The sign of the Son of man takes on greater meaning in the light of the war in heaven described in Revelation 12. In this article, we will follow the woman through time and see how the dragon fought, and how the sign of the Son of man relates to the prophecy for an astonishing end-time application you never considered before. Notice how the two sides are depicted in heaven:

This battle is described in the most climactic position at the center of the whole book of Revelation: Chapter 12. Every Christian who saw the sign of the woman on September 23, 2017 should reevaluate whether they understand the meaning of their experience. Many were disappointed because they were not raptured and did not understand the true meaning of that sign. As you read, Revelation 12 will beautifully come to life as you begin to understand the salvation of the Lord, both past and present.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (Revelation 12:1)

The woman of Revelation 12 represents the people of God throughout time, beginning with the Jews (represented by the moon as her foundation), continuing with the Christian church (hence the sun as her clothing of righteousness by faith in Christ), and ultimately one last generation of 144,000 kings and priests (hence the crown of 12 stars, one for each “tribe”).^[1] The first major element in this woman’s story is the giving of birth to a man child who can (after reading further in the chapter) be identified as Jesus Christ.

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (Revelation 12:2)

Then, the Bible widens the story to include the enemy of the church:

And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. (Revelation 12:3)

This dragon represents Satan, through whom the great controversy began, which resulted in a third of the angels defecting from God and siding with Satan:

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. (Revelation 12:4)

The sign of the dragon can also be understood,^[2] and there were signs in heaven about this dragon shortly after the sign of the woman, as shown in the video Captain of the Host. But why is this prophetic drama, illustrated in part by the sign of September 23, 2017, manifesting in signs in our generation, even though Jesus was born long ago? As every Christian knows, the battle against Satan is still raging, and every Christian has a part in fighting against him with the armor of Christ.^[3] So, in a sense, the birth of Jesus Christ in this prophetic recount of the church’s historical experience applies not only to the time of Jesus but to the Christ-like church of this generation. It is now as these signs are happening that He is to rule the world with a rod of iron:

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. (Revelation 12:5)

Apparently this is speaking about Jesus, who was literally “caught up” to God when He ascended to heaven ten days before Pentecost. To close the historical setting, the prophecy describes what became of the woman after the time of Christ:

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (Revelation 12:6)

Classically, Protestants have long understood that the 1260 days of this prophecy pointed to the 1260 years of papal supremacy from the time the papal Roman Empire took up its supreme power over the kings of the earth in AD 538, until the papacy fell in AD 1798.^[4] It was during this time when the woman—God’s faithful people—fled the persecution to unpopulated areas.

Especially important to notice, however, is that the most prominent flight of the woman took place only toward the end of that timeframe of persecution. She fled into the then-wilderness of America when the Mayflower left England in 1620, very late in the prophetic timeframe. This crucial point, which is difficult to explain in the historical context, calls for a deeper understanding of the prophecy of Revelation 12:1-6.

Past History as Future Prophecy

It is obvious that the appearance of the sign of the woman on September 23, 2017, was NOT a prophecy of Christ’s birth. (It would be two millennia late for that.) This begs the question, why did God orchestrate that great wonder for us in this age? Could it be that this prophecy not only applies to the time long before the woman sign, but carries a deeper prophetic meaning especially for us after the woman sign?

The characteristics that led Protestants to interpret the man child as Jesus Christ are not entirely unambiguous. For example, it is not only Jesus Christ who rules with a rod of iron. Notice the prophecy to the church of Thyatira:

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. (Revelation 2:26-27)

Another example: the rapture of the church is also a “catching away,” like how this child was “caught up unto God.” Without denying the historical application of these verses, it is also possible to interpret the man child as representing the last generation of God’s people on the earth.

Finally, what is NOT said is also significant. Nowhere in the chapter does the prophecy mention that this man child was killed. To omit this single most defining characteristic of the Savior from the prophecy is a glaring hint that the fullest interpretation is more encompassing than to equate the man child solely to Jesus Christ. To understand better, we can take a sneak peek at the last verse in the chapter, which expresses the biblical perspective on human progeny as well as its spiritual application:

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)

In God’s sight, a man child (the carrier of the unique Y chromosome) defines the bloodline. It is the genetic traits in the seed that determine the physical characteristics of entire people groups. Likewise, the verse above draws on this concept metaphorically to say that everyone who has the spiritual DNA of Jesus, who keeps His law innately, is part of His spiritual bloodline. Thus, while it is certainly valid to interpret the man child as referring to Christ as the Forerunner and Head of the church, it can also be understood to encompass the 144,000 Christlike ones who share His spiritual DNA and are destined to become kings and priests to rule with Christ over the nations.

