This year, for the first time, all 27 billboards of Times Square went dark in NYC, and then...
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The Light Of The World
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Hacked by God.
Yep, masses had better get good with Jesus in prep for what is about to happen.
I never want to go back to NYC but if this played every night year round I may consider it.
Is this true ?? Did it really happen?? Or is it some generated whatever ? I don’t even know what u call it I’m so it challenged , AI is it ? Thank you ! H
Lots of websites are reporting it. Could be they all took the story from the same place though. Apparently happened on Nov. 27
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2023/12/23/24013222/sarah-jane-weaver-i-learned-in-times-square-there-is-power-in-a-pause
Edit: Apparently paid for by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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A banger of a display, gotta say.
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/light-the-world-giving-machines-new-york-city-2023
Looks like it was a way for the Church of Jesus Christ (I believe they may work with other churches on the giving machines) to announce the Giving Machines.
Regardless of how one feels about this church, they often bear good fruits & the majority of that fruit comes from unpaid service.
As a child raised in a godless home, it was the Mormons' tv commercials on Saturday morning cartoons that taught me about the love of Jesus and made me want to read the Bible that prepared me to receive salvation. I don't believe in anything the Mormons teach that is not in the Bible, but God is using their resources to draw people to Himself.
Jesus said if you are not against me then you are for me. Basically, anything positive about Him, He will use to get His gospel to the people.
I like putting it this way - "God can use a crooked stick to strike a straight blow"
Nicely said!
Any tool our Father in Heaven can use to bring us closer to him is a win as far as I am concerned. I am so grateful that you were able to find a path towards him & our Savior.
Merry Christmas my friend & I hope your year is filled with joy & accomplishment of your goals.
They are particularly keen on making the Birth of Jesus known at Christmastime; they used to host an amazing display of nativity scenes from all over the world at their local church near where we live every December and it was really magical to go and visit. I brought my son when he was little. One more beautiful memory stored away.
Those sound like awesome memories.
Moved by the Spirit, they are.... ❤️
Their extra book is as wrong as every other extra book, but their hearts are in the right place and they do good service.
It may be even more unpopular, but so do the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I never understood that mindset in the Catholic religion, and offshoots , Baptist, Protestant, etc. They knock each other like enemies. It's ridiculous. Everyone believes that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. Nobody asked them to all start holding joint services but no need to bash each other. The important part is agreed upon by all. Uniting in Christ would spread so much more love and light in the world. Off the soapbox, sorry for the rant.
That’s pretty much the reason I’ve been going after denominationalism.
It’s one thing to have a different outlook on things, and there can even be error in how the scriptures are interpreted (within reason), but ONE BODY, people!
Philippians 2:12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Mormons are arguably a completely different religion, and I’m still inclined to shrug and mumble, “close enough.” They’re definitely doing at least some of it right.
Nobody is going to hit the path perfectly, but there’s an awful lot of room for unity. Just try to not step on toes and find peace where possible, so long as disagreements don’t slide into worldly evil - like trying to normalize sodomy and pedophilia as an effort to “love” those sinners. Sorry, NO. (that means you, “Methodists”)
Double soapbox closed.
Thanks for the awesome response!!!
But but but dancing is evil!!!
In all seriousness at least it is fun to look at the denominations and all their flaws from a 5d vantage point
This is going to get me downvoted, but I don't care.
I've been all around the world and I'm going to make a controversial statement: all religions are the same. Not just Christians. (Yes, even the Muslims. It's the leaders of large organizations that distort it, and Christian sects aren't above this failing either.). Many of the most pious, generous and spiritual people I know are Buddhist.
You make light of the peculiar belief that dancing is evil, yet there are also those here who would belittle someone simply because they don't believe Jesus was more special than the Buddha. If that triggers you because it runs counter to your belief, consider that those who believe dancing is evil are triggered in exactly the same way.
Ultimately, religion is merely a tool, and any religion that helps you treat others as you would like to be treated, and honors your relationship with God, is all that is required. Everything else is just cultural differences, and those should be celebrated rather than condemned.
No one system is better than any other. It's about whatever works for you. If we all simply act out of love for God and one another, religion is irrelevant.
I don't disagree. The Bible outright says God has 650 plus names.
Some of those names only certain people or groups know even.
The idea people can be good and just, and the name does not matter, is a sound one.
Still, there are levels to the madness. Look at Muslims, they believe dogs are unclean and evil, they believe a woman's face and body is impure, they believe everyone who does not believe in Islam deserves death
I would not say that is the same at all as baptists who prohibit dancing or pentecostals who put tea and coffee in the same realm as marijuana.
Sure, both are absurd, but the fruits show the true nature of each.
I have that suspicion myself about the Abrahamic religions, and did get downvoted for it a few days ago.
All three recognize the written Torah and OT prophets as authoritative scriptures. Things seem to go off the rails based off the dogmas and interpretations they build after of that.
