Interview: Apostate Gets Reinstated as Jehovah's Witness 

Hi listening from Australia born in left 2020 at 80 years old. Have not lost my faith. Very interesting story have lost all friends and family members . Have good neighbors and building friends in the community. Many blessings.

I went through the baptism questions as a teen with 3 elders while i was studying with an elders wife at the same time (i was born into JW my entire 17 years of life at the time) i completed, they discussed and told me that i had been accepted to be baptised at the next convention. I laughed in his face and said that was absolute proif to me that God was not directing the elders or the organisation because i had decieved them all and had the knowledge but had no intention of staying a JW as i didn't believe. I left home pretty quickly afterwards and never went back.

I remember when I was in I would hear people say that Jehovah’s “Holy Spirit” leaves you when stop going to the meetings…. Now I realize it’s really the FOG (fear,obligation,& guilt) starts to lift and you begin to feel human again, and the longer you stay away from the cult the better your life becomes.. no more guilt, depression, anxiety, heart palpitations, no more suicidal attempts, etc….. you’re FREE…..

This interview was spot on. There's no denying that Watchtower organization is a publishing/real estate company masquerading as a spiritually led religion!!

If it helps anyone here who is a victim of this org; or another- think about yourself as a former employee. Would you go back to the employer and beg for your job back if they were abusive? Jehovah Witness are an Organization. An org. A business. A corporate business with a corporate structure and a board of CEO’s. Except they use their religious status to get everything free. Also make sure to exercise critical thinking skills. ❤

Justin my brother thank you again for helping me share my experience with the community I appreciate you soo much bro 🙏🏾 hopefully this video will help even the fully indoctrinated to wake up and see that this organization is run by mere men PRETENDING to have gods backing on judicial matters just so that they can justify their shunning policy ….The fact that my name was announced as being reinstated in two different congregations (Harlem NYC and Honolulu Hawaii) the fact that six elders from two different congregations prayed for Holy Spirit and that “Holy Spirit” compelled them to reinstate an APOSTATE should clearly help any active JW to see that there is no need to run to these elders for confession of sins because all these elders are trained to do is shun and disfellowship when in reality they should be helping the person.

Great interview. The Most High wanted you reinstated so by this experience you could prove that the watchtower society is a cult who's true goal is to maintain a large real estate empire all over the world. Much love and respect to both of you 💜

What he's saying....I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR THE LONGEST TIME! I'm so proud of him for PROVING this fact AND coming showing the public how it really goes down! You, sir... deserve an Emmy or Golden Globe!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Aw man...this was amazing. When our bro started weeping because of what his true friends did...that was the LAST tiny doubt in me that JWs might (just might) be right. But now it's gone. Like concrete being taken from my shoulders. Thanks for this.

Glad that he’s out and free ! Best part is that if anyone finds him; why are they watching “apostate” videos ?

This was well explained bro. There is no holy spirit in the organization that stumbled me for years

Man I LOVE THIS!! I was seriously thinking about doing this a couple years back, but the very thought of going to enough meetings for them to reinstate me makes me want to puke!! Kudos to this young man for doing the seemingly impossible!!

Religion is big business folks…tax free.

What an outstanding testimony! Thank you Jeron for opening up and telling your experience! I am so glad you woke up and can show those "men of god" and everyone watching that they are NOT who they profess to be, but by their FRUITS they show their true selves ! I hope my elder brother sees this video. Maybe he'll wake from his slumber. Congrats young man! 🎉

The exact same thing happened to me only on a much shorter timescale. Was DF'd at the time when I believed the most strongly. Immediately after started a philosophy and subsequent physical anthropology class and was reinstated on the 1 year anneversary after I had fully become an athiest.

Thank you for calling out this religion and the people in it for what it truly is.

I don't understand the point of making oneself miserable in order to prevent a potential future misery.

Phenomenal Phenomenal Interview. A MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!!! Unbelievable!!!!

Wow!!! What a powerful interview!! Thank you both so much for doing this video!! Much love 🤘💜

I remember Jeron from my couple years I lived in Sydney. Glad to see you're out!

I really think a lot of the elders are so repressed s..ually that they get off on judicial committee's

Thank you Jeron for giving some insight to your journey. It's pretty clear that we're dealing with a group of men that are running amuk. Thank you to Justin for another great interview!!!

