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Nachmonides:
That's an interesting scripture you have put there.



Matthew 24:36, where Jesus says, "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only," has profound parallels with the customs of a Jewish marriage in Jesus' time. These customs offer a rich metaphor for understanding the relationship between Christ and His Church and the timing of His second coming.

1. The Betrothal (Kiddushin)

In Jewish tradition, a marriage began with a betrothal, a formal agreement that legally bound the bride and groom. During this time:

The groom would offer a bride price (a valuable gift) as a symbol of his commitment.

The bride would accept and prepare herself for the wedding.


Parallels:

Jesus, the bridegroom, offered His life as the bride price for the Church (Ephesians 5:25).

The Church, as the bride, prepares herself for His return through faith, obedience, and readiness (Revelation 19:7-8 ).

2. The Groom’s Departure to Prepare a Place

After the betrothal, the groom would leave the bride's home to return to his father’s house. There, he would prepare a place for the couple to live, often by adding a room to his father’s house.

The groom’s return date was not fixed and depended on the father's approval of the preparations.

Only the father could give the final approval for when the groom could retrieve his bride.


Parallels:

Jesus told His disciples He was going to prepare a place for them in His Father’s house (John 14:2-3).

The Father determines the timing of Christ’s return to gather His bride, the Church, reflecting the Jewish custom.

3. The Bride’s Preparation

While the groom prepared the home, the bride had to remain vigilant and ready because she did not know the exact time of the groom’s return.

She would keep her lamp filled with oil and prepare her wedding garments.

The groom often came unexpectedly, usually at night, preceded by a shout to announce his arrival.


Parallels:

Jesus warned His followers to stay alert and prepared for His return, likened to the arrival of a bridegroom (Matthew 25:1-13).

The oil in the lamps of the wise virgins represents readiness and spiritual preparation.

4. The Wedding Feast (Nissuin)

When the father deemed the time right, the groom would return to the bride’s house with a procession of friends to bring her to his home.

The wedding culminated in a grand feast lasting several days.


Parallels:

The second coming of Christ will be the moment when He gathers His Church to Himself, likened to the bride being taken to the groom’s house.

The heavenly marriage supper of the Lamb is the ultimate celebration of this union (Revelation 19:9).


5. "No One Knows the Day or Hour"

The phrase, "only the Father knows," resonates directly with the Jewish wedding custom where the timing of the groom’s return was solely the father’s decision. This emphasizes:

The sovereignty of the Father in determining the appointed time.

The element of anticipation and readiness, as the bride and her household did not know the exact time.

Jesus used imagery familiar to His audience, likening His return to a Jewish wedding. The phrase “only the Father knows” aligns with the father’s role in Jewish weddings, highlighting the mystery and anticipation of the second coming. This analogy deepens the understanding of Jesus’ relationship with His Church and the call for believers to remain prepared and vigilant for His return.

DaddyCoool:
Well, they've been selling "war of Armageddon" since forever. They're now saying it's already happened - in 1914, bah?

GothamCities:
When Pastors declare fasting, do they not organize meetings relating to the fast? Tell me the troops that the Orthodox Church sent to the warfront. Also tell me how the Orthodox Church or it's declaration. Has anything to do with me!

GothamCities:
This brings us to a better understanding of what Jesus said in Acts 1:7. Honestly, I have struggled to understand that verse until tonight.

When the disciples were asking the Lord Jesus about the timing of His second coming, He answered them in Acts 1:7 which states:

"It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."

The right thing Jesus was supposed to say is "...the time and the seasons which only the Father knows." If He had said that, it would have put a question on His omniscience. But He said the Father puts that in His power. I actually didn't understand the putting in His power phrase until tonight after reading the response from my brother Nachmonides.

Now, I understand that Jesus is speaking to His disciples here, telling them that it's not their responsibility to know the timing of the future event, - the restoration of the kingdom to Israel which happens only during the second coming. He emphasized that God the Father has reserved the right to determine the timing of the event, and it's not for humans to know or speculate about the exact timing.

This further proves that it's not a matter of Christ not being all knowing but a matter of understanding the individual roles in the Trinity.

