Jehovah's Witnesses: How will the earth become Paradise Earth after Armageddon?

Out of the seven million Jehovah’s Witness survivors of Armageddon, I wonder how many really useful people will be around to sustain life and ensure everyone has clean drinking water and basic food just to keep them going till the planet recovers? Remember, they say only they will survive. It's an interesting question, but I don't think they have actually thought it through or made any sort of plans. My understanding is they think Jehovah will take care of everything. Of course, God is able to do that, but I don't think the individual JW's have any idea of what this planet will be like after Armageddon.

Reality will be pollution on a global scale the likes of which they have never contemplated. The destruction that is Armageddon will not only kill over six billion people, whose rotting corpses will contaminate the soil, the water and the air, it will also put an end to electricity. Without electricity there will be no energy to provide heating or cooking or power to run computers. Without electricity and computers, nuclear and petro-chemical plants and oil refineries will be ticking time bombs. Without proper management, light-end gases will dissipate into the air. Sulphur by-products will dissolve and create acid rain. Volatile hydrogen will leak from tanks and float away unless lightning ignites it. At first, emergency power plants will kick in and maintain stability until diesel fuel runs out. High pressures and high temperatures will result in huge explosions and fires which will eject poisons into the atmosphere. Mere static electricity from fluids moving through pipes could spark ignition in natural gas wells, or in oil wells pressurized with nitrogen to bubble up petroleum. Just think about what’s lurking in the Gulf of Mexico and Kuwait. A gas well fire burns on the surface, since it needs air, but who would cap the wellheads? Burning plants will throw up clouds of hydrogen cyanide resulting in massive poisoning of the air, blown across the globe by the trade winds. All those particulates in the atmosphere will create a mini chemical nuclear winter. Chlorinated compounds like dioxins and furans from burning plastics will be released with lead, chromium and mercury attached to the soot. Europe and North America, with the biggest concentrations of refineries and chemical plants will be the most contaminated, but the clouds will disperse through the world, killing plants and animals. Gradually, life would resume.

But let’s put our rose-tinted spectacles back on and assume Jehovah will only selectively destroy the wicked, miraculously get rid of all the corpses without any contamination or disease and keep all the power plants (nuclear, gas and electric) and petro-chemical refineries ticking safely away. I do not say this mockingly – with God all things are possible. But please remember, there will only be seven million survivors, scattered all over the globe. Never mind about having enough farmers and zoologists around to take care of harvests and animals, how many scientists and engineers will there be to run the utilities (water, sanitation and power) and take care of construction? And how many ecologists will there be to take charge of the pollution already on our planet, especially in the oceans? Out of the seven million Jehovah’s Witnesses who hope to survive Armageddon, how many have the necessary skills to run global projects to sustain life by producing food and energy? Their literature always shows happy families, enoying themselves in a pardise garden, but never addresses the reality of what the planet will be like directly after Armageddon. Still, it is a lovely dream of utopia, with shades of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine.

Before Armageddon arrives, take a reality check and read the book ‘The World Without Us’ by Alan Weisman (Virgin Books Ltd, published 2008) in order to prepare for survival in the event that the earth will not be transformed overnight into the paradise that is anticipated after the battle of Armageddon.

Even if it wasn't a religious thing. How long does nature take to fix itself?

If Global warming is true and its really man made, then take away 100% of Carbon Dioxide emissions, will the emissions of Oxygen that plants produce help, or will it be hurtful? WEll its obvious that Oxygen will not be hurtful.

Revelation 11:18 says "...and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”

Well, to sum it all up. When you do not take care of your yard, nature takes its course and different plants come up in its place. IT will not be instant.

And what exactly do you mean from scratch?

Is you idea of Armageddon, a nueclear armageddon? Why would God have created earth taken its Billions of years to form and placed animals and a vey perfect ecosystem only to see it destroyed by Gods creation? If you made something, a gift, and it took you a long time create, and somebody comes along and blemishes it, will you just completely throw it away, or will you fix it up again?

