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🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

I want to point out that I wrote this article but Lily did a lot of the research and editing so I included her in the byline because she's pretty awesome for a Gen Z, liberal arts college student. :P

Lily-Rose Dawson's avatar

This was an interesting article to research. I had never heard of Ivan Ilyin before. I actually bought a copy of his book for my dad to read. If anyone else is interested, they have it for 20 bucks on Scamazon - https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Evil-Force-Ivan-Ilyin/

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I'd already read this, but its nice to see people still read these old things.

The book takes a very reasoned, rational approach to the problem of resisting evil, and reiterates knowledge that has been mostly lost today when recognizing evil for what it is, and when it should be punished. Many of the systems left to us by the past generation (1970s) defend evil acts while tying down good people into a paralysis of total compromise/dependency.

Unfortunately, corruption of language and by extension communication today, and behavioral engineering have become rampant.

While these things are fairly dark reading, its mandatory to know so one can take a measured appropriate response.

@Wise/Lily, on the behavioral engineering side you may find some value in reading some of its foundational material. It covers the basics of torture/thought reform and how sophisticated mental compulsion has broken perception starting in the 1950s.

The literature on torturous/coercive process is varied and fractured but used everywhere. Usually its defined as the presence of three defined subgroup characteristics as "Elements", "Structuring", and "Clustering" leveraging physiological responses to imposed stress towards reduced rational thought, involuntary hypnosis, and psychological break (two groups, dissociation, and semi-lucid psychosis seeking annihilation [school shooter types?]).

Robert Cialdini, "Influence" covers the psychological blindspots not including distorted reflected appraisal, the latter which operates through communications (how we adopt culture as children, and influenced heavily by isolation; and capable through big-tech cyber-based eclipse attacks which are transparent to the unknowing victim).

Joost Meerloo's "Rape of the Mind", an overview of what was known WW2 thru Mao.

Robert Lifton "Psychology of Totalism", detailed case studies of thought reform.

Kubark Report, and COINTELPRO, which include more modern research which was mirrored by the Stasi (at the time), as Zersetzung, and allowed through community policing post Clinton? (speculative rumor floating around).

There is a lot of material that is strongly influenced by Hypnosis and Fractionation, Neuroloinguist Programming (initially to deprogram cults), NCI, and Chase Hughes has consolidated most of it into a single book (which I haven't had an opportunity yet to review for accuracy).

There are many research papers about social media, and operant conditioning to trigger dopamine, which acts in a similar matter to Narco-analysis/Synthesis of older techniques. Gaming in FPS genre for example will associate a sound to a euphoric dopamine flooding state, conditioning the first few actions in a guaranteed way.

BF1942 for example does this through manipulation of an invisible aim assist box that grows or shrinks depending on if you just started the game session or not, and associates a "Cha-ching" sound with a flash of the leaderboard upon each kill.

Related associations are then used often in phone apps, and other places to detrimental effect. There's a surprising amount to learn on this that's not easily found.

Lily-Rose Dawson's avatar

Oh I forgot to mention this, I think we should start looking into migrating over to Gab.com. There are a lot more people on there that would vibe with this sort of content than on Substack. It is a shame this platform has gone full on retard woke mode in the last year. 60k subs is a lot to abandon but since we started getting the algorithm dick punching us into the dirt, we are not getting the views we should be anymore.

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Hmm yeah I was actually looking at Gab a few months back. It seems like a better environment for our work. Let me look into it and see if we can import our email list as subs and if not, there's always hiring a coder or two to make a marketing bot to promote us on there. I know how hard it is setting up shop on a new outlet. It took me 3 years to get this stack to where it is after Youtube cut the cord for me questioning the covid narrative during a livestream. 9 years on that platform and they demonetized and banned the channel for one slip up and cost me 90k a year in revenue. That hurt considering i took an early retirement because I couldn't do the corporate shill thing anymore after finding God.

Lily-Rose Dawson's avatar

oh well. better to be poor and going to paradise than a billionaire and spending eternity in the abyss, right?

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

true true. my only worry with gab is, how long before some billionaire buys them out and turns it into another woke platform? the owner claims to be christian but he has a turkish last name that goes all the way back to the ottoman empire so there is a chance he's a shill muslim but I do know they push a lot of anti-woke content on there and it doesn't exactly seem to fit into the hegelian dialectic point counterpoint methodology. I'll look into it later this week if I don't shoot myself in the head over this fucking tooth. 4,000 dollars without dental insurance to get the surgery. it's insane. I do not want to have to cash out some of my crypto or go back to work in the corporate sludge mines just to get my damn wisdom teeth out. why did i wait until i was 40 to do this!?!?!

Lily-Rose Dawson's avatar

lol you idiot! you call yourself 'the wise wolf' and still haven;t had your freaking wisdom teeth out! lol! i had mine out when I was 15.

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

so you mean you just had them out LAST YEAR? hahah burrrrrrnnnn

Moonspinner's avatar

I've been on Gab since 2019. Torba appears to be the real deal -- REFUSES to cave in to threats of lawsuits, etc. to ban or hand over personal info re Gabbers who offend others or who use language that the woke crowd considers to be antisemite, anti-LGBT++WTF, racist, etc. He posts for our info all the attorneys' threatening letters/demands as he receives them, including his trenchant replies. I admire him greatly. He's a Christian nationalist, pro 1st Amendment Rights, pro-family. He's the son I wish I had.

Judy's avatar

The best description of what we are experiencing in our world. I live in deep blue NY. It is difficult to find awake people to share my concerns with. The others seem totally brainwashed. So every now and then I throw out a little something to jumble their reality. Best I can do. I pray every night that we,as God’s warriors, will be successful in this fight against Evil. Thank you for this.

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This article has taken a serious toll on my mental health. I’ve probably slept only about three hours total since I started working on it a few days ago. The things I’ve come to understand about what’s happening around us — and the evidence is everywhere — have pushed me to the edge.

I don’t believe what we’re witnessing can be explained by "human nature" alone. There is a spiritual war taking place — a literal Satanic agenda unfolding before our eyes. Most people are simply too distracted or deceived to see it.

One thing that stands out to me is how Christianity is uniquely under attack. You don’t see scholars dedicating their careers to disproving the existence of Muhammad or Buddha. You don’t see mass efforts to delegitimize Hinduism or any other major religion. But with Christianity, there are entire industries built around discrediting Christ and the Bible. Think about how many books, documentaries, and academic papers are devoted to “debunking” the foundations of the Christian faith.

Scientific theories like the Big Bang and Evolution have been elevated to near-religious status, pushing aside alternative views like Creationism. Originally, the argument was for both Evolution and Creationism to be taught side-by-side in schools so students could make up their own minds. But now, Creationism has been all but erased from mainstream education. This isn’t just bad policy — I believe it’s part of a deliberate effort to steer people away from belief in God.

For over a decade, I immersed myself in religious texts, theology, science, quantum physics, philosophy, and technology — searching for proof of God’s existence. What I found instead was not a lack of evidence, but signs of a coordinated campaign to promote atheism and secularism. I came to believe this was part of a two-step strategy orchestrated by evil forces: first, make people forget that Satan exists; second, make them stop believing in God altogether.

You may have heard the phrase, “The greatest lie the devil ever told was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.” That’s exactly what’s happened. And now, look at what’s growing around us: the Satanic Temple is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in America, and modern witchcraft is spreading globally. These aren’t just trends — they’re symptoms of a deeper spiritual shift.

