But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
-Luke 22:53
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
-1 John 2:18
This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it?
–The Return of the King, The Siege of Gondor
The confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh is wonderful news. God has broken through, as He said He would. He has kept His promise and is casting the crowns of the rulers of darkness down to the dust. The light on the hill has not been snuffed out. God has honoured the prayers of the righteous around the world and in the United States, the voices clamouring for the rights of the unborn to be vindicated. Judgment Day is assuredly coming.
But the battle is not over yet, and the darkness is often greatest before the dawn. Christ went through the crucifixion before He was glorified in the resurrection. One day He will sit on the throne of glory in Jerusalem, but on Good Friday the King of the Jews was nailed to a cross like a common criminal. The Church as the mystical Body of Christ must also pass through its crucifixion period before Her glorious resurrection.
…we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
-Acts 14:22
Even as the Church shines, it shines in the darkness. Antichrist is coming, and there will be struggles throughout the earth. Even if one posits that he will not have a global empire (as I myself do), this does not entail that nations that resist him will be entirely safe.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
-Psalm 2:1-3
In the borders of the Anglophone countries there are plenty of people who will violently oppose the Gospel, and times of economic and political uncertainty can drive formerly restrained people to desperate measures. The task ahead of the Church is to continue proclaiming the Gospel, including the message that Jesus the King will one day return and pour out the wrath of God on the wicked inhabitants of the earth. They will not want to hear this message – but those who repent before that time will be spared God’s wrath, even if they are not spared the Devil’s persecution.
God will vindicate the words of His faithful followers – but those who refuse to hear will be taken by diabolical deception; they will believe the lie. We must preach the Truth in faith that there are still those who will receive Him. To those that do, God will grant the right to become children of God.
We have seen the work of lies in the UK and USA, and it is natural that two countries that bequeathed the common law and liberty to the world should become targets of corruption. As we give thanks to God for this breakthrough in appointing an originalist Justice, let us reflect on the need to resist falsehood in all its forms. The truth will pierce the darkness like a blade and the world will be divided.
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Postscript: this post by no means endorses all judgments or opinions voiced by Associate Justice Kavanaugh, but it does take the line that abortion is a species of murder and no court of law has the moral authority to declare murder acceptable. Nor does this post advocate that the kingdoms of this world are the Kingdom of our God and His Christ – but they will be one day, when Christ returns and the times of the Gentiles cease. Then the Church will reign with Christ over the Gentiles and they will confess that He has loved His Bride.
All Along the Watchtower 
The right to chose.
Female;…I have the right to do what I want with my body.
Bosco the Heretic;…Yes you do. You can paint your face to make it look not so drab. You can do your hair in the latest ridiculous fashion.
Female;….I can abort my baby because its my body. I can have it ripped out and torn up and sold for god knows what.
Bosco the Heretic;….That child in your body isn’t you. Its another person. If its a male…are you a male? Its someone else.
Female;….Its my right under the law to kill that person. As a matter of fact lawmakers are pondering to extend the abortion to the day the baby is born, and if that’s not enough, we are considering abortion after the baby is 3months old.
Bosco the Heretic;…Well, I say extend abortion to 5 years old. If the child is nothing but trouble, drop it off at a abortion center. Hmmmm, now that I think about it, we should extend it to 18 years old. My parents would have loved that law.
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It’s so sad ,isn’t it? A mother shouldn’t do that to her child.
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And so a battle is over, and the victory won. At least one person has called it the Second Battle of Tours. That is entirely too much and yet it is not. For it is the first defeat of leftist totalitarianism in the west, in a long time, and if we take heart from it, as free men and women and as Christians it may mark a turning as significant as Charles Martel gave us.
The beacon on the hill remains, and Nicholas (and I) are both recalling the most famous and early description of what America would become:
“We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “may the Lord make it like that of New England.” For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God’s sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.”
And so we remain and are seen to remain, from Poland to Great Britain and on to the Antipodes, wherever freedom is an honored guest. The city on the hill, the successor and the partner, as well as the daughter of Mother England who gave us the Common Law.
