UPDATE ON MALACHY’S PROPHECY: POPE LEO THE 14th DECLARES HIMSELF “ROMAN”
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 30, 2025 – They’re just trolling us now, right?
A few days ago, after allegedly tying up the last of the loose ends that had to be dealt with before officially becoming the Bishop of Rome, newly minted Pope Leo the 14th came right out and declared: “I AM ROMAN!” With his declaration, Prevost (who, by anagram, is Petros [Greek form of Peter] and the 112th—and last—pope on Malachy’s list of papal rulers) now fully satisfies the criteria for the prophesied and doomed Peter the Roman.
In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, see here, here, here, and here.
Again, the ptb must be trolling us by screaming the quiet part out so loud that even the sleepiest prophecy-watcher dozing in the back row will wake up and take notice.
Does the “Roman declaration” confirm that Leo the 14th has been tapped to play the role of the final papal sovereign? If the answer is ‘yes’, we now have a general timeframe not only for the destruction of Roman Catholicism but also for the destruction of Rome. The Malachy prophecy dovetails with other well-known visions, such as Pope Leo the 13th’s vision in the Vatican chapel (in 1884) and Sister Lucia’s vision at Fatima (in 1917), that describe both the end of the worldly church and the annihilation of Rome, along with the mass slaughter of clergy and believers.
The general timeframe for all this destruction is Leo the 14th’s lifespan. He’s currently 69.
While I don’t believe that the above-mentioned prophecies and visions come from God through his Holy Spirit, I do believe that God is permitting them to serve as a blueprint for Satan’s plans of how and when he intends to destroy the worldly church, along the lines of “smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered”. And though the destruction of the worldly church won’t impact the spiritual sanctuary of us born-again believers (our Church existed prior to the worldly church and will exist after it, right up until Jesus comes back to take the last of us Home), its absence will make it trickier for us to live openly in the world as believers. By “trickier”, I mean dangerous—deadly dangerous—like it was for the early Church.
Jesus told us to watch for signs of the end, as those will presage his second coming and God’s final Judgement. That’s what I’m doing here: watching and reporting on what I see. The credible fulfillment of the Malachy prophecy takes us a giant step closer to the implementation of the beast system but also a giant step closer to Jesus’ return. Being Jesus’ followers, we naturally focus on the latter event, but we still need to be aware of what, according to scripture, must come before.
ON GENUINE BELIEF AND FALLING AWAY
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 30, 2025 – It’s difficult for us, as born-again believers, to hear about people who’ve turned their back on God. I’m talking here specifically about people who once claimed to believe that Jesus was the Messiah and then at some point decided they didn’t believe it anymore. This is not a new phenomenon—people falling away from what they claim to have believed. Jesus himself, during his ministry years, had to deal with people falling away from following him.
For me, as someone who shifted from atheism to belief in an instant, falling away is not something I anticipate ever doing. My belief (as is yours, if you genuinely believe) is a spiritual guardrail and safety harness designed to keep me from falling away. My belief (as is yours, if you genuinely believe) is external to me and separate from me; not something of me but something that’s taken up residence in me. My belief (as is yours, if you genuinely believe) doesn’t come from me; I didn’t self-will it. Temporally, my belief preceded the “I” in “I believe”.
You cannot be born-again and not believe, because genuine belief is a manifestation of the presence of God’s Holy Spirit. Jesus pointed this out when he told Peter that no-one but the Holy Spirit could have revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah. Genuine belief is a revelation and direct evidence of God’s Holy Spirit working through a believer. You cannot truly believe in God and truly be a follower of Jesus unless God’s Holy Spirit dwells in you, which only happens through genuine spiritual rebirth. People who say they believe but who aren’t genuinely reborn don’t really believe, as their belief is self-generated, self-willed, and doesn’t come from God. Belief that is self-generated, self-willed, and doesn’t come from God is weak and therefore will not last. This is why so many people who claim to believe ultimately fall away.
Genuine belief is not something you have to work at achieving; it’s the state of being spiritually reborn and precedes the consciousness of both the belief and the rebirth. I believed before I realized I believed, just as I was reborn before I realized I was reborn. First came the rebirth and the belief; then came the consciousness of the rebirth and the belief.
The trend of people falling away from God has been accelerating in recent years. Scripture tells us that the trend will continue to accelerate until the only believers left here on Earth will be genuine ones. It’s nearly impossible for us, as born-again believers, to imagine falling away. Most of us are like Peter, insisting that we’d never betray Jesus, though even as the words leave our lips we know we’ll be tested on them. Just like Peter was tested, we’ll be tested, and some of us won’t do so well, just like Peter.
