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THE TWO STATES OF BEING
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 6, 2025 – We need to remember, as born-again believers, that Jesus came to set a sword between us and the world. We cannot be “yoked together” with the world because it’s not our spiritual realm: It’s Satan’s. We’re strangers here just passing through, even though our Father created Heaven and Earth and ultimately controls the world through the limitations and permissions of his justice. Being a child of God doesn’t grant us privileges in Satan’s realm. It guarantees us God’s comprehensive and powerful protection, but it doesn’t grant us any of the privileges that God allows Satan to bestow on his children. And we know who Satan’s children are: They’re everyone who isn’t born-again.
You’re either a child of God or a child of Satan: There is no third option. That’s a Truth that only born-again believers and fully committed Satanists can embrace. Most of the world will tell you they have nothing to do with either God or Satan. They say this because they’re deceived and spiritually blind. We were all like that before we were born-again, so we can empathize. I remember believing I was free of religion, not being able to see the massive chains binding me to the darkness that I saw as light. Unless we fully isolate ourselves from the world (which Jesus does not recommend we do), we interact every day with children of Satan, most of whom don’t know whose spiritual children they are. But if they’re not born-again, by default they’re Satan’s. This is a hard but necessary Truth we need not only to acknowledge but embrace.
It’s a necessary Truth because we need to be careful what we do and say around Satan’s children. We’ve all had the experience of saying something off-hand to someone who wasn’t born-again, and then later having that little tidbit come back to bite us on the butt when we least needed it. The demons are always watching and listening through Satan’s children. Unbelievers are not just the mouthpieces of demons; they’re also their eyes and ears and their hands. The demons know who we are and so are always watching and listening, baiting us and waiting for us to say an idle or thoughtless word they can then use against us. When we fall for their bait (and let’s be frank, we all have on occasion), they gleefully tuck our misstep into their back pocket as future ammo.
The world is a spiritual minefield for born-again believers. It’s a war out there, and we are the despised enemy. Never forget that. And the ones who hate us the most and want us gone the most are the ones who claim to love and serve our Father the most. Jesus’ worst enemies during his ministry years were not the heathen Romans but the temple elders, high priests, scribes, etc. – people who should have known who Jesus was and so embraced him but instead chose to “do the lusts of their Father, the devil”. Our worst enemies are likewise those who claim to be Jesus’ closest adherents, as martyrs throughout the ages have experienced up close and personal. The worst enemies of born-again believers are not Muslims or atheists – our worst enemies occupy the highest offices of the worldly church.
TL;DR: The whole world is a battlefield, and we are the target. Watch what you say around unbelievers and be careful what you do. Any and every misstep will be used against you in the spiritual realm. You are not exempt just because you’re a child of God; you’re held to a higher standard because you’re a child of God.
Knowing this, proceed carefully and accordingly.
SEEING THINGS: THE DOPPELGANGER PHENOMENON
CHARLO, New Brunswick, July 28, 2023 – We know that when we convert, we become a particular target of the devil.
He wants us back.
I’ve known this ever since I was reborn 24 years ago, but lately I’ve come to know it especially intimately.
A very strange phenomenon started occurring shortly after I was born-again. I didn’t really pay much attention to it at the time, as I thought it was just people “misremembering” or getting their dates and other facts wrong. But lately it’s been so in-my-face, I’ve had to consider where it’s coming from, and why.
Here’s the phenomenon – people swear they see me in places I haven’t been, saying and doing things I haven’t said or done. It goes something like this: I meet someone for the first time, and he (it’s almost always a “he”) tells me we’ve met before and names the place. I tell him I’ve never met him before and have never been to that place, but he insists that I must be wrong. He swears I must be wrong.
Now, having a look-alike is nothing new. Nearly everyone has at least one somewhere in the world. But the problem is that my “evil twin” is, well, evil. She does bad things and says bad things, and it gets the guys all riled up. Sometimes she’s incredibly rude, and sometimes she’s lascivious. So when I meet these guys for the first time, they’ve already informed a very strong opinion about me because they think I’m her. Their opinion depends on their interaction with my doppelganger.
