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ABOMINATIONS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 18, 2025 – I’ve had the unsought advantage over the years of getting to know psychopaths up close and personal, sometimes in deeply intimate relationships. By advantage, I mean I’ve learned how to stay outside their sphere of control; by intimate, I mean physical intimacy, because no-one can get emotionally close to a psychopath. That door is welded shut.
Living and moving in close proximity to psychopaths at various times (including now), I learned from them how not to be. Psychopaths are very useful for modeling bad behavior. It’s almost textbook paint-by-number bad in some cases, but it’s still informative from an observational point of view. I had to learn the hard way to step back and observe these people from an emotional if not a physical distance and to train myself not to let my feelings (other than my gut feeling) get involved. You learn the hard way not to get emotionally entangled with psychopaths, though I’m not sure it’s a lesson you ever fully learn.
Still, the hard way is the only way anyone ever learns how to deal with psychopaths. That’s because we keep trying to attribute to them the same “essential humanity” that we attribute to non-psychopaths. This failing is on us; we can’t blame them for being what they are. And frankly, I have yet to meet a psychopath who hasn’t more or less instantly self-identified as a psychopath to anyone with eyes to see. Now that I know what to look for, I can spot them as easily as a shiny nickel in the middle of the road. They’re like a fox in the henhouse or a wolf in the sheep pen. The trick is to be the henhouse (not the hen) and the fence (not the sheep). We’re to observe from a safe distance, not intervene or engage. Beyond the perfunctory, it’s never advisable to engage with psychopaths.
Which brings me to today’s topic – psychopathic nations. Whole nations can be psychopathic, not just individuals. That’s not to say that all the people in those nations are psychopaths; I’m not saying that at all. But a nation can still be psychopathic without all its people being so. To be considered psychopathic, a nation just needs to display certain key psychopathic traits, such as being perpetually self-absorbed, lacking in empathy, lacking in self-awareness, manipulative, a cunning and unapologetic liar, coldly calculating, an unabashed user and abuser of others, seeing others as less than human and therefore unworthy of humane treatment, adept at playing one party against another, perpetually protesting its innocence, perpetually proclaiming its victimhood, and perpetually justifying its exceptionalism by explaining why it should get away with doing things that other nations should not get away with doing. A psychopathic nation also appears to take pleasure in inflicting pain on its victims, all while either ignoring or downplaying the pain, or claiming it’s deserved.
How can a psychopathic nation be dealt with in a global community? Should it be isolated and contained by laws, such as those passed by the UN? That’s already been tried, but it hasn’t worked because our current psychopathic regimes have dismissed the laws as not applying to them. Should psychopathic nations be punished militarily? That’s also been tried but has so far failed because other nations get tricked, guilted, or bullied into bolstering the psychopaths’ defenses. Perhaps these nations should just simply be ignored? If you’ve ever dealt with psychopaths one-on-one, you’ll know that ignoring them rarely works. Psychopaths crave attention not as an ego-stroker but as a control mechanism. If they have your attention, they’re controlling you, so if you’re ignoring them, they’ll do whatever it takes to regain your attention, and no method is off the table. Even if they have to kill you to get you to look their way just one more time, they’ll kill you. Psychopathic nations are the same.
Which explains why these countries are always doing things to get attention. Attention-getting is their calling card on the world stage. So, for instance, they’ll unexpectedly attack another nation while it’s engaged in peace talks, catching it off-guard. This is not a new tactic but certainly a dirty one and again reveals the attacking nation’s underlying psychopathy. And since a psychopath doesn’t want to be admired or even liked, just in control, a psychopathic nation is not in the least fazed by the world’s nearly unanimous condemnation of its dirty tricks. It will instead frame the condemnation as persecution. Weeping crocodile tears, it will state that it has a right to defend itself from potential future aggressions. It will offer no apologies, because a psychopath never feels the need to apologize. Beyond self-pity, self-aggrandizement, and nearly boundless lust, a psychopath never really feels anything.
Yet for all their horror show of characteristics, psychopathic nations should not be despised. They represent both a collective reward for our bad behavior and a temptation that we dare not become. In this regard, psychopathic nations are a cautionary tale of what not to be, how not to act, and who not to serve. Because it’s as glaringly obvious as that shiny new nickel lying in the middle of the road that psychopathic nations don’t serve God. I don’t know who or what they serve, but it’s not my Father in Heaven; it’s not Jesus’ Father. Our Father is not being served by psychopaths. Something or someone is being served, but it’s not God.
