Thank you for this well written essay. I too have struggled with the baffling enormity of the entire “pandemic” episode. Since the very beginning with the real life lab of the Diamond Princess Cruise ship and the numbers never ever adding up. How can so many of us be living in such diverse realities? I grew up in a Lutheran church school exposed to pretty much only religion. Too much in my mind. Leaving me craving biology and science. Watching the numbers, the science, and basic common sense get twisted was so profoundly confusing. It seems like my entire community is living in some intractable dream. Nothing makes sense and I keep wondering if this is somehow rooted beyond us as humans and is this a spiritual battle. I keep going back to that explanation and feel the pull of prayer and contemplation. I also wonder if our loss of spiritually over the last decades also contributed to the reaction. People turning on each other because they have nothing to focus on or make them feel like they are part of something bigger. So they joined the church of Fauci to make them feel like they were working for the greater good by masking and vaxing and judging others harshly for not doing the same. I see the enemy you are pointing to and look forward to how you unfold it.
One of the things I gathered from Desmet's talks is something he said about hypnosis. You have to focus on ONE thing, over and over and over. Like chanting a mantra when meditating. ONE thing. I also envisioned the cats with the laser pointer.
The world has been focused on Covid, collectively, for over two years now. MSM and the echo chambers are wrong and complicit, but they're also powerful. They've been chanting "safe and effective", "stay at home", "my mask protects you, your mask protects me", etc., over and over, 24/7, and the world has literally fallen under a spell. They have become cats, and the powers that be have the laser, and wherever they point, whatever they whisper into the echo chamber, the herd follows. It turns out it really IS easy to herd cats, you just have to have a 24 hour news cycle and control of the echo chambers.
I'm so disappointed in the medical institutions. I think besides journalism, the medical field, the rank and file doctors, are the most disappointing aspect of this to me. The fact that a scientific minded community can be so robotic is frightening.
I would encourage you to do that praying and contemplation. Might I recommend "The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel? Starting with the question of "who is Jesus?" is the place to start. Was he a liar? A lunatic? Or was he who he said he was, and if he is, what's that mean? When I personally really contemplated that debate, the world really shifted in massive ways, and so many things made sense in a ripple effect way.
God wins, Jesus will make things right, but there's a whole lot of chaos, deception, heartache, and pain that will come between now and then. I'm not afraid of it, but I just don't want to be part of that timeline. Yet I am. It's going to be very inconvenient and mean that how we live and what we've always known are forever changed. We will never go back to life before Jan 2020. As much as we thought that was messed up, those in retrospect are the glory days compared to where we're going.
That said, we will also see so much light and decency. Watching the Ron Johnson roundtable, seeing the passion of those doctors and other professionals, gave me hope.
I believe for every one voice of gloom and terror, there are 10 on the other side. 2 or 3 will stand up, but those other 7 or 8...they stay in the shadows. They are the ones we need to push, to encourage to step into the light, because once they start to, the wave will break over the darkness and wash it out to sea. I believe that wave has formed and is gathering momentum to gain its crest, but it needs to happen soon, or the wave will hit the beach and lose that momentum and retreat back into the sea as if nothing happened.
I have received the same impression as you - that there is something spiritual about what is going on simply because of the gratuitous cruelty. Whoever or whatever put this together wanted to create the maximum suffering.
Haha, I'm not on Twitter, so I can't see that link. But yes, the effects on this earth could not have been put together by mere mortals. There's too many variables, too much working in concert over too big of a time period and scope to be the work of mortal hands only. This IS the playbook of Satan.
Interesting thought about AI constructing this. I've never thought of that. I still believe it's beyond human capabilities, but this evil will and does use humanity to accomplish it's goals.
I am following in your footsteps. The proof that God exists, in half a sentence: we know that the devil exists; therefore, God must exist as well. QED.
I think this is why some people have had such a hard time grasping what has been going on and for others it has become like a religious obsession. Satan. Pure evil.