Not familiar enough on the non-Abrahamic religions to comment intelligently, but Hinduism definitely gives me some apprehension.
Thank you - my sentiments exactly.
You can’t be united if you don’t agree on who God is, and the groups you name have mutually incompatible teachings. Time for a church history dig, you may be surprised at what you find and which of the same enemies we’re fighting together here pop up over the last 2000 years of history. —Orthodox Christian anon
This is the way.
Gotta call out the clowns entertaining the goats, and the wolves in sheep’s clothing waiting to devour.
Fair enough. After reading it myself, I found it testifies of Jesus Christ & speaks about "Secret Combinations" as an evil that over runs governments as a pact with the Devil IIRC.
Oddly I haven't found that anywhere else as a warning, and the other time I saw that phrase was the FBI lovers (Page & Strozk) where Lisa asks Peter if they were forming their own little secret combination.
I also have heard from native American tribes that they are descendants of tribes claimed in his book, though this should not be confused with all Native tribes.
Ultimately I encourage every single person to simply follow Jesus Christ to the best of the ability & to allow God to sort it out in the end.
Merry Christmas friend & I hope this next year treats you & your family well.
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With all the fake stuff whatever it’s called , I wasn’t sure ,, found out the Mormon church paid for it ! Ty
I hear ya. Just yankin your chain.. hehe..
But,.. God works in mysterious ways!
Lol ty .. I’ve sent so much fake stuff out ,, the worse was when I sent my liberal daughter a post from here ,,, FDA admits vaxx causes autism , ( her sister , my daughter has autism, I know it was from childhood jabs ) as soon as I sent to her comments came in saying ,, this is BS , fake ,,I was so pissed that I didn’t wait , man I hate that , of course she wrote back with a big eye roll … this wouldn’t have been a big deal though !
Bless her heart 🤗🙏
I know lol , she was a pure blood , she’s a couple years younger then her autistic sister, I woke up in time to save her . Anyway she grew up telling all her friends how glad and proud she was that her mom was smart enough not to put poison in her ,,, university and social media later ,, she got the covid jab ,, devestated me . She’s a liberal nut job , I love her of course and we see each other nearly everyday , she still has her room here at our home and she stays here more then her own place but I can’t have any meaningful conversations with her , I can’t believe the way she thinks, TDS the whole nine yards ,, it’s very sad .
Keep praying the Lord to shine light into her psyche, visualize it daily. it will work. One fine day, she will turn around.
Is this legit? It almost looks like a commercial. If this actually happened, Wow! That is awesome.
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/light-the-world-giving-machines-new-york-city-2023
Looks like it was a way for the Church of Jesus Christ (I believe they may work with other churches on the giving machines) to announce the Giving Machines.
Regardless of how one feels about this church, they often bear good fruits & the majority of that fruit comes from unpaid service.
(Copied from an earlier comment)
Dark to Light!
That is an awesome way to look at this. I had never considered it.
Mormon Church has made a lot of great family oriented commercials over the years, and their priests have to support themselves. They also take care of their flock in times of need, if the flock does their part.
Too bad that there are a lot of bad apples in their barrels...
Yeah, everyone will need to answer to God for their own actions in the end. Generally speaking the vast majority of their members are great people doing their best to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ the best they know how.
Hasn't Tokyo been doing this since the 90's?
So by doing this, we now know they are all connected.
How refreshing.
Thanks for sharing. Very inspirational!
I posted this 2 weeks ago too, its amazing!! Praise the LORD! enter text
Be blessed this Christmas and I pray for many, many breakthroughs in the Q movement, bringing confirmations and results/judgement against the evil cabal in 2024 In the Name of JESUS!
Beautiful
a wild mormon appeared
Those wild boys of Ephraim... It is a peculiar group. 😄
Beautiful 😍😍
Oh, that is beautiful. And even if it's two days early: Merry Christmas, everyone.
WOW!
I can’t believe the powered that be let something like this happen. Beautiful though, IF it was real.
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/light-the-world-giving-machines-new-york-city-2023
Looks like it was a way for the Church of Jesus Christ (I believe they may work with other churches on the giving machines) to announce the Giving Machines.
Regardless of how one feels about this church, they often bear good fruits & the majority of that fruit comes from unpaid service.
(Copied from an earlier comment)
I bet when they went dark, people stomachs churned, the relief they experienced to a a message about Jesus. ❤️
Feels like the equivalent to businesses putting pride flags in their twitter for pride month tbh. Hollow and meaningless, wondering if that is just because of the contrasted city and medium it was on. Hope that others drew and draw meaning that brightens their lives though and I will try to reject, eject and deject the negative thoughts while at the same time use this as a gnostic manifestation of good coming back en mass
This was stunning. Beautiful. 🙏❤️
Nope. She's here.