A couple of years ago the "current understanding" was that you must be a JW in "good standing" or a "study" who was progressing towards baptism in order to survive the great day of Jehovah.
Does anyone know if this is in any publications. I know it came off the platform but am not sure if it was ever published in any form by the organization. Thanks.
Is this a current teaching?
by Honesty 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
-
Honesty
-
AK - Jeff
After explaining the reason for God’s apparent slowness, Peter sounds this warning: "Jehovah’s day will come as a thief." That is to say, the day of accounting will come just when people are not expecting it. Then, in the following verses, Peter points to the marvelous prospect for those manifesting "holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion," namely, that they may survive into God’s promised "new heavens and a new earth."—2 Peter 3:10-13.
This should make us appreciate all the more that God’s judgment has not yet come. His patience has made it possible for us to come to know his purpose and to adjust our lives in order to receive his promised blessings. Should we not view "the patience of our Lord as salvation," as Peter argues? (2 Peter 3:15) There is, however, another factor in God’s patience.
June 1, 1999 Watchtower Page 5
Yep - that is the thinking. They dance around it a little - but that is what they mean. There may be more direct statements somewhere.
Jeff
-
Honesty
Thanks Jeff.
I've got that one.
I really need something that is direct and not some three-step funky monkey shuffle that the Watchtower Society is so adept at when it comes to printed material.
-
blondie
*** w57 7/1 p. 416 Announcements ***.
It is only true worshipers of Jehovah today, those who learn of God’s gracious provision for safety and act on it, who will receive his protection at the war of Armageddon. To be under that protection means life; to be outside it means death.
*** w89 9/1 p. 19 par. 7 Remaining Organized for Survival Into the Millennium ***
Only Jehovah’s Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil. (Revelation 7:9-17; 2 Corinthians 4:4) They will make up the "flesh" that Jesus Christ said would be saved through the worst tribulation of all human history.
-
truthsetsonefree
However, this is what they say on their Website for public reading: "Do they believe that they are the only ones who will be saved? No. Millions that have lived in centuries past and who were not Jehovah's Witnesses will come back in a resurrection and have an opportunity for life. Many now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before the "great tribulation," and they will gain salvation. Moreover, Jesus said that we should not be judging one another. We look at the outward appearance; God looks at the heart. He sees accurately and judges mercifully. He has committed judgment into Jesus' hands, not ours.—Matthew 7:1-5; 24:21; 25:31." http://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
-
blondie
now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before the "great tribulation," and they will gain salvation.
What does the WTS mean "take a stand for truth"?
Be baptized as one of Jehovah's witnesses?
*** Worship the True God (2002) chap. 13 p. 124 par. 10 A Great Crowd Before Jehovah’s Throne ***
Those of the great crowd are pictured as being marked for survival. (Ezekiel 9:4-6) "The mark" is the evidence that they are dedicated to Jehovah, baptized as disciples of Jesus, and involved in cultivating a Christlike personality. They obey the "voice out of heaven" that says regarding Satan’s worldwide empire of false religion: "Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues."—Revelation 18:1-5.