Chapter 7 -- The Resurrection
The book says this:
"Jehovah promises that the dead will live again". Several pages are spent on the account of Lazarus’ resurrection. (See John Chapter 11). This is just one of several occasions when Jesus raised humans from the dead. We can learn that the dead are really sleeping because none of them came back and spoke about an after-life. "The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth" because there were eyewitnesses, among whom were Jesus’ enemies who would surely have denied his works, if untrue. The future resurrection is a fact because Jesus said so.
Jehovah knows the names of trillions of stars, so he can remember the details of everyone who has ever died and replicate them.
The "righteous and the unrighteous" will be raised into a paradise earth, free of crime, violence and the troubles of today. This "Judgement Day" will occur during one thousand years after Armageddon. Not everyone will be resurrected. Some people are eternally destroyed by God when they die because they were so bad. "Jehovah is the final judge".
There will be a resurrection to heaven too, but only for a select few. These will form a heavenly government with Jesus to reign over the paradise earth.
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The resurrection to heaven is a key teaching of Christianity. It is a question of faith because there is no proof, unless we accept what the Bible says. The Church teaches that all sinners who put faith in Jesus will be raised to heaven. Read the Bible accounts and decide for yourself if it is possible for God to do such a thing. (Read John 3:1-21 and John 11).
When we love someone and admire them, we want to be with them, wherever they are, as much as possible, so it is perfectly normal for those who love Jesus to want to be in heaven with him. What will we do there? I don’t know. No-one does, but if you think about the number of galaxies in this universe, there are endless possibilities. It is something very desirable, whichever way it turns out.
Another thing the Witnesses won’t readily tell you is this; among the people who will never be resurrected is you, if you do not progress to be a Jehovah’s Witness. This is because you will have "rejected Jehovah" after being fully informed.
Others who will gain no resurrection are the 7 billion people alive today, who will be annihilated by Jehovah at Armageddon, since they too, have been informed by the extensive preaching work of Jehovah’s Witnesses ("extensive" and "worldwide" is what they want people to believe). Finally, this writer will be eternally destroyed and everyone like him, who dares to question the "glorious ones" of the Watchtower leadership. But don’t worry about me because it isn’t going to happen.
As mentioned previously, there is the contradiction regarding the resurrection to heaven. According to Watchtower teaching, the dead are all unconscious or sleeping, their brains having ceased to function at death, but somehow this doesn’t apply to the 144,000 who will be "instantly resurrected to life in heaven", with or without brains.
When we love someone and admire them, we want to be with them, wherever they are, as much as possible, so it is perfectly normal for those who love Jesus to want to be in heaven with him. What will we do there? I don’t know. No-one does, but if you think about the number of galaxies in this universe, there are endless possibilities. It is something very desirable, whichever way it turns out.
Another thing the Witnesses won’t readily tell you is this; among the people who will never be resurrected is you, if you do not progress to be a Jehovah’s Witness. This is because you will have "rejected Jehovah" after being fully informed.
Others who will gain no resurrection are the 7 billion people alive today, who will be annihilated by Jehovah at Armageddon, since they too, have been informed by the extensive preaching work of Jehovah’s Witnesses ("extensive" and "worldwide" is what they want people to believe). Finally, this writer will be eternally destroyed and everyone like him, who dares to question the "glorious ones" of the Watchtower leadership. But don’t worry about me because it isn’t going to happen.
As mentioned previously, there is the contradiction regarding the resurrection to heaven. According to Watchtower teaching, the dead are all unconscious or sleeping, their brains having ceased to function at death, but somehow this doesn’t apply to the 144,000 who will be "instantly resurrected to life in heaven", with or without brains.
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