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Please Note: This testimony suggests that WLC endorses Ellen White as a true prophet. While this was once true, it is no longer the case. WLC no longer believes in the divine credentials of Ellen G. White. |
Background
I was born the second with six siblings in a Christian family in 1980. In 1983 my father, a small business person, met with a Baptist missionary by chance at a petrol station in the Makutano suburb of Meru Town, a town in central Kenya, near the Equator. He was seeking a rental to plant a church. He was with the Baptist Bible Mission of Kenya. With dad’s facilitation, he settled. We therefore grew up attending the new Baptist church. I memorized many Bible verses, sang so many nice songs and did so many nice things as I attended Sunday school. But I never really converted. At 16 in high school I stopped attending and “paganized.” In fact one year later as we did evolution, I almost became an atheist!
Conversion as a Youth
I finished high school a very young, immature and weak teen. Convicted about my lost nature as a kid, I had been pushing the issue to the back of my mind. But now due to life uncertainty I had to deal with it! Thus I knelt beside my bed in utter conviction and gave my life to Yah, after thorough soul search. I experienced inexplicable peace. To ‘confess’ my faith in public, on October 10th 1999, I confessed before the Methodist Church in my village.
In 2000 I first read the whole Bible (KJV) to better acquaint myself with the stories and basic truths of Scripture as I prepared content to teach Sunday-school. I benefitted tremendously! I was struck how deeply ignorant I was about the most important realities of life and destiny!
An Orientation at Bible College
From July 2000 I had realized that my life and destiny from that point henceforth would be determined by my spirituality. I sought by prayer, meditation and fasting, the most perfect will of Yah in my life…
In a miraculous answer to a yearlong prayer, a Baptist missionary from out of the blue offered a complete scholarship to a Bible College near our capital, Nairobi!
Conflicts with Mission Leaders
It was a four year course, including an internship in a Baptist church for one year. Most of my first two years in college were completely blissful.
In short, by the end of my two year tenure, I came to see the darker aspects of the Missionary enterprise for what it was, our differences became so acute that I snapped towards December and wrote a 34 page publication on the Problem of Bible Baptist Missions in Kenya, distributed it and left Thika.
Ex-Communication & Youth Ministry
Back ‘home’ (2006) the excitement that I had come back was quickly drowned by the reports that I had ‘messed up with missionaries in Nairobi.’ The news of my publication was received in its full weight by the Baptist mission fraternity, In the publication, I had taken the Baptist Acrostic; that is used to simplify explanation of their idea of a Bible based New Testament Church, and demonstrated how it had been abused! All of them had consulted and agreed to coerce me into a recantation.
My last pastors’ meeting was March. For some reason I still remember the Scripture that was read by one of the veteran pastors as he gave a word for the day. He read from Hebrews 13: 11-14. I got engrossed with reading it again, wondering whether he had not unwittingly revealed to me what Yah really wanted me to do – Leave that fellowship?!?! Or can Yah tell me to leave His Church?!?! Could Yah have been whispering directly to me on that fateful day on that pew? Looking back, could Yah have started inspiring me to “Go out of her” long before my ignorance gave way? Could it mean that for the rest of this 12 year chapter of my life, Yah literally sent an invisible mighty angel to literally drag me out of “her”?
On My Own
Later I opened a preaching point in my village which I left it with a young man. However, four years later, after I got seriously involved with high school and college student ministries, he closed the church. He had crumbled under pressure, in an environment polluted with the simony of the pervasive prosperity gospel.
I was deeply broken. I did unprecedented soul search. I questioned every angle of my faith. It was extremely hard for me that it was not the will of Yah to “have” a church.
The year 2012 was an extremely hard year for me, in so many ways. My stint with the last youth ministry I was working with didn’t end well. It was terminated by a cartel of powerful committee members and influential teachers.
Thus, I found myself in the streets – literally! I was confused about everything. I was blank. Is this what they call hopelessness? Months, of absolute nothingness!! Looking back at the time of my conversion, two things were indelibly impressed upon me; one, that faith in Yah makes me special, two, all things shall work together for good for me. This quiet confidence truly came in hardy in 2012!
As broke as I was, I had the audacity to walk to a cyber and subscribe as a monthly customer, in order to have unbridled access to a computer with an online connection. I had also acquired my first smart phone in 2011. I dreamt of somehow downloading an idea that would ‘change my life!’
By now, my original Baptist convictions were so beaten down that I was questioning the very fundamentals of my personal statement of faith! It was serious. It was not easy to find footing.
