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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.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
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.
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.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 