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THE SONG OF THE JEREMIAHS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 12, 2025 – They wanted to frame him as a turncoat and traitor. This is important, so listen up here. They wanted to frame him as a turncoat and traitor so that he’d change his tune and sing the song they were blaring over the loudspeaker for everyone to sing. But he couldn’t change his tune. He couldn’t stay true to himself and his God if he sang the song they wanted him to sing. And they wanted him to sing that song so bad, they beat him and put him in chains, and when that didn’t work and he still refused to sing, they dumped him into a slime pit and left him to die.
Of all people, an Ethiopian had pity on him and arranged a rescue party. Still, even as they hauled him up by the armpits, starving and covered in slime, he adamantly refused to sing any song but that of himself and his God. And so they just gave up on him and fed him a little bread and let him sing his song until what he sang came to pass, and they all died except for him and those who’d listened to him.
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There are a handful Jeremiahs in Canada now, refusing to sing the song being blared over the loudspeaker. Their refusal to sing is framing them as turncoats and traitors. This is important, so listen up here. They’re being framed as turncoats and traitors, but the king of Babylon’s back, baby, and he wants his pound of flesh. God has put that pound of flesh into his hands, so you might even say he’s earned it fair and square.
If God says it’s to be done, it’s to be done. If God says it’s been earned, it’s been earned. This is the song the Jeremiahs are singing: “God’s will be done (What you have coming, you have coming)”. They can’t but sing that song, the song of God’s will being done. You can’t not sing that song, not if you’re a Jeremiah.
This is important, so listen up here. Nebuchadnezzar’s back, with a bad spray tan and a wicked combover, but he means business and he’s got God’s backing. This is my song. This is the song of the Jeremiahs.
God’s will be done.
What you have coming, you have coming.
FEARMONGERING FROM THE PULPIT OF HELL
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 11, 2025 – As born-again believers, we’re to fear God, but we’re not to be afraid of him. We’re not to be afraid of anything, though we’re also not to be foolhardy in our lack of fear. We’re not to test the Lord by standing at the edge of a cliff, boasting that God would never let us fall. No. But we can be confident that we’re constantly under God’s protection as long as we choose to do God’s will.
Trying to make people afraid of God and afraid of what the future holds is a schtick that’s growing in popularity with certain preachers. Without question, those preachers are not born-again and therefore don’t know God as their Father, which is why they default to preaching fear as a mechanism to hold people’s attention while separating them from their money. YouTube is full of preachers trying to get their audience to subscribe, donate, and be afraid – be very afraid – of what God has in store for them. What these preachers are selling is not the Gospel, which is at heart a message of hope, but rather the anti-Gospel, as sanctioned and approved by the devil.
The reason we’re to fear God and God only is firstly because scripture tells us to and secondly because there is none greater than God: Everything and everyone is under his authority. At the same time, fearing God is another way of acknowledging his absolute magnificent perfection and therefore, by logical extension, trusting him. So, we can take to the bank that God protects us from harm and wants only the best for his children. Our Father would never turn on a dime and yell “GOTCHA!” while plunging a dagger into our heart and laughing as we splutter our last breath. That is not the God we serve. We know for a fact that is not the God we serve.
And yet, the fearmongering preachers would have us believe that is exactly the God we serve, and that God will at some point suddenly become our worst enemy. What Father would turn on his children who love him, let alone a perfect Father? These preachers point to the book of Revelation as proof we should be afraid of the coming horrors, without taking into consideration that God’s children will be fully under God’s protection even during the tribulation, until it’s their time, and that we can only reap what we sow. If we’ve earned the prophesied horrors, we’ll get them, just as sure as we’ll get whatever we’ve earned at any other time. But if you’re genuinely born-again, the promise of reaping what you sow shouldn’t make you afraid of God; it should instead prompt you to want to hold onto God’s hand even tighter and follow ever closer behind Jesus.
We should fear the Lord because scripture tells us to and because none is greater than the Lord. But we should never be afraid of our heavenly Father or fear that he’ll hurt us on a whim. The horrors unleashed during the tribulation are not meant for us; we might be there to witness them, but we’ll remain fully under God’s protection until it’s our time.
And then we get to go Home.
THE FUNNY THING ABOUT SUFFERING
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 10, 2025 – The funny thing about suffering is that you can’t avoid it. Get rid of one ache, and another follows on its heels. What we have coming we have coming, and what we have coming we can’t avoid. We can delay, but we can’t avoid. If we truly accepted this, we’d use our time and energy more wisely.
