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Expediente de pruebas · implicación fuerte
1975
La organización no imprimió «el Armagedón llegará en 1975». Lo que imprimió, a lo largo de nueve años, fue una cronología que terminaba en el otoño de 1975, preguntas repetidas sobre si el fin seguiría de inmediato, una respuesta de «semanas o meses, no años», y elogios a los miembros que renunciaron a su casa por «el corto tiempo que queda».
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According to this trustworthy Bible chronology six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. ... How appropriate it would be for Jehovah God to make of this coming seventh period of a thousand years a sabbath period of rest and release, a great Jubilee sabbath
The same chapter asked: ‘How appropriate it would be for Jehovah God to make of this coming seventh period of a thousand years a sabbath period of rest and release, a great Jubilee sabbath’. At a 1966 convention F. W. Franz was asked whether this meant Armageddon by 1975 and answered, as the 1993 history reports it ‘in essence’, ‘It could. But we are not saying … Time is short.’Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (jv), 1993
El libro Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God (1966) dijo que «seis mil años desde la creación del hombre terminarán en 1975, y el séptimo período de mil años de la historia humana comenzará en el otoño de 1975 E.C.», y que sería «apropiado» que Dios hiciera de ese séptimo milenio «un período sabático de descanso y liberación». Source: Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God (book), 1966Source: The Watchtower, 15 de abril de 1967
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La Atalaya del 15 de marzo de 1980, pág. 17: los comentarios del libro hicieron que «se despertara una expectación considerable respecto al año 1975»; Proclamadores, pág. 104, refiere que F. W. Franz dijo en una asamblea de 1966: «Podría ser. Pero no lo estamos diciendo».
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
1966 · pp.29-30 · pars. 41-43 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“According to this trustworthy Bible chronology six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. ... How appropriate it would be for Jehovah God to make of this coming seventh period of a thousand years a sabbath period of rest and release, a great Jubilee sabbath”
Paragraph 42 adds 'six thousand years of man's existence on earth will soon be up, yes, within this generation'. The 'how appropriate' sentence is par. 43 on p. 30 (not p. 35 as sometimes cited); the p. 35 chart was not checked.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God (book), Chapter 1, pars. 41-43
Nota de confianza.Scan opened and page header '30 LIFE EVERLASTING' confirmed; host is unofficial, so cite alongside w1980 3/15 p.17 and jv p.104, which quote/describe the book.
Procedencia del escaneo.Unofficial archive (Watchtower Wayback) OCR'd PDF of the 1966 book (Acrobat paper-capture, 2008). Lending copies also exist on archive.org (lifeeverlastingi00watc) but are access-restricted. Copyright 1966; short quotation only.
15 de abril de 1967 · p.236 · par. 25 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“According to a more recent calculation of the Bible timetable, six thousand years of man's existence will end in the latter half of the year 1975, which is well within this century. The Bible millennium is ahead of us”
Contrasts Ussher's 1996 date with the Society's 1975 calculation.
Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ.
Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” … It may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years.
Implicación fuerte · 15 de agosto de 1968Verificado
La Atalaya del 15 de agosto de 1968 («Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?») preguntó si el Armagedón «habrá terminado por completo para el otoño de 1975» y respondió «Posiblemente», diciendo que cualquier intervalo entre el fin de los 6.000 años y el reinado de Cristo «puede suponer solo una diferencia de semanas o meses, no de años». Source: The Watchtower, 15 de agosto de 1968
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La Atalaya del 15 de marzo de 1980, pág. 17, admitió que algunas declaraciones «daban a entender que la realización de tales esperanzas para ese año era más una probabilidad que una mera posibilidad» y que estas «eclipsaron a las que aconsejaban cautela».
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15 de agosto de 1968 · pp.494-501 · pars. 29-30, 37 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ.”
The same paragraph (30) continues: 'Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man's existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah's seventh creative "day." ... It may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years.' Par. 29: 'in the fall of the year 1975 ... it will be 6,000 years since the creation of Adam'. Par. 37: 'They have not dedicated their lives to serve Jehovah only until 1975.'
Two months later Awake! asked ‘What Will the 1970’s Bring?’ and answered that the six thousand years ‘will evidently finish in the autumn of the year 1975’ and that ‘the 1970’s will certainly see the most critical times mankind has yet known’.Source: Awake!, 8 de octubre de 1968
Implicación fuerte · 8 de octubre de 1968Verificado
¡Despertad! del 8 de octubre de 1968 («What Will the 1970's Bring?») dijo que los 6.000 años «evidentemente terminarán en el otoño del año 1975», que «nadie puede decir» que esto señale de forma concluyente 1975 como el fin, pero que «la década de 1970 verá sin duda los tiempos más críticos que la humanidad haya conocido» y que una intervención divina en la década de 1970 «ciertamente no debería sorprendernos». Source: Awake!, 8 de octubre de 1968
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Cubierto por el reconocimiento general de 1980.
