Tell the Church to Spread it

It’s amazing that, 2000 years after the crucifixion, virtually no one knows anything about the spirit of antichrist.

God showed me a lot of things about this spirit. If he hadn’t, I, too, would still be wallowing in remarkable ignorance.

Almost everyone thinks the prefix “anti” means “against.” It’s not that simple. It also means “instead of.” Not the same thing.

It makes sense if you think about it. Think of presidential elections. One party nominates a candidate, and the other party nominates an alternative. “Vote for our man instead of the other guy.” If the candidates were simply against each other, they wouldn’t have to run. You can be against a presidential candidate without suggesting an alternative. Lee Harvey Oswald was against JFK, but he didn’t want to be president.

The history of the world has been one long election cycle. There are two candidates: Yeshua (God) and Satan. Most people vote for Satan. As my wife says, “Satan always gets the popular vote.”

Voters are little judges. We sit in judgment, and candidates plead their cases before us. Each of us renders a verdict. This is how it works in earthly elections and also in the election between Yeshua and Satan.

While I’m at it, “election” doesn’t always mean a process by which a group of people chooses a leader. It just means “choice.” When you pick a blue shirt instead of a green one, it’s an election.

What do candidates do in elections? They spread information about themselves and their opposition. Sometimes the information is correct, and sometimes it’s lies.

Yeshua tells us Satan created lying and disease and every other curse, and that he persuades human beings to accept damnation. He tells us we can have salvation, love, peace, joy, victory, healing, and all sorts of other good things if we choose him and the Holy Spirit. Everything he says is true.

Satan says Yeshua doesn’t exist. He says he, himself, doesn’t exist. He says there are no spirits. He says there are all sorts of spirits that are better than Yeshua. He says there is no hell. He says hell exists, but you only go there if you’re a murderer or a rapist or something similar. He says there is no afterlife. He says everyone goes to heaven. He makes all sorts of inconsistent claims, and foolish people choose the ones they like.

It’s very important to realize that Satan says the following things, which are not true:

1. Jews cause all the world’s problems.
2. Christians cause all the world’s problems.
3. The God of Christians and Jews is hateful and cruel.
4. If we get rid of Jews and Christians, things finally be wonderful. The whole world will be like Eden.

When the church was born, Satan told the Jews lie number 2, and their leaders believed it, so they went about imprisoning and murdering other Jews who believed in Yeshua. These were the only “Christians” at the time. Virtually everyone who believed in Yeshua was Jewish. Jews didn’t persecute gentiles. They persecuted other Jews. Gentiles–pagans–were not interested in persecuting believers in Yeshua at this time. That happened later.

Eventually, the knowledge of Yeshua spread among gentiles. It happened because the Jews who made up the early church gave up on convincing other Jews Yeshua was God and the Messiah. Most Jews wanted nothing to do with Yeshua, and their leaders did things like flogging and stoning the Jews who tried to spread the gospel, which was completely Jewish. The Jews who spread the gospel started concentrating on converting pagans.

In time, Jews were outnumbered by Christians, most of whom were gentiles. Satan told these Christians lie number 1, and many of them believed it, so they murdered, tortured, imprisoned, and exiled Jews.

In both cases–antichristian and antisemitic persecutions–the spirit of antichrist was at work. He is responsible for both antisemitism and the persecution of Christians, and if he can get Christians and Jews to do his work, which he often does, it’s just icing on the cake. Nothing is better than dividing your enemies and getting them to kill each other while you take it easy.

Satan wants to get rid of Jews for several reasons. He used to be against them because prophecy said a Jew–the Messiah–would destroy his kingdom. Another reason: God loves Abraham very much, and he promised great things for the children of Jacob. Even if the Jews have rejected the Messiah, they are still important to God, and many of them will turn to Yeshua during the tribulation, so they have an important part to play in the future of the world.

God is against the enemies of the Jews. He says anyone who harms them touches the pupil of his eye. He is against Christians who are persecute Jews, just as he is against anyone who persecutes Christians.

