Awake!, “What Will the 1970's Bring?”
“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.
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Provenance and verification note for Awake!, What Will the 1970's Bring?
Confidence note. Scan OCR opened; issue header and page markers 13, 14, 15 confirmed around the passage.
Scan provenance. 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.
Corroborated by. src-w-1968-0815-p494-501-1975
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g-1968-1008-p13-15-1970s