Back in the
early 70s, right before 1975 we had about 7 or 8 thousand professed anointed.
Can’t remember the exact number. But at every convention we were told that the “End
Is Close” ---because---the number of anointed is getting SMAller and smaller.
If any anointed fell away, then probably someone who had been tested for years,
would be chosen rather than some new convert.
Now that
number has at least doubled???
In my old
hall there are now two young brothers in their early 20s who are partaking of
the emblems and wine and they are ministerial servants. In the adjoining hall
there is a sister in her 20s also professing to be of the anointed and her
father is an elder.
I talked to
these kids and there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with them mentally. One
even got married less than a year ago to a sister who I believe is 19 years
old. She still hangs around with the teenage kids and got spoken to by the
elders because one of her teenage friends turned her in because she was
bragging that “Once you’ve had an anointed in bed, you never go back to the
great crowd”
Anyway I
asked one of them, “Why would Jehovah pick you instead of the old brother in
your hall who is in his 80s, been an elder since the 70s, been in jail for the
neutrality issue, and pioneered for years?
He answers, “Well
I can’t answer that but I can tell you this, Jehovah reads the heart”
I find it
interesting that when they studied to get baptized, they were directed to
paradise earth. Nevertheless they of their own free will have chosen to go to
heaven and rule all of humankind. And they REALLY,
BELIEVE THIS.
So what’s up
with that? Does anyone have any clues why many are choosing to go to heaven
instead of paradise earth?