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I hope we see this....

This morning...indeed just a few moments ago...I had my mind blown by someone who doesn't serve Jehovah, someone who doesn't even know him or really anything about the Bible at all! A little backstory: For weeks now I have been talking to a vendor that I see off and on at different stores. If you looked at him and judged solely off the surface, you can easily see why a lot of people avoid him. Not only are both of his arms filled with tattoos, (full sleeves on both sides), he also has tattoos on his face and he's missing about half of his teeth. Within the first 15 minutes that I met him approximately 8 weeks ago, he shared that he had served 12 years in prison and a 7-year stint prior to that. That immediately gave us common ground and I just started talking to him about my own experiences inside those walls. Some days we don't see each other at all, but there are other days where I see him on a couple ofstops that we share in common. Some days we talk a minute or two, other days we end up speaking for 10 to 15 minutes while waiting for the receiver to finish up with other vendors. I know some people have noticed us talking, I've had comments on it now a couple of different times from various vendors and even some store employees. Last week, for whatever reason, he decided to open up to me and shared the following statement, (it's not exactly what he said, it's just my best summation of it): "My cousin told me that God is punishing me for the stuff I’ve done in my life. I don’t really believe him, but when you hear something like that at the wrong time, it gets in your head, ya know? And honestly…I just feel like everybody’s done with me lately. My brother and his wife kicked me out of their house because I complained about his wife smoking weed, my family barely talks to me, and the people I'm trying to hang out with don’t even return my messages. I mean, I don’t blame them, I guess. I’m a mess right now. But it makes me wonder if maybe my cousin is right...maybe God’s done with me too. Maybe this really IS payback for everything I've done.” I assured him at Jehovah does not punish people like that, and I even shared the account at John chapter 9 regarding the blind man where Jesus had to correct his own disciples view on the same matter. I also showed him the verse in Ecclesiastes regarding time and unforeseen occurrence befalling us all. This morning I saw him at a store and he came outside to meet me as soon as I pulled up. He thanked me for sharing that account and said that after he had gotten home to his hotel room, he had googled it out of curiosity. But here comes the part where he blew my mind...because he told me that he had been encouraged by the Bible for the first time in his life, but it wasn't by the scripture I brought out. Again, here's what he said: "Hey, I didn’t read the whole thing, but I liked that part Google highlighted for me...it said that after they threw the guy out...Jesus heard about it and went and found him.” He said that part really hit home with him because of everything that he's been through. He thanked me for sharing the account with him and said it feels really good knowing that even if everyone else has given up on him, Jesus hasn't. Now I went into that discussion trying to encourage him by showing him that his cousin's doctrine was wrong, but I completely missed the most important part of what he said: he felt completely abandoned by everyone in his life. Thankfully, what I missed, Jehovah must have picked up on...because he agreed that I could share some more scriptures with him from time to time, especially if they would make him feel like this one did. I just wanted to share that with everyone, not to make some huge theatrical point...but simply to reinforce, once again, the POWER of Jehovah's word!!

The record says "As they traveled eastward they discovered a valley plain in the land of Shinar and began dwelling there. Then they said "Come! Let us make bricks and bake them with fire. So they used bricks instead of stone, and bitumen as mortar. And Jehovah said "Look! They are one people with one language and this is what they have started to do. Now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them." Was the use of bricks instead of stone a technological advancement in their day? Was it the use of bricks that gave them the idea that they could "build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens" whereas they would have never attempted to do it with stone? The use of bricks may have streamlined construction so much that they began to have great aspirations for themselves. Indeed, Jehovah acknowledged that nothing would be impossible for them. AI may be the change of human society and a return to "nothing will be impossible for them". And, in the hands of selfish, imperfect humans, more harm will result than good. AI could very well be a major contributing factor behind the reason the nations give their authority to the UN as they face an existential crisis of their own making. Jehovah will put that thought into their minds and hearts. It will be another miraculous intervention like the Tower of Babel.

We have some from the Cong currently filming on set. They are now filming Episode 11. It means the schedule is tracking well. What I didn't think through though, is they are now filming the final days of Jesus earthly ministry. I guess it makes sense. The book of John for example, the first half of the writings (up to chapter 11), gets us to Nisan 10. The final 10 chapters cover the last few days. I have heard a whisper that the computer (Ai) and the monster screen will play a big part of the upcoming filming. 📽️

There are elections going on here in Brazil, and it’s honestly so exhausting. The power struggles, the attacks, and the constant accusations back and forth create such a horrible atmosphere. It’s really draining. I truly look forward to the end of this terrible system and to the day when the Kingdom I’ve been waiting for finally comes.