With this perspective in mind, we can begin to understand the dual application of the prophecy. In the first application, the time period of 1260 years of papal persecution gave way to the great advent awakening of the 1830s and 1840s, which signified that on the grand scale of time, the world entered “the time of the end.” However, another literal-day application remains to be applied to the modern church, and that can be seen especially clearly where we resume the prophecy:

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:7-9)

While this certainly describes the fall of Lucifer, it also describes a more modern event: the incarnation of Satan in the flesh of Pope Francis. We’ve written a number of articles on this subject in our series entitled Behind Enemy Lines: Francis Romanus, but a recent review of his pontificate by Catholics themselves sums it up pretty well. To quote directly from a video celebrating his 10 years on the throne:

Memorably, when asked the seemingly simple question that would kick off the conversation, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”, the pope responded with, “I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”

So, in his own words, Pope Francis calls himself the biblical “man of sin” as the head of the Catholic church. His self-identification appeals to everyone who wants to excuse their own sin, but it is antithetical to what the Bible teaches about the character of Jesus and the purpose for which He died, which was to cleanse us from sin. The pope didn’t give hope. He didn’t say, “I am a sinner saved by Jesus,” or “I was a sinner, but Jesus changed me;” he flatly and unequivocally identifies with sin.

At the election of Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, the College of Cardinals brought Satan to the throne of the Catholic church. For that to happen, Satan had to indwell (or possess) the “cadaver” (as Jesuits swear). It was even noted by many that lightning had struck the Vatican in anticipation of his election, which is a sign that Jesus associated directly with Satan’s fall:

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (Luke 10:18)

If, as we are just beginning to see, the prophecy of Revelation 12 applies to the 144,000 of this generation, then the 144,000 Christlike ones can also say with Christ, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven” when he became incarnate in Pope Francis. Incarnation implies a restriction from the spirit realm; it is a loss of “wings.” Satan became limited to a physical body (that is why he prefers to give his most important messages while flying at 30,000 ft—it’s the closest he can get to having his wings back. Furthermore, after Satan was cast out, it says in the verses of Revelation quoted above that he “deceiveth the whole world.” This has also played out in our time, as Pope Francis has worked both publicly promoting the vaccination agenda, as well as behind the scenes in councils that the public never hears about. This is how he deceives the whole world through sorceries (pharmaceuticals). Do you see how the prophecy combines the themes of past ages into a story that is playing out today?

Continuing to the next verse in the storyline:

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12:10)

These formal accusations reveal that a courtroom scene is being described. While the court proceedings over the cases of the dead came to a close, another phase began: the judgment of the living. This loud voice and this change in the proceedings of the heavenly court are indicative of the judgment of the living, the clocks for which began ticking in 2014, the year after Satan’s incarnation. It was in 2014 that the clock of the heavenly courtroom completed its full circle. In other words, the time came to prove the final generation—the ones who would be alive on the earth to see Jesus return, the remnant of her seed as the prophecy indicates.

True Love Is Like a Seed Planted

What would you need, so that you could prove the character of the final generation? First, you would need to identify or characterize those (the 144,000) who should pass the test. Or, to put it differently, you have to establish, “What are the test criteria?” This is the subject of the next verse:

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:11)

The text describes how their victory would manifest in this generation—they would not love their lives unto the death. This brings us forward to the sacrifice of Philadelphia in 2016, when the church made the sacrifice in formal prayer to request that although it was time for the rapture, Jesus not return for the rapture-ready until more people who were still reachable could be reached to complete the number. The depth of this can only be appreciated when you put yourself in the shoes of those who prayed that prayer! How much would you voluntarily risk, to fight for the salvation of more souls? Your answer reflects your “rapture readiness!” Would you be willing to forego an early rapture to help save others who might finally wake up when the severe trouble comes, or would you take the easy escape?

These are deep questions, and at the depth of it is the realization that sacrificing to save others could cost your own eternal life. It is said that before you point out sin in another person, you ought to be ready to give your life for them. That is the risk involved in fighting Satan in the battle for souls, and it is only those who are willing to take that risk for the sake of God, trusting Him completely, who are prophesied to overcome “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.” It is not just cliché: overcoming by Christ’s blood means to learn from His willingness to lay down His life—potentially forever—to give the opportunity for salvation to others. What it means to overcome by the blood of the Lamb is explained in the remainder of the verse: it means a willingness to sacrifice not just to the point of death, but even to the point of THE death (the second death, eternal death).^[5] True love is to offer your place in heaven to someone who has no place there.

