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13-01-2013 8:37 AM
Hi Bargains, hope I'm not stepping on your toes, but this may give you more time to go canvassing. 😄
Algas and Creeky. The passage below may help you with your queries:
However, death is not the end of everything: each person can be remembered by God and eventually be resurrected.
Witnesses say that this is clearly stated by Jesus:
The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear [Jesus'] voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
John 5:28-29
End times
Much of Witness belief concentrates on the 'End Times', and Witnesses have pointed to a number of past dates as Biblically significant, though they have not stated in terms when the end of the world, or 'conclusion of the system of things,' is expected.
Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36
Witnesses believe that the end times started in 1914, but they realise that most human beings were unaware of this.
They believe that when 'the End' finally comes only 144,000 human beings will go to Heaven and rule the Earth from there with Christ - these are known as the anointed.
The anointed
Becoming an anointed person is not something that is done by voting or selection. Instead, the anointed one knows directly from God that he or she has been chosen.
Only those who feel themselves to be anointed partake of the bread and wine at the annual Memorial of Christ's death.
The majority of Jehovah's Witnesses are not anointed and will not spend eternity in heaven. They will spend eternity in paradise on Earth.
In fact not only Jehovah's Witnesses but billions of others will have everlasting life on earth and thus fulfil God's original plan for humanity when he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/witnesses/beliefs/beliefs.shtml