How, then, are we to deal with not-God-serving psychopathic nations? Do we ignore them? At our peril; the more you ignore psychopaths, the more and worse they’ll do to get your attention. Do we cautiously and supportively interact with them, fingers crossed and hoping for the best? Again, we’d do so at our peril; psychopaths cannot be trusted and will only interact with us to find out our weaknesses, which they’ll later use against us. Or do we simply run and hide? You can’t hide from relentless control-seeking enemies, other than when your flight is directed by God and under God’s protection, keeping in mind that psychopathic nations, like psychopaths, can only inflict as much pain and destruction as has been earned, either as a negative reward or as a tightly controlled test sanctioned by God. It’s also worth noting that as time goes by, more and more nations will turn psychopathic.
So, what can we do? Or, better said, what should we do? As with individuals, nations with psychopathy should not be interacted with other than for the merest of perfunctory gestures. We should instead stand at a safe distance and observe them. We should be the henhouse, not the hens; the fence, not the sheep. We should not get involved; we should quiet our emotions. Like a sniper lying stock-still far above his target, we should keep psychopathic nations in our crosshairs but never pull the trigger. It’s not our job to pull the trigger. God has not given us that job.
It’s our job to do God’s will, and Jesus very clearly told us: “Watch”.
So we’re to serve God and watch, but otherwise let the abominations be.
24/7
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 17, 2025 – What you do when no-one is around to see or hear you is the measure of where you are in your spiritual development. Those in the worldly church would claim that we’re already saved and that Jesus knows we’re sinners and shed his blood to cover our sins, so we’re good to go and no use fretting over every little slip-up. But we know this isn’t true, and that our every thought, word, and deed can and will be used against us, if not in the here and now, then in the Final Court of Law. So we’re careful, oh so careful, of what we think, say, and do. We’re careful because we know that everything is being monitored and recorded, always by God but also a good chunk of the time by enemy forces. There’s nowhere we can go to get away from this reality.
We born-again believers are in Church 24/7, whether awake or asleep, which means that we’re in prayer with God 24/7. Your eyes on these words is a prayer to God. And when you finish reading these words and go elsewhere online, that will be a prayer, too. Everywhere you go online is a prayer, just as everywhere you willingly take your body is a prayer and every word you allow out of your mouth is a prayer and every thought you consciously generate and/or entertain is a prayer. All your free-will everything is a prayer to God. This spiritual fact needs to be taken onboard by every born-again believer: Your entire sleeping and waking reality is a prayer.
This is where knowing and loving God as your heavenly Father comes in handy, because who wouldn’t want a trusted father-figure always within whisper reach? It doesn’t faze me at all that God knows everything about me in real time and that it’s all being recorded for posterity. It doesn’t faze me at all that I can’t turn off God’s access to me even if I wanted to. This state of being doesn’t faze me, it comforts me, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Satan’s access to me, on the other hand, is not comforting. The surveillance state that’s covertly being built and insinuated into our every word and movement should never be perceived as a comfort, because unlike God’s 24/7 surveillance, Satan’s surveillance is being done solely to be used against us. We’re told the collection of our data is for marketing purposes or to create a better user experience, but the fact is our technological trail is a dossier being compiled on each of us, though we’ve committed no crime. Simply by agreeing to use high-tech tools, we allow ourselves to be fingerprinted, voice-printed, image-printed, gait-printed, and even scent-printed. We permit our every email to be scoured, our every image to be captured, and our every document to be seized – but for what? Evidence? And if evidence, towards what?
By clicking or tapping “Agree” in the various terms of service agreements we come across online, we’ve already put ourselves on trial and are willingly compiling evidence against ourselves. Everything but our thoughts is known and recorded (that you’re reading this is known and recording by Satan) and thrown onto the sacrificial fire of AI training modules. Everything but our thoughts is known and recorded, but they’re coming for those, too. It’s just a matter of time before the majority (nearly every human) will willingly agree to a brain implant that will allow access to their thoughts not as they emerge filtered through their lips or fingertips but as they pour raw from the source. You do not want to agree to take this implant, because if you do, you’ll be lost to God. There’s no other way to put it but that you’ll be lost, and that forever. No exceptions and no redo: the ultimate “one and done”.
