The Jehovah's Witnesses - Way of Life Literature

even if it were allowed that this is a parable, it would stillteach literal truth, as did all of Christ’s parables.The dead saints are said to return with Christ fromheaven at the time of the resurrection and rapture of thesaved. This shows that dead saints go to Heaven at death(1 Th. 4:14).John’s heavenly visions show dead saints in Heavenbefore the resurrection and during the Great Tribulationon earth (Re. 6:9-11).Moses’ appearance on the Mount of Transfigurationproves that the dead have conscious existence betweendeath and resurrection (Mt. 17:1-3; Lk. 9:30-31).3. False teachers twist Scripture out of context to provetheir false doctrine. For example, Jehovah’s Witnessesuse verses such as Ecc. 9:5 — “the dead know not anything.” They do not consider the context of the verse.Ecclesiastes was written to teach what man thinks apartfrom God’s revelation. The key passage is “under thesun,” because it shows man’s philosophy in this life apartfrom divine revelation. Thus, from the perspective of thislife, the dead are finished; they do not know anything;they have ceased to exist. But when we look at deathfrom the perspective of divine revelation, we know that38