Still, no matter how badly we fail and how spectacular our faceplant, Jesus will be right there with us, offering to pull us back on our feet if we want him to. Like God, Jesus will never leave us or betray us.
May we never leave or betray them.
NOW
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 25, 2025 – A false prophet will assure you that there’s always time to turn back to God. If you don’t feel like turning back to God today, that’s OK, you can think about it for a while. No rush. Look after yourself and your needs. Relax. Maybe do some yoga or watch a movie. If not today, then perhaps tomorrow you’ll feel like turning back.
But the truth is that a time will come when it’s too late to turn back to God, when the gate to salvation is shut, never to open again. Never is not a word that you want to hear in relation to salvation. If you die unrepentant, you’ll never have salvation. If you don’t turn back to God before the gate closes, you’ll never have salvation. Tomorrow is not a guarantee. Even the rest of today is not a guarantee. That fact—that the rest of today is not a guarantee—should be sobering enough, should be motivation enough to turn back to God not tomorrow and not even later today, but right now.
Even born-again believers need to constantly monitor where they are in their relationship with God. Even we need to keep ourselves clean on the inside, which means constantly gauging our need for repentance, like checking motor oil. God is with us 24/7 through his Holy Spirit. We are God’s temple. We are the Church established by Jesus. We have been entrusted by God to be his hands and his feet and his mouth and his arms, to be his heart; to be his brain. We haven’t been forced to be these things; we’ve agreed to be them and, in most cases, have begged to be them. We want to do God’s will. We want to help, and so God permits us to help. But how much help can we be if our witness is indistinguishable from the world’s?
I spend time on occasion with unbelievers. What they all have in common is that they hate it when I talk about God. You can’t force-feed the love of God to those who have resolutely shut their hearts and minds to him. I don’t see these people very often (they’re only acquaintances, really, from my pre-reborn days), but when I do meet up with them, I can sense how death has eaten away at them that much more since our last meeting. They’re not dying, these unbelievers; they’re already dead. The actual stopping of their heart and ceasing of their brain activity, when they do occur, will just be formalities among the other formalities of death certificates and funeral rites. But these people are already dead. I mourn them now, even as they sleepwalk through the rest of their days. It’s a heavy burden for us born-again believers to mourn so many who are walking around thinking they’re alive.
And then there are those who insist they love God and want to be born again. They come at me with all spiritual guns blazing, but when I tell them they need to take their prayers to God, not to me, they visibly deflate. This wasn’t what they had in mind. This wasn’t at all what they had in mind. They’d wanted to feel some Holy Spirit ju-jus, which they thought I could make them feel. They wanted me to inspire them. They wanted me to lift them up. They wanted me to do it all for them, like the five foolish virgins who demanded oil from the five wise ones. But I can’t do for them what they need to do for themselves, and I can’t do for anyone what only God can do.
This is what I can do. A nun once said to me that her job was to be a signpost pointing to Jesus. I immediately thought of a scarecrow with an arrow sign around its neck and the name “Jesus” printed on the arrow, and it made me laugh. But I am that scarecrow. These are my hands; this is my heart; this is my brain. God gave them to me, and because I begged him (and he agreed), I now give them to you.
If you haven’t yet repented, don’t wait. If you haven’t yet turned back to God, do it now, because tomorrow is not guaranteed. Even later today is not guaranteed.
You can tell false prophets by how they’ll always say there’ll be lots of time later to turn back to God, just as you can tell real prophets by how they’ll always say the time to turn back is now.
DOUBLE VISION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 25, 2025 – “Vin Mariani” was a sweet alcoholic medicinal concoction popular in Europe in the mid-to-late 1800s. It’s main claim to fame was the addition of coca to the brew, an ingredient which allegedly cured everything from fatigue to muscle weakness to melancholy. Many famous people swore by the efficacy of this elixir, including the reigning pope at the time. In fact, Leo the 13th was so enamored with the stuff, he declared it his favorite drink and bestowed upon its inventor the Vatican’s golden seal of approval.
Sadly, Vin Mariani is no longer with us, but its non-alcoholic offspring—Coca-Cola™—very much is. Did you know that Coca-Cola was inspired by Vin Mariani? And guess who swears by Coca-Cola as his all-time favorite drink? Our very own Pope Leo the 14th, who, by the way, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Pope Leo the 13th (see pics above). Just look at the noses and the set of the lips! Just look at those eyes!
