How many people will be saved according to Jehovah's Witness beliefs?

Answer 1

The answer to the question is: That is dependent on who is right with Jehovah, and that is between each individual and Jehovah, who alone sees into their hearts. After people suffer death, for their sins, they will be resurrected - both the righteous and unrighteous - and given opportunity to learn and accept Jehovah's truths.

The answer to a different question, "Who will be 'saved' at the battle of Armageddon?" is:

The Watchtower 1st Sept 1989 page 19 paragraph 7 states:

''Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the 'great crowd', as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil''.

Currently 99.99% of the world's population are not Jehovah's Witnesses and therefore have no hope of surviving and being saved.

Currently only the .01% (Jehovah's Witnesses) have any hope of being saved.

That is why we call on people to spread the good news and to try and save as many as possible by giving them the chance to learn the truth, apply Christ's teaching in their lives, and become active Jehovah's Witnesses.

With regard to this life saving preaching work that they carry out the Watchtower 15th Feb 2001 says ''Annihilation awaits all who will not listen and thereby set themselves against rule by God's Kingdom.''

Also, the book 'Live Forever' chapter 30 page 255 says ''..there will be only one organization - God's visible organization - that will survive the fast approaching 'great tribulation...You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life.''

Watchtower 1st June 1952 says ''What this means to us today is that those now living in this time of judgment and who fail for one reason or another to take a stand for Jehovah, and are therefore slain by him at the battle of Armageddon, will not be retained in his memory for a resurrection. That this group will include the majority of humans now living on earth is shown by Jeremiah 25:33 - "And those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth."

Answer 2

Our journal The Watchtower 1st Sept 1989 page 19 paragraph 7 provides the answer,

''Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the 'great crowd', as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil''.

Currently 99.999% of the world's population are not Jehovah's Witnesses and therefore have no hope of surviving and being saved.

Currently only the 0.001% (Jehovah's Witnesses) have any hope of being saved.

There are approximately seven million regularly preaching Jehovah's Witnesses and approximately six billion nine hundred and ninety three million non-Witnesses.

That is why we call on people to spread the good news and to try and save as many as possible by giving them the chance to come into the truth and become a Jehovah's Witness.

With regard to this life saving preaching work that we carry out the Watchtower 15th Feb 2001 says ''Annihilation awaits all who will not listen and thereby set themselves against rule by God's Kingdom.''

Also, our book 'Live Forever' chapter 30 page 255 says ''..there will be only one organization-God's visible organization-that will survive the fast approaching 'great tribulation...............You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life.''

Watchtower 1st June 1952 says ''What this means to us today is that those now living in this time of judgment and who fail for one reason or another to take a stand for Jehovah, and are therefore slain by him at the battle of Armageddon,will not be retained in his memory for a resurrection. That this group will include the majority of humans now living on earth is shown by Jeremiah 25:33.....''

Answer 3

According to the official belief , Witnesses believe that only Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved, as the following quotation from the Watchtower magazine, makes clear, ''Only Jehovah's Witnesses, ........ have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system'' WT '89 9/1 page 19.

And as per the latest annual report for the 2012 year there was a peak number of Witnesses who reported time spent preaching of 7,782,346.

It follows that that seems to be about the maximum number of people that would be saved if Armageddon was to come now.

Added to this number could be the young children of Witnesses who may not report time spent preaching, and who may be deemed as 'holy'.

In my experience, (my parents for example), some Witnesses have trouble accepting this official doctrine and will deny it exists and refuse to dwell on it but instead say that, 'no one knows' and 'only Jehovah can read hearts'. Whilst it may be true that no one knows who as an individual will be saved and whilst it may be true that only Jehovah can read hearts, this is still not the official doctrine as printed by the Watchtower Society.