End times is here, and people are being crucified. This is what one woman living in Melinda

Kenya was told by her brother, Melinda Doomsday cult member, Solomon Wendow. Like hundreds of

others, Solomon had left his family behind to join a charismatic preacher Paul McKenzie on his

compound in the nearby Shackahala forest.

For almost two decades, McKenzie had been preaching an end-time's message,

a message that the world was filled with devils and demons,

evidenced by women wearing wigs and the short lengths of their skirts.

He preached that the New World Order was a satanic cabal orchestrated by the United States

and the United Nations, that Kenya's new proposed identification system, with everyone receiving

an individual number, just like our Social Security system here in the U.S., was clearly

the infamous, dreaded mark of the beast.

The rapture was near.

For years, he'd been preaching against secular education

and modern medicine as well, topics that had gotten him into trouble more than once. In 2017,

he was arrested after several children in his church died from not receiving proper, readily

accessible medical care. But he was found not guilty and released back into the world

after he very likely bought his

way out of incarceration through bribes. To avoid future legal trouble and to try and make a lot of

money in the grossest way possible, he would move his group away from the prine eyes of non-follow

and out into the Shakahala forest for their final act. There he and his followers would live on sections of land he named after biblical places.

With McKenzie residing in Galilee, the area Jesus had lived for most of his life.

McKenzie and his followers tried to make their home on a sunscorch wasteland of scrub and spindly trees,

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