It was a battle won by prayerful consideration as well as by verbal combat, by the President, by Justice Kavanaugh, by Leader McConnel, by Senator Graham, and by Senator Collins. An unlikely combination brought together by circumstance, and I say by God himself, to act steadfastly to withstand the storm, to the benefit of the people of the United States in particular, but the light of fire illuminates the world, and the world will change, in God’s good time
Will it end abortion even in the United States? Certainly not immediately, perhaps never, but also perhaps soon. It depends on the vagaries of cases coming to the courts. But what it does do, from this day, is re-enshrine the basics rights of all men, as outlined in America’s founding documents, but also in one that is rarely mentioned but is included with them in the United States, Magna Charta itself. Where the tyranny of the king was first broken, by the barons of England led by the Archbishop of Canterbury Stephan Langton.
A battle won, the war continues.
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Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists;
The greek anti means another or substitute. Vicarius Fili Dei means a substitute Christ. The CC says the pope holds the place of Christ on the earth. It also claims its costumed holymen are little Christs. Claims….this is all that comes out of the Vatican. The people that subscribe to this idolatrous cult of personality send their tithes to it. Never in the history of mankind has a enterprise sold nothing but air and has reaped untold billions. Im jealous. Wish I had thought of that. It takes a special kind of dupe to believe these claims after one has reached the age of reason. My best friend actually believes there is a female up in heaven waiting to deliver him when he dies. He was raised catholic and believes all the hype. He doesnt go to catholic services. Not one since I have known him. My girlfriend was raised catholic , but she saw the false doctrine when she was very little and held her nose and stayed there till she was 18 and never went to a catholic church again. The adults that stay in it, and there are a few who haunt these pages, you have to wonder about their sanity.Who in this small world can read thru the bible and still believe there is a female virgin queen up in heaven with her own throne next to gods. Well, Jesus said there will be many anti Christs, not for any reason, but because they will have followers. Jesus also said most people will wind up in hell. Say, if the Lord God the Pope is Christ, how come he doesn’t go around healing lepers and cripples and stuff like that? How come all he does is promote pedophiles to higher paying jobs?
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Im waiting for good brother scoop or somebody to talk about the catholic synod on the youth. It was to promote the homosexual agenda. I like to call it…The catholic priest smorgasbord.
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No idea if or when Scoop will write on that topic. I try not to write about Catholic stuff too often myself as an outsider, unless it’s part of a broader discussion about what God is doing in the end times. May He unite all true Christians and help us to shed the burden of institutions – you should read some of the stuff in the prophetic community about that. Test every spirit, mind.
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Yeah, I’m the same way. If I’ve got something germane to say, I will, always specifying that it’s not my Church, but I wish it well. We’ve plenty of smart, articulate Catholics here, and usually we 9or at least I) don’t understand all the nuance that goes into their Church. Best to let them as a rule.
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Been rather busy as late updating and fixing some stuff at my website that has been driving me crazy. Not sure if I’ll get to the bottom of all of the issues but I think I’ve made a lot of progress.
So I have tried as best I can to keep up with the news from the Sin-nod for the Youth: and I can say that it is as bad as any of us guessed it might be. I have also tried to stay up to date with the faux ‘resignation’ of Wuerl the girl and his backing by the Pope as he continues to lead the Archdiocese of Washington as well as the next faux saint that antipope Francis is going to beatify soon: Oscar Romero – the darling of the Communist Jesuits.
Hopefully, I can start catching up and write something soon but it is a bit too much to handle at the moment.
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Its my guess that young catholics who are gay, male and female,and non catholic kids, know, through the grapevine that catholic gatherings are the place to go to hook up with other likeminded kids. Word travels fast. I wonder if the age of firing homosexual choir directors is over. The churches just did that for show, to fool the man in the pews. Heck, the priests were all having drug fueled sex gay orgies, then they fire the lay director for being gay.
The young generation is replacing the old catholic generation. To keep people and money rolling in they are going to have to go with the flow. The priestcraft is a homo fraternity, so its time to make the laity a gay crowd. The whole kit and caboodle is going to be gay. That’s why the homo cabal of priests isnt going nowhere. They are the new generation of a openly homo priestcraft. I love it.
You old catholics of yesteryear who think your going to clean house…guess what?……you are going to get cleaned out.
I love it.
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You have my sympathy, Scoop. Knowing now how clunky WordPress is, I’m not sure I would have chosen it for a blog – but seeing as a lot of people use it, it still has the advantage of linking people together.
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Yes it is a rather fickle platform.
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