Because the Watchtower teaches that the great crowd will live on a paradise earth and that only 144,000 anointed ones will go to heaven, Jehovah’s Witnesses like to stump Christians with questions we haven’t thought of regarding our final destination.
Their purpose is to get us to doubt what we believe and make the Watchtower teachings more credible.
We need to anticipate these questions and be prepared to respond. Continue reading
In order to show you that there are two classes of Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses will have you read Luke 12:32, where Jesus says, “Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom.”
Then they go immediately to Revelation 7:4, which says, “And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:”
They will then take you to Revelation 14:1, which states: “Then I saw, and look! the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.”
They will say that the 144,000 refers to “spiritual Israel,” the “anointed class” of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Notice that they have hopscotched you from one part of the Bible to another, asserting without proof that all of these verses are referring to the same group. Continue reading
When I studied with Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1972, they shocked me by telling me that neither King David nor John the Baptist went to heaven when they died.
That was their way of silencing me and turning me into a passive student of the Watchtower’s two class salvation teaching that only Jesus and 144,000 Christians will ever go to heaven. Continue reading
The Watchtower teaches that the resurrection of the dead will be to two separate and distinct locations:
But let’s look at what the Bible says about this. Continue reading
Although Christians believe that people have souls that survive physical death, this is not the resurrection.
The resurrection will be a reuniting of soul and body that will take place in the end times.
So far as we know, no one other than Jesus Christ has been resurrected yet.
But the Watchtower disagrees. Continue reading
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