And did you know that the separated-at-birth Leos the 13th and 14th both ascended the papal throne at age 69? Or that #13 holds the record for being the oldest pope ever, reigning until his death at age 93? (Maybe they should have added longevity to Vin Mariani’s list of attributes!) Will our Coca-Cola-fueled #14 give #13 a run for his money and set a new all-time papal age record? We might want to hope so, considering what various prophecies claim is in store for the end of Pope Leo the 14th’s reign.
Along with being renowned for his tippling of Vin Mariani and his record-setting papal age, Leo the 13th is also famous for a vision he allegedly had while celebrating mass at the Vatican chapel in 1884. Just as he was about to leave the altar, the heavens opened and the pope was privy to a conversation between God and Satan. No-one else attending the mass could see or hear the conversation, but several eye-witnesses claim that Leo the 13th fell into a trance-like state and remained motionless for about 10 minutes, his face upturned and ashen. (Sounds like ol’ Leo could have used a swig of Vin Mariani!) When he regained movement, the pope hastily left the chapel and retreated to his office, where he likely did have a swig or two of the Vin (or something stronger), and likely also wrote the vision down.
While a full and official account of what Leo the 13th saw and heard in the chapel that day was never made public, snippets of the vision’s contents have trickled out over the years via the ecclesiastical rumor mill. From what can be pieced together so far, the alleged conversation between God and Satan concerned the destruction of the church, with Satan requesting the power and a specific amount of time to destroy Catholicism. God granted him both. The specific amount of time was 75 to 100 years.
A few decades later, a Portuguese girl who later became a nun would allegedly be given a similar vision of the destruction of Catholicism and Rome in what has since become known as the the third secret of Fatima. That vision was written down, sealed, and given to the Vatican for safe-keeping until it was unsealed and made public in the year 2000. And we’re all now very much aware (or should be) of Malachy’s prophecy of the final pope—Petrus Romanus—presiding over the destruction of the church and Rome. We’ve also determined that Leo the 14th, with his Roman (Italian) heritage and his surname of Prevost, which is an anagram of Petrus (Peter), is in fact the prophesied Petrus Romanus, or Peter the Roman, hidden in plain view.
So now we have a Coca-Cola-swigging pope, Leo the 14th, who’s nearly the spitting image of his immediate predecessor namesake pope, Leo the 13th, who also happened to swig a drink that was the immediate predecessor of Coca-Cola, with both popes having ascended the papal throne at age 69 and both being directly connected to a series of visions concerning the destruction of Catholicism and Rome. Are these all just coincidences and “woo-woos” that mean nothing? Let’s hope so. Let’s sincerely hope so. As much as I have issues with Catholicism (“issues” being a polite term), the destruction of the worldly church is not good for anyone, including us born-again believers. Yes, our own beloved Church, being safely tucked away in the spiritual realm, will continue strong and undefiled until Jesus comes back in glory to take the last of us Home, but the death of the worldly church will signal the start of a very bad time here on Earth, culminating in the institutionalization of luciferianism as the sole acceptable belief system, or what John in the book of Revelation describes as the reign of the beasts.
The timing, according to all the above-mentioned prophecies, appears to be set and permission granted. Demonic elements within the worldly church are organizing the destruction from within. This is not an attack from without but from within, and a diabolically well-organized one at that. As much as we want to forestall the destruction of the worldly church, especially in consideration of what its end signifies, the forces of evil embedded within it are longing for its annihilation and laboring tirelessly towards that end. And we appear to have a timeframe for the destruction: no later than the end of the reign of Leo the 14th, a.k.a. Petrus Romanus—Peter the Roman—the current pope, aged 69, who may or may not live past the all-time papal age record of 93. If the prophecies are accurate, we can’t stop what’s coming, but we can make good use of whatever time we have left.
So, be bold, my fellow born-again believers! Be true to your mission! Be brave! Do whatever you can to get God’s Word out while there’s still time. And if you find that your energy is lagging—that your spirit is willing, but your flesh is weak—have a coke.
THIS IS ZION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 21, 2025 – Our greatest joy as born-again believers is being able to spend all day every day with God. Jesus is with us, too, as he promised he would be, but as much as we love Jesus (and that we certainly do), God is our Daddy. He’s the one we love with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Even if the Commandment to love God didn’t exist, we’d still love him that way. It comes with being born-again. We don’t have to try to love God or work at loving God: We just do.
