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In part one we reported
that the Watchtower teaches that only faithful Jehovah's
Witnesses will survive Armageddon. Who will these
"faithful" Jehovah's Witnesses be and how will they enter
paradise? The Watchtower gives the very minimum required
to be a faithful Jehovah's Witness yet gives no assurance
that the minimum is "good enough" to survive Armageddon.
The minimum required is attendance at five meetings a
week, personal study for these meetings to gain the
required knowledge and a monthly quota of time spent in
the door to door work distributing Watchtower and Awake
Magazines. In addition, the faithful Jehovah's Witness
will not bring reproach on the Watchtower organization by
questioning any of the Society's teachings in public or
in private. Faithfulness to the organization is key to
survival.
Only those approved by the
organization and who find approval by Jehovah God at the
time of Armageddon will walk forth into the new earth.
What will the new earth be like for Jehovah's Witnesses
surviving Armageddon? Many of these Witnesses will find
alone because their spouses or their loved ones were not
qualified for survival and died during Armageddon and
thus will never be resurrected. For these Witnesses, the
only way that they can have a family in the new earth is
to marry another single Jehovah's Witness who also
survived Armageddon. The rest of mankind, the Watchtower
says, will be resurrected with perfect bodies that are
incapable of marriage or childbearing. A Witness will
never be able to find a mate amongst the resurrected
ones. For those Witnesses whose mate died before
Armageddon, their marriage will not remain intact. The
only ones who will be able to be married and give birth
to children, according to the Watchtower will be the
faithful Jehovah's Witnesses who were good enough to
survive Armageddon. Everyone else will be permanently
celibate.
How many Jehovah's
Witnesses will be faithful enough to survive Armageddon?
The Watchtower says that it doesn't know but does say
that Jehovah God will make sure that there are enough to
start the work that is required to turn the earth into a
paradise. What kind of work is required? Since every
building will have fallen during the earth wide
earthquakes, the first order of business for the
survivors will be to dig holes big enough to bury all the
rubble left over after Armageddon. Every city will have
fallen and the rubble must be buried and covered over
with dirt in order to be prepared for planting paradise.
Will the faithful survivors
have perfect bodies in order to accomplish such a massive
project? The Watchtower says no. The survivors will
gradually get healthier during the 1,000 years until at
the end when they finally have perfect bodies. The
resurrected billions of humans, however, will not have to
wait for perfect bodies. They will have been given
perfect bodies from the moment of resurrection. Will
these billions of non-Jehovah's Witnesses who have lived
and died before Armageddon be resurrected to help out
with the clean up effort? The Watchtower says no. The
Jehovah's Witnesses who died before Armageddon will be
raised first in order to help with the clean up work but
the rest of mankind will not begin to be resurrected
until the Witnesses are well along in restoring paradise
to earth. It will also be the duty of the Armageddon
survivors to provide food, clothing and housing for the
newly resurrected non-Jehovah's Witnesses. The
resurrection will happen over a considerable period of
time and the Armageddon survivors are expected to provide
the physical necessities as well as going door to door
teaching Watchtower doctrine as well as rules and
regulations to all the newly resurrected non-Jehovah's
Witnesses.
For the survivors will all
of this work guarantee that they will survive the final
test?
Part
3 Who will survive the final test?
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