PROJECT JEHOVAH: Letter September 17, 2022

[Rijk]

Good morning,

I translate for you with Google Translate:

From Saturday, September 17, 2022 to Saturday, December 17, 2022, I sent via regular mail
The Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and St. Maarten
81 Kingdom Halls the Letter September 17, 2022.

So, 81 Kingdom Halls received the letter in the mailbox of the Kingdom Hall.

Those 81 Kingdom Halls housed 159 different congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
So about 159 x 4 elders, 636 elders should have seen the letter on paper.

168 elders received the letter via WhatsApp.
53 elders received the URL to the letter via SMS on Saturday, January 14, 2023.

I wrote my first letter in 1996 and the last letter was October 18, 2018.
In those years I wrote dozens.

After my wife Vera died, I didn't think about writing a letter in connection with Jehovah's Witnesses.
My 92-year-old mother-in-law has been a witness for over 60 years and did not want intercourse because of my "disfellowshipping".

In 2005 a few weeks after Governing Body member Ted Jaracz was in my hometown of Utrecht and I wrote him a letter
https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf I was "disfellowshipped" (I remember the same week in July when Robert King was also
"disfellowshipped"?).

My mother-in-law entered the retirement home on April 21, 2022 and her daughter Vera died a day later.
The whole family watched tensely how my mother-in-law would react to me during the funeral on April 29, 2022.
She came in and everyone was amazed that she hugged me and cried.
After the ceremony in the parking lot, she asked me to visit her.

Since that week till now I visit her twice a week.
Last summer she complained about not coming to the Kingdom Hall.
Brothers pick her up for meetings twice a week.

She is extremely forgetful due to age (dementia).
You can talk to her very well; she is just sometimes confused by memory loss.

So, because there was uncertainty about whether she would come to the Kingdom Hall, I went to check it out on a Sunday morning.
Who picked her up and where did she go? So, she went to the brother and sister's house via ZOOM to the Congress program
of the Watchtower Society. She did not go to the Kingdom Hall during those weeks.

I then decided to go to the Kingdom cause with her on Saturdays myself.

On Saturday, August 27, 2022, I immediately had a discussion in the Kingdom Hall because I did not want to wear a face mask. The week after.
Saturday September 3, 2022, I had a short and friendly conversation with two elders in which I explained
that in fact I can never be disfellowshipped because the Watchtower had already disfellowshipped itself from Jehovah's Witnesses

Saturday, August 10, 2022, the elder I had spoken to the week before said to a sister so that I could hear: "This gentleman is disfellowshipped and he knows it".

Immediately came to mind: "You get a letter".

In that week I wrote the September 17, 2022 letter and started "PROJECT JEHOVAH".
In the early morning of Saturday, September 17, I delivered by car in Utrecht (the Netherlands)
and the surrounding area at 8 Kingdom Halls personally, the letter in their mailbox.

When I went to the meeting with my mother-in-law that evening, many elders were waiting for me and I was allowed
not enter the Kingdom Hall.

My mother-in-law who is 92 and over 60 years "in the truth" was also turned away.
But she just stepped in.
My own mother lives around the corner, so I promised to drink coffee there and pick up my mother-in-law after the meeting.

I told the elders that I was glad not to be allowed back into the Kingdom Hall because then I would keep my promise
to my mother-in-law by going to the meeting with her every week.

I sing in my mind as I walked away from the Kingdom Hall that night:

"Raindrops are falling on my head
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
But there's one thing I know
Won't defeat me, it won't be long
Till happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me"

That week - when I wrote the letter - on the night shift, I saw the video below for the first time.

"Till happiness steps up to greet me", I thought of my wife Vera in the resurrection.
And when I walked away from the Kingdom Hall after being denied:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free".

I delivered the first letters by car.
Then 1 by train (Vera worked for the railways, so I have free travel)

Then I decided to send the letters via regular mail delivery.
And then I came up with the idea of sending the letter via WhatsApp.

And last week I suddenly thought I could use SMS if brothers didn't have WhatsApp.

I didn't plant anything; it all went by itself.

And last week I translated the letter into English myself via Google Translate.

