"It has now been 100 years since Jesus was installed as King in heaven. This means our preaching work is more urgent than ever before! Clearly there can not be much more time left for this wicked system of things
That is EXACTLY what they did up big in 1979 it was 100 years since the first Watchtower and it was the theme of the DC with special commemorative Watchtowers.
Anybody who gets recruited now or old timer that stays in almost deserves the ripoff.In 1992 I could see as clear as day that the generation was expiring.The pitch at my Kingdom Hall was electric with impending news system this was when the Berlin wall was going down 1990.
A respectable long time elder tapped me on the shoulder at one meeting and told me how he had telephoned Bethel and asked them,"how much longer can it last" it just can't go on any longer.The District Overseer gave fiery talks on how Jehovah was going to use his people as bait to get Satan to come after us.I had an old car that I KNEW would last me out.Most of the cong had maxed out their credit cards,and those with homes were getting the 3rd mortgage home equity loans and all deep in dept.
WTF???