What you wrote just confirms what I said a few minutes ago.

Personally, I don't care about the WT and/or about the GB, they may say that donkeys can fly... it wouldn't surprise me and I don't care about what they say about/to me anyway (or the kind of person I am). I especially worry about Jesus' sheep and about the effect that their teaching may have on them, even though I am glad when they say sensible things, at last. It's not a question of leadership because I know what/which mine is but I worry about those who don't know what's going on and who are waiting for an answer or a reason why....

 

wow 78 years old and still going!

yup 1975 I was their got baptised so I would not be destroyed at Armageddon and because it helped keep my violent step father away a little he was afraid a little that he would be discovered and disfellow shipped.

yea 40 years latter I used to want to see it Armageddon but I learned better from watchman!

never evan read that scripture till he posted it! now 40 years latter I don't care if Armageddon ever comes! hope it don't come till I'm good and dead! I'm to old to want that kind of action I'm to old to run fast!

my whole experience with the armegedon thing left me sour on the whole preaching thing.

but a little birdie chirped at me to read the book of Jonah and understand that the sign of Jonah was referring to Jehovah's wittnesses preaching the end and causing so many to repent that the destruction was put off a while! for all we know 1975 was the date thank Jehovah he showed mercy and we don't have to be the generation to see that horrible scene!

 

Jehovah will not lose one person he wants. Those who he wants that don't leave on their own, Jehovah will make sure they are taken from it. We don't have to worry about those still in. I believe Jehovah used them to preach the Good News of the Kingdom. He would use a stone if he had to. Outside of those in charge acting like Hitler's SS guards, and the stuff that is not true, most of the teaching of scripture was spot on.
I have talked to many ex-elders. Most seem to be fighting against the Watch Tower. I for one leave things like that to our God Jehovah. Why side-track yourself when there is still work to do for Father? I have been solo now for 19 years. It gets lonely, but I know the preaching must go on. I tell people, "Believe in God the Father, his son, our Lord Jesus, Gods written word, and to stay away from religions."
I look at this hard time, and the harder times to come, and yes, even death as all a part of our everlasting life.
Many years ago I made a deal with myself. "Domenic, your heart will let you do nothing but serve Jehovah. If he were to tell you, 'Sorry kid, I'm not going to raise you from the grave...you will stay as dust,' I'd figure he was doing the best, and right thing, and I would double my efforts to serve him in the time I had left. Just knowing that Jehovah is, is the best gift I have ever had.

Oh, I'm not 78, I'm 79, and will be 80 in January. If you think that is old, don't believe it...it all goes by like fire in dry grass on a hot summer day. You will be there before you know. it is no time at all.