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New Light Regarding God’s Book of Life

During the 2021 annual meeting, in a talk entitled: “Are You There?” governing body member Geoffrey Jackson explains a doctrinal adjustment to the understanding of Jesus words in John 5:28,29: Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come […]

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Armageddon Governing Body Resurrection

Will the Governing Body Fight at Armageddon?

I really enjoy watching action movies but sometimes my critical thinking gets the better of me. While visiting a science laboratory a young man is bitten by a deadly super spider. His senses are enhanced and he even gains a new one that enables him to sense impending danger. Soon, he is swinging from the […]

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Examining Scriptures Heaven Resurrection Return of Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:14-17

For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus. 15 For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those […]

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Did Jesus Raise Himself?

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, […]

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Was Jesus Resurrected as a Human?

For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit. (1 Peter 3:18) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might […]

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Examining Doctrines Resurrection Revelation

The Great White Throne Judgment

Jesus said to them: “The children of this system of things marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the […]

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Examining Doctrines Resurrection

When Will the Resurrection Take Place?

Jesus spoke of performing the resurrection at the last day: And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.  (Joh 6:39 ESV) For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks […]

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Examining Doctrines Resurrection

Resurrection – For Whom and When?

And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. (Acts 24:15) With the creation of the first human pair, the only mention of death was a punishment for disobedience. Adam was told that if he […]