That aged well lol. Since then 4 younger GB members appointed
Remember they said this was the last of the FB and the helpers would have to take over to lead the flock through the great GT?!
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DesirousOfChange
That "New Light" thing just gets dimmer and dimmer, doesn't it!
Maybe the new GB members will be a little more creative:
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HereIam60
It seemed that from 1992 onward the congregations were being slowly and gradually conditioned to one day accept a non-annointed Governing Body. That was when the GB “Helper” Commitees were set up. The Scriptural precedent given in a Watchtower Study then was how non-Israelite “Nethenim and Given Ones” assisted the anointed priests in their temple service. In years after the number of professed Annointed Ones increased significantly and the idea began being implanted that many Memorial partakers were mentally or emotionally confused which did not bring down the numbers. Just last year there was a peculiar study article saying that Many had worried “What will we do when all the remaining anointed are gathered to heaven?” and the assurance was given that men of the ‘other sheep’ are being trained to carry on. Then at the most recent Annual Meeting it was stated that we should not be surprised that there are many anointed still here in the ‘time of the end’ as Revelation says they will be collected from the four corners of the earth. The present Governing Body seems to have never been well grounded in their own doctrines.
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Duran
a non-annointed Governing Body.
In reality there has never been an GB member that is an anointed one (one of the 144K). They have all been non-anointed/chosen.
[14 Then I saw, and look! the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who have his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. ..5 and no deceit was found in their mouths; they are without blemish.]
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blondie
Duran, I think that comment used terms that jws believe in. Not necessarily those outside the WT organization.
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stan livedeath
What’s the great GT?
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Phizzy
" What’s the great GT? "
It is either a Tautology, or something like this ? :
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Journeyman
The present Governing Body seems to have never been well grounded in their own doctrines.
It's one of the areas that they've flip-flopped over in recent years. Maybe they can't make their own minds up whether they will get an early ticket out or not! Perhaps that's one of the issues that has had the GB divided and where AMIII had a view that lost him his position? Who knows.
One thing is certain: A group like the current GB, with some members who have been there for decades (raised on the old GB1.0's foundations) and some newly arrived, and with quite a wide age range, are unlikely to be completely unified on what they think is about to happen in the run-up to the GT and Armageddon, even if outwardly they claim they are (being "united by holy spirit", of course!)
I think we can expect to see a lot more changes that seem erratic or out of the blue, like the ministry changes, clothing, etc. I think there is something of an ideological power struggle going on and it's not yet clear if the GB2.0 (or GB2.5 or whatever we're up to now) have settled on what they really believe going forward.
- Anointed GB fading out and being replaced by "helpers"? Or more new "anointed"?
- Relaxing ministry and disfellowshipping and opening the doors to more? Or retreating to bunkers and hiding from the "authorities"?
- Reassuring non-JWs that Jehovah will decide in his own time and the JWs don't judge their fate? Or demanding studies move quickly and dropping any that don't "progress"?
- Building more Halls and facilities for the numbers "flooding" in? Or selling off and merging to get "better value from theocratic assets"?
- Expanding the foreign field to reach other languages? Or disbanding foreign congregations to put multiple speakers in central congregations?
We've had all those contradictory signals and more in the last 10 years or so.
As some have said, I suspect that's because they're making decisions on the fly, depending on how the "world" reacts (governments, court cases, etc). A foolish way to proceed, but inevitable when you lack your own deep-seated convictions, as seems to be the case with the post-1990s GB.
Like a lot of modern politicians, it seems with the modern incarnation of the GB, it's difficult to see what they really believe in. With GB1.0, you may have disagreed with them, but at least they (mostly) seemed to have some kind of conviction in their religion. These days, it's like the classic Groucho quote: "Those are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
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Dane88
Stan, GT refers to "the great tribulation".
It comes form Revelation 7:14, which is talking about those that survive the tribulation that the horsemen bring to earth.
I wrote about it in my article "The Great Tribulation - Discussion".
If you are interested you can download it here: https://tinyurl.com/bibramz