LEARN FROM GOD'S WORD: Why Learn From God?

1. Why learn from God?

God has good news of something better for mankind. He tells us about it in the pages of the Bible. The Bible is like a letter to us from our loving Father.

“‘For I myself well know the thoughts that I am thinking toward YOU,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘thoughts of peace, and not of calamity, to give YOU a future and a hope. " (Jeremiah 29:11)

2. What is the good news?

Mankind needs good government. No human ruler has ever relieved mankind of violence, injustice, disease, or death. But there is good news. God will give mankind a good government that will bring freedom from all causes of suffering.

“And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite." (Daniel 2:44)

3. Why is it vital to learn from God?

Soon God will clear the earth of people who cause suffering. Meanwhile, he is teaching millions of meek people to enjoy a better way of life, based on love. From God's Word, people are learning how to cope with life's problems, how to find real happiness, and how to please God.

"Seek Jehovah, all YOU meek ones of the earth, who have practiced His own judicial decision. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably YOU may be concealed in the day of Jehovah’s anger. " (Zephaniah 2:3)

4. Who is the Author of the Bible?

Some 40 men wrote the 66 books of the Bible, but they wrote God's thoughts and not their own. So God is the Author of the Bible.

We know that the Bible is from God because it accurately foretells the future in details. It also bears the unmistakable stamp of God's loving personality. It has the power to change people's lives for the better.

“Now, look! I am going today in the way of all the earth, and YOU well know with all YOUR hearts and with all YOUR souls that not one word out of all the good words that Jehovah YOUR God has spoken to YOU has failed. They have all come true for YOU. Not one word of them has failed." (Joshua 23:14)

"Indeed, that is why we also thank God incessantly, because when YOU received God’s word, which YOU heard from us, YOU accepted it, not as the word of men, but, just as it truthfully is, as the word of God, which is also at work in YOU believers." (1 Thessalonians 2:13)

5. How can you understand the Bible?

Jesus helped people understand the Bible by referring to one Bible text after another and explaining "the meaning of Scriptures."

"And commencing at Moses and all the Prophets he interpreted to them things pertaining to himself in all the Scriptures....Then he opened up their minds fully to grasp the meaning of the Scriptures." (Luke 24:27,45)

This series, "Learn From God's Word", will use the same method to help us.

(Source: The Watchtower, January 1, 2011, pp. 16,17)

 

God's Kingdom -The Future Government

God's Kingdom - The Government that Will Solve Mankind's Problems

An outline from the Scriptures


What God's Word says about the Kingdom:


* Matthew 6:9,10
"YOU must pray, then, this way:
'Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.' "

* Daniel 2:44
"And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite."

* Isaiah 9:6,7
"For there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end."

* Matthew 25:31,33
"When the Son of man arrives in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. And he will put the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left."

What God's Kingdom will accomplish for mankind:

(1) Wars, crime, and violence will be eliminated forever.

* Psalm 46:8, 9
"Come, YOU people, behold the activities of Jehovah,
How he has set astonishing events on the earth.
He is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth.
The bow he breaks apart and does cut the spear in pieces;
The wagons he burns in the fire."

(2) Equality and impartiality will exist for all; there will be no more racial, social, or other forms of discrimination.

* Acts 10:35
"But in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him."

*Revelation 7:9, 10.
"After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: "Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb."

(3) There will be abundant food, adequate housing, and enjoyable work for everyone.


* Psalm 72:16
"There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth;
On the top of the mountains there will be an overflow.
His fruit will be as in Lebanon,
And those who are from the city will blossom like the vegetation of the earth."

* Isaiah 25:6
"And Jehovah of armies will certainly make for all the peoples, in this mountain, a banquet of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of [wine kept on] the dregs, of well-oiled dishes filled with marrow, of wine kept on the dregs, filtered."

* Isaiah 65:21, 22.
"And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage. They will not build and someone else have occupancy; they will not plant and someone else do the eating. For like the days of a tree will the days of my people be; and the work of their own hands my chosen ones will use to the full."

(4) Sickness, disability, old age, and death will be no more.
* Isaiah 25:8
"He will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces. And the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for Jehovah himself has spoken it."

* Isaiah 35:5, 6 
"At that time the eyes of the blind ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be unstopped. At that time the lame one will climb up just as a stag does, and the tongue of the speechless one will cry out in gladness. For in the wilderness waters will have burst out, and torrents in the desert plain."


* Revelation 21:4
"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away."

(5) The dead will be raised.

* John 5:28, 29
"Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment."

* Revelation 20:12
"And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds."

(6) The earth will become a global paradise.

* Luke 23:43
"And he said to him: "Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise."


* Psalm 98:7-9
"Let the sea thunder and that which fills it,
The productive land and those dwelling in it.
Let the rivers themselves clap their hands;
Altogether let the very mountains cry out joyfully
Before Jehovah, for he has come to judge the earth.
He will judge the productive land with righteousness
And the peoples with uprightness."

What we should do to benefit from these blessings:

* John 17:3
"This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."

* Revelation 22:17
"And the spirit and the bride keep on saying: "Come!" And let anyone hearing say: "Come!" And let anyone thirsting come; let anyone that wishes take life's water free."

The Rulership That Brings Eternal Blessings

A music video about the reigning of a King who will bring endless blessings to mankind throughout eternity.