RUSSELL:1874, 1878, 1881, 1914, 1915 ( DIED 1916 )
RUTHERFORD:1918, 1920, 1925, 1931,EARLY 1940s ( DIED 1942 )
KNORR / FRANZ: 1954, 1972, 1975 ( KNORR DIED IN 1977, FRANZ DIED IN 1992 )
All four men expected to survive Armageddon, experiencing life everlasting without dying.The same promise ( "carrot" ) they gave to hundreds of thousands of others who also died.
The membership today has the same hope not to die,but to survive Armageddon into God's new world ---life on a paradise earth. ( From the Four Presidents.Edmond C.Gruss )
Just as it did not occur for all four presidents and many others, it will not occur for the new leaders and current membership today.For no one knows when these promises will occur,and as long as people are saying it will occur today, then it will not. ( BB )