Our relationship with God is entirely different from our relationship with Jesus. And like for Jesus during his time on Earth, God is our main focus. It’s God we turn to for help and guidance, it’s God we run to for comfort if things aren’t going so well, and it’s God’s Commandments and directives we do our best to follow. God is our everything, and if we’re genuinely born-again, we don’t want to live even one second without him.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never loved anyone or anything the way I love God. It’s a totality of emotional investment that I didn’t think was possible. There’s no “I’ll give God this part of me, but I’m setting aside this part for someone or something else.” No. That’s not how it is with God. You give him everything not because he’s asking you to or expecting you to, but because you want to give him everything. You can’t imagine not giving God everything. That’s how it is for us born-again believers. That’s been my experience, anyway.
And so, we spend all day every day with God. No matter what we’re doing, God is always right there with us, offering a word of advice or encouragement, cautioning us if we wander off-course, or just making us laugh when he knows we could use a giggle. Not enough is said about God’s sense of humor, which, like everything else about him, is perfect. The context is always perfect, the timing is always perfect, and the delivery is consummate. No-one on Earth or in Heaven is funnier than God. Jesus comes a distant second (he has a very dry sense of humor that bounces well off God’s), but God still wins that contest, hands down. No-one beats God at anything, not even Jesus.
I’m not always aware of God’s presence, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t always here with me. I know he’s always here because he tells me he is and because Jesus during his ministry years said that he was never alone, that God was always with him. If God was always with Jesus, then God is always with us. That’s part of the deal of being born-again followers of Jesus. The relationship Jesus had with God during his time on Earth is the same relationship we have with him.
Ultimately, I love spending all day every day with God because he’s so much fun to be with. But he’s also loving and protective in a fatherly way. His presence is the sanctuary that David wrote about, the absolute and unconditional safe zone that no-one and nothing can violate. This is Zion, the prophesied Kingdom of God on Earth. It’s not a physical place: It’s a spiritual realm, a state of being that is entirely separate from our spiritual enemies. It’s bounded on all sides and above and below by God’s love for us and by our love for God. It’s a realm of pure unfeigned love, and no-one who doesn’t love God that way can enter in.
This is Zion. This is God’s presence with us through his Holy Spirit, and it’s the closest we’ll get to Heaven until we get Home.
THE TRANSITION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 20, 2025 – Life after death is either a goal, a pipedream, a delusion, or a guarantee, depending on what you believe in. For me, life after death is a promise that I hope will be fulfilled as it was for Jesus and for others mentioned in scripture whose bodies changed from earthly to heavenly in a twinkling. This is the life after death I’m aiming for.
But getting to that heavenly body will require a radical transition. We won’t just wake up one day and find that our body is now perfect and immortal. No amount of diet, exercise, plastic surgery, or wishful thinking can make us perfect, let alone immortal: Only God can do that for us.
The transition from an imperfect mortal body to a perfect immortal one involves physical death. Just as we died spiritually to be reborn, gaining God’s Holy Spirit in the process, we’ll someday also die physically in order to gain physical immortality. And if the ecstasy of our spiritual rebirth is anything to go by, I expect the gaining of our heavenly body will be at least equally as ecstatic, if not more so. If this is the case (and I truly believe it is), it’s something to be desired; not feared, desired.
This transition is the resurrection. It’s what Jesus preached and what he underwent in the privacy of his tomb cave, after which he emerged unrecognizable both in form and voice, though his soul remained the same. It’s worth noting that being resurrected is not the same as being raised from the dead. Elijah raised a boy from the dead, as did Elisha. Jesus also raised several children from the dead and then famously raised his friend Lazarus. But these “raised” people retained the same earthly bodies (that is, imperfect and mortal) they had prior to their death, and so they weren’t resurrections. They were a return to life, much like people can be returned to life through medical interventions like defibrillators, heart massage, CPR, or adrenaline injections. In modern parlance, they’re NDEs (near-death experiences) rather than permanent deceases.
Resurrection requires the permanent decease of everything that is mortal. We’re not recycled back into a different body, like the deeply flawed reincarnation theory proposes; our body is transformed from mortal to immortal. When he appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, Jesus explained that he was not yet “ascended” but was in the process of being so. Still, in his newly immortalized body, he was able to appear and disappear at will and to have his wounds probed without feeling any pain. He then later literally rose up into the air in front of several witnesses, disappearing into the clouds. A mortal body cannot do these things.
