I don’t think my sporadic bouts of illness have much to do with my health (though I am delighted to have most of my bodily systems booted back up after my recent bout with Covid). Rather, I think health issues are one of the leashes, prods, and canes God uses to direct and guide my way.
My most vivid image of my relationship with God is that I am His faithful German Shepherd. (I had one of the greatest dogs in history – a floppy-eared German Shepherd…hence, the image). I am ferociously loyal and will aggressively defend the Master’s honor against all attacks. I am a good dog in His service. But I am a dog – and my doggy nature can get the better of me. I will be on track and then get distracted by a rabbit or, (dare I say it?) a squirrel and go veering off in the wrong direction.
Much of the time when the Lord applies a restraint to me, it is not because I am not trying to do the right thing, but because I am trying to do the right thing in the wrong way. As I have repeated often, God’s ways are not man’s ways. He is smooth while, compared to Him, our ninjas are bumbling. Our greatest shrewdness is folly in His eyes. We are so proud of our stumbling, bumbling ways – thinking them to be elegant refinement – that we easily find ourselves wallowing in self-will run amok without even realizing it.
Going forward with this, I will be getting into some of my direct, plain interactions with heavenly beings. I do not expect (or even much care for) you to take those at face value, but it is useful for you to understand how I think on these things – and may well provide you important food for contemplation in your own life.
On the one hand, I am ecstatic about the way things are going in America and in the world. Decades ago, I was shown what victory would look like when it began. This is what it looks like. I know most people have an image of a light switch, going from dark to light in one quick flicker. That has NEVER been the way it would come. People do not understand how deep the rot is, including in their own hearts, however pious they think themselves to be. Let me tell you how things are progressing from my perspective.
First, the anti-God left is a dead man walking. In America, the attempted judicial coups, the rioting of leftists, the obstruction by leftist office-holders are mere speed bumps on the course back to foundational American political values. For all their shrieking, violence, and street theater, they are utterly doomed. By the mercy of God, they may still repent and be saved, but many have drifted too far from God to ever hear Him call, too obsessed with the mirrored cultural idols they have erected to worship themselves. Honest people must be protected from their violent tantrums, but they have become irrelevant in the larger scheme of things – so much froth in the water as the ship of state corrects course. Those Bishops and Priests who have busied themselves trying to remake the Church in their own paltry image instead of worshipping at the majestic image of God are only further revealing and discrediting themselves. It truly would be better for them if they had never been born. Unless they repent – which their pride has made them almost incapable of – they are already lost. For all their pretentious, ponderous, pronouncements, they are already irrelevant, too.
The challenges we face this year are not, primarily, for those who are already irrelevant. Rather, they are for us…for we are not the people we should be. We, the faithful, have become deeply and smugly self-satisfied in our little pieties, without exercising even a smidgeon of the courage that the early Christians lived on a daily basis. God is calling us to be robustly vigorous men and courageously nurturing women rather than the whimpering simps we often become when faced with real conflict.
Did you honestly expect that this year was going to be less violent than the last few? Did you expect that the demonically crazed lunatics we have cultivated would just say, “Never mind,” like some old Saturday Night Live skit and go quietly away? That sure is not what I have been telling you all along. In most cases, you do not have to go and wage conflict with the loons; you simply have to unwaveringly stand your ground. How many people, in the face of the violent rioting by the left over ICE doing its jobs, over cuts to waste and fraud in government spending, and performative protests over well, literally everything designed to restabilize American society, have wanted to trim their sails and go back to the status quo?
After 46 years of waging a simmering war against us, killing well over a thousand Americans and opening every day of its legislature with chants of, “Death to America,” while publicly pledging to rule the entire world in the name of Allah, destroying first Israel and the Jews as prerequisite to destroying the “Great Satan,” America, Iran has finally been humbled by a president willing to strike hard, fast, and decisively to protect Americans and American interests. Yet how many people and officials whine that now it may unleash sleeper cells in America or strike back militarily? How many Americans per year being senselessly slaughtered should we allow before defending America? Are we mere game wardens who set an acceptable bag limit on how many innocent Americans Iran is allowed to kill each year without consequence? Is that the status quo some really want to go back to?
When you allow evil to grow and fester among you, it does not go quietly when you decide you have had enough. If you turn from the task as soon as it strikes back, you really have not had enough – and you are advocating to let it grow and fester until eventually black death holds sway over all. Of course it is going to strike back as it is banished! But it is our timidity and commitment to avoiding conflict at all costs that allowed sleeper cells to gather and evil regimes to gain strength. I say it was a sin – and the people we allowed to be destroyed without consequence is a shameful stain on who we are called to be.
Now many Christians (and more than a few conservatives) are treating Israel as a pariah, foolishly thinking that if Israel just weren’t there, there would be peace. What awful and foolish lengths we go to to absolve ourselves of responsibility for what we and our cowardice have wrought! Jihadist Islam has been attacking Christianity and the west for longer than it has Jews. Do you just ignore that Jihadist Islam always calls us the “Great Satan”? Israel and the Jews are just the prerequisites it has to destroy before getting down to the main course of action – destroying us. Israel has been doing our dirty work for us for several generations – and we are starting to treat her with the contempt for holding back the hordes that is normally reserved for how liberal wine women treat their illegal domestic help. I am disgusted with some of my countrymen and some of my Church men – and I am not talking about the lunatic left here.
I told you from the start, over 12 years ago, that once we took it seriously, Jihadist Islam would collapse much more quickly and easily than anyone expects, brought down finally by its women. But the prerequisite was taking – and resisting – it seriously. We need to react with a little more resolve and intestinal fortitude than a French Army when faced with resistance to our efforts to clean out the stables (not counting when French armies are led by a teenage girl or a Corsican – those armies are tough!). Or we can just let things continue to drift slowly towards a hellish abyss where none will be saved.
