About FutureMan Expertise I will do my best to answer all Bible based Questions as well as some of the questions relating to the world that we live in. All answers will be based on intensive research of the scriptures. Also I will refer to other written commentaries of ones I feel present a good argument towards proving bible truths.
Some who view my published answers have wondered what my "PURPOSE" is or my "REASON" is for being an expert in this section relating to Jehovah's Witnesses.
This is one way for me to express my faith in God's word and his purposes.
Another way I do this is on forums where God's word is discussed mainly by those who are or were involved with Jehovah's Witnesses.
As I'm no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses who would be involved in the door to door work, this is one of the ways where I can have an active faith.
There are many lost sheep out there who are looking for encouragement and searching for the truth.
Many have Left or drifted away or were disfellowshiped, from the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses.
And some were disfellowshiped for the same reason that I was.
And yes many of the disfellowshiped are still sheep in Jehovah God's eyes.
I do not claim myself to have an accurate knowledge of truth as yet as I'm continually studying and searching the scriptures so as to gain a more accurate knowledge of Bible truths.
Also every time someone asks me a question, it helps me to get more truth, because inevitably I do more study of God's word to answer these questions.
Experience I have been a student of the bible now for over 30 years. As well as being associated with Jehovah's witnesses for this length of time. To avoid confusion, yes I am a baptized Christian who was baptized by Jehovah's witnesses over 30 years ago under the old baptismal vows and not the ones from 1985 onwards. But I have been excommunicated just recently, for as I understand for not accepting that the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" have being appointed over all of Christ's belongings as yet. This is due to the fact that I do not believe that Jesus has come to inspect his household as yet.
My strong desire is for the Truth to be made manifest and to this end I keep on searching the scriptures to enhance my existing Bible knowledge and to learn new truths.
My fear is that there are unseen forces behind the scene of this world that is desperately trying to obscure the real truth of the Bible.
Also there is a lot of information which is being presented to us from all types of media. Whether it be written, Audio, or visual media.
The influence in our media to influence us in a certain way is very strong. As a result the people of this world are slowly be programmed to a certain way of thinking and also corrupted from moral values and principles as outlined in God's Word the Bible.
Education/Credentials Experience with computer related research on the Internet. Have done a lot of intensive research into global affairs, Scientific research, Unexplained phenomena, also various religions as to what they believe.
Question Ha! You are the last person to lecture someone about a lack of integrity. You yourself sir are a liar!
Do you remember me? I’m the person you lied to when you said that you would agree and discuss with me the JW date for when the temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, but you lied when you agreed to do so.
You are as dishonest as those you falsely accuse!
Answer Hello, whoever you are, you have me at a disadvantage my friend as I really don't know who you are.
And why you are accusing me of being a liar.
Perhaps you can remind a forgetful person such as I am, and tell me who you are for a start and then tell me who it was that I was suppose to have accused, as someone with a lack of integrity.
I do remember talking to a couple of people about the date the temple was destroyed, were you one of them, I tried to look through my posts but could not find the one where I might have promised to discuss this with you.
I did find a post however where I did say that I would get back to someone about the 70 years and Egypt and Tyre, is that you. I cannot find where I did get back on that particular subject.
If it was you I do apologize sincerely and please let me know if this is still the question that you would like me to answer.
As for the Temple and when it was destroyed, I do believe that secular history is correct and that the Temple was destroyed in 587-586 bce.
I understand now from what I have studied in any case, that Nebuchadnezzar came in 607-605 BCE or around that year, and took a few of the Higher profile Jews into exile and took some articles out of the temple and then came back in 587-586 bce and destroyed the temple and tooked the rest of the jews captive.
So from my perspective this would fit in with the 70 years of servittude that was prohesiesed as regards gods people and her temple. Also it still would fit with the date of restoration in 539-537 BCE.
Therefore the temple did not need to have been destroyed for 70 years for that prophecy to be true even if the temple was destroyed only for 50 years.
