jehovahs witnesses?

Question

i researched your religion and find it really wierd that you refer to God as jehovah...why do you do that? and whats this about you believing the world wont end? its going to end...duh

Answer 1

i call the lord jesus christ who came to earth to take away are sins through his death!the world is going to end i didnt say it wouldn't see god wants to save his children but there are some who dont want to give up there sins, there is going to come a day that we will be raptured.

Answer 2

Psalms 83:18, in most translations says approximately this, "That people may know, that You whose name is Jehovah, you alone are most high over all the Earth." We call him Jehovah as it is his name.

Well unless you know something for sure that I don't no the world won't end. I firmly believe that just as was his original plan, Jehovah plans on all who wish to serve him, living forever on a fully restored Earth.

Thanks for the questions, ask any you wish.

As for "enjoying America's freedom" as one of the other answerers put it. Honestly, we are not an American group, we are global. An international brotherhood. I often wonder when people talk of us not fighting for "our" country if it crosses their mind that were all Witnesses to fight for "their" country, there would be Witnesses, along with those fighting for America, all over fighting against America. Seems kinda pointless.

Answer 3

Have you ever seen how many times do we say that this world (System ) is almost ending?

What Are “the Last Days”?
DO YOU wonder what the future holds for you and for your loved ones? Many people pay close attention to the news media to see how world events might affect their lives. Paying attention to God’s inspired Word, however, gives us true insight. This is because the Bible long ago foretold not only the current state of affairs but also what is yet to come.

For example, when Jesus Christ was on earth, he spoke extensively about the Kingdom of God. (Luke 4:43) Naturally, people who heard him wanted to know when that marvelous Kingdom would come. Indeed, three days before Jesus was wrongfully put to death, his disciples asked him: “What will be the sign of your presence [in Kingdom power] and of the conclusion of the system of things?” (Matthew 24:3) Jesus told them that only Jehovah God knew the precise time when the Kingdom would take full control of the earth. (Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32) However, Jesus and others did foretell certain developments on earth that would serve as proof that Christ was ruling in Kingdom power.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20060915/article_01.htm


The name Jehovah (or Yahweh, as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible and some scholars prefer) appears almost 7,000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures. Most Bibles do not show it as such but substitute "God" or "Lord" for it. However, even in these Bibles, a person can usually tell where the original Hebrew text uses Jehovah because in those places the substituted words are written in large and small capitals, thus: GOD, LORD. Several modern translations do use either the name Jehovah or the name Yahweh. Hence, the New World Translation reads at Isaiah 42:8, "I am Jehovah. That is my name.

Answer 4

We refer to god as Jehovah because thats his name.
Would you want to be called girl or by your name?HIs name means
"He Causes to Become." Thus, God's name identifies him as the One who progressively fulfills his promises and unfailingly realizes his purposes. Only the true God could bear such a meaningful name.
Remember, Jehovah requires that we abstain from blood. This means that we must not take into our bodies in any way at all other people's blood or even our own blood that has been stored. (Acts 21:25) So true Christians will not accept a blood transfusion. They will accept other kinds of medical treatment, such as transfusion of nonblood products. They want to live, but they will not try to save their life by breaking God's laws.—Matthew 16:25.
By extension, these Biblical principles imply that terrorism is a false hope. The fruits of terrorism have not been freedom and happiness but, instead, death, misery, and ruin. This bad fruitage has filled the 20th century and is starting to overwhelm the 21st. Many would say that rather than the solution, terrorism is one of the problems.
the Bible tells us: “He will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.”

How will people live when that prophecy is fulfilled? Micah 4:4 states: “They will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble.” In that earthly Paradise, no one will live in fear of the next terrorist attack. Can you trust that promise? Yes, “for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.”—

Let me refer to the one on here that said Jehovahs witnesses are coward we are not. We are against war because it doesnt help solve anything. All it does is cause more pain then is already on this earth. War and killing will never be an answer to anything.

