Who are the Jonadabs? Why are they important?

by integ 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  juni

  Josie - tsk, tsk

  I remember the phrase being thrown around: "modern day Jonadabs". We were baptized in ' 71.
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  integ

  Perhaps we are all "a-typical" Jonadabs of the chafflike sub-typical, anti-smite class spoken of pro-typically in a rendered subcaste type-like, wheatling, spaffage of hunterfugeistic replication of chaffling a-typical seedlings of the mid-typical Job-like protensical sub like wheatling chafflike class? Although I'm going to have to do more research.

  Thanks,

  Integ.
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  blondie

  Jonadab (or Jehonadab) was a non-Israelite who supported Jehu (Israelite king, anointed).

  So the great crowd/other sheep who support the 144,000/anointed/faithful and discreet slave are considered "jonadabs."

  Was the great crowd considered separate from the Jonadabs for awhile?

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  jv p. 725 Publishing The Watchtower ***

  For many years The Watchtower was viewed as a magazine largely for the "little flock" of consecrated Christians. Its circulation was somewhat limited; by 1916 only 45,000 copies were being printed. But beginning in 1935, repeated emphasis was placed on encouraging "the Jonadabs," or "great crowd," to obtain and read The Watchtower regularly. In 1939, when the cover of the magazine began to highlight the Kingdom, subscriptions for The Watchtower were offered to the public during a four-month international subscription campaign.