Actually right after the war of Armageddon sadly enough there will be dead people everywhere from "one part of the Earth to the other" as cited in the scriptures. The people that Jehovah approves of and let's live will have to clean up everything left behind. And they will have the next 1,000 years to do just that. Of course Satan and his army will be locked away under lock and key and will not be allowed to harm or mislead anyone during this time period. The ones that died in the "old system of things" which is actually our present world, will be resurrected by Jehovah and will be given the opportunity to learn the "truth" about God and his purpose for the Earth. New scrolls will be opened right after Armageddon that will give us guidance through the next 1,000 years. One important thing you must also remember, as time goes by in these 1,000 years we will return gradually to the "perfect" human being as it was first intended by Jehovah God.

Hope this helps you!

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Even when "IAM" (Jehovah) was directly involved with Moses and the nation of Israel, he did little more than provide the basics for the survival of his people.

He provided 'manna' so they would not starve, he provided light to guide them by nite, he provided some drinking water from the nearby hills.

So any jw who surmises that their post Armageddon god will do any more than what he did for his chosen people of old is simply guessing or mere conjecture.

Modern day JW do not even have the rich experiences of jw's just a decade or so ago, who organized from scratch large conventions, with full food service facilities. Now most assemblies are held in their own privately held 'convention halls' with all the creature comforts built in. Even those held in larger stadiums are now just seating facilities, jw bring their own food or go to local restaurants.

I remember back in the 60's spending months working in advance of a convention held at Candlestick Park, where we fabricated everything from kitchen equipment to huge artificial hedges that were installed behind the platform. Those jw getting hands on experience in doing things that would qualify them for rebuilding the earth. Now it no longer happens.

So one must conclude that they believe that the 'new world' will be kinda like a 'magical place', where stuff gets done with or without them. A fantasy world that is not backed up by what God has done in the past, or what the Bible says will happen. The Bible is silent about this reconstruction.

Edit: Right now they latch on to any jw who is educated (most likely before becoming a witness), they use them at Bethel and other facilities for their own self aggrandizement.

They are short sighted about the 1,000 years so soon to be upon us. They should be encouraging every single jw to get the most education possible, so that in the 'new world' they can take over operations seamlessly.

Oh no, it is much much more important to sell magazines door to door, than get educated. Ridiculous in light of what they profess to believe.

There's nothing in the Bible that in any way, shape, or form indicates that the earth would be miraculously and instantly transformed into the paradise. Obviously it would involve a great deal of work by the Armageddon survivors, and even more obviously it would entail a great deal of planning, organization,and coordination. The Bible indicates that this transformation would take place over the course of the Thousand Year Reign of Christ and his 144,000 heavenly corulers, just as the human family grows from imperfection back to the original state of perfection in that same time frame.

But with questions like this, you inevitably get a stream of the most moronic kinds of comments from the Anti-JW cult harpies that make no attempt to look at things from the standpoint of Bible precedent or from the standpoint of God making sure his people have everything they need to carry out such an important work as restoring the earth.

The Anti-JW buffoons will make comments like: "it (Armageddon) will put an end to electricity". Now how can anyone make such a ridiculous comment? Where does it say that anywhere? It doesn't. See how these buffoons will stick their little fantasies into the equation and act as if it will be fact? Absurd. Not only that, but then they'll proceed to go on an ignorant rant about "emergency power plants" kicking in and poisons being ejected into the atmosphere. Such stupidity of that magnitude will undoubtedly be done away with at the time of Armageddon, and thankfully so. Jehovah will have already protected his people from their enemies at Armageddon, so why would he then save them into a world filled with poison in the air and a near-impossible scenario for caring for things afterwards? These same idiots will say "I do not say this mockingly – with God all things are possible." and as they are writing that very comment are already planning in their heads their following statements that show that they actually ARE mocking in that last comment.

