by TotallyADD 36 Replies latest jw friends
I personally would never want to live without indoor plumbing.
I wouldn't want to see everyone die, even as a JW I viewed the coming Armageddon as a huge tragedy, not something to look forward to.
It really seems such a childish fantasy now.
I remember it being implied that all the brothers who got useful skills like building would come in handy after Armageddon.
I find the very question ridiculous... If God made the incredible miracle of Armageddon, I'm sure he could perform the miracles needed in order to help the survivors taking over the planet.
The local First Nations band have worked hard in the past ten years to get housing, plumbing, electricity and running water. You think they want to give that all up? They know what it is like to live without!
Try doing laundry without a machine, hot water, or detergent.
TotallyADD:
Yes, there have been threads on this very same topic. As you mentioned, after "Armagonnageddum" when everything is supposed to be wiped out, how will the survivors manage to get by?? You are right when you say that those in the West would be worse off because everything runs on electric.
There will be no infrastructure, technology etc. So, they will have a tough time of it with no sanitation, running water, electricity. Never mind about burying bodies. What about the immediate needs of people with severe health issues that require machines? What will they do?
If everything is wiped out, the survivors would be scrounging around and "looting". The landscape would look like the aftermath of an earthquake or an atomic bomb. When you think about it, even something as seemingly simple as a pencil requires a technology to produce. If all technology (and people intelligent enough to run it) are wiped out, any survivors of such a catastrophe would not fare well. Even the youngest and fittest would soon be in dire need.
The JW fantasy is not very well thought out.
The WTS has gone out on a limb and made some assertions about "life after armageddon."
So how fast do those teeth grow back, lost limbs, etc.?
*** w91 12/15 p. 12 par. 16 Rejoice in the Kingdom Hope! ***
Such miraculous healing will logically take place among Armageddon survivors relatively soon after Armageddon and well before the resurrection begins. (Isaiah 33:24; 35:5, 6; Revelation 21:4; compare Mark 5:25-29.) Then people will throw away eye glasses, canes, crutches, wheelchairs, dentures, hearing aids, and the like.
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*** w89 8/15 p. 14 par. 20 Opening Up the Way Back to Paradise ***
But what of all the war equipment that the nations will leave behind? In view of the symbolic indication of the length of time it will take to dispose of the combustible parts of them, the quantity will be enormous. (Ezekiel 39:8-10) Armageddon survivors may be able to adapt the materials of any remaining war relics of the nations to useful purposes.—Isaiah 2:2-4.
*** w63 9/1 p. 543 Questions From Readers ***
Protection after Armageddon is something else. Even Armageddon may not end earthquakes. We cannot be dogmatic and say that Armageddon will immediately bring the entire globe, internally and externally, to its finished condition and hence there will not need to be any alterations in the interior or on the surface of the earth. But should these be necessary during the progress of the thousand years, God can direct the course of these, and he can bring about the protection of his people from any harm or loss, in harmony with the promise at Revelation 21:4.
*** w62 6/15 p. 381 Avoid Unprofitable Questions ***
Likewise it is possible to spend valuable time speculating on matters concerning the future. One might ask, In what year will Armageddon begin? Will the faithful angels eventually receive immortality? Will there be factories and machines in use after Armageddon? Will men wear beards again? What will be the medium of exchange in the new world? Will women now past the age of childbearing share in the procreation mandate? If dedicated parents and children happen to die before Armageddon, which parent will raise the resurrected children, since resurrected mates will not remarry? (Luke 20:35) These are typical questions to which Jehovah has not provided answers at this time. Do you think it wise for Christians to take time from more profitable Bible study to speculate on the answers? Consider the dangers involved.
*** w53 8/15 pp. 500-501 par. 27 Living Now as a New World Society ***
If we refuse organization instructions, if we forsake the gathering of ourselves together to avoid organization and its obligations, where could we go after Armageddon? Will there be separatists after Armageddon who will each make himself his own society and live as a hermit in a spacious earth, avoiding human contact and preferring animal society? For anyone to forsake the organized congregation of those who are destined to survive Armageddon means for that one never to get past Armageddon into the New World and its theocratic system. Like Noah’s family, we must now get into the ark all together!
*** w51 5/15 p. 308 par. 7 Leaves of Healing ***
Immediately after the battle of Armageddon is over and the new world is fully inaugurated, what about those people of good will who survive the battle because of having had spiritual healing? Will they be instantaneously healed of every bodily affliction and miraculously perfected? No. This would not comport with their still being in the same human bodies and still having traces of sin and evil inclinations which they inherited from Adam. They will no more be perfected in an instant after Armageddon than the faithful witnesses of ancient time, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, etc., will be resurrected as perfect men by God’s power through Christ the King. Some of the anointed remnant of Kingdom heirs will also survive Armageddon with the great crowd of “other sheep”, and this remnant will not experience any perfecting in the flesh in an instant of time. They are looking for perfection, not in the flesh, but in the heavens, by a share in the first resurrection to life as spirit sons of God.
*** w51 5/15 p. 308 par. 8 Leaves of Healing ***
Were the earthly “other sheep” to experience physical healing to human perfection instanter after Armageddon, then for them to receive the divine mandate to marry, multiply and fill the earth with righteous offspring would mean to bring perfect children into the earth. Such children would not need the benefits of Jesus’ ransom sacrifice and the healing work of his kingdom. Of course, there will be no stillborn babies then, nor any death of mothers in childbirth.But after Armageddon children will not be born in human perfection in fulfillment of God’s mandate then. Evidently what childbearing will then be authorized will cease before the married couples reach human perfection. So their children will also feel the effects of descent from the sinner Adam and will have to exercise faith and avail themselves of God’s redemptive provisions through his King Jesus Christ. Everlasting life is not possible to man except through him. “The gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Rom. 6:23, NW.
*** w51 11/15 p. 703 Questions From Readers ***
We will continue to preach after Armageddon has started, not that more will then repent and be saved but that all will know Jehovah’s purposes of vengeance are being carried out. (See the June 1, 1951, Watchtower, page 351, second question and answer.) Similarly Jesus preached to the demons
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Thank you all for your great comments on this. When it comes to teachings by the WT this one is truly all make believe. It amazes me how many at one time believe this stuff. Yet after being out for over 2 1/2 years it just now dawn on me on how silly this teaching was. On well on day at a time. Again thanks to all. Totally ADD