Answer 5

If you can't pronounce God's name as Jehovah because his name was only written as YHVH, then what about Jesus' name which was Yeshua, or Jerimiah, or Job, or Joshua, or Jerusalem? You would have to change all those names. This system of things is going to end and the world that is passing away is the world of people alienated from God, God has never destroyed the righteous along with the unrighteous, ever. God's word also says that the earth will stand to times indefinite, it will never be made to totter, that as long as there are seasons, there will be seed sowing and harvest. Well! only man sows seed and harvests, meaning man will forever be on the earth. Read Psalms 37:11,29.

Answer 6

The name Jehovah is in the bible.

KJV PS 83:13 "Psa 83:18 That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. "

The generation in Satan's World will end, The earth will not.

Eccl 1:4, Solomon says, “A generation is going and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite"

Answer 7

It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine." Instead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.

The name "Jehovah" was not fabricated "from whole cloth" (as it were). As speakers of English find it easier to say "Jesus" than "Yeheshua", so "Jehovah" seems to have originated as an honest attempt to pronounce "the Tetragrammaton", which is the four-Hebrew-letter expression used in the bible (and elsewhere) to express the Divine Name of Almighty God (the Father).

The four Hebrew characters are generally transliterated as "YHWH" (that is, each Hebrew character is directly replaced by a different character with the same sound in another language's character set). There is no certainty about how "YHWH" is best pronounced, but increasingly scholars are leaning toward a pronunciation similar to the three-syllable "Yehowah" rather than two-syllable "Yahweh".

If "Yehowah" is close to the correct pronunciation, then it is quite enlightening to juxtapose "Yehowah" with "Jehovah". Many or most English speakers are likely to embrace the pronunciation which their predecessors embraced at least four hundred years ago.

"Jehovah".

Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/na/


Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to the earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
http://jw-media.org/beliefs/trueworship.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_11.htm

Answer 8

Its not weird at all because Jehovah is Gods personal name.

Due to the fact that Jehovah's name was removed and replaced with titles, its hard for people to know what Gods name really is. Jesus and others made it known how important the name really is.

Matthew 6:9
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

John 12:28-29
28 Father, glorify YOUR NAME!"

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.

John 17:26
and I have made YOUR NAME known to them, and WILL MAKE IT KNOWN, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

Romans 10:13
13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Jehovah will be saved."

Matthew 4:10
Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship Jehovah your God, and serve him only.'"

*Note: YHWH was replaced with Lord and God in the New Testament. Its also obvious that changes have been made because Jesus and others were quoting the OT in these accounts.


We do believe the world is going to end in Gods due time. However, we do not believe the Earth is going to be destroyed at Armageddon.

Answer 9

Jehovah is the english rendering of God's name.
Jehovah means "He causes to become"
The world is not going to end. God never planned originally that he would create the earth then destroy it.

(Psalm 83:18)  That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

(Isaiah 45:18)  For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited:. . .

(Psalm 104:5) . . .He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.

Answer 10

I used to be Jehovah's Witness.....

The way it is written in Scripture is this: YHWH.....

Because it is imposible to pronounce it, in any tongue, there were consonants added to allow the pronunciation to be sounded.......

And at one time it was pronounced: Yehoveh

In those days, there were no letter Js...... Y became J...... and W became V.......

PS: On the part of transfusions.... Let it be known to you that the blood is the life of a creature.... But, any man willing to give his life for his friend..... Is true! - We're talking life... Not the means of getting drunk just to taking from another..... Jesus gave his!!!


your sister,
Ginger

Answer 11

"God" is a title, like "girl." We say "Jehovah," because it's the English translation of YHWH.

For example, a girl's name in spanish is Maria. In english, we'd call her Mary. Technically, that's not her name. But when we say Mary, she knows we're talking to her. We don't say to her, "I can't pronounce your name, so I'll just call you girl."