Millions then living have all but died...... who were they?

by zen nudist 1 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  zen nudist

  since the 1930s, JWs have claimed that millions alive would never die and this hope attracted literally millions....of suckers? after all, since they have all but died, who were they? they were not what JWs claimed them to be, namely a great crowd would would survive the end of the world and help make earth a paradise. and they did not have any self professed heavenly hope.

  As a JW I always pondered this heavenly hope thing, how did the so called anointed KNOW they were such? there was no report in anything of Russell's literature of an out pouring of the Holy spirit as mentioned in the bible, no flaming tongues, no doves, etc... and the explanation that the anointed JUST KNOW because the bible seems directly pointed to them sounded very suspicious.

  A young girl I knew in the 80s, believed She was anointed and had to endure a lot of other witnesses accusing her of all sorts of things, but she maintained it and no one could shake her from that conviction... she died of some sort of cancer a few years later and all who knew her were convinced she really was of the anointed...

  it all seems like a lot of power of suggestion when you really examine it and from time to time, some will not accept the suggestion as this girl did not...but she seems not the only one to have been so affected in that time period.... JWs were told of mass disfellowshippings of even some of the anointed....this must have triggered the subconscious of some to think that there may be some openings in the heavenly chorus.

  for the majority, they obediently follow the SUGGESTION of the leadership that the cattle call had been closed since 1935 give or take a few.

  after all, they are told that what makes a sheep from a goat is the sheep do not question nor challenge Jehovah's "true" servant, the faithful and descreet slave...[read WT authors]

  remember folks--- shepherds are predators who FOOL sheep into a false sense of security.... they fleece and slaughter sheep for their own benefit...even in sincerety.
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  mizpah

  Zen:

  It was well before the 1930s that the theme "Millions now living will never die" became popular. In 1918 Rutherford delivered a talk in California with that title. Later, in 1920 a book was published by the same title. It became a well know "catch phrase" that was widely publicized. When Rutherford predicted the return of the "ancient worthies" in 1925, most Watchtower adherents interpreted that to mean that Armageddon would shortly follow. The same anticipation that Jehovah's Witnesses had about the year 1975 prevailed.

  I can remember some older members still using the phrase in the early 1950s. But eventually it was dropped like so many other ideas that came from the Watchtower. The majority of people who heard this promise are long gone. Like the explanation of "this generation" the Watchtower Society hopes that people will forget what it once taught.