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But if you have a smart tv, you can skip using the box to cast and go directly into your tv's menu to do it.

you initiate the cast with your phone first and then it will search for something to cast to and your tv box will come up and you click connect.

For those of us who have room to stock up on food and other necessities, that is a good thing. For those of us who don't, we have brothers and sister who do and will share - Jehovah will take of the rest. Do what you can, when you can is all Jehovah asks.

if you have a smart tv, you can mirror cast whatever is on your phone to the tv.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone in the Phillipines survives. You seem to have hurricane after hurricane and in between there are the earthquakes. The people there never get a break!

I have a tv that is not "smart", it's about 20 years old. I just hooked an android box to it and can have the real JW Library app on it. Easy Peasy. You can do it with any tv.

I believe it will be too but the headline won't be " all leaders turn their power over to the UN". I think it will be more like "World Leaders declare World Peace as UN now makes decisions" or something like that. It won't make the leaders seem so weak and ineffectual.

It will be interesting to see if that is kept on the "down low" or not (authority given to the UN) because world governments may decide they don't want anyone to know so as not to cause a mass panic. I can't imagine so many of today's proud, arrogant rulers turning over their authority to the UN and then wanting it spread all over the place, unless they come up with some weakly plausible lie about why they did it.

I'm not sure why we would need an official announcement from the GB about the GT starting because it was my understanding that when the United Nations puts an end to all religion, that is the start. When that happens, it will make worldwide news, I don't think there will be any doubts. But it's always nice to have confirmation from the one true source of truth. When religion takes a hit, so will it's buildings and wealth, so I can imagine all religious property will be systematically confiscated and handed over to it's respective government, That is probably the reason that our publications always picture us meeting in other places besides our kingdom halls during that period of time. I would rather not think of that time as "scary", more like challenging. People outside our organization will be scared because they never imagined this happening - people are out of their minds now over the slightest thing, when something this big happens it will really amp up the craziness and chaos. But the Bible assures us that we will be "dwelling in security" because Jehovah will be taking care of us and keeping us united and still able to worship him. It will be that last moment of the GT when Gog of Magog attacks that might seem a bit frightening, but there is the reason we need to make our faith unbreakable now, so that we can "hold our heads up, knowing our deliverance is near".

Of course you are all in our prayers, as well as our family in Venezula. These disasters happen so fast and furious that it is hard to wrap our minds around it all. How Jehovah's organization keeps up with all the disasters is beyond me! The cost and the volunteer manpower needed for disaster relief committee's has to be enormous, yet it is always there and ready for the next disaster. Keep donating, keep praying and keep the faith!

The earth is definitely in peril. The weather patterns are so far off and every single decision greedy men and corporations make just plunge it further into disaster after disaster. These data centers going in all over the world are the last nail in the coffin I think. They will cause untold damage to the water and atmosphere and sink innocent people who depend on these resources further into despair. It's no wonder the Bible tells us that "men will become faint out of fear". The news media is geared to make people afraid of absolutely everything - everything we eat, every kind of medicine we take, every phone call or message we get, every place we go, - every decision we make is a wrong one. The stress of life is getting too great and people are going nuts because they can't handle it. Seems like life is nothing but mass murders, natural disasters, fear of another world war and general craziness. And this all BEFORE the GT happens! Life after the GT starts is something we all must spiritually and mentally prepare for now - I have a feeling what we are experiencing now will feel like a cakewalk compared to after the GT starts.

We have a brother and sister in our congregation that worked on the first 4 to 6 video's and they said he wears a "topper" basically and it's not because he has thinning hair, it's so that his hair looks consistent from scene to scene. This brother also told us that the brother portraying Jesus has always been single (his choosing) but now that these video's have been released, it's been a lot harder for him (I imagine sisters are coming out of the woodwork). So this brother could actually use our prayers to help him stick to his choice to remain single.

Nice of Reuters to give a "blurb" on the subject. I thought that was done back in 2017 but it seems now they are going after the real estate brought through the Swedish Branch of Jehovah's Witnesses. The greed and averice! Gotta fund that war machine.

Hamas's giving up its weapons is conditional though"-they want an end to all Israeli military aggression and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza AND (this is the big one) - the deployment of an "international stabilization force." (whatever that will be) So now whether is happens or not is basically up is Israel and we all know Israel wants to wipe Hamas completely off the map.

It makes me wonder if they refused to cooperate with some criminal element (drugs or weapons) and they were made an example of as to what happens when you don't do "as we say". I can only imagine how it pained Jehovah to show restraint in this matter and not interfere, it had to hurt him tremendously to let these brothers all die in this manner. Satan is the one at work here and we can only assume from the way they died, that he got no victory whatsoever with these young worshippers of Jehovah. They will see the reward Jehovah as in store for them!