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Jehovah's Witnesses. Why are your Governing Body members eager to participate in war?
"14 During the great tribulation, a change will take place regarding the brothers who take the lead on earth. At some point, all anointed ones who are still on earth will be gathered to heaven to share in the war of Armageddon. (Matt. 24:31; Rev. 2:26, 27) This means that the Governing Body will no longer be with us on earth."
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I thought JWs did not participate in war.
But your Governing Body is saying they will be gathered to heaven to share in the war of Armageddon.
So basically, they will go to heaven, gain super powers, grow beards, then come back on flying horses and kill everyone who is not JW in good standing.
How does this fit in with the antiwar stance?
6 Answers
- Annsan_In_HimLv 72 years ago
That Watchtower article came to my attention just a few days ago, and I asked a Q on it here - though not on the point you asked about. (I asked why they refused to call this new doctrine a Rapture teaching, or a variation on it.)
Well, your query about their supposed anointed class descending with Christ and His angels to start the battle of Armageddon is worth responding to. Strangely, most JWs try to deflect from your query to attack all others who engage in human wars, nations against nations, tribes against tribes. I can only suppose that as this is a new teaching, they still have not got their heads around it. As they can only repeat what their leaders tell them, and their leaders have not given any further details, they're a bit short on answers.
The odd thing I note is that their Governing Body still insists that this start of Armageddon will be just as invisible as the supposed 1914 'presence' was. They may have artistic impressions in their literature of a visible Jesus descending on a horse, sword in hand, hosts of angels following etc, but none of the JWs believe any humans on Earth will see anything!
I think the real Q JWs should be asking is why their Governing Body has said they will suddenly disappear, leaving all them to take the flak, and they need to connect that with the legal action being taken against their Governing Body this summer. Why is the Governing Body so keen to vanish, saying this will happen very soon? The JWs left behind will never see them again, not even when they suppose Armageddon will have started!
- Anonymous2 years ago
Catholicism is the One True Faith. A person can know this with certainty by reciting the rosary each day with care.
- BrianLv 52 years ago
The same reason why you Born Again Trinitarians are eager to participate in war for your man-god. Zealousness.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Notice they put a cape of the 89 year old jesus this time?
I think they've been reading too many comic books. lol
Their cult leaders have always frothed at the mouth at the thought of killing every child, woman, and man who doesn't belong to their cult.
They are the most blood thirsty and vile cult.
Their slobby cult leaders couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
If the information control freak JWs mass report your question, just continue to post it until it stays.
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- Glenn SLv 72 years ago
All of the JW and all other members of false religions and those that rejected Jesus as their Lord (God) and Savior and who took the Mark of the Beast during the tribulation will be struck down dead at Armageddon and there bodies will be eaten by birds. Only true born again Christians will be taken to heaven at the rapture. JW are not Christian and will be left behind. There probably be some JW's saved because they will come to realize that Jesus is God and refuse to take the Mark of the Beast.
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Crosseyed.......by the bent of your question it is likely you will also become bird food if Armageddon happens in your lifetime. If not you will die, be judged, and then thrown into the Lake of Fire.