The Narrow Road Becomes Wide

By Lorri MacGregor

Most everyone is familiar with the Scripture at Matthew 7:13, 14, which reads, “Enter by
the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and
many are those who enter by it. For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to
life, and few are those who find it.”
Jehovah’s Witnesses love this Scripture, always identifying themselves as those on the
narrow, cramped, road, believing all others doomed to destruction by Jehovah God.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe we are all living in the last generation when this scripture will
be fulfilled, to their advantage of course, and our impending doom. We ask Jehovah’s
Witnesses, are you really on the “narrow” road, or has your road become “broad”? We ask
you to consider your own doctrine on this important question.
Cheryl Schatz, our ministry partner from Edmonton, Alberta deals with this intriguing
question in her recent article.
Are we the last generation? If we are to believe the doctrine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
this is a question that is of utmost importance. How so? The last generation is the only
generation that has a choice.
On page 255 of the Watchtower’s book You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, they
present the choice that needs to be made by the last generation. They say, “Really, there
are but two choices. Christ compared it to the choice of either one of two roads. One road,
he said, is ‘broad and spacious.’ On it travelers are permitted freedom to please them-
selves. The other road, however, is ‘cramped.’ Yes, those on that road are required to obey
the instructions and laws of God. The majority, Jesus noted, are taking the broad road, only
a few the narrow one. Which road will you choose? In making your choice, keep this in
mind: The broad road will suddenly come to a dead end—destruction! On the other hand,
the narrow road will lead you right through into God’s new system. There you can share in
making the earth a glorious paradise, where you can live forever in happiness.”
How is the last generation different from every other generation according to Watchtower
teaching? For every other generation the two roads are reversed. For previous generations,
the broad road is now the one that leads to paradise earth! The Watchtower Society
teaches that almost every single person that has ever lived and died was on that broad
road leading to paradise. Everyone on the broad road qualifies for a resurrection onto a
paradise earth. It matters not whether the person lived for God or if they exercised their
free will to live for themselves, as long as they lived and died before the last generation,
they will find themselves following the broad road into paradise—no questions asked! They
get a “second chance” to live forever.
But what of the narrow road? How is the narrow road different for all previous genera-
tions than it is for the last generation? Since so many from past generations are promised a
chance in the Watchtower paradise earth (the broad road), this narrow road for past gen-
erations becomes the road that leads to eternal destruction, in Watchtower thinking. These
few in number from the past, in comparison to the billions on the broad road, found their
way onto the narrow road. Those few who found the narrow road will never experience a

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Watchtower resurrection. They will never get a chance to see paradise on earth, and have
a second chance at salvation. Instead, they are wiped out from God’s memory and will
never receive this second chance for life as everyone else receives.
Who are the unfortunate souls who found themselves on that dreaded narrow road that
leads to Watchtower destruction? They were people who became Jehovah’s Witnesses
from the time the Watchtower first started preaching the “end of the world” message. These
formerly faithful Jehovah’s Witnesses originally believed the message of the Watchtower,
that the end was just around the corner. However, after living through one failed prophecy
after another, they abandoned their faith in the Watchtower organization. The Watchtower
brands such ones as apostates and deems them unfit to receive a resurrection.
So, since 1879, anyone who became a Jehovah’s Witness, but who left the Organiza-
tion, is on that narrow road to destruction. They are the only ones from previous genera-
tions who will not receive a resurrection. What a shame! Since everyone who was
preached to by the Watchtower devotees from 1879 to the very early 1900’s is dead and
gone, the only lasting effect the Watchtower managed to have for that generation was to
create a way for some to lose out on paradise!
If you take the Watchtower’s doctrine to its logical conclusion, the generation of the late
1800’s and early 1900’s would have been better off never having heard the message of the
Watchtower. Everyone who didn’t hear the message is guaranteed a chance for life in
paradise. But for those who heard and believed but who became disillusioned, the Watch-
tower became to them a stench of eternal death.
So, we ask “Who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’ of paradise earth”? Let’s summarize from the
Watchtower’s teachings to find the three groups of people who will be ‘in’ paradise and the
three groups who are ‘out’.
Those who will receive life, the ‘in’ group, are:
1. Every person who never became a Jehovah’s Witness and who dies before Armageddon
will receive a second chance.
2. Every current Jehovah’s Witness who is worthy enough to merit everlasting life will go
into paradise.
3. Every practicing Jehovah’s Witness who dies before Armageddon will receive a second
chance no matter how worthy they are.
Those who will not receive life, the ‘out’ group:
1. Every non-Jehovah’s Witness living at the time that Armageddon occurs will die. They
will not receive a second chance for life.
2. Every Jehovah’s Witness alive at the time that Armageddon occurs but who is not con-
sidered worthy enough will be annihilated and will not receive a second chance at life.
3. Every Jehovah’s Witness who has left the organization and who subsequently dies will
not receive a second chance for life.
The difference between the will’s and the will not’s, according to the Watchtower, is
dependent on when you were born and when you died. If you lived and died anytime up
until 1879 you are in. If you lived and died after 1879 you are probably in—as long as you
didn’t subscribe to the Watchtower’s message. That way you didn’t have a chance to be-
come an apostate and end up on that dreaded narrow road. If you live in the last genera-
tion, you are almost certainly out. Only a relatively small number of worthy Jehovah’s Wit-
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doors, trying to earn their salvation.
As Cheryl’s article shows this is a convoluted doctrine! The “narrow” road to life be-
comes “broad” in their theology, allowing all kinds of rascals from the past to enter para-
dise, while putting their present followers in a vise and adding more and more pressure to
conform and making it harder and harder to enter paradise.
Next month we will deal with their “new light” on the last generation teachings. We can
only pray Jehovah’s Witnesses will see how misled they have been by the Watchtower
Society, and turn to Christ for salvation.

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