2006-09-26 23:16:25 · 20 answers · asked by Madam Rosmerta 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because they only have 143,999?
2006-09-27 03:13:58 · answer #1 · answered by black_baby_angel_01 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the rest of the believers will go to heaven #2, paradise on earth. Not as many cotton candy stands or ferris wheels but still pretty good.
And remember, whenever someone slams a door in their face, that's one less person to condend for a spot in heaven #1. Think about it.
007HS- "If they believe that then they are the most stupidist people on earth, very ilogical and null!"
Look, I'm not religious at all but I've gotta ask, are you giving them a run for their money? What they believe is no more ridiculous than any other religious myth.
2006-09-26 23:29:25 · answer #2 · answered by el bastard sanchez 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are 144,001 (counting Jesus God's first fruit)
Revelation (no s on the end) Chapter 7 does list "tribes" of Israel, but if you do your homework, you will notice some interesting points
This is list doesn't match the fleshly sons of Jacob (Israel),
It doesn't match the list of the 12 tribe Kingdom of Israel.
So if it isn't Israel the sons of Jacob and it isn't the Fleshly nation of Israel, then who is it?
Gal 6: 15, 16, circumcision (fleshly Israel),
uncircumcision (gentiles, or people of the nations) can now be part of a new creation, 'The Israel of God' or the christian congregation.
Spiritual Israel.
Rom. 2:29 Christians become a Jew of the heart.
According to Peter it is the christians who fulfill the promise of becoming a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a chosen race. (1 Pet 2:8,9)
Paul at Romans talks about removing branches from the olive tree and replacing them with people of the nations.
Rev 7 then continues with a great crowd who survive the great tribulation. these enjoy the fulfillment of Rev 21: 1-6
The tent of God is with mankind.
2006-09-27 04:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't realise that those 144,000 is Jews & for the nation of Israel, That is in Revelations. I have had them at my house, & when I open The Bible, they seem to be uneasy & want to leave, In fact a old man I knew, one day a Jehovah Wittness came to his house, & this old man opened the Bible, & the first thing this Old man that I knew ask him are You Born Again, it scared that Jehovah Wittness so much the Jehovah Wittness man got up & took off running, The old man running after him, What the old man that I knew was trying to tell the Jehovah Wittness is that he left his hat behind. TRUE STORY
2006-09-27 00:52:38 · answer #4 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The 144,000 come from the after the rapture has occured. The antichrist has risen and the new world order is in full swing. They are Jews who come to believe in the Messiah and are pure for they have not had an oppurtunity to sin.
JW's have got it wrong.
2006-09-26 23:25:01 · answer #5 · answered by digdugs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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
2006-09-27 00:54:51 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree that is actually a pretty good question all though I must admit I didnt know they believed that I always make them leave when they come to my door I have listened maybe once just to be nice and then they got very pushy so I made them leave and asked them not to come back
2006-09-26 23:19:08 · answer #7 · answered by Tears30 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they believe that the rest of them will be resurected to a paradise everlasting on earth. This is really the answer, my mom was a JW and forced me to attend when I was young.
2006-09-26 23:18:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They believe the list is not yet complete and that they might get the last place, therefore, there is still a chance.
2006-09-26 23:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by Mac 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple - Because they are completely Nuts...
They recruit for the same reason all Religions recruit - MONEY!
After all, MONEY is the GOD of RELIGION.
2006-09-27 01:00:27 · answer #10 · answered by John Trent 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they believe that then they are the most stupidist people on earth, very ilogical and null!
Jeovah's witnesses are just bunch of idiots
2006-09-26 23:18:57 · answer #11 · answered by 007HS 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