Jehovah's Witnesses, active and faithful members are claiming to have the heavenly hope in great numbers. The trend is so apparent that the Governing Body changed their teaching to accomodate it. But is this new light or the beginning of a schism? (images available for download)
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The Memorial of Jesus death will be observed on April 9, 2009. This video discusses the complex math that allows Witnesses to believe that there were less than 144,000 "genuine" Christians from Jesus' death until the 19th century.
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Partaker Math
Memorial Campaign Poster featuring the newest Governing Body Members, Geoffery Jackson and Anthony Morris.
Bar chart showing that there has been no decrease over thirty years from 1978 - 2008, countering the recent Watchtower, "... the number of anointed ones on the earth has decreased over the decades ..." (February 15, 2009 page 27 & 28)
Bar chart showing the unpercedented increase in 2008 (9.7%) from the all time low in 2005.