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.:MARGERY – Descobrindo verdades b\u00edblicas que contradiziam a Torre de Vigia, ela saiu pela Verdade real.<\/strong><\/p>\n Como Testemunha de Jeov\u00e1, Romanos 11:25-26, abriu de facto, os olhos de Margery. O fato de que Deus ainda ama os judeus e tem um plano para os trazer \u00e0 Sua salva\u00e7\u00e3o era o oposto do que lhe havia sido ensinado pela Torre de Vigia. Deus abriu-lhe os olhos para ver que na mensagem de porta-em-porta das Testemunhas, ela estava perseguindo a igreja, pregando julgamento em vez da gra\u00e7a, miseric\u00f3rdia e salva\u00e7\u00e3o. Margery sabia que tinha de deixar a organiza\u00e7\u00e3o, mesmo que isso significasse perder os amigos que ela gostava tanto.<\/p>\n I was a housewife who had no church background and no particular religious beliefs when the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses came into my life.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know that there was someone (a Creator) who had made this world and the universe we live in.<\/p>\n My story begins one Wednesday morning while preparing the family\u2019s midday meal back in 1957.\u00a0 That morning a knock came on the door and when I answered it, two young ladies stood there.\u00a0 They told me that there was a Creator who had brought us into being, and they told me about Adam and the fall of man through his sin of disobedience, that because of that, death had passed upon all mankind.\u00a0 Then, they then gave me a book called, The good news of the Kingdom,<\/em> which they asked me to read, and made an appointment to come visit me again.\u00a0 I told them to come again about this time the following Wednesday, and after reading their book which seemed like the promise of paradise on earth, I eagerly looked forward to their next visit.\u00a0 I even went next door to tell my neighbors about the Witnesses\u2019 visit, but they only scoffed at what I told them.<\/p>\n As promised the following week, the two young ladies returned and added more information about the Creator\u2019s works.\u00a0 They told me why we died, and that death came through this one man, Adam, and that we all went back to the dust of the ground because of him.\u00a0 After this, the Witnesses came regularly to my door, not just these two young women, but other Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses who all seemed to have love for one another and seemed to know a lot more about the Scriptures than anyone I have ever known before.\u00a0 No one I knew who went to church ever talked about God or seemed to know anything about Him, but here were people who personally knew things about God, and could relate to events in the Scriptures as if they personally knew the people involved.\u00a0 This knowledge began to interest and excite me.\u00a0 These feelings led me to see things that were good and evil in my life, and the things that didn\u2019t please God.\u00a0 I found that I did want to please God with my life and all that I did, so I was attracted more and more to this group of people who called themselves Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.\u00a0 As I began to associate more and more with them, my family joined in this as well.<\/p>\n The next step came when I wanted to be completely in the Witnesses\u2019 organization. I trusted that I could be saved by being under their teaching and that at Armageddon I would not perish, but would inherit everlasting life on this paradise earth through a resurrection.\u00a0 I wanted to tell as many people as possible of this good news and hope that I had.\u00a0 So, I went door-to-door and I told them what the Witnesses had taught me about this one man Adam whose sin brought death upon us all, but that through witnessing to the name of Jehovah God, we would secure everlasting life and be saved from Jehovah\u2019s judgment at Armageddon, so that the paradise earth would be ours to enjoy forever.\u00a0 Such was the compelling power of the message we were going door-to-door with.\u00a0 It seemed to me far different from the churches\u2019 weak message, as they didn\u2019t seem to have the power of the hope we had.<\/p>\n This hope we were experiencing led to the need for new premises\u2014a new Kingdom Hall.\u00a0 The funds for the building came through donation from Witnesses and a repayable loan from the Watchtower Society, with all the work being done voluntarily.\u00a0 I reasoned,<\/p>\n \u201cHow could Jehovah God not be with us when He seemed to be blessing us with a new Kingdom Hall<\/strong>, and all the congregation actively being involved in its building<\/strong>, while witnessing to Jehovah? Surely, people would see that God was really with us in our lives and in our efforts.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This was the year 1968, and little did I know I would never ever see the inside of the new Kingdom Hall.\u00a0 I helped to lay the foundation, and was given the task of laying the first brick, but then God stepped in, and out of the Witnesses I came.<\/p>\n I was ill after the birth of my last daughter.\u00a0 I had to have my womb removed and was recovering at home.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t been out for several weeks, but the Witnesses took me along to the meetings, in a room they had in the town center, awaiting the new Kingdom Hall\u2019s completion.\u00a0 One weekend, my daughter (Sylvia) and son-in-law (John) came to visit me.\u00a0 Both were also Witnesses, and had gone to live \u201cwhere the need was great\u201d to plant a new congregation.\u00a0 They came over with their young daughter Jane, and Jane decided she would like to stay with me \u201cGrandma\u201d for a week.<\/p>\n This is the funny part of how I left the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.\u00a0 While Jane was staying with me, she came down with German measles, and I promised to look after her during that time, and that John and Sylvia could come and pick her up the next weekend when she would be feeling better.\u00a0 Since Jane was with me, I was prevented from attending the meetings because a woman there was in early pregnancy, and they didn\u2019t want to risk her baby being affected by this bout of German measles being passed on from Jane to her.