Every one of us who makes it to Heaven will transition from an imperfect mortal body into a perfect immortal one. Our body will change at our resurrection the same way as our spirit changed at our rebirth, but our soul will stay the same because God made our soul to last forever. Did you know that your personality is seated in your soul? And just as your personality didn’t change at your rebirth, it also won’t change at your resurrection. The “you” you are now will continue for all eternity, shedding at physical death only those personality traits that don’t belong in Heaven. Hopefully, when our time comes, there won’t be that many traits to shed.
I don’t know about you, but I am so looking forward to the transition! I’m not going to do anything to hasten it (God doesn’t want us to do that), but I’m also not doing anything to delay it. I’m not interested in prolonging my days here on Earth; I’m grateful for whatever time God allots me, but I’m not going to beg for more time, like Hezekiah did. I want to be where Jesus is and to go through the transition that Jesus went through to get there. I want to be perfected and immortalized in the way that God promises us we will be and Jesus showed us we can be.
I want to be resurrected. I want to ascend.
I want to transition.
I want to go Home.
JESUS WAS BADASS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 18, 2025 – Jesus was a spiritual vigilante and a badass, and we’re only now starting to appreciate just how badass he was. He single-handedly took on the entire establishment of “God’s chosen” (who, by that point, had already lost their claim to the title) as well as their Roman overlords, and he came out victorious in the end without so much as plucking a hair from any of their heads. It was a total hands-off victory that relied entirely on the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Nothing before or since has come close to the level of Jesus’ victory, and he did so not by the use of arms and violence but by trusting fully in God and doing God’s will.
Jesus’ greatest badass achievement? Turning evil into good. We, his born-again followers, are called to do the same.
I don’t know about you, but the last thing I’d call myself is badass. A spiritual vigilante, yes, I’m a born (and born-again) vigilante, but I’m working on the badass part and still have a ways to go. By “badass”, I mean performing righteous acts entirely without fear and confident in the outcome. Being badass starts with having total faith and trust in God, but it also needs to be put through its paces. Jesus wasn’t a badass when he was a carpenter in Nazareth. You can’t be badass only on paper, even if that paper is scripture. You need to walk it out and work into it over time.
Moses was badass. David was badass. Elijah and Elisha were badass, too. Paul grew into his badassery (shaking the poisonous snake off his arm like a harmless bug showed that he achieved it), as did a whole litany of martyrs, beginning with Stephen.
If you, like me, have not yet ascended the badass dais, don’t worry about it. You’ll get there if you stay the course. You’re not born a badass; it comes with faith, time, and circumstance. All of Jesus’ loyal first-generation disciples eventually became badasses, including the women. If we have the requisite faith (and we should, if we’re genuinely born-again), we’re already latent badasses just waiting for the right occasion—the right trigger— to burst free.
Oh, glorious day when that happens!
Scripture tells of a time when God’s people will do “exploits” on the level of the holy angels. All of God’s holy angels are badass. I’ve met a few in person, and the one characteristic they shared was unearthly calmness and total unwavering confidence in the intended outcome. In our interactions, they calmly and matter-of-factly stated that something would occur even though people around me were telling me it was impossible. But the angels didn’t just tell me it would occur; they showed me what I had to do to make it happen. It was a telling before the showing, but it was more importantly prophecy in action or what could rightly be called applied prophecy. I had my part to play, my role to perform. If I hadn’t done what I was shown to do, there wouldn’t have been any miracles.
Jesus was king of applied prophecy during his ministry years. Over and over again, he did what he did not only because scripture dictated what the Messiah should do but because God and God’s holy angels directly told Jesus what to do. They told him, showed him, and then empowered him to walk it out. His entire ministry was based on that model. Jesus was an exemplary badass because his faith was so strong, as was his desire to do God’s will and God’s will only. This formed the basis for Jesus’ unparalled badassery, and his ministry was the trigger that unleashed it.
If you pray for nothing else today, my brothers and sisters, get down on your hands and knees—better still, get down on your face—and pray that you and all born-again believers become badass like Jesus.
Amen!
ENTERTAINING DEVILS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 17, 2025 – This is one of the more difficult articles I’ve had to write for this blog. It’s a touchy subject, but it needs to be aired. It concerns our interactions with people who are not born-again and have no interest in becoming born-again. In other words, it concerns nearly everyone we come into contact with every day and therefore it concerns our day-to-day lives. How we deal with these people can make or break us spiritually, so listen up.
