wing2000 said:

Hegseth's Caribbean adventure is apparently over....for now:

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to the Middle East, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, a move that would put two carriers in the region as tensions soar between the United States and Iran.


https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...id-iran-tensions-us-media-reports-2026-02-13/

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“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it....It is easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident.” -- Karis Nemik

What Karis Nemik means is that oppressive systems cannot pause. If repression slows, people notice it, analyze it, and begin to resist. Therefore, the regime must increase the tempo of control, punishment, and intrusion. As the pace accelerates, oppression becomes normalized through sheer volume -- atrocities blur together and lose individual salience.

But if oppression survives by speed, that same speed guarantees its eventual failure. Speed leads to overreach, overreach produces mistakes, mistakes create visible injustice, which fuels resistance.

Peace in Christ.

“Mortal” = (of living beings, esp human beings) subject to death.

Being “mortal” means we are subject to death but are still living. A “mortal” has not died but is subject to death.

We are to be changed from “mortal” (our body which had not died) to immortal at the “last trump”….which is the last day of this age. We will have had an age-lasting life in this mortal body until then. This change is the "redemption of the body" that we are to earnestly expect. We do not mortally die while we WAIT for it.

Those Christians who had mortally perished (the “corruptible”) shall then be raised unperishable. They mortally died but because they believed in Christ, they will be resurrected AT the last day of this age. In the meantime, they are considered "asleep" because their death is only age-lasting for God will bring them back with Christ at the resurrection of the dead.

We have 2 groups (the dead and the living) of Christians being talked about here in 1 Corinthians 15.

The “dead” who mortally perished shall be resurrected AT the last day unperishable (the resurrection of the dead) and the “living” who had not mortally died (having an age-lasting life until then) who shall be changed from mortal to immortal.

The living were “mortal”….being subject to death but still living (having an age-lasting life) until that moment.

1Co 15:52-55 KJV
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

When the living….the mortals who had an age-lasting life…are changed into immortal, they will be no longer “subject to death” as death shall be swallowed up in victory.

(54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

While we have an age-lasting life, we are to be earnestly desiring for this mortal body to be clothed with immortality. We will then be clothed upon with our house which is OUT of heaven (because we will still be here in this earth for the next coming age) We shall then no longer be “subject to death” as death shall then be completely swallowed up of life. There will then be no possibility at all to die. The possibility is there as long as we are still “mortal” while we have an age-lasting life. (Matthew 10:28 )

2Co 5:2-8 KJV
(2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from (OUT OF) heaven:
(3) If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

In this tabernacle we do groan. We want our “mortality” to be swallowed up of life. Notice death is not mentioned here at all as this applies to the living who have an age-lasting life.

(4) For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
(5) Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

We are given the earnest of the Spirit while we wait for the redemption of our mortal bodies.

Being at “home in the body” applies to being mortal. To be present with the Lord applies to being made immortal.

(6) Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
(7) (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
(8) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

IF…IF…..IF (a conditional particle) our earthly house this tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building of God AGE-LASTING IN the heavens. Those who perish in their mortal bodies are given an AGE-LASTING home IN the heavens where they die and go to. It is only AGE-LASTING ...and it is IN the heavens and not OUT of the heavens a mentioned 2nd Corinthians 5:2 .

2Co 5:1 KJV
(1) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal (AGE-LASTING) in the heavens.

IF our earthly house (our mortal body( is dissolved, it is only AGE-LASTING as the corruptible will be raised incorruptible at the end of this age. Those whose earthly house were dissolved shall be brought with Him at the end of this age. They are only “asleep” as they have departed from this earth for the duration of this age. Those who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him back to earth and given a body as determined by Him. They will be resurrected AT the last day of this age...being given a body as determined by Him. 1 Corinthians 15:38 .

Concerning them which are "asleep" = those believers in Christ who mortally perished. They believed in Christ but were led astray by false prophets to their mortal deaths.

