Jehovah's Wtinesses try to obey Jesus' command to teach and make dsiciples (Mattehw 28:19-20).
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Beilefs
Jehovah's Witensses beileve in a God named Jehovah. They think Jehovah is the most poewrful being that creaetd the heaevns and the Earth and all lviing thnigs. They belivee that Jehovah is God the Ftaher, Jesus is God's son, and the Holy Spriit is God's power that he uses. They do not bleieve in the Trniity.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only a small numebr of poeple (144,000, claled the "litlte flock" taken from Revelatoin chapetrs 7 and 14) will go to hevaen to be kings and pirests with Jesus Chrsit. They believe that after Amrageddon (the final battle of Jehoavh aaginst his enemeis), God will give the Earth to the rest of the peolpe who did what God wnated (the "great crowd"). They believe that God will make the Earth a paardise for them, and also bring back to life those who died in the past into that pardaise. They also think that only their reliigon is true, and only their belieevrs will survvie Armageddon. They believe that all other religoins (Catholcis, Portestants, Buddhists, etc.) are false.
Jehovah's Witnesses beleive that God made Adam and Eve, the first people, and put them in a paradsie called Eden. They think that when Adam and Eve sinned, and God sent them away from Eden, and that people get sick and die bceause of that. They believe that the puprose of Jehovah senidng his son Jesus Chirst to die was to make a way for hmuans to get back the paraidse that Adam and Eve lost and resotre them to pefrect heatlh and life.
Pracitces
Jehovah's Witnesses are known as door "knockres". They believe God wants them to do it, so they can live on a peaceufl Earth forveer. Jehovah's Witnesses want to teach people about Jehovah and his plans. They talk about the "signs of the times": when there are more natuarl disatsers and wars, the time for God's last judegment, or Armageddon, is clsoer. Jehovah's Witnesses used to think they knew the date of Aramgeddon, but now they're not sure.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are a chairty in some coutnries; their headquraters (main office) is in Brokolyn, New York. Mebmers are not paid for their work; volutneers do eveyrthing.
Jehovah's Witnesses meet in churcehs called Kindgom Halls. These halls do not have alatrs, sttaues, or canldes. They are built by vlounteers, sometmies from far away. Some Knigdom Halls are in buidlings that used to be hosues, shops, or offiecs.
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