I remember clearly receiving the 'new light' (c1976) that before the "greater majority of those who were of the age of understanding' " (supposedly some age around the mid teens but undefined) in 1914 come to pass, the end this wicked system of things will surely come. No mention of any anointed people. The end was supposedly coming like a thief in the night. That was the Truth at that time and I taught others this Truth as it was taught to me.

After 1975's promised apocalypse failed to come as scheduled, and up until I escaped in 1983 that was the official line. I challenged my (publisher) brother in 2008 about this and he denied this had ever been the doctrine but insisted that until every person who been alive in 1914 had passed there was still time for Armageddon to arrive on schedule and indeed for me to come back to the KH meetings and repent. Still no mention of any anointed people in the Armageddon date calculation formula.

So now more we have even more 'new light' here! Sounds like Armageddon has a moving target date to me. I'm only 45 years old and I have personally, in my own lifetime seen the Armageddon arrival date parameters move 4 times!. When I was a little kid staying at my Great Grandma's house I used to read the ancient Society books she had that dated to the 1920's....there were even more Armageddon date predictions that I read in there.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are a Doomsday Cult.

Tim