Let's call him "BrotherX" - an elder who either has heard from the Circuit Overseer "by word of mouth" or has come to the conclusion himself about why Jehovah's Witnesses are determined to reach every person on the planet with
"the message of hope." I'll try to paraphrase some of his comments.
BrotherX explained to me and others in the congregation that we "work our territories to essentially decide who lives and dies at Armageddon." Those who slam the doors in our faces are "goatlike ones" who will face an "everlasting cutting off" during Armageddon. "Really weeding out those who will get thrown into the lake of fire without the hope of resurrections, often comes with the painful process of teaching them accurate knowledge through Bible study, baptizing them, and then allowing their true heart conditions to reveal themselves." BrotherX went on to explain that "some goatlike ones seem as sheep, but destined for destruction in that they first accept the truth at the door, study and get baptized, are used by Jehovah to bring others into the truth, but finally reveal bad heart conditions. In the final analysis these ones are usually disfellowshiped or disassociate themselves."
BrotherX believes that in the days of Noah, "worldly people" were hired by Noah and supervised by his family to build the giant Ark and gather the animals. "They had bad heart conditions but were still used for a divine purpose before ultimately being discarded in the global deluge," reasoned BrotherX. "The faithful and discreet slave class recognizes that many who associate themselves as baptized Christians really possess bad heart conditions and will eventually get disfellowshiped, or disassociate themselves, but does that stop them from being used in the interim to work the territory and gather sheep? The faithful slave knows there is nothing stopping Jehovah from burning the weeds as fuel to run the theocratic locomotive rather than burning them without deriving any benefit at all."
Does BrotherX have a bad attitude, or does the Watchtower Society really attempt to rush people into baptisms simply to provide the "fuel" required to run its worldwide preaching "locomotive" engine? In other words, does the Society believe that a large share of the 6 million Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are really like the people in Noah's day who worked on the Ark but ultimately were not allowed to board? It's a chilling mindset, if this is the case.
Derrick