I’m glad that God knows everything about me in real time and is with me 24/7. I’m glad he knows my thoughts and I welcome him into my mind as I welcome him into every other part of me. I hide nothing from him. But Satan and his surveillance state I do not welcome. I allow their intrusions this far and no further, only what is necessary. God will let me know what is necessary and caution me against the rest, as he’ll do for you, if you’re born-again.
The access we permit our enemy (and the surveillance state is unquestioningly our enemy) is on us, so we need to be careful. We’re careful with God, anyway, so we know what it means to be careful, though with God it’s for learning purposes, for guidance, and always towards our spiritual improvement. With Satan’s surveillance, we need to be careful in a different way because that form of near 24/7 data capture only wants our harm. Its sole purpose is our harm.
We need to understand this and proceed accordingly.
NEVER OUR SOULS: THE ROLE OF SATAN IN GOD’S PLAN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 9, 2025 – We live in a world of chaos and confusion not because God wants it that way but because sin makes it that way. Chaos and confusion are sin’s calling card: the more abundant the sin, the more widespread the chaos and confusion. For the time being, God has given Satan administrative authority over the sin realm, but not because Satan is chaotic and confused; far from it. He’s coldly methodical and precise, entirely lacking in emotional warmth, and a consummate liar. This makes him very good at his job, though his mandate comes with tight restrictions and clearly defined limits that are impossible for Satan to exceed.
When I say impossible, I mean impossible. Satan can only do what God permits him to do, and God will only permit him to do either what we’ve earned or what God stipulates as a test. Satan’s not off somewhere in an underground bunker, hidden from God and plotting his maker’s overthrow. No. Satan is a wide-open book to God and, again, can only do what God permits. He’s entirely under God’s thumb. And if those who serve Satan attempt to exceed the prescribed limits, their reward is excruciating and unending. And their attempt will fail.
Being in the world, we’re under the administrative authority of Satan, but our souls are safely tucked away in the Kingdom, where Satan has no authority and cannot enter. Still, our bodies are subject to whatever Satan-imposed rules and laws are permitted by God. We’re surrounded by Satan’s handiwork and that of his faithful servants: We eat, drink, and breathe desecrated creation. This would be intolerable to me if I weren’t certain of God’s love for me and didn’t fully trust his plan.
I can’t say that I hate being here, but I can say that I almost hate it. I don’t hate the entire world, just those things that are under Satan’s authority. What God has lovingly formed and given to his children to brighten their days and quicken their time here – those things I cannot hate. But what Satan does, I hate.
Chaos and confusion are spiritual pollution emitted by sin: the more widespread the sin, the greater the chaos and confusion. The world measures carbon emissions and other industrial pollutants, aiming to eliminate them, but maybe we should instead be measuring chaos and confusion levels, aiming to eliminate those and the sin that causes them. Purge the sin, and the sin-associated chaos and confusion disappear as well. Although spiritual pollution is far more toxic and long-lasting than any other type of pollution, Satan considers it a measure of his success. High sin pollution levels indicate a bumper crop of morally compromised souls that are ripe for even further compromising. It’s to those souls that Satan looks for followers.
He has two kinds of followers, Satan: Those who know they’re following him, and those who don’t. When I say they know they’re following him, I mean they’ve sworn an oath to that effect and signed a contract submitting to him, agreeing to his terms. You’d be surprised how many have done this, or perhaps you wouldn’t be surprised. If you’re not born-again and reading this, perhaps you’re one of those who formally signed on with Satan through one of his proxy organizations and became his follower. If so, you would certainly know how many of you there are, if only in general terms. You would know that there are far more of you than the non-oath-takers realize because you see signs of your brethren everywhere. This is, after all, Satan’s realm, so it only makes sense that his sworn followers would be so… ubiquitous. For me, a born-again believer, I find their ubiquity galling, but I take heart in knowing that their power and reach are strictly limited by God. So I look past all the destruction they’re permitted to do; I look past it to God and his creation, to the parts that they can’t touch. There are still some parts they can’t touch—not even with the full force of evil—and it’s those parts that comfort me.
