- In Spring 1967 Charles Sinutko gave a talk at the
Sheboygon Circuit Assembly and said
"It almost seems as though Jehovah has provided meat in
due season because he has held up before all of us a new goal, a new year,
something to reach out for and it just seems it's given us so much more energy
and power in this final burst of speed
to the finish line. And that's the year 1975."
" What does the year 1975 mean for humankind? The end
of 6,000 years of human existence and possibly the time when God executes the
wicked and starts off a 1,000 year reign under his son Jesus Christ "
"There's only one thing that's going to count when that
time comes and that's that we are 'inside', and we hope that all of us here
tonight are going to listen to the Society's implorings. We're going to listen
to their agonizing entreaties "Brothers get in" because they know
what's coming. And it's coming fast and
don't wait until '75. The door's going to be shut before then."
- In November 1968 District Overseer 'Duggan' gave a talk at
the Pampas, Texas convention and said
" This Good News must be preached first,
before Armageddon. There is, will be now a remaining few months. Not really a full 83 months remains [6
years, 11 months - takes you to Oct 1975], so let's be faithful and confident
and we will be alive beyond the war of Babylon; we will be alive beyond the war
of Armageddon. Yes, brothers and sisters, by doing this, having plenty to do,
we will be alive in God's new system of things, to live and to share and to
work for a thousand years, and there will be plenty to do for the next 1,000
years."
- On April 15 19752 at the Lakeworth, Florida convention,
Ulysses V Glass said
" the end will come when the witnessing has been
completed in all the earth. And so they worry a lot about things; "What
are you going to do with China, how are you going to get into China, how will
you have reached all those people there, how
are we ever going to reach them by 1975?, for example.
...It's
His word and He knows what He's going to do before He brings the end on this
system of things."
- In May 1972 Floyd Kite gave the talk
"Are You Marked For Survival" and said
" There are a dozen
inexorable forces at work right now that are converging together inside of this decade that will spell
disaster for this system of things, and there is nothing that no human can do
to prevent it."
- In 1972 at the Divine Rulership
district assmebly Bother Reese's closing remarks included
" We had that advice about 1975, Not
changing a thing! Not changing a thing!... We have stronger reason to see that
the middle 70's are going to see the complete change in earths affairs."
- And Fred Franz himself said, in an
audio lecture in early 1975
" But the big questions is this "Is this year,
1975, the final year, the last year for the ingathering of the other sheep? Now
we're all interested in that.... We found that just like you here, [other
brothers] also were interested in this current year of 1975. What does it
signify for Gods people? Is it the year, the final year, the last year for the
ingathering of the other sheep before the great tribulation breaks and reaches
its climax in the battle of the great day of God the almighty at Armageddon? Is
this the year which will lead right on into the establishment of the day of the
Lord Jesus Christ? Well, how are we to view this year?"
" We know it's a critical year, we know we're near
something, but we're not saying ."
" Now our enquiries around the world of the brothers
as to what they're expecting to occur between now and the end of 1975 has
revealed that some are very sanguine about matters in the near future, and
they're expecting the great tribulation to occur, and the destruction of Babylon the Great, and
the annihilation of all the political systems of this world, and then the
binding Satan and his demons and their abyssing, to occur before this year is
ended, this year 1975."
I know all these things were said because
I have the recordings of each one.
If anyone tries to paper over this mad fervour
or deny the worldwide excitement that swept hundreds of thousands to their
baptisms, then their deceit is no different to the deceit of Satan, the father
of the lie.