PROJECT JEHOVAH: The letter of September 17, 2020 is online at:
English: https://jehovah.nu/letter2022.pdf
Dutch: https://jehovah.nu/brief2022.pdf

The letter to Ted Jaracz: https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf
Why the Watchtower Society has been disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses:

Six Points Which Lead To An Inevitable Conclusion Regarding the WTBTS

Letters 2005 in English translated by Ezra S. (In those years the Dutch translator of e-watchman.be)

 

[BARNABY THE DOG.]

Good morning,

I translate for you with Google Translate:

From Saturday, September 17, 2022 to Saturday, December 17, 2022, I sent via regular mail
The Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and St. Maarten
81 Kingdom Halls the Letter September 17, 2022.

So, 81 Kingdom Halls received the letter in the mailbox of the Kingdom Hall.

Those 81 Kingdom Halls housed 159 different congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
So about 159 x 4 elders, 636 elders should have seen the letter on paper.

168 elders received the letter via WhatsApp.
53 elders received the URL to the letter via SMS on Saturday, January 14, 2023.

I wrote my first letter in 1996 and the last letter was October 18, 2018.
In those years I wrote dozens.

After my wife Vera died, I didn't think about writing a letter in connection with Jehovah's Witnesses.
My 92-year-old mother-in-law has been a witness for over 60 years and did not want intercourse because of my "disfellowshipping".

In 2005 a few weeks after Governing Body member Ted Jaracz was in my hometown of Utrecht and I wrote him a letter
https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf I was "disfellowshipped" (I remember the same week in July when Robert King was also
"disfellowshipped"?).

My mother-in-law entered the retirement home on April 21, 2022 and her daughter Vera died a day later.
The whole family watched tensely how my mother-in-law would react to me during the funeral on April 29, 2022.
She came in and everyone was amazed that she hugged me and cried.
After the ceremony in the parking lot, she asked me to visit her.

Since that week till now I visit her twice a week.
Last summer she complained about not coming to the Kingdom Hall.
Brothers pick her up for meetings twice a week.

She is extremely forgetful due to age (dementia).
You can talk to her very well; she is just sometimes confused by memory loss.

So, because there was uncertainty about whether she would come to the Kingdom Hall, I went to check it out on a Sunday morning.
Who picked her up and where did she go? So, she went to the brother and sister's house via ZOOM to the Congress program
of the Watchtower Society. She did not go to the Kingdom Hall during those weeks.

I then decided to go to the Kingdom cause with her on Saturdays myself.

On Saturday, August 27, 2022, I immediately had a discussion in the Kingdom Hall because I did not want to wear a face mask. The week after.
Saturday September 3, 2022, I had a short and friendly conversation with two elders in which I explained
that in fact I can never be disfellowshipped because the Watchtower had already disfellowshipped itself from Jehovah's Witnesses

Saturday, August 10, 2022, the elder I had spoken to the week before said to a sister so that I could hear: "This gentleman is disfellowshipped and he knows it".

Immediately came to mind: "You get a letter".

In that week I wrote the September 17, 2022 letter and started "PROJECT JEHOVAH".
In the early morning of Saturday, September 17, I delivered by car in Utrecht (the Netherlands)
and the surrounding area at 8 Kingdom Halls personally, the letter in their mailbox.

When I went to the meeting with my mother-in-law that evening, many elders were waiting for me and I was allowed
not enter the Kingdom Hall.

My mother-in-law who is 92 and over 60 years "in the truth" was also turned away.
But she just stepped in.
My own mother lives around the corner, so I promised to drink coffee there and pick up my mother-in-law after the meeting.

I told the elders that I was glad not to be allowed back into the Kingdom Hall because then I would keep my promise
to my mother-in-law by going to the meeting with her every week.

I sing in my mind as I walked away from the Kingdom Hall that night:

"Raindrops are falling on my head
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
But there's one thing I know
Won't defeat me, it won't be long
Till happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me"

That week - when I wrote the letter - on the night shift, I saw the video below for the first time.

"Till happiness steps up to greet me", I thought of my wife Vera in the resurrection.
And when I walked away from the Kingdom Hall after being denied:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free".