Satan’s other followers are people who haven’t formally sworn an oath, but they still serve him (or better said, serve his purposes) by the choices they make and their hardheartedness towards God and his Messiah. These followers make up most of the world’s population and are easily deceived and manipulated. If you told them they follow Satan, they’d probably laugh at you, though some might secretly like the idea, having no deeper understanding of Satan than what they learned from his propaganda channels, such as Hollywood. Satan is his own biggest promoter, and his speciality is selling himself as the provider of your every desire. Who could resist such a sales pitch? Thank God we can, like Jesus did in the desert, but most people can’t resist, which explains why so many are witting or unwitting followers of Satan. Their unholy desires are their undoing.
I don’t hate Satan. It’s not in me to hate him. We need to respect God’s decision to use Satan to administer God’s tests and negative rewards. We don’t need to respect Satan, but we should respect that God placed him where he did and that he has a role to play in God’s plan, just like Judas Iscariot had a role to play, and played it, and Jesus still showed him love. I’m not saying to show Satan love (no sympathy for the devil here), but we show God love when we trust and respect his plan, even if we don’t fully understand it, and even if it means that someday, like Jesus, we have to give up our bodies to Satan, though never our souls.
PRAYER FOR GOD’S CHILDREN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 9, 2025 – God is the consummate father, protecting and watching over his children throughout their time here on Earth. We’re not spiritual latchkey kids, we children of God; we’re not left to fend for ourselves while our heavenly Father is off elsewhere delivering judgement or rescuing stray sheep. No. God is perpetually with us through his Holy Spirit. At no time are we left alone.
For those who love God, his presence is a comfort. For those who hate him, it’s a threat.
And yet, being children—and even with our Father’s constant presence—we’re prone to stumbling into tricky situations, either through our own naivete, our own stupidity, or as a God-mandated test. In other words, we either bring these tricky situations on ourselves by our poor choices, or God will allow them to be brought on us to gauge where we are in our spiritual development. But unless our hour has come (that is, unless it’s time for God to take us Home), our heavenly Father will always intervene to help us in our trials.
God’s intervention can take many forms, depending on the type of danger and our initial response to it. The form it most frequently takes is shielding us, either supernaturally or physically or both, until the danger has passed. God did this most famously for baby Jesus when he was under a death threat by Herod’s kill decree. God also later intervened for Jesus, supernaturally shielding him so that he could walk unscathed (and seemingly undetected) through the enraged mobs at the temple and in Nazareth. These are just a few instances of God’s interventions that are mentioned in scripture, but the truth is that God intervened every day, all day, to protect Jesus, just as he intervenes every day, all day, to protect us.
Being whisked away and kept hidden is essentially the default position of God’s children whenever they face danger, particularly if they haven’t brought it on themselves. For the latter part of his ministry, Jesus basically lived his life on the run, as did the members of the early Church, for whom living in hiding, physically and miraculously, was the status quo. God keeps his children, then as now, either on the run or safely tucked away until the threat had been removed or their hour had come. As we know from the New Testament, being a member of the early Church was essentially a death sentence in some regions—but oh, what a glorious Homecoming! There’s no better way to lay down your life than in full service to God.
As the age draws closer and closer to the prophesied time of the end, we born-again believers should expect a revival of the days when we were hunted, imprisoned, and executed, though truth be told, the hunting, imprisoning, and executing hasn’t stopped for the last nearly 2000 years, even with the state-engineered institutionalization of Christianity. Genuine believers have always been a target if not for ‘permanent removal’ then at least for conversion from spiritual wrongthink, or what the worldly church calls heresy. Inquisitions, which were essentially church-and-state-sanctioned witch hunts of born-again believers who refused to come under the papal yoke, spanned nearly a millennium. And today, if I were to show up in certain Muslim-ruled countries with Bible in hand, I’d be forcibly ejected, imprisoned, or even in some cases stoned to death. We don’t have to wait for the coming of the so-called Anti-Christ to be persecuted; anti-christs have never stopped persecuting the Church since its establishment by Jesus. This is why it’s so crucial to remain always under God’s powerful protection.