For example, it led to a taxi driver becoming obsessed with me and following me around everywhere I went when I visited a city a few years ago. He would lurk outside my windows at night, leaving little clues that he’d been there. I was only able to shake him off my trail when I left town early one morning using a limo service instead of a cab (I figured he’d been monitoring the cab calls on his dispatch radio). The night before I left, he’d written my name using little pieces of wood, laid them on the ground in front of my door, and lit them on fire. I have no idea how he found me at that location. Then there was the guy who swore that I constantly swore at him one summer a few years back while we were staying at a university residence. The only problem is I had never stayed at that residence before and I was somewhere else that summer. When I met the guy for the first time last year at the residence, he flew into a rage and accused me of previously verbally abusing him. Based on this false recollection, the guy has since got me banned from all the residences at that university.
As I said, we become targets once we’re born-again. I’ve learned to take everything in stride and acknowledge that if God permits it, it’s either a punishment or a test. Whichever it is, I accept it, submit to God, and learn from it. I only mention my evil twin today because she’s made an appearance again, this time near a small town where I’ve been staying for the past few months. Her reappearance has finally put the phenomenon front and centre for me. I can’t ignore it anymore or just write it off as someone “misremembering”. I need to see it for what it is and accept that it’s part of my life now.
Another taxi driver I just met swears he talked to me last week at a nighttime event I never attended. He got very sullen when I insisted I hadn’t been anywhere near the event. I have no idea what my evil twin said to him, but he was definitely expecting something more from me than just the fare and a tip.
I talked to God about this phenomenon a few hours ago, wanting to clear everything with him before I publish it. He reminded me that Jesus was also falsely accused of things he didn’t do, and that his accusers contradicted each other with their claims. The same thing happened to Paul and other followers of Jesus, including the disciples. That part of scripture always kind of bothered me because I couldn’t tell whether the accusers were purposely lying or had simply “misremembered”.
Now I believe they were subject to the same spiritual phenomenon as all the people who swear they’ve met me before. Not being under God’s protection, they’re easy prey of the devil. What they’re seeing is not me (obviously) and not even a person: it’s a spiritual hallucination or vision. They think they’re seeing me, but it’s not me. It’s not anyone. Hallucinations and visions can seem very real to the person experiencing them and interacting with them, which is why the guys get so angry with me when I tell them I’ve never met them before. They think I’m playing them for fools.
This phenomenon occurs in every culture in the world and goes under various names like “doppelganger”, “evil twin”, “nemesis”, and “apparitions”. Unfortunately, the appearance of these visions will likely plague me, as a born-again believer, for the rest of my time on Earth. They’ll also likely get increasingly compromising: I have no idea what my evil twin will get up to next. Like I said, Jesus and others in the Bible had to deal with this same issue; it’s just part and parcel of being a child of God. Now that I know what it is, I’m aware of it and I fully trust God to protect me from it.
Again – if God permits it, he wants us to submit to it and learn to deal with it knowing that he’s always got our back.
So, if you happen to see me out and about, saying and doing things that are decidedly unchristian, it’s not me. It’s my evil twin.
Just ignore her. d:
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS: I AM NOT AN ANTI-VAXXER
MEADOWVILLE, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, January 17, 2022 – I have been called an “anti-vaxxer”, but that label is inaccurate. I’m against all chemical drug-based medicines, with very few exceptions. I believe that some medically-applied chemicals have palliative value, mostly as pain-killers, but even those should be rarely used, and only at nominal levels that do not impede the ability of the person taking them to make informed free will decisions. I do not believe that people should be forcefully medicated or prescribed medicine that will make them do things they would otherwise not do.
God is my physician. I go to God for healing, and he heals me through the power of his Holy Spirit. Healing that comes through the power of God’s Holy Spirit is miraculous, not earthly. There are no chemicals involved. This option to be freely healed by the power of God’s Holy Spirit is the God-given right and inheritance of all God’s children, who today are known as born-again followers of Jesus.