It’s been hard for me to wrap my head around, but that’s because I’m not a sociopath who wants to destroy others. I also haven’t sold my soul, although I have more questions about what I’ve been taught in my healthcare education than I used to.
It really has become a religion, complete with rituals (masking, vax), clergy (doctors), priests (Fauci, Gates), churches (MSNBC, Fox, CNN, FB), zealots (Whitmer, Hochul, Ardern), charlatans (Cuomos, Biden, Ferguson), and the sleeping, obedient masses just looking to take the next soma and recite communion (give me my shot, safe and effective). It's demonic, sophisticated, breathtaking, and fascinating on a fundamentally horrifying scale.
There's no emergency brake for the rest of us. This religion IS coming for us all, and it seeks to convert every single human. And if it can't convert, it will destroy. This is the endgame, and it's beyond what our human capabilities to defeat. I ultimately believe only a great awakening to truth through faith in Jesus Christ and his message will change this trajectory, but I just don't see how enough of humanity comes to that same conclusion in time.
Nothing else makes sense than this explanation. Who can hypnotize the masses? Only some powerful force beyond our sight. And it follows to study carefully the only manual, the Bible, that we have been given to decipher the enemies ways and to be saved.
So many of the beliefs of self proclaimed spiritual people, that they take in a “positive” way, leap out of scripture but actually go right along with the lies from Satan in Genesis. I.e. that souls never die - they just shed their bodies and morph into something else. And the worship of SCIENCE, a regular golden calf to be bowed down to. The modern day Tower of Babel. I’ve been alive 73 years and I’ve NEVER seen the “likes of” Satan as I have these past two years bringing to mind the scripture referenced above describing him roaming around the earth like a hungry lion seeking to devour. That he is and there are way too many people out there with scales over their eyes, blinded.
Thank you for this article! I found your Substack in the comments section of the Naomi Wolfe article you reference here.
I think you see our present era with a discernment that can only come from the Holy Spirit. In this dangerous time, there’s so much blindness in our society—even those who do sense trouble are unable to see the full truth.
I’ve been working for a couple years now to write my thoughts on this encroaching darkness in a coherent enough way to help others see and understand it. Your insights will be very helpful to me!
The way I see it, we are in the midst of a society-wide, self-sorting process. As you know, there are only two sides, and they are irreconcilable. Each of us will be forced to decide: the comfortable middle-ground will continue to shrink. Eventually, “… brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all because of My name…”
I am so glad I stumbled in here. I was thinking of starting a substack, had working title & starter list of topics. Now I am saved the trouble, lol! So thank you.
I grew up the only spiritual being in a unspiritual, very unhappy family. My father I think an atheist, my mother a hypocrite who left her church when they shunned her for her behavior. Although we did go to church when I was very young, I don't remember them ever having a bible in their home.
I continued very spiritual, meditating & communing with God so much that I felt like a "walking meditation" much of the time. This was until spring '01, when suddenly everything seemed to shut down. It took several years to be able to reconnect.
I lost my last job in fall '15 , so forced into early retirement. It wasn't until that last year that I realized & accepted that, for whatever reason, God wanted me in this isolation.
I started trying to read the Bible a couple years ago -- pre-covid but couldn't make any progress so set it aside.
Then back in '18 my garage radio, which I play while caring for my bunnies, started re-tuning itself over & over to a different station. Finally gave up & left it there. Turned out it was a worship station! God has been leading me home ever since.
Decided last year to skip ahead and try the New Testament. Matthew so beautiful and meaningful, but still held back by "Old English" & tiny type. Then heard of the Passion version & decided to try again. Am in my first in my life read through at the Psalms now.
Whenever I feel afraid, I go back to reading it. It's all in there.
Lane, this is a post about the Enemy. It's true, WE can't beat this Enemy. We are more than conquerors through faith in Christ, but Christ is the Victor, and we are the beneficiaries. Ultimately, we're not really the main point of the conversation at all. I freely and readily acknowledge that.
