by therevealer 48 Replies latest watchtower bible
Through the new covenant, Jehovah makes blessings
available to many by means of a few. Those in
the covenant are few, a mere 144,000. Through
them, millions from all nations will be blessed with
everlasting life in an earthly paradise. Some who are
in the new covenant serve Jehovah on earth today.
They alone properly partake of the bread and the
wine because the cup "means the new covenant."
Who needs Jesus when ya got them 144,000 11,000+ 7 gb members
All credit goes to the "god of religion" for the Sanhedrin as the mediator of apostate religionists.
Could you provide the issue and page number for this quote Revealer?
w3/1/12 page 17 says this Vanderhoven. Its up on jw.org.
So everlasting blessings and life come through the remaining members of the 144,000, NOT through Jesus!!!!!!!
I guess when Jesus told his apostles, "I am the way and the truth and the life," he actually meant "We are the way..." (John 14:6).
Who needs Jesus?
In the Governing Body's name we pray, Amen.
Thank you FactFinder.
Yes, you can believe in and trust Jesus as your Saviour all you want. Won't help you at all at Armageddon without submission to the only channel of truth known as the GB of Jehovah's Witnesses.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him and finds the right organization and believes everything the GB says, will not perish at Armageddon."
Talk about adding to scripture.
" I guess when Jesus told his apostles, "I am the way and the truth and the life," he actually meant "We are the way..." (John 14:6)."
Hello there Darth rutherford,
It seems to me they have turned the GB into gods in which they worship in order to recieve salvation
Well its officially the 144,001 doctrine, the priests cast the blessings of the Messiah on the masses (see in Catholicism the use of the Apergillam for sprinkleing the communion holy water) and they got the idea from the Levite's ritual (Atonement ritual, Yom Kippur).
(Genesis 22:17-18) . . .. 18 And by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.’”
The WTS has taught that the primary seed is Jesus and the 144,000 make up the se condary seed.
(Galatians 3:26-29) 26 YOU are all, in fact, sons of God through YOUR faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of YOU who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for YOU are all one [person] in union with Christ Jesus. 29 Moreover, if YOU belong to Christ, YOU are really Abraham’s seed, heirs with reference to a promise.
*** w09 8/15 p. 4 par. 6 Everlasting Life on Earth—A God-Given Hope ***Because of Abraham’s outstanding faith, Jehovah made a covenant with him regarding his offspring, or “seed.” (ReadGenesis22:18.) The primary part of the “seed” proved to be Jesus Christ. (Gal. 3:16) Jehovah had told Abraham that his “seed” would be multiplied “like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore”—a number unknown to Abraham. (Gen. 22:17) However, later that number was revealed. Jesus Christ and the 144,000, who will rule with him in his Kingdom, constitute the “seed.” (Gal. 3:29; Rev. 7:4; 14:1) The Messianic Kingdom is the means by which “all nations of the earth will . . . bless themselves.”
*** w53 10/15 pp. 618-619 Sanctification, a Christian Requirement ***Sanctification primarily concerns those Christians who have a heavenly hope, those who, because of their faith and dedication to do God’s will in the “acceptable season,” have been declared righteous by Jehovah God and given a heavenly hope. (Rom. 5:1; 2 Cor. 6:2, NW) They are referred to as a “little flock”; as “the bride, the Lamb’s wife”; as of “Abraham’s seed,” which is to bless all the families of the earth. (Gen. 22:17, 18; Luke 12:32; Gal. 3:29; Rev. 21:9, NW) They are called a little flock, for their number is limited to 144,000, as Revelation 7:4-8 and 14:1, 3 clearly show. It is only to these that Paul’s words are directed: “Pursue peace with all people, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.”—Heb. 12:14, NW.
*** w55 5/15 p. 308 par. 26 Jehovah’s Channel of Communication ***Abraham was given the great promise supported by an oath of God that through Abraham’s seed (Christ Jesus and his 144,000 Kingdom joint heirs) all the families of the earth would be blessed in a new world of righteousness. (Gen. 22:17, 18)
*** w98 2/1 pp. 14-15 par. 8 Greater Blessings Through the New Covenant ***Paul told the Galatian Christians, of whatever background: “If you belong to Christ, you are really Abraham’s seed, heirs with reference to a promise.” (Galatians 3:29) For those Galatians, the blessing through Abraham’s Seed included their being participants in the new covenant and also being coheirs with Jesus, associates with Jesus in the seed of Abraham. We do not know the population of ancient Israel. We know only that it came to be “like the grains of sand that are by the sea for multitude.” (1 Kings 4:20) We do, however, know the final number of Jesus’ associates in the spiritual seed—144,000. (Revelation 7:4; 14:1) Those 144,000 come out of “every tribe and tongue and people and nation” of mankind and share in administering to yet others the blessings of the Abrahamic covenant.—Revelation 5:9.
*** w85 2/15 p. 13 par. 12 Nisan 14—A Day for Remembering ***The parties to that covenant are Jehovah God and his spiritual sons, who collectively make up spiritual Israel. Each member is chosen by God. Jesus is the Mediator of the covenant, by which he assists those 144,000 covenant members to become part of the seed of Abraham. (Jeremiah 31:31-34; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 8:10, 12; 12:22-24; Galatians 3:29) These are also the ones that Jesus takes into a ‘covenant for a kingdom.’ As a result, they will eventually be used along with their King Jesus Christ to channel Jehovah’s blessings of life to all the families of the earth.—Luke 22:28-30; John 6:53; Revelation 5:9, 10; Genesis 22:15-18.
*** w67 10/15 p. 637 A Real Fountain of Lasting Life ***Jesus Christ and his 144,000 associates are the Seed of Abraham by means of whom all the families and nations are to be blessed, but the prophecy says that they will “bless themselves.” This proves that action must come on the part of those being blessed. (Gal. 3:8, 16, 29; Gen. 22:17, 18)