I’m not saying you should seek out and embrace pain. I’m not counseling you to be a masochist. The self-flagellators of the Middle Ages had it all wrong. But I’m also not saying to disobey God if he directs you to do this or that to alleviate your pain. There’s no martyrdom in suffering if God has given you an out. You don’t get spiritual brownie points for enduring what you don’t need to endure. All I’m saying is that whatever God puts on your plate you might as well go ahead and eat, because you’re not leaving the table until God says you’re finished.
When it comes to suffering, our job as born-again believers is to patiently endure. We’re to suffer in silence not because we’re aspiring martyrs, but because we know that God has everything well in hand, including our suffering, and he won’t allow us to suffer more than we can handle. But he’ll also not let us avoid pain that we’ve either brought on ourselves or need to endure as a test. In this, as in everything God does, his judgement and measurements are perfect.
When David conducted a census that God had warned him not to conduct, he set himself and his people up for punishment. Diplomatically, God offered David three punishment options: three days of pestilence, or three months of being destroyed by an enemy, or three years of famine. David chose the first option because, as he put it, he’d rather fall into the hands of God than the hands of man. And so, the pestilence came as per their agreement, killing 70 thousand men before God told his avenging angel that was enough.
In everything we do, we need to put ourselves into God’s hands. He measures our suffering to the iota, just like he measures every other aspect of our lives. If we allow God free reign to give us our due rewards, whether for good or evil, we benefit in the end, not only because we get over with what needs to be gotten over with, but because God may choose to have mercy on us and shorten our suffering. Being permanently pain-free will not happen here and is not something we should strive for, as being permanently pain-free will only happen in Heaven. Still, Jesus promises that God will shorten the time (and thus shorten the suffering) of those who’ll be on Earth during the tribulation, just like he shortened the time and suffering that David and his people had to endure for the census sin, and shortened Jesus’ time on the cross. We can’t demand God’s mercy, but we can hope for it.
Ultimately, putting ourselves fully and firmly into God’s hands and agreeing to suffer whatever God knows we need to suffer is the wisest, fastest, and best way Home.
LINT
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 8, 2025 – It can cling to you like lint – a careless word spoken in haste or a quick sideways glance that’s just as quickly forgotten, but not by you. Not by some part of you that noted it, recorded it, catalogued it, and filed it away for later ruminating in a moment of uneasy solitude or weakness.
We’re not immune to these moments as born-again believers. They can sneak up on us as much as they can sneak up on anyone else, but the difference is that we have an obligation to see them for what they are and to disperse them with a silent “I choose to forgive”, even if we don’t feel like forgiving.
Because being born-again is much like being in the army. It’s not option for us not to forgive, any more than it’s not an option for a soldier to disobey an order. We forgive not because we feel like it but because we’ve been ordered to forgive.
What a wonderful thing, to have been ordered to forgive, since the root of nearly all human suffering is unforgiveness. It starts as a grudge, or resentment, or a simmering hostility that grows into self-pity, hatred, false memories, depression, and a whole range of emotional disorders that for some may even lead to suicidal ideation. I know this progression from a careless word to slit wrists, because I lived it as an unforgiving atheist. And the more burdened by unforgiveness I was, the shorter the time span between the perceived slight and the slitting.
As born-again believers, we have no grounds to have so much as a spiritual bad-hair day. That’s because we’re not merely advised to forgive, we’re ordered to forgive, and in forgiving we instantly unburden what could have weighed us down and compromised us. This is a profound blessing, to be ordered to forgive. We bless ourselves and others when we choose to forgive and in return are blessed and forgiven by God.
However small the slight, choose to forgive. However careless the words, choose to forgive. Even if the slight and the words were calculated to hurt you, choose to forgive. Never let your hurt progress to a grudge or a tit-for-tat. Never let the devil get his claws in you that way, because he will, if you let him. He’s always looking for a way in.
Resentment can accumulate like lint on your soul, so light that you don’t even know it’s there. Don’t let it. Blow it off. Always choose to forgive.
ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE WORLDLY CHURCH
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 6, 2025 – Most Christians (i.e., the worldly church) don’t know the Gospel. Not knowing the Gospel, however, doesn’t stop them from using it as a presumed basis for dictating to others what they should or should not do. The ongoing saga of illegal aliens invading first-world countries and demanding the same rights as citizens is a case in point. Jesus doesn’t tell his followers to harbor illegal aliens. He tells them that they themselves will one day be viewed as illegal aliens, and when that happens, they should get out of Dodge and expect to live as outcasts wherever they roam.