Everything we love...everything we cherish...everything we simply CANNOT live without...all of that was HIS...before it was ever ours. Of course this isn't new information...we've understood this, instinctively, since the very first time we absolutely knew there WAS a God. But maybe...just maybe...you haven't REALLY thought about what that means in quite a while. Maybe Satan's world has gotten in the way, maybe your aches and pains have stacked up so high you feel buried under the weight...maybe you just feel like you want it all to end...like another single BREATH is simply too painful to endure. We KNOW we're not alone in these thoughts, these feelings. We're told to endure...to stay focused on Jehovah and the new system...on our brothers and sisters who are struggling right beside us. We KNOW that's the right thing to do, we KNOW it's the smart move to make...and yet, we just want to give up...to close out eyes, unclench our fists and just...LET GO! How much easier that would be...how much relief would flood through our bodies...to finally be at peace...to finally have a place to rest...a place where Jehovah can just come get us whenever he's ready. And yet...and yet we recognize that's not the reality...we UNDERSTAND that we have to keep fighting...we must KEEP squaring up our shoulders each morning and facing down a world that hates us....millions of unfaithful spirit creatures who are CRAVING to get at us....to reduce us to a quivering pile of tears...and our own imperfections which hover us like a cloud of blood hungry mosquitoes. *Sigh*...okay, here we go: Jeremiah 45:1-5: "This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Barʹuch the son of Ne·riʹah when he wrote in a book these words dictated by Jeremiah in the fourth year of Je·hoiʹa·kim son of Jo·siʹah, the king of Judah: 2 “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says concerning you, Barʹuch, 3 ‘You have said: “Woe to me, for Jehovah has added grief to my pain! I am weary from my groaning, and I have found no resting-place.”’ 4 “You should say to him, ‘This is what Jehovah says: “Look! What I have built up I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land. 5 But you are seeking great things for yourself. Stop seeking such things.”’ “‘For I am about to bring a calamity on all flesh,’ declares Jehovah, ‘and wherever you may go, I will grant you your life as a spoil." Yes...we all KNOW this account...we've studied it many many times. Yes, we all KNOW Baruch was seeking greater things...the Watchtower even brings out that with his upbringing and status...it couldn't have been easy for him to listen to all of Jeremiah's denunciation messages. But after the brothers told us to start looking for what we could learn about JEHOVAH in the accounts as we read them, I went back and took another look at this account. Do you see it? Verse 3: FOUR TIMES Baruch speaks about HIS pain...HIS woe's...HIS groaning...HIS lack of a resting place. Can I really blame him?? His whole world was falling apart...everything that felt familiar was being threatened...his entire future was uncertain...up in the air. We don't KNOW what those greater things were that he was seeking, but we do know from his own words that he was looking for a RESTING PLACE. But now...what does Jehovah do? Does he tell Baruch that his pain doesn't matter...that he needs to "be stronger"? No...LOOK at what Jehovah SAYS: "You should say to him, ‘This is what Jehovah says: “Look! What I have built up I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land." How amazing is that?? Jehovah readjusts his vision by reminding him that it was JEHOVAH who had planted all this...it was JEHOVAH who had built everything around Baruch that he loved, that he cherished...that he was going to be losing. Suddenly Baruch isn't alone anymore...now Jehovah is right there...standing next to this distraught man...REMINDING him that BEFORE Baruch ever loved any of it...Jehovah loved ALL of it. Now to all my dear brothers and sisters out there hurting...out there barely hanging on...please understand that before you lost that person in your life who chose Satan's world over Jehovah's...Jehovah loved them before you did. Before you lost that person in death...Jehovah's love was already wrapped around them...and it still is. That body that's literally wearing out underneath you...Jehovah DESIGNED you to love forever. The cruelty we see everywhere we look...Jehovah despised it long before we ever existed. That brother or sister you're currently watching struggle in YOUR hall? Jehovah saw the tears pouring out of their hearts long before you ever saw their red eyes. And to those of you who feel so worn out that you just want to give in and give up...please look at what Jehovah told Baruch in verse 5. No, not the part about him seeking greater things...I'm talking about the part we often overlook: "For I am about to bring a calamity on all flesh,’ declares Jehovah, ‘and wherever you may go, I will grant you your life as a spoil." Notice that? Baruch wanted a "resting place"...the man was worn out...exhausted...emotionally spent. Of course Jehovah knew that...he knew that better than Baruch himself. But did Jehovah give Baruch what he wanted? No...he gave the man exactly what he NEEDED! Not just his life...don't just concentrate on that part! Look at what he said directly before that: WHEREVER YOU MAY GO!! Friends...Jehovah couldn't offer Baruch what he WANTED...so he gave Baruch a kind of security the man didn't even know he should ask for...it's like he said, don't WORRY about where you physically end up...because there's no place on earth where my promise cannot reach you! And that's how I'm going to end this post...for everyone who's hurting...in whichever way that's manifesting itself in your life...just know that before you ever loved or lost any of it...Jehovah loved it first...and he is aching to give it back.