So, no, I am not an anti-vaxxer. I’m a born-again follower of Jesus. If you need to put a medically-related worldly label on me, then call me an anti-drugger. I’m also anti-coercion, including when it comes to forcing medical advice or interventions on people. I do not force others to go to God for healing, so I do not expect them to force me to go to a state-sanctioned drug-pusher for healing.
This is what I believe, and I express my beliefs as my opinion. I do not expect you to share my opinion or even to respect my opinion. However, I do expect you to respect my right to hold an opinion, just as I respect your right to hold an opinion. These rights – both yours and mine – are inviolable, as they’re God-given. No law is above God’s law. This is what I believe.
I will not be coerced into taking drugs. That doesn’t make me an anti-vaxxer; if anything, it makes me an anti-drugger. The root of my opposition to taking drugs is that God is my physician. God heals exclusively by the power of his Holy Spirit, not by drugs.
God is my physician. He is also my Father. He advises me against taking drugs, and I abide by his advice. This doesn’t make me an anti-vaxxer. I am not an anti-vaxxer: I am a child of God and a born-again follower of Jesus.
Amen and yours truly,
Charlotte
WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
GREENVILLE STATION, Nova Scotia, June 29, 2021 – Whenever I hear about someone leaving Christianity, I know that they were never really Christian to begin with. It would be like Jesus saying during his ministry years that he was parting ways with the Father. Can you imagine him saying that? Why would he say that? Who would give him a better deal than God?
Who would give us a better deal than God?
This is the danger of luring people to Christianity when they don’t really want what God is offering. Scripture tells us that only those who are called can come to God, but it’s God doing the calling. When we lead people to God, we need to be sure that God is actually asking us to lead them, because if we lead them on our own volition (that is, without God calling them), the mission is ultimately going to fail, and we’ll pay the price for it.
Not only doctors play God these days. Christians do, too, when they try to evangelize the reluctant. Jesus never instructed us to lure or cajole people into choosing God’s Way. In fact, he told us to let those people be and to shake the dust off our feet as a warning to them. Our job is simply to present the Gospel so that it’s understandable, not to tart it up and sell it at half-price with a free bonus gift for the first 100 customers. Those who truly want to accept God’s invitation will do so without tricks or bribes or signing bonuses.
God lures because he knows how to do it perfectly; we, on our own steam, only mess it up, and also tend to do it for our ego’s sake.
When Jesus first hit the ministry scene, he was like the new prophet in town. Everyone wanted a piece of him. But most of those early Jesus fans were only in it for the miracle healings and good feels. So when Jesus started preaching about persecution and loving your enemies, they wanted out.
Today’s Jesus fans are much the same, caught up in the good feels and promises of material abundance. But serving God, while never without good feels, also involves a life of itinerancy, poverty, rejection, and persecution. There are no good feels in those things in and of themselves, though the constant presence of God’s Spirit does lighten the load. Christians who fall away from following Jesus do so because they were not called in the first place and are not reborn, and so God’s Spirit is not with them. Absent God’s Spirit, the Gospel message doesn’t make much sense to them, and so these fair-weather followers see no point in trailing after Jesus after the initial rush is over.
Jesus’ three-year ministry started with just a few people, swelled into tens of thousands, and then dwindled to a handful by the time of his execution. The same trajectory has been playing out since his resurrection – a few passionate followers eventually became billions of nominal Christians, though today only few genuine followers remain. As an indication of the extent of the falling away that he knew would happen at the end of time, Jesus wondered if he would even find faith on Earth at his second coming.
The falling away is happening now.
Are you a fair-weather fan of Jesus, just in it for the good feels and promise of abundance, or are you a sincere born-again believer who follows Jesus because you can’t conceive of doing anything else? When Jesus asked his disciples if they, too, would leave him, Peter responded: “Where would we go? Who else has the words of eternal life?”
Indeed: Where would you go? And in going, where would you end up?
Those who fall away from Christianity were never Christians to begin with.
There is no life outside of God’s Spirit, and there’s nothing better on Earth than being a born-again follower of Jesus and a child of God.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 