Satan wants to get rid of Christians–real ones–because we spread the gospel and take people out of his hands. We work to destroy his kingdom. Like the Jews, we also appear in prophecies that haven’t been fulfilled yet, and Satan wants to prevent prophecy from coming true.

Right now, we are seeing amazing progress in Satan’s war against good. He is doing extremely well, mostly by lying, because lying is efficient and easy. He is gaslighting everyone who doesn’t know the Holy Spirit, and that probably amounts to over 99% of human beings.

If you don’t know the Holy Spirit, you will persist in believing extremely harmful lies. You may think Yeshua was just a magician, or that he can’t be the Messiah because the Messianic Age is still in the future. You may think Yeshua and Satan are brothers and that God revealed a new scheme of salvation to a charlatan named Joseph Smith. You may believe human beings can choose their sexes and genders. You may think it’s totally normal for one man to have sex with another man’s filthy anus, which is patently ridiculous.

If you don’t know the Holy Spirit, finding the truth is impossible. You may get bits and pieces of it, but you’ll believe things that may eventually destroy you.

The Holy Spirit is the good counterpart of the spirit of antichrist.

The Holy Spirit aligns you with God, regardless of what people around you push you to believe and do. He works in individuals. The spirit of antichrist aligns you with human beings. It works in mobs and nations.

If you crave popularity, you belong to the spirit of antichrist. Real Christians are never popular. If you belong to a huge church everyone loves, you may be going to hell.

The Catholic church is an example of an antichrist church. Describing it can help people understand the concept of antichrist. Catholicism provides false, Satanic alternatives to Yeshua. It promotes the crazy idea that Mary never, ever had sex, even though the Bible shows that Yeshua had at least 4 blood siblings. It promotes Mary as a being conceived without sex, and it tells people to pray to her instead of God. It promotes a lot of other dead people as gods. You pray to their statues to get what you want.

Mary was a sinner, just like you. Just like Moses and Elijah. She had sex. Her parents had sex. She can’t save anyone, because her blood was never pure enough. Only the blood of Yeshua saves, because only Yeshua was subjected to all types of temptation and never sinned.

This morning I realized my aunt has a serious antichrist spirit. She craves admiration. She adores celebrities. Her life is all about validation from other human beings.

I wrote about her this week. I said she liked to make up grandiose lies about herself and her ordinary kids and grandchildren in order to impress other people. She wants to make people feel bad for having less, and she also wants their admiration, which is ironic, since her behavior makes people look down on her.

She went to a Neil Diamond concert. She sat in front. Neil Diamond knelt on the stage and sang to her for a minute. He was sweating. She touched his forehead and then licked the sweat off her hand, showing she put human beings in God’s place of worship. She adored Elvis, who is in hell. She name-drops. These are all symptoms of a spirit of antichrist. This must be why she is so furious at me, and why she refuses to liquidate our family’s real estate 20 years after my last grandparent’s death. The spirit that rules her looks for ways to harass me.

My grandfather was a corrupt judge, and he made tons of money, partly through extortion. For example, he had a sheriff named Deaton block off a road belonging to the Falcon Coal Corporation, and Deaton told the company no coal was leaving until my grandfather got a contribution to his election campaign.

I loved my grandfather, and I was his favorite grandchild. I miss him. He was very good to me. He even bought two ponies I didn’t want, saying it would be worth it if I only rode one once. But he was what he was.

He had a lot of real estate, and people in my family think my aunt refuses to let all of it go because she thinks people admire his dynasty. They think she wants to bathe in his reflected glory, which dissipated 30 years ago. I think this is true. I think she would rather have cancer and be admired than be healthy and ignored.

My grandfather died almost 30 years ago. In all likelihood, most people where my aunt lives have no idea who he was. Doesn’t matter. A tiny percentage of my net worth remains tied up in what appears to be a sort of shrine.

Until today, I never thought about the spirit of antichrist in connection with her.

