Vanderhoven7 : What is the current teaching re 2018?
Should that be 1918?
Vanderhoven7 : The anointed dead were raised to heavenly life in the spring and the churches of Christendom were rejected in the fall of [1918]
No. That is no longer current Watchtower understanding.There is a full discussion in the Watchtower of January 1, 2007 which says (in part):
Could it, then, be reasoned that ...the resurrection of his faithful anointed followers began ... in the spring of 1918? That is an interesting possibility. Although this cannot be directly confirmed in the Bible, it is not out of harmony with other scriptures. ... God’s Word does not disclose a precise date for the first resurrection, but it does reveal that it occurs over a period of time, during Christ’s presence.
As regards the rejection of the churches of Christendom, Jesus inspected and cleansed the temple between 1914 and the beginning of 1919. So it was only in 1919 that it became evident Babylon the Great had fallen. (See Watchtower March 2016 and Watchtower July 15, 2013).