Yes, ann o'maly had a thread on that around here somewhere.
The WTS likes to back off from a doctrine slowly allowing bad memories, a high percentage of members baptized after 1988, and out-of-date publications to finish it off.
Unfortunately, this one should be in the Revelation Climax book and I don't think it is one of the updates.
*** re chap. 17 p. 103 par. 12 ‘Slaughtered Souls’ Rewarded ***
All the evidence indicates that this heavenly resurrection began in 1918, after Jesus’ enthronement in 1914 and his riding forth to start his kingly conquest by cleansing the heavens of Satan and his demons.
*** re chap. 38 p. 274 par. 6 Praise Jah for His Judgments! ***
It was in 1918 that Jehovah began rewarding ‘those fearing his name, the small and the great’—the first of these being the anointed Christians who had died faithful, whom he resurrected and stationed in the heavenly ranks of the 24 elders. (Revelation 11:18)
*** w88 10/15 p. 12 par. 13 "This Is the Day of All Days" ***
In harmony with this and according to all the evidence, those of the anointed who had already died faithful began to be resurrected to their promised place in the heavenly sanctuary starting in 1918. (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 6:9-11)
It is interesting that there does not seem to be anything in the publications after 1988 on this point. But notice these definite statements from the past.
*** w86 10/1 p. 14 Comfort From the God of Peace ***
The
Watchtower has long presented the view that this resurrection of anointed Christians from death commenced in the year 1918.
*** w79 6/15 p. 29 par. 10 Living Now in That "Last Day" of Resurrection ***
The spiritual resurrection of the "dead in Christ" in the spring of 1918, three and a half years from the enthronement of Christ at the end of the Gentile Times in autumn of 1914, would parallel Jesus’ own resurrection on Nisan 16, 33 C.E., "at the half of the week." (Dan. 9:27)
*** w70 6/1 p. 331 par. 22 Do You Have "Faith to the Preserving Alive of the Soul"? ***
The resurrection of the anointed Christians, who number 144,000, is to spirit life in heaven and it began to occur in 1918 C.E., after the establishment of the heavenly Kingdom in 1914. (Rev. 12:1-5; 14:1, 4; 20:4-6; 1 Cor. 15:50-55) Such Christians are "made perfect" in the heavens prior to the earthly resurrection of faithful pre-Christian witnesses of Jehovah
*** w67 6/1 p. 345 The Wedding That Brings Worldwide Rejoicing ***
Evidence from the prophecies of the Bible and their fulfillment in our timeindicates that Jesus Christ came with his Father, Jehovah God, to the temple for judgment in 1918 C.E. He first turned his attention to the members of his Bride who were asleep in death and resurrected them. They, of course, joined the Bridegroom at that time.
*** w66 1/1 p. 30 A New Priesthood Begins ***
In 1918 he began to resurrect his faithful congregation to be with him.
*** w66 2/15 p. 123 Does Peter Now Use the Keys of the Kingdom? ***
In 1918 he was resurrected to the heavens along with the other faithful members of Christ’s congregation who had died prior to that time. But Peter is no gatekeeper
*** w65 2/15 p. 102 par. 7 For Whom There Are Resurrection Hopes ***
According to indications in the Bible, their resurrection began in the year 1918 C.E., or three and a half years after Jesus Christ was enthroned and crowned as heavenly King to begin ruling in the midst of his enemies. (Ps. 110:1, 2; Heb. 10:12, 13; Rev. 14:13)
*** w60 7/15 p. 440 par. 6 Staying Awake with the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" ***
It was God’s will for the awakening of the remnant on earth to follow the 1918 heavenly resurrection of anointed ones who died prior to that time. (Rev. 11:18)
*** w60 8/1 p. 462 "Creating New Heavens and a New Earth" ***
Just as the Jewish leaders’ rejection of Jesus could not prevent God’s raising of his Son from the dead, so Christendom’s rejection of the King could not prevent God from raising Jesus’ faithful followers from the dead.So in harmony with the picture of 1900 years ago, it was only a short time after the temple’s cleansing in 1918 that the heavenly resurrection of the anointed Christians sleeping in death took place, unseen to human eyes.
*** w60 8/1 p. 462 "Creating New Heavens and a New Earth" ***
The spring of A.D. 1918 marked the opening of the temple to the King’s entrance and thereafter the resurrection of the anointed Christians who, along with Jesus, make up "the temple of the living God."—2 Cor. 6:16.
*** w59 2/1 p. 84 par. 28 Maintaining Our Spiritual Paradise ***
Since the setting up of the heavenly kingdom in 1914 and since the coming of Jehovah and his Messenger of the covenant, Jesus Christ, to the spiritual temple in 1918, the dead apostles and other spirit-begotten Christians who died faithful prior to those events have been resurrected. Jesus was used to resurrect these world conquerors from the dead. (John 6:54-57)
*** w59 6/1 p. 347 The Resurrection Hope ***
Fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that the resurrection of these body members of Christ began when he came to his house for judgment in 1918.
*** w58 8/1 p. 464 Calling the Members of the Kingdom of Heaven ***
The "man not clothed with the wedding garment" actually representsa class of people who were made manifest after Jehovah accompanied by Christ Jesus came to the temple for judgment A.D. 1918. The present time, since that year, is when the marriage of Jehovah’s Son is being consummated by resurrecting all the spirit-begotten saints who died faithful before 1918 or have since died and uniting them in never-ending wedlock with the heavenly Bridegroom.
*** w54 4/1 p. 220 par. 14 The "Likeness of Melchizedek" ***
Christ has been invisibly present in his kingdom since A.D. 1914, and those who died faithful belonging to him as members of the royal priesthood have had this "earlier resurrection" since his coming to the temple in 1918.—Mal. 3:1-5; Rev. 11:15 to 12:5.
*** w54 5/1 p. 285 par. 25 Resurrection Our Strength-giving Hope ***T
he time is steadily drawing closer when it will be a reality, not only to members of the 144,000, resurrected since 1918, but to those who will live on earth
*** w54 6/15 p. 372 par. 12 The Revelation of Jesus Christ ***
A second word, epipháneia, translated "manifestation," means appearing, manifestation or a coming to light or to view. The use of this word points to Christ’s appearance in the temple for judgment in 1918 and marks the beginning of favorable judgment, first, in the resurrection of the anointed already asleep in death (2 Tim. 4:8)
Blondie