The couple from Vienna (at time 16:30 in the broadcast) will be with me at the Pioneer Service School this November. 😊

Perhaps it would be good for us to take some time to reflect on the many wonderful examples we have that can help us keep our spiritual vision clear and focused. One of these is Caleb. He did not allow what he saw happening around him to change what he knew about Jehovah. He saw many of his contemporaries losing their faith, but he never allowed their attitude to make him doubt Jehovah or the certainty of His promises. We too live in a world where many people are losing their trust in God or no longer believe in His promises. To keep our faith strong, we need to continue getting to know Jehovah more deeply, reminding ourselves of the beautiful qualities He has shown us, and taking time to meditate on His precious promises. There is something especially touching about Caleb’s example that I think is worth remembering: he had to wait 45 years to receive his inheritance. Yet he did not spend those years simply waiting for a reward. He spent them faithfully serving Jehovah. And what about us? Are we continuing to strengthen our friendship with Jehovah because we truly love who He is and appreciate His beautiful qualities? Or, perhaps without realizing it, has our faith become too closely tied to WHEN we expect to see our hopes fulfilled? Will we continue to trust in Jehovah with a patient and faithful heart, even if the fulfillment of His promises takes longer than we had expected?

It’s horrifying to think of the implications of a livestream execution in this day and age. Young people watching. How some will laugh and rejoice while watching. Literally the whole world watching in unison. The recordings that will be made and played over and over. AI being used to alter scenes. I know it’s all happened before but for it to be livestreamed is a whole new level. It’s similar to The Hunger Games. People are so desensitized and this will only increase all of that.

According to our list posted on the front page of this website, how many "guests" (meaning non-member public) do you see? That is as of this moment. Who's Online 52 Members, 0 Anonymous, 1,919 Guests

I will let you brothers decide the final call. If the reason isn't sufficient enough, then it can be merge and it will be on everyone's discretion talking about it knowing the public can see all our discussion. I just found it not ideal to have the public whom we don't know seeing our discussion especially on these kinds of topic and I think I am also overprotective nowadays probably because of the upcoming annual meeting too. hahahaha. But regardless, I would respect the brothers' decision.

The September broadcast is back and will be available in the public areas of the site within the next several hours. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the discussion and also this topic is in a public section where outsiders who are not members of JWTalk can view the discussion, and where artificial intelligence systems may also be able to access, process, or reproduce information from it out of context, I cannot provide details about what has changed. I would also encourage everyone not to mention any details until this topic has been moved to a private section of JWTalk. If one of the brothers who manages the site could move this topic to a private section, that would be ideal before we discuss the changes in more detail. (Calling our rescuers @Qapla, @Dages, etc. ) This is simply out of an abundance of caution, particularly regarding outsiders who may look for information that could be taken out of context or used to create unnecessary controversy.

seems they like jws as clients https://e-hotelarz.pl/artykul/122568/analyses-and-reports-why-does-the-hotel-industry-want-to-welcome-jehovahs-witnesses.html