Speaking of main points, again this is a post about the Enemy. Written to people who may be just starting down the path of even considering there IS an enemy that's not of this world. You seem to be someone who understands the bigger picture, but there are a lot that don't. I would ask that you allow for some margin as I continue to build the case, a case that's fresh to many people, in a way that is bite sized but will eventually and always lead to the glory and victory of, in, and through Christ.
As far as no mention of Jesus, the verses from John are the words of Jesus. And to your point kind of insinuating I don't know Jesus is in the Old Testament, the Genesis 3 story clearly shows us the foreshadowing of Jesus multiple times. Once when God tells the serpent He will crush his head, and once when God Himself creates the sacrifice, killing the first animal in order to cover Adam and Eve. That is showing the need for sacrifice for the covering of sins, therefore showing the need for Jesus.
I take every piece of feedback and input as valuable, so thank you for yours. I hope this response has provided some reassurance to you. This is a long game, a big picture, and I'm working hard on showing parts of it as faithfully and effectively as possible.
You're talking about a part of Genesis I'm not referencing here. But yes, the "US" is the Trinity, and it's a beautiful way for us to understand that Christ was with God, IS God, right from the beginning. It ties so amazingly with the beginning of John..."the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God". It's mind boggling.
I see NO mention of Jesus Christ, who was given the keys to heaven and earth, who died for our sins and was resurrected by the same Spirit that dwells in the Believer, (who is a New Creation.)
Did you forget about Him, the Alpha and Omega? Or were you waiting until we got to the New Testatment, because Christ is everywhere in the Old Testament.
Thank you for this well written essay. I too have struggled with the baffling enormity of the entire “pandemic” episode. Since the very beginning with the real life lab of the Diamond Princess Cruise ship and the numbers never ever adding up. How can so many of us be living in such diverse realities? I grew up in a Lutheran church school exposed to pretty much only religion. Too much in my mind. Leaving me craving biology and science. Watching the numbers, the science, and basic common sense get twisted was so profoundly confusing. It seems like my entire community is living in some intractable dream. Nothing makes sense and I keep wondering if this is somehow rooted beyond us as humans and is this a spiritual battle. I keep going back to that explanation and feel the pull of prayer and contemplation. I also wonder if our loss of spiritually over the last decades also contributed to the reaction. People turning on each other because they have nothing to focus on or make them feel like they are part of something bigger. So they joined the church of Fauci to make them feel like they were working for the greater good by masking and vaxing and judging others harshly for not doing the same. I see the enemy you are pointing to and look forward to how you unfold it.
Thank YOU for reading it.
One of the things I gathered from Desmet's talks is something he said about hypnosis. You have to focus on ONE thing, over and over and over. Like chanting a mantra when meditating. ONE thing. I also envisioned the cats with the laser pointer.
The world has been focused on Covid, collectively, for over two years now. MSM and the echo chambers are wrong and complicit, but they're also powerful. They've been chanting "safe and effective", "stay at home", "my mask protects you, your mask protects me", etc., over and over, 24/7, and the world has literally fallen under a spell. They have become cats, and the powers that be have the laser, and wherever they point, whatever they whisper into the echo chamber, the herd follows. It turns out it really IS easy to herd cats, you just have to have a 24 hour news cycle and control of the echo chambers.
I'm so disappointed in the medical institutions. I think besides journalism, the medical field, the rank and file doctors, are the most disappointing aspect of this to me. The fact that a scientific minded community can be so robotic is frightening.
I would encourage you to do that praying and contemplation. Might I recommend "The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel? Starting with the question of "who is Jesus?" is the place to start. Was he a liar? A lunatic? Or was he who he said he was, and if he is, what's that mean? When I personally really contemplated that debate, the world really shifted in massive ways, and so many things made sense in a ripple effect way.
The church of Fauci, and looking to the Great Vaksine for salvation!
Yes, a spiritual war with the Evil feeding off of fear. God Wins.
