Posted by Tantalus [Tantalus] on November 24, 1999 at 19:16:27 {BlpRHB6gpc5mhrmu9.YkAJToxO4pJo}:
In looking up something else I happened across this verse which seems to me to be saying that only the "anointed" are Jehovah's Witnesses! This is from the Your Will book on page 157.
21 As spiritual Israelites they were taken into the new covenant through the poured-out blood of the Mediator Jesus Christ and were made the people for the name of Jehovah, His witnesses. They were anointed to be heirs of the Kingdom with Jesus Christ and were thus taken into the covenant for the Kingdom with him, the Heir and Lord of King David.
Are the people with an "earthly hope" who are not a part of the new covenant, not heirs, not "the people for the name of Jehovah" even qualified according to the WTBS to be called Witnesses? This, to me, would seem to indicate they shouldn't be. Was this definiton of Jehovah's Witnesses ever contradicted
or amended?
Tantalus