The Bible warns against sorcery and witchcraft for good reason (Exodus 22:18 says, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”). These things are real, and the New Age movement has subtly introduced millions into practices rooted in dark spiritual forces. People are being drawn in without even realizing it.

And then there’s the truly disturbing part — reports of elite groups involved in child trafficking, ritual abuse, and even human sacrifice. Some claim there are hidden networks where children are kidnapped and used in occult rituals by those in power. Blood magic, cannibalism, and rituals meant to open psychic gateways — these are not just conspiracy theories. They mirror what’s described in the Book of Revelation when it speaks of Jezebel leading people into immorality and idolatry. I believe these verses are referencing literal acts — including child sacrifice and ritual consumption of body parts — performed to gain power through dark forces.

It frustrates me deeply when I speak to people who call themselves Christians, yet dismiss the idea that magick or the occult is real. Scripture repeatedly warns against sorcery and clearly states that God hates it. Why? Because when someone engages in magick, they’re tapping into the very fabric of creation — the tools only God should wield. Even ancient Eastern texts like the Tao Te Ching hint at this — saying only the Master Carpenter knows how to use divine tools. In a way, this aligns with what Christianity teaches: only Jesus has the authority to operate within the framework of creation.

God has left signs and clues all around us — if we would just open our eyes. If people don’t wake up soon, I believe we will begin to see things long thought to be myths — demons, djinn, fallen angels, even giants — return in ways not seen for thousands of years. These beings were real in ancient times, and I believe they are still here, hiding in plain sight. Those in positions of global power know this, and some are complicit. Through black magick, they reportedly perform miracles — shapeshifting, teleportation, mind control, even reversing aging — abilities far beyond normal human capacity.

I’ve personally witnessed things I cannot explain. I’ve seen rituals, met people who claimed to have supernatural powers, and encountered phenomena that defy logic. But when I tried to expose what I saw, I was framed, discredited, and lost everything. These groups are everywhere — infiltrating churches, recruiting followers, and using deception on a massive scale.

Satan is no mere myth. He’s the richest and most powerful deceiver on Earth. He can elevate the poorest person to fame overnight. He can create illusions and false miracles that challenge our understanding of reality itself. And this is exactly what the Bible warned would happen — people will be deceived because they refuse to read and understand the Word of God.

Many treat the Bible as an outdated book for old folks. But it’s not. It’s a living guide, a direct message from the Creator, meant to help us navigate the chaos of this world. And right now, we need to listen more than ever.

Mooon's avatar

I totally agree. As long as people remain mesmerized by television, I don’t see it getting anything but worse. Look at all of the immoral acts which have been normalized in the last fifty years. Television slowly adapts people into these beliefs as being normal, beliefs they probably rejected before. The viewers do not even see it coming.

Alan's avatar

Amen. I totally agree. The end is closing in on us. Not clear what to do to fight it. We must prepare now. We must fight together or we will die one by one.

Jacki Dager's avatar

You guys are awesome! We will all stand one day before the judgement seat of Christ. Our choices will be brought forward. And I know that I want to stand up and be faithful. It’s wonderful for you all to take up the banner! But even though I’m retired I’m still responsible for my part in this battle. One thing I do know is that prayer is far more powerful than I had ever realized. And it’s not going to be by our power that this war will be fought. God bless Jacqueline

Lily-Rose Dawson's avatar

This war is going to be won because of people like you are still out there to teach people my age what it really meant to be an American before the nation was taken over by freaks.

Aussie Grandma/Aussiegrandma's avatar

May I add something about “turn the other cheek”?

In Hebrew thought form, this command by Yeshua has a very distinct meaning that the disciples of His day would’ve been very surprised to hear. Not because Yeshua was a pacifist, he wasn’t, a read of the Gospels will show He was anything but. Here’s the thing (as you Americans like to say :) ):

In the days of the occupation of Eretz Israel (all of Judea) by the Romans, if a centurion took his leather glove off and slapped you with it, you were then required to drop face to the ground, present your neck for the coming boot and wait to see if you were going to have your neck broken right there and then, or somehow gain some mercy and be released.

Yeshua was saying, don’t submit to this Roman boot, turn to him the other cheek in absolute protest, not some passive response of “oh hit me again”. It was a declaration of war like resistance to the Emperor’s orders.

The way that it has been interpreted over the centuries by the Roman Catholic clergy and her daughters in the Protestant movement has been to make us inadequate, silence us, create total surrender and submission.

I’m with Yeshua and His instructions. What do you think about this Wise Wolf?

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

I think you are exactly right. It seems to me that the words and intent of Christ were manipulated by people who wanted to usurp his faith into a means of turning the peasantry into submissive chattel and it was reinforced century after century until today we have millions of Christians that seem to think that Christ just wanted us to all sit back and let evil do whatever the Hell it wanted without resisting. That is NOT his message. It never WAS his message. Christ was a dangerous revolutionary. Yes, he wanted peace but he understood that he was fighting against the forces of evil, against Satan and his principalities. You do not defeat Satan by letting Satan do whatever he wants without stopping him. You fight back.

Aussie Grandma/Aussiegrandma's avatar

Wise Wolf, i do believe in standing up to the machinations of evil, but I would never take up arms as a resistant method. Prayer (with that armour of God) is most powerful and let us not forget that the pen is mightier than the sword - and can often put you in more trouble - and it’s worth every espousing letter penned. “Expose the unfruitful works of darkness”, we are commissioned. You, dear WW, “in your small corner and I in mine”.

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I understand your stance but that is also the same mentality that lead to men like Stalin, Hitler, Mao Ze Dong, etc coming to power. Evil must be met with force or it wins. This is why Christ returns as a warrior for the End Times.

Aussie Grandma/Aussiegrandma's avatar

Messiah comes with a flaming sword in His mouth. Him. Not us until we are “changed”. With our sinful nature we do harm, but we can pray for His righteousness in judgment IMHO. Taking up arms is what Yeshua warned about when He said: “He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.” He chastised the brothers when they asked Him to call down fire from Heaven replying “You don’t know what spirit you are of.”

“Judement is Mine”, says Adonai.

He mended the chopped off ear of the centurion, correcting Peter’s quick unauthorized response when they (600 militants of Rome were in that cohort) came to arrest Him that fateful night.

For over 300 years the Messianic Believers taught peace not war. Those who fought in the early wars of the 1stC were the Zealots of another faction, they supported Him at the time of the overturning of the tables in the Herodian Temple. At the seige of Jerusalem, they either died in battle or were taken as slaves.

I know it’s hard not to fight back in this way, but the Way is through peace, not the awful mamby pamby kind, the power of the spoken Word and the Holy Spirit.

As I said, keep writing with you “pen”, it is powerful.

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So when evil comes through your door - whether it's armed intruders or something darker - and your grandchildren are cowering behind you, and you have the power to stop it, you'd just stand there? You'd let innocence be destroyed while you hold the means to defend it?

Is that really what Christ calls us to? To abandon the defenseless when we have the strength to shield them? To let evil triumph through our inaction when we could stand as a wall between darkness and light?

The same Christ who drove the money changers from the temple with a whip didn't preach passive surrender to evil. There's a difference between turning the other cheek and watching evil devour the innocent while you do nothing.

Alan's avatar

That's very interesting AussieG -- do you have source for that? I have for long time believed this was a "Roman occupation" passage -- and Jesus was disagreeing with the Zealots about proper response. Would love to find more about your understanding. Makes lot of sense -- only a half-way submission.

