Jehovah's Witnesses: who decides who is eligible to be a partaker in the Memorial?

Question

what steps must be taken before someone is chosen?

what steps must be taken before someone has the thumbs up to partake? if i was to go to a meeting and partake of the memorial what would happen? I am a Christian saved by grace therefore I am eligible, at least in the evangelical churches. it seems to me like you need approval or something to partake - who approves and from where do they get the authority?

achtung, if I wanted to know about Hell, the paradise Earth or the 144,000 I would have asked about it. You seem to put the same thing in most of your responses, even though I have asked several questions on different topics.

In this case I'm interested in knowing about some of the mechanics of how the organisation works, as I am becoming quite familiar with the teachings.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses does not prevent any adult member of the audience from partaking of the emblems during the commemoration of the Last Supper.

Each anointed individual has apparently felt the action of the holy spirit informing him of his heavenly calling. An anointed Christian must be baptized, but there are no other earthly requirements.


The vast majority of Jehovah's 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/

Answer 2

What we should all appreciate is that the Watchtower has absolutely nothing to do with the anointing by holy spirit. It is the sole work of Almighty God.

Jesus likened the anointing of the spirit with the way the wind blows where it wants to, so that no man can say where the wind comes from or where it is going. Put another way: Jehovah picks and chooses whomever he wishes to and no man can place limits upon God's activities or fathom the complexities of the mind of God.

Answer 3

Jehovah God Does. To partake of these unworthily is worse than not partaking at all, for, by partaking in an unworthy, disrespectful way, one brings God’s condemnation upon oneself, to die with the world

Answer 4

if i were a jehovahs witness i think id be quiet, so as not to envite to many people to heaven. they beleve only so many people will fit in the exact measurments of their heaven

Answer 5

all politics are left up to the elders.