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“Also, at 82, I do not "just run around" like 60 years ago. I put less than 3,000 miles a year on it now.” Quoted from James. 👋 You and I are about the same age. I’ll turn 83 in November. My husband has ordered a vehicle for me. It’s a Toyota Crown Signia(?) white with a black top. It’s a hybrid, so it should average out at 38 miles per gallon. It looks like my trips to the kingdom hall, (round-trip around 50 miles) might be almost free. And for the most part, that’s why I put mileage on my rig. We bought it on the Internet from a dealer three hours away, inland. And it was complicated. He’s changing it from low profile wheels to normal normal profile wheels. We have to clear things with the Tribe., (we pay no sales tax) and last, but not least WeatherTech mats for front and back. Never mind the financing. You’ll be able to put almost half of it down because of the sale of the Subaru. Now, my traveling partner, Paula, will probably be putting the most miles on it because she drives us to the convention and the assembly. Now we get to give her rig a break. You cannot imagine how stressful this has been for me. Well, not really. When this whole thing started, I started praying to Jehovah because I can get anxiety attacks, lose sleep, have a hard time following a decent train of thought. You get the picture. Pretty much will make a mess of me. And I noticed that my anxiety was pretty much not there. And I’m so grateful. This is in spite of the fact I have to have surgery on an esophageal hernia come Monday. Never mind I have a small part in the assembly on 18 October. That’s 20 days after my surgery. And two weeks of that 20 days will be liquid only diet. I shall be svelt. If I’m able to walk.😕 I think this is the last huge event in my life, I hope, until the Memorial next year