It really hurt me that they accepting credit cards, actually CREDIT CARDS, they does care about nobody

Great video. Not surprising that being away from the constant indoctrination and negativity will open up your eyes

I know an elder who told me he'd never actually read the Bible from beginning to end. He told me not to tell anyone, so here I am telling everyone.

If only my husband's jw mind would listen to the real truth.

Love it my brother. So glad of the way you went about it. The Cult must go down!!!

GREAT interview! And great courage Jeron to call out the despicable behavior of the org. and nonsense assertion that any of these so-called "prophets" and "channel" are anywhere close to being led by anything other than their own delusional and self interests.

What a great interview this is!! Natural, moving, factual and motivating. Great thanks Justin for this very fine video!!!

Wow... I´ve been disfellowshipped for 39 years now and I´ve never regret it. Sending you true love from sweden, stay strong "Tony". Thank you for this video

I was PIMO bordering on apostate when me and my friends got in trouble for weed. We all had judicials and were publicly reproved. If god or holy spirit was "reading my heart" and guiding those elders, I should've been disfellowshipped. And the others should've as well. Even though they still believed, we all lied, and were all continuing the behavior. The reality is it's 3 unqualified dudes taking their best guess. The reality is I acted my ass off in a confession, judicial, and 6 followups. And I fooled them. Now I'm out.

It really is unbelievable.. it was the best thing that ever happened to me to be disfellowshipped.. and I thought it was the worst thing that ever happened at the time.. thank you for sharing this important experience!! 6 elders.. smh I’m so proud of you for the stand your making and the help your giving for people caught in this net of deceit and abuse.. I’m so glad your out and I’m so very glad I am.. amen

Excellent interview 👏🏿. This is real.

I just love the way that he explain it. Thank you! ❤❤

Awesome video my brother, as always Keith

Awesome interview!!

I’ve never heard of any KH members or otherwise helping to feed the needy/less fortunate members… as for transportation they could buy vans and transport people to and from the meetings, but naw “Jehovah will handle it”…. SMDH!!!

Hi Jeron via Justin, I'm in Australia. I loved your testimony re your friends driving 3 hours to see you. I'd drive to meet you except I live 3000ks away in Victoria, on the border of New South Wales and it would take me 4-5 days to get there, but know this, if I possibly could get there I would! I have friends here who are JWs and they really are lovely people, so deceived, but I love them and pray they will "wake up" too! I've never been a JW but a "born in" Mormon, now a Christian. Maybe one day I can share with them about the 6 elders who are so deceived and deceiving others but I would need to use wisdom first, and be as wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove as I value the time I have with them. God bless you and keep you and if you ever get to Oz again be sure to let me know. Margie In Oz (Australia)

This video says it ALLL! THANK YOU BOTH!

You said so well” he lied like a little bi….” Love it ❤❤❤❤

I love this 💜🪷💜

I had a similar experience. Some years ago, an elder told me, that i was Not appointed as Ministerial Servant, because i did not meet the average Hours of the congregation. Meanwhile he mentioned that a young brother of the congregation was. I asked him. Did you guys say a prayer asking for Jehova‘s spirit? Oh sure he replied I Said: you know what? The angels are certainly very tired, and Need to take some rest. How come he was appointed if he‘s engaged with a wordly girl??? Of course the elders knew nothing about it. He was speechless! Laughing i asked him: Do you still believe in spiritual appointments? Give me a break!!!!

Amazing interview, beautifully expressed

Geoffrey Jackson at ARC acted like a pompous snob. I don't understand how JWs look up to those creeps. When I asked an elder a question and it turned into an inquisition, I began to wake up. In that moment I realized they were not "spirit directed". 🦇

Well done brothers!!!

Wow!! I'm only 8 minutes in and I resonate. 👏 Similar, but very different experience!!

Thanks for sharing Jeron.

Yes, the AA comparison was perfect!

😂😂 Yup i did the same about 7 yrs ago. Had to go to a different hall to be reinstated. Once i got the approval from the new elders, i then had to meet with the original elders. Both Sets said they feel the spirit has moved them to reinstate, and the whole time I knew it was all nonsense. So the mtg I was announced as reinstated, I was hugged on and loved on...that was the last mtg I attended 🤣🤣 ✊🏾

Awesome experience! Proof elders have no Holy Spirit. The real life.

