Thaks for the replies all!
long and short of it all...if the numbers keep going up every year, as opposed to going down, it's going to be destructive. I am VERY interested, at the memorial this year to hear if "the number of partakers keeps going down" is brought out like it all the other years that i have been present. After all, the number going down, has always been an indicator that "soon there will be no more partakers and hence the end must actually BE HERE!". I wonder if it will be a noticebly absent (at least to some) point that doesn't support doctrine, the way it used too. Anyone here know what i mean? I get lost in my words all the time.
Nark. What you are saying, I have wondered the point you are making many times myself. Non Christian religions must have their own "form" of the Holy Spirit as well yes? Perhaps called something else. I am short on time to google, cut and paste, but have made mental notes of it before. I have an old relative that is one of the "annointed". I will note that he/she isn't a whack job, and it's because of this that I believe them. Growing up as a dub, it was just a given that they were one of the 144,00. In more recent past years, I have deduced that since he/she has a calling, perhaps she is still yet unaware of what EXACTLY that calling actually is, or entails. Does this make sense to you? I mean, one may have a "calling", but does anyone really know what it means...exactly? It's a spirit calling some apparently get and we reside here on earth...
lurk3r