The current governing body has grieved God's spirit because they took on a title and authority that doesn't belong to them. "You are all brothers" but they want to be "the channel", though Jesus said all the 144,000 had "the helper" "teaching" them the truth.
As a result, they have caused divisions not only in the congregation but between the flock and their Father. Jesus wants the sheep to know more about their hope.
Here is some truth that was previously posted on another forum:
Hope is like an anchor for the soul – so important for that anchor to be solid! Many who feel they have an earthly hope also desire to “see” Jehovah. Part of the difficulty is the misunderstanding of this verse:
“No man has seen God at any time.”
In what way did John mean “seen”?
John spoke figuratively quite a bit. He calls Jesus “the Word” and “the light’. He says God “is Love” and God “is light”.
Let John himself explain…”No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is at the Father’s side is the one who has explained Him.”
John was talking about “seeing” Jehovah in all his heavenly glory, in heaven. Jesus explains further: “And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.”
Jesus had seen Jehovah’s “form” in heaven, all Jehovah’s glory; that’s why Jesus could really explain him. Just meeting the person of Jehovah for the first time or knowing the person of Jehovah for even one human lifetime isn’t the same as “seeing” and “knowing” Jehovah in all his heavenly glory the way Jesus has been with and seen and known Jehovah.
What about this scripture in a conversation between Jehovah and Moses: “No man may see me and live”?
“Then he [Moses] said: “Please show me your glory.” But he said: “I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will declare before you the name of Jehovah; and I will favor the one whom I favor, and I will show mercy to the one to whom I show mercy.” But he added: “You cannot see my face, for no man can see me and live.” Jehovah said further: “Here is a place near me. Station yourself on the rock. When my glory is passing by, I will place you in a crevice of the rock, and I will shield you with my hand until I have passed by. After that I will take my hand away, and you will see my back. But my face may not be seen.””
When Jehovah said “my face may not be seen” here, he was talking as regards all his glory. Moses specifically asked to see “your glory”. We know Moses saw Jehovah’s “face” in a different way, not with all the glory, because the Bible is true.
“Jehovah spoke to Moses face-to-face, just as one man would speak to another man.”
And many other saw Jehovah’s face, as recorded in the following:
“Jehovah faced him [Gideon] and said: “Go with the strength you have, and you will save Israel out of Midʹi·an’s hand. Is it not I who send you?” (Judges 6:14)
“Then she [Hagar] called on the name of Jehovah, who was speaking to her: “You are a God of sight,” for she said: “Have I here actually looked upon the one who sees me?”” (Genesis 16:13)
“Then I [Ezekiel] heard someone speaking to me out of the temple, and the man came and stood beside me. He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the people of Israel forever.” (Ezekiel 43:6,7)
“In turn Jacob inquired: “Tell me, please, your name.” However, he said: “Why is it that you ask my name?” With that he blessed him there. So Jacob named the place Pe·niʹel, for he said, “I have seen God face-to-face, yet my life was preserved.”” (Genesis 22:29,30)
“Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the face of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden.” (Genesis 3:8)
“Afterward, Jehovah appeared to him among the big trees of Mamʹre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing some distance from him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and he bowed down to the ground. Then he said: “Jehovah, if I have found favor in your eyes, please do not pass by your servant. Please, let a little water be brought and have your feet washed; then recline under the tree. Seeing that you have come here to your servant, let me bring a piece of bread so that you may refresh yourselves."
"Is anything too extraordinary for Jehovah?”
So Jehovah ate with Abraham, right here on earth. Abraham, the one called “Jehovah’s friend”. (Also, Abraham is one of Jehovah’s earthly children.) Then what happened?
“When the men got up to leave and looked down toward Sodʹom, Abraham was walking with them to escort them. Jehovah said: “Am I keeping hidden from Abraham what I am going to do?...Then the men left from there and went toward Sodʹom, but Jehovah remained with Abraham.”
There were three “men” who came to Abraham. (Remember, man is made in God’s image. “Let us make them in our image.”) One “man” was Jehovah. The other two went down to Sodom and found Lot. Jehovah stayed behind to talk with Abraham for awhile.
“Is anything to extraordinary for Jehovah?”
“I shall prove to be what I shall prove to be.”
“Our Father.”
Remember Jesus' lineage in the gospels? How does the last line go? “Son of Adam…Son of God.”
Our Father can walk on the earth. He can eat with us here. He can talk with us here without us burning up. He can do anything. He’s Jehovah. (If you can video chat with someone, you are not really in person but it is your representation, why can't Jehovah do something like that?)
“No one has seen God at any time. If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has given his spirit to us. In addition, we ourselves have seen and are bearing witness that the Father has sent his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is God’s Son, God remains in union with such one and he in union with God. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in union with God and God remains in union with him.”
No man can see God in his entirety, His higher-than-the-heavensness. But can Jehovah materialize a body to use if He wants to? Jesus could. Jehovah can listen to all those prayers at the same time. Why couldn't He interact in person via a human body with different people at the same time? Nothing is impossible for Jehovah.
“Who is blind except my servant, So deaf as the messenger I send? Who is so blind as the one rewarded, So blind as the servant of Jehovah?”
“At that time the eyes of the blind will be opened, And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.”
All things are possible with God. In the Garden of Eden, Jehovah was Walking in the Garden. The man hid from Jehovah's Face. When it says in John that no man has seen the Father at anytime, it is talking figuratively about Seeing Jehovah as He really is in heaven. Jehovah is able to make a way for himself to enjoy the earth and his children on the earth in person. When Jacob was wrestling, after he asked the name of the one he was wrestling with, what was the answer he got, and what did he name that place? What did Hagar say after her interaction with "the One who sees me"? Jehovah is not partial. He is not only going to have personal face-to-face interactions with a certain "class" that goes to heaven. He is the Father of all his Children, both those whose abode is in heaven and those whose abode is on earth. There is a reason Jesus is called "Son of Man" and not just "Son of God". God made man in His image, because Jehovah is built that way too, and He can visit here and interact with his children here. He is Jehovah, "He Who Causes to Become" and "I Shall Become Whatsoever I Choose to Become". The city in the end of Ezekiel, that city that is on the earth in the future, is called Jehovah Himself Is There, and in Revelation 21:3,4 it says that Jehovah himself will wipe away every tear from out of their eyes. The "two sticks" will be joined together into one universal family with Jehovah as Father.
In what way are the anointed "elders" according to Revelation? Not in the sense of a clergy class. They are "elder brothers" in that they are adopted first. The 144,000 are "older brothers" in that they are born as God's children when anointed with holy spirit. The rest of faithful humankind is "born" completely as God's children at the end of the 1,000 year reign, when God becomes all things to all people and the family will truly be united at last.
Jehovah is Our Father. He is not far away from each one of us, and He wants us to know that those on earth will look into his eyes someday too. He is Our Father. Jehovah breathed the breath of life into Adam's nostrils here on earth. How close was Jehovah to Adam in order to do that? Adam will not be back, but Jesus took Adam's place as our Eternal Father. Jesus is not a deadbeat dad. He will interact with his earthly children forever, and when he turns the kingdom back to his Father at the end of the 1,000 year reign, when all humans on earth are perfect, then Jehovah will be all things to all people, meaning, He will be walking in the garden with you too and you will see His face. How could the earthly Paradise be complete without Jehovah there? He is the Most Important Part. God is Love.
Praise Jah!
