They believe in heaven, but only a few select people go there. The rest of the faithful will either live through Armageddon and live forever on earth in a paradise, or be resurrected over 1,000 years and then live forever on earth. At the end of that 1,000 years Satan gets let loose again to test everyones faith one last time and then god destroys him permanently.
But the vast majority of people just die.
They believe in heaven, but only a few select people go there. The rest of the faithful will either live through Armageddon and live forever on earth in a paradise, or be resurrected over 1,000 years and then live forever on earth. At the end of that 1,000 years Satan gets let loose again to test everyones faith one last time and then god destroys him permanently.
But the vast majority of people just die.
It's based on the normal bible, actually especially Revelations. That's where it specifies a "great crowd" of people who get to live in paradise, and a separate group of 144,000 who get to live in heaven.
Although there are of course a lot of interpretations of Revelations because everything is written so vaguely, but that's the JW version.
It's based on the normal bible, actually especially Revelations. That's where it specifies a "great crowd" of people who get to live in paradise, and a separate group of 144,000 who get to live in heaven.
Although there are of course a lot of interpretations of Revelations because everything is written so vaguely, but that's the JW version.
Well... what's the point then?
At least we normal Christians believe in heaven so long as you have faith and repent. Without that... well, it seems there's not much point in putting up with the troubles you'll go through walking the walk.