Now, with that kind of love that began to pulse in the heart of the church in 2016, we come forward to 2017, the year of the sign of the woman giving birth. Read The Virgin’s Seed to understand how Virgo was “inseminated” on exactly the rapture date that the White Cloud Farm church forwent:

It is the seed of Christ taking root in the church. It is His love implanted in her. He is the Seed who had to die and be buried in order not to be alone, as He expressed in parable:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. (John 12:24)

The parable of the lonely grain of wheat says much more. It says that the “much fruit” (the many Christians who will be in heaven because of Christ) are also grains of wheat. They have the same genetics, the same love, the same nature. Every person knowledgeable about food health knows that only seeds that would sprout when given the opportunity are good seeds. A seed that won’t sprout is a dead seed, lacking vital properties. This means that living, loving Christians must have that same nature that if planted in the ground, if given the opportunity to sacrifice, would readily die to bring forth much fruit.

With this quality of Christianity having been seeded in the church in 2016, heaven could rejoice. This is what Jesus was waiting for! He was waiting for the quality of His love to be reflected in His church—and not just in an isolated few.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (Revelation 12:12)

Because of that milestone having been reached in 2016, Satan could see that his time was short. The character manifested by the church means a great deal in the heavenly realms.

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. (Revelation 12:13)

Do you see why the man child is so identified with Christ? Today, it represents the 144,000 Christlike ones who belong to His spiritual bloodline of brotherly, sacrificial love. And now the church is facing persecution like never before. The prayer of 2016 was for seven more years, and indeed, here in 2023 we have reached the end of those seven years and Satan knows it. That is why he is making His move now to enslave the world with CBDCs and rid the earth of his opponents, and that is why he worked so hard to prepare the masses in the intervening years. Those who compromised their DNA with gene-therapy vaccines just to “get back to normal” have demonstrated that they will accept anything—even the new form of slavery (“own nothing and be happy”). But God has made provision for the church; with every temptation, He provides a way of escape.^[6] 

Oh that I had wings like a dove!

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. (Revelation 12:14)

Protestants have classically associated the wings of the great eagle with the United States of America, which is the main land to which they historically fled. However, the only way to fit a prophetic “time, times, and half a time” (i.e., 1260 literal years) into the timeline of history since the prophecy was given is to couple it with the “one thousand two hundred and threescore days” mentioned earlier in the chapter, and again we come to the apparent contradiction that the woman flees to a land that was not even discovered yet. And when Protestants did flee, it was not with wings (not even given by the United States “eagle”), but they took ships on their own initiative and expense (sailing, not flying). These difficulties with the classical interpretation again suggest that a literal three-and-a-half-year fulfillment was always waiting to unfold after the long centuries would bring us to the present generation.

Nevertheless, it is still valuable to understand how to solve the classical dilemma. The Protestant flight from Europe did not happen during the Middle Ages when papal persecution began (although small groups fled to pockets of wilderness within Europe). The church suffered long. She labored hard to fight against the satanic direction of the papacy. Luther and the whole line of reformers tried—as their name says—to “reform” the church under the papacy. It was only towards the end of those long 1260 years that she finally set sail, risking life and limb on the high seas in wooden ships, because the persecution was so hard that she had no other option.

This is what has happened today. For several years the persecution has been increasing and is still increasing in the three and a half years of literal time prophesied for the persecution in this generation. Knowing the sign of the Son of man and that the end of the persecution will come when Jesus returns on May 27, 2024, we can do the math to understand precisely what today’s counterpart is to the papal persecution of the Middle Ages.

Subtracting 1260 days from May 27, 2024, takes us back to December 14, 2020. A quick search reveals the significance of that date, and what persecution began in this generation:

‘The weapon that will end the war’: First coronavirus vaccine shots given outside trials in U.S.

Precisely on Monday, December 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay became the first American to receive the coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial. Fittingly described as “the weapon that will end the war,” Satan began his campaign to destroy the DNA of the children of God with vaccine syringes as his weapons. This persecution spread around the world as vaccine production continued, until it finally got so bad in some areas that some of our own members literally had to flee. If they had not fled, they would have been subject to state-imposed mandatory vaccination of the public.

