Anointing with the spirit

I'm going to write about the anointing with the Holy Spirit.

The Watchtower Society's erroneous teachings offer Christians two hopes.

Heavenly hope and earthly hope.

However, the Bible holds out only a heavenly hope to Christians.
The earthly hope does not belong to Christians.

In the Christian era, from the beginning of Christ's Kingdom ministry until His return to take the sons of the Kingdom to heaven, there is only one calling.
It is the heavenly calling.

Therefore, all Christians of all ages belong to the heavenly class. They all have heavenly hope.

Bible Themes: The Promised Seed, and Heavenly Hope

The Bible is the story of the promised Seed.
The promised Seed will wipe out Satan's selfish works and restore our loving God's original purpose.
All the damage that Satan's world has caused will be paid off beyond all expectations.

Ge 3:15
15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.

Ge 22:18
18 And by means of your seed (Abraham's seed) all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves due to the fact that you have listened to my voice.

Ga 3:16, 26-29
16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It says, not: "And to seeds," as in the case of many such, but as in the case of one: "And to your seed," who is Christ.

26 YOU are all, in fact, sons of God through YOUR faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of YOU who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for YOU are all one [person] in union with Christ Jesus. 29 Moreover, if YOU belong to Christ, YOU are really Abraham's seed, heirs with reference to a promise.

Thus, we see that the promised Seed who will bless all mankind is Christ and his followers.
And Christ's followers are referred to in the Bible as "the seed of Abraham," "the Israel of God," "Christians," "the body of Christ," "the temple of God," "the congregation of Christ," "heirs of the promise," "kingdom," "priests," "sons of the kingdom," "wheat," "my sheep," "olive branches," "144,000 (not necessarily literal number)," and "the bride of Christ," and so forth.

The Christian Greek Scriptures are addressed to these followers of Christ, and make little mention of the nations who bless themselves by the promised Seed that is the followers of Christ.

So, if you read the Bible thoroughly, you can understand that those who accept Christ are called to heaven as the promised seed.

There is only one hope offered to us in the Christian era.
This is not the earthly hope that the Watchtower is prematurely emphasizing.

the things on the earth

The earthly hope belongs to the nations blessing themselves by the Promised Seed.

Eph 1:10
10 for an administration at the full limit of the appointed times, namely, to gather all things together again in the Christ, the things in the heavens (the promised seed) and the things on the earth (the world). [Yes,] in him,

Joh 3:16
16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

1Joh 2:2
2 And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our (the promised seed) sins, yet not for ours only but also for the whole world's.

Those "things on the earth" will be survived into the new earth going through the great tribulation when Christ returns, and then learn the true worship of YHW (Yaho), and restore all the blessings that Adam lost.

Mt 25:31-34
31 "When the Son of man arrives in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne.

32 And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will put the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.

34 "Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, YOU who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for YOU from the founding of the world.

Re 7:9-10, 14
9 After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: "Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb."

14 So right away I said to him: "My lord, you are the one that knows." And he said to me: "These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Thus, the gathering of "the things on the earth" will occur after the Christian era, when the judgment of the nations begins.

Therefore, the Watchtower Society, which has wrongfully emphasized the earthly hope and has gathered 7 million followers worldwide, is the lawless ones that use the Bible to perpetrate fraud.

Like scribes and Pharisees, through ignorance, lack of insight or perhaps intentionally, they have confused biblical truth and shut up the heavens to people. It is a plot of Satan, and just like the Pharisees who claimed to worship God, their father is Satan.

Mt 23:13
13 "Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for YOU yourselves do not go in, neither do YOU permit those on their way in to go in.

All members of the Governing Body of the Watchtower are counterfeit anointed.

Re 2:2
2 'I know your deeds, and your labor and endurance, and that you cannot bear bad men, and that you put those to the test who say they are apostles, but they are not, and you found them liars.

Heather Bennett, the granddaughter of Brother Guy Pierce of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, has asked since she was a little girl how Brother Pierce became one of the 144,000 and how he became a member of the Governing Body.

Brother Pierce always dodged the questions or changed the subject without answering them, she said. She, who grew up in an anointed remnant family, has doubts about the Watchtower's teachings. Because what she saw and heard for herself made her realize the fraud of the Watchtower's teachings.

Born Again

The Bible gives a simple explanation of how those who receive Christ (the heavenly ones, the promised seed) are anointed with the Holy Spirit.

