I have heard Mee & other JW's say that the 144K are a select group who actually go up to heaven but that many more than that are saved that will live on earth. quote]
The ones that will be going to heaven to be with Jesus , are known as a LITTLE FLOCK luke 12;32
and it is a little flock of 144,000, revelation 14;1
but Jesus also spoke about his OTHER SHEEP JOHN 10;16
So there would be 2 flocks, a little one that would be going to heaven ,and a great crowd without a number..
that great crowd without a number is a really big crowd from all nations ,and they are being gathered to survive the
GREAT TRIBULATION
REVELATION 7;9-10
REVELATION 7;14
but the really great thing about it all is that they all listen to Jesus voice, and they are all in unity.
and they all know just where they are going too.
MEE is looking foreward to living in a paradise earth under the prince of peace JESUS CHRIST isaiah 9;6-7
and even now that great crowd are being instructed by JEHOVAH, thats because they listen to the voice of JESUS, and they have beaten their swords into plowshares, MICAH 4;1-4
And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream. 2 And many nations will certainly go and say: “Come, YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem. 3 And he will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. 4 And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making [them] tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken [it].
MICAH 4;1-4
ITS ALL HAPPENING IN THESE THE LAST DAYS
and that good instruction will go on and on . And then it will be a paradise earth .
And jesus plays a very very big part in the outworkings of JEHOVAHS purpose for the earth.
Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. 25 For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. 26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. 27 For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him. 28 But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.
1 corinthians 15;24-28