They liquidated at least 500 million in real estate investments, in the public record, in 4 years or so. Maybe as high as 900 million. So they can handle plenty of suits, but if that liquidation disappears in the hedges, as some speculate, then Bethel will be bare boned when the tsunami of litigation arrives. It seems Bethel is liquidating to keep the profit now, vanishing into the hedges later, basically gone as it goes in, then they can just abandon the infrastructural bones to the front end litigations, and there by the internal guidance system will still profit as the ship goes down, and those assets will have been disappearing since say 2010 in bulk.
They are doing the opposite of preparing for the front end lawsuits imo, they are "hedging" to get out with the real loot on the back end. The rest (the leftovers) can then just fall into recievership and seizure and to them who really cares at the front end. JWs are left holding the bag, the place is derailed, and they just call off the ministry to further the delay process. They sell that to JWs as "the end", and though it is not the end, it will provide the needed cover for a few years for all the Bethel rats to vanish with their nice JW bonuses, and whose the wiser?
Not JWs, they will be trying to figure out the riddle a few years, imo, and by then it won't matter, it was an override and scam since the GB took the coup in 1976, this just completes the process, and for it to have completed in around 40 years is actually not that unbelievable. The legal entanglements ensure the forensics to uncover the real reality will be impossible for the average JW, it may as well have been Enron. JWs will have been outstripped by actors and the sheer complexity and scale of the org, and its international capabilities of hiding assets for good.
The scale of the recent real estate liquidations is what may be the biggest red flag of recent note. Who needs to dump 700 million in US real estate? What about international investments? What about non real estate assets? Then the real number can be in billion or two billion range, and we realize overall this is a big score, and JWs are the perfect dummies to have played this on, imo.
The national litigations are just the nail in the coffin that will have to complete liquidation of Bethel's bones, to settle final litigation judgment, because the meat will be long gone, and that is where JWs can be tangled for quite some time just trying to figure out how to save their own hall. Quite a mess is theoretically closing around JWs, the proper "earthquake" in financial terms is all that is needed as the global context of that "tsunami".
But it is just complex enough to require a few years to really run the whole gutting and "bone saw" operation of Bethel's corporate cadaver, imo. It won't be, imo, an overnight take down, and so they need to have a smokescreen of misapplied prophecy to cover the first waves of the tsunami for JWs to buy it all as "prophecy fulfilling brothers!", "persecution!".
Yet Bethel actual criminal racketeering is what is actually being dealt with, not "persecution" but long overdue justice for REAL crimes. Of course that is all filtered from the JW tainted diet of "truth" from the Bethel pro liars.
It is all very convenient in overall possibilities of what can actually befall JW global proper.
