Not only that, but did you realise they're even to scared to share communion because they think that only the 144,00 can partake.
In John 6:53-54, Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day," (NASB).
Today if you read this, choose life or get screwd by the JW teaching...the choice is yours.
After all, why aren't they keeping it a secret so as to keep numbers down and get a better chance, lol.
2007-04-25 06:24:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.carm.org/jw/supper.htm
2007-04-25 06:25:42 · update #1
To be a witness on earth is a great calling, but to spread a mixed up version of the truth seems a waist of time.
2007-04-25 06:42:05 · update #2
Thanks for all the info!
Why don't you partake in Communion, have you no life in you? ...it's about respecting the work of Christ in your life rather than harping on about your own reasons for avoiding it.
2007-04-25 22:47:25 · update #3
I think they believe that they can earn their way into being one of the 144,000 if they tell everyone about their religion.
2007-04-25 10:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by lix 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
First, I'd like to ask you why did God make the earth?
Once you realize that the earth is not going anywhere, you realize that God's original purpose for it will once again be attained. The earth will be a paradise and the righteous ones, or the Great Crowd with no number, will remain on it. Psalms 37:9-11.
The 144,000 are chosen by God and are the ones who have the heavenly hope as in Revelation 14:1. These are the ones who should partake.
When the 11 apostles partook, they were these spirit brothers of Christ. When Jesus commemorated this event, he told them to partake, so likewise, other first fruits - or spirit brothers/sisters of Christ - should partake.
2007-04-25 06:31:50 · answer #2 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Yet another misconception.....Jehovah's witnesses believe that and the bible proves that there are only 144,000 with a HEAVENLY reward in store....All the rest that have proved themselves faithful will have the hope of EARTHLY paradise.......If you will, please say the model (LORD"S) prayer....PAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, now when you get to "let your will be done on earth AS IN HEAVEN", what does that mean to you? We don't want it to be a secret...we want YOU to have eternal life here on earth. Please understand that Matthew 24:14 says that the good news must be preached to all the inhabited earth. That is what we do. trying to preach to ALL the inhabited earth...we don't want the numbers down....those of us that are witnesses know whether we have a heavenly hope by means of the spirit....the wages of sin is death and we want you here on the paradise earth as well......lemme add that NOT ALL OF JW"S WILL BE HERE! that is where ppl get it all wrong at....they tyhink we say that we are the only ones that will survive.....like i said, some of US wont
2007-04-25 06:37:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
What everybody else in simple terms won't be able to get into their heads is that the Bible speaks of a much greater suitable team with out cut back on numbers who will proceed to stay in the international continuously as area of God's unique objective for humanity. Adam grew to become into never promised if he lived some years in the international, he might get to bypass to heaven. as a substitute, he grew to become into promised he might stay alive in the international for as long as he obeyed God's one regulation for them. Going to heaven grew to become into never an selection till the death of Jesus Christ. (Luke 22:28-30) Jehovah's Witnesses do not want all people to die. in spite of the shown fact that all of us comprehend and settle for the Bible's suggestions that the overwhelming majority will refuse to settle for Jehovah's standards. they're going to wish devil and death. everybody might desire to get carry of the prospect to settle for or refuse Jehovah's supply for existence. The command given us via Jesus at Matthew 24:14 and 28:19-20 demands a coaching and warning artwork to be performed rather now with the intention to make their selection widely used to the angels. mutually as we human beings supply to assist the place ever we are able to, the genuine selection is made between Jehovah and the guy for existence. particular, Jesus is our chief, yet our chief interior the worship of Jehovah God, his Father.
2016-10-30 06:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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,
Actually, Jehovah's Witnesses expect that many thousands of the 144,000 have never set foot in a Kingdom Hall or read 'The Watchtower'.
The fact is that 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
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]
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2007-04-25 08:15:19 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
read revelation. it talks about the 144,000 anointed going to heaven. in the bible it also talks about the meek shall live forever on a paradise earth. Jehovah did not change his mind. it will not be a earth without wicked people on earth. it will be a paradise that Adam and Eve lost. Jehovah God cannot lie. www.watchtower.org
2007-04-25 06:51:09 · answer #6 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The majority get to live forever in paradise on earth.
That's the one part of the religion I found appealing
2007-04-25 06:29:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Harpazo = Rapture
END-TIME BIBLE PROPHECY
The Messiah Lord Jesus said BIRTH PANGS would signal the time of the end (Matthew 24:8). There are NINE birth pangs, they are all PRE-TRIBULATIONAL and the 1st three already occurred.
The first birth pang was worldwide conflict coupled with famines and earthquakes (Matthew 24:7-8). Worldwide conflict was fulfilled in 1914-1918, major famines happened in 1918-1921 and most of the world’s major earthquakes began to occur since 1900.
