Just in case someone out there is actually interested in REALITY and Bible truth.
The 144,000 are all natural Jews, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. They make up the root of the entire Bride Class, depicted as a tree, but that root is only 10%. (Isa. 6:13) So the total number of the "heavenly class" is actually 1,440,000.
JWs are CLULESS about this, but that was also prophesied!! In the parable about the vineyard workers, the first ones into the work are the ones who know ahead of time they get the "penny", meaning heavenly hope. The other workers work for "whatever is fair" during the work, meaning they expect to be part of the earthly class. But when Christ arrives and starts paying the workers, 77 years later (1 hour = 7 years, since 42 months = 1/2 hour; 1914-1991) then ALL of them get the penny. Essentially that means, if in 1991 you were actually paying attention and a member of the other sheep, you would have been invited into the anointed class, starting with the last in the organization going back to the first. This is something else JWs cannot explain. How is it that ALL the workers get the "penny" and thus ALL go to heaven, yet they claim they are the persecuted 11th-hour workers? So what? The 3rd, 6th and 9th-hour workers get the penny too! So who are THEY? They are EVERYBODY who is in the organization. EVERYBODY gets invited eventually into the heavenly class. BUT, they have to be awake.
When the call goes out to join the wedding feast, many beg off. Further, the original workers depicted in scripture as the "ten virgins" who nod together just before the second coming, divide into two groups, the wise and the foolish virgins. So only half the public anointed associated with JW for the most part are considered faithful. The other half, worshipping the "FDS" God fail and become the grapes of wrath! So if it is any consolation, half the seats designated for witnesses are lost at the second coming, making room for many others "from eastern parts and western parts" to take their seats. Eventually the five foolish virgins do show up to get their prize but they find their seats have been taken.
THIS IS HAPPENING NOW.
The chronology will eventually be officially and academically changed. It's no secret any more than Xenophon revised the Greek timeline and that Xerxes and Artaxerxes were the same king. ANYBODY can investigate this. The VAT4956 includes 511 BCE for the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar. There is a reason for those two references in that text; it is because it was the original chronology. 455 BCE must be fulfilled by Cyrus, period. It was he who was prophesied to rebuild Jerusalem. Having noted that, once the chronology is corrected, the second coming will move from 1914 to 1992, period. Many will then want to get into the kingdom, but it will not be possible.
And on and on.....
Have a nice day, folks!
Armageddon is on its way!!
JC