When you finally decide to go clean out the long-neglected stables, you are going to have to deal with a lot of disgusting muck. If you don’t care to be bothered with it, you are not suing for peace: you are leaving an even bigger task to your children or grandchildren. Eventually those sleeper cells were always going to be activated: that’s what they were here for. It’s pathetic that the satan’s minions didn’t even have to bother sneaking them in in a wooden horse, we have become so degenerate and timid.
Much of the hierarchy of the Church is equally pathetic. In fairness, this is not something new. When Islam launched its first war to exterminate Christianity from the face of the earth, it had taken nearly a third of Europe before the Christian hierarchy even began to seriously fight back. A lot of otherwise serious Christian thinkers have misinterpreted the dictum that, “he who lives by the sword will die by the sword,” to mean never use a sword at all. It means if you seek to impose your will on others by force, you will be forcibly destroyed eventually. It does not mean that you should not use a sword in the defense of yourself or those you are responsible for. I guess bumper sticker theologians never get around to the 22nd Chapter of Luke where Jesus, preparing His disciples for His departure, tells them if they do not have a sword, they need to sell their cloak and get one – because they will need it when He is gone.
Too many in the hierarchy are demanding that the America not be allowed to protect its borders as a nation. Instead it must allow everyone in with no vetting and pay the USCCB hundreds of millions to “help” these illegals evade the law. Meanwhile, rarely do these hierarchs put any serious pressure on the countries from which these illegals come to reform their ways. No money in that, you see. Meanwhile, too many hierarchs make pained pleas to allow the status quo, in which aggressor states keep slowly murdering innocents and declaring their determination to rule the world, to continue – and calling it “peace.” These are the successors of the Apostles who boldly changed the world?!
Even so, things are changing for the better – in the Church, in America, and in the culture at large. In the early days of his papacy Pope Leo XIV cleaned out the John Paul II Institute of the vandals seeking to destroy St. John Paul’s work and restored it to its original mission. He has completely removed the “rape art” of Fr. Marko Rupnik that had so desecrated so many sacred spaces in the Vatican under Leo’s predecessor. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV is quietly shifting the concept of “synodality” away from a cacophony of different voices, including many that are hostile to Christianity towards a consistent Catholic commitment to Christian evangelization.
Donald Trump is not acting constrained by any ideological leg irons. He hit boldly against a threat that has been festering in Iran for 46 years without launching any nation-building fantasies. Trump is working from the limited aim of putting America First – which is his job – and taking that job seriously. That simple strike entirely changed the leverage in the Middle East for the first time in nearly a half century – and put other predator nations on notice that Trump will act, not bleat, in response to imminent threats to the US or its key allies. And when He acts it will be decisive. I guarantee Taiwan is breathing a little easier today.
Much to the chagrin of the New York Times, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is hosting a well-attended young women’s summit in Dallas this week. Turns out it is not just young men who are turning to God and traditional values. Over 3,000 women showed up at this summit, boldly boasting they find more potential meaning in marriage and family than in cubicles and careers.
It is early days for the restoration of sanity and faith in the world, but Aslan is clearly on the move. I know that is not nearly enough for those who insist we should go from dark to light in an instant. But that is the challenge we now have to surmount: God is doing His part to restore all things. Do we have the fortitude and resolve to take up our part and stay the course? That is what God is demanding of us right now.
Throughout my life, in my direct interactions with heavenly beings, they have corrected, guided, and sometimes rebuked me. They have spent a lot of time telling me I am wrong about things (sometimes even in humorous ways – because they know I can take it…and even kind of enjoy it.) I don’t say it too often, but most people I know who say they have direct interaction with God have Him always confirming what they already believe. It is written in Hebrews 12 that, “For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.” If all you ever receive is confirmation of what you already believe, at best, you are talking to yourself. At worst, you are talking to a spirit, but it is not of God. Consider what you are doing, lest you fall precipitously.
Too many people are on a mission to prove that they are right, that they are a superior specimen of humanity rather than to find and hold fast to what is objectively right. So many think the plan they have cunningly devised in their own mind is God’s plan – and won’t let it go under any circumstances. The most valuable thing people could learn as we enter this phase of the rescue is to be able to say simply and bluntly when they are wrong. Work with God long enough and it becomes easy and liberating. Here, I’ll show you. I have always been dubious about claims of chemtrails designed to influence weather patterns. Many of you have believed it from the start. You were right, I was wrong. The evidence now overwhelmingly supports it. I won’t suddenly start believing every conspiratorial claim that comes along. Many, probably most, are pure, paranoid poppycock. But when I am wrong, I stray from the path of righteousness if I don’t candidly acknowledge it and adjust course. So do you. That is the price you pay for wanting to seem right more than wanting to truly find right. Do it long enough and you will stray too far from God to ever hear Him call.
This year, I believe, is the beginning of the fulfillment of the Fatima messages. If we answer the call, humble ourselves, and abandon our vanities, we are just a few years away from the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. If we are stiff-necked, determined to have our way as we imagine it, accepting no rebuke from man or God, we could yet have a long way to go. God’s ways are not man’s ways. Hold fast to your ways when He starts showing you He has a different plan and you set yourself against God, however pious you think yourself to be. Oh, how I wish all could see the glories God has planned for us if we just bridle our self-will and take on His easy yoke!
I pray that many in the anti-God left will come to repentance and I will continue to reach out to them. But it is us who think we are the faithful who are now in God’s winnowing fan. The change in what is expected of us at this stage will be my common theme going forward.
For heaven’s sakes, though, don’t leave an unattended pork chop in my presence. Sometimes my doggy nature still gets the best of me.
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This was just excellent, Charlie. Ann