This is an example of how the WTS uses traveling overseers, special meetings and assemblies to inculcate certain ideas and teachings into the dub's minds that they otherwise don't want to put in print.
The higher ups that created the series of talks, know that's it bullshit. They also know they can't come out and print such a laughable theory in one of the publications. So they let the COs spread the message and the brain dead dubs soak it up, talk it up, expand on it and it becomes part of JW lore and legend... and "truth". It came from the CO, who is sent by the GB. It has to be "truth".
JWs really are quite delusional. They believe they can cheat death, live forever and easily, willilngly, buy into a crazy story that a terrorist attack on the US is actually all about them. They buy into any story that puts them at the forefront of any event. Natural disasters, wars, holocausts, terror plots... it's all Satan trying to break them and nothing to do with the majority of the rest of the world.