Does anybody ever read the Bible for themselves?

Question

Read the Bible for yourself,the 144,000 are the witnesses to the people after the rapture not those in heaven. It has nothing to do with those who are going to heaven before the rapture. If you get saved, according to Acts chapters 2, and 10, and obey the Bible and do what Jesus tells you to, you will surely make it to heaven.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses read the bible for themselves on a daily basis.

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

The men and women who make up the 144,000 are selected by God from among two thousand years of Christians. 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]

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Answer 2

The 144,000 Jews / Israelites who are sealed in Revelation 7:4-8 are sealed for the specific purpose of being “evangelists” during the Tribulation period. The sealing provides protection from the plagues and devastation brought on by the trumpet and bowl judgments, as well as from the wrath of the Antichrist. The 144,000 is not a limit to how many people will be saved, but rather is just a select group of Jewish believers called to proclaim God’s message during the end times. There will be perhaps millions of other converts during the Tribulation, most of them a result of the 144,000’s ministry.




Some Bible interpreters believe that there will be no second chance for salvation after the Rapture. However, there is no place in the Bible which says this, or even hints to it. There will be many people who come to Christ during the Tribulation. The 144,000 Jewish witnesses (Revelation 7:4) are believers. If no one can come to Christ during the Tribulation, then why are people being beheaded for their faith (Revelation 20:4)? I see no passage of Scripture which argues against people having a second chance after the Rapture. I do see passages which indicate the opposite.



A variation of this argument is that those who have heard the Gospel and rejected it before the Rapture cannot be saved, but those who had not heard the Gospel before the Rapture can be saved. I do not find Biblical justification for this view. Granted, most who were hard-hearted to the Gospel before the Rapture will likely be even more hardened after the Rapture. The antichrist will deceive many (Matthew 24:5)! Many will believe the lies (2 Thessalonians 2:11). At the same time, I find no Scriptural evidence that those who rejected the Gospel before the Rapture have no opportunity for salvation after the Rapture.

Answer 3

True, the 144,000 are witnesses here on Earth, but there is no scriptural evidence as to the timing of the rapture occurring prior to the ministry of these men.

Pre-Tribulation Rapture teachers can't explain 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. Or if they do they don't use the original Greek. Please study some more for yourself.

God bless you and keep you

Answer 4

The book of Revelation is a great source of encouragement because it assures us that the victory is won and our hope is assured. However, it is sure tough to interpret all the details because of all the symbolisms in the apocalyptic literature. Does Israel refer to ethnic Israel or spiritual Israel made up of Jews and Gentiles (the church). Is the 144,000 to be taken lliterally or symbolically? The number 12 seems to be referring to perfection or completeness (7:5-8; 12:1; 21:12). the 144,000 could be a symbolic number expressing a multitude marked by absolute perfection eternally safe from satan's harm and belonging exclusively to the Lamb (John 10:28). All believers are one in Jesus Christ and are the true Israel according to Galatians 3 and Romans 11 and the wall of separation has been broken down because of the work of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2).
As far as "obeying the Bible and doing what Jesus says" I know that I always have not. In fact, I deny what he says many times (I John 1:8). I need forgiveness of my sin nature and my individual sins by His grace so His righteousness can cover my unrighteousness. Isn't that why He came and died and rose again. He did what I could never do for myself (earn God's favor). I need a Savior. (Matthew 1:21; Ephesians 2:8-10).

Answer 5

Peace be with you. The truth shall make you free.

You say read the bible for yourself? Where in the bible does it mention "rapture"

Jesus said, "no flesh will be saved"
I judge no man. My judgment is just. The flesh profits nothing.
Jesus told you to read Daniel. Daniel called this day "Blessed is he that waithet and cometh to the 1003530 days.

Jesus called this day "Blessed" and "seventy times seven"

There are only 2 witnesses.

All these things Jesus told us, but you believe in "Acts"
The Living Word of God (Jesus) are not good enough for you?

Answer 6

About 2/3rds of it , not in any certain order,some parts I went
over twice to make sure I had comprehension of. The climax
of the story is One I'm sure we all get! Jesus on the cross.
Had more questions when I was finished, Than when I started!
I seriously doubt even 144,000 will make it, from all of humanity!
God has an agenda, we are just a means to an end game!
Or there is a serious instability in heaven, with the real possibility
of God being overthrown!I don't know. what I do know is NO man deserves eternity in HELL! no matter what these creeps keep repeating!

Answer 7

Fortunately I've read it over 20 times and I realize it's a mistake to take bible lessons from anyone who believes Jesus isn't God. 1 John 4 makes it clear that this belief is inspired by the spirit of the anti-christ. Jesus didn't tell his disciples to go into the world and share the gospel with the first 144,000 people they could find, he said to tell all creation. (Mark 16:15). So I agree with you.

Answer 8

The two witnesses are the ones who share the gospel during the great trib-- see Zechariah 4 for further info on them.
The 144,000 are the 12 tribes of Israel who have come out of the Great Trib- See Revelation 7.

Answer 9

Why do human beings trust the bible is the direct note of God at the same time as the human beings who initially stated that were merely adult males themselves? All holy books were written by adult males, you chosen to trust it replaced into written by God, besides the undeniable fact that the reality is that adult males wrote it and then the monks of that factor stated the adult males who wrote those books were inspired by God, so its all up for interpretation. fairly, the Bible is a range of writings from about 40 individuals, thirty contained in the former testomony and ten contained in the recent testomony. to illustrate, the Psalms are a range of the works of quite a few authors, of whom David, the "sweet singer of Israel", is the most suitable accepted. yet psalms were also written by Moses, by Asaph, by a guy named Ethan, and through the sons of Korah. each little thing stated contained in the bible replaced into stated before, it replaced into merely re-interpreted for the human beings of that factor, interior of that express faith, each religious team has a holy doctrine, the bible isn't the purely e book it truly is supposedly the note of the Lord, Buddists and Hindus were writting about all that stuff before the bible ever existed. there replaced right into a time, thousands of years in the past, at the same time as a bunch of adult males, like an historic board of directors, sat round and determined which books might want to bypass into the bible and which books does no longer they actually merely tossed some aside because they did not like them- what were their qualifiers? no individual is prevalent with. Did they trust the international replaced into flat? sure. Did they imagine the earth replaced into the middle of the universe? sure, they even imprisoned those who stated otherwise. Who were those adult males that determined for everybody else what we would want to trust? Who ever they were, they then advised everybody that maximum of those books were written by adult males and "inspired" by God. Why trust them? everybody merely believes and by no potential questions. The bible says fairly some great things, it also says fairly some nonesense, like a watch for a watch, yet when someone kills your slave you will get money from that individual somewhat of yet another existence, because, properly, its only a slave! maximum human beings know correct from incorrect and could no longer want to study the bible to be sturdy and respectable.

Answer 10

You sort of have to be a Jew to be part of the 144,000 too. Many people overlook this fact.
Revelation 7:4.
The real story is verse 9.