Mmmmm. Seeker is right, George G started that two decades earlier when the term New World Society was used, replacing New Order (doesn't translate very well into German as Reich!) which followed New World. Famous for catching you in an elevator.
Many years later took notes on an hour talk I gave in East Manhattan, whose outline called for covering Matt. 24:14 in a few short minutes. He good-naturedly lambasted me for not spending the bulk of the hour on this. "They want to hear about thee Keeeeng-dom!"
A Greek, he explained "kosmos" to persons who DIDN'T ask, with careful application about the lion and the lamb lying down together having fulfillment --breathless pause -- NOW!
Something is out of kilter, as Seeker says. Maybe he thought, "I cannot believe the level of ignorance of this kid, because I've told every human just exactly what this is and by now everyone HAS to know what the spiritual paradise is." Maybe he thought you were going to point out which personalities at Bethel were particularly lion-like. <cough>
It was embarassing when he couldn't keep up with whether it was a covenant or law or ... because he was on the GB and apparently wasn't hearing what God was whispering in his ear--or maybe he didn't understand God's English.
Thanks for some great memories. For some it may be refreshing to know that one guy did talk about Scripture. By the bye, had you sat with Grant Suiter I guarantee you the conversation would not have been about Scriptural things. Hard to imagine the two of them together in GB meetings, eh?
Schroeder the judge could easily see how telling the truth about someone could be grounds for slander; e.g., the truth about Rutherford's drunken antics.
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