In scripture, God promises us that he will never leave us or forsake us, and Jesus adds that he, too, will be right here with us. Both God and Jesus are keeping their promises, but neither of them ever mentioned that we’d have an easy go of it here on Earth, even with their constant presence. Being children of God and followers of Jesus pretty much paints a bullseye on us spiritually and socially, a branding that separates us from those who aren’t children of God or followers of Jesus and makes it socially, politically, and even legally permissible to ridicule and openly hate us. Jesus had to contend with the ridicule and hatred, and he warned us that we’d have to contend with it, too, though it’s a small price to pay for admission into God’s Kingdom on Earth, also known as Jesus’ Church.
Let whoever will mock me. I don’t hear them. It’s just so much background noise that has no meaning or value to me and blends in with all the other meaningless and valueless background noises that form the soundscape of a place that is not my home. Earth was never meant to be our home. It’s a place of testing, a place we’re just passing through, a temporary haven made for us by God but increasingly taken over by forces bent on destroying God’s creation, including us. Yet even amidst the constant noise and progressive encroachment of our turf by the enemy, we have the only peace that matters, thanks to the comforting and perpetual presence of God and Jesus.
There is no time when they’re not with us, whether we’re conscious of it or not. There is no time when they’re not with us, though there will come a time when none of us will be here anymore. God’s final intervention will be Jesus returning in glory with his angels to gather together the last of God’s children and take them Home. Once they’re safely whisked away, God and Jesus will also leave, never to return here again.
May you not be among those left behind. This is my prayer for you – that you not be among those left behind when the last of God’s children go Home.
Amen.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavillion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5)
ON GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 9, 2025 – I understand why Jesus started his ministry work by spending 40 days and nights alone in the desert. I also understand why John the Baptist lived most of his life in the wilderness, and why so many prophets throughout the ages have chosen to live alone and in isolation, not just away from the “madding crowd” but from everyone, especially religious people. By “religious people”, I mean those who claim to believe in God but actually only hold to a belief system made up of rituals, recitations, pageantry, creeds – learned behavior, not something that emerges organically from God’s Holy Spirit living in a soul. Holding to a belief system is not genuine worship. All religions are premised on holding to a belief system, which is how you can distinguish genuine faith from religion. People who genuinely believe in and worship God aren’t religious, and their belief is not a system but evidence of the presence of God’s Holy Spirit in them.
I understand why Jesus started his ministry work in total isolation and why John the Baptist and others like him chose to live in the wilderness, not just retreat to it on occasion. The world is a hectic, frantic, and noisy place perpetually at odds with God and constantly reaching out to turn you this way and that, to lure you off the straight and narrow. But as noisy and frantic as the anti-God crowd is, the religious crowd is even more frenetic and shrill.
So many people now claim to be prophets, to be hearing from God—to have a dream or a vision or a word—but it all smacks of self-promotion. From the pope and headliner televangelists all the way down to obscure YouTubers with a handful of subscribers, they’re in it for the money, and if not for the money, for the power, and if not for the money and/or the power, then for their ego, forcing your back against the wall to get you to agree with them. Yet for all their pomp and bluster, they’re not pointing you to God and Jesus, they’re pointing you to themselves and their donations button. That’s one way to know they’re false prophets.
Not everyone’s voice needs to be heard when it comes to God and his Word. God himself is a ‘still quiet voice’, not a pushy one, not a shrill one, and not even one that demands our attention, though no-one deserves our attention more than God. Yes, God does command on occasion, but he mostly invites. He doesn’t push himself on anyone and has never once forced anyone’s back to the wall, demanding they agree with him. Nowhere in scripture do we see God pushing himself on anyone. Jesus didn’t push himself on anyone either, which set him apart from the false prophets and rabble-rousers that thronged the streets and public houses of the dying Jewish state, vying for people’s attention and money.
Yes, I understand why a genuine prophet needs to get away from the racket, because it is a racket in every sense of the term. It was a racket back in Elijah’s day and it’s a racket now. Too bad we can’t deal with the false prophets the way that Elijah did (or better said, the way God did), but that’s not what Jesus wants us to do. Taking our cue, as always, from Jesus, we know just to get away when it’s time to get away.
