This video is a continuation from the last one in which the disciples question Jesus as to the identity of the other sheep. Imagine another discussion that focuses on a narrower question: if the disciples had wondered about Jesus’ promise of twelve thrones, what Scriptures and experiences could they have drawn on? For a discussion […]
Category: The Great Crowd/Other Sheep
When Jesus said, “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold,” what could his disciples reasonably have understood him to mean? What questions might his words have raised, given what they already knew? How might they have connected his promise of twelve thrones with their experience of Jesus interaction with the Samaritans who […]
“A king prepared a wedding dinner for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the dinner. The servants told them to come. But they refused. “Then he sent some more servants. He said, ‘Tell those who were invited that I have prepared my dinner. I have killed my oxen […]
Overview The proposal under review is that the 144,000 in Revelation 7:4 are symbolic of Jewish Christians preserved from Jerusalem’s destruction in A.D. 70, that the great multitude in Revelation 7:9–17 are Gentiles added to them, and that together they become the one flock of John 10:16. This reading belongs broadly to a preterist framework, […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught that only a special few (144,000) of them are anointed, which means specifically chosen by God to be adopted as his sons. One of their chief proof texts for this is Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 15How does that teaching compare with what the verse actually says?
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them, and they will no longer be two nations; nor will they be divided any longer into two kingdoms. (Ezekiel 37:22) Since, the year 1935 the Watchtower society has taught that there are […]
Why are the number of anointed witnesses increasing? “Speaking of the time in which we are living, Jehovah foretold: “In those days ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take firm hold of the robe of a Jew, saying: ‘We want to go with you, for […]
This is the title of an article taken from the January 15, 1981 issue of the Watchtower, pages 27-30, in which the Watchtower society relates how wrong it was for some first century Jewish Christians to require that Gentiles become Jewish proselytes in order to be saved. However, in their modern day application of this […]
(1 Timothy 2:5, 6) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—this is what is to be witnessed to in its own due time. The Watchtower society teaches that Jesus Christ is the mediator of a new covenant between […]
In part 1 which traced the historical development of the Watchtower society’s interpretation of texts referring to the calling of Christians to be the children of God it was seen that this resulted in creating a false dilemma of distinguishing between some Christians that are considered anointed and others that are not. Since 1935 the […]