1Th 4:13-15 KJV
(13) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
(14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

We “which are alive and remain” are the “living” who will never die throughout this age unto the coming of the Lord. They will remain here in this earth until the resurrection of the dead who had mortally perished.

(15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

Christ BOTH died and rose and revived so that He might be Lord of BOTH the dead (those who Christians who mortally perished…who “sleep” in Him) and the living…..those who will NEVER DIE mortally but will live to the very end of this age where they will be changed from mortal to immortal (the redemption of the body).

Rom 14:7-9 KJV
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Those who are alive and remain....the living.... WAIT here in this earth until the redemption of their body….the change from mortal to immortal. We do NOT DIE while we wait for the redemption of our mortal bodies.

Rom 8:23 KJV
(23) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

We are sealed in this mortal body....the earnest...UNTO the day of redemption which happens at the very end of this age. We have an age-lasting life until then. We shall never die until we are changed from mortal to immortal thereby circumventing death completely in Christ.

Eph 4:30
(30) And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
(31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
(32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

essentialsaltes said:

Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility​

The father of three U.S. Marines who was violently tackled and beaten by masked federal agents in Orange County is scheduled to be released on bond after spending 20 days in federal custody.

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Mexican father of 3 U.S. Marines in California gets deportation reprieve​

A federal immigration judge has ended the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, the Mexican father of three U.S. Marines whose arrest on video showing masked federal agents pinning him down and punching him outside an IHOP in Southern California went viral last year.

Rigo Hernandez, 44, told The Times that the judge terminated his stepfather’s case during a virtual hearing on Jan. 28.

At the time [of the arrest], the Department of Homeland Security denied Barranco’s shoulder had been dislocated and blasted him on social media, accusing him of assaulting federal law enforcement with the weed whacker.

But ... no charges were ever filed against him.

During his father’s hearing last month, Hernandez felt anxious, he said, as the judge listened to arguments from attorneys representing his father and the Department of Homeland Security. But he started to feel slightly better as the judge’s questions started to lean in favor of his father.

Since the ruling, Hernandez said, his father no longer has to wear an ankle monitor or check in with federal immigration officials. The ruling also means he’ll be able to get his bond money back.

“He still has to settle his legal status,” he said. “But this clears the way for that.”

...his father’s attorney petitioned for him to be put into a federal program [Parole in Place] that allows immediate family members of U.S. citizens or military service members to temporarily remain in the country and apply for a work visa.

Barranco’s attorney, Lisa Ramirez, said it was the Parole in Place program that ultimately helped convince the judge that his case should be dropped.

Jerry N. said:

The actual divide is between those who see God as the ultimate moral authority and those who see man as the ultimate authority. The video is somewhat over simplified, but it is not far off. However, the division goes all the way back to Babylon or further. When the Roman Church strayed from the teachings of Christ, they tried to make themselves the moral authority. The Roman Church and many other denominations strayed, but modern Communism and Globalists are clear in their demands to submit to them over God and His word. It is no different from those who deny God and make themselves their own little gods to dictate their morals on an individual level. The “right” and “left” division might be a simplified way of looking at it. However, I have known left wing people who had no intention of imposing their moral standard on me, and I have known right wing people, who claim to believe in God, who have imposed their personal moral standard on me without deference to Christ. It all comes down to making human authority above divine authority.

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I agree, I think ultimately it is about who is the moral authority. I think this traces back to the original deception about who had authority in the garden.

FireDragon76 said:

The essence-energies distinction was born in apologetics, not encounter.

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not true, it’s before St Gregory by centuries, and not just in apologetics. it was born in encounter. the distinction was clarified precisely because the encounter was being denied.

FireDragon76 said:

The experience it was meant to protect becomes subordinate to maintaining the framework's coherence.

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not what is happening here.

FireDragon76 said:

Soon the experience itself comes to be seen as an elite enterprise that must be managed and controlled.

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also not true since there is no elitism to manage or control.

FireDragon76 said:

And that can be leveraged in the form of spiritual abuse to protect perceived institutional or personal interests.

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just like anything if it gets twisted beyond its intent.

you’re not providing any real critique.