Here is what the Bible says:

Joh 3:3, 5, 8
3 In answer Jesus said to him: "Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

4 Nic‧o‧de′mus said to him: "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter into the womb of his mother a second time and be born, can he?"

5 Jesus answered: "Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 What has been born from the flesh is flesh, and what has been born from the spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel because I told you, YOU people must be born again. 8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone that has been born from the spirit."

Joh 1:12-13
12 However, as many as did receive him, to them he gave authority to become God's children, because they were exercising faith in his name; 13 and they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man's will, but from God.

Being born of water and the Spirit is according to God's will and promise.

Jesus says God is looking for true worshipers who worship in spirit and truth.
And those true worshippers are the promised seed and joint heirs with Jesus for the kingdom of God.

God promises to send the Spirit of his Son into the hearts of those true worshipers who exercise faith in Christ.

Joh 4:23
23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him.

Ga 4:6-7
6 Now because YOU are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into our hearts and it cries out: "Abba, Father!"

7 So, then, you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God.

All who accept Christ are called to become the promised seed.
That is why Jesus taught us to call God our "Father in heaven" when we pray to Him.
The Jews have no such custom.
They pray to God by calling him YHW (Yaho) God.

This change was made possible by the Atonement of Christ.
So people learn of this change through the good news of Christ, exercise faith, and become assured of the heavenly hope.

That faith is the result of the work of God's Spirit.
Those without faith may understand this intellectually, but their hearts may not follow.
Therefore, they will not accept what they understand with all their heart, nor will they place their hopes in it.
For such people, the words of the Bible are understood as metaphors that miss its original meaning.

Mt 13:10-11, 34
10 So the disciples came up and said to him: "Why is it you speak to them by the use of illustrations?" 11 In reply he said: "To YOU it is granted to understand the sacred secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those people it is not granted.
34 All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds by illustrations. Indeed, without an illustration he would not speak to them;

Lu 8:10
10 He said: "To YOU it is granted to understand the sacred secrets of the kingdom of God, but for the rest it is in illustrations, in order that, though looking, they may look in vain and, though hearing, they may not get the meaning.

So if you can understand the story about Christ and exercise faith in your heart, that faith does not simply come from you; it is the result of the work of God's Spirit.

1Co 3:6-7
6 I planted, A‧pol′los watered, but God kept making [it] grow; 7 so that neither is he that plants anything nor is he that waters, but God who makes [it] grow.

Eph 1:12-13
12 that we should serve for the praise of his glory, we who have been first to hope in the Christ. 13 But YOU also hoped in him after YOU heard the word of truth, the good news about YOUR salvation. By means of him also, after YOU believed, YOU were sealed with the promised holy spirit,

summary

The outpouring of the Spirit for the sonship is due to God's promise of Seed.
That promise comes through the good news of Christ.
After believing in Christ, one is sealed with the Spirit.
All true worshipers of YHW (Yaho) God will become certain of their calling.

Eph 1:16-19
16 do not cease giving thanks for YOU. I continue mentioning YOU in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give YOU a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the accurate knowledge of him; 18 the eyes of YOUR heart having been enlightened, that YOU may know what is the hope to which he called YOU, what the glorious riches are which he holds as an inheritance for the holy ones,

19 and what the surpassing greatness of his power is toward us believers. It is according to the operation of the mightiness of his strength,

Eph 4:1-6
1 I, therefore, the prisoner in [the] Lord, entreat YOU to walk worthily of the calling with which YOU were called, 2 with complete lowliness of mind and mildness, with long-suffering, putting up with one another in love, 3 earnestly endeavoring to observe the oneness of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace. 4 One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.

There is only one calling in the Christian era until Christ returns.
It is the heavenly calling.
Today, before Christ's 2nd coming, is still the time to gather the promised seed, the things in the heavens.

Joh 14:1-3
1 "Do not let YOUR hearts be troubled. Exercise faith in God, exercise faith also in me. 2 In the house of my Father there are many abodes. Otherwise, I would have told YOU, because I am going my way to prepare a place for YOU. 3 Also, if I go my way and prepare a place for YOU, I am coming again and will receive YOU home to myself, that where I am YOU also may be.

Ro 12:12
12 Rejoice in the hope.

He who has ears to listen, listen.