It’s been a while since I have been on here and I was wishing
to add this a month ago when I got the really good news but well time got away
from me. Saturday and Sunday October 5
th and 6
th, 2013
the 2013 Annual Meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses was held for different groups
each day. This was the first year that all were invited to attend and watch via
satellite feed to
New York.
Usually only Bethelites or special pioneers or traveling overseers and a few
others attend but it was broadcast live for who ever wanted to see it. Me and
my parents carpooled with a fellow Sister and 3 others to go 45 minutes away to
a large Kingdom Hall where we watched a screen that had a live feed to Stanley
Theatre. It was a 3 ½ hour meeting.
It was so cool hearing from some of the governing body and
other brothers. It was so cool when they talked about this museum piece there
at the New York Branch that is housing these rare bibles or pages from a bible
manuscript from as far back as the 1500’s that had Jehovah God’s name in them.
It was also really awesome to hear about what it was like when the New World
Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released book by book from 1950 to I
think 1961 and then to have it all be one book, but the coolest thing ever
happened (I’ll get to the wonderful thing in a moment, LOL)…. They started
saying about how people have been writing them because they haven’t been
getting their bibles at the Kingdom Hall and indeed we had the same problem. We
couldn’t get bibles at our Kingdom Hall for well over a year or two.
(Here is the wonderful thing!!)…Well it was told why. For
the past five years they have been working on a revised version with 21st
Century words. There is for now just the new English Revised Version. They
swapped certain words to others that people in 21st Century will
understand the meaning of the text better. It didn’t change the bible text it
just made it easier to understand, like they changed words like totter to fall
and harlot to prostitute. So the words mean the same but are better understood
today as words have changed over the years. But there is more, the bible has a
new font and foot notes about what words were changed in a verse. The center
margin is easier to read too. There are maps in the back and glossary of bible
terms. The front has an introduction to God’s word with twenty different
questions and the scriptures that answer the questions. It is so AMAZING!!
We saw those in the Stanley Theatre get theirs but we didn’t
think we would get ours that Saturday. So after that I went to the restroom
during the song but I saw some brothers in the back and I thought something was
going on. So a few minutes later my mom burst into the bathroom and told me
they released the bible to us all in the Kingdom Hall. Every sister was crying
and the brothers and sisters were so excited. A lot of us weren’t there when
the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was first released but we were
there for the revised version release. It’s so cool that I was there for the
new song book and now the revised bible, because I wasn’t even born when the
others came out as I am only 25 years old. All this new material and new
understandings are quite exciting to receive and delve into. :~)
I am very excited to be posting about this wonderful news. I
am sorry though that it took me a month to get around to bloging about it. Here are the pictures of the new English revised version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. Pretty isn't it. :~)
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