The second birth pang was the restoration of a Jewish State (Ezekiel 20:33-38; Ezekiel 22:17-22; Ezekiel 36:22-24; Zephaniah 2:1-2). This was fulfilled in 1948.
The third birth pang was Jewish control of the Old City of Jerusalem (Revelation 11:1-2). For the third Jewish Temple (Tribulation Temple) to be rebuilt, Jerusalem needs to be under Jewish control and this was accomplished in the Six Day War in 1967.
The fourth birth pang will be the Ezekiel 38 war. Russia, allied states of Iran, Ethiopia, Somalia, Germany and Armenia will invade Israel. God will miraculously destroy the invading army by earthquake, civil war among the invading soldiers, pestilence, blood, flood, hailstones, fire and brimstone. This will bring a revival in Israel where many Jews will turn to the Lord, and Israel will spend 7 years and 7 months burying the bodies and burning for fuel the military equipment left behind (Ezekiel 39:9-16).
The 5th birth pang will be the development of a one world government (Daniel 7:23-24).
The 6th birth pang will be the splitting of the one world government into 10 kingdoms and this Ten Kingdom Stage will continue until mid-Tribulation (Daniel 7:24).
The 7th birth pang will be the revelation of the Antichrist (II Thessalonians 2:1-3; Daniel 7:24).
The 8th birth pang will be a period of peace and false security that will be shattered by the Tribulation (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3).
The 9th and final birth pang before the Tribulation is the signing of the 7-year covenant between Israel and the Antichrist. THIS EVENT IS WHAT BEGINS THE (7-year) TRIBULATION - NOT THE RAPTURE!
The Rapture of the Church (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) is also a pre-tribulational event (Luke 21:34-37; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 19:6-8). The fact that the Church is not mentioned in any of the Tribulation Scriptures proves the Rapture is pre-tribulational. All raptured Christians will receive glorified bodies (Romans 8:22-23; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54)) and it can happen at any second.
THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES IN REVELATION 6-9 AND 17)
The Ministry of 144,000 sealed Jewish believers will bring many throughout the world to accept Christ.
There will be a powerful Ministry of Two Witnesses who will also be anointed Jewish believers.
A one world religious system (Babylon the Harlot) will rule. Under this one world religious system, many who are saved during the Tribulation will suffer persecution and death.
The Political system of the 10 kings of the one world government will continue.
During the first half of the Tribulation there will also be war, worldwide famine, death (1/4 of the world’s population will die), a huge earthquake, a blackout and a meteor shower. 1/3 of earth’s dry surface will be destroyed, 1/3 sea life and salt water will be destroyed, a fallen angel called Wormwood will make 1/3 of earth’s fresh water bitter, 1/3 of earth’s natural light sources will be destroyed, there will be another blackout and demons in the form of “locust-scorpions” will come up out of the abyss led by Abaddon their king and they will inflict harm and pain for five months upon those who are not sealed by God (unbelievers). Another demonic invasion will occur and the demons involved will be led by four fallen angels who will be released from the Euphrates River and this army will kill 1/3 of the earth’s population.
MID-TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES IN REVELATION 10-14 AND 17)
The Antichrist will war against the 10 kings, and during the war the Antichrist will be killed.
Satan will be cast out of the atmospheric heavens onto earth and will resurrect the Antichrist.
The Antichrist will kill 3 kings (the kings of Syria, Egypt and Mesopotamia) and the 7 other kings will submit to him.
The Antichrist will kill the Two Witnesses in Jerusalem and the wicked people will celebrate this event. Three and a half days afterwards, God will resurrect the Two Witnesses and take them up to Heaven and the people who celebrated will become terrified. The city of Jerusalem where the murder of the Two Witnesses occurred will then suffer an earthquake which will kill 7,000 people.
The False Prophet will receive from Satan the power to perform great miracles and will deceive many. The False Prophet will command all people to worship the Antichrist and have persons create an image to the Antichrist. The False Prophet will use his satanic powers to give it life and the ability to speak. The False Prophet will cause those who refuse to worship the Antichrist and the image to be killed.
The False Prophet will issue his own counterfeit seal known as the Mark of the Beast and it will be placed on all those who surrender to the Antichrist’s authority and accept him as god. Those who refuse to take this mark will not be able to buy or sell. Those who take this mark will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire.
The Antichrist will break the seven-year covenant he made with Israel, cause the sacrifices to stop, sit in the Jewish Temple, declare to the world that he is really God and set up an idol called the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple (Daniel 9:27; Daniel 12:11; Matthew 24:15-16; 11Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:11-15).
Through the Antichrist and the False Prophet, Satan will attempt to destroy the Jews once and for all but he will fail because 1/3 of the Jews will succeed in fleeing into the wilderness. These Jews who escape will accept the Lord Jesus as their Saviour during the Tribulation (Zechariah 13:7-9) and while they are in hiding, God will miraculously provide for them (Zechariah 13:8-9; Isaiah 41:17-20). Divine intervention will also destroy the pursuing army.
