The WTS teaches that the billions of victims of the Armageddon battle will not be resurrected, because they will have been sent to Gehenna, and not to Sheol. What is your viewpoint on this? |
The Bible does not depict those who will be put to death during the war of Armageddon as “victims.” Armageddon is the culmination of Jehovah’s judgment against Satan’s world. It will be preceded by a series of cataclysmic events which will serve to put the world on notice that God’s kingdom has begun ruling. Those events will also be accompanied by a new phase of preaching by Jehovah’s Witnesses—specifically those who will at that time be recognized by Jehovah as the sons of the kingdom. Their presence on earth will be the means by which God holds the nations of the world accountable to him based upon the treatment meted out upon the sons of the kingdom. Those who fail to respond appropriately will demonstrate that they refuse to submit to God’s sovereignty, and will hence forfeit life—indefinitely. |
The e-Watchman Mailbag Collection
December 4 , 2006