Category: Afterlife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2AowNIhBcU Seventh-day Adventists and Jehohah’s Witnesses believe in soul sleep. In other words, after you die your soul does go immediately to heaven or hell. What happens is that you stay in the grave. It's like in a sleep, remain dead or asleep. The soul is sleeping, then God's going to wake you up at the Last Judgment. At the Last Judgment, where the souls are gonna wake up, get judged by God and then go to paradise. For the Jehovah Witnesses, paradise on earth and for the Seventh-day Adventists, in heaven.  Here are their verses to prove it. Job 14:10 “The man dieth and wasteth away, yea man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”  Notice right after he dies, where does he go? Job 14:11-12 says he…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44cGvUfh_I In this episode, we'll be discussing the 144,000 and heaven. On page 85 of the Jehovah's Witness book titled “What can the Bible teach us?”, it says the 144,000 are faithful Christians whom God has chosen to rule as kings over the earth. The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there will only be 144,000 people who go to heaven. These 144,000 are known as the “little flock”. The little flock will rule over the “other sheep”. Is this really what the Bible says? Why do the Jehovah's Witnesses believe this? There are many things that need to be investigated in the Jehovah's Witness’ teachings. 1. Who and what is the little flock? 2. Who and what is the other sheep? 3. Who and what is the 144,000. 4. Who and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3yAUIxxKgo Certain groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses will promote the idea that only 144,000 people throughout the history of time are going to go to heaven. Can this be true and where might they be getting this idea from in the Bible? The Jehovah's Witnesses’ position is that only 144,000 redeemed people will actually ascend to heaven while the rest of the redeemed people will actually live or dwell on the glorified Earth and then the people who are not redeemed will actually go to hell. Where are they getting this from in the Bible? There are two places in the book of Revelation that mention a group of people that number 144,000. The first is in Revelation 7 and it reads “Then I heard the number of those…

https://youtu.be/S2AowNIhBcU Transcript of the video JWs and Seventh-Day Adventists believe that when a person dies, his soul doesn't immediately go to heaven or hell, but "sleeps" in the grave awaiting the resurrection. While the Bible doesn't contain the term "soul sleep", it does use the term "sleep" to describe death. Is the Bible teaching that once a person dies, he is no longer conscious until the time he is resurrected again? JWs quote the following verses to support their teaching. Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is…

Everyone has sinned against God. (Romans 3:23) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Sin causes us to be separated from God. The Bible refers to this as spiritual death. (Romans 6:23) For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord. How to get right with God? Man has tried various ways to get themselves right with God. They have tried to do good things, punish themselves, etc. But the Bible tells us that God Himself took the first step to make us right with Him. (Romans 5:8) But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus took the penalty of sin on our behalf…

https://youtu.be/ddocIJN-GOE How to gain salvation according to Jehovah's Witnesses? Studies in the Scriptures 1 Page 150 The ransom for all given by the man Christ Jesus does not give or guarantee everlasting life or blessing to any man. JWs teach that there are four requirements to salvation. Take in knowledge of God and Jesus John 17:3  This means everlasting life, their coming to know (Greek word “ginosko”, understood by JWs to mean “taking in knowledge of”) you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. JWs understand “knowing” to mean “taking in knowledge”. It makes the requirement for salvation information rather than relational. The information JWs believe we need to take in refer to their teachings about God and Jesus. Christians believe that this verse is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3yAUIxxKgo&t=39s Transcript of above video https://youtu.be/K44cGvUfh_I Transcript of the video JWs believe that only 144,000 people are going to heaven. Are only 144,000 people going to heaven? Rev 7 4  And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel: 5  Out of the tribe of Judah 12,000 sealed; out of the tribe of Reuʹben 12,000; out of the tribe of Gad 12,000; 6  out of the tribe of Ashʹer 12,000; out of the tribe of Naphʹta·li 12,000; out of the tribe of Ma·nasʹseh 12,000; 7  out of the tribe of Simʹe·on 12,000; out of the tribe of Leʹvi 12,000; out of the tribe of Isʹsa·char 12,000; 8  out of the tribe of Zebʹu·lun 12,000; out of the tribe…