There was a time the Watchtower frequently used the door of the Ark closing firmly by the angel's hand and desperate people knoking or trying to get in the Ark as a metaphor for those who refuse to accept their message. It was a constant reminder for all Jehovahs Witnesses to fervently engage in the public ministry.
These days are long gone. Apparently the door will be left wide open during the Great Tribulation while all kind of seaweed and dirty water lashes in.
This is the sentiment paragraph 3 of Study 19 of the Watchtower Study Edition portrays. It is the May 2024 Watchtower where in these 2 study articles 18 &19 the leaders of the Watchtower have put in paper all the doctrinal changes they announced during the Annual Meeting in 2023.
So without further delay let's see what paragraph 3 has to say:
In the past, we said that once the great tribulation begins, no unbelievers will be able to take their stand for Jehovah and survive Armageddon. We came to that conclusion because we understood that the account of the Flood was a prophetic type. For example, we reasoned that just as Jehovah shut the door of the ark prior to the start of the Flood, he would, at the beginning of the great tribulation, “shut the door” on Satan’s system of things, thus preventing any more people from being saved.—Matt. 24:37-39
So here is the verse in question in Genesis 7:16:
So they went in, male and female of every sort of flesh, just as God had commanded him. After that Jehovah shut the door behind him.
In older publications the Watchtower likened Jehovah's organization to the Ark and if people didn't pay attention to the message that Jehovah's Wtnesses preached that "Ark's" door would have closed for them when the Great Tribulation came. Therefore witnessing to others was a matter of life of death and the witnessing had to be reported monthly and you better no reported less than 10 hours a month otherwise you would have been called names like "irregular " or "weak in the faith".
Of course now, times have changed, the governing body is not that hot on recording time and therefore they have ordered Jehovah to leave the door wide open even during the Great Tribulation for all the sinners and unfaithful to come in and by doing so they have discredited decades of recorded time and brothers and sisters knocking from door to door.Why? Because if you can still come in the "Truth" during the Great Tribulation what is the point of listening to Jehovah's Witnesses now when you can enjoy Satan's system and jump onboard last minute?
Once again the Watchtower leadership hasn't thought things through properly!
At this point I want you to put your thinking caps on as I'm going to take you to a journey away from Watchtower theology in order to answer 2 important questions. Is Noah's Flood a prophetic type for the End? Who serves as a type for Noah? What serves as a type for the Ark? And when will the figurative "door" close?
The greater Noah is not the governing body and the greater Ark is not Jehovah's organization as they will have you believe. Jesus explained in John 14:3:
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
So the greater Noah is Jesus and the greater Ark is the place that he has prepared for us. Notice that He is coming back to collect us in His Ark during the last days. This Ark is given a name in the book of Revelation it is called "New Jerusalem" and like the Ark of Noah it has specific dimensions, we read in Revelation 21:16:
The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia (=or 1,500 miles) in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
Unlike Noah's days this End Times Ark is located in heavens and quite possibly in the vicinity of the planet so in order for mere humans to reach it they will have to be transported there during an event that is better known as RAPTURE. The apostle Paul was given an insight on how this transfer will take place in 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17:
because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away(HARPAZO=in Latin RAPTURO where we get the word RAPTURE) in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord
If you miss the RAPTURE event you will be left behind and you will most definitely die during the Great Tribulation. So here is where the Greater "ARK DOOR" gets firmly closed, if you don't get raptured you will never get to see New Jerusalem’s gates in heaven where salvation is guaranteed and escape from all the disasters that will befall mankind and the planet during the Great Tribulation.
Listen to me, if you are one of the 8 million Jehovah's Witnesses that dismisses this teaching you will die along with your leaders in the Last Days. Remember what Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 24:22:
If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened
This is true the Great Tribulation will diminish humanity to a massive extent leaving only few left standing here on earth in its aftermath.
The choice is yours, safe in the heavenly Ark taking your chances here on earth like the governing body wants you to. The choice is yours!
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