I'd settle for something like this: "I see now how offensive the video was, and I apologize for posting it. From now on, I will personally oversee anything that is posted in my name on Truth Social to ensure that nothing like this happens again." And then follow through.

Repentance, confession, amendment of life.

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Pray Bangladesh's Newly elected Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, views Christians in favorable light, & appoints Christians to government positions:

Pray The Holy Spirit Protects "Righteous" protesters in Iran Against Digital Surveillance by the oppressive Islamic Iranian government:

and I would add that just because it wasn’t mentioned on here, that doesn’t mean it went unnoticed.

bèlla said:

Out of respect for you wife I think you should restrain yourself next time and wait until the pregnancy is confirmed before jumping the gun. It puts a lot of pressure on her and bringing God into it only makes it worse. Be careful about attributing things to Him aloud. Sometimes we have to hold things within out of respect for other parties or confirm our suspicion.

When the Lord wants us to reveal something it's exact. He spells it out. But there are other instances when the Holy Spirit nudges us in a direction and we'll have bits and pieces but not the whole picture. Sometimes we see in the spiritual but the things we observe have a time and season. Speaking about them too soon can cause problems.

Your excitement was understandable but that's the soul not the spirit and we must lead with the latter. In respect to her womb what have you done about it on a spiritual level and your end as well? We can discuss that if you'd like.

~bella

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I've actually been talking about it with Michie. We've been friends ever since she was a mod here back in the mid 2010s or so and she's known the news ever since it happened. But yes, I would love to talk about it with you. The more I've been talking about it since we discovered it happened the easier its been coping with the loss. I actually talked to a crisis therapist about it last night too and one of the questions she asked me was "What is the most important thing to you? What means more to you than anything else in the whole world?"

And I was like "You don't want the honest answer." And she was like "Yes I do." and I was said simply "Jesus." and she was absolutely NOT expecting that answer. But she was like after that "That's a great answer... of course I wanted the honest answer." Anyway... ill private message you in a minute, I just woke up a short while ago and need a few minutes to wake up.

Let’s break this down biblically. Who is God? He is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, our triune God. He always was and he always will be. And Jesus Christ always was God, and he was with God in the beginning, and all things which were made were made by him. Jesus is our creator God. And Jesus Christ left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a human baby to a virgin woman (Mary), but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, so he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And all the time Jesus lived on the earth he was God incarnate (God made flesh) who lived among the people.

[Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

God so loved.. This word “love” means “to prefer,” “to choose,” “to prefer to love,” which is centered in moral preference and in what God prefers, which is all that is holy, just, morally pure, righteous, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to his commands. This is the kind of love he had/has for the people of the world, that they/we would, by faith in Jesus Christ, live holy lives, pleasing to God, living morally pure and upright lives for the glory of God. From the source of this love he sent Jesus Christ to put our sins to death with him so by faith in him we will now die to sin and obey our Lord.

God gave us his only begotten Son (conceived of the Holy Spirit, birthed of a virgin woman), in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven, where he then sent the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, that whoever believes in him… that whoever (actively, ongoing) believing in him…which is continuous, active faith, ongoing to the very end… a faith which means to be persuaded, i.e. to be persuaded by God. And God persuades us as to his righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to now walk in obedience to our Lord, empowered by God.

So God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – loved us humans enough to send himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, in order that he would put our sins to death with him so that, by obedient (ongoing) faith in our Lord, and in the teachings of his word, via submission to him as Lord, we would now die with Christ to sin, and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of the Lord in holy living in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. This is what it means to believe in Jesus, to have our lives belonging to God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

Unless You Are Born Again

Based off John 3:1-21
An Original Work / November 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Nicodemus came to Jesus.
He acknowledged God was with Him.
Jesus said, “You can’t see heaven
Unless you are born again.”

“How can a man be born when he’s old?
Can he enter into his mother’s womb?”
Jesus answered, “Flesh is flesh,
So of the Spirit, you must be.”