Antichrist people treat me strangely. Either they kiss my butt, or they abuse me for no reason. Sometimes they start out with the butt-kissing, and then the mask comes off and the abuse starts. My aunt has started abusing me. I have always been good to her, but she feels antipathy toward me anyway. That doesn’t make sense. When human behavior makes no sense, there is a supernatural cause. I think the spirit of antichrist turned her against me.

Should I say these things on a blog where there is some chance they could get back to her? I see no reason not to. I would say them to her directly. I am pretty much over the Southern curses of passive aggression and indirect speech.

Apart from a very short visit for my dad’s viewing, I haven’t been to Eastern Kentucky since 2007. It’s a rural ghetto full of backward racists who can’t control their emotions. It’s a place where anyone who tries to improve himself attracts hostility. There is nothing in Eastern Kentucky for decent people.

A long time ago, my relatives started having Thanksgiving and Christmas without my dad and me. We were not invited. On one occasion, during a phone call, my aunt started telling me what a great Thanksgiving she and my cousins had had, before she realized she was admitting we had been cut out.

I believe she chose money and possessions over me, and I see no hope of reconciliation. She is dying from Parkinson’s, so there isn’t much time for things to change.

I’m a Christian, so I don’t have much in common with her anyway.

She joined the Catholic church, which is not big in Kentucky. I can see why she joined. It’s all about the spirit of antichrist. It’s the “official” church. It has the fancy hats and robes. It has one of the world’s biggest celebrities, the socialist mid-IQ pope. It has the Vatican and the Renaissance art. It’s popular. It’s full of perverts in positions of authority. It promotes leftism. It lures people who crave society’s approval. It discourages contact with the Holy Spirit.

The most wonderful thing about Catholicism is that you can do whatever you want as long as you go to confession. You don’t have to repent. You just have to do penance, which is a joke. You can be a drug dealer. You can be a mobster. You can be in Congress and push for the murder of the unborn, and the pope will let you take communion.

Joining was a pretentious move, probably intended to make her look more sophisticated than the Baptists around her.

My mother was infatuated with Catholicism late in her life. Last night while my wife and I went through old things in order to clear out the house, I found a disturbing idol card featuring some old nut with a tonsure. We found some other idolatrous junk and put it in the trash.

I really hope my mother isn’t in hell, but women love pageantry and stained glass, and boy, do they love those popes. I warned her, but she seemed to have this feeling that the true church had to be the one with the cathedrals and nuns.

I can’t fix what I can’t fix. Once you’re dead, your fate is sealed forever, regardless of the nonsense Catholics teach. I can’t pray her out. I can’t buy her out. If she’s in hell, she belongs there, because she chose it, and there is nothing I will ever be able to do about it.

I don’t worry about it. My life is among the living, and I am trying to secure eternal life among the saved. I hope to see her in heaven, but if I don’t, I’ll still be among the people I should be with.

No one in heaven cries about the lost. Tears are for the earth and hell. Heaven can’t be heaven if the population consists of a tiny minority of human beings, nearly all of whom mourn perpetually for the remainder of humanity. Mothers in heaven don’t cry for their lost children. I guess they don’t remember them.

Things are going well here. My wife and I are having a truly wonderful time. The house is becoming orderly and spotless, room by room. We enjoy meals together. We spend a lot of time praying together. Today I took her to Bob Evans, Rural King, Bass Pro, and Target, so we are soaking up the rural American life. We both love it.

We don’t sit and nurse bitterness toward relatives who haven’t harmed us, or even toward the rest of our relatives, who are, sadly, pretty numerous. We don’t conspire to hold onto other people’s inheritances or bleed them to shore up our own children. We don’t worry about what people think of my obscure, long-dead grandparents or their wealth or legacy. We don’t post stuff on Facebook, hoping random people we have no reason to respect will admire us.

We are busy enjoying each other’s love and building a future.

She feels like she has lived here her whole life. I feel as though she had moved in 20 years ago. I won’t make predictions, but things are great right now.

When our paperwork comes together, we are going to take my grandfather’s last name, and I feel like naming our mixed-race son, if any, after him. I’m glad I won’t be a fly on the wall when certain relatives of mine hear about that.