THE SECOND HALF OF THE TRIBULATION (SUPPORTING VERSES FOUND IN REVELATION 15, 16, 18, 19, 20)
In the second half of the Tribulation, those with the Mark of the Beast will suffer skin sores, the remainder of sea water and fresh water will be destroyed, the sun will cause terrible burns and the wicked will blaspheme God. There will be yet another blackout and persons will suffer gnawing pains.
Babylon will be the center of world economy and political system but Babylon will be swiftly destroyed by fire and become uninhabitable for man.
The Antichrist will locate the Jews who sought refuge in the wilderness and surround them with his armies to wipe them out. The Lord Jesus will then descend from Heaven with His angels and Saints. He will come with great glory riding upon a horse and will destroy the Antichrist, the False Prophet and all of their armies. After this, a loud voice will cry out “It is done!” followed by the greatest earthquake in the earth’s history and hail weighing 120 pounds will fall.
At the end of the Tribulation, there will be another blackout, the stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken (Matthew 24:29), the Antichrist and the False Prophet will be thrown into the eternal Lake of Fire and Satan will be cast into the Abyss and bound for 1,000 years.
THE MILLENNIUM
The Lord Jesus will reign over the entire earth during the Millennium. The Jewish and Gentile believers who survive the Tribulation will go on to populate the Millennium. Believers who died before and during the Tribulation and believers who were raptured will be present on earth during the Millennium and because they will have glorified bodies they will not reproduce. All believers will be given special tasks by the Lord Jesus (Revelation 20:4-6). There will be no wars (Isaiah 2:2-4), animals will return to the Edenic state and become vegetarians (Isaiah 11:6-9), people will not labour in vain but eat what they plant and inhabit what they build, there will be renovations in the heavens and earth and there will be righteous and unrighteous children born during the Millennium (Isaiah 65:17-25).
At the end of the Millennium, Satan will be loosed from the Abyss and will deceive and gather the unrighteous for a war against the righteous. This will be his final attempt to destroy the righteous and when the unrighteous of the Millennium surround the good people, God will send fire down from Heaven which will suddenly and massively annihilate all of the wicked people. Satan will then be cast into the Lake of Fire where he will remain in torment for eternity (Revelation 20:7-10).
THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT
The Great White Throne Judgment will be the next main event. The old heavens and earth will be done away with and all will stand before God’s throne to be judged (Revelation 20:11-12). Those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of Fire which will be their final and eternal abode (Revelation 20:14-15).
THE ETERNAL ORDER (REVELATION 21 AND 22)
Those whose names are found in the Book of Life will enjoy paradise with God forever. The heavens and earth will be made new and the New Jerusalem will come down upon the earth making the earth like Heaven. All curses from the fall will be removed and the earth will be inhabited by the Triune God (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit), all angels and all of the righteous. The seas, moon, night and sun will be done away with and the glory of God will illuminate the earth. The River of Life will flow from God’s throne, the Tree of Life will bear health-giving fruits and leaves and the name of Jesus will be on the foreheads of all of the righteous.
God’s Plan of Salvation for Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkDk1GZ7do
2015-03-25 14:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-19 12:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by douglas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another cut and paste question. So here's a cut and paste answer
This question is getting old. Before asking a repeatedly dumb question, look up the answers to the past ones or look the answers on the watchtower web site. You know fully well the reward is everlasting life on earth. Those who go there will be servants to oversee man. Here’s 25 of them, there is another 60+ in just the last six months, if you care.
This one tries to say that the 144,000 have the mark of the beast.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjQoxWdjx3SN5o0OOflvv68jzKIX?qid=20060715080348AANu452
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al5Yoxbp_d7KoLEIDnLWPIQjzKIX?qid=20060815074350AAIMcuR
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsgdQqmWhAvoGurKJBRvBMEjzKIX?qid=20061220120616AA7vfBG
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApLWGKBiABZ_GwewuDXBG7EjzKIX?qid=1006042631271
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am1Pbdc21mBDzL5HJWzw5KMjzKIX?qid=20060722184527AAmXKfU
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtEgAMTENAt4z1NFSbiMD0kjzKIX?qid=1006010405082
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AknL8ptDkf0fI7_y9K33yu8jzKIX?qid=1006041703088
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoCthUeDtK4JvtH9GNPbiAEjzKIX?qid=20061202064642AAvRQfG
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AttCqNy4hVgjt8YN5Z0rl.8jzKIX?qid=1006022000140
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsGmi_HEPqNsFUAuYDYhT34jzKIX?qid=20061009191346AAAuj8w
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2007-04-25 21:41:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What in the world are you talking about? The Bible doesnt say that only 144,000 will get in, but that 144,000 will become witnesses during the days of Tribulation.
I dont know what the JW teaches, but study for your self and cross study other ways too. never follow one denomination.
2007-04-25 06:31:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