Jehovah's Witness Terminology

• AWAKE     A watchtower periodical used to introduce Jehovah's Witnesses to the public in an effort to recruit people to inquire about and attend local meetings.

• GOATS      The JW's term for people who are not members of the organization. They are seen as those who will be judged by God as in Matthew 25:31-46



• GREAT CROWD       The term "sheep" is also used. Referring to the majority of JW's who will not live in heaven, but rather, will inhabit the restored Paradise Earth after Christ's return.



• JEHOVAH       Taught as being the only correct name for Almighty God.



• JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES       A term derived from Isaiah 43:10 in 1931, as the official title of Zion's Watchtower Society.



• KINGDOM HALL      The name of the building used for meetings and member's instruction.



• LITTLE FLOCK      Also the "144,000" and the "anointed class," meaning the elite group of JW's who will live in heaven and reign with Christ, after this life.



• MICHAEL       The archangel who was supposedly Jehovah's first creation and then later became the man Jesus.



• NEW WORLD TRANSLATION       The official Watchtower Bible. It contains many mistranslations in order to support the Watchtower theology.



• THE WATCHTOWER   A publication to instruct the society's membership.