Aussie Grandma/Aussiegrandma's avatar

Yes it IS very interesting and not something to be treated lightly. Which one of us is that brave without the living faith of Messiah. Unlike the Wise Wolf, for whom I have great respect, we do not believe in taking up arms, herein lies the faith that Yeshua spoke about, per His instructions.

Alan, at present, my husband is writing a book with this explanation in its pages and many more besides, and if I was to give that info to you now it would not be in our interest, you understand.

However, if the churches really understood the strength of that phrase uttered by Yeshua, Christiandom (to use an old English phrase) would be

something very different today. And if the Romans hadn’t subverted the entire message, thrown the Jewish baby out with the Jewish bath water…well, it was not in the Plan and YeHoVaH knows what He’s doing and the apostasy was predicted, was it not?

There are many instances where our modern teachers, who have inherited lies from their teachers for hundreds of years would not like exactly what Yeshua had to say on a number of issues, the “going away sorrowing” of the rich young man that Yeshua put on the mat. THAT needs more explanation as people think Yeshua was being awful to the young man. You see, he’d kept ALL the Torah as good as anyone could and in doing so, YeHoVaH had blessed Him as it says in Scripture He will do. To then ask this fellow to sell it all and give it to the poor who had not been blessed, hence their poverty, landed as a huge thump to the head for this man.

Yeshua was upending so much thought.

Also, take the instance where Yeshua “snorted” at the Pharisees. This “snorted” is not some gutteral pig snort but a method of letting your enemies know exactly what you think of them. To “snort” is to put one finger on one nostril and blow the mucous from your other nostril at the person of your disdain. Can you see this happening in so called polite society today? Haha! This practice, I believe is still used in some ME countries and at one time, maybe still, Indians (the people from India that is) did this also. Says a lot doesn’t it 😄.

If you’d like to know more of Jewish thought form that brought us the Bible (and I am not talking about the Talmud ok) please access our website for hundreds of articles and podcasts that will have you “expanding the parameters of your ignorance”, something the Christian Rebbe (my husband) says often to his attendees at our Yeshiva.

www.biblicalresearchinstitute.com

Should you accept your mission 😉 please shelve what you baulk at, give it time to percolate as 1stC Jewish thought form can be quite different to mainstream Christian thought in some areas. Heaven forbid in this day and age that we might think like a Jew (tongue firmly in cheek) even a practicing disciple or avid follower of Yeshua HaMashiach (that’s Jesus the Messiah for those who don’t know). Happy reading and reach out if you need to understand anything more fully.

Alan's avatar

Good to meet you. Thanks for writing. Let me know when his book is published. I will read some from your website. I know we have a lot to learn about Jewish culture, expressions. Thanks again.

Stacy Wagner's avatar

Love that you are helping young people to see what it means to rightly divide the Word of Truth and proclaim it in well researched ways. I will continue to pray for you (and your intern Lily-Rose) and stand united as fellow spiritual warriors. 🙏💕

Iurie Rosca's avatar

You are absolutely right! I am talking and writing about it for years. We, the so-called dissidents, are paralyzed by liberal paradigm which imposed the blind and suicidal uncapacity for action. I am quoting the same book of Ivan Ilyin which has a colossal importance. I am Russian speaking person and I know very well the writings of Ilyin. But the bigest problem in the case of teethless dissidence in duble. First, most of the are decristianized and adopted democracy as false religion. The second, non-violence is the result of ideological indoctrination and social castration by very sofisticated means of mass demasculinization. The real meaning of personal sacrifice as price for fredom and moral duty are lost too. That is why the author are right but at the same time his recipe caannon be applied because the will of man do not exist animore.

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You understand precisely what I'm getting at — and that’s rare. There are very few people in the world who truly comprehend what it means for evil to seize control of a nation, reshape its institutions, and warp the very fabric of society itself. But the Russian people? You could say they’ve lived this nightmare for centuries. No other population on Earth has endured such an unrelenting parade of tyrants, dictators, and sociopathic rulers as the Russian people — particularly the peasantry, the working class, the everyday citizens who bore the brunt of history's cruelest experiments in power.

From Ivan the Terrible — whose reign was not just cruel but psychologically devastating for the entire country — to the Romanovs, whose misrule and detachment culminated in revolution and bloodshed, and then, of course, to the ultimate horror: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet era under Stalin wasn’t just authoritarian; it was a mechanized system of terror. It wasn't enough to simply obey — you had to appear loyal, sound loyal, even think loyal thoughts. One careless word, one raised eyebrow, one moment of doubt shared with the wrong person, and you were gone. Not just imprisoned — erased. Your name struck from records, your family torn apart, your existence reduced to ash in a mass grave or frozen silence in a Siberian gulag.

The sheer scale of suffering is almost beyond comprehension. Millions upon millions perished not in war, but at the hands of their own government — not because they were enemies, not because they were criminals, but simply because they existed. Because they might have become a threat. Because they were inconvenient. And unlike Hitler, whose atrocities were largely focused on specific groups, Stalin killed without prejudice — Jews, Ukrainians, intellectuals, peasants, soldiers, party members, children. No one was safe.

If the average American were subjected to even a fraction of what the Russian people endured during those decades, I firmly believe the country would collapse under the weight of despair. The willpower, resilience, and endurance required to survive under such conditions is something most nations have never had to summon. That kind of experience leaves a mark — not just on individuals, but on a national psyche.

That’s why I believe Russia may be the only country on Earth with the real capacity to confront and defeat systemic, institutionalized evil — call it "Satanic" if you want, though it’s more accurately described as totalitarianism, corruption, and moral rot taken to their absolute extremes. Russians know firsthand how quickly freedom can vanish, how easily truth can be rewritten, and how deeply evil can entrench itself when people look away or make excuses. They’ve seen what happens when evil isn’t confronted early — when it’s allowed to fester and grow until it becomes all-powerful.

So yes, when I say the Russian people understand evil better than anyone else alive today, I don’t say it lightly. It’s not because they wanted to learn this lesson — it’s because they were forced to live it. And in that fire, something was forged — a deep, instinctive understanding of tyranny, betrayal, and survival. It’s a tragic legacy, born from unimaginable pain. But it’s also a kind of wisdom that no democracy, no utopian dreamer, no comfortable citizen of the West can ever truly claim to possess.

And perhaps, in the great battles still to come — not just political, but spiritual and existential — that hard-earned knowledge will be what makes the difference between freedom and total subjugation.