I delivered the first letters by car.
Then 1 by train (Vera worked for the railways, so I have free travel)

Then I decided to send the letters via regular mail delivery.
And then I came up with the idea of sending the letter via WhatsApp.

And last week I suddenly thought I could use SMS if brothers didn't have WhatsApp.

I didn't plant anything; it all went by itself.

And last week I translated the letter into English myself via Google Translate.

PROJECT JEHOVAH: The letter of September 17, 2020 is online at:
English: https://jehovah.nu/letter2022.pdf
Dutch: https://jehovah.nu/brief2022.pdf

The letter to Ted Jaracz: https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf
Why the Watchtower Society has been disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses:

Six Points Which Lead To An Inevitable Conclusion Regarding the WTBTS

Letters 2005 in English translated by Ezra S. (In those years the Dutch translator of e-watchman.be)

Lovely work and zeal for Jehovah. 👍

 

[Rijk]

You might like to be kept informed. Yesterday and today, I reached a total of 30 elders in England. Divided over the center of the country, the extreme southwest, London and the surrounding area. It looks like above. I'm still busy with England, Ireland and Scotland.

 

[jay]

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You might like to be kept informed. Yesterday and today, I reached a total of 30 elders in England. Divided over the center of the country, the extreme southwest, London and the surrounding area. It looks like above. I'm still busy with England, Ireland and Scotland.

Very well done Brother Janssen if just one will open their eyes.

 

[noname]

That

Good morning,

I translate for you with Google Translate:

From Saturday, September 17, 2022 to Saturday, December 17, 2022, I sent via regular mail
The Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and St. Maarten
81 Kingdom Halls the Letter September 17, 2022.

So, 81 Kingdom Halls received the letter in the mailbox of the Kingdom Hall.

Those 81 Kingdom Halls housed 159 different congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
So about 159 x 4 elders, 636 elders should have seen the letter on paper.

168 elders received the letter via WhatsApp.
53 elders received the URL to the letter via SMS on Saturday, January 14, 2023.

I wrote my first letter in 1996 and the last letter was October 18, 2018.
In those years I wrote dozens.

After my wife Vera died, I didn't think about writing a letter in connection with Jehovah's Witnesses.
My 92-year-old mother-in-law has been a witness for over 60 years and did not want intercourse because of my "disfellowshipping".

In 2005 a few weeks after Governing Body member Ted Jaracz was in my hometown of Utrecht and I wrote him a letter
https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf I was "disfellowshipped" (I remember the same week in July when Robert King was also
"disfellowshipped"?).

My mother-in-law entered the retirement home on April 21, 2022 and her daughter Vera died a day later.
The whole family watched tensely how my mother-in-law would react to me during the funeral on April 29, 2022.
She came in and everyone was amazed that she hugged me and cried.
After the ceremony in the parking lot, she asked me to visit her.

Since that week till now I visit her twice a week.
Last summer she complained about not coming to the Kingdom Hall.
Brothers pick her up for meetings twice a week.

She is extremely forgetful due to age (dementia).
You can talk to her very well; she is just sometimes confused by memory loss.

So, because there was uncertainty about whether she would come to the Kingdom Hall, I went to check it out on a Sunday morning.
Who picked her up and where did she go? So, she went to the brother and sister's house via ZOOM to the Congress program
of the Watchtower Society. She did not go to the Kingdom Hall during those weeks.

I then decided to go to the Kingdom cause with her on Saturdays myself.

On Saturday, August 27, 2022, I immediately had a discussion in the Kingdom Hall because I did not want to wear a face mask. The week after.
Saturday September 3, 2022, I had a short and friendly conversation with two elders in which I explained
that in fact I can never be disfellowshipped because the Watchtower had already disfellowshipped itself from Jehovah's Witnesses

Saturday, August 10, 2022, the elder I had spoken to the week before said to a sister so that I could hear: "This gentleman is disfellowshipped and he knows it".

Immediately came to mind: "You get a letter".

