GotTheGhost - Can you point out a few examples of things that you knew would happen?
I'm very similar in the part of seeing things wrong in the congregation at a young age, at 13/14 years old, I was finding truth and saw how the revelation book and interpretation of many prophecies were false. My family was shocked when for several months I was fixated on the scriptures talking about the disgusting thing causing desolation standing in a holy place (let the reader use discernment), and was convinced it had not yet happened and was seeking very hard to understand it. Then a year later a watchtower goes out titled, "Let the reader use discernment", in 1998, acknowledging that it has not come to pass, and is unknown. Also from the bible, I did not know what was wrong or how, but was seeing how the condition of the congregation and his people was in bad shape, and had to be fixed.
As for the spirit being poured out on all flesh, and yes if you read Pauls letters, you'll see reference to a greater calling to race for. I see 3 hopes in the bible, and still in process of sorting them out. 1. Are those from birth who were maybe even made to serve Jehovah or have a specific purpose and to accomplish certain things. 2. An invitation for 'any' to become adopted as sons, if they seek it out and 100% 3. For righteous ones who want to live life as God intended being allowed to remain on the earth. (they only need to basically follow the basic commandments of Jesus and their conscience of right and wrong)
Are their two separate annointed groups, the 144,000 from birth who are Gods chosen? Then the great crowd are thjose who seeked out the truth and got holy spirit and also got into heaven? Or are the great crowd the ones who remain after most of humans on earth are wiped out?
If one is born as Gods son, can he loose it or is he made to do what he had to? If so, then seems doubtful those ones could loose it. If that's the case, then the marriage feast in Jesus illustrations meant the israelites were first invited, many rejected, so finally the invitation was opened to anybody. OR since Jesus time, the elect/annointed had been specific selections, even from birth, since many didn't pan out, then it cbecamse an open invitation to all.
I find it very interesting as well, how even on this discusson board, certain topics are being researched and questioned, which I had been going through as well and trying to figure out. I think there has till today been much spiritual darkness worldwide STILL, and NOW is the period of time when the light is going to be getting brighter and brighter, but not in the sense everyone originally thought it would.
There is something happening, and this could be part of bible prophecy. Without giving anything away, but perhaps something a few readers need to investigate, compare the first horseman, with the army that God whistles into existance which is mentioned in Joel, and many of the other early prophets detailing the last days. First horsemen, army, 2 witnesses, Scorpion/Locusts, multicolored horses (throughout certain parts of the bible, some of them may be related to events about to happen.
Inherent Knowledge.......somewhat but much more of a complex answer then that