And how shall we do that? Shall we live like the homeless, brazenly setting up camp on a busy sidewalk or quietly tucked away at the far end of a park? Shall we roam restlessly from place to place, never spending more than a night here or there, or should we hunker down maybe at a monastery and stay long enough to bring a garden from seedling to harvest? Where can God’s children go to get away from it all? Where does God want us to go?
Jesus went to the desert, to wilderness places, to mountaintops. Sometimes he even just walked across large bodies of water, alone. I don’t think the location really mattered; it was the isolation factor that mattered, the solitary factor: the one-on-one time with God. Because that’s what the world wants to take away from you more than anything else – your God-given right to be in God’s presence and spend alone-time with him. They don’t forcibly take that from you; they try to convince you that it isn’t possible or isn’t desirable or simply isn’t for you (and here’s something much better!), but nothing’s better than alone-time with God. You cannot convince me otherwise.
Jesus couldn’t be convinced, either, which is why he was always going off by himself to pray and advising us to pray alone. It’s hard to get alone-time with God when people are hanging around, though it can be done. Jesus did it on the cross.
Moses also famously preferred alone-time with God above all else. He scaled a burning mountain not once but twice, enduring 40 days and nights without food or drink or sleep to be in God’s presence, though I’m guessing it didn’t feel to him like 40 days and nights. That’s how it is when you’re in God’s presence; you lose track of time, or better said, you lose the perception of the passage of time. And when he could no longer go up a mountain to be alone with God, Moses built a tabernacle according to God’s specifications and spent alone-time with God there.
Thanks to Jesus’ sacrifice, we no longer need to go to mountaintops or tabernacles or into designated spaces to be alone with God. We don’t have to stand with our eyes closed or our hands clasped or upraised. Jesus said there’d come a time when such formalities would no longer be required. We can be alone with God—that is, we can pray—anywhere and at anytime.
I always laugh a little bit inside when I read about the “No Praying” restrictions in certain religious sites, like at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the temple mount in Jerusalem where, by law, only Muslims are “allowed” to pray. As a born-again believer, I can pray just walking down the street or sitting on a bus or sometimes even during a conversation. I don’t appear to be praying, but I am. And because I can pray anywhere and at anytime without anyone except God and Jesus knowing I’m praying, I could surely pray at the Al Aqsa if I went there. So I laugh a little bit inside me when I hear about the “no-prayer zones” in Jerusalem and at other sites that are sacred to the world, like abortion clinics. For us, there’s no such thing as no-prayer zones. They simply don’t exist, no matter how many signs are erected or by-laws enacted or police officers assigned to enforce them. We can pray anywhere and at anytime without appearing to pray, and no-one can stop us.
Which leads me to conclude that maybe getting away from it all isn’t always necessary. Sometimes, yes, but not always, not when we can be alone with God even in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Laws against praying don’t apply to those who follow Jesus and his advice on how to spend alone-time with God. It’s one of the many gifts, rights, and privileges God has given to his children, and the world cannot—dare not—intervene.
A WORD ON DEMONIC AFFLICTION: PART 1
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 6, 2025 – The early Church had no trouble discerning and identifying evil spirits. In fact, a large chunk of Jesus’ ministry was casting out them out. Demonic attacks didn’t appear to be a rare affliction but an everyday reality for the people of the time. Was that because it was an unusually evil age, or have our spiritual spidey-senses grown dull to the presence of evil spirits manifesting in people’s behaviors?
I think we born-again believers know the answer to that. It can be dangerous to speak unfiltered truth to the world. Several years ago, not long after I was reborn, I witnessed a man on a street in Toronto who was clearly in the throes of demonic possession. Someone had called the police, and a crowd had gathered to watch him rage. When I came upon the scene in passing, a female police officer was ordering the onlookers not to approach the man or try to restrain him. I went up to the officer and mentioned that the man had demons and should be dealt with accordingly. She turned to me abruptly and told me she could arrest me for saying that. Startled by her threat, I asked her what she meant, but she looked away and muttered something into her collar mic. I took that as my cue to leave.
Making God’s truth illegal to speak, write, or even think is a growing trend, so it’s not surprising that many people who are knowledgeable about demonic affliction choose to remain silent about their expertise. This includes not only clergy, but people working in medical and academic fields. Like most of us born-again believers, I learned about evil spirits from scripture, but I also learned about them from dealing with them first- and second-hand. Specifically, I had demons in me prior to my rebirth, and I’ve seen demons working in others, both before and after my rebirth.