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8 de octubre de 1968 · pp.13-15 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“That seven-year period will evidently finish in the autumn of the year 1975. Does this mean that the above evidence positively points to 1975 as the time for the complete end of this system of things? Since the Bible does not specifically state this, no man can say. However, of this we can be sure: The 1970's will certainly see the most critical times mankind has yet known.”
Sub-heading 'When Do 6,000 Years End?'; adds 'If the 1970's should see intervention by Jehovah God ... that should surely not surprise us.' Awake! before 1970 is not on wol.jw.org.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Awake!, What Will the 1970's Bring?
Nota de confianza.Scan OCR opened; issue header and page markers 13, 14, 15 confirmed around the passage.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive (daveignatius) compilation of scans from three Awake! issues; page headers 'OCTOBER 8, 1968' and page numbers 13-15 visible. Copyright 1968; short quotation only.
La Atalaya del 1 de mayo de 1968 calculó que el otoño de 1975 marcaba «6.000 años completos del séptimo día de Dios» y, ante la pregunta de si 1975 «traerá la batalla del Armagedón», respondió: «Nadie puede decir con certeza lo que traerá un año determinado» — a la vez que instaba a los lectores a considerar el viejo sistema como «un barco que se hunde». Source: The Watchtower, 1 de mayo de 1968
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Proclamadores, pág. 104, nota h, cita este artículo como uno de los que aconsejaban cautela.
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
1 de mayo de 1968 · pp.271-273 · pars. 5, 8 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Eight years from the autumn of 1967 would bring us to the autumn of 1975, fully 6,000 years into God's seventh day, his rest day. ... Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon? No one can say with certainty what any particular year will bring.”
Cautionary sentence sits inside an article urging readers to treat the old system as 'a sinking ship'.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, Making Wise Use of the Remaining Time
Nota de confianza.Opened on wol; page markers 271 and 272/273 confirmed. The wording 'within a few years at most the final parts of Bible prophecy...' attributed by some discovery sites to pp.272-273 was not found in this article.
If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. ... Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.
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.
Declaración explícita · 22 de mayo de 1969Verificado
¡Despertad! del 22 de mayo de 1969 dijo a los lectores jóvenes: «usted también tiene que afrontar el hecho de que nunca llegará a viejo en este sistema de cosas actual... este sistema corrupto está destinado a terminar dentro de unos pocos años», y que «como joven, usted nunca desarrollará ninguna carrera que ofrezca este sistema», desaconsejando los planes de ir a la universidad. Source: Awake!, 22 de mayo de 1969
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22 de mayo de 1969 · pp.13-14 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. ... Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.”
Ties the statement to 'the generation that observed the beginning of the "last days" in 1914' and advises against planning for college.
Nota de procedencia y verificación for Awake!, What Future for the Young? (article addressed to young people)
Nota de confianza.Wording confirmed in an excerpt scan of pp. 13-14 only; the passage lies within it. The article title is not visible in the excerpt and is taken from secondary citations; the passage is often cited as p. 15, which the scan does not support.
Procedencia del escaneo.Internet Archive excerpt scan labelled 'pages 13-14' (uploader Paul.bond.faith). Copyright 1969; short quotation only.
Notes.Not on wol.jw.org (Awake! coverage starts 1970).
Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente.src-g-1969-0522-p13-15-never-grow-old
El Ministerio del Reino de mayo de 1974 informó de «hermanos que venden sus casas y propiedades y planean pasar el resto de sus días en este viejo sistema en el servicio de precursor» y calificó esto de «una excelente manera de pasar el poco tiempo que queda antes del fin de este mundo inicuo». Source: Kingdom Ministry, mayo de 1974
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La Atalaya del 15 de julio de 1976, pág. 441: «no es aconsejable que fijemos la vista en cierta fecha y descuidemos las cosas de todos los días».
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mayo de 1974 · p.3 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“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.”
Reports a US peak of 20,394 pioneers and asks readers whether they can adjust their affairs to pioneer.
The autumn of 1975 passed. The Watchtower of 1 October 1975 recorded that ‘mankind then completed 6,000 years of existence on earth’, in an issue that also carried an article titled ‘Why Delay?’.Source: The Watchtower, 1 de octubre de 1975The organisation’s own statistics, in its own definitions, then fell for two years.