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Mr Roșca, even though on most issues I tend to support your stance, on this I firmly disagree. To my knowledge, there's no Orthodox precedence regarding the use of violence in a domestic setting that hasn't been derailed into a much larger problem. While a general concern regarding physical self defense (individually or as a nation) is needed, how can we equate a particular situation (eg counter-revolutionaries against bolsheviks fomenting social uprising) to a call to arms for changing the political landscape? Just check the latest Twitter alt-right payops, with Eurasian agents like Tucker Carlson pushing for a revolutionary angle over the Epstein case in the Musk vs Trump feud. Or how all of a sudden Grok goes wild on "antisemitism", while even promoting in its responses radical conservative moles like Nick Fuentes or Stew Peters, both of whom were fringe elements during the heights of Q(anon) before it was purged, so these guys could replace the vacuum. They often have fights between themselves to appear as individual actors and create a cult following, but without ceasing to agree with one central tenet: use violence to overthrow the status quo (maybe the early christians should have thought better about the power of pitchforks in agora). These KGB mouthpieces will stir the angry and mostly oblivious crowds into revolutionary sentiments, while steadily unveiling all the post WWII atrocities in order to be scapegoated on Zionists and their (((Anglo-Saxon))) collaborators. If we were to take Stew Peters for example, his "Died Suddenly" documentary was sponsored by a jewish gold company, by his own admission (also included prepandemic footage in order to discredit the movement); or his backup Twitter account which openly promotes Nazi ideology and glorifies Hitler. Or "Sound of freedom", Jim Caviezel's movie about child trafficking, also as publicly admitted, was co-produced by Carlos Slim (ties to The Clinton Foundation which was "caught" trafficking "33" children from Haiti). And I can give many such examples where the Chabad mobsters push both sides of their Tikkun Olam dialectics, which would remain impotent without using traumatic initiation as a catalyst to bring about radical social change. From Disney movies like Simba or Bambi where children get in contact with the idea of death outside of a Christian context, or the Club 27 artists being retired from the public eye to create splits between generations - to the unmasking of a global cabal elite (mentioned recently in US senate hearing on confirmation of UAP aka demonic manifestations) which is guilty for all wrongdoings (a classic gnostic take where the common man is a victim of cosmic evil entities). We even have mainstream Joe Rogan promoting conspiracies about the mark of the beast predictive programming in media (which makes me believe that the microchip could be only a decoy, so that the real mark could be placed on those "patriots" who will think they avoided it and will worship the Moshiach as the 2nd coming of Christ). They don't fear violent outbursts, they embrace chaos, but they do tremble at the sight of thousands of people which start to organize and expose all these machinations from an Orthodox perspective, while consolidating around a core of God fearing leaders to give directives that can be trusted and don't slip into abhorrent behavior in times of crisis (eg assassination acts of Romanian legionnaires that pick up popularity in the USA).

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

I'd very much like to speak with you. Do you already write on here? Do you want to? You have a very firm grasp on what’s really going on — not just surface-level nonsense, but backed by real knowledge and understanding.

I also noticed how you said '33' children almost as if you are indicating what really happened to those kids. That kind of phrasing is important — it's not random.

One of the things I’ve come to realize is how these 'Zionists' — and we’ll call them that because that is the public face and agenda pushed forward by the Synagogue of Satan — seem to enjoy funding media aimed at children, like Disney. Their films are filled with hidden occult connections, and let’s not forget: Walt Disney himself was a Nazi sympathizer. His last name even means 'Son of Isis.' Now, while none of this alone is definitive proof, there are strange facts like Club 33 being the only place in Disneyland where alcohol is served — and then there's the Cavaziel child trafficking film being funded by an actual child trafficker.

To me, all of this adds up to mockery — ritualistic, intentional, and symbolic. Mystery Babylon is murdering children in pagan Moloch rituals because they are, in fact, the descendants of ancient Canaan. Black magick is real — it's a misunderstood and secret form of quantum science. There is a conspiracy, spanning hundreds if not thousands of years, to hide the existence of God from the average person.

Christ himself said the Pharisees have the keys to the Kingdom but do not want to go in themselves, nor will they allow others to enter (Matthew 23:13). This is a direct statement from Christ — these people are deliberately withholding divine knowledge. Why? Because they would rather “rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.” They want to keep people trapped in deception so that when Judgement comes, they won’t face it alone.

Well said — your words were powerful, and your counterpoint argument is extremely compelling.

JulianSunny's avatar

3/3

As for your general questions, giving God's omniscience, the free will problem is present in any formal system, not limited to theism. Arguably, it has more inconsistencies in paganism as it doesn't solve the problem of metaphysical evil by just removing or diluting human agency via metempsychosis. Along with anamnesis, they are ad hoc concepts, rightfully criticized by Aristotle, which don't address the faulty premises of monism (eg lack of any meaningful eschatological distinctions, everything is just a perpetual amorphic soup of transformation into nothingness). The soteriology of other nations (Noah didn't have 3 children that spawned Europeans, Asians and Africans, as liberal academia pushes today) placed by God on Earth after the fall (including what we know as ancient hominids) is not the direct concern of Orthodoxy. We know only that we need to be baptized and confess our sins, so those who don't know Jesus by name will be judged by how they followed Christ in their heart. If they lived with a good conscience, with love for the neighbor, and didn't dabble into abhorrent "spiritual" practices (eg Suttee in Hinduism), we can only assume God will show more mercy for them at the judgment day than He will show for various christian sects, with most responsibility falling on Orthodox believers who know the truth (at least noetically with proper catechesis, even if their hearts are unchanged). Those before the incarnation were saved when Christ descended into Hades by the same aforementioned principle, with a second chance coming during eschaton when all dead will return into perfected flesh. And hell is not a place, as evil will cease to exist, but a state of being while under God's unmediated presence. Those who struggled for moral perfection (which starts with humbleness and ends in love) will experience God's uncreated energies as growing in blissfulness (not dionysiac, nor apollonic, but peace and tranquility as a baby in the arms of his mother). Those who followed the world for self exaltation will be rebuked, not as a punishment, but because they can't asymptotically spirate to God without experiencing deep suffering. That's why in the first book of Enoch those damned where situated at the "edges" of heaven, found in deep holes, wanting to hide from God's glory. In regards to mysticism and meditation, look into hesychasm, is quite the opposite of the oriental practice where the mind has to be emptied (process which can lead to possession, "manifest" as they say). And as for christianity being invented at Nicaea, read any early church father like Irenaeus or Justin Martyr to see that there's no difference from what is stated later in the Church. The councils were made solely for the purpose of fighting against gnostic heresies (self chosen opinions), to protect the deposit of faith (paratheke), as it was given by Christ to the apostles, as it cannot be altered even by an angel from heaven (Galatians 1:8). This doesn't make all pre-christian pagan traditions obsolete, some of them having precious knowledge about how the Logos transpired and was prefigured in different cultures after the flood. You can read "Christ the Eternal Tao" by Hieromonk Damascene to get a better idea, and Fr. Seraphim Rose's "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" is also very good, from someone who was also a perennialist and turned to God after years of oriental religious studies. To close on the alien hypothesis (recently confirmed in a US senate hearing on UAP, some high level speakers blaming the secrecy on a "cabal"), don't look at griefters like Graham Hancock (on this subject I'm pretty sure you know more than me anyway :p), or commie gnostic revolutionary propaganda like Zeitgeist movies, filled with so many blatant lies and historical inaccuracies, give a try to researchers like Jacques Vallee if you want a more pragmatic approach. And why they are portrayed as reptile, amphibian looking? "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs..." (Revelation 16:13). See how Aleister Crowley depicts the manifestation of demon Lam, huge skull with large eyes and small face (similar to nephilim hybrids from Peru). Occultists Jack Parson and Ron Hubbard made Crowley's "Moon child" ritual in '64 , with some believing to be Trump, born 3 months after. Now we have the cult of Kek and groypers (see Probably Alexandra videos for the spiritual angle of Q theosophical psyop developing now), with eurasian Chabad controlled oposition agents like Nick Funetes going mainstream and weaponizing truth in order to radicalize westerners for the coming destruction of "Edom & Amalek" (that being christians with european heritage in the sick mind of babylonian diaspora pharisees) and their plan to destroy the current zionist secular state in order to be replaced by a theocracy which will rule the world technocratic gulag (you will say that technocracy is leftist, but give a read to "Elements of Gnosticism in Dialectical Materialism" by Boris Groys to see how even modern leftists are involved with occult ideas). >>

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Anyway, if you want to check some more info that I've posted in the past, see my Twitter account:

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I'll also leave here a comment that I wrote on a youtube video about Jesus being an alien, which I think can give more context for my viewpoint. If you want to send me a PM, you can do it at iulian.soare11@gmail.com

<< You raised some good points, but overall they fall flat because you're not taking into account the orthodox perspective. I'll try in short to cover what I think is missing from the argument.

