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ZEAL FOR MY HOUSE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 6, 2025 – There are very few things that get my goad more than the lie about a “millennial kingdom”, where Jesus will descend to Earth in bodily form and rule from the temple in Jerusalem for a thousand years. The absolute and utter hogwash of this “prophecy” should anger anyone who’s born-again and living in the prophesied Kingdom because it flies in the face of everything we know to be true about God’s Kingdom on Earth. And we know it to be true because we’re living in that Kingdom. It’s our everyday reality.
According to scripture, Jesus’ main teaching topic was showing people how to live in the Kingdom of God on Earth. Why would Jesus have wasted these people’s time teaching them how to live in the Kingdom if that Kingdom wasn’t to come for thousands of years? When Jesus said: “If I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom has come upon you”, was he lying? Did he not cast out demons by the finger of God, and even if he did, was the Kingdom not then upon them?
Of course, we know that Jesus wasn’t lying either about casting out demons by the power of God’s Holy Spirit or about the establishment of the Kingdom already during his time on Earth. When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, he rode in as a king, as prophesied in scripture. He was crucified under the marker “King of the Jews”. He now sits at the right hand of God and has been there since his ascension nearly 2000 years ago. He is King of kings and Lord of lords, and rules over God’s Kingdom on Earth. He has full authority over Satan and over all the fallen spirits, and by proxy, so do we, if we’re genuinely born-again.
Jesus said: “In the world, you’ll have problems, but don’t worry about it: I’ve overcome the world”, and also: “My Kingdom is not of this world”. This is the Kingdom where we, as born-again believers, live and move spiritually, have our being, and are protected and guided by God and Jesus, as Jesus promised we would be. There’ll be no other kingdom (though people are waiting in vain for one), just as there’ll be no other messiah (though people are waiting in vain for one). The here-and-now spiritual realm of the Kingdom of God is the one and only prophesied Zion, just as the here-and-now Jesus is the one and only prophesied Messiah. If you’re genuinely born again, you know this to be true. If you’re not born again, you’re likely falling for lies.
And who’s behind those lies? Who wants people to believe that a physical kingdom will be set up and ruled over by a benevolent but nonetheless iron-fisted ruler in the not-too-distant but still hazy future? None other than the Father of Lies himself, who easily deceives people who are not born-again and so gloss over scripture in favor of having their ears tickled. God permits Satan and his minions to disseminate these lies as a test to those who say they believe but don’t. The so-called “millennial kingdom” is among the chiefest of those lies and one, frankly, that makes my blood boil whenever I hear it being repeated. It’s right up there with the “Jesus is coming back soon!” mantra and the “once saved, always saved” lie, making a mockery of everything Jesus taught us and everything we know to be true.
I haven’t yet progressed to the point of overturning tables and whipping random bystanders as an expression of my anger over false prophets and their lies, but that might not be far off. In the meantime, I calm myself with the reminder that God permits the lies for a purpose, though he has no problem with my being angry with them. In fact, he encourages our righteous anger: It helps fuel our zeal.
ON SPIRITUALLY SPARKLY THINGS
CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 29, 2023 – Paul tells us that God has given his children a sound mind. Having such a mind, we needn’t fall prey to flights of spiritual fancy like being “rapture-ready”. Millions have been seduced not only into believing these types of hysterias, but also into financially supporting them and spreading the hype. Meanwhile, the ringleaders are cashing in big time, either through the sale of doomsday survivalist gear or from being the recipients of their followers’ liquidated assets. The commercialization of the end times means boom times for the unscrupulous, which is why we need to keep our mind sound and fully focused on God, as only by God’s Spirit can we discern the wolves among us.
By their private jets and Escalades shall ye know them.
I confess to have fallen prey to a few smooth-talking false prophets early in my rebirth. My sorry excuse is that I was on a steep learning curve from atheism, but still, I should have known better. I was just happy at the time to be part of any organization that at least admitted God existed, as Canadian society in general has kicked God to the curb. So I gave as generously as I could to the local churches I attended and expectantly “sowed” into various online ministries, anticipating a bountiful harvest in return. When the bounty failed to materialize and a closer reading of the ministries’ doctrines revealed alarming deviations from scripture, I bowed out of the organizations and turned directly to God’s Word. That’s when I my promised “sound mind” began to develop in earnest through constant prayer and daily reading of the Bible. That’s also when my spiritual investments began to pay off.
