Again, for some inside "anointed" stuff, knowing the GB is reading this and they had me followed.
Luke 16v26 "And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you pepole, so that those wanting to go over from here to you people cannot, neither may people cross over from there to us."
Now this addresses the messiah being part of the secret banquet. In the parable of the prodigal son, who is the messiah and has the banquet, the older brother does not enter. So there are two groups of anointed, those in the banquet and those outside the banquet. Let's just generally say these are the secret vs the public anointed ones.
In Revelation, the secret ones are hidden in the wilderness, represented by the woman, but Satan does war with the "remaining ones of her seed" which apparently he has access to, that is, the "older brother" public anointed.
The the technical way in which one cannot cross over to the other, again, has to do with what is required to be a secret member and the JIOR. So Jehovah lets them break laws and moral codes to carry out what they need to. So it's hard for one of them, say who is undercover and living in common law marriage with some celebrator of Christmas to say, "Here! The Lord has come, join me!" Because they can't.
Now while under no law, sure they can commit fornication or adultery or homosexuality or any of those personal sins and God ignores it, but God also sometimes requires just so it is clear that they are 100% dependent upon Jehovah's judgment and not any deeds. So any personal ideas of self-righteousness are removed.
But think of the conceptual side effect of this. If all the elect say are required to commit fornication once to prove their dependence on Jehovah, it also means they can't condemn any of their fellow brothers of being sinful. So in a way, it removes the imperfect concept of self righteousness, which we all develop.
But it also means you have to keep your mouth shut about being in the kingdom. You want to preach about it and help people, but once they find out you are leading a sinful life and celebrating Christmas or any number of things, then how can you recommend the truth? You can't!
You know?
The Rich Man wants Lazarus to take over and be the messiah and run the WTS. But God has prevented it, even if he wants to. He can't take over and say, "Oh, yeah, I did have sex with a man last night but God ordered me to." It doesn't work. So they just have to let this situation play out as God has arranged. In the meantime, though, there is no temptation since even if they did get tempted it's not a sin, because they are not under law.
Now this is the ADVANCED spiritual side of things. The reality. Something most will never be able to deal with, thus the "chasm" between the spiritual and the fleshly, the public vs the private organization. And ths is for the GB who by now, clearly know who the messiah is.
LS