And this time, their flight was literally on “wings” (of an airplane) that were “given to them” (i.e., paid by their church family). They had to separate from loved ones and belongings, endure hardship, insecurity, and coping with foreign languages, all before reaching their destination where they would be nourished. And again, following the pattern of the Protestant flight from papal persecution in Europe, this flight did not happen on Day 1 when Sandra Lindsay got jabbed, but later in the three-and-a-half-year period when the persecution got so bad that there was no alternative.^[7] 

How is it for you? How bad will it get before you must flee too? Even if you have no way to flee physically, there is a spiritual aspect to this as well. The woman (or church) was given two wings of a GREAT eagle. The eagle is the king of heaven and is one of the symbols for our Lord. But in the sign of the Son of man, none of the three depictions of Jesus is in the form of an eagle:

However, what we do see flying with two wings is the dove of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the representative of Jesus Christ, and the omnipresent One who indwells the church. Birds in general symbolize spiritual beings. If Jesus is already often represented by an eagle, as is the case with the star constellation Aquila for example, then it would be logical that the “great” eagle signifies the Holy Spirit who is Divinity divested of humanity.

This is profound, because it means that in a spiritual sense, everyone who looks up to this sign in heaven and believes its report, is “given the wings” of this great King of the air and can receive the baptism into Christ’s death that the dove gives witness to. When you understand the sacrifice of Jesus, when you accept His sacrifice for you—not just “Thanks, Jesus, for dying so I don’t have to,” but a deep reception of His sacrifice, receiving His nature, His mind, like receiving His seed into your body, so that you become born again. Then to one for whom Jesus died, you will likewise say, “I would die for you!”

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)

You cannot risk your life for Jesus, literally, but you can hazard your life for His brethren, those who have not received the DNA vaccine and are still in the human bloodline that the Creator made. In the coming CBDC regime, there will surely be opportunity to feed, give water to, house, clothe, and treat the illnesses of those who are suffering because they would rather endure hardship than dishonor their Creator by receiving Satan’s DNA. How much would you risk for Christ, knowing His saying, that “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me”? How thorough, how immersed, is your baptism into His blood?

The Flood

In the previous section, we studied how the woman “flew” (fled) to the wilderness. Historically, Protestants have recognized that since a wilderness is a sparsely populated place, it symbolizes a region with a lower population density in contrast to the sea of peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues, as the Bible defines it.^[8] This fits with the classical interpretation that the church fled from papal persecution to the Americas—especially to North America. In the modern application, however, the parts of North America that are conducive to living are no longer sparsely populated. The next verse in the story of Revelation 12 reflects this in the fact that Satan sends waters (multitudes of people) after the church:

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. (Revelation 12:15)

It is rather unusual for a serpent to spit out water, but the Bible speaks in the language of heaven. When we look in the heavens at the sign of the Son of man, we see a visual depiction of exactly what the Bible says:

Cetus, the Leviathan, that old serpent of the seas, is vomiting up foul water to contaminate the river of life. This is full of depth of meaning. The river refers to the genetics of life in the blood of Christ, so the fouled waters refer to DNA vaccination that contaminates the code of life, which is symbolized by Eridanus as the river of life. Satan wants to sweep away the children of God with vaccination. This persecution began, as we saw previously, on December 14, 2020, when the first coronavirus vaccination outside of clinical trials was administered in North America, in the prophetic wilderness. So the prophecy is reviewing or rephrasing what happened in the time, times and a half. At the beginning of that time was when the poisoned waters from Cetus as the serpent first touched the earth.

However, God’s way of escape enabled the church to survive:

And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (Revelation 12:16)

In the context of the heavens, the “earth” of this verse can be understood by its characteristics: it helps the woman, it has a mouth (that opens), it swallows water—these are all characteristics of the “whale” of Jonah that is formed by the comet trajectories. The whale helps the figurative Jonah: it opens its mouth just as the sign in heaven shows, and it swallows the river (and Jonah with it to protect him). So, those who have received the baptism of Christ and have heard the testimony of the heavenly dove, who have fled from Satan and his vaccination, these ones are protected in the heart of Jesus, just as He was in the heart of the earth.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)

Or, we could say it the other way around: For as the Son of man was in the heart of the earth, so today’s Jonahs are rescued in the whale’s belly. Christ’s suffering made it possible to overcome Satan.

