"I wish I could have met Jesus"

I remember a JW telling me her biggest dream in the New Order is to talk to the 'impaled' wrongdoer whom Jesus had promised would be in the Paradise.

The biggest reason for this desire is to "ask the forgiven criminal what Jesus looked like and what He sounded like."

I have good reason to believe most JW's have contemplated how they could have a chance to meet...or at the minimum, to just get a good look at the Lord and Saviour who died for them. Most Witnesses are happy to look forward to meeting the Great Ones from Antiquity such as Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Elijah.

"I wish I would have met Jesus", a Witness may conclude. After all, if all the Apostles and followers of Jesus in the first century are part of the 144,000 going to heaven, then this doesn't leave many eyewitnesses of the Lord to talk to in Paradise. The best they could do is talk to that forgiven sinner, although most don't even know they could chat with John the Baptist, using their definition of the Annointed.

The Society's illustrations portray Jesus as an older King with white hair and beard (though some publications show him as an enthroned young clean-shaven man!). In drawings He has flesh, but they explain he really doesn't have a fleshly body in Heaven. He will be invisible just like His Father (not even some white, trace lines).

Even if they believe Jesus is the Number Two Most Important Being in the Universe, they will someday see Christ in all His Glory, and for that matter, the Holy Father.

Jesus explains his Second Coming will be visible.

Matthew 24:26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

Let us pray these souls are saved by the Almighty God and that they see a Resurrection of Life, not Condemnation!