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238 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
fold. Jesus called attention to this fact when he
added : "And I have other sheep, which are not
of this fold ; those also I must bring, and they will
listen to my voice, and they will become one flock,
one shepherd. My sheep listen to my voice, and
I know them, and they follow me . And I give them
everlasting life, and they will by no means ever
be destroyed, and no one will snatch them out of
my hand ." John 10 :16, 27, 28, NW These "other
sheep" are all others of humankind who acknowledge
him as the one Right Shepherd who surrendered
his soul for them to gain everlasting life .
So they follow him as Shepherd and thus become
members of his flock, though not of the Kingdom
fold . They attain to eternal life on earth .
s Since the establishment of God's kingdom
A.D . 1914 and the beginning of the harvest of the
remnant of Kingdom sheep, a great number of
these "other sheep" have begun to answer the
Right Shepherd's call and to submit to his royal
leadership . How many they will be before Armageddon's
tribulation destroys Satan's organization
we are not given to know . But, after stating the
number of the Kingdom flock to be 144,000 and
showing that they will be completely gathered,
the apostle John under inspiration says : "After
these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which
no man was able to number, out of all nations and
tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before
the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white
robes, and there were palm branches in their
5 . Since when are they being gathered, and where and
how is a great crowd of them pictured?