As always, we need to look to Jesus first and foremost to see how he interacted with those around him. How did Jesus treat people who had no desire to know and love God? Did he force himself on them, following them around and pestering them with Bible quotes? Did he slip a Gospel teaching into his conversations with them without their knowing it? Or did he go all Bible-thumping fire and brimstone and warn them that they’d burn in hell unless they followed him? The answer is, of course, “no”, Jesus didn’t do any of those things. He didn’t even stop his followers from leaving him, if they wanted to leave. He didn’t chase after them and try to entice them back into the fold. He just let them go. Jesus’ focus, as should be ours, was to teach those who free-willingly came to him with the right motivation.
But what about people who try to attach themselves to us with the wrong motivation, who don’t know God and Jesus and have no desire to know them? If you’ve been born-again for any amount of time, you’ll likely have noticed that you’ve become a magnet for… certain people. They may be family members or perhaps they’re friends or acquaintances you knew prior to your rebirth, but what they all have in common is a desire to insert themselves into your life, even if you haven’t seen them or spoken to them in years. In most cases, these people are unaware that they’re being used spiritually to entice you into behaviors you left behind when you were born-again. But they’re persistent, these people, and they typically use as a hook your shared personal history with them.
Again, these are not people who are coming to you because they crave what you have spiritually; they’re coming to take away what you have spiritually—to find chinks in your spiritual armor to exploit—so you need to be very cautious around them.
Still, a few relationships are inviolable, regardless of whether these people are reborn or not. I’m referring here to your relationship with your mother and father. The Commandment says we’re to honor our parents, so we’re to honor them, no exceptions. We honor them by interacting with them respectfully and speaking kindly of them to others, even if they give Jack the Ripper a run for his money. This directive to honor our mother and father comes directly from God and therefore is inviolable. Break it at your extreme peril.
But beyond our mother and father, God gives us no directives other than to treat people as we would want to be treated. I like people to be polite to me, so I’m polite to them. I like people to be honest with me, so I’m honest with them. But I don’t necessarily need to be kind when kindness isn’t called for, though whatever I say or do, I say or do it with the aim of maintaining a clear conscience and right-standing before God. This may look like standoffish-ness or even outright rudeness, but we have no directive from God to cater to people’s whims and demands on our time. Just because someone reaches out to us doesn’t mean we have to respond, if we know their motivation for reaching out is not good, is not godly. And we can know their motivation is not godly because God gives us discernment to know.
Many people cried out to Jesus as he walked from village to village, but he only responded to and spent time with those who wanted what he was offering. He didn’t force the Gospel on people; he shared it with those who free-willingly came to him with godly intent. Every day, we interact with dozens if not hundreds of people, most if not all of whom want nothing to do with God and Jesus. They’re not coming to us to hear the Gospel. Some will even target us, intentionally or unintentionally trying to harm us spiritually. We’ll know who these people are when they come around; they’re not hard to discern. The bait and hooks are nearly always the same. If you spend even a small amount of time with them, they’ll give you a sense that you’re being dragged down because they are dragging you down. That’s their motivation, whether they know it or not. And that’s how you know you can’t be around them.
You have no directive from God to be around certain people just because they want to be around you. If they don’t want God and Jesus, they want your harm: There’s no other way to put it. Be polite, but steer clear of them. You don’t even have to tell them why you’re steering clear of them. They are a test and a temptation and a constant moral hazard.
As a born-again believer, you have no obligation to entertain devils.
So don’t.
MASS IMMIGRATION: GOD’S WILL OR AN EARNED EVIL?
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 13, 2025 – A general spiritual rule of thumb is that nearly everything the world promotes and values is contrary to the will of God. By “the world”, I’m referring here mainly to Western civilization, since the West more than any other part of the world has gone off the deep end lately and gotten itself into some major spiritual doo-doo, and that well earned. If something is contrary to the will of God but has been earned, God will permit it. He doesn’t will it, he permits it. This distinction is important.
For instance, God doesn’t will mass immigration into Western nations, but he does permit it as an earned negative reward. Not to permit it would be contrary to his justice. And so, taking their cue from their satanic overlords and with the encouragement of religious and cultural organizations of every stripe and creed, Western governments have rolled out the red carpet for “whosoever will”, regardless of merit. Formerly rigorous processes that lasted years have been thrown out in favor of instant permanent residency and full generous financial support upon arrival, with very few applicants being turned away. Of course, people are taking advantage of the largesse (who wouldn’t?), counting on overwhelmed and backlogged immigration systems to give them at least three to four years of relative luxury (compared to what they’re used to back home) before their case is reviewed and decided. And even when cases are rejected, the appeals process can take years, during which time the good times continue to roll for the applicants, who then become so deeply rooted and established in their adopted country that to uproot them would be (according to their taxpayer-funded lawyer) tantamount to a crime against humanity.
