What Happened to Armageddon?
Knorr was succeeded by the current head of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Frederick Franz, who is in his late nineties. He had been the Witnesses’ leading theologian, and his services were often on call. For some years the sect’s magazines had been predicting that Armageddon would occur in 1975. When it didn’t, Franz had to find an explanation. Witnesses believe that Adam was created in 4026 B.C. and that human beings have been allotted 6000 years of existence until Armageddon and the beginning of the millennium Simple arithmetic gives 1975 as the year Armageddon would arrive. Franz explained that Armageddon would actually come 6000 years after Eve’s creation. We don’t know how long after Adam’s creation she came on the scene, said Franz maybe it was several years. In any case we’ll just have to wait, knowing the end is just around the comer. When the final battle does occurremember, it will be during the lifetime of “millions” of people alive in 1914, which means it can’t be too far offJeho