Loving your neighbors doesn’t mean to subject them to living among illegal aliens any more than loving your enemies means to harbor them from arresting authorities (that is, shielding them from the consequences of their actions). We’re to treat others as we would want to be treated, but that doesn’t include assisting others to openly defy local law enforcement. If you consider the local laws unfair or dangerous, you leave. You don’t defy them. Jesus never defied the local authorities (Roman occupiers) and never harbored illegal aliens. When he had arrest warrants hanging over his head in various jurisdictions, he avoided those places until it was “his time”.
Most churches today are way out of line and need to be shut down. The congregants have strayed so far from the Gospel message, they are unrecognizable as followers of Jesus. These worldly churches may well identify as a religion, it’s just not the belief system that Jesus taught his followers. It’s not the Gospel. I no longer call myself a Christian not because I’m not a fully committed follower of Jesus, but because most self-identifying Christians and the churches that claim to be Christian are anti-Christ to the core. I do not choose to align with any of them. We need look no farther than the snake that whispered from the episcopalian pulpit the day after Trump’s 2025 inauguration to see what the worldly church has become.
Morally, Christian churches have no grounds to harbor anyone. Nor do mosques, Buddhist temples, synagogues, or any other business that masquerades as a place of worship. These are all businesses and should be held to the same standards as any other business.
Ditto hospitals and schools.
If you want shelter, choose to do what’s right in the eyes of God and come under the shadow of his mighty hand, in the name of Jesus. That’s all the protection you’ll need until it’s your time.
WHEN HELL EMPTIES OUT: NO MORE EXORCISMS, NO MORE CONVERSIONS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 5, 2025 – As born-again believers, we know that we’re to go to God and God only for our spiritual intel. We don’t go to a pastor or priest, or to televangelists, or to YouTube prophets; we go to God, both directly in prayer and indirectly in scripture.
This directive to go to God and God only is especially important to follow in the end times. Jesus warned us that many deceivers would come in his name and would be so convincing, they’d deceive even some of us. We need to take this warning onboard and use it to navigate doctrine.
One of the more perfidious beliefs that have been popularized over the past few centuries holds that conversions will occur right up to and including the moment of Jesus’ second coming. It’s not difficult to see why this teaching would be so eagerly embraced, as it allows people to unrepentantly live the life of the world, knowing they can turn back to God at the last minute. What’s the rush to give up all the juicy stuff if you can just wait until your death bed to repent?
Unfortunately for those who hold this flawed doctrine, scripture, especially Revelation, tells a different story. There will be a definitive cut-off time for conversions prior to the start of the tribulation. There’ll still be born-again believers who were converted prior to that cut-off, but there won’t be any new conversions. For obvious reasons, this belief is rejected by the worldly church.
In the book of Revelation, the cut-off time is heralded by the blast of the first trumpet. The blast is itself preceded by a short period of “silence in Heaven”, which indicates the seventh seal has been opened. The silence is God’s sign to us to prepare ourselves for the horrors to come if we’re still here on Earth. But as Jesus advised us, we should pray that we’re not here, because along with there not being any more conversions, hell will empty out, which means there’ll also be no more exorcisms. The newly released demonic spirits will have free reign (within certain God-defined limits) to wreak havoc on the unconverted and, through them, on us. You can see why Jesus would call this time the worst in human history.
No more exorcisms means no more conversions, as conversion is the expulsion of unholy spirits to make way for the entrance of God’s Holy Spirit. Conversion is not reciting “the sinner’s prayer” and then promising yourself you’ll be a good little boy or girl from that point onward. No. Conversion is a full purging exorcism followed by an inrushing of God’s Spirit. It’s a physically and spiritually violent act that is miraculous, definitive, undeniable, and performed by God and God only. If you’re genuinely born-again, you’ll know what I mean.
As seductive as they may be, doctrines that promise people they have the option to delay repentance and conversion need to be rejected. Revelation describes no new conversions after the first trumpet is blown to mark the start of the tribulation and the count-down to Jesus’ second coming. In doctrine, as in all things, let God and scripture be your guide, not seducing spirits.
ON SPIRITUAL CHAOS THEORY AND REPENTANCE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 4, 2025 – Spiritual Chaos Theory (SCT) posits that things happen for no reason whatsoever: They just happen. The theory explains why bad things happen to good people and also why good things happen to bad people. There is no cause-and-effect function underlying SCT and no implied reward mechanism, whether for good or for bad rewards. For brevity’s sake, SCT can be summed up simply as “sh*t happens”.