"The voice of ELDERS is like the voice of Jehova himself" that's what they said in our congregation... Ridiculous!!

I can attest to this from my own personal experience with a judicial committee as well as that of someone else I know firsthand. I also caught one of the elders in an outright lie which I found not only disappointing but hurtful. I used to think very highly of the brother that lied to me & the ones who backed him up. I lost my 15 year old son to suicide 2.5 years ago due to him waking up but couldn’t face the shunning he knew he’d receive from the rest of the family. He saw how they were treating me, not even being disfellowshipped but because I had started questioning things.

The elders that DF'd him were jealous of him.

I may try this tactic. Lol! Many may not realize, as I didn't, you can be disfellowshipped (or so I've been told that I've been by my family) without a judicial committee. Maybe it's because I was an elder and also served at bethel for 10 years, I don't know. But I recently reached out to the last 2 elders I spoke with before slipping away thinking I avoided disfellowshipping so I could still have a relationship with my family, to ask them why my family believes I was announced as disfellowshipped, and they told me I needed to meet with them. I told them it's a simple question, was I announced as no longer one of jehovah's witnesses or not? They only replied "this is what we're offering you". I just thought...what a circus show. Initially, I told them I'll not meet with them... but I'm now having second thoughts and think this might be an excellent tactic!!!

OMG I just adore ya! 6 Elders owned! Beautiful job!!! 😃😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️🙏🏼💕

25:00 you are Right. It takes real power to stay in after waking up.. I have a public talk this Sunday. I am gonna have to stop watching apostate content so i can sound believable 😅😅😅.

God Bless you, thank you for sharing your testimony. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

The interview was stellar! Well done! I'm grateful to GOD for driving them away from my door!🙂🙃

I get emotional seeing you talk about unconditional love and your friends. People take that stuff for granted. But there really is nothing as beautiful as finding your safe place. ❤

Wow! What a video! What a way to show that the organization is NOT spirit directed! I appreciated this brother’s experience… it’s the IRONY of it all and he expressed it so well. And a bigTHANK YOU for this platform! Great testimony!! I applaud his guts

Thank you for being brave enough to go through this exercise!🎉❤

Excellant interview x thanks for sharing your awesome passionate story xxx best wishes

Thank You Justin and Jeron B. for your good work. The parable of the prodigal son - Luke 15:11-32 is often mentioned by ex J.W. to prove the elders behaviour about repentant members is wrong and abusive. I'm just wondering how long the Gov. Body is going to take to remove this parable from their Bible. It must be difficult for them to read these pages full of love, when their pride is to find anything to condemn and humiliate their followers.

Hi from Australia hope to see you here sometime. 😂 Thanks for your sincere desire to help others and tell your story

Great video, love your content

What a beautiful story, thank you for sharing, all the best on your way forward. From PIMO within here🤗

Nice experience! Thanks ! I wanted to do the same thing, but, hey... I am older than you and I have no time to lose. I knew that it was a cult a long, long time ago when I wrote my D A letter and was kicked out on the streets with not a dime in my pockets. Man, you did it. I couldn't do it and smell the hypocrisy. I'm allergic to hypocrisy !😂😂😅 I am glad that you are happy 😊 🫡🧡💛💚 and free.

Oh man… The room got real dusty when he spoke about his Aussi friends… I’m happy for you dude!

“Brother” be glad you are out of this cult! After 53 years I got out with my life and my sanity!

Thank you so much for this. This is everything I've been needing to hear.

When you over work people the love dries up, and bringing it back to life requires that burden to be removed, and a long time to pass.

You could say you got your "2 witnesses" by means of the reports of two elder bodies thousands of miles apart loll!! 🤣🤣 Sorry I'm commenting so many times .. but this interview is really firing me up! 💕💕💕 Thank you Jeron & Justin, ths was awesome and so helpful! 🥰

This was SOOO GREAT! Thank you to you both. 🙏🏼

Thanks for sharing your experience 🙏 4:04 Same thing happened to me during my "confession". Elders want to feel superior to you, so reproaching and humiliation is expected unfortunately.

