Let's predict the next 10 years of "noolite"

by Awakened at Gilead 70 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Awakened at Gilead

  The past 15 years or so have seen incredible "advances" in the new light agenda of the WTS.

  There have been changes in the generation (twice!), sheep and goats, celestial phenomena, opening up the way to heaven (closed since 1935), the "composite sign", "blood fractions", along with major organizational changes, such as paperbacks, once monthly Awake!'s, cult edition of the WT, along with the reduction of the meeting nights and change to the PO nomenclature becoming the CoBoE (SSDD)...

  Some of these changes have been foreseen by posters here on JWD, or were suggested by information in apostates recomended reading lists (i.e. RF & COJ's books)... "newlight" is NOT due to new understandings of the Bible, but rather is a result of adjustments in their failed chronology due to the inexorable passing of time, and responses to pressures placed on the GB by society and the masses (such as the invention of the blood fraction concept). So based on these factors, newlight should continue to be predictable...

  Why don't we brainstorm... what new light can we expect in the next 10-15 years?

  This thread could come back to bite the WTS in its ass (from whence the newlight really comes from anyway)
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  stillajwexelder

  Armageddon is just around the corner
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  leavingwt

  I think the 144,000 will become 'symbolic', as the number of 'anointed' continues to climb.
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  stillajwexelder

  since "overseer" is becoming a no-no , CO and DO to Circuit and District Coordinators?
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  Pubsinger

  Definitely 144000 symbolic.
  
  Meetings "just" on a Sunday like the rest of Babylon the Great LOL
  
  Awake magazine disappears. WT only produces one principle book to study with new converts before baptism and The Watchtower (which becomes monthly). All other publications cease.
  
  Blood totally matter of conscience. I can see it now . . .
  "Some Christians have increasingly been led to believe that accepting blood is a matter of conscience - how should we view them? It would not be right for us to stand in judgement, everyone must bear their own load before God."
  
  Pub
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  OnTheWayOut

  I think the 144,000 will become 'symbolic', as the number of 'anointed' continues to climb.

  Definitely.

  I believe that disfellowshipping will become virtually nonexistent. They won't want the
  legal responsibility for kicking members out. They will expand the Disassociation and
  make the same announcement. If asked, "Well, they left us. We never kicked them out."

  As the publisher rate continues to drop, there will be a new way to define "member" that
  will not include reporting of field circus hours. They will want to keep moving their membership
  up while it is actually going down. This may come after a few "down" years under the old ways
  of changing the rules so that everyone can be a "publisher."

  After an ultra-hardline effort fails on the membership, they may lighten the load extremely and
  allow birthdays to be a "conscience matter" along with voting, joining the YMCA for the pool,
  sports at school, college, etc. Basically, anything that discourages younger ones from joining
  in the first place will no longer be frowned upon officially. This is only because they don't see
  any young ones joining otherwise.
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  sir82

  This one is kind of "out there", but it does sort of dig them out of a hole they've made for themselves...

  As noted above, they have "unsealed the door of heaven" and (somewhat) legitimized the "young anointed". The problem for them is that there are (likely) going to be thousands, maybe many thousands, of new partakers. What happens if the number of partakers climbs to 20,000? 30,000? 60,000? It's awfully hard to reconcile a fixed number of 144,000 selected over 20 centuries with the fact that there (may be) 60,000 (and growing) partaking of the emblems in the 21st century.

  The solution? Go back to Russell's "old light" - say there are 2 classes of folks who go to heaven. A limited number of 144,000, who will be "kings and priests", of which there are maybe a few hundred left on earth today, and a secondary class of people who are "anointed", yet who don't quite make the "cut" to be in the more exclusive group.

  This solves not only the issue of "too many" partaking of the emblems, but also preserves the exclusivity of the Governing Body and the handful of potential GB replacements being groomed in Bethel. They could say that the "few remaining ones" of the 144,000 are all gathered in Bethel now, while the big number of "other anointed" ones are not really part of the FDS, they're just "anointed" without the perks.
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  Awakened at Gilead

  So the 144,000 seems to be a consensus... something has to give since the number of partakers is on the rise, haha...

  What do you think about 1914.. will that be scrapped? Will there be noolite that 607 was wrong after all? And bring them into the 21st century? Do you think that they will keep on pointing out the 120 years issue?
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  besty

  Not forgetting their concept of 'genuine anointed' allows them to limp along without changing anything....

  http://www.google.com/cse?cx=017352027272954443469%3Ag4k3rscwdu8&ie=UTF-8&q=genuine+anointed
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  Finally-Free

  They will replace the word "antitypical" with "virtual" because they think it sounds more cool.

  W