On the back cover of July 15 Watchtower magazine is an article entitled “Look at the ARTWORK!” It tells us that:
"The beautiful pictures and photographs that are painstakingly produced are there for a purpose. They are teaching aids that make us think and feel. . . . What does it portray? How does it relate to the title of the article or to the theme scripture. With every other illustration, think of how it relates to the subject under discussion and to your own life.
This illustration (page 10) shows a field that has roughly an equal amount of wheat and weeds. How does it relate to the subject? It is not representative of what the governing body claims is the actual split of wheat and weeds. According to this article the wheat are ONLY the anointed Christians and the weeds are imitation Christians.
To get an accurate idea of what the field would look like I looked up on Google the number of (imitation) Christians in the world. The total is 2.18 billion. I assigned each “christian” a 1 centimeter square on in the field. This makes a field that is approximately 54 acres. Out of this we would have 12,604 “anointed” alive today. If we assign each one 1 sq. centimeter in this field they “wheat” would cover only 1 1/2 sq. yards!
In other words, it is not a field of wheat with some weeds over sown, it is a 54 acre field of weeds with one or two stalks of wheat every so often.
To better visualize the difference lets look at the difference in yield. The average yield of wheat in the US was 46.3 bushels per acre, / 4840 sq yds (per acre) = <.001 bushel per sq. yard. So if the field was as shown in the illustration it should have produced approximately 1250 bushels of wheat. However, according to the governing bodies interpretation the field that Jesus planted will only produce less than 1/1000th of a bushel. Maybe enough to make a sandwich.
One of the other statements in the “Look at the ARTWORK!” article on the back cover is that the illustrations are “to help the reader visualize the lessons”. I think it is very true that the illustrations to help to visualize the lessons. The saying is a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps that is why if you ask most Witnesses they would be shocked to find out that the governing body does not consider them worthy to by classified as wheat.