m210: "anyone has a link to where this got announced
The idea of anointed resurrected warriors is old , loosely based on Romans 16:20 "--will crush satan under your feet shortly--" shortling
That is the basis for having the anointed to die before Armageddon, to have them first in the heavenly fight, then get ready for the heavenly wedding.--- and in their haste to dream this up, wt writers overlooked the fact that jesus said that the generation would not pass away [to heaven] until all the predicted things occur. They did not in the -first-, first century fulfillment.