Not many jws or ex-jws know this point. The WTS once said only the anointed are Jehovah's witnesses, saying that Isaiah 43:10-12 was said to the Jews as being "witnesses of Jehovah" so the witnesses of Jehovah in this time have to be "spiritual Israelites" = anointed.
@Blondi
I agree.
Watchtower has consistently characterized their (non-partaking) members as unsaved people, and who despite this, can still supposedly avoid dying by being obedient to Watchtower, or so they say.
They train their members to reject the new covenant that scripture specifically says is "for the forgiveness of sins" in Mt. 26: 27-28. JW's are willing to go along with this rebellion in exchange for the prospect of unending life.... which is the real product Watchtower has been selling ever since the 1920 tract (and subsequent convention series) titled "Millions Now Living Will Never Die".
Here are a few more references down through the years reminding the JW hopeful that they do not have their sins forgiven as a result of the blood of the covenant.... which is the only biblical way to pay your sin debt.
“These have not received the free gift of righteousness” WT 6/15/2011 p.15
“We read about faithful Christians: “They are being declared righteous by his undeserved kindness through the release by the ransom paid by Christ Jesus.”—Romans 3:24. In the context, these words apply directly to anointed Christians... " W90 10/15 p.28
"The "great crowd" of survivors of the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" will then be on their way to gaining absolute righteousness and perfection in the flesh....For this reason they will not be justified ….either now or then as the 144,000 heavenly joint heirs..." "Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 1966, p. 391
“In view of what we have seen about justification or being declared righteous by faith as being only a means to an end, so that certain ones might be eligible to membership in Christ’s body and share heavenly glory with him, it follows that all whose destiny is the earth, the foregoing ones mentioned, would have no need of having righteousness imputed to them.
After such ones achieve actual perfection at the end of the Millennium and then pass a final test, they will be in a position to be declared righteous for everlasting human life. ”WT Dec 15, 1985 p.30
No where does to bible say this. It is a lie.
“They will be declared righteous, not in the spirit, but in the flesh. They will then have, not an imputed righteousness but actual human perfection.’ W69 3/15 p. 183
"Jehovah God will justify, declare righteous, on the basis of their own merit, all perfected humans who have withstood that final decisive test of mankind." Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God, 1966, p.400
That last quote is the bottom line for JW's. The message is clear: You don't need Jesus.