First, you seem to be using the term "orthodox" generically, but orthodoxy is an actual church, the one which continues the apostolic linage of the first millennium after the catholic and protestant schisms. And as a disclaimer, I am not a practicing christian, but after a lot of soul searching and having a background in philosophy which helped, for a few years now I shifted heavily from some made-up panendeistic entity (in which our ability to reason was epiphenomenal, so I could anchor it in a deterministic world) to Orthodoxy. The central issue that prevented me from taking it seriously was its clash with modernity, especially Darwin's evolution, later extrapolated to the whole universe via the Big Bang. I ridiculed young earth creationism, only to find myself using it to undermine my epistemic foundation. I will not expand on this, Seraphim Hamilton's (a very good and passionate young apologist) article "Why I Became a Creationist" is a good synopsis. Also, I recommend a short read by Anthony of Westgate "Astral Magic: The Occult Religion of Modern Cosmology". Even if we were to ignore the failures of natural theology - which died mid 20th century through works like Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (regress to infinity and analytic-synthetic distinction) and now took refuge in pragmatism and psychologism - and resume ourselves to the less broader, actual science inquiries, which is mostly heuristics in its premises, we discover more discrepancies between the claims being touted as universal truths and what is observed, than in how your average atheist approaches the talking snake story. Eg the cosmological constant problem, there are overwhelmingly more chances to find a specific atom (which is like 10^80) in this supposedly billions of years universe, than for the current standard model of relativity to hold any water (up to 10^120 difference between quantum field theory and general relativity). Or the galaxy rotation curve symmetry for which they had to come up with other phantasmagorical ideas like "dark matter-energy". I'm saying that the scientific method is mostly heuristics, as clearly could be seen in already established industries like aviation where we still don't know why a plane flies; more specifically, Newton's laws or Bernoulli's principle can't account for how a difference in air pressure is created if the wing of the plane is symmetrical, with no airfoil. Still, these ideas are useful, but they are sold as ontological truths to the masses who believe in some type of 17th century naive empiricism. And on a lower note, Darwin is also crumbling with advancements in molecular biology, from the impossible ratio between random positive/neutral gene modifications and that of those incompatible with life (even in r-selected species), to discoveries of archaic DNA in present sub-Saharan population. Of course, to fit their liberal ideological framework, they always retrofit hypotheses to fit with new contradicting data, never questioning their underlying beliefs on which the house of cards is built (eg if mutations are not random, then the universe is not dysteleological, hence naturalism is false).

As for trying to find a perennial substrate in Orthodoxy, if you engage with its tenets, you'll be surprised to find out the numerous differences from the way modern anthropology approaches religion mythologically. In the case of holidays with pagan origins, it cannot be a question of syncretism - or some eclecticism born of cultural superstitions as with holidays not officially recognized, but tolerated - because apart from a few generalities (eg name, date) nothing of the pre-Christian meanings has been preserved. The counterargument would be: why would we treat Christianity differently? Due to cultural bias, I had an issue granting it leniency, but when I started to analyze its details, its exceptional character could not be denied, and therefore it must be classified sui generis. To give some examples: all religions can be metaphysically reduced to monism (dualism in its eschatology also ends there) / they are based on mythologies of chaos / man is a victim caught in the dialectic of cosmogonic forces, a contingency / the phenomenal world is illusory / polytheistic deities are avatars of an impersonal primordial divinity, an idea / truth has tribal specificity and is imposed through conquest. Christianity comes and overturns almost all pagan premises - similarities, from Europe to South America, which can only be explained after their spread from Sumer after the flood by the corrupt descendants of Noah, instituting the caste system over the local populations (polytheism replaces primitive animism), the leaders being worshipped as deities in the cycle of reincarnation (which is actually generational demon possession): (Orthodox) Christianity supports trinitarianism (e.g. it solves the problem of 1 and multiple that has been grinding philosophy since Plato's Parmenides) - RC and Protestantism are monistic (eg RC actus purus) / it's based on order, harmony (creation being ex nihilo, not coeternal with the creator, as the Neoplatonists think, an emanation of the intellect) / man is the pinnacle of creation and therefore responsible for the world's fall into the corruption of sin (not a punishment, but the consequence of man's desire to live without - outside of - God), thus introducing entropy into the world (basically we are downgrading from digital to analog) / the phenomenal world is an expression of divine glory, which will be restored after the end of time / God has a common nature, but manifests itself through 3 distinct, but not separate, persons (see Dr. David Bradshaw how "distinction" in the Western church acquired the original meanings given by Aristotle after the fall of the West under the Germanic invasions and the rediscovery of the classics later via the arabs) / the truth is universal through the incarnation of the Logos and spreads without violence, sometimes even under severe persecution; the first evangelized were the aristocrats, who could understand the more subtle arguments of theology, some donating their villas to be transformed into churches or monasteries. This latter part is what dismayed me when I tried to imagine how the heck "the opium of the masses", through a tribe on the periphery of the empire, was able to replace fundamental secular traditions and visions, without having funding, an army, a political center of control, and with a story totally counterintuitive to natural theology. The only viable explanation for such a rapid spread of the faith is that God made miracles through the Apostles wherever they went: the blind saw, the crippled walked or Saints of the Church spoke in tongues (that is, they could understand each other without speaking the local language).

The Orthodox narrative goes counter to most things which glue together mythology and religion, while being grounded in history. Noah's corrupt descendants who crossed the Caucasus (eg Scythians) became nomads due to colder climate, while does in the south settled and developed agriculture. In the same area, south of mount Ararat, the first animals were domesticated. Also, around the Black Sea, copper, bronze and iron artifacts were first created. Then you have blond or red hair mummies in the Tarim basin (which in most cultures, from Egypt to Inca, their effigies were displayed with blue eyes), with caucasian DNA being present in native americans. You don't find it in sub-saharan Africa or the aboriginal australians, showing a clear pattern of migration. A few articles on the topic:

"A DNA Genealogy Solution to the Puzzle of Ancient Look-Alike Ceramics across the World"

"How one ancestor helped turn our brown eyes blue."