God wins, Jesus will make things right, but there's a whole lot of chaos, deception, heartache, and pain that will come between now and then. I'm not afraid of it, but I just don't want to be part of that timeline. Yet I am. It's going to be very inconvenient and mean that how we live and what we've always known are forever changed. We will never go back to life before Jan 2020. As much as we thought that was messed up, those in retrospect are the glory days compared to where we're going.
That said, we will also see so much light and decency. Watching the Ron Johnson roundtable, seeing the passion of those doctors and other professionals, gave me hope.
I believe for every one voice of gloom and terror, there are 10 on the other side. 2 or 3 will stand up, but those other 7 or 8...they stay in the shadows. They are the ones we need to push, to encourage to step into the light, because once they start to, the wave will break over the darkness and wash it out to sea. I believe that wave has formed and is gathering momentum to gain its crest, but it needs to happen soon, or the wave will hit the beach and lose that momentum and retreat back into the sea as if nothing happened.
I have received the same impression as you - that there is something spiritual about what is going on simply because of the gratuitous cruelty. Whoever or whatever put this together wanted to create the maximum suffering.
https://twitter.com/PhilGarber5/status/1421115386070671361
Haha, I'm not on Twitter, so I can't see that link. But yes, the effects on this earth could not have been put together by mere mortals. There's too many variables, too much working in concert over too big of a time period and scope to be the work of mortal hands only. This IS the playbook of Satan.
It says:
There is a cruel, inhuman aspect to the conduct of this pandemic as if it were run by an AI (or worse):
- Early treatment either neglected or actively suppressed.
- Victims made to die alone, unattended by family.
- People constricted, muzzled, penned and isolated.
Interesting thought about AI constructing this. I've never thought of that. I still believe it's beyond human capabilities, but this evil will and does use humanity to accomplish it's goals.
I am following in your footsteps. The proof that God exists, in half a sentence: we know that the devil exists; therefore, God must exist as well. QED.
I think this is why some people have had such a hard time grasping what has been going on and for others it has become like a religious obsession. Satan. Pure evil.
It’s been hard for me to wrap my head around, but that’s because I’m not a sociopath who wants to destroy others. I also haven’t sold my soul, although I have more questions about what I’ve been taught in my healthcare education than I used to.
It really has become a religion, complete with rituals (masking, vax), clergy (doctors), priests (Fauci, Gates), churches (MSNBC, Fox, CNN, FB), zealots (Whitmer, Hochul, Ardern), charlatans (Cuomos, Biden, Ferguson), and the sleeping, obedient masses just looking to take the next soma and recite communion (give me my shot, safe and effective). It's demonic, sophisticated, breathtaking, and fascinating on a fundamentally horrifying scale.
There's no emergency brake for the rest of us. This religion IS coming for us all, and it seeks to convert every single human. And if it can't convert, it will destroy. This is the endgame, and it's beyond what our human capabilities to defeat. I ultimately believe only a great awakening to truth through faith in Jesus Christ and his message will change this trajectory, but I just don't see how enough of humanity comes to that same conclusion in time.
Nothing else makes sense than this explanation. Who can hypnotize the masses? Only some powerful force beyond our sight. And it follows to study carefully the only manual, the Bible, that we have been given to decipher the enemies ways and to be saved.
So many of the beliefs of self proclaimed spiritual people, that they take in a “positive” way, leap out of scripture but actually go right along with the lies from Satan in Genesis. I.e. that souls never die - they just shed their bodies and morph into something else. And the worship of SCIENCE, a regular golden calf to be bowed down to. The modern day Tower of Babel. I’ve been alive 73 years and I’ve NEVER seen the “likes of” Satan as I have these past two years bringing to mind the scripture referenced above describing him roaming around the earth like a hungry lion seeking to devour. That he is and there are way too many people out there with scales over their eyes, blinded.
Thank you for this article! I found your Substack in the comments section of the Naomi Wolfe article you reference here.