The straitened and narrow path is just wide enough for one person to walk at a time. It’s not wide enough even for two to walk abreast. Each of us follows Jesus at our own pace and alone, just as each of us will stand before God at the Judgement alone. God made the path narrow for a reason – so that we won’t be “unequally yoked together” with those who either don’t have our best interests at heart or have been led astray by false prophets. Being on the path alone, we’re answerable only to God, though others can still see us and be encouraged by our presence and progress.
Jesus was very much alone on the path, despite being constantly surrounded initially by his family and later by his disciples and followers. But he walked the path alone, as evidenced by him saying “I always do that which pleases the Father”. He never claimed to compromise in any way or to do that which pleased anyone other than the Father. When you walk two or more abreast, there is compromise, even just in the pace of your gait. You adjust your gait to align with your partner’s, and your conversation and thoughts are towards each other, not towards God, even if you’re talking about God. You can’t truly walk the path any other way but alone as there’s only room for one at a time. You pass through the gate alone and you walk the path alone.
Mass movements are a snare to the godly. God permits them as a test, just as he permits false “rapture-ready” prophets for the same reason. The path is narrow because it’s uncompromising. Truth is uncompromising. Perfection is uncompromising. We likewise need to be uncompromising, even and especially if it means we stand apart and alone.
To be uncompromising in a world that values compromise is no easy feat. If we know something is sinful, we steer clear of it. If we make a mistake, we repent, take our knocks, and keep going. If someone tries to lure us off the path, we rebuke them and pray to God to keep them far from us. We only get one chance to walk the path and that’s it. If we knowingly and wilfully leave it, we can’t get back on it, and if we can’t get back on, we can’t go Home.
The world is the realm of diversions. Knowing that, we need to give a wide berth to spiritual hysterias like “rapture-ready” and other sparkly things that are vying for our attention. A sound mind is the inheritance of the children of God – we’re given it as a gift, but it’s up to us to maintain it. This we can only do by keeping uncompromisingly to the very center of the path and focusing fully on God.
RAPTURE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
CHARLO, New Brunswick, August 24, 2023 – Imagine, for a second, being rejected by God.
For a born-again believer, this is not something we would consider imagining. We know our God and are strong in our faith.
But for those who are not genuinely born-again and who rely on people around them to prop them up and tell them what to believe, being rejected by God is a fear perpetually lurking in the back of their mind, a fear perpetually stoked by those spoon-feeding them their beliefs.
Now let’s take these same people who are weak in faith and present them with a strong delusion, something like a mass abduction or sudden unexplained disappearance of thousands of Christians. Make the disappearance headline news for weeks across all media so that it’s all everyone is talking about everywhere. Call it something like “the rapture”.
Then imagine the turmoil in the souls of the weak in faith who’ve been left behind. Imagine how they feel, believing they’ve been publicly rejected by God. Imagine the stages of grief they go through. Imagine that most of them stop at anger.
Imagine all those who don’t know why they’ve been left behind stewing in their anger and disbelief. Imagine them turning their anger on God. Imagine, as a result of their anger, millions upon millions of Christians falling away from God in response to his seeming rejection of them. Imagine the degree and extent of such a monumental outcry of outrage, followed by a monumental falling away happening all over the world all at once.
Imagine the falling away!
Now imagine the devil’s glee.
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I had a dream a few weeks ago about a false rapture. Instead of people rising to meet Jesus in the clouds, as foretold by Paul, people were abducted by very real flesh-and-blood abductors and spirited away to bunkers. Then there were those who were “in on it” – high-profile Christians who’d preached on the rapture and who’d agreed to disappear for a while. The ones spirited away to bunkers included people like us – spirit-filled, born-again believers who would likely be troublemakers in the beast system and would see through the false rapture. They held us for a while in the bunkers, where they tortured us to try to get us to turn from God, and then they killed us.
Those who were “in on it” and who’d agreed to disappear for a while, later reappeared after the beast system (the false kingdom) was up and running. They returned with great fanfare to take their place alongside the anti-Christ, ruling with him. But not all of them who were “in on it” were allowed to live. Many of the lower-level rapture fraudsters were killed along with the people in the bunker. Something about tying up loose ends….
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After the dream, I spent a few days watching videos and reading testimonies of people who claim to have had rapture dreams and/or visions. I found that the dreams and visions generally fall into two categories: scenes of being part of the rapture and scenes of being left behind. Many of those who’d seen themselves being left behind recounted their vision or dream in tears. Underneath the tears, their anger and disbelief were palpable as they tried to reason with themselves why they were left behind.
It’s heartbreaking to see how many people have been caught up in the lie of the false rapture under the slogan “Jesus is coming back soon!” If the devil wanted to manufacture a world-wide simultaneous falling away from faith, he could do no better than to get people to believe they’ve been rejected by God without cause, while others they consider “less worthy” than them are taken to Heaven.
