Recent Trials

[greymourning]

I'm new here and am trying to take time and read older post so this may have been talked about already and i haven't read it yet, but is anyone suffering severe trials at this time, or have in the recent past? I have been undergoing a severe trial for over a year now and the intensity of it has not let up. Jehovah has been helping in outstanding ways but he doesn't end the trial. I'm at the point now where I'm so emotionally and physically exhausted it feels painful to be a living thinking being. I've been counseled that there is no breaking point as Jehovah does not allow more then you can bear and that no one knows how long Jobs trial lasted so trials may go on for years. I understand that the allowance of trials may be used as a refining mechanism. The severity and ferocity of my trial is great and is connected to my worship of Jehovah. I need encouragement or maybe a better understanding of suffering faithfully. Any thoughts?

[FutureMan]

Hello greymourning, I can empathize with you on this because both me and my wife in the last year have gone through severe trials of faith, as a result of my being disassociated from the organization.

Not that it was unexpected mine you, as I had already read a lot of experiences on-line, of those who had previously gone through similar experiences.

But it is one thing to read about it and another thing to experience it yourself.

Now I will quote three scriptures here, to show what will soon take place, on a large scale, particularly among Jehovah's Witnesses because they are the ones that bear God's name.

I believe that to some extent, it has already started to take place, but as yet not on a broad scale.

(Zechariah 13) [LITV]
7 O sword, awake against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.
8 And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and perish, but the third shall be left in it.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

(Daniel 11) [LITV]
31 And forces will stand away from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress. And they shall remove the regular sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that desolates.
32 And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.
33 And those who understand among the people will instruct many, yet they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by exile and spoil for days.
34 And when they shall stumble, they will be helped with a little help. But many will join them with hypocrisy.
35 And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end. For it is yet for the appointed time.


Matthew 24
9 Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10 And then many will be offended, and they will deliver up one another and will hate one another.
11 And many false prophets will be raised and will cause many to err.
12 And because lawlessness shall have been multiplied, the love of the many will grow cold.
13 But the one who endures to the end, that one will be kept safe.


It is my understanding that these prophecies are all interlocked, and will be fulfilled in the very near future.


But to some extent it is happening now in a small way.


Have faith, because you are not alone in this.

[greymourning]

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(Zechariah 13) [LITV]
7 O sword, awake against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.
8 And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and perish, but the third shall be left in it.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

I got goosebumps reading those scriptures especially the one in Zechariah. I've been in a deep study of Zechariah for a few months now. My trial is actually a court trial and has included questions of my faith and way of life. Fortunately i have not yet had the awful experience of being removed from the cong. for speaking up about things. And my situations had nothing to do with anything i have done it is an unmerited attack against me, i cant really go into the details. It has pretty much destroyed my life, I am down to the bare minimum of what i need to survive, and emotionally been stripped bare, had my life meticulously disassembled. Jehovah had done miraculous things in my behalf, which had been observed by my congregation, but it does seem that he steps in always at the last minute when i feel left alone and that i have reached the end. I'm probably there again, I'm hoping he will step in soon. I really appreciate being able to come hear and hear all of your thoughts. It is really the only place i find relief besides talking to Jehovah or reading the scriptures.