Info about Governing Body required.

by aniron 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  aniron

  1) Who is on the Governing Body now?

  2) Any idea when they were baptised before or after 1935 ?
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  Joyzabel

  Governing Body
  Date of birth
  
  John Barr (b. 1913)
  Carey Barber (b. 1905)
  Samuel Herd (b. 1935)
  Theodore Jaracz (b. 1925)
  Steve Lett (b. 1949)
  Gerrit Losch (b. 1941)
  Guy Pierce (b. 1934)
  Albert Schroeder (b. 1911)
  David Splane (b. 1944)
  Daniel Sydlik (b. 1919)

  Don't have info on dates of baptism. Sorry. But what does that matter?
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  blondie

  Samuel Herd (b. 1935)Theodore Jaracz (b. 1925)
  Steve Lett (b. 1949)Gerrit Losch (b. 1941)Guy Pierce (b. 1934)David Splane (b. 1944)
  

  The ones in red were not baptized before 1935. The other 1 is unlikely to have been baptized at the age of 10.
  

  Also the list above should be updated, Karl Klein and Lyman Swingle both passed away in 2001 and so did Milton Henschel in 2003

  7/1/01 WT

  p. 31

  Ninety-year-old Brother Swingle did just what he had encouraged others to do. He "endured to the end." (Matthew 24:13) Although suffering physically, on Wednesday, March 7, he attended a meeting of the Governing Body of Jehovah?s Witnesses of which he was a member. The following Tuesday his condition worsened, and at 4:26 a.m., March 14, he was pronounced dead by his doctor.

  8/15/03 WT p. 31

  MILTON G. HENSCHEL, a longtime member of the Governing Body of Jehovah?s Witnesses, finished his earthly course on Saturday, March 22, 2003. He was 82 years old.

  5/1/01 WT p. 31

  Then, on January 3, 2001, at the age of 95, Karl Klein faithfully completed his earthly course.
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  kwintestal

  Did they announce the replacements for the deceased members? Is it something they still do? Is there a set process for choosing a replacement (other then the on your knees under the table rating system)?

  Kwin
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  blondie

  No set number is required on the GB so no replacements required. I doubt that it will be possible to fnd a male, baptized, JW, with the calling, who doesn't have one foot in the grave who has demonstrated his "qualifications" to the GB over the past few years. The last set of replacements were all either COs or DOs or had been both for some years. If you notice Ted and the recent ones are all the youngest.
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  Euphemism

  A couple of 'anointed' COs--Tony Morris and Joel Freedman (sp?)--got pulled into Bethel within the last couple of years before I left the org. They had been COs for less than ten years at the time, so I'm not sure how much longer they'll have to serve before they're considered for the GB. There's got to be a lot of resentment among the upper echelons at Bethel about young COs getting promoted over their heads just because theyre 'anointed'.

  From what I know, they're both pretty hard-line JWs, Freedman more so than Morris. And incidentally, I believe they're both in their 50's now, and received their 'anointings' in the 1970's.

  There may be others being groomed, I just know about those two because my family is acquainted with them.
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  blondie

  Thanks, Euph, for that inside info. I'm sure that the anointed brothers already at Bethel wonder "why not me."
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  aniron

  The reason I asked the question.

  If they claim that the 144,000 were chosen by 1935. Then how can anyone claim to be annointed after that date.

  What is the WT view on those who have claimed to be of the annointed these days?
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  blondie

  aniron, can I assume you are not a JW?

  Most have heard of the replacement theory...anointed who have been DF'd and died unfaithful who had to be replaced.

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  w03 2/15 p. 20 What Does the Lord?s Evening Meal Mean to You? ***

  By the 1930?s, then, it was becoming clear that, in general, the heavenly class had been chosen. For decades now, the search has been for other sheep, whose hope is earthly. If an anointed one proves unfaithful, it is most likely that a person who has long served God faithfully as one of the other sheep would be called to fill the vacancy thus caused in the 144,000.

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  w98 2/15 p. 20 Glorious Freedom Soon for the Children of God ***

  Suppose an anointed one became unfaithful. Would there be a replacement? Paul indicated as much in his discussion of the symbolic olive tree. (Romans 11:11-32) If a spirit-begotten one needs to be replaced, likely God would give the heavenly calling to someone whose faith had been exemplary in rendering sacred service to him for many years.?Compare Luke 22:28, 29; 1 Peter 1:6, 7.

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  w92 3/1 pp. 20-21 The Day to Remember ***

  What if some anointed ones fail to be integrity keepers? At this late hour, the number of such disloyal ones will no doubt be few. Reasonably, any replacement would come, not from among newly baptized ones, but from among those who have stuck with Jesus in his trials through many years of faithful service. The brilliant flashes of spiritual light that came through The Watchtower in the 1920?s and 1930?s indicate that the gathering of the remnant of anointed ones was practically completed during that period. Those ?washing their robes and making them white in the blood of the Lamb? since then have a different joyful hope. Through Christ, Jehovah?s spirit guides them to "fountains of waters of life" in the Paradise earth.?Revelation 7:10, 14, 17.

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  w70 6/15 p. 383 Questions from Readers ***

  Does this mean that, since about 1935, those already resurrected to heaven together with the spirit-begotten remnant yet on earth have made full the number of 144,000? Yes, that is the conclusion to which the evidence points. The general call for such ones has ceased to go out. But this side of the "great tribulation" it is possible for some of these remaining ones on earth to prove unfaithful. (Matt. 24:21, 22) God purposes to have, when his work with them is complete, the full number of 144,000 as faithful ones, with permanent places in the Kingdom. Accordingly, should one of these yet on earth prove unfaithful, his position would have to be filled by a replacement. (1 Cor. 9:27; Rev. 3:11) By whom? It could be by a newly baptized person, or it could be by one of the "great crowd" who has been proving himself a keeper of integrity under test up to that point of time. We cannot limit Jehovah God or Christ Jesus in such selection. But Bible examples and principles would certainly favor the selecting of the time-tested person over the novice, especially in view of the shortness of the remaining time. (Compare Luke 22:28, 29; 1 Timothy 3:6.) God certainly has a large supply of reserves among such faithful "other sheep" to draw upon if he so chooses.