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According to the jehovah writness sect's on teachings only the most least sinful will go to heaven and be with jesus/god. So if 144,000 only are to live with god for a thousand years and assuming god really is kind, loving and just doesn't that means 144,000 jw children will be chosen.
Even if adults were the 144,000, If given a choice would not adult jws trade places with children to get them into heaven?
Tyat means all these jws are not going to heaven as there are much more than 144,000 children.

2006-08-06 00:24:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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The vast majority of Witnesses hope to enjoy life ON EARTH forever, rather than in heaven. There is absolutely *NO* "competition" regarding who does or does not feel the desire to go to heaven.

Jehovah's Witnesses understand heaven to refer to the dwelling place of spirit creatures such as Jesus and the angels. They understand the Scriptures to teach that exactly 144,000 humans will join Christ Jesus as kings and priests to administer God's Kingdom (which will soon replace all earthly governments).
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite
(Revelation 14:1) Lamb [Jesus] standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand
(Revelation 20:6) they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him

Over whom will they rule? Over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”

Hell is NOT someplace/something mankind needs to fear; there is no suffering in the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire


Almighty Jehovah God selects those few who have the heavenly calling. Each person "feels" his own hope and each person's hope remains unquestioned by his fellow Christians. Still the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%*) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

2006-08-06 12:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2 0

How many times do we have to tell you people, the 144,000 rule with Christ Jesus in Heaven, if someone rules, you must have subjects, right?

Not only will there be survivors when this system comes to and end, but after the resurrection takes place, there will be billions of people living on the Earth.

This was King David's future hope: Psalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. King James Bible

The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it. Modern Translation

The Lord's prayer says: "thy will be done on earth"

Jehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. (Hebrews 2:5)

So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”, not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation. Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 2:7-9, 15.

The establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction, one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”

2006-08-06 07:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 2 0

Contrary to the idea most people seem to have, those going to heaven aren't going to be bouncing from cloud to cloud or playing a harp. Those going to heaven have a job to do. They're going to be priests and kings with Christ. (Revelation 20:6). The rest of us will either live through Armageddon, thus never having to experience death at all, or be resurrected during the 1,000 year reign of Christ. He demonstrated his ability to resurrect people while he was here ... he resurrected Lazarus and a few others.

Regarding them being children, these ones who go to heaven will be there because they have lived life on earth and have experienced various trials just as we all have. They will have the needed experience to help Christ judge the rest of us. (1 Corinthians 6:2) Its a very loving provision from God. From his viewpoint we're all sinners deserving death, but he lets us be judged by a jury of our peers...those who have experiened what we have and know why we may have done things we have. They will be empathetic to our situations having gone through them theirselves. So its very doubtful that they would be children, but I guess its possible that there could be some who are...but they wouldn't be young children.

2006-08-06 07:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly L 3 · 1 0

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