DaddyCoool.

GothamCities:
Tell me the Church that trains to kill. Just name the Church!

MaxInDHouse:
Mention the religion that trains people to kill, steal, homosexual, drunkenness, prostitute, drug abuse, lie.

God's Kingdom will not tolerate any of these acts but people practice them.

Who will go and teach people how to avoid such acts?

Well Christ Jesus sent us out to preach and teach people not to do any of these things that's why he said we have to change some jobs after becoming Christians!

“Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news  who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” mark 10:39-31

Guy "fields" means jobs which a Christian must resign or forgo because it doesn't speak well of disciples of Christ!

MaxInDHouse:
Exactly what i just said!

In what publication of Watchtower was it written that Armageddon occurred in 1914?

If you don't want to be like unbelieving Jews back in the first century humbly ask those who have this message so you can fully understand what they are saying not just conclude on what others say about them.

In the first century there were lots and lots of speculation and rumours about Jesus and his disciples but because you are reading what they wrote themselves that's why you are siding them but try to listen to Judaists who don't believe in Jesus then you will here horrible things they are saying about the same Jesus you are calling "Lord"

So don't just follow the wicked crowd {Exodus 23:1-2} find out exactly what JWs believe about the year 1914 and the meaning of Armageddon! 1Thessalonians 5:21

Christmyhope:
You are right sir. I love the understanding of the gospel by some brothers and sisters on this forum in Christ Jesus. May God be forever praised in Christ Jesus through the church. Amen

DaddyCoool:
So did Armageddon occure in 1914 or not?
This below says it did - albeit invisibly!
Notice all those years of JW failed prophecies

MaxInDHouse:
Mention the religion that trains people to kill, steal, homosexual, drunkenness, prostitute, drug abuse, lie.

God's Kingdom will not tolerate any of these acts but people practice them.

Who will go and teach people how to avoid such acts?

Well Christ Jesus sent us out to preach and teach people not to do any of these things that's why he said we have to change some jobs after becoming Christians!

“Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news  who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” mark 10:39-31

Guy "fields" means jobs which a Christian must resign or forgo because it doesn't speak well of disciples of Christ!

MaxInDHouse:
Guy continue deceiving yourself!

Christmyhope:
You are right sir. I love the understanding of the gospel by some brothers and sisters on this forum in Christ Jesus. May God be forever praised in Christ Jesus through the church. Amen

MaxInDHouse:
A profession that's about training to kill when Jesus say otherwise shey?
You for count prostitute join nah after all nah profession today!

Janosky:
JW's didn't connect Armageddon to 1914.

GothamCities:
Says the one who calls Jesus angel Michael? SMH.

It's the audacity for me. Someone whose Jesus came in 1914. Is it not bewitchment to believe such nonsense?

Martin Luther left your Trinitarian mentors the Catholic Church after making the discovery from the holy scriptures that Jesus is actually archangel Michael.


You don't know what it means, that year Jesus fulfilled the Father's command to begin ruling in the midst of his enemies.

That is a prelude to the fulfillment of 2 Thess 1:7-8
Nah only we JW's know what it means.

As you can see, that matter is already giving you sifia pains.

johnw47:
lost fraud jw janosky

In 1889, Charles Taze Russell published his interpretation of eschatology and chronology based on the idea of parallel "dispensations". He wrote that the culmination of Armageddon would occur in 1914, preceded by the gathering of all the saints, both resurrected and living, to heaven.

Jehovah's Witnesses have held different beliefs about when Armageddon will happen over the years, including in the 1920s, 1960s, 1970s

Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia


cannot lying false jw:
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. WHENEVER HE SPEAKS A LIE, THAT IS HIS NATURAL WAY OF SPEAKING, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Brother Russell wrote: “If we have the correct date and chronology, Gentile Times will end this year—1914. What of it? We do not surely know. Our expectation is that the active rule of Messiah will begin about the time of the ending of the lease of power to the Gentiles.
Mr Russell emphasized that he did not expect the “end of the world” in 1914 and that the earth abides forever,

The end of the Gentile Times is NOT Armageddon.
** John LYING miscreant.
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Janosky:
Martin Luther left your Trinitarian mentors the Catholic Church after making the discovery from the holy scriptures that Jesus is actually archangel Michael.


