nbd. great thread. This emotional standing up is referred to as Vox populus, vox dei. as the people speak, God spoke.
The other shepp are Cornelius & co, not the other (non-anointed ) sheep. here is wt admission:
wt April 15, 1995 question from readers:
"revelation describes the great crowd only after the great tribulation--" so:
you can not come out of something that does not exist [yet].
In my days we used to teach the great tribulation cut short, in the middle between 1918 and Armageddon, to let the Great Crowd come out of it, from the empty time gap, (even if the greatest war disaster tribulation happened then and there, during that non tribulation hiatus. )
Now the question is, why is the GT cut short on account of the chosen ones, to save their flesh, when the anointed are lifted , called, raptured to heaven in the beginning of the Great Tribulation anyway? and:
why are these questions about the great crowd not allowed?