See how twisted they are? They then claim that our literature never addresses the "reality" of what the planet will be like post-Armageddon. That's just an ignorant and bald-faced lie. To the extent that the Bible describes it, and to the extent that can be reasonably thought out, our literature has very much so addressed that reality.

Some of these same morons will go off on ridiculous tangeants about college and so-called "education" of this system of things that they place a higher value on than obedience to God and following Christ's command to preach. Right.....like going to college is going to do anything for one's relationship with Jehovah. Like going to college will do anything to show Jehovah that they're putting Kingdom interests first in life. Like getting a college degree will mean anything when the great tribulation breaks out followed by Armageddon. Just goes to show the utter stupidity and the ridiculous mentality of people who place such a high importance on education of this system and low importance on obedience to God and Christ.

And as for sugar-glider's comment about being relieved that they left. It doesn't wash. If you were never involved in something to begin with, you can't leave it. They were never associated with Jehovah's Witnesses, so claiming to be relieved to have left something they were never a part of just doesn't make sense. But then again, nothing their Anti-JW cult group does makes sense.

Well I'm not a LDS but I do believe they will all have at least seven wives and they will give them a name for each day in the week, Monday for wife one and Tuesday for wife two and so on. Of course the most beautiful wife of them all will be called Friday because when you come home from work at the end of the week all tired you can say thank god it's Friday and really mean it.

Not a JW...but you doubt the Earth will become a Paradise?

Read the Bible. Cf. Matt. 19:28

And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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There will be no survivors....even if there were there wouldn't be many to fix the whole world, we would have to start from scratch, its the stone age all over again =\

grey tower put the logical thinking into it. in my little fantasy land Jehovah Witness world i think i believed God would just fix it and things would be perfect. i didn't think he would leave the mess for us to fix. lol! but when i look back.. it's like what? the world is suddenly perfect and the animals all love each other.. so if they don't eat each other do we have to eat to live? do we need water? do we wear clothes or go back to being naked like God first intended? how would we do that? wouldn't we remember what life was like before, so how can we be okay being naked? do we have to build our houses and live in colonies that support one another? do we have to go back to sacrificing things to God?

as you can see, i have more questions than answers. the only thing i can logically believe is that we don't know exactly what will take place nor do we know how. i don't know if i even believe in the Paradise Earth. but i can thank the JW's for making heaven not seem like a thing to look forward to. instead they made it seem like it would be better to live on Earth rather than heaven. so all my 24 years i have never hoped to go to heaven. what does God think of that i wonder?

i don't even know what to believe. i'm only relieved that i left.

EDIT: danman is very correct.. this is what happens when they don't believe in higher education.

***EDIT*** look i am not going to just sit here and let you pick at me. we have been over this. i was raised a JW. it isn't like i woke up one day and decided to become one. you don't know me in fact you would have no idea if you passed me on the street. also, your foul attitude makes me wonder if you could possibly be a JW or any kind of christian. i don't buy that, you aren't fooling anyone especially God and i am so sorry for you. i seriously wish you would truly let Jehovah touch your life. you need God. as a JW you believe works are part of your salvation. what kind of works do you have to show? name calling? degrading other believers? rather than reach out or be a decent human being you would rather be mean. it says so much about you. i will continue praying to Jehovah for you Joe. only He can save your soul, that is if you would just let Him.

also, higher education (even just a trade school) would be useful in learning skills to survive in the world. you could learn things about construction which would be a handy skill if you ever need to build a house or Kingdom Hall so it doesn't collapse on top of everyone inside. education does not come before God, but i think it is important to make yourself useful.

oh and my idea that i thought things would just be magically fixed.. you have to remember i was a kid. kids don't always think so far ahead. my bible stories book showed me a picture of happy people and animals getting along together.. it didn't mention anything about having to rebuild the world.. so this is where that silly idea came from.