Why is the # for annointed still in the 8,000's?

White Dove

Shouldn't it be going down but FAST? God, how old are they, anyway? Do new ones keep popping up or something? What's going on here?

Chenoa

aniron

well they increased by 234 last year. ??

The number of memorial partakers today has nothing to do with the number of memorial partakers in 1935. That is why the Society has rescinded its older view that the call to the anointed ended in 1935. It's all too obvious that the majority of memorial partakers were not even around in 1935.

why???

yea thats what i wanted to know why the numbers stay the same....its crap and no one else cares....sure they changed the 1935 rule and now ppl can be anointed to replace the ones who slipped up I guess but COME ON!!!......I GUESS IT JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT to the witness that are left since most werent around then or watever and dont keep track....its just another reason why they're bogus!

fahrvegnugen

Another reason no one cares is that most new "partakers" are assumed to be over-zealous, emotionally unstable or just plain nutters--few believe that all of them really received the "calling." (we of course know that NONE of them did )

mrsjones5

the applicants keeps flunking the test and turnover is a bitch

iamfreenow

The Society opened up the gates of heaven again a few months ago when they announced in a Questons from Readers article that the gathering of the anointed is still taking place, and they do not know when it will end. Since this gathering has to end before Armageddon can come according to Watchtower doctrine, this event has, not for the first time in recent years, been postponed again.

Of course, a more cynical person might conclude that this latest change is designed to save them having to explain why the number f partakers never seems to fall much each year, and sometimes rises.

Honesty

Cuz most of the anointed turn apostate and reject Jehovah.

That's the way it has been since the first century...

Jesus, his apostles and their immediate followers couldn’t get 144,000 converts in 1800 years, but the Watchtower Society got 6 million converts in 125 years.

Dem apostates draw people away from Jehovah.

Nathan Natas

One of the more impressive "lightning flashes" of "new light" from that recent article was that members of the anointed have NO MORE of Jehovah's spirit than non-anointed. This raises the question: WHAT are they anointed with, then? Corn oil, perhaps?

Amount of jehovah's spirit on non-anointed = 0 = amount of jehovah's spirit on anointed

If the anointed have just as much spirit as Bro. Joe Publisher, what gives the FDS thier authority and guidance?

Yes, those skillful and cheerfully uneducated writers at Bethel, led (or not) by jehohah's holy spirit, have opened a can of worms, spiritually speaking.

Time to increase the double-talk: get ready for "Pentecost II."

eclipse

Is there someone on the inside writing new dogma like this to wake up the R&F?