In that week I wrote the September 17, 2022 letter and started "PROJECT JEHOVAH".
In the early morning of Saturday, September 17, I delivered by car in Utrecht (the Netherlands)
and the surrounding area at 8 Kingdom Halls personally, the letter in their mailbox.

When I went to the meeting with my mother-in-law that evening, many elders were waiting for me and I was allowed
not enter the Kingdom Hall.

My mother-in-law who is 92 and over 60 years "in the truth" was also turned away.
But she just stepped in.
My own mother lives around the corner, so I promised to drink coffee there and pick up my mother-in-law after the meeting.

I told the elders that I was glad not to be allowed back into the Kingdom Hall because then I would keep my promise
to my mother-in-law by going to the meeting with her every week.

I sing in my mind as I walked away from the Kingdom Hall that night:

"Raindrops are falling on my head
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
But there's one thing I know
Won't defeat me, it won't be long
Till happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me"

That week - when I wrote the letter - on the night shift, I saw the video below for the first time.

"Till happiness steps up to greet me", I thought of my wife Vera in the resurrection.
And when I walked away from the Kingdom Hall after being denied:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free".

I delivered the first letters by car.
Then 1 by train (Vera worked for the railways, so I have free travel)

Then I decided to send the letters via regular mail delivery.
And then I came up with the idea of sending the letter via WhatsApp.

And last week I suddenly thought I could use SMS if brothers didn't have WhatsApp.

I didn't plant anything; it all went by itself.

And last week I translated the letter into English myself via Google Translate.

PROJECT JEHOVAH: The letter of September 17, 2020 is online at:
English: https://jehovah.nu/letter2022.pdf
Dutch: https://jehovah.nu/brief2022.pdf

The letter to Ted Jaracz: https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf
Why the Watchtower Society has been disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses:

Six Points Which Lead To An Inevitable Conclusion Regarding the WTBTS

Letters 2005 in English translated by Ezra S. (In those years the Dutch translator of e-watchman.be)

that’s quite the letter I’d liken it to a machine gun.

 

[Rijk]

That

that’s quite the letter I’d liken it to a machine gun.

Now I understand why I was no longer allowed to enter the Kingdom Hall on September 17, 2022

However. . .

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest caught sight of it, he at once got up from the midst of the assembly and took a lance in his hand. Then he went after the man of Israel into the vaulted tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her genital parts. (Numbers 25:7, 8)

Phinehas did not ask beforehand:

"Shall I take it easy?"

 

[Rijk]

Last weekend I reached 30 elders in England with the Letter2022.
17 elders in Ireland.
10 elders in Northern Ireland.
And 10 in Scotland.

PROJECT JEHOVAH, I copied from former USA president Eisenhouwer.
He grew up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. But that's another topic.

 

[Rijk]

Early this morning Dutch time 05:00 am February 1, 2023 I sent 21 elders in Australia Letter 2022. That part of Australia is 9 hours ahead, it is noon there Yesterday I sent 19 elders in Guyana (South America) the letter. I will also continue with England, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. As of September 17, 2022, I have reached 977 elders. I don't know if they all read the letter.

 

[Ms_ladyblue]

Early this morning Dutch time 05:00 am February 1, 2023 I sent 21 elders in Australia Letter 2022. That part of Australia is 9 hours ahead, it is noon there Yesterday I sent 19 elders in Guyana (South America) the letter. I will also continue with England, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. As of September 17, 2022, I have reached 977 elders. I don't know if they all read the letter.

You to be more than commended @Rijk. Your courage and zeal for righteousness is outstanding!
Thank you for sharing these letters and keeping us informed and updated. May Jehovah bless you.

 

[Melinda]

Last weekend I reached 30 elders in England with the Letter2022.
17 elders in Ireland.
10 elders in Northern Ireland.
And 10 in Scotland.

PROJECT JEHOVAH, I copied from former USA president Eisenhouwer.
He grew up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses. But that's another topic.

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Yes he did..... I belonged to the Abilene, Kansas congregation which is where President Eisenhower's mother attended. It is believed that the first Kingdom Hall in Kansas was in his childhood home. Eisenhower's mother was the only family member baptized. She was one of the anointed. She was well known in the entire small cow town. When she died the family gave her a military funeral which angered the town of Abilene. In one of President Eisenhower biography he talked about his admiration for his mothers faith as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I know a lot of history of the family.