This is the state of mass immigration today in the West through all the various channels (refugee, asylum-seeker, international student, foreign worker, etc.), and if for all intents and purposes it appears to be a taxpayer-funded invasion, that’s because it is a taxpayer-funded invasion. And with God’s permission. Not God’s will, but his permission. The invasion of incompatible people into the West who hate the West and only want to take advantage of the West has been earned spiritually by the West (see Deuteronomy 28) and therefore will not only continue but worsen as the spiritual health of the West continues its precipitous decline.
All this madness has been lumped together by Western governments and religious leaders under the soft-sell heading of “immigration” and is being promoted as a “core Western value”, even as it all but destroys the host countries it afflicts. The Lord moves in mysterious ways, but the devil is upfront about his devilry for those who have eyes to see. The irony is that being permitted by God as an expression of his justice and being orchestrated by the devil under God’s strict authority, mass immigration must occur. It cannot not occur, not according to God’s justice. There is no way around mass immigration into the West, not with the current spiritual state of the West and its future projected trend.
The irony is also that to be against mass immigration as it’s playing out today in the West is to be against God’s justice. Does that mean we, as born-again believers, should promote and support mass immigration? As Paul would say: “God forbid!” Just because God permits something as a negative reward doesn’t mean we should embrace it or enable it in any way. To embrace or enable a negative reward is to work against God. Our job, as born-again believers, is to let God’s justice play out, not fight against it. We’re to endure negative rewards, not promote them – we’re to endure them, not hinder them: We’re to endure them, and by enduring them suffer patiently to the extent that we’ve earned them. That is God’s justice, and we’re all subject to God’s justice. No exceptions.
Accordingly, we should never morally, financially, or any other way support charities, including churches, that promote mass immigration. What God wills is not the same as what God permits, and God is permitting mass immigration into the West by incompatible peoples as a negative reward for a spiritual falling away from all that is good and holy. In other words, he’s giving people in the West the fruit of their choices – a nation without God, where people ruled over by demons rule over them. If we support and enable the fruit of sin, we’re supporting and enabling sin. Obviously, as born-again believers, we shouldn’t do that.
And yes, Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus to Egypt, but they were a case of an individual family fleeing imminent slaughter – genuine refugeeism – not mass opportunistic country-shopping. Jacob’s family was also accepted in Egypt under the auspices of both Joseph and the then pharaoh, but again, this was a case of an individual family facing a life-or-death circumstance (famine-induced starvation); it wasn’t mass immigration of aptly named “gimmegrants” country-hopping to find the most generous benefits for them and their extended families. Genuine refugees we should continue to welcome; if God has willed that they come, we need to welcome them. But mass immigration God has not willed.
Mass immigration is a God-sanctioned negative reward that we, as born-again believers, should endure but not support. As a negative reward, mass immigration will affect each of us personally to the extent that we’ve earned it. We need to accept it, not fight against it, as it is God’s justice manifesting in real time. We must never fight against God’s justice no matter how much of an injustice it superficially appears to be. We need to be spiritually aware of why things are the way they are so that we aren’t unknowingly drawn into rebelling against God’s justice and therefore rebelling against God.
Have the wisdom and patience of saints, not the knee-jerk elbows-up response of the world.
SOCIAL MEDIA, GOSSIP, AND BEARING FALSE WITNESS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 11, 2025 – The Ten Commandments are non-negotiable, which we, as born-again believers, well know. Every Commandment needs to be kept to the best of our ability, no excuses and no exceptions. The Commandments that garner the most attention (e.g., the ones about not killing and not committing adultery) tend to overshadow the less oft-cited Commandments and push them farther away from our spiritual awareness. But all the Commandments need to be kept, not just the “sexy” ones.
One of those less oft-cited Commandments is the one about not bearing false witness against your neighbor. In fact, it’s so overshadowed at times by the other Commandments that it’s even been misconstrued on occasion as “Thou shalt not lie”, which is not what the Commandment states. The Commandment is not about not lying: It’s about not bearing false witness, which, though it can share some characteristics with lying, is in a separate category by itself or it wouldn’t be a Commandment.
