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QUESTION: In reading Acts 2:14-21, Peter quotes from Joel chapter 2. How do you reason that Joel’s prophecy applies to the modern day parousia, when Peter applied those verses to their time? Frankly, how could Peter have applied those prophetic words to then? Did the sun darken, moon into blood, people calling on the name of Jehovah to be saved then? ANSWER: It is interesting that [...]

Question: Just curious if you will return to Jehovah's temple to be part of the last witness to the world after the coming of Christ and the removal of that which causes stumbling? Answer: It is not going to work that way. And unfortunately, or rather, by divine providence, Jehovah’s Witnesses have no knowledge of these matters. That is because Jehovah has caused a deep sleep [...]

QUESTION: The last chapter of Zechariah, talking about the end times and what will happen to certain 'nations' after Armageddon, indicates that those leaders of nations who are not God's followers will have to go to Jerusalem once a year and pledge their allegiance. Is this alluding to a number of countries and their residents who will live through Armageddon? ANSWER: The setting of the 14th [...]

QUESTION: I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses.  I am not disfellowshipped nor have I disassociated myself.  I still go to meetings on occasion, but I'm what is considered inactive.  My interest is that you still hold true to the teaching of Jehovah's witnesses but yet not everything.  Although I was raised a Catholic, I never believed Jesus was God, or hell fire, or in the immortality [...]

QUESTION: The Scriptures depicting the eighth king, seem more like a riddle, such as Samson's riddle to the Philistines, than a statement. For instance, how can a kingdom "that was", still not be around or already present? Since this takes a mind with wisdom, isn't Revelation telling us that the 8th king is already here? Or that it has already been, but is cloaked so-to-speak, rather [...]

My question is regarding a verse in the book of Revelation. It is Revelation 17:10: How is it that the seventh king is said to “remain a little while,” yet the Anglo-American world power has been around for a while, hasn't it? Or was there an interruption between the 6th and 7th kings domination (Rome being the 6th “the one who is”) in other words they [...]

QUESTION: How is the number 144,000 inclusive of (if literal) ALL who will go to heaven? A unique feature of the 144,000 sealed ones is indicated at Rev. 6:11 where it says they wait under the altar until "the number was filled of their fellow slaves and their brother WHO WERE ABOUT TO BE KILLED AS THEY HAD BEEN." Rev. 7:4 gives us the specific number [...]

QUESTION: Who are the twenty four Elders in the book of Revelation? ANSWER: According to the Watchtower the 24 elders represent the 144,000 as a group. I agree with their interpretation. The first mention of the 24 elders is in the fourth chapter of Revelation. It reveals that 24 elders sit upon thrones and wear golden crowns upon their heads – obviously symbolizing that they are [...]

This is part three of a series of three questions in the Mailbag 3) If the WT has been in such egregious error before Jehovah purporting a supposed lie of 1914, and willfully doing so....how do we explain Jesus backing and blessing the preaching work of the last 100 years? Honestly, I’ve never understood how we apply Matthew 24:14 over the last 100 yrs. It makes more [...]