Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

[Bjorn Jensen]

Praise God! The Godliest man in the world, President Vladimir Putin, has had it with the Christ-hating neo-pagan cult, the Jehovah's Witnesses. This cult, who denies that Jesus is God and denies the existence of Hell (how surprised they will be) is among the falsest of false Christians. We here at the Landover Baptist Church, which is not by any means a cult, has campaigned for years to have this cult banned.

Now it looks like they will have their own Harmageddon in Russia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39304984

Russia's justice ministry has called for a ban on the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian movement that zealously seeks converts and rejects military service.

The ministry has asked Russia's supreme court to close the group's headquarters and stop its 175,000 Russian members sharing "extremist" literature.

A spokesman for the group called the proposed ban "persecuting worshippers just for manifesting their faith".

Some Russian regions have already shut down branches of Jehovah's Witnesses.

According to the justice ministry, the Jehovah's Witnesses' activities "violate Russia's law on combating extremism".

The authorities object to pamphlets deemed to incite hatred against other religious groups, mainly for proclaiming Jehovah's Witnesses as followers of the only "true" faith.

One quotes the novelist Leo Tolstoy, describing the doctrine of the Russian Orthodox Church as superstition and sorcery, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.

The group was registered in Russia in 1991.

Thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses were deported to Siberia during Joseph Stalin's 30-year reign of terror. Other Christian groups were also persecuted at the time.

The JW's have started a letter writing campaign to stop this from happening. I encourage members of the non-cult Landover Baptist Church to start our own letter writing campaign, telling Putin how much Jesus loves him for trying to stop the cult that denies He is His own Father.

John 10:30
I and my Father are one.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

Thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses were deported to Siberia during Joseph Stalin's 30-year reign of terror. Other Christian groups were also persecuted at the time.

And what about the J-W's reign of terror over their brainwashed empties? Believe our cant or endure annihilation forever! That is not God's way: He uses reason. Reason and faith. It's a powerful combination leading to Salvation. Typical of the Anglican BBC to sneak in other Christians as though they have some legitimate claim themselves.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now and let us reason together saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool

[handmaiden]

Re: Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

I vaguely remember reading about many JWs being thrown into wells to die during the Bolshe Revolution.

Do you think that it might come to that again? Would Putin actually execute these people? I realize that if he does so that he will make certain that it is established legal precedent, which means that he won't be in violation of 1 Peter 2:13-15. Moreover, since these people will be executed for having the wrong religion, rather than for having any religion, (which is why the Bolshes executed people) then, of course, it's a different matter.


After all, there are passages and pages worth of examples where Our Lord ordered the deaths of many who worshiped false gods. No one dares to look back upon those genocides and declare them immoral or barbaric or "politically incorrect". God is Holy, as are His Works.


Amen.

[Titus Templeton]

Re: Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

Trump and Putin share many great similarities. Just look at the Kremlin. It's like the Kremlin was build by Trump. Lot's of gold everywhere and a big feeling. Things like that are not a coinsidence.
And whoever build the Kremlin might have been inspired by Trump Tower and Trump's philosophy of building.

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Re: Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

He've also banned Evangelicalism, what a great man.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Brother in Christ, Vladimir Putin, takes on the Jehovist question!

If you've ever met an evangelical Russian orthodox you'd see his point. Think Italian pentecostalist on steroids and you'll be on the right track. However:

Last week, the Justice Ministry submitted a Supreme Court case to label the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters an extremist group. This would allow Russia to enact a countrywide ban on its activity, dissolving its organization and criminalizing its worship. The court will convene to rule on the case in April.
“Considering that the religion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is professed by hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens, [liquidation] would be a disaster for rights and freedoms in our country,” said Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the targeted Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters, to Forum 18. The ban would impact about 175,000 followers in 2,000 congregations nationwide. “Without any exaggeration, it would put us back to the dark days of persecution for faith.”
Though both groups have been restricted and punished by Russia’s recent anti-missionary law, evangelicals can’t necessarily expect the same treatment.
“No one else is in a comparable position to that of the Jehovah’s Witness community,” Alexander Verkhovsky of the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis told Forum 18 last month.
Russian Protestants don’t consider themselves as extreme—or as annoying—as the Witnesses, and they aren’t too eager to speak out against the recent case against them.
“Baptists and Lutherans are often regarded as traditional religions by Russian judicial practice and by the Orthodox,” said William Yoder, spokesman for the Russia Evangelical Alliance.

Stepping out from the dark ages of the Brezhnev era is not achieved overnight, after all the crackdown from Alexander III still resonates across this frozen land and more than just one warm heart will be required to thaw it out for Jesus. Unlike the papists who must rely on silver and gold to build their mock church, Baptists know that it is Jesus building His REAL Church and the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it.

MATTHEW 16 . KJV . look up
23 [Jesus] turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/march/russia-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-evangelicals.html