The report states:
“Banda said the Jehovah’s Witnesses . . . had been deceived by their own kind, he said, into believing that ‘someone called Armageddon would destroy Malawi on November 15 and would build them a new city at Lilongwe.’
Awake! March 8, 1973 p. 22
Anyone familiar with the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses will, of course, know that never have they believed or taught that Armageddon is a person. Nor have they ever taught that Malawi would be destroyed on November 15, or that a new city would be built for them there.
Awake! March 8, 1973 p. 22
At Darmstadt, Germany, when soldiers began raising antiaircraft missiles and getting gear ready for possible desert warfare, a Reuters report notes that one said: “Some of them are talking about the Armageddon. Some guys are really scared and some are getting religious all of a sudden.”
Awake! December 22, 1973 p. 30