Comments on: The Twelve Tribes….. Who are they?

By: Kimberly Lessard

Kimberly Lessard — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:20:26 +0000

Your feelings are normal fawn.call me anytime.you have my number.kim

By: Fawn Hoelcle

Fawn Hoelcle — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:34:51 +0000

Ive known them a long time and tried living there for some time, but constantly found myself having conflicting ideas. They did, gowever, allow me to read any part of the bible, encouraged it actually. But i most threw my whole life away, everything i worked hard for, just to ” die” and surrender and join their community. Im thankful im out and was able to salvage pretty much all of what i gave up and get on with my life. I am, however, still fearful of what will really happen to me in death. What if they are right? I can onlt pray they are wrong, but i guess no one really knows. It doesnt help that i made some great friends there and totally fell in love with one of the single brothers who they conveniently sent away. I miss them all alot and pray they are truely happy and safe… i also noticed how they minimize you to that of a 5 year old. You are no longer able to have your own thoughts or opinions, especially as a woman. And they really push the authority teachings. You must submit to all authority, even if you dont agree. This is what they teach.
There is virtually no repect for wilflife. It was particularily hard for me to listen to the stories of killing animals. If they caught a rat or some other animal, they would dround it. While on walks through the woods, the children would step on every caterpiller and other insect. They would throw frogs, stab snakes…you name it..I found it disturbing, being a naturalist.
Then the is the constant disipline of children. If they were in the gathering, and so much as shifted their weight, they were brought out of the room, sometime 5 or 6 times throughout the gathering, and hit with their little whippin sticks. I could never figure out what they did that was worthy of any discipline.
Anyway, even after seeing all this, i still think of the community daily , sometimes still wishing to live there. Thats how good they are at controlling your mind.

By: Hannah J Myers

Hannah J Myers — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:20:44 +0000

I lived in the community in Nelson, BC for about a year. I grew up studying the scriptures of the bible and I found that many of their daily teachings were contradicting scripture. I was confronted in front of the whole congregation about my belief that Jesus is and was God in the flesh. I was told to renounce that belief and that I could not be saved until I started accepting their teachings. I expressed my concerns about the three eternal destinies teaching they have that claims that there is three eternal destinies (hell, heaven, and that the “righteous” unbelievers” get to go to heaven. Which contradicts the word that says in Revelation 21:8 – But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

also John 3:36 – He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

One day I was told that the 12 tribes community members “if your baptized and saved.” are higher than the angels. I told them about how the word says PSALM 8:5 -”You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.”

These are some examples of myself witnessing their teachings that contradict which there are many more, but after being there so long I just zoned out into their teachings which were a blur. In my heart I knew that their doctrine was off but i think the reason why I stayed so long is because of my love for the children there, they were a real joy in my life. It bothered me very much how often the members would discipline their children and how physically hard they would discipline them with the rods, especially the men. I hope that God does expose them and reveal to the members His true grace and mercy. The twelve tribes communities are living lives of slavery.

When I was working very hard long hours for no pay for so long in the 12 tribes I would remind myself of this verse “For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

One last thing that really bothered me is that they suppress you from reading the WORD. I was told I was only aloud to read Psalms and Proverbs because If I read anything else in the bible I would get confused and I only should be taught by the “elders bible teachings” This also contradicts our freedom in Christ to be able to read as much of the word as we want. I found some verses the day before I hitchhiked out of Nelson, BC community and they spoke to me enough to get out of there.

Psalms 118:9 – [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Jeremiah 17:5 – Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Psalms 118:8 – [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

The men called themselves princes there what a coincidence! Don’t trust in a prince.
Also they told me that I never had any relationship with God, and that he has NEVER answered any of my prayers until I got emerged into their community. I was coerced to denounce any relationship that I thought I ever had with God before I got baptized. Now I look back at this, it is extremely blasphemous to God. He has saved me and knew me before I was even born!

Galatians 1:5 But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him

Thank you,

Hannah