Forum software by XenForo Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:26:00 +0000 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:26:00 +0000 e-Jehovah's Watchmen https://e-jw.org/index.php Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:52:26 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/discussion-point-assistance.4696/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/discussion-point-assistance.4696/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
god, God, GOD
​In the original Greek and Hebrew all letters were capital; there was no capitalization rules. So, when Jesus is called God, that's the Greek word THEOS. Are you aware that's the same word used for Satan? "The god (THEOS) of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers." 2Cor 4:4

Are you aware that Jesus called the Jewish leaders gods (THEOS)? "Is it not written in your books, I have said you are gods (THEOS)?" Jhn 10:34

And where was...

Discussion Point: Assistance]]> 6 Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:31:29 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/weekly-bible-study.524/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/weekly-bible-study.524/ invalid@example.com (jehovahisgod) jehovahisgod I will ask the first question.
In the time of the provocation , a generation died in the wilderness.
Jehovah swore in his wrath that they would not enter into his rest..
Does that mean simply that they would not go into the promised land, or were they given eternal death with no...

Weekly Bible Study]]> 2738 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:09:38 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-three-body-answer.4699/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-three-body-answer.4699/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
The Three-Body Answer to Time, the Wave Function, and Prophetic Intervention​
A Relational Thesis on Eternalism, Becoming, the Present, and Divine Engagement
Abstract

Eternalism, growing-block theory, and presentism are normally treated as mutually exclusive theories of time. Eternalism holds that past, present, and future all exist; growing-block theory holds that the past and present exist...

The Three-Body Answer]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:22:50 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/intent.4698/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/intent.4698/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
Only the Speaker Defines Intent
​A Position on Meaning, Assumption, and Empathy

Intent belongs solely to the speaker. No listener — however careful, however well-intentioned — can define, assign, or confirm what another person meant by their words. A listener can only ever interpret, and interpretation is not the same as knowledge. Until a speaker confirms their meaning, any reading a listener assigns remains an assumption, and assumptions carry no...

Intent]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:30:14 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/better-than-the-angels.4697/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/better-than-the-angels.4697/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
Better Than the Angels: Biblical Greatness, Service, and Divine Exaltation
​Hebrews 1:4 says that Christ “became so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” At first glance, this language can appear to stand in tension with Jesus’ own teaching that the greatest must become the servant of all. Jesus warned His disciples not to imitate the rulers of the nations, who lord authority over others. “It...

Better Than the Angels]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:46:38 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/dan-9-27.4695/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/dan-9-27.4695/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
Defining "The Many" (Harabim)
​In the Hebrew text of Daniel, the term harabim (D'ann) is not just a vague reference to "a large crowd." In the context of the book of Daniel and the wider prophetic corpus, it is a technical term for the covenant community of Israel.

Textual Evidence: In Daniel 11:33 and 12:3, the "many" are explicitly those who understand the law and turn others to righteousness-the faithful remnant of Israel.

The Theological...

Dan 9:27]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:49:52 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-tree-the-scroll-and-the-bitter-waters.4694/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-tree-the-scroll-and-the-bitter-waters.4694/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
The Tree, the Scroll, and the Bitter Waters​
The account of Marah in Exodus 15 is not an isolated miracle about undrinkable water. It introduces a recurring biblical pattern: God’s people encounter bitter waters, Jehovah provides a revealed object, the waters are transformed, and the event becomes a covenant test. Moses cries out to Jehovah, Jehovah shows him a tree, Moses casts it into the waters, and the waters become sweet. Immediately afterward,...

The Tree, the Scroll, and the Bitter Waters]]> 2 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:58:45 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/wormwood.4693/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/wormwood.4693/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7 (Workpad)

"Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters." Rev 8:10,11

"Lest there be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from YHWH our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among...

Wormwood]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:44:34 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/dec-28-2028-666-watch.4661/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/dec-28-2028-666-watch.4661/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7 Joshuastone7

What are Pope Leo's plans for the upcoming Nicaea visit as it pertains to ecumenical synodality?

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Here’s what I found about Pope Leo XIV’s plan for Nicaea (or his intentions for a gathering there)—with what is known, what is being proposed, and what remains uncertain.

What is publicly known / proposed

1. A meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Nicaea
   Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew have agreed...

Dec 28, 2028 - 666 Watch]]> 42 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:12:01 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-mol-and-the-final-beast-system.4691/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/the-mol-and-the-final-beast-system.4691/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7
The Beast System, the Little Horns, and the Image: A Working Prophetic Model from Daniel, Revelation, and 2 Thessalonians​
Introduction

The current model has reached a more disciplined distinction between the objective Capstone structure and the interpretive identification of prophetic entities. The Capstone itself does not depend on identifying every modern horn, beast, king, or institution beforehand. It identifies a sequence of actions, intervals,...

The MOL & and the Final Beast System]]> 1 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:29:12 +0000 https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/end-time-chronology.3121/ https://e-jw.org/index.php?threads/end-time-chronology.3121/ invalid@example.com (Joshuastone7) Joshuastone7 I've decided to break open this category with a subject befitting it. I've been asked several times privately to explain my interpretation of Daniel chapter 12. Let me start by saying that in the Lord we all have our gifts. (1Cor 12:1-11)

Dan 12:11; "And from the time that the constant [feature] has been removed...

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