Worldwide peak publishers by service year, 1975 to 1978 (the organisation’s own figures and wording)
The 1980 Yearbook reports increases in 1979 ‘though not large’ in lands such as the United States and Great Britain, and an upswing in Nigeria and the Philippines ‘after a few years of decreases in the number of Witnesses in these lands’; it gives no worldwide figure in its narrative.Source: 1980 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1980
The Yearbooks attribute the decrease to some who ‘did not share in giving a witness each month’ and ‘others became inactive’; the 1993 history says that ‘in 1975, there was disappointment … As a result, some withdrew from the organization’, while calling the number ‘relatively small’. We state the figures and the organisation’s explanation; we do not assign a cause.Source: 1979 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1979Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (jv), 1993
El otoño de 1975 pasó sin Armagedón; La Atalaya del 1 de octubre de 1975 señaló que «la humanidad completó entonces 6.000 años de existencia en la tierra» y preguntó «Why Delay?» («¿Por qué demorarse?»). Source: The Watchtower, 1 de octubre de 1975
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Proclamadores, pág. 633: «en 1975 hubo desilusión cuando no se materializaron las expectativas respecto al comienzo del Milenio. Como resultado, algunos se apartaron de la organización».
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
1 de octubre de 1975 · p.579 · par. 1 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Since a new Jewish lunar year began in September 1975 a significant point in human history was reached. What was that? According to the Bible's count of time, mankind then completed 6,000 years of existence on earth.”
Published as the autumn of 1975 arrived; the issue also carries 'Why Delay?'.
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Los anuarios atribuyen el descenso a «varios factores» y a que algunos no informaban cada mes; Proclamadores, pág. 633, dice que «el número de los que desertaron fue relativamente pequeño».
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
1977 · p.23 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“This year there was a peak of 2,248,390 Kingdom publishers ... In 1975 the peak was 2,179,256. ... the hours were fewer, namely, 359,258,019 hours, to compare with 382,296,208 ... There are not as many pioneer publishers as the year before—114,026 ... to compare with 130,225”
Notes 'some 16,000 fewer pioneers' and that 'some publishers ... did not spend as much time in the field service as formerly'.
1979 · p.23 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“There has been an overall 1.4-percent decrease in the number of Kingdom publishers. ... there were 2,086,698, on the average, who shared in making known the 'good news' compared with 2,117,194 the year before. The peak number of publishers came to 2,182,341, which is also below that of last year.”
Adds: 'a number did not share in giving a witness each month, and others became inactive.'
1980 · pp.11-12 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“After a few years of decreases in the number of Witnesses in these lands, recent months have seen a definite upswing. ... It was also happifying to see increases this year, though not large, in such lands as the United States and Great Britain.”
The sentence concerns Nigeria and the Philippines ('the reports from such lands as Nigeria and the Philippines. After a few years of decreases in the number of Witnesses in these lands, recent months have seen a definite upswing'), and the following sentence concerns the United States and Great Britain; it is not a worldwide statement and the narrative gives no worldwide peak figure.
If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.
La primera respuesta situó la responsabilidad en la persona: «no fue la palabra de Dios la que falló o le engañó y le causó decepción, sino… que su propio entendimiento se basaba en premisas equivocadas».
15 March 1980
‘It is to be regretted’
With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God ... considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. ... there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones
Cuatro años después la organización reconoció que «se publicaron otras declaraciones que daban a entender que tal realización de esperanzas para ese año era más una probabilidad que una simple posibilidad», y que estas «aparentemente eclipsaron a las que llamaban a la cautela».
Explicación de la organización · 15 de julio de 1976Verificado
La primera respuesta oficial, en julio de 1976, dijo a quien estuviera «desilusionado» que ajustara su punto de vista, «al ver que no fue la palabra de Dios la que falló o lo engañó y le causó desilusión, sino que su propio entendimiento se basaba en premisas equivocadas». Source: The Watchtower, 15 de julio de 1976
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Esta es la explicación de la organización; sitúa el error en el entendimiento del individuo.
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15 de julio de 1976 · pp.440-441 · pars. 15-16 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.”
Par. 16 addresses 'one who counted heavily on a date'.
Explicación de la organización · 15 de marzo de 1980Verificado
En marzo de 1980, La Atalaya reconoció que, junto a las declaraciones que aconsejaban cautela, «se publicaron otras declaraciones que daban a entender que la realización de tales esperanzas para ese año era más una probabilidad que una mera posibilidad. Es de lamentar que estas últimas declaraciones al parecer eclipsaran a las que aconsejaban cautela». Source: The Watchtower, 15 de marzo de 1980
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Proclamadores, pág. 633, repite lo esencial: la idea se expresó «a veces como una posibilidad, a veces con mayor firmeza».
