In general who doesn’t feel empathy or sympathy for an abandoned child? Who doesn’t jump to the rescue of a crying baby? Who wouldn’t risk their lives to protect an endangered elder? Most of us would do amazingly dangerous things to help a child or helpless elder in need. It is innate within everyone’s being to leap to help or rescue those that are helpless. Most teachers of the Doctrine of the OTW will do their very best to instill this feeling of endangerment into a congregation’s feelings for the OTW.
Those who teach the Doctrine of the OTW abuse the human emotion of paternalism and maternally for the helpless child and the elderly within the congregation. This creates empathy and sympathy for the OTW.
Those who hear this doctrine are taught to feel as though the OTW were and are in danger of missing what is rightfully theirs. The teachers of the Doctrine of the OTW infer that the Worthies may have been taken at a disadvantage, because they were born before the time of their Messiah.
They teach that the birth time of the OTW is the only real problem keeping them from the First Resurrection, therefore their time of birth was unfair. But we, being born in our time, can implore God to make things right for the OTW by believing this doctrine.
We are taught to believe in a loving God, who would not leave us nor forsake us, nor would he leave the OTW unjustly in the grave.
This logic begs the question; would God leave the OTW heroes to the Second Resurrection? God would surely hear their cries from the grave and save them! Wouldn’t God be fair, in an act of genuine fairness, to give the OTW one and only pre-resurrection to include them in the First Resurrection?
If God would provide a pre-resurrection for the OTW, then He must also find a way for us to be in the First Resurrection too? The hearts of the congregations who are being taught the doctrine of the OTW are led to the conclusion that, if God can make an unscheduled resurrection for the OTW, surely God will see our own efforts and sacrifice and give us some slack for the First Resurrection?
Listeners begin to believe that their righteous actions will outweigh their lesser sins. God will give them another chance or create special allowances for them the same way he has created an allowance for the OTW?
Through manipulated empathy and sympathy the teachers of the Doctrine of the OTW are leading believers into a manufactured false belief. These teachers subtly (the Serpent at work) shape and inspire believers to hope for their own special exemption in the First Resurrection.
The Saints Arose 