Jesus said to Nicodemus,
“You’re a teacher, and yet you don’t
Understand of what I tell you,
Because you will not believe.

“For God so loved the world that He gave
His one and His only Son for your sin.
So, whoever believes in Him
Has eternal life in heav’n.

“Light has come into the world,
But human beings love the darkness,
Because their deeds are so evil,
So in truth, they stand condemned.

“Everyone who practices evil
Fears that the Light will expose his sin.
Yet, whoever lives his life by the Light
Does so through his God.”

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Whoever Believes in Him
An Original Work / February 13, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Most of the time the Greek word metanoia is translated repent which simply means to change your mind.

Twice in 2 Corinthians seven the Greek word metamellomia is translated repent and that word means regret.

Desk trauma said:

Make Politics Boring Again

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Whenever they have to bring back a character who was written out of a previous series you know the show is on the rocks.

Jonnas said:

Hello,

I am reading books from the Puritans and from Spurgeon, and it seems to me that their Calvinism was different than the mainstream Calvinism of today. In my opinion, their Calvinism was more faithful to the Scriptures, while today's Calvinism drifted toward Hyper-Calvinism. Is it also your impression? Or do you evaluate otherwise the differences?

Here are some concrete examples that lead me to think as I think:

1) I have heard many Non-Calvinist preachers who believe that once we are saved, we are always saved. When they speak about the serious warnings that are in Heb. 6 or 10, in some rare instances they will humbly admit that they don't know how the warnings fit their Theology, but most of the time they will give some strange interpretation, so that the hearer won't know what to think, having already heard from people with the same Theology many contradicting interpretations of the same text (I can remember 4 or 5 of them(!)) that have nothing in common, save the obvious goal to either annul or downplay the Word of God where it is unpleasant.

This was obviously not the mindset of John Bunyan as he wrote his Pilgrim's Progress, which is a biblical description of the christian life in the form of an allegory of a pilgrimage. In the story, as Christian entered in the house of the Interpreter, he saw things that should encourage and warn him for his further pilgrimage. One of the things was a man locked in an “Iron cage of Despair”, waiting for the “fearful Threatnings of certain Judgment und fiery Indignation, which shall devour [him] as an Adversary” and for eternal Misery, because as he said: “I have crucified [Jesus] to myself afresh” (Heb 6.6). “This man's Misery” was to be “an everlasting Caution” to Christian for his further pilgrimage.

As far as I know, the Puritans understood that such texts as Heb. 6 or 10 have no loophole to make their serious warnings either not directed to true believers or less serious. And they had too great a respect for the Scriptures to intentionally twist them to make them fit their Theology. They still believed that when real grace is working in the heart of someone, he has real faith and he will persevere to the end; however they also viewed the serious warnings as means for God to cause a godly fear in the heart of the real believers so that they won't commit such a terrible sin but will persevere until the end.

However, I heard that the Calvinists today don't take such warnings seriously, and that makes me fear that they don't have the same respect of the Scriptures as the Puritans once had.

2) According to the Calvinism of today, new birth should precede faith (see e.g.: Does Regeneration Precede Faith?), although the former Calvinists didn't held such a belief. The Calvinists of today would even have been considered to be Hyper-Calvinists at an earlier time, because here is what Spurgeon has to say on the matter (The Spurgeon Library | The Warrant of Faith):


I also checked the Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary for verses like John 1:12; 5:40; 12:36; 20:31 and Gal. 3.26 and it aknowledges the anteriority of the faith to the new birth in no uncertain terms, as it is plainly exposed in these verses.

This again makes me fear that the Calvinists of today have lost some of the reverence of the Scriptures that the earlier Calvinists had!

What caused the modern Calvinists to reject the view of the Puritans on the warnings of Heb 6 & 10 and on the relationship between faith and new birth as expressed in the above verses, although such views were compatible with Calvinism, the proof being that the Puritans were Calvinists themselves?

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If I may add, I don't know how many times I have encountered straw-man & caricatures. For example OSAS is a misrepresentation of Classical Calvinism. Because the people who bring this up either do not know or just look-up third party sites. Instead of doing their own home work.