 

[Rijk]

Good morning/good evening,

Excuse me if I write strange things like "no intercourse"
I meant it in connection with "shunning". Google translate is good, but not that good

I showed a brother in the Netherlands this forum and he noticed that I had intercourse (sexual) translated.
So, if I use foreign words, it's because of google translate

Did you notice that I sent the printed letter through regular mail to 81 Kingdom Halls? 81 and not 80. It was really a coincidence. The last series of letters in the week of Saturday, December 17, 2022, I thought I had to send 5 more letters. So that I would have reached 80 Kingdom Halls. But it was still six letters. Six is not a good number Five is and also seven, but not six.

If I were to send five letters last, I should not use a printed letter in the ready envelope. So, I chose seven letters and added a letter. That made 81 Kingdom Halls. Now comes the "coincidence" (I'm not lying this was a real coincidence, Jehovah and Jesus saw it).

In 2003, by chance, the same thing happened. I sent a letter to 100 Kingdom Halls. Ezra S. the Dutch translator of e-watchman.be (Belgian domain, we were not yet disfellowshipped at that time) noted that "his congregation would not receive a letter", so a letter had to be included. And that made a total of 101 letters to 101 Kingdom Halls in the year 2003.

Robert King then sent 1001 letters around the world (correct me if I'm wrong).
See the letter from the Watchtower Society, where the 101 letters are written about,
and the letter from e-Watchman, which I also sent the branch office.

So, all a lot of coincidence again I can tell you many more coincidences

 

[Rijk]

Note: Ezra S was e-Watchman's Dutch translator in the early 2000s. Today my friend and brother Paul H. is the Dutch translator of e-Watchman.

 

[Nomex]

I read everything you posted here...I don't really have anything to ad, except well done. I mean i could add to it, but it does a pretty good job without me!

 

[BARNABY THE DOG.]

I think that most people knew what type of ‘intercourse’ you referred to . It was as recent as the early part of the 20th century that the understanding and use of the word intercourse, changed from ‘verbal‘ intercourse - (discussion), to exclusively refer to sexual intercourse. In fact the term ‘intercourse‘ evolved from its original meaning via the word ‘interview’ thus: from (Verbal) intercourse, to interview circa 1910-1930s, to discussion 1920s-1940s. Because of the social structure in Britain during that time, where the lower classes would defer to their betters, if they wanted to discuss something with them they would ‘seek an interview’ with them. When the classes became more homogenised during the 1940s ‘interview’ became to mean a formal discussion of analysis, and ‘discussion‘ came to imply informal exchanges without reference to class, leaving ‘intercourse‘ to refer to a polite reference to copulation. Society has degraded so much in definition now that the youth of today no longer ‘discuss‘ anything, rather, they try to formulate their thoughts from a very limited vocabulary and finish their dialogue with “know what I mean?” or phonetically speaking, ‘nowotimeen?’ hoping against hope that their listener can understand what they try to describe.

 

[Melinda]

I think that most people knew what type of ‘intercourse’ you referred to . It was as recent as the early part of the 20th century that the understanding and use of the word intercourse, changed from ‘verbal‘ intercourse - (discussion), to exclusively refer to sexual intercourse. In fact the term ‘intercourse‘ evolved from its original meaning via the word ‘interview’ thus: from (Verbal) intercourse, to interview circa 1910-1930s, to discussion 1920s-1940s. Because of the social structure in Britain during that time, where the lower classes would defer to their betters, if they wanted to discuss something with them they would ‘seek an interview’ with them. When the classes became more homogenised during the 1940s ‘interview’ became to mean a formal discussion of analysis, and ‘discussion‘ came to imply informal exchanges without reference to class, leaving ‘intercourse‘ to refer to a polite reference to copulation. Society has degraded so much in definition now that the youth of today no longer ‘discuss‘ anything, rather, they try to formulate their thoughts from a very limited vocabulary and finish their dialogue with “know what I mean?” or phonetically speaking, ‘nowotimeen?’ hoping against hope that their listener can understand what they try to describe.

