La Tour de Garde du 15 août 1968 ('Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?') demandait si Harmaguédon 'will be all over by the autumn of 1975' et répondait 'Possibly', en disant qu'un éventuel intervalle entre la fin des 6 000 ans et le règne du Christ 'may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years'.

The Watchtower, “Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?”

15 août 1968 · pp.494-501 · pars. 29-30, 37 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ.”

The same paragraph (30) continues: 'Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man's existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah's seventh creative "day." ... It may involve only a difference of weeks or months, not years.' Par. 29: 'in the fall of the year 1975 ... it will be 6,000 years since the creation of Adam'. Par. 37: 'They have not dedicated their lives to serve Jehovah only until 1975.'

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