I am a White from USA, retired at 62, baptised early 70's. Had some marriage problems so asked help from Elder's and found out later my wife had been meeting with Elders for at least a year, Before I asked help FROM ELDERS" So my wife divorce me, and I decided to move to Africa, Elders yold me I could not go to Africa, so I joined JW dating sight, found a Pioneer Sister, flew To Africa and Married her hiding it from many Elders over here. So if they have Holy Spirit how was it so easy for us to hide our marriage? After 5 years I told my wife who was doing over 100 hours In ministry a month, 32 studied, never did anything wrong her many years as JW. Stayed a virgin until she was 45 perfect before Jehovah! So after 5 years I told her it's time to come clean, but just know they will disfellowshipp us. So first thing they said I was told that I could not remarry, and said this marriage cannot work, you have to cut this marriage, I said if this marriage cannot work, how is it, it has worked really well for over 5 years! We will not divorce, and you are helpless to try to make us. So we begged for mercy, as Jesus never not one time refused to show mercy to those who asked for mercy. And you know the rest, no mercy was shown. They said we don't think your repentant enough. They read our names that we were no longer Jehovah's Witnesses. Now they are asking us for coming to meetings, because they know I have money. As this is a very poor country, and many of the friends are malnuyritioned and many die hear from consequences from that condition because their bodies cannot fight off diseases like Typhoid, Cholera, Malaria. And the GB controls billions of dollars. But refuse to help the sheep! We continue to serve Jehovah, apart from the true unloving apostates. I cry with this Brother 😢 I understand completely. I refused to believe in the 1975 lie, we had 3 anointed in that Congregation, 2 of those anointed tried to disfellowship me twice, one was finally publicly reproved for slandering me. Even back then if you did not go along with what they said, watch your back, they are the biggest backbiters of any Christian Religion! Flat out! Good thing I had the opportunity to travel to many other countries, and to experience many different cultures other than the fake love shown at International Conventions, because of that I have a faithful, beautiful African wife, going on 7 years now. 😀 Who has moral values unlike the many Elders who tried to have sex with her even though they had wives. You should 👂 🙉 hear the stories they would tell her trying to get into her pants! Plus many other single Sisters have stories about married Elders. Elders having Holy Spirit? We sat around a fire at night, my wife and two other Sister's who are still single, and their experiences with horny Elders is crazy. I could not hardly believe my ears, it's worse than the thousands of CSA Cases recorded at the Branch Offices! Watch Surviving Paradise

@35:42 My experience is no one really has friends. The people that call themselves your friends will turn on you like a Polar Bear if there is financial gain from it. Everything Watchtower does is also done in the world as Watchtower is part of the world.

From the way Jeron was quoting scriptures even after only 2+ years of returning to the organization shows he is sincere and really came back truly believing. Thank heavens he is awake.

This was very similar to my experience. And I was grieving my ypung husband's death at the time. It was fresh like 1 month since his passing. They didn't care at all. All they wanted to know was all the gory details. That was it for me. I was df'd, I walked out, and I never went back. I started to wake up then, but it still took some years before I fully woke up. Seeing behind the curtain of the Wizard of Oz is life-changing. I'm so GLAD I woke up. Life is what it is, but the freedom is priceless I was only 11 when I got baptized and I've been paying for it ever since.

Best experience, interview Ever!!! Clear, Proof, Facts, Thank you for each and every aspect of what you stated!!

What a great story, thanks to both of you!!

I felt like the Holy Spirit woke me up and I left the Borg. I have felt soo much love after I’ve left then the whole time I was in. My non JW friends prayed for me for years. My “friends” in the org never prayed for me. They don’t pray for you. I told the elders at my Shepard if call that the org has billions and 8 old white dudes sit in luxury while the African members walk for hours to get to meetings. I seen one video of an African lady having to break the law during covid to walk a fair distance to another JW who was only one with a radio to listen to meetings. WTH. Meanwhile old mate Tony spends $800 of high end liquor. Hypocrites!!

So true! Thanks for this interview Justin I'm delighted to meet Jeron an ex JW and ex PIMO! Doubly happy because he proved the lack of love. I was in for years and years and never felt any love. I had an elder say I would have to get my love from the congregation; when I said I wanted to "know that what I believed, what I did was indeed a good thing or a bad thing; I wanted a relationship with God..." Oh, that was forbidden, if I didn't stay in the centre of the congregation I would be flung into the world... But, like you, I did finally start using my instinct, critical thinking and took my regrets, my sins, my repentance and talked to our mediator Jesus and while I still have to work on some fruits of the Spirit (guess I have to do that until I die or Jesus comes to call me home) in the meantime I'm free to research, pray, and love unconditionally; and I have faith, peace and joy. I am loved, I feel loved; it doesn't get better than that.

