“You brought us into a hunting net; you put a crushing burden upon us.”

(Psalm 66:11)

How has Jehovah “brought us into a hunting net?” By using “fishers of men” who are “catching men alive.” (Mark 1:17; Luke 5:10) “Jehovah has put a deceptive spirit in the mouth of all … [his] prophets,” and “we have entered … into water” and were baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses. (1 Kings 22:23; Psalm 66:12, YLT) “Through his ‘faithful and discreet slave’” God “put a crushing burden” in form of field service, meetings, Watchtower volumes, incompetent elders and countless commands of men “upon us.” – Our Kingdom Ministry, May 1985, page 3.

Then, however, Jesus words were fulfilled toward us: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Through personal experiences in the congregation, by own research, of due to loving care from apostates we came to “know the truth” about God, his word, and his witnesses. Our new knowledge “brought us to a place of relief.” (Psalm 66:12) “For such freedom Christ set us free.” – Galatians 5:1.