Let the earth be joyful. Let the many islands rejoice.
Clouds and thick gloom are all around him;
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Fire goes before him and consumes his adversaries on every side.
His lightning bolts light up the land; the earth sees it and trembles.
The mountains melt like wax before Jehovah,
before the Lord of the whole earth.
Growing up in Kansas, at the age of 20, in 1981, I found the truth that led me to Jehovah. In this wicked world, I had found a “diamond in the rough.” Nothing was more precious to me. After 20 years, though, the diamond had lost its sparkle. Years of feeling torn down, never feeling worthy…I lost my joy and left the organization.
The basic truths, though, I never let go of. Instead of being a PIMO, I was a POMI physically out, mentally in. The longer I was out, though, the road back felt overwhelming. That all changed in 2020. When the pandemic hit, it was the first time in my lifetime that I had witnessed an event that affected the whole world. This was my “flee to the mountain moment.” I felt this event was Biblical.
I went to the JW.org website continuously to see how Watchtower was interpreting this world event. I had already done my research on the vaccines, and I knew anyone with eyes to see had to know that if one of the arms of the UN, the WHO, was pushing a vaccine with aborted fetal cells, it was bad. I knew for sure WT would be warning God’s people.
I was, however, shocked to see that not only was the WT not warning God’s people, but they were promoting the vaccines. The more I looked into it, the more I realized that after being gone for 20 years, the Watchtower had become unrecognizable.
I had to find out what happened to the organization. I went down every rabbit hole, using the Bible as my lens, connecting the dots to the truths I had never forgotten. I googled the words “Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Illuminati”… and up came a YouTube video by one of Jehovah’s Witnesses entitled Jehovah’s Witnesses—In the Eye of Horus. That video changed my life. I bought the book Jehovah Himself Has Become King and devoured it over and over. It brought me such peace and strengthened my faith to know that the apostasy that the Watchtower was committing was a fulfillment of prophecy and to know that Jehovah was still going to keep his promises.
The chapter entitled “The Partnership” reveals that the WT’s secret partnership with the UN, which officially lasted 10 years, never really ended. After reading that chapter, it was easy to see why the Governing Body promoted the vaccine, and the man of lawlessness and his apostasy were now on full display. Many JW’s left the organization during the pandemic, mostly because of the WT’s support of the deadly vaccine. For me, it was the opposite… the pandemic brought me back to Jehovah in a way I would never have expected. Today, I have a relationship with Jehovah that I never experienced before I left. I was a follower of men, and now I know the difference. To sum up my experience, Dorothy found her way back to Jehovah, never knowing Jehovah was with me all along. I can finally sleep on a stormy night!
Melinda Riling
