One of the core doctrines of the Watchtower is that Jehovah's Witnesses form a"Great Crowd of Other Sheep" that will reside forever on earth. These are separate from the ruling class - the"Little Flock of 144,000". These terms never appear in the Bible, but are Watchtower concepts based...
5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5) Solomon also wrote:5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose. 6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, A...
Similar glosses were made on the Psalter; also on the Canticles of the Church, the Lord's Prayer, and other portions of Scripture. In the latter part of the tenth century, the monk JELFRIC translated — omitting some parts, and greatly abridging others — the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges...
would have been a particularly painful point for his audience.[8]Christ stated, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (3 Nephi 12:5). The Nephites, far from inheriting the earth, were losing their portion of the earth to the Lamanites as their armies continued to ...
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. ...
On the one hand, the early Lingbao scriptures accept the social gender system of “differences between men and women” as the decision of all deities, and incorporate the “chastity” virtue of women advocated by Confucianism. The auspiciousness of giving birth to a boy and the masculine ...
the herd, let him bring a male, a perfect one. Let him bring it at the door of the Tent of Appointment, for his acceptance before הוהי. 4 'And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him....
And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation, but on you all a curse shall abide . 7 ''But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, and they shall inherit the earth. 8 ''And then there shall be given wisdom to the elect, and they shall all live and ...
to whose authority they had been accustomed implicitly to bow. “How is it,” they asked, “that our rulers and learned scribes do not believe on Jesus? Would not these pious men receive Him if He were the Christ?” It was the influence of such teachers that led the Jewish nation to ...