As I understand it, according to the current understanding, some of those Christians in the intervening centuries could have been “other sheep” Christians but not selected as anointed, maybe even a large percentage of them. In any case they get a resurrection and a chance to choose to serve God as most of those who have died do.
How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
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Diogenesister
SlimAs I understand it, according to the current understanding, some of those Christians in the intervening centuries could have been “other sheep” Christians but not selected as anointed, maybe even a large percentage of them.
Now that would make a lot more sense and be a far more brotherly view to take ....
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ThomasMore
Vanderhoven - you are making too much sense to be right.
Let’s simplify this: The number of genuine anointed ones between Pentecost 33 CE and 1919 is 144,000 minus the number of genuine anointed JWs who turned in time slips between 1919 and the end of this wicked system which is coming very very very very soon now.
Also, JWs don’t have to judge as long as they can add and subtract.
I hope that helps. It’s much easier when you see things through the Rosie colored glasses of a JW.
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Vanderhoven7
@Slim
That would be just like the Borg to change their understanding on unsupported teachings fir self protection.
Do you have any documation on this alledged change?
Especially beginning in 1935, when the identity of the "great multitude" or "great crowd" was clearly understood, large numbers of these began to manifest themselves. At first there were hundreds, then thousands, later hundreds of thousands, and now there are millions spread around the Globe. Gods infallible Word depicts this group as 'coming out of the great tribulation,' being survivors of it, living right on into God's New Order without ever having to die (Revelation 7:9,10,14; John 11:26) The early members of this group are now in their 60's or 70's or older. Jehovah did not allow the ingathering of this group to begin too soon. The "great crowed" including many of the earliest members thereof, will survive into the "new earth." (Survival Into a New Earth p. 185 emphasis mine)