2006-12-03 11:38:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay, first of all the Jehovah Witnesses are NOT Christian...they are CULT! Even they will tell you they are not Christian. They believe that only 144,000 are 'allowed' into Heaven....They have misread/misquoted/misunderstood the bible. By this, they believe that number was full filled in 1935....by their elders. they now teach new converts to look forward to everlasting life on an earth restored to paradise conditions. If you were to ask a J.W., they don't' even WANT to go to heaven!!! They are in effect limiting Heaven! Tell them Jesus said "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were no so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you. I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,there ye may be also" John 14:2 KJV.
By the way, they also believe any pre-Christian believer's are "other sheep" and these do NOT go to Heaven....these "other sheep" INCLUDE Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to name a few!!!
SCARY!!!!!!!!
2006-12-03 12:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by nici a 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If anybody under any religious titlement does not understand things spiritually that are spoken in parable format and taking it in a litteral meaning on a physical level then there struggles are going to be harder because they have cut them off from the source of a spiritual life. and the 144,000 "people" that are only going to able to enter the gates of heaven through these peoples understanding is such a physical way of looking at it and not the depth of what is happening in the Spirit through the different levels of thought that every single person diffenenrates from. We are all in the same process becasue of the reconcilation we received at the cross and nobody was left out, but everyone will experience things different through the ways they think and process any given thing, it's just when people take on there physical understandings as though it is spiritual believing it to be so (like an actual 144,000 number of people), and it is spiritual incorrectness that is being pursued then you will see the evidence through there fruits of what is happening in their lives, and it's through how anyone thinks in a heaven state (freedom) or hell state (bondage) of mind.
2006-12-03 19:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by *moonlight* 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many passages in the book of Revelation are metaphorical. Although it speaks of the 144,000 believers (saints) we also see for instance that there were thousands who came to believe in the days of Jesus alone. We are not actually to speculate about the number. Once King David's heart was magnified and he numbered all the people of Israel, so God had him choose a punishment from a few options, and Israel was punished, my memory is not clear on that, I think people were slain dead in Israel by the hand of God. But we are told that is will be a multitude as the stars of heaven or the sands of the sea, again metaphores. We know that of the 144,000 that certain numbers are highly significant such as 12 (12 Tribes, 12 apostles, 12 gates of the New Kingdom, ect...) and 1,000 is very significant (I would speculate that this has to do with the union between the Church and Christ, but you would have to email me for details on that theory). 12 Tribes, and 12 apostles signifies OT believers and NT believers, 1000 union of Israel (believers) and God (from 333 + 666), and 144,000 is 12 x 12 x 1,000. I am not going to speculate on number of believers, reason given above.
2006-12-03 19:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by David L 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Revelation says there will be 144,000 people. However that is a symbolic number representing perfection. It says other places that the number will be as the sands of the shore. And they are a number not able to be counted. I think there are more than 144000 jehovahs witnesses, and that doesn't make good odds for other people who are christians. Or the 2 thousand years of christians before us or the israelites before that. Or the countless people that never heard the name of Jesus before, that have lived according to law that God placed in their hearts. I don't take that to literally mean 144000 men.
2006-12-03 19:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by The GMC 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
read your king james bible. it tells you the same thing in revelation we did not make this up. what about the meek that shall live forever on the earth. we are christian. we believe in Jehovah God and his son Jesus Christ. read it for yourself. we do follow Jesus. we do what he commanded everyone to do at Matthew 28 verse 19 and 20. we are the only one doing what Jesus Christ commanded. the rest of the people will live on earth forever. that was Jehovah's plan. because of Adam and Eve no obeying Jehovah and they sinned we are there children and that is why we die also. read ps 37 verse 11 and revelation seven verse 4-8 in the king james bible. a cult worships a man and lives in one state. they follow him. we live in 235 lands and live in our own homes. we have free will. we are not brainwashed either. we come and go as we please. we follow the bible. www.watchtower.org
2006-12-03 19:41:25 · answer #5 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they claim it to be 144,000 only taken from Jehovah's witnesses and god is going to kill 99.9 % of the rest of us. This once was suppose to happen in 1914 when they set a date but I guess god got mixed up and it didn't happen.
2006-12-03 19:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one knows. Jehovah witness use the bible to their advantage
2006-12-03 19:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by blesshisname2005 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They claim it is 144,000 because of a couple scriptures in Revelation. But they have no clue and they are not Christian. They change words in the Bible to match their interpretation.
2006-12-03 19:41:32 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The limit was reached long ago,so they changed the rules..
2006-12-03 19:46:46 · answer #9 · answered by festeringhump 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no...
They have a problem.
They don't follow teaching of Jesus. Will have a problem getting into heaven.
2006-12-03 19:42:09 · answer #10 · answered by cork 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