Please excuse the little bits of sarcassm, but I really can't help myself. I am honestly curious for an answer to this question, and I know of no other way to put it.
I recently had to call the police. This was due to the fact that a group of Jehova's witnesses would stop at my house at least 4 times a month. I had asked these people to leave me alone and stop bothering me, yet they refused and kept coming on to my property. The police, late as usual, tracked them down around the block and talked to them. I haven't heard from them since.
My question is, if jehova's witnesses believe that Heaven is limited only to 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses, why would they possibly be going around, bugging people in their homes, and trying to convert them?
I don't get it. I'm sorry, maybe I am stupid, or maybe I really just don't get the whole religion thing, but if it were me and I believed there was a 144,000 person limit to heaven, I wouldn't be trying to get more competition. WHY?!
2006-09-17 01:42:27 · 9 answers · asked by iswd1 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The preaching work is performed because Jesus commanded it, not because it benefits Jehovah's Witnesses personally or as a religion. As a side point, the vast majority of Witnesses hope to enjoy life ON EARTH forever, rather than in 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
Incidentally, in some areas, a Jehovah's Witness congregation literally does knock on every door in its territory each and every week. However, in most areas their visits are perhaps twice-yearly or somewhat more. The apparent 'repeated visits' at the questioner's home were most likely the result of miscommunication among perhaps dozens of different Witness ministers. As reasonable people with large numbers of people to preach to, Jehovah's Witnesses have little incentive to concentrate their attention on a particular disinterested householder.
2006-09-18 07:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you do not want Jehovah's Witnesses to come to your house, you should tell call the nearest Kingdom Hall and ask them to put you on the DO NOT CALL LIST! You should not have had to call the police on them. For the most part witnesses honor all requests not to call on them and make a record of it to let the congregations know where they are not welcome.
The 144000 that you are asking about, are the anointed humans that will be in Heaven with Jehovah God, Jesus Christ as King of the Kingdom. This number does not include the Myriads and myriads of Angels that are in heaven as Jehovah's messenger. The 144000 will be helping to rule over the Paradise Earth that God promises to have his faithfull live on forever and ever. Satan will be bound fro 1000 years and humans will be able to learn and live under Divine direction from Jehovah, Jesus and the 144000.
The last answer is the reason why Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door. Matthew 24:14 "And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." We want the end of this wicked system to come soon, very soon! Amen, and Amen
2006-09-17 02:19:14 · answer #2 · answered by ed91856 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Based on scriptures (both old and new testaments) Jehovah's Witnesses believe that while 144000 will be rulers with Jesus in heaven, the rest of the people make it to live in paradise on earth (as was originally purposed when Adam and Eve lived, before they sinned).
As for the visits, you can answer the door and ask them to put you on a "do not visit' list...they might visit you a year later just to confirm that you're still not wanting visits, or to check if someone else lives there. I don't know if that will work, but it's worth a try
2006-09-17 02:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by stacey 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I used to be a JW.
When they go to people's houses they are trying to convert you to the religion, for one thing.
And the 144,000 are the people who have been anointed. The people they convert will not be going to heaven, they will just live on the earth after Armageddon and replenish the earth with plants, food, and people.
That's the shortest answer I can give you since you aren't a witness and don't know anything about their faith. I hope that answered your question
2006-09-17 01:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by Oui_Fleur 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2016-11-27 20:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by killeen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JW's believe that heaven is limited to 144.000, but the place where the rest of them go is the "great crowd" that will be on earth.
The bible does not put limits on its numbers. What the JW's teach is something else!
If you want to get rid of them, tell them that the Bible declares them to be false prophets and Deuteronomy chapters 13 and 20 forbid you to listen to them.
2006-09-17 03:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You must read the Jehovah Witness Revelation book. It
is because the locusts that come out of the pit of hell, are the
Witnesses going around annoying people with thier TRUTH!
2006-09-17 01:48:45 · answer #7 · answered by Medicine Eddie 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They're trying to earn their way to heaven. But no one can earn their way to heaven. Just ask Jesus.
2006-09-17 01:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
it's called faith.
2006-09-17 01:45:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