I think the biggest problem the WTS has with the separation of people into heavenly/earthly 'classes' is that there is no way to determine who has received the heavenly calling aside from "trust me." The issue became quite clear as the number of participants first stabilized, then started to increase. Today, it is more than 20,000. They may try to dismiss it as mental illness, but that means that a very large number of mentally sick people are partaking of the wine and crackers each year. The other option is that there is a large number of JWs who are deliberately partaking when they know they are not among the chosen. That's not a good look.
The Coming Global Salvation - (Not Universalism)
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They may try to dismiss it as mental illness, but that means that a very large number of mentally sick people are partaking of the wine and crackers each year.
Good point. This is probably why they made a change in recent years separating the GB from the anointed. Previously, it was the anointed who were going to rule the world through the WT corporation. Now, it's just the GB and their "helpers".
The result is that the 20K partakers can still be characterized as mentally ill and it doesn't give the appearance that the inmates are running the asylum.