YOU ARE A BADASS!!! Great job!

I would love to see a group like “widow’s mite” (Mormans) do a forensic audit of the actual financial situation of WBTS!

The red flag for me was when they said we can't research the organization using "Wordly books" . Only books that the organization put out. If what they preach is the "Truth" then it can stand aganist any other research material smh

Wow, such an incredible story, such an incredible man. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Love to you both❤️

My situation was exactly like yours. The elders prove to me with their own words that they did not have gods, holy spirit

Love this guy! What a smart man. He's right and most of all he can prove what he is talking about! Congrats Bro.

Great interview guys!!! I feel confident that this will be one to help those who can relate. As I can relate to it. Im one who feels its wrong too. There aer woke people who recognize that JW policies and bible interpretation are wrong, then there's people like you & me who FEEL the lack of love, holy spirit, all the godly attributes are not there. The feeling that when GB wearing Rolex watches in a Billion Dollar Religion.

"Spiritual men" would have discerned your 2-years prior turning around point as a kind of re-Dedication to Jehovah!! And the 2 years maintaining "Godly" behaviour as EXEMPLARY and EVIDENCE of true repentance!! Jesus would have welcomed you back on day one of that 2 years... even before day one, he might have sought you out with comfort and the invitation to return. Even eaten dinner with you! The AA illustration was spot on. That so-called "worldly" group has a more "Christlke" approach and FOUNDATION!! Your two judicials that BOTH had the opposite results to the actual truth of your situation and intentions at each time are EXCELLENT EVIDENCE of the TOTAL LACK OF HOLY SPIRIT in the elder bodies and hierarchy of the Watchtower Organisation. You didn't start out trying to catch them up, but you sure as shootin' did that by the end of the day. The additional point that you as an individual were treated more harshly than an active elder would have been, AS DIRECTED IN THE ELDERS' 'SHEPHERD' BOOK, was also spot on.

OMG..i wish you would have announce it at the meeting

This interview is priceless and if I’m honest, kind of funny😂😂❤❤❤

“Rent a friend” very appropriate 😅😅

Praise God that the Elders showed their true evil core. By showing Tony what they were really about, it caused him to recognize that the JW’s are a cult and not of God. God desires for all of us to turn away from sin and turn to Jesus as our Lord and Savior. This is all that is required. No work, no action can save you, it is only through being born again in the Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless Tony and his family.

Would love your thoughts and maybe even a video on neanderthals, I dont know how we can ignore this. This would put a big hole in Adam and Eve.

I Have been in and out almost all my life,Im 64 now,,when I was young,I had lots of friends, now im old, and I have been a target, I have been ignored,when I was disfellowshiped, the horrible world was there for me, been reinstated many years ago,but when I was zapped,it was like a feather in their cap,but to get reinstated, I had to move,just so happened, I moved to North Carolina, oddly enough,most my home town had moved out of Virginia because the congregations were in terrible state,as the brothers tried to help me,my old congregation said screw you N.C.,so they contacted New York about it, so New York paid East Tennessee a visit,got reinstated but no announcement in Tennessee, some told me hey don't talk to me,your D.F.,told them been reinstated 14 years ago,then I daid east Tennessee doesn't like good news I guess,but funny there was a big shake up in 2 congregations,my 3 brothers that zapped me lost there elderships and now if I show my face,some hate me,I hurt their cliques,I feel for you my friend. Yours truly Ex J.W. Mark

Love the AA comparison!

It wasn’t until after we left and I hung out with the disfellowshipped anointed Jehovah’s Witnesses that I later learned what having the holy spirit is like. You are correct. It is very “restrictive” in my fleshly opinion because there were and still are MANY THINGS that I am told not to do, or warned from different people that seem okay to me that actually were bad. I’ve had to let people go as potential lovers and as we were friends, then their true colors showed. Holy spirit never makes mistakes, ever.

If the Holy Spirit is just an active force, how is it possible for it to appoint or attest to anyones character? It’s like saying electricity can be a witness in a trial. Makes no sense.

I believe you are correct Justin- the local bodies make the recommendation only