Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses: We Were Wrong About the World Ending
Between Beliefs
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What goes on inside the head of Jehovah's Witnesses? After the reveal that our JW guests Rob and Sharon are NO LONGER JWs, but Christians: they give commentary on our original conversation. How did they REALLY feel about their birthdays, and how was the organization wrong about the end of the world so many times? We dive in.
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@verneclarke9314 2 weeks ago
so glad their eyes and ears were opened to the truth at last!
@chader3033 3 weeks ago
Thank you so much for these videos! Hearing ex JWs preach the true gospel is pure joy.
@SundayVibesmusic 7 days ago
Man this has been so beneficial to hear these testimonies. My heart and head often hurts after witnessing to JW in my community. I can’t imagine how people can be so deceived and so stubborn to reject the truth of Jesus as found even in the NWT own mistranslated text. 1 John 5:20 still calls Jesus “True God” even in their own text.
@annarice5162 3 weeks ago
I watched the episodes where you played current JWs, you answered just exactly like JWs, I was a JW for 12 years!
@matthewcawley4118 3 weeks ago
Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for this video to come out!!! Good series Carter!! Keep it up!!
@FaithMind-d7w 3 weeks ago
Thank you both so much for your bravery, honesty, and willingness to share your stories. As a recently ex-Jehovah’s Witness, I know how much courage it takes to question everything you have been taught and to speak openly about your journey. I want you to know how much I support you both, and I’m so grateful for the strength you show others who are walking a similar path.
I have also deconstructed my faith, and through that journey, I found my love in Jesus Christ in a way I never understood before. It feels as though the veil of deception has been lifted from my eyes, allowing me to see God’s grace and love more clearly. Grace has completely changed my life. I no longer feel that I have to earn God’s love through rules, perfection, or the approval of an organisation. I am learning to rest in the love and freedom I have found in Christ.
Thank you for reminding people that they are not alone, that it is okay to ask questions, and that there is hope and beauty on the other side of a high-control religion. May God continue to bless you both and give you strength as you help others find their way. ❤️”
I have also deconstructed my faith, and through that journey, I found my love in Jesus Christ in a way I never understood before. It feels as though the veil of deception has been lifted from my eyes, allowing me to see God’s grace and love more clearly. Grace has completely changed my life. I no longer feel that I have to earn God’s love through rules, perfection, or the approval of an organisation. I am learning to rest in the love and freedom I have found in Christ.
Thank you for reminding people that they are not alone, that it is okay to ask questions, and that there is hope and beauty on the other side of a high-control religion. May God continue to bless you both and give you strength as you help others find their way. ❤️”
@lori-anno.2067 2 weeks ago
I am loving this series. I daily check for the next one. This is helping me so much in understanding how to evangelize to my JW neighbours and also just speaking to my experience leaving the Adventist church.
@tonydeoliveira4672 2 weeks ago
Powerful interview...this is going to set many captives free in Jesus name.
@RebelJo 2 weeks ago
Oh I think they would get in trouble because we’ve been told not to do that. Oh wow I just said we’ve been I’ve been out for two years. Dang!
@dwaynejohnson4662 8 days ago
Thank you Lord for pulling them out of satans kingdom of darkness into YOUR KINGDOM OF LIGHT
@jeandelgado7203 3 weeks ago
I retract my previous comment from the very first video. Quite the tactic them posing at first as active JWs to now showing that they’re ex JWs. I’m saddened to see that the cult won 2 years ago by having my beta father succumb to their nonsense just to try to gain my grandmothers approval that he never got from her. Every time I confront him about it he evades the question and premise, tries to diminish it that I “hate JWs” because I hate my grandma. Far from the truth, but nevertheless I had to employ as a defense mechanism to shun him before he gets marching orders from them even though I never became one of them despite being surrounded by that environment every rotating weekend since I was 7 years old post-parents divorce
@rogerkirkpatrick5256 2 weeks ago
In the opening scenes of the classic movie Gone With the Wind, a young Negro child is seen ringing the evening bell on Tara, a Southern plantation. The Negro slaves working in the fields hear the bell and one of the men calls out, “Quittin’ time!” Big Sam objects, saying, “I’m the foreman on Tara! I say when it’s quittin’ time,” and then yells, “QUITTIN’ TIME!” All of the slaves heard the bell ringing and every one of them knew it was quittin’ time, but Big Sam let them know that it wasn’t quittin’ time until HE declared it to be quittin’ time.
Similarly, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses makes it clear to their followers that something is not The Truth until THEY declare it to be The Truth. Jehovah’s Witnesses have a long history of disfellowhiping ones for expressing certain viewpoints and later embracing the view of the disfellowshiped one claiming “new light.” Thus, the phrase ‘present truth’ is common among Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Witnesses are often asked in Watchtower publications and in lectures at their Kingdom Halls and conventions if they are keeping up with present truth because the Governing Body’s positions on various teachings constantly change from day to day, week to week, month to month. I have personally heard several different Jehovah’s Witness elders state that if a certain teaching has not appeared in The Watchtower over a period of five years, that teaching is no longer considered to be present truth.
Once upon a time, the Governing Body taught that performing alternative service during wartime was a violation of Christian neutrality and thus disloyalty to God. Literally thousands of peaceful, law-abiding Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the world served lengthy prison sentences for refusing to perform such services as working in a hospital or a post office. I have known many such men whose lives were irrevocably changed by their becoming convicted felons due to the Governing Body’s prohibition against performing alternative service. Then in 1996, the Governing Body suddenly reversed its previous stand on alternative service, and performing such service was deemed a matter for each individual’s Bible-trained conscience.
