According to Jehova's Witnesses, how many people get into heaven?

Question

Are you just bad at math or how do you explain this?

Answer 1

In a nutshell

JWs believe only 144,000 from their membership get into heaven. The rest of their membership live in a paradise earth with tame wild animals and lots of food and everyone else who did not listen to them when they came to your door, will be destroyed by God.

(Wonders if I will get thumbs down for describing their beliefs so bluntly?)

Answer 2

Hey, everyone who wants to serve Jehovah God the sovereign of the universe gets to live!
Does it matter where you live?
The earth was made for humans..it will be perfect. It is all we know.
Every person dying in a hospital tries to extend their life. Why if it is so great after we die?
Wouldn't everyone want to die?
But we want to live...where....?
We would live anywhere if we were faced with death. But God is so good that he is going to prepare a banquet for you and a park to eat it in and a new, strong, young body to live in. He will bring back your loved ones as an added blessing.
Jehovah is great.
And since God has made Jesus the king over us and has welcomed him back to heaven he needs a government to help him rule. How loving to bring men and women from the earth who have, so to speak, walked in our shoes to judge us and sympathize with us .
God has it all worked out. All you have to do is have faith and exercise that faith and follow the lamb wherever he may go.
We are all going to be footstep followers of Christ.

So stop the fighting and bickering and get on the narrow road leading to life. It is cramped and uncomfortable right now but we do have to put up with persecution for righteousness sake. And we will get our reward...the gift of everlasting life.

Answer 3

Revelation talks about the 144,000 "who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb." This number is also referred to as the "little flock."

Who those 144,000 are is not in our knowledge, to the person who claimed we believe they are only Witnesses.

The rest of mankind (again, we don't know who these are) will enjoy life on a peaceful restored Earth, just as God intended when He created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden.

"The meek ones will inherit the Earth."

As Jehovah's Witnesses, we do not claim to know who is of the anointed and who is of the Great Crowd of ones who will reside on the Earth.

Answer 4

12

Answer 5

144,000 True followers of Christ from throughout history (Rev 14:1), most not alive now, nor in the past century.
At thier last observance of the Passover only about 1500 actually claimed to be of those with a Heavenly hope.

Answer 6

Regarding the resurrection of humans to heaven, Jehovah's Witnesses 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) after Armageddon.
(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
(Luke 12:32) Have no fear, LITTLE FLOCK [with a heavenly hope], because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom [rulership alongside the Christ] [caps added]
(John 10:16) And I [Jesus] have OTHER SHEEP, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring [to be subjects of the kingdom] [caps added]

Over whom will they rule? Over those "other sheep", 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

Almighty Jehovah God selects those few who have the heavenly calling from among godfearing worshippers, including many who were never Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, each true worshipper "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]

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

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Answer 7

144,000. It's because of the 12 Apostles.

Answer 8

IF you read the Bible it says 500,000 so by my estimation it'll fill up pretty quickly come Judgement Day.

I scalped a ticket though, so I'm cool.

Answer 9

Not sure, but I know they are all Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 10

2 , you and me.