I share my knowledge and personal experience about evil spirits when God gives me guidance to do so. I didn’t have God’s go-ahead to talk about demons with that police officer in Toronto all those years ago, which is why it turned out as it did: a lesson in what not to do. Like Jesus, we’re not to go looking for people who are unduly afflicted by evil spirits, though if they come to us freewillingly, genuinely looking for help, or someone comes to us on their behalf, God will give us the ability to help them. By “unduly afflicted”, I mean demonic affliction that exceeds what has sadly become the world’s everyday reality of low-level demonic activity. Everyone who is not born-again is afflicted by evil spirits to some extent; some more, some less. We born-again believers are surrounded by evil spirits and will remain surrounded by them until we get Home.
Although we, by God’s grace, cannot have demons in our soul, we can be a target of evil spirits through temptations. We know this both from scripture and from our own experience. Evil spirits cannot reside in the same soul as God’s Holy Spirit, which means that a soul either has God’s Spirit in it or evil spirits; there is no third option. Up to the time of my rebirth, I had evil spirits in me; since the time of my rebirth, I’ve had God’s Spirit in me. No-one can convince me otherwise, the change was so instantaneous and radical, and my love for God and his Word so all-consuming and enduring. Nothing but spiritual rebirth can do that to a soul.
I’ve mentioned here on this blog before (and also here, here, and here, etc.) that spiritual rebirth involves the exorcism (casting out) of evil spirits to make way for God’s Spirit. The same soul cannot simultaneously host God’s Holy Spirit and demon spirits: This is a spiritual law that cannot be broken. When God signals that his Holy Spirit is about to enter a soul, the demons occupying it must vacate. They have no choice but to vacate. I don’t know exactly how many demons had to vacate my soul just before my rebirth, but I do know that it was more than seven. That’s because, later on my rebirth day, when I was reading the gospels for the first time and got to the verse on Mary Magdalene where it says: “out of whom went seven devils”, God said to me: “That’s what happened to you, only there were a lot more than seven.”
Demonic affliction is neither new nor rare. It’s the default spiritual state for everyone who isn’t born-again. I lived with progressively worsening demonic affliction prior to being reborn, and I now live with God’s Holy Spirit in me, so I have deep, personal, first-hand experience of both states of being. When God gives me leave, I will discuss my experiences here further.
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE: FROM THE LEAST TO THE MOST EFFECTIVE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 6, 2025 – Scratch even nominal Christians and you’ll find spiritual warriors directly under the surface. They might not consider themselves spiritual warriors, but every gesture made by self-identified believers is a spear chucked or a bullet ducked in the spiritual realm. We all pray 24/7, whether we realize it or not. Even our dreams are prayers.
For us born-again believers, spiritual warfare is our number one priority. We know only too well (or we should know, because Jesus told us in scripture) how our every word, gesture, and thought contributes to the war effort. And so we strive to focus on God and God only and to do his will and his will only, knowing that all good things flow from him and him only. Whatever we direct to God, we know that God will purify, recycle, personalize, repackage, and send to whoever has it coming, in perfect measure.
LEAST EFFECTIVE
The least effective form of spiritual warfare is directed prayer, whether off-the-cuff or recited. When you specify who is to benefit and how, you restrict the benefit from spilling over to anyone else. In the same way, when you pray against someone (never advisable), you restrict your enmity to a specific target. God takes you at your word and respects your requests, but your prayers still can’t override his justice. If you pray for the benefit of someone God doesn’t want to benefit in that way (because it doesn’t align with his justice), your prayer has no efficacy. Think of David praying for the recovery of his first child with Bathsheba. A full week of fasting and prayer couldn’t override what David and Bathsheba had coming due to their collective sin.
PRAYER REBOUND
Even worse, if you pray specifically against certain people, whether they’ve earned the enmity or not, you run the risk of prayer rebound or bringing on yourself the negative rewards you wished on your prayer target. When Jesus taught us to treat others as we want to be treated, the lesson wasn’t simply to be kind for kindness’s sake; it was to be kind because kindness will then be your reward. In the same way, enmity will be your earned reward if you wish enmity on others. We born-again believers are not exempt from this spiritual law.
