(December 1, 2014 at 8:09 pm)Tonus Wrote: The JWs teach that at the battle of Armageddon, heavenly forces led by Jesus will war against the wicked. And by that, they mean that every non-JW will be turned into a bloody smear and the only casualties on god's side will be bruised knuckles. Those JWs who are not part of the 144,000 who got invited to heaven get to spend the next 1,000 years cleaning up the mess (hey, slaughtering billions of people and wrecking their infrastructure is hard work! You expect them to clean it up, too?), then Satan and his demonic minions (who have been locked up for those 1,000 years) will be let loose to see how many of the remaining people can be tempted into rejecting god. Once they sort that out, the demons and the people who succumbed to temptation get poofed out of existence, and then THA PARTAY IS ON!!!
...assuming that after 1,000 years of cleanup duty and dodging demons, anyone is in the mood to do anything except grab a 40 and crash on the nearest patch of rubble.
It is surprising, isn't it, that normal people get so happy about the possible deaths of so many people.
A pastor whose church my husband and I attended, taught that there would be a new earth where Jesus would be a literal king. The earth would last a thousand years...then I think Satan was supposed to get back the earth? Honestly, I think that I tuned him out because I don't remember the particulars. There was something about a thousand year reign but I can't remember.
