Just got home and received information from a source regarding London Bethel:
A Bethel couple told my source that they are getting rid of about 20/25 Bethelites every week and that if they are to go, they will get called in on a Friday and given their leaving date.
Everyone is "on edge" and hoping that if they get the boot, they've got time to make alternative plans.
Perhaps Bethelites everywhere should apply this scripture, by looking for a job and accommodation now - and then just resign from their "vow of poverty" without giving advance warning.
(Proverbs 22:3) "The shrewd one sees the danger and conceals himself, But the inexperienced keep right on going and suffer the consequences."
If anyone asks why you left - it was to save a fellow Bethelite from being booted!
Why wait for your execution when the door to freedom is wide open? Leave with you dignity & self-respect intact!
I was a Bethelite in the United States in the 1970's and here is the standard request made to incoming Bethelites in those days. In 1976 I left and eventually bought into a small business where I was working. If I had fallen for this foolishness I would be 60 years old and broke! In early 1976 I was taking an older gentleman and his wife on tour at Watchtower Farms. He came right out and told me that he was a Bethelite in the 1940's and not to put too much stock in what the leaders preach. He said that in the 40's they were telling the Bethel family over and over that Armageddon was imminent. 'You will never have much of a life if you listen to everything that they say.', was his advice. I wish I could thank him for that fatherly wisdom, but I never found out his name or where he was from and he has probably long ago passed away.