—I know how much work goes into creating utilities like this—but I just wanted to give a friendly and technical heads-up to anyone thinking about installing it, as I noticed a few points that deserve attention: Closed Source: The program is distributed as a closed executable. Since we can't read the source code, running this on your computer requires a blind leap of faith. Device Security: To run it on mobile, the tool requires rooting your Android or installing older versions (downgrading). This strips away important security layers from your device and leaves you without the latest updates. Take care!

No. I'm saying that I have no idea what he would do in that circumstance because I'm not sure what Satan did would be a death sentence if there were no fallout from it. Would he be banished? I don't know. Executed? I don't know. I understand he has earned a death sentence in real life because his actions killed Adam and Eve, but if they had said no there would be no casualties - so what would the punishment have been? I don't know. Agree. Their theoretical test of loyalty doesn't affect our planet (if they passed it). I still don't believe there is other life out there, but I can't use our current circumstances as proof of anything. If another planet had: Failed the test: the issue of sovereignty would have been adjudicated already and Adam and Eve would have been informed of this. No need for an earthly court case. Passed the test: Satan may or may not be executed or banished. We don't know. He may have been allowed to travel the universe and tempt Adam and Eve because choosing Jehovah's rulership does not prove Satan can't do it better (in the eyes of all creation). So, if there is another planet full of people out there, they would have to be faithful or they sinned after Adam and Eve did. Why? Because the issue of sovereignty is being played out here, not there. Jesus died here, not there. So it's possible they exist, but our current circumstances do not prove it one way or another.

I just wanted to make a quick comment for those who thought we wouldn't die after the GT started. In order for that to happen Jehovah would have to stop our aging process and our sicknesses. That does not seem reasonable to expect. The Bible tells us at Matthew 24:13 that "the one who has endured to the end (the end of their own life on earth or Armageddon, whichever comes first) will be saved." Now as far as the actual day of Armageddon goes - it does seem reasonable to believe that none of Jehovah's faithful servants will die on that day - what kind of Savior/Deliverer would Jehovah look like if he allowed even one of us to die during that war? It would look like he was unable to protect his own people during his own war. That is why the Bible also tells us to "life our heads" for our deliverance is near. We will not be afraid of anything bad happening to us on that Great and Fear Inspiring Day!

I think we are saying the same thing and not saying the same thing. You seem to be suggesting that if Adam and Eve had not eaten the fruit, that mankind would continue to be tested until Jehovah allowed Satan an opportunity to rule the world and fail. I disagree. You are using your logic to support the idea that another intelligent physical creation with freewill could exist and their tests of loyalty wouldn't prevent humans on earth being tested, so the events on earth don't rule out the possibility of intelligent physical creation with freewill on other planets. I disagree. We will have to agree to disagree. Take care...

It applies to everyone, not because everyone is the same, but because the same God who said humans can't rule themselves was just proven right through thousands of years of testing. So when Jehovah says the same thing about all his other creations, we know we can take him at his word - it doesn't need to be proven again. As I stated previously, I don't think what is happening here proves one way or another whether there is life on other planets.

...So I agree with Jehovah? Satan didn't say God's rulership was bad, just that it could be better (he was withholding something from them). The implication being that Satan could do better. The only way to prove that is to try. Makes sense to me.

For those of you who use Obsidian for your Bible research/notes, I would like to present a free community plugin called tra.VER:ture (or just traVERture). This is a scripture reference parser and formatter/converter/translator, which lets you create interactive links to the NWT Bible with verse previews, or parse entire documents into a searchable, sortable sidebar table. You can check it out here: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/traverture Official repo: https://github.com/erykjj/traverture Install manually or via `Community plugins > Browse` in Obsidian settings.

