" The publishers of this magazine and many of it's readers have no doubt that this unique period really is the last days and that the end is near. "
Aha ! Tricky marketing ploy by the WT leaders - Guilt by way of association ! Translation : We the WT leaders aren't the ONLY ones claiming the end is near ! Many of our READERS are sure the end is near as well ! So if 8 million people believe it - it must be true, right ?
No, hold on there cowboy- all it means is that there are 8 million superstitious bat-shit crazy people like you the WT leaders who THINK it's true. Just claiming it's the alleged " end times " - doesn't make it true. 139 years have passed since 1879 when Russell said the " end " would happen in 1914. If my left nut hangs lower than my right nut- doesn't make it a bowling ball- it's still a testacle. If no " Armageddon " has ever happened before with ANY of the predictions by William Miller, Harold Camping, or the WT Society - you can be pretty well assured that any predictions now or in the future are false