But of course, SCT is entirely nonsense (I just now made it up). We born-again believers well know (or should know) that when adversity occurs in our lives, it’s either a negative reward for something we did or it’s a God-approved test. It’s not some random happening, because there’s no such thing as a random happening. If bad things happen to “good people”, those “good people” either ain’t as good as we/they think they are or they’re undergoing a test.
Satan promotes made-up theories like SCT because they remove repentance from the equation. If you’re not to blame for your problems, what’s there to repent? Even better, since you’re not to blame, you can blame others! Preventing you from repenting while at the same time getting you to point fingers is a win-win in Satan’s world.
Not just individuals but whole nations can labor under the delusion of SCT, believing that the hard time they’re suffering is either just the way it is or the fault of other people or nations. But scripture shows us that nations, too, need to repent, not just individuals, and that someone in a position of authority over a nation needs to humble him- or herself before God or the hard time will not only continue but worsen. However, it’s not enough to repent on behalf of others if those others deny their need to repent. Such repentance is in vain.
Jesus famously repented for his people during his final moments on the cross, but his repentance was not in vain. It served a dual purpose: 1) to show he held no animosity towards his enemies, leaving him a “spotless” perfect sacrifice; and 2) to “repent forward” for those who would one day themselves sincerely repent. Jesus knew that a remnant would follow him right up until his second coming, and it was those people he asked God to forgive in advance. This was the whole purpose of his sacrifice – to absolve “whosoever will” of their sins, not all people in general, but only those who would one day turn back to God. Anyone who has not since sincerely repented remains under the condemnation of Adam’s sin.
Similar to SCT in its baselessness is the assumption that everyone merely by virtue of existing has been forgiven and is back in God’s good graces. This lie is heavily promoted by Satan mainly because it removes the need for repentance. As born-again believers, we are well aware of the need to repent not only in turning back to God but in remaining close to him. Because there are no such things as random happenings, repentance and patient endurance are vital.
WHAT GOD THINKS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 3, 2025 – Our most important decision, as children of God and brethren of Jesus, is to choose to do God’s will every day and in every circumstance, no exceptions. Choosing to do God’s will is more important than anything else we can choose to do during our time here. Jesus told us that he always did that which pleased the Father; he didn’t say he always loved; he didn’t say he always had mercy; he didn’t say he always fed everyone who came to him hungry or housed everyone who came to him homeless – he said he always did that which pleased the Father, which is the same as saying he always did God’s will and never rebelled against doing it. Since doing God’s will was Jesus’ number one priority during his time on Earth, it should be ours, too.
Unfortunately, the prioritizing of doing God’s will tends to get lost in the doctrinal shuffle of being a “good Christian”. Were he still here today, King Saul might have something to say about that. Saul was directed by God to completely obliterate a certain city and to leave nothing standing and no-one alive, but Saul thought it more expedient to take with him the choicest of the spoils, and to save the king alive for later slaughtering and some livestock for later sacrificing. This spur-of-the-moment decision, urged on by his soldiers, cost Saul not only his kingship but his soul. Why? Because God wants obedience, not expediency or creative compromise. Specifically, God demands the full obedience of his children who’ve been graced with his Spirit; anything less he considers rebellion.
Put this way, God may come across as rather heavy-handed, but there’s a reason why he both demands and expects obedience. God has a plan; the big picture of it is given in scripture, but the details are filled in by us day by day as we make our way from one point in the big picture to the next. But if we deviate by disobeying God’s explicit commands, he’ll have to find someone else to connect the dots. This is what happened to Saul, and much earlier also what happened to Satan and all the angels who followed (and fell with) him, and to Adam and Eve, and to Esau, and to many others. We don’t want this to happen to us.
Our obedience to God enables us to love whomever God directs to love, to have mercy on whomever God directs us to have mercy on, and to help whomever God directs us to help. Unlike doctrinal Christianity, which stipulates that we’re to love and have mercy on and help everyone with wild abandon and without exception, Jesus showed us to do those things only in accordance with God’s directives, that is, in accordance with God’s will. That means sometimes we have to burn it all down, if that’s what God directs us to do, and that sometimes we don’t extend love and don’t extend mercy and don’t extend help, if God directs us not to. This can look and sound decidedly unchristian to the world and to worldly Christians, but it doesn’t matter what the world thinks of us.
It only matters what God thinks.