You don't know what it means, that year Jesus fulfilled the Father's command to begin ruling in the midst of his enemies.

That is a prelude to the fulfillment of 2 Thess 1:7-8
Nah only we JW's know what it means.

As you can see, that matter is already giving you sifia pains.



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Janosky:
"1914 neared, expectations heightened. What would it mean? In The Bible Students Monthly (Volume VI, No. 1, published early in 1914), Brother Russell wrote: “If we have the correct date and chronology, Gentile Times will end this year—1914. What of it? We do not surely know. Our expectation is that the active rule of Messiah will begin about the time of the ending of the lease of power to the Gentiles.
Mr Russell emphasized that he did not expect the “end of the world” in 1914 and that the earth abides forever,
The end of the Gentile Times is NOT Armageddon.
** John LYING miscreant.
.,

johnw47:
ecc_7:6  For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool


very confused and lost fraud jw janosky

false jw's are all over the place on what they say,
i have posted many false jw prophecies of armageddon supposed to happen in many diffrent years including 1914
would you like me to post them again here?
happy to do so

1Co 14:33  For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints

false jw, liar like your father the devil:
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. WHENEVER HE SPEAKS A LIE, THAT IS HIS NATURAL WAY OF SPEAKING, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

false jw, false accuser like your father the devil:
Rev_12:10  Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

GothamCities:
Such balderdash!

Chai! Where did you get all these nonesense from? Doctrines of demons at best.

Confused 3 deities devotees,, you Know ZERO about the Bible or let alone the historical antecedents of your Trinitarian mentors.

Check Malachi 3:1 & Genesis 16:7 in your Trinitarian Amplified Reference Bible and Geneva Bible older than your KJV Bible.

This kid,carry your naivety out of this thread.

Janosky:
John LYING miscreant doesn't know the difference between the end of Gentile Times is NOT 1914.
Coman continue WAILING.
.

Janosky:
Confused 3 deities devotees,, you Know ZERO about the Bible or let alone the historical antecedents of your Trinitarian mentors.
Check Malachi 3:1 & Genesis 16:7 in your Trinitarian Amplified Reference Bible and Geneva Bible older than your KJV Bible.
This kid,carry your naivety out of this thread.

Christmyhope:
You are right sir. I love the understanding of the gospel by some brothers and sisters on this forum in Christ Jesus. May God be forever praised in Christ Jesus through the church. Amen

GothamCities:
This brings us to a better understanding of what Jesus said in Acts 1:7. Honestly, I have struggled to understand that verse until tonight.

When the disciples were asking the Lord Jesus about the timing of His second coming, He answered them in Acts 1:7 which states:

"It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."

The right thing Jesus was supposed to say is "...the time and the seasons which only the Father knows." If He had said that, it would have put a question on His omniscience. But He said the Father puts that in His power. I actually didn't understand the putting in His power phrase until tonight after reading the response from my brother Nachmonides.

Now, I understand that Jesus is speaking to His disciples here, telling them that it's not their responsibility to know the timing of the future event, - the restoration of the kingdom to Israel which happens only during the second coming. He emphasized that God the Father has reserved the right to determine the timing of the event, and it's not for humans to know or speculate about the exact timing.

This further proves that it's not a matter of Christ not being all knowing but a matter of understanding the individual roles in the Trinity.

Janosky:
JW's didn't connect Armageddon to 1914.

Pls don't get it twisted or make claims you can't prove.

According to the screenshots,Are your pastors perfect and sinless?

Janosky:
JW's didn't connect Armageddon to 1914.

Janosky:
JW's didn't connect Armageddon to 1914.

DaddyCoool:
So did Armageddon occure in 1914 or not? This below says it did - albeit invisibly! Notice all those years of JW failed prophecies

Janosky:
JW's didn't connect Armageddon to 1914.
Pls don't get it twisted or make claims you can't prove.
According to the screenshots,Are your pastors perfect and sinless?

GothamCities:
So, can you tell me the Church that has such a school where such professionals are trained?