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Best Watchtower/publications articles regarding 1975 needed ???
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Leolaia
Also:
According to the Bible timetable, man's history on earth has been nearly 6,000 years. Adam was created in 4026 B.C.E., which means that six thousand years of human history end about the fall of 1975 C.E. We are in the great 7,000-year rest day of God, starting at the time he rested after the creation of Adam and Eve. There are, therefore, a thousand years left to run. Without Satan and his demons to disturb mankind it will indeed be a restful time. It will be like a sabbath. (Watchtower, 15 July 1967, pp. 446-447)
The example was given of an 87-year old Witness in New Zealand who sold his business in 1914 "so that he could enjoy a few months of 'colportage' pioneer service," encouraging young people to do the same thing. (Watchtower, 15 February 1967)
The Dutch branch overseer declared at the Divine Purpose District Assembly at Utrecht, Holland, in August 1974:
"The youth has a bright future. Many of us suffered from misery, sickness and death. You don't have to experience that any more. The new order is near. ... There will be a very special Service Meeting in the week of 8 September 1975. Invite everybody. And what will then happen? Well, we don't tell. You think, that if Jehovah makes such an appeal, that there's nothing unusual behind it? Yes? ...Well, sell your house, sell everything you own and say oh boy, how long can I carry on with my private means. That long? Get rid of things! Pioneer! Plan to shower people with magazines during these last months of this dying system of things! Everybody you meet!" (Singelenberg 1988:26)
And then there was the infamous talk by district overseer Charles Sunetko:
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Leolaia
And published at the same time was this incredibly damning passage in the article "A Time to 'Life Up Your Head' in Confident Hope":
"The evidence that we are far along in the 'last days' can be either good news or bad news to you, depending on the position you take.... True, there have been those in times past who predicted an 'end to the world,' even announcing a specific date. Some have gathered groups of people with them and fled to the hills or withdrawn into their homes waiting for the end. Yet, nothing happened. The 'end' did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? Missing was the full measure of evidence required in fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Missing from such people were God's truths and the evidence that he was guiding and using them" (Awake!, 8 October 1968, p. 23)
This was written at a time when 1975 was believed to be the end, and by the same group that had expected the end of the system in 1914 and 1925.
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