I think you see our present era with a discernment that can only come from the Holy Spirit. In this dangerous time, there’s so much blindness in our society—even those who do sense trouble are unable to see the full truth.
I’ve been working for a couple years now to write my thoughts on this encroaching darkness in a coherent enough way to help others see and understand it. Your insights will be very helpful to me!
The way I see it, we are in the midst of a society-wide, self-sorting process. As you know, there are only two sides, and they are irreconcilable. Each of us will be forced to decide: the comfortable middle-ground will continue to shrink. Eventually, “… brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all because of My name…”
I am so glad I stumbled in here. I was thinking of starting a substack, had working title & starter list of topics. Now I am saved the trouble, lol! So thank you.
I grew up the only spiritual being in a unspiritual, very unhappy family. My father I think an atheist, my mother a hypocrite who left her church when they shunned her for her behavior. Although we did go to church when I was very young, I don't remember them ever having a bible in their home.
I continued very spiritual, meditating & communing with God so much that I felt like a "walking meditation" much of the time. This was until spring '01, when suddenly everything seemed to shut down. It took several years to be able to reconnect.
I lost my last job in fall '15 , so forced into early retirement. It wasn't until that last year that I realized & accepted that, for whatever reason, God wanted me in this isolation.
I started trying to read the Bible a couple years ago -- pre-covid but couldn't make any progress so set it aside.
Then back in '18 my garage radio, which I play while caring for my bunnies, started re-tuning itself over & over to a different station. Finally gave up & left it there. Turned out it was a worship station! God has been leading me home ever since.
Decided last year to skip ahead and try the New Testament. Matthew so beautiful and meaningful, but still held back by "Old English" & tiny type. Then heard of the Passion version & decided to try again. Am in my first in my life read through at the Psalms now.
Whenever I feel afraid, I go back to reading it. It's all in there.
Jesus IS the only way we beat them.
Lane, this is a post about the Enemy. It's true, WE can't beat this Enemy. We are more than conquerors through faith in Christ, but Christ is the Victor, and we are the beneficiaries. Ultimately, we're not really the main point of the conversation at all. I freely and readily acknowledge that.
Speaking of main points, again this is a post about the Enemy. Written to people who may be just starting down the path of even considering there IS an enemy that's not of this world. You seem to be someone who understands the bigger picture, but there are a lot that don't. I would ask that you allow for some margin as I continue to build the case, a case that's fresh to many people, in a way that is bite sized but will eventually and always lead to the glory and victory of, in, and through Christ.
As far as no mention of Jesus, the verses from John are the words of Jesus. And to your point kind of insinuating I don't know Jesus is in the Old Testament, the Genesis 3 story clearly shows us the foreshadowing of Jesus multiple times. Once when God tells the serpent He will crush his head, and once when God Himself creates the sacrifice, killing the first animal in order to cover Adam and Eve. That is showing the need for sacrifice for the covering of sins, therefore showing the need for Jesus.
I take every piece of feedback and input as valuable, so thank you for yours. I hope this response has provided some reassurance to you. This is a long game, a big picture, and I'm working hard on showing parts of it as faithfully and effectively as possible.
"Let US make man in our own image." Who do you think the "US" is?
You're talking about a part of Genesis I'm not referencing here. But yes, the "US" is the Trinity, and it's a beautiful way for us to understand that Christ was with God, IS God, right from the beginning. It ties so amazingly with the beginning of John..."the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God". It's mind boggling.
I see NO mention of Jesus Christ, who was given the keys to heaven and earth, who died for our sins and was resurrected by the same Spirit that dwells in the Believer, (who is a New Creation.)
Did you forget about Him, the Alpha and Omega? Or were you waiting until we got to the New Testatment, because Christ is everywhere in the Old Testament.
I believe I've answered these objections above.
You did
Hey Frank. I've not heard of what you're speaking, but I will check this belief out as well as your Substack. Thanks for the comment.