"Jehovah" is the name of the Almighty God of Christians and Jews, in the English language. Referring to humans as "Jehovahs" demonstrates ignorance and is somewhat blasphemous.
Jehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom 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
That Kingdom will 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.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or 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
While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, 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]
Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind
Jehovah's Witnesses' official website:
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
2006-10-17 04:38:40
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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First off Jehovah is not the only name for God ,,,,, In the Bible and throughout the world he has many names ,,,,He is just one person or entity but he has many names ,,,, that takes care of the person calling herself ignorance is bliss first statement ,,, Next she says they don't believe in Heaven ,,,, but they do believe in resurrection ,,,,, How can they believe in the one with out believing in the other ,,,, If there is no Heaven then where are people resurrected too ? ,,,,, This is an example of the screwy ideas of the Jehovah's Witness ,cult,,, I even ask a Jehovah's Wittiness that I know what he was going to do for Christmas ,,,, His reply was """Well as it's a pagan holiday nothing """ The man was calling Jesus Christ a pagan ,,,,, Their religion is so contradictory and confusing ,,,,,,,They use the Bible but take from it only what fits their teachings,, beliefs and way of thinking ,,,,,,I'm not clear on wheather they have their own bible like the Mormans do but their teachings are very contradictory to the word of God ,,,,, They deny the existance of Jesus Christ or rather his role in history ,,,,, They do not believe that his death on the cross had any significance what so ever ,,,,, They don't believe they can be born again through compliance in the word of the Bible ,,,, Well the bottom line to all of this for me is that I would hate to be in the shoes of the Jehovah's Witness come judgment day ,,,,,, They just may be in for a rude awakening ,,,,,
2006-10-15 22:47:30
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answered by Anonymous
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