No. I was not saying. I was asking if that was what you saying. I was seeking clarification. Well, the topic was about extra terrestrials. And that's the ultimate point as to whether what the Bible describes applies to everyone, including these ETs, or if it only applies to humans. Some in this topic have stated the Bible, since it is only concerned with the human condition, cannot be used to disprove intelligent life on other planets. So, yes. Working with your analogy in relation to the topic, we must treat each group of humanity as distinct and separate groups instead of all coming from the same origin because, since this topic is about alien life, by definition those aliens would be separate and distinct from humans. That's the ultimate point of this discussion, whether such hypothetical aliens could or could not be used as witnesses to make a reply to Satan's challenge. I will respect your conclusion the answer is out of your reach.

Me: Ah yes, let me check those ads. Because i spent $100 to have them shown, and three people has seen them... Carry the five... Minus two.. Square root of 50...That's seventy hours of service this week 😍😍😍 --------- @Watchful Sentinel (not quoting due to not wanting a wall of text), yeah weirdly enough i think a Left Behind movie review by someone on youtube made me learn that the Rapture (the Christendom version) was thought up by some random chick. The dude wasnt Christian but majored in theology and riped the rapture and hell to shreds. I believe hell as taught in christendom was inspired by Dante's Infernal, or at lesst thats the common belief. i think ive said this in another thread but Christendom's rapture makes Satan look like an idiot. Like you're REALLY gonna wait until millions of people disappear from Earth to start your magnum opus? Youre gonna wait until literal hard hitting proof that God is real to do this dude? Really?

Hmm. This is a thought provoking subject. Remembering that Satan is a liar, when he said to Eve that she definitely would not die if she ate the fruit; he didn't say that because he believed that she would not die; he was telling a lie. But he was trying to seize power. Most humans have let him. This weeks watchtower Maintain the Right view of Adversity paragraph 3 made a good point:" If Jehovah were to fix all problems now, it could seem as if he was helping Satan run the world." Jehovah has gone to great lengths to provide a way of saving Adam and Eve's imperfect descendants, by providing the ransom. Jehovah knows what is true and he doesn't have to prove it for himself. He is kindly showing us that he is consistent and tells the truth. We can have confidence in Jehovah. 1 Corinthians 4 verse 9 says that we have become a theatrical spectacle to the World and to angels and to men. We can pray to Jehovah to help us to be loyal to him. We can all see that Jehovah's way is best, and the opportunity is still open for others to see as well.

Hi friends, Some years ago I found a video from an Encouraging Gathering on YouTube, where a brother was singing in the style of George Benson (guitar) and the lyrics were something like: "Let's be happy my sisters, Let's be happy my brothers, We're living in the New World..." If someone has an idea about it... it would be so nice! Thansk in advance and much love!

I don't know why but the first thing that came to mind was someone counting their service time because they have this ad up 🤣 Like the jokes about someone counting time with a tract on the windshield of their car

What is your "feed at work"? Is it a Google News view? Because its an algorithm with a selection of public news sources based on your personal profile (browse habits + everything google has about you). Or some other platform?

As my tool jwsync.org has the share notes feature where you select certain tags or certain dates, etc. And export it into a json file and then someone can take the adjacent file and it will add just those notes to there backup.... I wonder if there's a way to extract all the Strong's references and make them as specific notes per verse... And create a json file with my site and share that... Might be worth looking into

I think where our opinions differ is that you think Satan needed an opportunity to prove he was right. The difference is that he didn't claim to be right, he claimed Jehovah was wrong. Big difference. Jehovah gave him an opportunity to prove his point.

...The rest? -you saying all ethnicities/species need to sin to prove Satan a liar -you saying Adam and Eve's sin was inevitable by conflating an inability to prove Satan wrong with a requirement that they sin -you saying that proving Satan is wrong about humans means it doesn't apply to everyone Imagine Jehovah made a lavish meal for Adam and Eve and Satan claimed he could make an even better one. They say no and he never makes it. How long do Adam and Eve have to say no before it proves Satan can't cook? Never. You can't prove someone can't cook if you never let them cook. Their loyalty has nothing to do with Satan's ability to rule. That's a category error. What would Satan even taunt Jehovah with: "Hey, I think I can do better, but no one wants to follow me"? That's above my pay-grade.

Sounds like an easy way for an apostate to slip an ad to someone unexpectedly.