Resurrection Question

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  Listener

  I've been doing a little research and can't quite understand the JW doctrine on Resurrection.

  Firstly there are the annointed, in the new convenant and hence those only faithfull after Jesus time on Earth. So it is all those from Jesus' time to the time the JWs decided there was a great crowd, around about 1935 and a handful since then

  Then there is the others that died before Jesus time and the great crowd that die before the end of Armageddon starting around about 1935 onwards..

  Is this correct? If it is then what biblical evidence is used to show that those faithfull between Jesus establishing the new convenant and the year of 1935 are only going to heaven? If this is not the case and people dying during that period may have an earthly resurrection then doesn't that put into question the idea that the JWs had that from it's establishment up until 1935 all JWs had the heavenly promise?
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  cameo-d

  Those "going to heaven" will be those who choose to ascend into the light. They will loose their physical bodies as they become the immortal spirit creatures that we are.

  The evil ones will be removed from this planet. Revelation describes to you that there will still be a certain type of segregation among the peoples who are here. There will be an "inner court" of like minded peaceable people. Those who still have not advanced past their more beastly natures, who are not really evil, just not as advanced, will be outside of the community of the more spiritually advanced until such time as they develop to a certain point where they do not cause disruption.

  The resurrection, is that the dead "rise" first. Well, of course they do. Their spirits do not turn to dust. Their spirits are already elsewhere.