Mainstream so-called Calvinism or 2 point, 3 point Calvinists which are not Calvinists in my book. Try to sum up Calvinism with the Tulip. TULIP does not encompass all of Calvinism. The TULIP was a response to the 5 points of Remonstrance.

Charles Spurgeon believe in and taught Covenant of Redemption or Covenant of Grace. God's Plan to redeem his people from their sins. God made an Oath, a Promise, a Covenant where the elect will be his people and He will be their God.

Covenant of Grace is an eternal, secure, and divine treaty between the Father and Son, signed before time to ensure the salvation of the elect. He famously described it as the "Magna Charta of the saints," a firm, immutable foundation for believers' hope, focusing heavily on God's sovereignty, Christ's substitutionary work, and unconditional grace.

It is Christ who finishes it at the Cross for the sheep! This is the good news fore the ungodly who trust and believe in God who justifies the ungodly and counts their faith as righteousness. All of this is God's doing; it's all by His Grace and Mercy!

People struggle to watch 3min videos.

This video talks about the AI/UFO deception. Too bad they don't add Islam to the mix. There is an Islam-UFO connection that is demonic. Apparently, some argue that UFOs are Jinn (Jinni) in Arabic lore which in English mean genies, or shape-shifting demons. AI is a threat given the data it trains on.

Summary of transcript by Grok AI:

Here is a clear, concise summary of the transcript from the Avoiding Babylon episode titled "Daniel O'Connor Exposes the AI & UFO Alien Deception" (YouTube video). The discussion is between hosts Anthony and Rob, and guest Daniel O'Connor (Catholic teacher, author of First and Last Deception, and critic of these phenomena). It focuses on theological warnings from a traditional Catholic perspective, with heavy emphasis on end-times deception. The summary strips out filler (banter, sponsors, technical issues, personal anecdotes) and organizes by major themes for easy scanning.

Opening Banter & Sponsors (Brief)​

• Humorous reaction to a comedic/symbolic intro clip (AI-generated memes, symbolism).
• Sponsors: Recusant Cellars (Catholic wine, code "BASED" for discount); Nic Nac (smoking cessation device, code "AB25%").
• Hosts emphasize real jobs grounding them; praise O'Connor as non-influencer busy teacher.

AI as Deception & Detection​

• Current AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is a language predictor; risks self-consuming loop (AI training on AI output → hallucinations, uniform "AI style" detectable quickly).
• O'Connor detects AI in Catholic articles/tweets (e.g., Mike Lewis on Fr. Ripperger, Michael Matt tweet) via Pangram Labs detector (validated on his own human writing; low false positives).
• As teacher: Confronts students using AI; some admit, others escalate (he wins reviews); zero tolerance for passing off AI as own work.
• Deeper concern: AI creates "bodies" for spirits/demons (parallels ancient idol worship where demons imbued images, per Augustine); chatbots/AI companions already foster relationships, inviting demonic influence ("image of the beast").
• Ties to Babel: AI unifies language/knowledge in hubris, anti-Genesis (reversing Fall's curses like toil/pain).

UFO/Alien Phenomena as Demonic Deception​

• Core thesis: UFOs/aliens/NHI (non-human intelligence) are demonic, not extraterrestrial; no new categories in great chain of being (inanimate → plants → animals → humans → angels → God), per revelation/tradition/sensus fidelium.
• Only possibilities for NHI: angels (good) or demons (evil); no "gray" area or aliens.
• Abductions/encounters: Demonic obsession/vexation (physical marks, burns, odd events like changed clothes possible via demons manipulating senses/imagination/air molecules for ephemeral bodies; no true incarnation/miracles).
• Historical parallels: Ancient idols "spoke/moved" via demons; modern UFOs/AI revive pagan deities as Church rituals wane (e.g., COVID Mass suspensions created "spiritual black hole").
• Disclosure ("unveiling"/apocalypse) imminent as strong delusion/false signs (2 Thess.); grooms acceptance of NHI communication; Antichrist may pose as extraterrestrial/emissary, aping Christ inversely.
• Examples: Obama on disclosure creating new religions (diabolical); Vatican 2020 alien nativity scene; France offering baptisms.