"Blue-Eyed Immigrants Transformed Ancient Israel 6,500 Years Ago"

"Ancient DNA from Siberian boy links Europe and America"

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I had a Facebook account that I've made when the plandemic started, so that I could keep in touch with the protests being organized during the lockdown. I used to post there what I thought to be niche information that I've stumbled upon on Twitter when digging into the Q psyop. Now that I think I've reached the end of the rabbi(t) whole, there are only details to fill in the overall conspiratorial arc, so I pretty much stopped engaging even in Twitter, but I still scroll from time to time, and generally the agenda is progressing with not that many deviations from what I believed a couple of years ago. I'm not an intellectual to voice my opinions to an audience, and besides some philosophy, I've only done a bit of deep reading or study. Most of my knowledge comes from piecing things together by listening to people who are doing research on a daily basis and I've come to trust their judgement by cross-referencing their conclusions. I'm not even a practicing Christian, even though I uphold Orthodoxy to be the best paradigm that can explain the world historically, and to some extent, epistemologically. I still struggle to make sense of issues like free will as it pertains to God's omniscience for example, or why apokatastasis is a heresy (from a practical POV it makes sense, but that would make God a liar), as in how can an all merciful absolute being can condemn someone to eternal damnation because he failed to change in a finite amount of time. Even the idea of a limitless is kind off terrifying, but I guess this is my brain rot mind having difficulties in letting go of over rationalizing the miracle of life, as I was indoctrinated with jewish liberal propaganda since I learned how to read. I've become so brutalized by the horrors of the world, an amoral shell of a man you may say, in so much that I didn't learn how to love, to the point where I don't even care about myself and just try to escape reality, I guess until "something" happens. I'm 33 [sic], battling from childhood with some undiagnosed gut health issues (wouldn't surprise me if vaccines contributed to it), so most of the time I have very low energy, feeling sleepy and depressed, but I can't complain, some never even get the chance to see the light of day. As to why I promote Orthodoxy in my posts, even if I'm not practicing it? I guess because I cannot propagate so much negative information without anchoring it in what I believe to be the best model that can tie all of this together on a metaphysical level.

As for the tiny hats agenda, with the level of control they have now, to me is all theater. And you are right, a lot of it is ritualistic, from propagating a reinforcing signal between themselves (eg Hillary Clinton deletes 33k emails, KGB agent Julian Assange lunches Wikileaks, Epstein - Podesta pizzagate becomes mainstream and the public gets traumatically initiated into the theosophical New Age of Aquarius - and just for the record, Epstein is an actor, like they all are, there's no Lolita Express which keeps flight logs of the most famous people in the world, when these mobsters have total control of state secrecy; whatever they "declassify", especially after WWII, is all disinformation, building on higher dialectics), to some gematria methods of conjuring demonic entities to help them with their tasks (and speaking of quantum physics, check "CERN ritual hoax" video if you didn't see it, I tend to believe is real, as these kind of small slips can be easily integrated in their luciferian dualistic gnostic agenda of the Great Awakening against the satanic "zionist" cabal), to what I think is finally the end goal, of surfacing all these occult mysteries, in order to be accepted as the world religion by the masses (how else their Mashiach aka lord Maytreia aka AC could be worshiped openly as God in Jerusalem? ; also, even already mainstream CIA/KGB Tucker Carlson started to speak about counterfeit history, Tartaria and ancient advanced technology - which is really just antediluvian demonic magic). To see the level of fakery they are willing to pull off, see this video of Matthew North, a brilliant young man (who I think was suicided because he just disappeared, but for real, not the fake billionaire John McAfee type of bamboozle, now on an island enjoying retirement from his role, or some plastic surgery and assumed a new identity), who mostly did deep research on Joe Rogan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrx3tn-D9WQ

It shows how the secret services are hiring comedians to mix conspiracy with humor in order to control the narrative on what needs to be pushed and what has to be ridiculed. He makes the connection between jewish satanism with Rogan via his manager/handler, Matt Staggs, and Alex Jones' publisher, The Disinformation Company of Richard Metzger. Jones (aka Bill Hicks) managed to "infiltrate" in the Bohemian Grove with the help of his jewish friend Jon Ronson, another alumni of Channel 4. Grant Morrison is also part of the Disinformation Company, a world renown comic author, who along with his buddy Alan Moore, openly talk how their inspiration for writing comes from channeling spirits and being demonically possessed. You can watch it from 1:10:35 in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPDR2W-XqI

As an example of how far they've gotten to poison our minds with their sick dialectics, Moore wrote, among many others, V for Vendetta, a dystopian novel about a totalitarian christo-fascistic, white supremacist government (the movie also uses an avian flu pandemic as a plot device) - so our Zionist "khazarians" and their Anglo-Saxon collaborators scapegoats - which is overthrown by an anarcho-communist hero V (eg Vulcan salute from Star Trek is a jewish symbol) - so our BRICS comrades who will win the incoming rigged war against the West, israeli-arab war being the catalyst. The Guy Fawkes mask was pushed with controlled op groups like Anonymous or in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Dear friend, Thanks for so long and serious comment. Everything is right, except the understanding that we will be killed all of us in very différend and sofisticated ways if we will not be able to overcome our “pacifist” obsessions cultivated for décades and even more. Do you prefere to die by injection, by chemtrails, by other “scientific” means or to fight back before thay will kill you? As a Romanian I am happy to know that in US the name of Corneliu Codreanu is familiar for real fighters.

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Therefore, to end my commentary, I fail to see how there is any Biblical basis for uprising against our own government when there are so many examples that clearly show how only a change in the petrified heart of our nation can produce results which are pleasing to God, and not push us even closer to the brink of total spiritual annihilation. And please forgive me sir if my opinion comes across as condescending, nothing could be further from my mind, but it saddens me to see so much uproar from someone of your stature, who is also a practicing Christian, on a subject that should be a basic tenet of what means to live an Orthodox life: putting your trust in God and trying to find other solutions than inciting the mob to what it seems not only a futile act from a pragmatical standpoint, but also against what Christ and his Church I think is teaching us. And as a reminder, in the end times the term "antichrist" doesn't refer to one being against God, but putting oneself in place of God. If the early Christians were hunted like dogs and skinned alive for their faith, but they still refused to raise their fist in the air, as Satan, the first revolutionary, who are we to act so entitled and start shedding the blood of our kin (policemen, military, politicians, who are just puppets on strings), especially given the current widespread apostasy? Do you think God will come to our aid in such an endeavor when we are killing millions of unborn babies, when half a million of women are officially registered in video-chat pornography and God knows how many in prostitution abroad? When we made an idol from staring at a dark screen, like the slaves from Plato's cave, mediating most of our relationships with this scrying tool used in divination and spirit communication (and I'm one of its most consistent users, among numerous other abominable behaviors that also plague my being)? And as depraved as I am, I still had a small bit of conscience left that lingered within me, which led me to go to the protest during the state of emergency on 15 May 2020 during the plandemics. I was dumbfounded to realize that we were a few hundred individuals in the Victory Square, while hundred of thousands were strolling in the Herastrau park, happy they got 3 days of legislative void, until they were back in house arrest. And to what avail? All the sewage "patriots" we see in today's media climbed onto those protests to make their political debut: vomit inducing - foul mouth - new age freemason Diana Sosoaca, charlatan - pederast - simpleton George Simion, snake in the grass - OTV garbage eating - Gucci snob Luis Lazarus, wretched gremlin - impromptu clown - feeble phony Dan Chitic, etc. Only between these aforementioned buffoons there were dozens of protests hijacked and transformed into caricatures. And to what avail when the herd of cows, almost in unanimity, trampled on each other to get closer to their show stage, like it was an ambulant circus? And the rest of 99%? They only squirm their discontent when something pecuniary is on the line, as I'm almost certain they have no clue what it means to voice your opinion in the street for an idea, to act in principle. These people would sell their country in a heartbeat if the talmudic elite could guarantee them safety in a pig pen and a lifetime supply of fodder rations. Until we repent and seek God's kingdom above all else, any kind of riot will only sell opium to the masses and accelerate our annihilation.

