ABOUT ME
This is my testimony to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father. I first gave my heart to Jesus when I was 12 years old at my grandmother's church in the USA, while on route to my family's home overseas. My earthly father raised us with a bedtime prayer (The Lord's Prayer) up until the age of 8 or 9. After that, the only talk of God or Jesus that I remember was on brief trips back to the USA and attending my grandmother's church. I thank God for her faith in Jesus which I observed over the years on visits.
Then, when I was age 15 on a trip to Jerusalem, two young persons with a guitar approached me while standing with my family near the Jaffa Gate of the Old City to witness to me about the love and mercy of Jesus. I was captivated by their witness to me and their spirit of kindness. My Father showed patience as I was detaining the family from our day's planned drive to Damascus, Syria. My father revealed to me many years later that he saw the spiritual need in me and wanted to expose me to Jesus when it was possible. But he was not personally walking with Christ and we lived in a far way place from western civilization so exposure to my grandmother and her church would be on brief trips back to the homeland.
My testimony begins in 1990. Aside from this page titled “About”, there is much more to discover about my journey and from 1991 when I joined a religion. While this is my testimony to Jesus and his saving power, it is also addressing my participation, and indeed baptism, to the Watchtower Jehovah's Witness religion. I believe it was the Holy Spirit that has been guiding me on this journey from the moment I pledged my heart to HIM to discover and worship God in Spirit and Truth. I have worked on this paper for a few years and probably will work on it again a few times in the future. We are all growing creatures and as we grow towards Yeshua and the Heavenly Father, we will understand more and adhere more to his commandments and overcome this world and our flesh, to live spiritual lives in praise to the Father!
My Prayer is The Heavenly Father will bless you as you take interest in getting to know him. He is your creator and he sent his only begotten Son as a mercy gift for the atonement for your sins. To my Jehovah's Witness friends, my prayer is that you will reach out to me if you need help in understanding what the Bible actually says about true worship and salvation. I understand the pain associated with "waking up" from deception, and the joy in discovering the true Jesus Christ. If you want fellowship as you cling to Jesus, please contact me. There are many former JWs that have found the true Jesus and are happy for it and are SAVED for it!
To those that “wake up” and feel mental and spiritual distress, I assure you that God (Jehovah) and Jesus Christ are real but they are not the same God and Christ as taught by the Watchtower. If we let the Bible be the “touchstone” of what is TRUE, then there is no need to “throw out the baby Jesus with the bathwater”, as I like to say. Reject the doctrine of men, but learn the Word of God. Read on here my six rebuttal points to some of the Watchtower’s key doctrines which are not biblically sound teachings. Tell me what you think. Have I missed something?
My attitude is let the word of God be found true but men be found to be lacking. So, I am humble to say I don’t know everything, but I’m yielding to the Holy Spirit to continue my enlightenment towards knowing and understanding God. Please join me in this journey. Then we will say, “…Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. (Isa 2:3 WEB)