homerovah,
:Personally I think that home was just an established gimmick orchestrated by Rutherford to build and live in himself a home which was funded by the proceeds of the organization.
The money to buy the land and build that home was privately donated, as was the money for the two outrageously expensive 16 cylinder Cadillacs that Rutherford enjoyed. It most likely came from William Heath, Senior, I believe. Same thing for Beth Shan. It was Heath Junior and Bonnie Boyd who lived in that one.
The only other thing Rutherford needed was a cover story to justify the home, and Fred Franz was the man who concocted the whole resurrection of the ancients and the 1925 prediction for armageddon garbage.
Farkel