I believe that Jesus will return some day in glory with his holy angels to take home his faithful, but that this will happen at the very end of time, just before the Judgement. This is what God teaches me in scripture. I do not believe in either a pre-tribulation or a mid-tribulation rapture. I do believe that such alleged raptures are doctrines of devils that have been created to be used as I outlined above – as a snare for those who are weak in faith. It will be a false rapture, but many will fall for it and many more will fall because of it.
This strong delusion, I believe, will trigger the great falling away foretold by Paul that must happen before the “son of perdition” rises to power.
The only way to avoid this snare and not be caught up in the devil’s lies is to stand strong in the faith of Jesus Christ, not in the faith of YouTube prophets and televangelists.
FOLLOWERS OF JUDAS: TELEVANGELISTS AND YOUTUBE PROPHETS
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, September 21, 2022 – Judas Iscariot was one heck of a preacher. He was excellent at his missionary job, which is why none of the other disciples suspected him of betraying Jesus. At the very end, he was, of course, outright in his betrayal, but earlier on he was as swept up in the Jesus wave as the other followers. He thought he believed in Jesus, he thought he felt the same about the mission as all the other disciples. It was only toward the end of the three years working with Jesus that his beliefs and feelings changed, and he, the arch-deceiver, began to see Jesus as the deceiver. But Judas carefully hid his doubts, as deceivers do, and doubled down on his enthusiasm in case anyone should suspect his plans.
There are many followers of Judas Iscariot in the Christian preacher community, especially on YouTube. I know preachers who are alcoholics, preachers who are on antidepressants, preachers who just consider preaching a way to make a living and to be looked after in retirement. These are all modern-day Judases, but I doubt that any of them would see themselves as such. They come across as ultra-sincere and committed to Jesus. Sometimes they’re so good at preaching their sincerity, they start to believe it themselves. It’s only when they step away from the pulpit that their doubts creep in.
By God’s Spirit, you can discern the Judases among us. They love to preach, because while they’re preaching, they feel real. The common impression is that Judas Iscariot was bad or at best mediocre at what he did. But he was good at preaching, one of the best among the disciples. His stellar performance as a preacher and subsequent presumed commitment to the mission is what led to his being entrusted with the group’s finances. Scripture tells us that he stole from the funds the disciples held in common. “But surely someone who preaches like that can’t be dishonest!?!”
Televangelists and their latest incarnation, the YouTube prophets, are all Judases. I do not apologize for making that generalization, as I have yet to come across any televangelist or anyone who self-promotes on YouTube who is not a Judas Iscariot-level false prophet. If you want to work on and practice your skill of discernment, pick any televangelist or self-promoting prophet on YouTube and see if you can find their Judas streak. As I said, they all have one. Sometimes it’s blatant, but other times it takes a few minutes to find.
There are two things they all have in common, these followers of Judas. The first is that they’re glib preachers, smooth with their words. Paul, by his own confession, stumbled over his, which is one of the reasons why he relied so heavily on his letters to get the message out. God would have had a hand in Paul’s lack of spoken eloquence, just as he has a hand in the surfeit of spoken eloquence of Judas’s followers.
The second thing that Judas preachers all have in common is their focus on money. They’ll preach for free, but they’ll solicit donations, or they’ll preach for a salary. Money will always be part and parcel of preaching the Gospel for them, as it was for Judas. They worship mammon, so preaching the Word is just a means to an end (the end being making money). Genuine followers of Jesus never accept a penny for preaching the Word. They’ll graciously and with gratitude accept any donations that are offered free-willingly, but they’ll never solicit them. That is one of the key ways to discern a follower of Jesus from a follower of Judas. God will permit the tares to grow among the wheat until Judgement Day, so it’s up to us to discern who’s a tare and who’s wheat, lest we, too, be deceived.
I know a few Judas preachers personally, and it’s difficult at times for me to keep quiet about them, but God wants me to let them be. He well knows who they are and he tells me that even the Judases have a role to play in bringing believers to the Kingdom. God uses everyone and everything to draw his people ever closer to him. Jesus knew about Judas, but he let him continue to preach to the end. He let him continue because Judas had a role to play in the redemption process, which he played willingly.
We’re not to expose the Judases among us, but rather to discern who they are and let them be. There’s nothing to be gained in exposing them, nothing to be gained in confronting them, and nothing to be gained in trying to stop them from preaching. They are an earned reward for people who prefer to have their ears tickled with smooth words.
God lets those people be, too.
He doesn’t force himself on anyone.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 