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http://www.jw-media.org/rus/20100309.htm
For Immediate Release
March 9, 2010

TAGANROG, Russia—On March 1, 2010, law enforcement officers closed down and sealed the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region.

Confiscation of the building was one of the prosecutor’s demands in the judicial proceedings on the liquidation of the Taganrog Local Religious Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. The building was built in 2006 by local Jehovah’s Witnesses, who financed its construction and use with their own voluntary contributions. Since then it has served as a center for Bible study and religious services, which were free and open to the public.

Coincidentally or not, the law enforcement officers showed up to close the building the day after Jehovah’s Witnesses concluded their distribution of the tractCould It Happen Again? A Question for the Citizens of Russia, which had an estimated circulation in Russia of 12 million copies. That publication quoted excerpts from the address of Russia’s president, who condemned the violation of human rights and restriction on freedom that had been allowed in the past.

This is the first case in democratic Russia in which a religious building owned by Jehovah’s Witnesses was confiscated. About 60 years ago, houses and property of thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses were confiscated, and the Witnesses were exiled to Siberia “for permanent residence.” More than a decade later, the Order of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Council dated September 30, 1965, finally set them free, and the Order of the RF President dated March 14, 1996, fully exonerated them and declared them victims of political repression.

“Under the Soviet regime,” said Vasily Kalin, chairman of the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Jehovah’s Witnesses first were ostracized from public life and were forced to go underground. Then they were declared to be gloomy sectarians who had chosen for themselves to hide from people. Again we’re seeing a similar picture today regarding the Witnesses. While their property is being confiscated under the pretext of fighting extremism, the property that was previously taken from other religions is being returned.”

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Zephaniah 1:13-14
And their wealth must come to be for pillage and their houses for a desolate waste. And they will build houses, but they will not have occupancy; and they will plant vineyards, but they will not drink the wine of them.14 “The great day of Jehovah is near. It is near, and there is a hurrying [of it] very much. The sound of the day of Jehovah is bitter.


In Christ

abe

Has it started?

Daniel 12:7
And as soon as there will have been a finishing of the dashing of the power of the holy people to pieces, all these things will come to their finish.

2nd Thessalonians 2:8
Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence.


Isaiah 66:6
There is a sound of uproar out of the city, a sound out of the temple! It is the sound of Jehovah repaying what is deserved to his enemies.


Zephaniah 1:14
The sound of the day of Jehovah is bitter.


In Christ

abe

It could be, Abe; time will tell. Although, the angry among us will say that they have no part in Bible prophecy, they have truly impacted Christendom's religious teachings and US... otherwise this site (and so many others) wouldn't be here.

JWHVACR,

Yes, if I look at the history of this forum (and many others) its existence does seem to go back to those who groaned over the detestable things they saw happening inside the Watchtower Society.

Many of the people posting here have very similar and painful experiences all associated with the Watchtower.

Yet there seems to be a common feeling of loyalty to Jesus Christ that resounds through this forum.

Something very different to what the rank and file Jehovah's Witness might expect from the very people who they continue to reproach disrespectfully from the podiums in their Kingdom Halls.

I really do perceive a "breaking through".


Isaiah 66:6
6 There is a sound of uproar out of the city, a sound out of the temple! It is the sound of Jehovah repaying what is deserved to his enemies.
7 Before she began to come into labor pains she gave birth. Before birth pangs could come to her, she even gave deliverance to a male child. 8 Who has heard of a thing like this? Who has seen things like these? Will a land be brought forth with labor pains in one day? Or will a nation be born at one time? For Zion has come into labor pains as well as given birth to her sons.
9 “As for me, shall I cause the breaking through and not cause the giving birth?” says Jehovah. “Or am I causing a giving birth and do I actually cause a shutting up?” your God has said.


Is there a giving birth?


In Christ

abe