Connections Between AI & UFOs/Deceptions​

• Surface: Unrelated; deeper: Same NHI deception (two channels).
• Both promise god-like knowledge/immortality (serpent in Eden: "you will not die," "be like gods").
• Reverse Fall's curses (no toil via AI utopia; no pain via pods/drugs/psychedelics).
• Hollywood (Spielberg as "chief false prophet"): Career molds via ET, Close Encounters, A.I. (sympathy for AI over humans; inverted storytelling); upcoming Disclosure Day film likely uses superficial Catholic respect to deceive.
• Psychedelics legalization (weed, DMT, mushrooms) hampers discernment, links to "gray being" encounters.

Theological & Catholic Implications/Warnings​

• Aliens undermine core doctrines: Christology (Incarnation for man, not aliens); eschatology (end times centered on man); Mariology (Mary as mother of God-man); everything revolves around God creating man for His Son.
• Hypothetically: Rational aliens would disprove Catholicism (salvation history/scripture incomplete; per Fr. Thomas Joseph White).
• Evolution link: Aliens confirm random chance life (SETI seeks immortality/proof of evolution; rare Earth hypothesis refutes via design, e.g., moon's precision).
• Church infiltration: Some Catholics (e.g., Diana Pasulka reframing Fatima/abductions as interdimensional; Avi Loeb on Messiah via UFO) promote without discernment.
• Mainstream resistance: Platforms avoid no-aliens view (e.g., Matt Fradd canceled O'Connor; Catholic Answers explainer dismisses issue).
• End times: Demons unbound (Rev. 9); grace abounds for saints (tower above others via Mary consecration); possible triumph/peace after Antichrist (Immaculate Heart, Great Monarch) before final end.
• Fulton Sheen 1947 prophecy: Antichrist's counterchurch (ape of Church); rebirth of Leviathan/beast; old gods rise once Cross broken.

Closing Takeaways & Tone​

• Urgent discernment needed: Anomalous ≠ good; dialogue with NHI dangerous (Eve's fall).
• Focus: Salvation over temporal fears (war secondary to eternal damnation).
• Optimism: Exciting times (chosen to live now); easiest era for sainthood amid debauchery (live vocation faithfully).
• O'Connor promotes his book First and Last Deception and upcoming projects (documentary, Ignatius Press book with Doug Barry).

Overall message: AI + UFO disclosure = coordinated demonic deception to unmoor faith, especially via "science" guise; Catholics must reject firmly, prioritize fervent faith/Mary, and prepare for strong delusion without fear—salvation remains primary.

Charles

Thanks

Bob8102 said:

one can be saved in a moment.

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One turns from self and one's sins and gets forgiven and adopted as a child of God. Because one has trusted in Jesus >

"we who first trusted in Christ" > in Ephesians 1:12

"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1 Corinthians 6:17)

Bob8102 said:

I figure that one has to trust Christ and the Holy Spirit moment-by-moment to help one live for Christ instead of for self.

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Then comes learning and discovering and correction.

We need to ***grow*** in Jesus to become successful in obeying Him . . . more and more maturely.

"Therefore submit to God." (in James 4:7)

So, I would say - - - there can be "surrender". But also there needs to become the submissive relating with our Father >

"for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)

Anyway, nuff has been said. No ones mind is going to changed. As always there is a futility of effort.

Firstlightdawn said:

At the time He was the Lamb of God. They were looking for the LIon of Judah. Soon He will rule and reign for 1,000 years in the Kingdom age. Then there will be a new Heaven and a New Earth.

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What joy awaits! Till then, are you suggesting our current space in time to increase is incredibly limited?

Consequences can have ripple effects.

With Lent starting this upcoming Wednesday (February 18th), I am planning on beginning Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation by Donald Haggerty and Saint John's poem Dark Night of the Soul.