by I_love_Jeff 10 Replies latest watchtower bible
and unmarried, of course, since they are all virgins?
Since you are taking this all literally, perhaps you need to re-read the verses carefully.
If parts of this verse are to be taken figuratively then how do you determine the number, 144,000 to be literal?
Women=symbolic for government
144,000=real number of MEN (anointed) who will be in Heaven
How do the Jehovah's Witnesses determine which is real and which is symbolic? Strange reasoning indeed.
I posted this question on Yahoo Answers by the way. This is meant for Jehovah's Witnesses and Ex Witnesses on here : )
It's not good to argue with GB.......they are directed by Jehovah....they claim!!!
144 000 can be thought of as exact, because it is shown to be made up of smaller numbers 12x12000 again of literally named tribes -Dan ; -Ephraim but
+Josep + Levi, all llteral persons. Rev.7
Since the Revelation is supposed to happen now, in the "Lords Day" since 1914 !,
and woman legally marry woman, what is the problem with the lady virgins?
The 144 K practised abstinence, either from bliss or the governments, UN, their choice.
If it really matters.
what a crock!
@prologos
Women have been marrying women for thousands of years. Same goes for men and men.
news to me, but it must be true to make Rev 14 work.
if it all is real and matters.
More proof revelation is talking about Nero...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_marriage
A same-sex marriage between the two men Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz in the Galician municipality of Rairiz de Veiga in Spain occurred on 16 April 1061. They were married by a priest at a small chapel. The historic documents about the church wedding were found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. [70]
Great catch in the OP title!
From a spiritual perspective I have come to conclude "women" here means any and all "religion" which is indeed a snare and a racket.
The same as "harlot" and "wine" in the context of exposing her (Babylon's) spiritual blindness, confusion, inebriation, nakedness, fornication and insanity.
Exposing religion and revealing its antithesis and nemesis (the unabridged gospel): Unveiling/Revelation/Apocalypse/Armageddon.
(Why does the "true religion" secretly blind its followers to the "Good News" according to Paul, Moses, Isaiah and Psalms?)
If the WBTS insist that the 144, 000 are male Jehovah's Witnesses then they all have to be Jews. For the 144, 000 are from the tribes of Israel. But they do not teach this so they are false prophets. I don't listen to them myself. I prefer to follow the Bible.