<\/p>\n The next weekend John and Sylvia came back to collect Jane, but before John left, he took me aside and opened the bible to Romans chapter 11, and told me to read just two verses 25 and 26:<\/p>\n \u201cFor I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in<\/strong>. \u00a0And so all Israel will be saved<\/strong>, as it is written: \u201cThe Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.\u201d\u2014King James Version<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n John asked me what I saw in those passages of Scripture, and I said, \u201cOh, the Jews are still beloved of God and at the proper time he will gather the nation in to Himself and take away the sin of Jacob and remove their sins, and they will know Him.\u201d\u00a0 John and Jane then left and just as John was going out the door, he said something strange, \u201cIf you never speak to me again, I\u2019ll understand<\/strong>,\u201d and with that he was gone.<\/p>\n I went to bed that night forgetting all about his words until the early hours of the morning. When I awoke, Scriptures kept flooding into my mind. I couldn\u2019t retain or remember them, but they just kept coming.\u00a0 I felt a wonderful peace come over me, yet at other times I would be sobbing uncontrollably, all the while my husband lay fast asleep, undisturbed at my side.\u00a0 Someone seemed to be telling me things.\u00a0 I saw that in preaching the Witnesses\u2019 message door-to-door; I was persecuting the church, preaching judgment instead of grace, mercy, and salvation<\/strong>.\u00a0 The turmoil continued on Sunday night also, but I was not tired when I got up Monday morning.<\/p>\n On Monday morning, I grabbed my coat and walked out the door, not knowing what I was going to do.\u00a0 This was the first time after my illness that I\u2019d been out of the house on my own.\u00a0 I no sooner got into town when I saw a Witness and confronted him.\u00a0 I said, \u201cI\u2019ve got something to tell you.\u201d\u00a0 He replied that he didn\u2019t have time to talk because he was going to a bible study with someone, but that he would see me again later.\u00a0 I then told him:<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I have to tell you is a matter of life and death<\/strong>. I can no longer be a Jehovah\u2019s Witness, because it isn\u2019t true!<\/strong>\u00a0 The foundation of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses is based on the teaching that the Jews have been utterly cast off by God, but their rejection isn\u2019t final.\u00a0 The Jews are still beloved of God, and their rejection is only until the fullness of the Gentiles have been gathered in and God will then turn His attention again to His chosen people, despite their disobedience of unbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This Witness told me to come to the library and to keep my voice down as what I said shocked and irritated him.\u00a0 He believed that what I was telling him was of the devil.\u00a0 \u201cThanks,\u201d I said as I walked out the door.<\/p>\n Now, to make a long story short, that day I confronted a whole bunch of Witnesses, and told them the same news.\u00a0 None of the Witnesses I told could give an understanding of the Scripture in context of what the organization taught.\u00a0 Some were bewildered and confused, but utterly refused to accept the things I was saying.\u00a0 Others put my behavior down to my recent illness and couldn\u2019t understand why I was out and about when I\u2019d been so ill.\u00a0 Still others were upset and near tears since what I was saying would lead to me being expelled from the Watchtower organization.<\/p>\n And I was disfellowshipped to be sure.\u00a0 A meeting was called, and I was ordered to explain my actions.\u00a0 I told them to open their Bibles to Romans 11 and read the Scriptures.\u00a0 They did and became fearful, not knowing how to explain what they were readin<\/strong>g.\u00a0 They tried to put what I was telling them down to a confused state of mind due to my illness, but I have a very broad Lancashire accent and somehow my voice changed.\u00a0 They asked me if I\u2019d been taking elocution lessons, which I hadn\u2019t.\u00a0 I said that I was speaking in my normal way, as I hadn\u2019t noticed anything at all.<\/p>\n Anyway, I was disfellowshipped, and I began to realize it was Christ that I belonged to and not an organization<\/strong>.\u00a0 After that the usual happened.\u00a0 None of the Witnesses would speak to me, but I went about telling all that I\u2019d previously witnessed to about Christ<\/strong>.\u00a0 I told them that the Witnesses were not true, and that it was Christ one belongs to.\u00a0 Some were shocked, others were glad I\u2019d come to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n I told vicars (high ranking priests or clergymen acting on behalf of superiors), but they simply couldn\u2019t comprehend my newfound faith.\u00a0 I ended up in a little Pentecostal church.\u00a0 It was rather like the Witnesses, but with real love.\u00a0 If anything needed doing, people would offer their services, and the pastor, Mr. Smith, would bring sandwiches from his Sunday lunch in case anyone visited the church who hadn\u2019t eaten.\u00a0 So, much for the Witnesses telling me, \u201cYou\u2019ll never find anyone like yourself.\u201d\u00a0 Well I did, and I\u2019m still telling them that in Adam you die, and in Christ, all shall be made alive!<\/p>\n John, my son-in-law, had also found Christ, but he continued his role as a Jehovah\u2019s Witness elder while having a Christian church praying for him.\u00a0 One Sunday morning, he preached a different talk to the Witnesses than what was assigned.\u00a0 He preached to them from Romans 11, and he was forcefully dragged from the platform and later disfellowshipped from the Watchtower organization.<\/p>\n There is much more I could add to this testimony, but this is a brief account of my experiences.\u00a0 May the Lord bless this to each and every one of you who read this, and remember it is Christ and Christ alone Who you belong to, cling only to that hope, and I\u2019ll see you up there!<\/p>\n In Christian Love, \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .:MARGERY – Descobrindo verdades b\u00edblicas que contradiziam a Torre de Vigia, ela saiu pela Verdade real. Como Testemunha de Jeov\u00e1, Romanos 11:25-26, abriu de facto, os olhos de Margery. 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\nMargery<\/p>\n