Bearing false witness against your neighbor can manifest in two different ways: 1) purposely twisting or omitting facts to cast guilt on an innocent person, either in a court of law or in the court of public opinion; or 2) openly speculating, again either in a court of law or in the court of public opinion, about the probable or possible guilt of someone, based solely on your opinion of the presented or presumed facts.
This article concerns the second violation of the Commandment, specifically, open speculation in the court of public opinion.
We all speculate. It’s not wrong to speculate. When we hear of a crime or a potential crime, we speculate as a way to make sense of the mystery that we’ve been presented with and don’t yet have a solution for, not being privy to all the facts of the case. Speculation in and of itself is not wrong. God gave us a mind and intends for us to use it. But speculation that involves the possible or probable guilt of someone we only suspect might be guilty should be kept between us and God. The instant we go beyond God and openly share our speculations on someone’s presumed guilt, we enter the realm of bearing false witness against a neighbor. We cross the line and we break the Commandment.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have crossed that line and nearly crossed that line on numerous occasions without realizing it. Case in point: Two children, age four and six, have gone missing from a rural community in Nova Scotia. This happened about a week ago, and speculation on social media has been rife with unsubstantiated claims about what could have happened to the little ones. Having lived for a time not far from where the children disappeared, I was immediately drawn to the case; and being a woman with latent but still intact maternal instincts, I also became emotionally involved with it. For every fact about the disappearance that trickled out through mainstream media, social media responded with a flood of what can only be described as salacious speculation. No-one who had access to the children before their disappearance was spared public pillorying. Given my emotional involvement, it was difficult for me not to get caught up in the rumors and innuendoes, and so I did get caught up in them, until God hauled me up short and showed me what I was setting myself up for.
I did not get involved in the public speculation about what happened to those children (who, at the time of publication, are still missing). When I say I didn’t get involved publicly, I mean I didn’t submit a comment on any of the social media forums or talk about the case with anyone. I kept my speculations to myself, but I was tempted on many an occasion to jump into the online discussions that form the widespread court of public opinion. I was tempted. I was very tempted. And I thank God I didn’t do it.
When we speculate between us and God, God will guide our speculations, if we ask him to guide us and if it’s to our benefit. God decides on both of those criteria. But when we breach the containment of our mind and shift to openly speculating in the court of public opinion, we run the risk of breaking the Commandment about bearing false witness against our neighbor. No, I don’t know the people involved in the case of the missing children in Nova Scotia, but they’re still my neighbors, according to Jesus’ definition. And no, the court of public opinion doesn’t take place in a designated court of law, but it still has the same spiritual impact. Even if you believe your speculations to be accurate and the person or people you’re speculating about to be guilty, you need to keep your speculations between you and God. You’ll be tempted not to, but you need to keep them between you and God. The minute you voice your opinion publicly (even just among friends and family), you cross the line and break the Commandment.
But what if your suspicions end up being correct? What if you’ve uncovered an angle that doesn’t appear to have been considered by law enforcement agents? What if your witness isn’t false? Are you still breaking the Commandment if you share what turns out to be true?
As long as the case being speculated upon is still in the realm of speculation (that is, hasn’t yet been solved beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law), you need to be very careful about what you share and how you share it. You can share your personal revelations without pointing fingers, but that’s a very tricky process that borders on breaking the Commandment. You can do it but be very careful. Unless you are an eyewitness and are 100% certain about what you saw, you are treading a very fine line that may wrongly implicate someone, which will then rebound to you spiritually and cause you enormous suffering.
There are no exceptions when it comes to keeping God’s Ten Commandments. The devil is always laying traps and offering temptations to get us to violate God’s rules, so we need not only to be aware of the Commandments at all times but to understand what each one looks like when it’s walked out in real life. If God hadn’t shown me, I would never have connected spit-balling someone’s possible guilt with violating the Commandment about bearing false witness. I would just have thought of it as discussing possibilities with people who are also discussing possibilities. But all words, whether spoken or written, have an impact on the hearers and readers, swaying them this way or that. You don’t want to be the one swaying someone to a conclusion that falsely accuses another of a crime, because you’ll be held responsible for that false accusation by God, which will have a far worse outcome for you, as a born-again believer, than if you’d committed the discussed crime yourself.
Be very careful of what you say and write. It’s better to keep things between you and God than to climb onboard the gossip train of social media and fall into the devil’s trap of bearing false witness.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 