Many other changes in the Watchtower Society’s organizational policies have taken place over the years, especially in recent months. Allowing beards for men, pants for women, toasting and clinking glasses, no longer reporting one’s field service time, uttering a simple greeting to disfellowshipped ones who attend a Kingdom Hall meeting, etc. But the biggest change in Watchtower policy was the complete reversal of the ban on life-saving blood transfusions.
The latest publication which Jehovah’s Witnesses use to conduct their Free Bible Course, Enjoy Life FOREVER! states that true Christians do not pre-donate and store their own blood prior to a major surgery. Yet, the Governing Body Update #2 for the year 2026 conceded that the Bible does not comment on the use of one’s own blood in medical procedures, and so donating and storing one’s own blood prior to surgery is now considered a matter of individual conscience. Let that soak in. Jehovah’s Witnesses had to wait until being given permission by the Governing Body before using their Bible-trained conscience to decide how their own blood would be used in medical procedures. This raises the question, How many Jehovah’s Witnesses, or the minor children of Jehovah’s Witnesses, died because they were previously forbidden to donate and store their own blood prior to major surgery?
Has it not occurred to any Jehovah’s Witness that the Bible also does not comment on the use of other people’s blood in medical procedures? Since Christians are no longer under the Mosaic Law covenant, by what authority did the first century Jerusalem elders command Christians to abstain from blood? Paul and the Antioch Christians did not consider themselves subject to the Jerusalem elders. Paul wrote derisively of them in his letters. So, by what authority does the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to prohibit the use of other people’s blood in order to save a life? Indeed, by what authority does the Governing Body determine what is or is not a matter of conscience in any matter? Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to follow such blind guides whose arbitrary rulings have had such detrimental effects on their personal and family lives?
In conclusion, What do you call a religion which makes good people do bad things? I call such a religion evil.
Similarly, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses makes it clear to their followers that something is not The Truth until THEY declare it to be The Truth. Jehovah’s Witnesses have a long history of disfellowhiping ones for expressing certain viewpoints and later embracing the view of the disfellowshiped one claiming “new light.” Thus, the phrase ‘present truth’ is common among Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Witnesses are often asked in Watchtower publications and in lectures at their Kingdom Halls and conventions if they are keeping up with present truth because the Governing Body’s positions on various teachings constantly change from day to day, week to week, month to month. I have personally heard several different Jehovah’s Witness elders state that if a certain teaching has not appeared in The Watchtower over a period of five years, that teaching is no longer considered to be present truth.
Once upon a time, the Governing Body taught that performing alternative service during wartime was a violation of Christian neutrality and thus disloyalty to God. Literally thousands of peaceful, law-abiding Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the world served lengthy prison sentences for refusing to perform such services as working in a hospital or a post office. I have known many such men whose lives were irrevocably changed by their becoming convicted felons due to the Governing Body’s prohibition against performing alternative service. Then in 1996, the Governing Body suddenly reversed its previous stand on alternative service, and performing such service was deemed a matter for each individual’s Bible-trained conscience.
Many other changes in the Watchtower Society’s organizational policies have taken place over the years, especially in recent months. Allowing beards for men, pants for women, toasting and clinking glasses, no longer reporting one’s field service time, uttering a simple greeting to disfellowshipped ones who attend a Kingdom Hall meeting, etc. But the biggest change in Watchtower policy was the complete reversal of the ban on life-saving blood transfusions.
The latest publication which Jehovah’s Witnesses use to conduct their Free Bible Course, Enjoy Life FOREVER! states that true Christians do not pre-donate and store their own blood prior to a major surgery. Yet, the Governing Body Update #2 for the year 2026 conceded that the Bible does not comment on the use of one’s own blood in medical procedures, and so donating and storing one’s own blood prior to surgery is now considered a matter of individual conscience. Let that soak in. Jehovah’s Witnesses had to wait until being given permission by the Governing Body before using their Bible-trained conscience to decide how their own blood would be used in medical procedures. This raises the question, How many Jehovah’s Witnesses, or the minor children of Jehovah’s Witnesses, died because they were previously forbidden to donate and store their own blood prior to major surgery?
Has it not occurred to any Jehovah’s Witness that the Bible also does not comment on the use of other people’s blood in medical procedures? Since Christians are no longer under the Mosaic Law covenant, by what authority did the first century Jerusalem elders command Christians to abstain from blood? Paul and the Antioch Christians did not consider themselves subject to the Jerusalem elders. Paul wrote derisively of them in his letters. So, by what authority does the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to prohibit the use of other people’s blood in order to save a life? Indeed, by what authority does the Governing Body determine what is or is not a matter of conscience in any matter? Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to follow such blind guides whose arbitrary rulings have had such detrimental effects on their personal and family lives?
In conclusion, What do you call a religion which makes good people do bad things? I call such a religion evil.
Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses: We Were Wrong About the World Ending
Between Beliefs
13,848 views
What goes on inside the head of Jehovah's Witnesses? After the reveal that our JW guests Rob and Sharon are NO LONGER JWs, but Christians: they give commentary on our original conversation. How did they REALLY feel about their birthdays, and how was the organization wrong about the end of the world so many times? We dive in.