Posted by Bruce [Bruce] on November 27, 1999 at 21:05:18 {nwG7wj0NI.0hi4VK0MIQGSlVkCl.V2}:
In Reply to: *Why 144,000 to heaven? posted by Bibleman on November 27, 1999 at 19:34:10:
Bibleman.
Who got to you and twisted your mind? My letter to the Witnesses and you, clearly shows that the Society does not use verses 8 & 9 from Gen. 7. Not one publication starting in 1953 from their publications shown listed in my letter, actually quote those verses.
Regardless of the fact that wife or wifes is taken from the same word, this does not change the fact that both the clean and unclean animals were taken in two by two, MALE and FEMALE.
Since you obviously will not read or use those verses, the same as the Society fails to do, I will quote them.
8. Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground.
9. there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Those two verses are the key verses in confirming without a doubt, that the male and female by sevens in Gen. 7:2 are pairs of seven and not 1 male and six females.
Why do you think that after so many years of trying to prove the proper count, the GB, service department, and many elders have shut the door in my face. But not anymore, there are enough truth seeking active and ex-Witnesses to search those scriptures and realize the proper count. Leading to the fact that the 144,000 are replacing the fallen angels.
Again Bibleman, if the clean animals went into the ark by twos, MALE and FEMALE, anyone with commonsense can add to 14 and not the odd number of 7. Read the scriptures and not what the GB says.
Agape, Bruce Bainbridge