https://youtu.be/SPTBoe8_KUc?si=CNB837QQDlM1gLX0
This is a question that has preoccupied the minds of the Governing Body " When will the last anointed be taken up to heaven?" When did this nonsense begin ? Well for sometime after 1914 they believed that any anointed Christian living during the day of the Lord that started in 1914 and comes to the end of his life he is automatically whisked up to heaven without having to experience death in the grave here on earth. If that idea was to be followed to its logical extreme, there could have been a time where only 1 anointed remained here on earth. This is one of those bizarre teachings of the Watchtower.
This idea worked for a while, but when it became painfully obvious that most of the "anointed" that had witnessed the coming of the Lord in 1914 have died since we are now 110 years away from that date , this explanation was quickly faded into the background. Now anyone can claim to be off the 144,000 in which case if you reside in Bethel in New York you become the next governing body member but if you are a member of one of the thousand congregations of Jehovahs Witnesses you are being branded an idiot, an emotional disturbed individual and you are becoming a target for the local elders.
So here are the 2 verses that dictate their current understanding of the matter. Matthew 24:31:" And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity" and Revelation 19:11-14: "I saw heaven opened, and look! a white horse. And the one seated on it is called Faithful and True, and he judges and carries on war in righteousness...Also, the armies in heaven were following him on white horses, and they were clothed in white, clean, fine linen." These two verses set the current timeline that they promote in their publications, first Jesus sends his angels to pick up all his anointed from the 4 corners of the earth in Matthew 24:31 and then after acquiring their new heavenly bodies they come back to fight the nations at the battle of Armageddon with Christ.
Now keep this timeline in mind and let's consider their current understanding about the Great Tribulation which kicks in with the attack on Babylon the Great , then they attack the anointed in Bethel New York and that elicits an immediate responce from Christ that comes back to protect only Jehovah’s Witnesses. Put these 2 timelines together and there is hardly anytime for suffering or persecution. I have never read in recent publications that section that speaks of how much persecution, imprisonment and painful deaths the current governing body will have to go through in order to inherit their coveted position as kings in heaven. THat is because suffering has never crossed their minds, they expect to go from their lavish lifestyle of free pampered accommodation, big free luxurious meals and roaming the earth with their many luxurious trips around the world to a place right next to Jesus in heaven. Well this narrative is crazy, is false and outright dangerous.Well the Bible is quite clear , you want to inherit a kingdom in heaven you have first to suffer here on earth. This is the same mental illness that had taken over the minds of the "superfine apostles" in the Corinthian congregation in the first century, they were more preoccupied becoming kings in heaven than suffering for the cause. Paul had to smack them down back to reality in 1 Corinthians 4:8-13:"
Are you already satisfied(=they are full of free food you can tell from how obese most of them are)? Are you already rich(=they are everything is being paid for them, they live above the living standard of most jws on earth)? Have you begun ruling as kings without us(=yes they have, they have already declared themselves kings before their time)? I really wish that you had begun ruling as kings, so that we also might rule with you as kings. 9 For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men condemned to death, because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men. 10 We are fools because of Christ, but you are discreet in Christ(=dont they call themselves the faithful and discreet slave?); we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor(=they are like celebrities for most jws), but we in dishonor. 11 Down to this very hour we continue to hunger and thirst and to be poorly clothed and to be beaten and to be homeless 12 and to toil, working with our own hands(=when have you seen any of them working with their hands). When insulted, we bless; when persecuted, we patiently endure; 13 when slandered, we answer mildly; we have become as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now."
These verses fit them like a glove don't they? Instead of being preoccupied on how they will suffer for the shake of the kingdom they constantly preoccupy themselves on how they will leave planet earth first class before the great tribulation devastate all of their members , the great crowd. That's why they keep returning on this subject because of guilt , because they can feel it that something doesn't add up here, and I'm here to tell you that you are right and if anyone of these "superfine" apostles of the Headquarters is watching this video get ready for judgement because as the Bible says the ones that set themselves as teachers they will receive twice the judgement.
James 3:1-12 Amplified Bible (AMP) this is the last verse today:
Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will be judged by a higher standard [because we have assumed greater accountability and more condemnation if we teach incorrectly]
...I say ,if the shoe fits, wear it...