I remember when I First started going out in service I was working with one of the elders....a man at the door who made feel uncomfortable...started asking questions about the sex and the bible . I remember telling him..." I am not going to have oral sex with you" because I thought oral sex was when you talked about it. I was really young and naive.

 

[BARNABY THE DOG.]

I remember when I First started going out in service I was working with one of the elders....a man at the door who made feel uncomfortable...started asking questions about the sex and the bible . I remember telling him..." I am not going to have oral sex with you" because I thought oral sex was when you talked about it. I was really young and naive.

Wow! That is the sort of embarrassment memory that stays with you for life! I often wondered about how Oral Roberts got through life as a charismatic preacher. One would have to rehearse well beforehand what they were going to say to him if he ever gave a talk on sexual issues “Loved your ‘Oration‘ (nudge-nudge) on avoiding premarital sex Oral. Is that acceptable then?” Ambiguity, punctuation, clear diction and good hearing must have plagued his entire life, not to mention Oral hygiene puns and jokes - yet he lived to 99 years old. A lesson in endurance. As he was American, I’m surprised he didn’t sue his parents. I think I would have done.

 

[Rijk]

 

[Rijk]

 

[Rijk]

Suppose We Had Said 40 Years Ago: . . .

Good morning,

Because Australia and New Zealand are 7 to 12 hours ahead of the Netherlands,
I have to get up early this morning.

I never mind getting up early. Cup of coffee. . .

After I sent the Letter 2022 to some elders in Ireland,
Germany, Denmark and Iceland yesterday
and this morning Australia and some in New Zealand,
I was thinking about exactly 40 years ago. The year 1983.

I walked my dog. And walked across the bridge that I cycled over
42 years ago this year to Vera's parental home.
We had known each other for 1 week that day and I was on my way to meet her mother.

"Follow the bridge with "crazy lampposts", you will find the way to my house".
That's what Vera said on the phone that day.
I didn't have a "smart" phone with Google Maps on it back then






Suppose then in 1983 someone had said to me or us:

In 12 years, you will build a Kingdom Hall, but after 25 years in 2020 it will be sold,
just like thousands of other Kingdom Halls worldwide.

Or.

Jehovah's Name is in the news a lot worldwide,
but almost always in connection with pedophiles among Jehovah's Witnesses.

Or.

In 40 years, millions of people worldwide will get sick or die because Satan's
world uses the flu to "vaccinate" billions of people worldwide with a life-threatening shot.

And many brothers and sisters worldwide take that shot because the Watchtower
encourages them to do so. To take the deadly jab.

Could we have believed that 40 years ago?

Or someone said to us in 1983.

The Watchtower Society will be secretly associated with the United Nations as an NGO from 1992 to 2001.

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! Did we yell

Last Friday I was with my mother-in-law.
We always talk about the Bible.
After being a witness for over 60 years and having a very poor memory due to dementia,
she said while discussing Proverbs 8 with her:

"I just read that text."

She meant Isaiah 44:24.

Logical because the Letter 2022 has been wandering through her room for weeks.
The letter opens with (all alone, Who
was with me? Isaiah 44:24 NWT revised 2004)

I was glad she remembered that.
She really forgets everything.

The brother in Christ who once brought Isaiah 44:24 to my attention,
was disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses exactly 40 years ago in 1983.

Because he researched the Bible better than the Watchtower appeared to do.

If someone had said in 1983 while sitting before the three elders of the committee:

"In 40 years, Isaiah 44:24 will fly in seconds into the smart phone in the pocket of more than a thousand elders worldwide."

Then my brother in Christ would have said:

"You're Crazy"

 

[kenmuldoon55]

Now I understand why I was no longer allowed to enter the Kingdom Hall on September 17, 2022

However. . .

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest caught sight of it, he at once got up from the midst of the assembly and took a lance in his hand. Then he went after the man of Israel into the vaulted tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her genital parts. (Numbers 25:7, 8)

Phinehas did not ask beforehand:

"Shall I take it easy?"

Those are halls for public assembly! The gall of those Pharisees keeping you from entering!