what will prevent wt or people like you to come up with the overlapping Great Crowd of 240 years
Given wt theology
What did Jesus mean by "this generation" in terms of length of years in connection with 1914?
A very interesting argument was presented by TD showing that since "the GC" survives the GT and since the GT occurs within the 1914 "generation", and since the wt seems to teach that that same GC exists before the GT, the "life expectancy" of the GC limits the length of years of the 1914 generation.
What did Jesus actually mean by generation in the related prophecy? Whatever he meant, he set a limit: NOT PASS AWAY. If such limit also governs the gc that survives the gt (as TD suggests) then also as long as there are any jw os Methuselahs alive born circa 1935, wt 1914 gt theology is valid. And if this limit is used as a rule to define the length of generation then the anointed overlap doctrine seems invalidated and generation actually means gc -not the anointed. The problem with that though is that circa 1914 when the generation began, there were no gc back then to begin with because according to wt theology the generation began with anointed and the "call" back then was for anointed, the gc did not even exist back then. The problem with that though is that in 1935 when the gc was identified, a lot of people at the convention that professed to be of the gc having an earthly hope must have been 20 years and older, born in 1915 or before which joins the second group of anointed in a siamese fashion to an existing retroactive gc being born circa 1914 who never had the heavenly calling. JW may argue that Jesus said that the anointed would not pass away not the gc but that is not possible because the gc cannot pass away, in fact they never die, surviving the gt. If the gc passes away it does not make any sense because the life expectancy of the gc governs the length of the generation because they never die -therefore anointed interlappers governing the generation length must have been born at the same time as the gc, lets say 1915 (or before unless only 20 yo jw and younger got up in the 1935 convention to profess having an earthly hope.) So, for argument sake, lets say that interlappers and gc were born in 1915. The interlapper contemporaries of the "first group" did not see the sign and according to wt theology, "this generation" means them, the anointed (1 and 2), that does not pass away, and does not directly apply to gc. But since "this generation" can only apply to the interlapping contemporary anointed as an entity, ( actually "this generation" did not apply to the first group because they were destined to die off and in fact applies to the 2nd group because they are the ones that should not pass away, hence, their lifespan defines "this generation") Problem is as TD pointed out that the overlapping anointed have a siamese twin, the gc, born at the same time. And those guys as an entity cannot die off, so although "this" has actually turned out to mean interlapping anointed, it applies to ONLY THOSE anointed of the same life expectancy as the gc. Seems that the generation that cannot pass away is the gc as an entity regardless of interlapping annointed ages -gc life expectancy rules. GC expects life -never to die and Rev states that they survive the gt of 1914 era and receive life. If they die off replaced with gc interlappers, it is ridiculous. Thus, generation is still academically valid as long as the siamese interlapppers do not pass away. That is the limit, passing away. Which means that if some jw born circa 1915 are still alive, the teaching is still academically valid. Most are pushing up daisies, but the teaching is still valid as long as the generation does not pass away. The gc is made up of not only the old guys at the beginning but everybody else that came in after. I have posted on various threads on this Forum using other parameters, that based on all of the variables, limits etc, everything must converge........