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John 6:14-15 is also edifying:

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Under favorable circumstances in regards to the state' status quo, this "taking by force" was a common practice in the ancient world, where generals who led victorious armies were sometimes proclaimed rulers, either by the people or by their troops, pressuring or even threatening them to seize power and secure their interests (land, wealth, protection, etc.). A refusal to assume this responsibility would often end in bloodshed, prompting his second in command to take his place. This was one of the reasons why the pharisees managed to persuade the crowds in turning against Christ and choosing Barabbas, a notorious insurrectionist during the roman occupation. These typologies are abundant in the Old Testament, as it is the case with Gideon who was raised up as military deliverer (as Christ is the conqueror of death), but was then asked to become a long-term rulers by his people. Even if Gideon was initially humble, fearful and obedient, destroying his father's idols, as God commanded him, after refusing kingship, echoing Christ's refusal (John 18:36 - Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”), pride started to consume him when he tasted power. He became vengeful, using disproportionate violence in a twisted sense of justice, started to act in anger when his authority was questioned, named his son Abimelek (meaning "my father is king") leading to the killing of his other sons, and taxed his people as a king in order to make a golden ephod to solidify his status, which later became an idol, failing his main mission of spiritual delivery.

The political chaos that ensued during periods of strifes within Israel were a consequence of sin and God's judgement. In the Book of Judges there is a repeated cycle of disobedience (eg idol worshiping), that brings about oppression (subjugation), which made people repent (from genuine repentance to pure desperation) and being delivered by God's mercy (providential military leaders in a tribal context), sometimes right before an imminent disaster would strike. But, with a few exceptions (which nonetheless, didn't end well for the Israelites), most of these situations involved a direct foreign occupation or extraterritorial threat, not internal disputes. Domestic power struggles start to become predominant after the united monarchy in 1 and 2 Kings, as it is the case with conflicts over taxation and leadership, breaking the kingdom in half and leading to widespread idolatry, assassinations, coups and civil war between Judah and Israel. This may be seen only as a consequence to Solomon's idolatry, but in a wider view it stemmed from the general moral corruption of his subjects. There are many examples where leadership is both a mirror of the people’s condition and a driver of national direction:

Hosea 8:4

The people have appointed kings without my consent, and princes without my approval. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.

Jeremiah 5:30-31

An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets give false prophecies, and the priests rule with an iron hand. Worse yet, my people like it that way! But what will you do when the end comes?

Micah 3:1-4

And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones, who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron. Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

Ezekiel 22:29-31

Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice. “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one. So now I will pour out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my anger. I will heap on their heads the full penalty for all their sins. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

1 Samuel 8:4-7

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the other nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

Isaiah 3:4-9

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule”; in that day he will speak out, saying: “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people.” For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

The Maccabean revolt appears to be the only such event where God isn't in direct disapproval (the books being narrated mainly in a historical manner, with nationalistic tones, as they had no linage to king David), but it takes place in a unique historical setting and the end results are probably the most disastrous (revolution of 66 AD and the destruction of the 2nd Temple, as prophesized by Christ). As the guerilla rebellion was motivated by apostasy under external political pressure, from explicit banning of Jewish practices (eg circumcision, Sabbath observance, Torah study, etc.) to Temple desecration by forced introduction of pagan rituals (eg offering pigs on the altar), the Hasmoneans were seen as political and religious heroes. Although over two centuries have passed since the death of the last prophet in Malachi, God has made his presence known through unexpected victories against overwhelming odds and the angelic intervention in 2 Maccabees 3:24–30 protecting the Temple. After gaining independence from the Seleucids, Simon Thassi assumed both the high priesthood and the kingship, usurping the traditional separation of roles, amplifying sectarian conflicts. John Hyrcanus I being from the priestly class of the Sadducees, but under the heavy influence of the liberal Pharisees, conquers the Edomites and converts them by force, something without precedence and in clear violation of Deuteronomy 23:7-8. This results in a stream of subverters, with civil war erupting later between Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II that culminates with Idumean king Herod assuming the throne by bribing the romans, ending any remnant of independence.

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Luke 12:4-7

I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Isaiah 8:12-13

Do not call conspiracy* all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Jeremiah 11:8-12

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not. Again the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy* exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers. Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.”

* qesher meaning:

- conspiracy: unlawful alliance, plot, or scheme.

- treason: act of disloyalty to one's country or sovereign.

- alliance: (unlawful) alliance or confederacy formed for a specific, often secretive, purpose.

Isaiah 51:12-14

I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking.

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him. But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

1 Peter 3:14-17

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Psalm 34:17-18

When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 13:1-2

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

Revelation 2:8-11

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. “I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.”

Did Christ not come to conquer the sin (hamartia: missing the target, which is everlasting life in the Triune God) in our hearts? Why did he humble himself by entering Jerusalem on a donkey, but triumphantly rides a white horse after the Great Tribulation? If violence is an option in a domestic setting, why did Lord Jesus rebuked it when the roman secular authorities, and not the Hebrew religious ones (which were behind the plot), came for his arrest?

Luke 22 is more appropriate in this context:

37. For the time has come for this prophecy about me to be fulfilled: ‘He was counted among the rebels*.’ Yes, everything written about me by the prophets will come true.”

38. “Look, Lord,” they replied, “we have two swords among us.” “That’s enough,” he said.

39. And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives**, and the disciples followed him.

46. and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation***.”

* anomos: without law, transgressing law (the law as spiritual salvation, for we are sojourners); as a noun this can mean a gentile (without God's covenant law); in 1Th. 2:8, Paul speaks of the lawless one, often considered a title of the antichrist (he who, in his pride, seeks earthly dominion over others through deception and force); also fulfills Isaiah 53:12 “He was numbered with the transgressors”.

** Garden of Gethsemane (meaning "oil press"), at the foot of the Mount of Olives; olive trees symbolize peace, hope, renewal of life, as seen with the dove returning with an olive branch after the flood.

*** by falling away from faith under the pressure of persecution or by quarreling among themselves (as in Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”).

Continuing with Matthew 26:

51. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.

52. “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword*.

53. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels**?

54. But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

55. At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber***, with swords and clubs to capture me****? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

56. But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled*****.

* the condemnation of violence by private individuals, although not a universal prohibition for all Christians, including soldiers or law enforcement; secondly, see Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”, a symbol for the Gospel, separating sheep from goats, wheat from chaff, those inscribed in the Book of Life from outcasts; also, Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”.

** the supreme power of special providence in times of need; see Matthew 17:20 “He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

*** lestes: robber, bandit, rebel, revolutionary; this word is derived from the Greek verb "luo", literal meaning - to unbind, untie, release; and figurative - to dissolve, break, destroy, nullify.

**** "as you would against a man inciting a revolt" (New American Standard Bible translation is more precise here)

***** Christ's refusal of armed resistance shattered their expectations for a messianic rebellion or physical deliverance, rendering the disciples confused, disillusioned and fearful for their lives; as Lord Jesus would not retaliate, but choose to suffer in silence (Isaiah 53:7 “...He did not open His mouth.”, and 53:5 “But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.”), in contrast to the curse of sin from Genesis, where shame, fear and ultimately anger corrupted our souls, the seed of all future violence and discontent (as God warned Abel in Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”).

Iurie Rosca's avatar

Dear friend, Thanks a lot for your comment. God bless you.

linda riccobene's avatar

Unfortunately all religions have been hijacked. You have Christian Zionists cheering the genocide in Gaza. That is not true Christian way. We’re in the reckoning time for sure. But that world is leaving. That’s why it’s blowing up. It’s in dissolution. We are on the new world. There will be the splitting of the worlds. We need to disentangle from the old one or we’ll be sucked out with it when it goes.