(1 Samuel 15:22-23)
KINGDOM SOLIDARITY
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 2, 2025 – There’s something about the term “solidarity” that makes my skin crawl. Although earlier popularized as a communist or socialist rallying cry, it’s usually trotted out today as a union or progressivist dog whistle. Cries of “Solidarity!” tend to go hand-in-hand with perceived victimhood, and being a victim is a slam-dunk payout these days, which may explain why we’re hearing solidarity more and more frequently.
But hearing it more frequently doesn’t make it any less grating to me. And since it’s one of those word trends that will likely not go away any time soon, I decided to explore my aversion of the term, aiming to dull my distaste or maybe even turn it around.
Here’s what I came up with. Standing in solidarity implies siding with or supporting a group, an organization, or an idea. I did a quick mental run-through of all the groups and organizations I interact with daily and the ideas that I entertain, and I honestly couldn’t imagine standing in solidarity with any of them. I tolerate them at best, but mostly I avoid them and dismiss them. No solidarity there. Ditto for my nation and “my people”. As a born-again believer, I have more in common with the people who lived 2000 years ago in the Middle East than I do with people living today in Canada or with the people of my heritage (German, Irish, and English). And I can’t really say that I stand in solidarity with God and Jesus because they don’t need me to side with them or support them: They’re perfect in and of themselves. If no-one at all sided with or supported God and Jesus, they’d still be perfect. They don’t need anyone’s solidarity.
And then it occurred to me who does need solidarity – we do. We in God’s Kingdom need each other’s solidarity. As born-again believers living in a world that’s hostile to everything we hold dear, we need to stand in solidarity with each other and only with each other, even if we’ve never met and don’t know each other’s names. We’re not standing in solidarity to announce our victimhood to the world or to financially benefit from it in some way. No. We’re standing in solidarity because Jesus told us that we’re to love one another, and to love another means to side with and support one another through thick and thin. So Jesus told us to stand in solidarity without actually telling us to stand in solidarity. Loving one another means standing in solidarity with our Kingdom homies, because on Earth, our Kingdom homies are the only ones we can really trust.
Seeing my fellow born-again believers as my solidarity homies has, for me, turned solidarity around to mean something good. I still cringe when I hear “solidarity” being applied in the world, but I like the idea of standing in solidarity with the Kingdom. I stand in solidarity with that idea as much as I stand in solidarity with all of you who are genuinely born-again and filled with God’s Holy Spirit.
I hope you stand in solidarity with me.
“PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE”
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, January 10, 2025 – As born-again believers, we’ve been instructed by Jesus to love our enemies, which means we’re to pray for them and bless them even in the most egregious of situations, like when they’re killing us.
But what if God tells us specifically not to pray for them? What if he tells us to leave our prayers and let him deal with the situation in the way it needs to be dealt with?
I think of Peter rushing to tell Jesus that he’ll defend him to the death, and Jesus accusing him of being Satan.
I think of Jesus’ mother and sisters coming to “rescue” him in Capernaum, and Jesus refusing even to acknowledge them as kin.
I think of Saul ordering his troops to save (for later sacrifices) the conquered king and choicest animals from a city they’d just razed, and God condemning Saul for all eternity because of it.
God doesn’t want us praying for people he doesn’t want prayed for. He doesn’t want us protecting people he doesn’t want protected. He doesn’t want us rescuing people he doesn’t want rescued. What God does want (and what Saul found out too late) is our unhesitating and full obedience to him in all circumstances and at all times. So, if the spiritual status quo is the directive to pray for our enemies, we pray for them, but if God specifically says not to pray for them, you pray at the peril of your immortal soul.
God doesn’t want misplaced “love”, because misplaced love is no love at all. Love is only love if it comes from God. If God directs you not to pray for someone or for an entire people, you don’t pray for them, not one peep. You stand at command and voice your obedience, like the angels in Revelation stood in willing obedience while God delivered his terrible justice. You don’t badger God to change his ways and his laws, like the demonically inspired woke perpetually badger politicians. You don’t tell God he’s got it all wrong and this is the right way forward, the compassionate way forward, the “christian” way forward. No. You do whatever God advises you at any given time. You never question God, even if he advises you against loving and praying and blessing and sacrificing.
Because this ain’t about you and what you think is right, any more than it’s about the woke and what they wrongly insist is right. This is about God and what God knows is right. And if God says to you (like he said to Jeremiah): “Pray not for this people”, then you’d better not pray for them.
Remember what happened to Saul.
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Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and adultery.
(1 Samuel 15:22-23)
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
(Jeremiah 7:16)
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 