Twelve Tribes: My Arranged Wedding at 16 Re-enacted Becoming the Christbride
Cults to Consciousness
Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Drawn to the Twelve Tribes in the 1970s by its promise of spiritual purity, communal support, and moral family values, Rebecca’s parents became deeply embedded in a system that demanded complete obedience and surrender of autonomy. Rebecca was one of the oldest of the second generation in the cult, which meant a lot of experimentation was done to determine the fate of other children. At 15 years old—a highly devout member— she was chosen to marry one of the leader’s sons, to attempt to shackle him to the group. Her wedding included group reenactments complete with demons, running from the woods, a crowning ceremony and unwavering submission as an “unworthy woman”. She thought she could escape her abusive and highly controlled childhood with daily corporal punishment by getting married. The reality was far worse.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember getting really stubborn one time and being like, no, you're a single dude. I'm not undressing in this prayer closet for you to spank me. I stood my ground, but it was the norm. And so for me to rebel like that, I was scared to go home and get in more trouble for resisting the spanking. I really felt like an adult from about the age of like 11 or 12. |
| 0:21.6 | Traditional schooling education stopped and I was already at that point starting to be able to make dinner for 30, 40 people. |
| 0:30.6 | You know, there's not a lot of fun and laughter and things like that as a kid. |
| 0:35.6 | It's just, you know, there's chores, there's the gatherings, |
| 0:38.9 | are you repenting? Do you have sin on your conscience? Everything was an infraction. Asking if you could |
| 0:44.6 | have more food because the food that you're served at dinner is what's provided for you that should be |
| 0:49.6 | enough. So asking for seconds is gluttonous or not finishing your plate wasn't being thankful being compliant |
| 0:55.4 | is freedom it's being able to you know maybe you can drive the car to the grocery store and |
| 1:01.7 | you won't be tempted to look at the magazines in the magazine rack because you have the holy spirit |
| 1:06.2 | you know we were really taught our joy was found in obedience to they they call him Yashua, that's where our joy |
| 1:13.6 | would come from, not from relaxing or, you know, reading a book or going on vacation or, you know, |
| 1:20.7 | our joy is really about serving. It was not odd to me that I was 16 and looking at getting married. Kind of do my own thing and have my own |
| 1:29.8 | bedroom and maybe I can have like a teapot and, you know, that much more freedom where you have like |
| 1:36.3 | your little space carved out in this world with your husband. |
| 1:40.9 | Mine is the only voice. What have I been doing? Lay down my autonomy. |
| 1:46.6 | After that, it got very dark very quickly. |
| 1:55.4 | Hey guys, my name is Shalise Anzola and this is cults to consciousness, where we discussed |
| 1:59.6 | leaving high demand religions or organizations and finding healing and |
| 2:03.5 | independence through awareness and true individual sovereignty. |
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