ElevenLabs_video_gemini-omni-flash-1-1-extend_Create a longer_2026-09-26T11_44_13.mp4 THIS is the closest thing I could find to express my overwhelming awe at this moment...and though I PROMISE I will explain in a moment...please, please just take a moment to sit back, grab your favorite beverage...and join me as I take you on a gentle meander down my path of thought...that way each of you can see what led me to this point...and why it has me sitting here in a personal moment of the deepest sense of quiet contemplation that I have personally experienced in quite some time. As most of you are well aware, my heart aches with the physical absence of my dear wife. Every single day I struggle with this...not a moment goes by that I don't miss her deeply, that I don't long to come home and find her sitting curled up on the couch, her favorite blanket draped over her legs as she delves into a Watchtower study...or just reading her favorite magazine. Some days I struggle to breathe when I think about it too much...other days I am kept so busy I go hours without even really being conscious that she is still gone...until one tiny thing happens that instantly reawakens the pain...like a bad tooth being lit up in pain at the mere touch of something ice cold. I am slowly beginning to come back to life spiritually...that spark is buried too deeply inside me to ever really go out...but it's happening in fits and starts...my brain tells me that I NEED to get going...my heart nudges me towards Jehovah...but sometimes, like the coward I am...I run back and hide...waiting for the storm to blow over, waiting for the pain to subside. I WANT to tell the friends what I am going through...but sometimes I don't have fancy explanations...sometimes I open my mouth and there simply ARE no words...only Jehovah's holy spirit can interpret what's happening inside me. In the midst of all of this...I started a personal study project. I wasn't looking for anything profound...I wasn't even looking for anything in particular. I...I was simply trying to breathe again spiritually. I don't even remember HOW I ended up turning to this verse...but once I had read it...I couldn't stop thinking about it...a tiny little question popping up over and over again in the back of my mind...like popcorn kernels popping in an iron skillet...it kept bursting into life, over and over again until I simply had to address it. The verse? 1 Corinthians 4:9; "For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men condemned to death, because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men." A theatrical spectacle...my my, do I ever feel like that now! But the part that captivated me...the part that kept eating at me was simply three little words, "And to angels". Of course, I KNOW the angels are interested in us: 1 Peter 1:12 makes that crystal clear, "Into these very things, angels are desiring to peer." So of COURSE they want to know what's happening, of COURSE they have an avid, even an INTENSE interest in what's going on here on Earth. But...but WHY?? I mean...beyond the obvious! Beyond the reasons we so often hear at the meetings..."They love us, they are part of Jehovah's heavenly organization"...beyond the hundred other reasons I could think of off hand...the one thought that kept creeping back into my head, over and over again was this: WHY ME??? Why Tim? Why specifically me?? What have I ever done to draw their attention?? (Besides be a total screw up and a perfect example of what NOT to do as a human) Like...why ME? So, as always...I hopped on my computer and started digging, rooting around on JW Online Library, fueled off coffee and hot cinnamon buns. And friends...what I saw shocked me...it stunned me in a way I haven't been in years...and THAT is why I'm writing this post. NOW, to explain the short video at the beginning of this post. After that question refused to leave my brain, I needed a break. I don't WHY I typed this into the search bar of my search engine...but I just did: "WHY ME??" I started idly scrolling through a ton of meme's and songs and other things all dealing with the subject...and somehow I ended up clicking on this picture...a picture like this one: Instantly, I was captivated...and not just because it LOOKED cool...but because it made me think of Jehovah for some weird reason...like raw power under containment. So, I clicked on it...started doing some quick research on the scientific name "Lichtenberg figure"...and started making sudden links in my mind regarding my original question! Friends, what you saw in that video wasn’t just “a cool science thing.” It’s called captured lightning...a moment when raw electrical power is forced into a block of clear acrylic and then released all at once. In a single instant, the electricity tears through the material in thousands of tiny little branching paths…and then freezes there forever! But friends, here's the crazy part: Every single pattern is completely unique. The electricity doesn’t change...the laws behind it don’t change...and the power itself doesn’t change. But the way that power expresses itself...the exact branching pattern it carves...depends entirely on the conditions it encounters in that one critical moment of time! When I learned that… something inside me suddenly went very silent and still. Because suddenly, I realized this strange little lightning sculpture was the closest physical thing I had ever seen to what the Scriptures describe angels watching. Want me to back that up from our own publications? Here's what I found, what I have been meditating on for the past week: "Then how is it that God makes known his greatly diversified wisdom through the congregation? In that what God does by, for and with this congregation serves as an illustration of the greatly diversified wisdom of God. This sacred secret is something for the angels to view with admiration and amazement, and so it can be said that through it these angelic creatures get to see the greatly diversified wisdom of God as they had not known it before." (Italics my own) Questions From Readers — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY Ready for another one? The one that actually blew my mind? Here you go: WHY ANGELS ARE INTERESTED 11. According to 1 Peter 1:12, how intense is the interest of the angels in the divine arrangement for salvation? 11 The example of the angels should also serve to encourage us to do our utmost to remain in God’s favor. Though having no personal need for the divine arrangement of salvation, faithful angels take a real interest in the outworking of God’s grand purpose for humankind. The apostle Peter wrote: “Into these very things [that occupied the attention of the Hebrew prophets] angels are desiring to peer.” (1 Peter 1:12) Yes, before the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth, the angels were desirous of knowing more about Christ’s sufferings, the “glories to follow these” and the impact of the “good news” on humankind. The apostle Peter could speak of them as “desiring to peer” into these matters. In the original Greek, the expression “to peer” suggests a stooping down with a view to scrutinizing an object more closely. But why were the angels so keenly interested in making a careful examination of Jehovah God’s revelation about salvation? As perfect spirit persons, why should the provisions for sinful, earthly humans particularly concern them? 12, 13. How might we explain the great interest of the angels in the salvation of mankind? 12 Since the angels are not all-knowing, they doubtless increase their knowledge by studiously considering God’s dealings and revelations. The arrangement for the redemption of the human race truly furnished a marvelous example of Jehovah’s love, justice, mercy and wisdom. Hence, by occupying themselves with gaining greater understanding of Jehovah’s arrangement for saving sinful mankind, the angels would come to appreciate their heavenly Father even more. They would learn things about his personality and ways that could not be discerned from a study or an examination of any other development in the universe.—Compare Ephesians 3:8-10. Encouraging Aid to Stick to Our Decision — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY Do you SEE that last line?? "They would learn things about his personality and ways that could not be discerned from a study or an examination of any other development in the universe." That...that is quite literally giving me chills...still, at this very second!! Angels who saw the creation of the earth, of mankind...angels who have been with Jehovah for untold millions of years...and yet here they are...ACTIVELY LEARNING brand new things about Jehovah's "personality and ways"...from the way that he deals with OUR unique situation. I won't go any further with this post...I don't need to. Jehovah answered my question in a way I didn't expect...and even though there are many other things at play in my particular situation...I cannot help but wonder: What NEW THINGS are those angels learning about Jehovah right now as my wife and I go through our situation? And I will leave each of you with the same thought: What brand new aspects of Jehovah's personality are those angels learning from Jehovah about what YOU'RE going through...because YOU are the lightning that angels watch!

Then you hear from the back of the room. "Don't worry, here, we will give you all of our power and authority"