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I agree. Anyone that is calling for the mass genocide of anyone based on religion is evil and are the sort of people I wish there were an 'easy' way of dealing with involving large caliber automatic weapons... but until things reach that point of war, we just have to do our best to be kind and generous and soon as Christ reveals himself, that's when we fight.

Sharon's avatar

I agree. We're seeing the collapse of the astral and underworld, out with the old in with the new. In other words, moving into 5D Earth/New Earth. We’re not creating a new world. We’re remembering the real one that’s always been here, behind the veil of the false matrix. We're ascending. That's why we're seeing so much chaos, weather warfare, so much evilness on humanity, so this had to happen. We all need to unite and bring in more love into this world.

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Be careful about that '5d' stuff. Remember a pentagram has 5 points. God is far 'higher' than that.

Alan's avatar

Hey Wolf! Thanks for this article. One of our main problems today is that we are so divided and isolated. I've been a pastor for small churches for 50 years -- and christians & churches cannot agree on very many issues. This one is like a hand-grenade in a china shop. We definitely need to talk about and find those of like minds. I foresee it degenerating into gang warfare. Most Americans will be blind-sided totally. Thanks Wolf & Lily for a great article!

Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

I'm a recovering Catholic (walked away 60 years ago), an atheist by choice. Other than not being religious, I agree with everything you have written here. As a matter of fact, just about the utmost reason I don't believe in God is because - even before it became acceptable to far too many people, I could not imagine a Creator, a compassionate loving God who could allow the things that are done to children. Adults? Fine. Most of us have earned the pain we feel, need to feel it to reduce some of the guilt from having hurt others, intentionally or not.

Children do not need to go through what they are put through by adults (or even other children). Years of suffering, years of sexual abuse, rape and sodomy, with no end in sight, often by someone who was supposed to be their defender, their protector. Often with a parent who looks the other way, afraid to lose the meal ticket, or to suffer also at the hands of the sub-human responsible.

I would like to think that enough of us could band together to do something besides commit suicide, going up against Leviathan in numbers too small. The lone wolf thing sounds tempting, but effectively useless. Even identifying those who truly drive the evil, let alone reaching those who are the root cause. Some are obvious - former presidents or other world leaders, the scum who arranged the Covid hoax, those who knowingly killed children, women, and men with deadly hospital protocols, and then again with toxic, deadly injections. An individual so sick, so vile, so depraved that he would create an experiment designed only to torture puppies, cutting their vocal cords so their cries would not trouble the ears or the sleep of the other sub-humans actually running the "experiment".

I know evil exists. No rational human being can honestly deny that fact. My problem is that I cannot bring myself to believe it is balanced by enough who care. But, even at my age, I would do what I can if it happened that there was a way to effectively fight the evil.

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I was raised Catholic myself. Had plans on going into the seminary until the Boston Diocese child sex scandal in the late 90s hit the news. I figured there cannot be a God if that is allowed. This is something I wrestle with constantly. Revelation says that God will wipe away all tears once everything runs its course and I have a real good feeling that 'Hell' isn't fire and brimstone. No, it's far more personal. The damned live what they did through the eyes of their victims eternally or until God decides to just wipe them away and forget about them. It's like evil is a cancer and the immune system is slowly readying itself. I know it sounds cliche but it really is a test of faith. The wicked will get what they deserve when the time comes for now we just need to accept that this is the fallen world Eve's original sin created. It was never God's true intention.

Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

I wish I could go there, but children are innocent, and so few - if any - deserve what so many of them suffer. It seems far more rational - for my own belief - to think there is no Creator than to think he could possibly allow the little children to suffer so. Whatever we suffer as adults is perfectly acceptable to me, even though there are some innocent adults as well. We can deal with it better than children.

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That is my stance too. We can't wait for God to sort it out. We are going to have to deal with this in our lifetime. 1 million children vanish in the US alone EVERY YEAR. Where are they going? How is this even possible? In India, 14 million girls under the age of 10 are kept as sex slaves in brothels and the government collects tax revenue off them so they let it slide. The world has become disgusting at this point. Waiting for God takes too long. If this sort of shit was happening 100 years ago, there would be armed protests in Washington and heads on poles but now most people are too lazy to do anything but click clack on their keyboards and phones and they do not believe this is happening. I found God because I realized Satan is real. These kids are being ritually sacrificed by Moloch cults all around the world. Powerful people are involved in covering it up. Dig through my articles and look for the one I did about scientifically proving the existence of God using AI. There are several key points that we discovered that cannot be explained by anything other than a conscious creator - whatever that truly is I cannot say but I know one thing for certain - the devil is real, he's back, he runs the world, and they murder kids. A lot of kids and our government is full of pedophile child murderers now and we have to do something before they kill us all off with their next bioweapon test. I am certain Covid/Vaccine was a test of some sort of weapon that did not work as intended and Bill Gates already said during the last Covid lockdown that 'the next bout of Covid will kill billions'. How would he know that unless they are engineering it to happen? Our world is being stolen by the most disgusting vermin in history and most people are too busy staring at the TV screen to notice.

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Thank you. That really means a lot coming from someone as successful on this platform as you.

REPUBLIA's avatar

“I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for Liberty cannot be equally strong in the breasts of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow Creatures of theirs. Of this I am certain that it is not founded upon that generous and christian principle of doing to others as we would that others should do unto us."

- Cofounder, Abigail Adams.

Letter on 31 March 1776, to John Adams. Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0241. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 369–371.]

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In the Old Testament, God commanded Israel to wage holy war against nations practicing abominable sins — including sorcery, child sacrifice, and idolatry — because these were spiritually corrupting and dangerous. Deuteronomy 20:16–18 instructs Israel to completely destroy those who would lead them astray, and Exodus 22:18 commands, “Do not let a sorceress live.” These were not random acts of violence, but divine protection against spiritual contagion.

The New Testament continues this theme in a spiritual form. Ephesians 6:10–12 tells us our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against “the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” We are to put on the full armor of God and fight with truth, righteousness, and faith.

Jesus Himself made it clear that there are times when self-defense and preparation are necessary . In Luke 22:36, just before His crucifixion, He said to His disciples:

“But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”

This statement directly contradicts the idea that Christ taught absolute pacifism in every situation. If even Jesus told His followers to buy swords in preparation for what was coming, we can know that there are times when defending against evil requires more than prayer and patience .

Jesus also did not always turn the other cheek when confronted with corruption and evil. In John 2:15–16, He made a whip and drove out the money changers from the temple, overturning tables and condemning their abuse of sacred space. This shows that zeal for holiness and justice has a place in the Kingdom of God.

Even in the final book of the Bible, Revelation 19:11–16 reveals Christ returning as King of Kings to make war against Satan and his forces — not with passivity, but with divine judgment and authority. The Lord does not sit idly by while evil seeks to destroy His creation.

Angie's avatar

This call to action is very well stated. Evil must be removed both root and branch or it continues to grow and destroy everything God has created. The time is now. ACTION, ACTION, ACTION!!!

m h jones's avatar

Deep thoughts for serious times. Be ever vigilant and prepared. “Normal” is not coming back. Jesus is.

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Yes 👏 💯 I am looking for any others that this resonates deeply with in PEI! Let’s go 🙌🏼 🙏🏻 💥