In one of my lengthy online sessions, I decided to search out more about the National Sunday Law. I had stumbled upon it in an SDA brochure some years back. Since my time in college I had picked a peculiar curiosity about prophecy. It kept nudging me to peruse any literature I stumbled upon that leaned towards the subject. When I skimmed through the small book it had greatly refueled my curiosity about the exact events spoken about in the imminent future. In one of the search enquiries I made, among the thousands of sites, it threw up www.worldslastchance.com out of nowhere! I was immediately impressed by the catchy name! Let me now skim through the site, on the subject at hand. I was stunned! Here is a site that was claiming that the calendar was changed. What’s more? It was in fulfillment of prophecy… Daniel 7:25! I went blank! Is that even remotely possible?
In short, my first encounter set precedent. As many times as I have subjected my theology, it has been pulverized by the compelling arguments set forth. I was also struck from the beginning by the austerity to stick to the interpretation of Scripture by Scripture. “…precept upon precept; line upon line…”
However, it has not been an easy journey receiving the contents of this site. Initially, I retreated to self-denial after my initial encounter. I simply went away to figure what kind of site I encountered. It was unexpected, bewildering, contentious and very unwelcome to say ‘Amen’ to these truths, yet they were so intriguing, too burning to ignore!
I simply barricaded them and retreated to an observer position. I started the “what if” questions; what if this is just the internet throwing up things? What if it is simply not true? To make matters worse, in Bible college, we studied the SDA as a cult started by Miller and strengthened by EG White, who had written tomes about religion that were too ponderous for the common Christian! So I’m seated there thinking, hmmm, Ellen White is profusely quoted here! Great controversy, steps to Christ, desire of ages….
The ‘Church History’ I had studied in college paled in comparison to the refined detail here. Since 1922 the Beast is both a Church and a City and the wound has been healing! It took me quite some time to internalize the fact that the Bible could speak about the past, present and future in such appalling detail! It has taken me 4 years of consideration to fully appreciate the content of WLC and make adjustments based on the truths put forth there! FOUR years this year!!
By and by, my curiosities lead me to search for and read the Helen Classic, ‘The Great Controversy’, a masterpiece of credible church history. I definitely made drastic changes on my appreciation of Ellen after this. So far I have been watching videos spontaneously. Some of the most memorable I have watched are:
All these videos have been very influential and capitulating. But when ‘Daniel Declares’ & ‘Satan’s Attack against Calvary,’ I promptly decided to subscribe to the site and do those lessons one by one! I have also adopted the WLC ‘Our 25 Beliefs’ Statement.
Marriage
I kept up serious prayer for a motorbike. Yah blessed me with a bike and I started what is locally called the Bodaboda business.
I had prayerfully and consultatively targeted to wed by 2013. By the grace of Yah, on the 14th of December 2013, I did.
In the meantime, I had acquired a renown that brought me attention from the Yamaha division of the national Toyota Corporation franchise. Eventually, I was employed by one of the Toyota dealers in the country. I have worked there since.
I have prayed for my marriage since 2002. In 2012, despite my situation, we pulled through all the lengthy customary processes and our families agreed to our proposed date set for December 14th, 2013. I was making all these plans completely by Faith!
However, Yah was good to us and we managed to pull through as I continued my work as a Bodaboda rider. In November 2014, Yah blessed us with a bouncing baby boy. By 2017 things had eased up further on us, and instead of building a better house, I decided to build my mother-in-law a better house from the one she had brought up her family in.
Despite all these blessings of Yah upon our young marriage, I was disappointed early on in my marriage to realize that Betty had a negative, cold and thankless attitude from the beginning. It is most disheartening to realize that she is also completely opposed to my adventuring into Luni-solar Sabbatarianism!
I have sat with my wife severally after altogether repudiating Sunday worship to explain painstakingly in the clearest terms possible that through the study of Scripture, books and credible history, I am now fully convicted that Yahuwah is calling upon His people, the last true generation of worshippers, the church of brotherly love, Philadelphia, to “Go out of her” - Laodicea, My exhortations have fallen on deaf years. At one point she gathered the audacity to tell me that as a Christian and leader, I had backslidden way too low below the levels that one would normally fall under usual circumstances! It is unacceptable to her for me to stop attending church on Sunday altogether! She was categorical that she will not tolerate me infecting her son 3 year old son with my pernicious doctrine!
On October 16th 2017 after two weeks of heated verbal exchanges we ever had, she snapped and left me! I have been reminded of Deuteronomy 28:56.
What Does The Future Hold?
As to what the future holds, I DON’T NOW! I can only conjecture. But among all the uncertainties, the events of the recent past though petrifying, are serving to do one principal thing; to ossify my resolve to stick to my newfound convictions. I’m very determined to fight for my love! All the other chips will fall where they may, as I keep my determination to seek out the will of Yah on these sensitive matters that have been the BIG questions in my heart for very prolonged periods. I seek the guidance of Yahuwah to adventure deeper into His heart of love.