This post became six for a single day. I managed to separate them out, but the six posts of this day are all to be considered as originating from the same stream of thought. The order in which they are read is unlikely to matter.

How do I “validate the messenger?” I suspect I will have to get more intentional about the necessity of this as time progresses. I think I would ask that none of the readers of this blog use my real identity, if it is known, in sharing this blog with others (another epiphany that took place while writing the six articles). Please do not reveal the identities of people included here for their privacy and mine.  I have tried to protect it as best as I can.  It is not to be considered secret.  It is to be considered worthy of discretion.

Let them develop a sense of who I am by their own path of discovery. I’m sure it won’t be a huge mystery, but the strange of the spiritual realm is that demons only have the knowledge of the heavens available to them up to the point of their following satan out the door.  After that, they can only know what they have learned in their own travels.

Don’t underestimate their angelic level intellect and the 2000 year desire to destroy everything God did for us, through Christ being crucified on the cross, the arrival of the Holy Spirit as our helper, and the building of the tradition and history of the Church Christ himself started through Peter.  They have a lot more experience than we can fathom, but demons also behave like a bunch of middle school bullies on the playground at lunch.  Their tactics have not changed in the same 2000 years.

Let us make the middle school playground a parable so that we can visualize from a place of common understanding as we all traveled that nightmare in our own discombobulated way. One method to prevent the middle school bullies from taking over the playground is to not share with the middle school bullies who the real physical threat is should they try to make their intentions known when the teachers on lunch duty have their back turned. They’ll pick a fight with the new kid on the playground because the new kid in town must be taught who is in charge.

If they learn through reckless and unbridled tongues sending out words without discretion, the ever-listening ears of the minions of people being used by the bully’s informers and lackies will hear that the new kid in town is nothing like someone to be messed with.  The bully will change the tactics from pure strength and to social and use of the bureaucracy of the school administration. The opportunity to remove the bullies from the playground will be lost or will result in them setting a trap for the new kid that results in the new kid being removed from the playground and the resumption of the previous hierarchy of power.  If you’re reading this blog and following it, you’re the new kid on the playground. Talk less.  Listen more. One learns by listening, reading, and watching, not by talking. Questions help, but annoying questions are always annoying, and they can reveal a great deal about the one asking the question. The most glaring truth is that they didn’t do their homework, because had they done what was assigned, they would have already had their question answered.

Yes, I am also a new kid on the playground, even though I have been attacked by swarms of people my entire life, one time attacked by a single cowardly individual with a swarm of kids, because of the lackey informers inside the building, during lunch on the playground when the teacher on duty was clearly distracted.  I’ve also been attacked by swarms of people over e-mails and in phone calls recently because of COVID, only the recent stuff is the cult leader sending the swarms out in hopes of destroying me.  If you think it can’t happen to you after you start believing what is likely true, you’re already being deceived.  The forces of darkness will be dispatched quickly, and with overwhelming force should you decide you’d like to join the battle.  The battle my wife and I endured in our time going through the Rite of Catholic Initiation for Adults from Sept 2022 through April 2023 was like nothing we have ever experienced, and the previous two years were already doozies. It included an endless stream of beauty of God revealing his Church to us but sprinkled with some of the most brutal spiritual battles at each of the stages I have ever seen, and I have seen plenty to compare.

All those attacks in the past, and those who were there will recall are but a mere pittance compared to the last year of our lives.  Loose lips sink ships.  Operational Security is critical to mission success.  Idiots with matches are just as dangerous as arsonists.  Repeat offender idiots with matches are actually really well trained arsonists, and we don’t learn of their true identity until they have set many fires and left a path of destruction in their wake that only becomes visible to the masses after the work of the trained investigators.  Please don’t be an idiot with matches.

So how do I validate the messenger? I find that the same stream of words provided appear multiple times in the day I first heard it and the days following.  The words also apply concretely and perfectly to the first situation that the words were revealed and then proceed to apply in an identical fashion to a multitude of situations.  The “Go back to where it all started” has turned into a layer cake I have yet to have a frame of reference that can equally compare. I felt called to ask my wife to go with me to a game store in the mall where I came across the supply of lava lamps I have never seen in this store and to attend a presentation of the Stations of the Cross put on by the youth of our church during the season of lent. This is the first time we have attended this, and for mysterious reasons had been prevented from attending the previous two Fridays.  She begrudgingly agreed, because she had finally been able to settle in on a Friday for the weekend, which was going to be one with rain and snow intermittently.  The enemy attacks her through the physical often, especially in seeking to prevent something glorious from happening. The symptoms resolve every single time after the glory starts revealing itself. She becomes aware of it most of the time, but sometimes it takes longer for her to break through the barrier the enemy has built around her.

