I initially didn’t want to write anything personal about me, but I did enjoy all of the others who told us something about themselves and so I thought I’d put a few things on this thread. I was born in 1955 in a Catholic Family. I once asked a Catholic Priest, how do you know that Catholicism is the true religion? His answer was that it was because they taught the Trinity. I was only about 9 years old at the time and so I just accepted that. But then as I grew up I realized that pretty much all “christian” religions teach the Trinity. At 19 years old I wanted to study the bible, but back then, the Catholic church didn’t really have bible studies. Instead of telling me, “no, Catholics don’t do that”, they just said “no bible studies at this time.” So, I spent several days calling many different Catholic Churches with the same response. I gave up and tried to read the bible on my own, but gave up on that too. Couldn’t get past the lineage without falling asleep. So, I put my spiritual hunger on ignore, got married had a family and then divorced.
My first husband was Pentecostal (holy roller) and by then I was very suspicious of “religious” people having seen so much hypocrisy. But I gave it an honest look and realized that it was all garbage. And, it had no effect on my first husband, with the exception of making him more of a fake. By the way, he turned into a drug addict, a criminal and he died a few years ago from a drug overdose. This not a bible quote but still a true saying: “Those who live without discipline, die without dignity.”
A very kind sister found me door to door at a time when I was out of work. I was very cautious but agreed to a bible study. Then she surprised me by bringing her husband, which really threw up the red flags to me since I did not trust men (both my father and my husband were abusers.). But I listened and the brother was very kind and humble. I could not deny that the bible was true. The puzzle pieces fit and it had the ring of truth. Something I realize today too when reading Robert’s book and his comments on the daily texts. So, off I went as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
My children were pre-teens when I came into the truth. My fleshly family abandoned and opposed me for becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and my ex-husband’s family also opposed everything taught by Jehovah‘s Witnesses. My children fell under their influence and rejected the truth of the bible and they rejected me because of it, down to this day. But I met Medi-Tator at the weekly book study in 1995 and we got married in short order. We were both in Southern California at that time but Medi-Tator missed living in Hawaii and so when the opportunity presented itself, he returned to live in Hawaii and brought me with him in 1999 and we’ve been here ever since.
I have been plodding along in the truth until this vax fiasco. I always knew it was knowledge of God’s word that would prevent me from becoming prey to spiritual wolves and that has proven true and so here I am. My husband has a daughter from his first marriage and she is a full-time worker for LDC the building work. Her husband is a contractor and Elder. They are both vaccinated but she was coerced into getting it and now does not want to talk about it. Most recently she has had a bad ”cold” for about 2 weeks and we are hoping that she won’t be permanently damaged by the vaccine. She took many health remedies and procedures to remove the spike protein but we will see how it goes and we hope she will not get the booster.
My husband found Robert’s site years ago and I just thought my husband had apostate leanings. My husband actually had many more years in the truth than I had and recognized the beginnings of this apostasy long ago, which was really a stumbling block to him making progress in the truth. I wouldn’t read anything on the website until my desperation from this vaccine issue. Now that I’ve read it, I realize that timing is everything. I could not have accepted the message before realizing that the GB was apostate. So, you are now up to date. Thank you for reading.
I do feel so much freedom, now that I am not attending meetings. And we really do need hope to be emphasized now that we have escaped from the tyranny of an apostate GB. Thank you so much for pointing this out!!! There REALLY is light and truth and life beyond.!