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15 de marzo de 1980 · pp.17-18 · par. 5 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God ... considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. ... there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones”
The organisation's fullest acknowledgement about 1975.
“The Society never said 1975.” It did not say ‘Armageddon in 1975’. It published the 1975 chronology in a book, at least four magazine articles and a Kingdom Ministry, asked in print whether Armageddon would be over by then, answered ‘possibly … weeks or months, not years’, and in 1980 conceded that published statements implied probability.Source: The Watchtower, 15 de agosto de 1968Source: The Watchtower, 15 de marzo de 1980
“Cautionary statements were published.” True, and quoted here (‘No one can say with certainty’, May 1968; Franz, 1966). The 1980 article itself says the cautionary statements were ‘overshadowed’.Source: The Watchtower, 1 de mayo de 1968
“Individual brothers speculated.” The May 1974 Kingdom Ministry, the organisation’s monthly bulletin for congregation meetings, praised members selling their homes as ‘a fine way to spend the short time remaining’.Source: Kingdom Ministry, mayo de 1974
Confianza. Las revistas de 1967 a 1980, el Ministerio del Reino y los Anuarios se leyeron en la Biblioteca en Línea Watchtower, tomando los números de página de sus marcadores de página. Vida eterna en libertad de los hijos de Dios (1966) se leyó en una copia de archivo no oficial y queda corroborado por las propias descripciones que la organización hizo de él en 1980 y 1993. Una frase que a menudo se atribuye a La Atalaya del 1 de mayo de 1968 («dentro de unos pocos años a lo sumo…») no está en ese artículo y no se utiliza. Calificación: implicación fuerte, reconocida por la organización en 1980.
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Publicación primaria de los testigos de JehováVerificado
1966 · pp.29-30 · pars. 41-43 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“According to this trustworthy Bible chronology six thousand years from man's creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. ... How appropriate it would be for Jehovah God to make of this coming seventh period of a thousand years a sabbath period of rest and release, a great Jubilee sabbath”
15 de abril de 1967 · p.236 · par. 25 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“According to a more recent calculation of the Bible timetable, six thousand years of man's existence will end in the latter half of the year 1975, which is well within this century. The Bible millennium is ahead of us”
1 de mayo de 1968 · pp.271-273 · pars. 5, 8 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Eight years from the autumn of 1967 would bring us to the autumn of 1975, fully 6,000 years into God's seventh day, his rest day. ... Does this mean that the year 1975 will bring the battle of Armageddon? No one can say with certainty what any particular year will bring.”
15 de agosto de 1968 · pp.494-501 · pars. 29-30, 37 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ.”
8 de octubre de 1968 · pp.13-15 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“That seven-year period will evidently finish in the autumn of the year 1975. Does this mean that the above evidence positively points to 1975 as the time for the complete end of this system of things? Since the Bible does not specifically state this, no man can say. However, of this we can be sure: The 1970's will certainly see the most critical times mankind has yet known.”
22 de mayo de 1969 · pp.13-14 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. ... Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.”
mayo de 1974 · p.3 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“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.”
1 de octubre de 1975 · p.579 · par. 1 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“Since a new Jewish lunar year began in September 1975 a significant point in human history was reached. What was that? According to the Bible's count of time, mankind then completed 6,000 years of existence on earth.”
15 de julio de 1976 · pp.440-441 · pars. 15-16 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises.”
1977 · p.23 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“This year there was a peak of 2,248,390 Kingdom publishers ... In 1975 the peak was 2,179,256. ... the hours were fewer, namely, 359,258,019 hours, to compare with 382,296,208 ... There are not as many pioneer publishers as the year before—114,026 ... to compare with 130,225”
1979 · p.23 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“There has been an overall 1.4-percent decrease in the number of Kingdom publishers. ... there were 2,086,698, on the average, who shared in making known the 'good news' compared with 2,117,194 the year before. The peak number of publishers came to 2,182,341, which is also below that of last year.”
1980 · pp.11-12 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“After a few years of decreases in the number of Witnesses in these lands, recent months have seen a definite upswing. ... It was also happifying to see increases this year, though not large, in such lands as the United States and Great Britain.”
15 de marzo de 1980 · pp.17-18 · par. 5 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
“With the appearance of the book Life Everlasting—in Freedom of the Sons of God ... considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. ... there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones”
1993 · p.104 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“The book Life Everlasting—In Freedom of the Sons of God, released ... in 1966, pointed to 1975. ... Brother Franz ... stated, in essence: 'It could. But we are not saying. All things are possible with God. But we are not saying. ... But the big point of it all is this, dear friends: Time is short.'”