I wonder if the WTS will ever get in their head that they can "bring on" armageddon by killing all of the annointed.
LOL
The number of anointed
by Nordic 14 Replies latest jw friends
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shera
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dmouse
Actually, the figures do not show how many anointed but how many partakers.
A JW I asked about this said that the figures were being distorted by mischievous apostates sipping when the ought not.
Which kinda makes you wonder why they bother to include the number at all.
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NameWithheld
dmouse, that's a nice cop-out for the rank and file JW to think, but the fact is that all those that the elder's don't 'approve' of are not counted, so if Joe Shmoe comes off the street and get's jiggy with the stale crakers and cheap wine he's not counted. In fact, if Joe Cooky Witless decides he's annointed and the elders don't agree, they might not count him either. So you can bet that that number reported is only those who they 'think' might be annointed.
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dmouse
You're absolutely right NWH, it is a cop out - but the JWs are good at that aren't they? I guess some congregations are playing one-upmanship; it's nice to boast about having an anointed one in your midst.
The myth of the 'bogus anointed' is perpetuated though by comments in the magazines about the 'true' anointed.
It's all a crock.
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r51785
Actually the fact that the number of annointed does not go down is in fullfillment of the bible prophecy,"Millions now living will never die." You see "living" in this scripture refers not to an individual's life span but to the life spans of an entire class of people living contemperaneously with each other. Just as when the scripture says,"this generation will by no means pass away," it means not a literal individual's passing a way but a class or group of people that will always be alive for seventy or eighty years or at least until they die but since they all won't die simultaneously than they will always be alive and therefore won't actually pass away and if they are always alive that means that the number of them will never decrease but if it actually did decrease this would prove that the bible prophecy pinpointing 1935 was indeed coming true just like the organization said it either would or wouldn't depending on light both old and new.
Don't laugh, it will probably say this in next month's WT...