Newspaper headlines June 2006 regarding invitation to “Imminent” end preached at the “Deliverance At Hand” District Convention of that year.
Believing Armageddon is imminent, Jehovah's Witnesses go on a mission
San Jose Mercury News on Topix.net
“In an unprecedented campaign, Jehovah's Witnesses, renowned and sometimes shunned for their zealous evangelism, want to personally invite as many people as possible to their annual convention, and they're doing it in their signature style: by knocking on strangers' doors.”
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Now we have a new 2007 District Convention with an “imminent” invitation campaign to invite the public to the District Convention because as we all know the end of the world is SOOOOOOO IMMINENT! How long have Jehovah’s Witnesses been saying the end is “imminent ?”
Watchtower 1952 12/1p.709WalkingBlamelesslyThroughtheLastDays
A WORLD does not end every day!...But now, by occurrence of every detail of the great sign Jesus gave, we know that we face the imminent end of the present world system.
Watchtower 1954 10/1p.581FleeforYourLife!
Thinking Bible students, however, see in present world conditions…a warning of imminent death for the present chaotic system of things.
Watchtower 1954 12/1p.734LivingNowasaNewWorldSociety
Rather than introvertedly dwelling on the mistakes of the past let us take joy in the fact that the…. complete vindication of Jehovah’s name is imminent.
Watchtower 1957 1/1p.30GiveJehovahExclusiveDevotion
In view of the imminent approach of the battle of Armageddon, where he will vindicate his name by wiping out his enemies…
Watchtower 1959 11/15p.703UsingTheocraticTactfulness
Popular evangelists…know nothing about the importance of… God’s kingdom being at hand and Armageddon being imminent .
Watchtower 1959 10/1p.595par.38FindingtheTruthThatMakesMenFree