It was strange watching her reaction to the lava lamp.  She accidentally broke my lava lamp I had bought in Frankfurt Germany in 1996 after she joined me in Germany in December 1997 after we were married in November.  It was important to me.  I was disappointed by it, but nothing like angry.  It had a European electrical plug, so it would have been rendered useless here anyway. She had no idea how to even fathom my response. She waited for me to get blazingly angry at her or something and when I didn’t have the response, she had come to expect for reasons I am not fully aware, it perplexed her.  It was a silly lamp to me.  Nothing more, but for some reason, that event lingered around my head. I know it lingered around in hers much deeper.  It was also the first in a 25-year journey of her accidentally breaking things of mine.  It would seem like carelessness, but now I understand that to be the same forces of darkness trying to destroy our marriage, by starting a fight, but also by keeping her in a perpetual state of fear of my disappointment of the news of something I value being broken by her actions.  This is actually another epiphany right now as I process and type this.

We purchased the $40 lava lamp quite quickly in the store and left.  We chose this lamp together. I had actually said, I want to replace the one that was broken. She nodded in a strange agreement that doesn’t happen often in this manner. It also fit perfectly into the whole epiphany, “Go back to where it all started” as I only just now process the tactics of the enemy that have existed in my home to try and destroy my wife by her clumsiness, which can reach epic proportions, in that it keeps her in a perpetual state of fear of disappointment caused for me.

I can literally feel our entire interaction shifting right now as she is surfing her Instagram and brings up a bank failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the ensuing conversation while staring at the lava lamp bubbling in the corner.  This is the largest bank failure in the United States with 175 billion dollars. Much of their money was not insured by the FDIC but was backed by overseas deposits.  They raised a ton of cash during COVID going from 60 billion prior to COVID to nearly 209 billion in total assets two years later. It is being compared to Washington Mutual in 2008, that was limited to individuals, SVB is not about individuals, but about businesses, with nearly all of their deposits exceeding the FDIC limit of $250,000.

WTH just happened?… This. Is. How. The fall starts… the house of cards is about to collapse… Wanna read this and delay your relationship with God? We are in a time of consequential choices like never before. Foreign deposits… China… the CCP just started the next phase of the build-up of their war: the financial collapse of the tech capital of the Silicon Valley. The tactics of the CCP against the United States are discernable through a lens of envy of a country by those in the highest positions of the government.  Their spiritual identity is also critically important.  Ask yourself what the spiritual identity is of a head of a country when the people put on dragon costumes and dance and parade through the streets. It’s described as veneration of a dragon when the people put on a costume to perform for the pleasure of the ruler. Do the math.

Expect the headlines in the coming days to have plenty of evidence of the CCP boasting in the amazing economic recovery of China’s tech sector as they begin to deploy their Global Psychological Operation infrastructure with the goal of stealing the belief tha the Silicon Valley in the United States is the tech capital of the world to that of the world having their beliefs changed to think the China is really the true capital of tech for the world.  Piracy of hearts and minds of the planet.  There’s another epiphany related to this particular choice of words that happened while my wife and I were on one of the most beautiful weekend excursions we have ever had, that included one of the worst fights we have ever had, that occurred the night before our Rite of Acceptance into the Catholic Church, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

Yup. It’s that fragging big.  Suffice to say these epiphany of streams of thought that I try to describe as “I heard from the heavens” are nothing like small. I have learned to get really quiet and let God reveal what He wants when they happen. This is one of likely dozens or more that have happened the last two years.

Have a blessed day.  Thank you for your perseverance.

Logging out,

Poor Fellow Soldier of Christ

Numbers 6:24-26 – The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace

PS – File in your brain, April 13, 2024.  The day our lives were changed forever, as stated on Star Trek Picard I’m watching while going back through and editing the material.