MORE EFFECTIVE
A more effective form of spiritual warfare prayer is to open wide the prayer windows and give God broader scope to act on your behalf. Instead of praying, for instance, for your mother’s physical healing, pray that your family be made whole. A prayer for a family to be made whole covers a wider group of people (not just your mother or even your family) and includes both physical and spiritual healing. This amplified approach gives God access to move in the lives of all the people who affect your mother’s wellbeing. The broader the prayer application, the greater the efficacy, and the more likely a successful outcome, keeping in mind that the optimum outcome is spiritual healing.
MOST EFFECTIVE
Ironically, the most effective form of spiritual warfare doesn’t appear to most people (even Christians) to be spiritual warfare. Jesus taught it to us in scripture and framed not just as a directive but as a command – that we’re to love our enemies. The recoil can be palpable when you remind people of this command. Even we born-again believers can find the thought distasteful if applied to certain individuals. This is where we need to set aside our feelings and act as soldiers by unquestioningly and unhesitatingly following orders. A command is an order, not a suggestion, and seeing that we’re all soldiers in this ongoing spiritual battle, obedience is our currency.
And how are we to wage this highest and most effective form of spiritual warfare? We love our enemies not by exposing them but by praying for them and protecting them. We love our enemies not by depriving them of what they need to survive but by blessing them with abundance. We love our enemies by seemingly doing the opposite of what we consider they’ve brought on themselves, consulting first with God on what precisely we should do and knowing that God will work it all out according to his perfect justice. And because we’ve been obedient to Jesus’ command, we can expect the rewards that come from obedience, both here and in Heaven. Those blessings will become part of our store of treasures awaiting us if and when we make it Home.
TL;DR
Our every thought, word, and deed contribute to the battle being waged in the spiritual realm. That battle is ongoing and non-stop, and we’re part of it whether we realize it or not. We can consciously contribute to the war effort through directed or broad-range prayers, but our most effective contribution—and the one most blessed by God—is to love our enemies. Jesus not only taught us to love those who hate us but commanded us to do so. In obeying Jesus’ command, we achieve the greatest spiritual victories and are rewarded accordingly.
THE DANGER IN PRESUMED INNOCENCE: THE BOOK OF JOB
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 4, 2025 – If we asked him, do you think God would describe any of us as “perfect and upright”, as he described Job?
I’m guessing not.
So, if God wouldn’t describe us the same way as he described Job, why would we draw a parallel between Job’s sufferings and ours?
I’ve had discussions over the years with people who for one reason or another are particularly drawn to the book of Job. They see their sufferings mirrored in Job’s and so see the reason for their sufferings as being the same as Job’s. In other words, they believe their sufferings were not earned but instead imposed on them for reasons unknown. In other words, they see themselves as innocent.
This is a very dangerous position to adopt spiritually. As born-again believers, we can never afford to presume our innocence: the presumption of innocence is a worldly default and mechanism that has no place in the Kingdom. We need to default to repentance when we suffer adversity, though there are also occasions when we’re being tested (God will let us know the one from the other). But regardless of whether we suffer an earned punishment or a test, our response should always be the same – humble obedience to God, and patient endurance
On the other hand, had he been asked about Jesus during his time on Earth, God would likely have described him as perfect and upright. God did come pretty close to offering that description when he stated he was “well pleased” in Jesus and that we should “listen to him”. Still, God also allowed Jesus to suffer extreme adversities as tests, culminating in his crucifixion. What Jesus never suffered—what sets him apart from every other human being—is earned adversity. Jesus didn’t earn his suffering. He agreed to it, but he didn’t earn it. This contrasts with the rest of us, who either suffer because we’ve brought the suffering on ourselves or suffer from being tested.
The danger in the book of Job is that people perceive their suffering as paralleling Job’s, without taking into account that they’re not perfect and upright as Job was. By falsely equating themselves to Job, people look past their need to repent, focusing instead on their perceived innocence. The result is not only a lost opportunity to come clean with God, but a prolonging of their suffering, which is then made worse by the pride of false innocence. In denying their guilt, they deny themselves the grace of peace that can only come from genuine repentance.
Self-imposed suffering is a painful place to be. To avoid it, we need always to be ready and willing to repent.
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.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 