21 questions to answer from the Bible, not literature!

by The Searcher 17 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  N.drew

  Those are great questions Searcher. I will not attempt to answer them. Most of them I cannot answer without quessing.

  The scripture in John 8 says

  31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” ....

  36 “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because my word has no place in you. 38 “I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”

  If you ask a loyal Jehovah's Witness those question they will use the Watchtower to answer them. So the truth is not in them but they trust the truth is in other imperfect men. "Therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.” That still applies to them after all these years.
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  Larsinger58

  1. Jesus sent out ten slaves to do ministering and to increase his household or knowledge. The "evil" or "sluggish" slave, unfortunately, is a reference to what happens to the WTS. The GB of the WTS fulfills the role of the evil slave organization. This is the organization that produces sheep and goats. When Christ comes he separates out the "little flock" from among the goats. He then brings them to the "other sheep" from one of the other slave organizations. So all the slave organizations produce sheep as does the WTS. So the "other sheep" are the sheep produced by these other slaves that were sent out in 1914.

  LS
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  N.drew

  When Christ came he separated out the little flock from among the goats.
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  Larsinger58

  5. The 144,000 are the natural Jews who come into the kingdom under the Abrahamic Covenant, separate from those under the "new [Christian] covenant" which primarily embraces gentiles into the kingdom. 12,000 members from each of the 12 tribes have to literally make up the 144,000. Isa. 6:13 indicates the natural Jews remain the "root" although their main tree was chopped down and lost to the gentiles. Thus the entire number in the kingdom is 1,440,000; 144,000 natural Jews and 1,296,000 "gentiles" under the Christian covenant. There are two covenants in place until 1996 when both combine under the same entity of Christ's bride. Revelation specifically notes 12K from each tribe and note these and only these master the "song of Moses", so that doesn't sound too gentile to me--and it isn't. Of course, historically looking back, 1,440,000 is much more of a practical number than 144,000, I think all will agree. Still, the Jewish "root" of those making up the kingdom is the foundation and focus and so it gets confusing. Again, Isa 6:13 proportions the "root" of the tree to 1/10th. Oh well, let me quote it:

  Isa 6:13

  And there will still be in it a tenth, and it must again become something for burning down, like a big tree and like a massive tree in which, when there is a cutting down [of them], there is a stump; a holy seed will be the stump of it.·

  The 1/10th stump is the natural Jewish part of the original Abrahamic covenant. 9/10ths come under the new Christian covenant made up of "gentiles" primarily. The two become one after 1996, the year the covenants end or are fulfilled by the actual sealing of the elect.

  LS
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  Brainfloss

  bttt
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  Crazyguy

  Oh crap not another test I hate tests, that's the reason I drop out after the third grade.
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  prologos

  wt has ALL of them wrong from the bible.
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  Crazyguy

  Ok I think I can most of these damn my bible reading. 1 gentiles 2 all who believe in Christ. 3 all Christ's followers. 4 all Christ's followers. 5 144k represent all Christians alive during the GT. 6 house of God. 7. Don't know. 8 Jesus followers. 9 Jesus death alone wiped out sin. 10 no one. 11 Paul. 12 yes. 13 all who have love for one another. 14 after bis resurrection. 15 all mankind. 18 on a throne making himself like god. 19 no. 20 jesus his English name. 21 nowhere.