Posted by 2-classes Pt 2 [Bibleman] on November 06, 1999 at 01:54:56 {p8g/8h8r5QMRXA6xmpscslyACFuF8c}:
In Reply to: 3HW - Give me a break! posted by 3rd-hour worker on November 06, 1999 at 00:01:42:
THE VINEYARD PARABLE PROVES THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS PROPHESIED A TWO-CLASS SYSTEM AMONG THE WITNESSES.
As noted above, Matthew 20 applies to the "temple class". It occurs during the time of the end and over the period of one generation when the first ones starting the work meet the last-hour workers.
When we use the prophetic number of 7 years to apply to each hour, the third hour workers complete their first hour after 21 years. If this work begins around 1915 then 1936 is when these third hour workers should become most obvious. Of course, it was in 1935 that it was made clear to the witnesses that everyone was not going to heaven but that there was an "other sheep" class who would have the Earthly Hope.
Eleven hours of work at 7 years each hours would end before that generation ended, of course, by 1992 (1915+77=1992). When the Messiah arrived, he would begin to pay the workers, each receiving a penny and thus each becoming of the anointed, heavenly class. But this would be a big surprise to everyone, including the first-hour workers, that is, those who first began the work.
These circumstances of this parable thus explain why there is a two-class system within the "temple class" organization, more proof that Jehovah's Witnesses, even though their GB is later kicked out for apostacy, still were used as the "temple class" orgainzation during the harvesting period of the last generation from 1914 to 1994.
Cheers,
Bibleman