Kingdom Ministry, May 1974, p.3:
Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world's end.
Meanwhile, they were scarfing up expensive NYC real estate, and ever expanding the Watchtower's global footprint.
"This is it! Sell your homes, send all your money to us to support the ministry!"
The 1975 Armageddon Hoax was a sinister fund-raising fleecing through and through. The functionary Gibbering Bloodies pulled it off exactly as planned for whoever or whatever private banksters really own the for-profit WT corporations masquerading as a religion.