Coming back to the earthly application, the rescue of “Jonah” took place as our persecuted members fled and eventually reached the land of Paraguay, which is in the heart of the earth—the land that helped them escape the flood of DNA vaccination that was pursuing them in Europe. What is shown in heaven and what happened on earth is complementary,^[9] and these things are an example for you.

The sign of the Son of man began in March of 2023, as the banks began to collapse from March 5-12, in anticipation of an era of CBDCs, which will in turn make it impossible to live without becoming a slave to Satan. The rescue whale comes just in time to deliver you from the king of the sea, which is Leviathan (or Cetus in the heavens). So, the two “whales” correspond to earth and sea, the Americas vs. Europe.

We’ve already mentioned how North America is no longer sparsely populated. South America, however, still fits the prophecy, and is the only place left that can be considered the prophetic wilderness. In the heart of South America, land-locked Paraguay in particular is one of the lesser populated countries, also being the one where our brethren fled to, and one which fulfills many characteristics of prophecy.^[10] 

In the context of the present verses, Paraguay is one small country which has vast regions of extremely sparse population density. Some other countries closer to the equator or in the extreme cold climates of the south are also very sparsely populated, but this is only one criterion given by the prophecy; the other criteria will narrow it further.

In particular, the Bible speaks about the earth opening her mouth and swallowing up the flood. The way the earth swallows up water is in the normal cycle of rainfall, which lands on the earth and either percolates down into the earth or runs off the surface into the streams and rivers. Underneath Paraguay is the Guaraní Aquifer, the largest aquifer in the Americas (and second largest in the world). Aquifers are underground reservoirs of water that are charged by rainfall and rivers.

Fittingly, the main feature and attraction of Iguazu Falls, one of the largest cataracts in the world, is called “Devil’s Throat.” In other words, this is where the dragon casts out of his mouth the flood after the woman. Interestingly, the cataracts—which once belonged to the Guaraní peoples of Paraguay—are now part of Argentina, the land of the serpent-pope himself.

But that’s still not all. The Guaraní aquifer accumulates rainfall from the entire La Plata River Basin, which collects (or swallows) all that water from the Devil’s Throat, as well as all the rainwater of the entire basin, which accounts for a quarter of the continent and is second in size only to the Amazon basin. Paraguay is the only sparsely populated country that lies within the boundaries of the La Plata River Basin, which swallows the water from the Devil’s Throat!

Baptized Into Christ’s Army

Our brethren came to the right place, where the earth helps the woman. But this also means that the spiritual teachings from this prophetic location—specifically the sign of the Son of man—are the spiritual help for the global church in such a time as this, when Satan is seeking to destroy her seed. In the heart of the prophetic earth, is the vast aquifer of the fresh water of the Holy Spirit, the heaven-sent dove. The belly of the whale is the haven of protection until the end of the 1260 days on May 27, 2024, till the last battle—the battle of Armageddon—has been won.

According to Google’s top source:^[11] 

The name Paraguay is derived from the Guarani word “par” meaning river, and “guay”, meaning “this side”.

This would mean that Paraguay is the land on “this side” of the river. This notion of taking a side also alludes to another meaning of the word guay, which is “war.” In other words, Paraguay is the country of the “river war,” just as the prophecy of Revelation 12 indicates in connection with the heavens. Thus, Paraguay is named as the site of the remnant who are at war with the dragon.

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)

This last verse stands in chiastic connection with the first verse about the woman with twelve stars in her crown. This remnant of her seed are the stars in her crown. Interestingly, another etymology for the name guai in Paraguay is thought to mean “crown,”^[12] pointing to this as the land of the remnant of the seed of the woman with the crown of twelve stars.

The final y in Paraguay is also thought to stand for the Guaraní word for “water.” This alludes to the water baptism of Jesus Christ depicted in the sign of the Son of man, which is the example (and requirement^[13]) for all Christians. In fact, one etymology site even says that guay means “born,” thus the name Paraguay can literally mean “water born.”^[14]

The name was also said to have been that of a local chieftain, the leader of a tribe. Those who have read The Mystery of the Holy City may be able to appreciate who that hints to: namely the creator of this website who followed the sacrificial call of the Lord to establish this ministry in Paraguay, whom God used to share the amazing present truths of God’s word.^[15] Corroborating that meaning, the word Paraguay, which we’ve already seen to include the meaning of a crown, can be understood in yet another etymology as meaning a crown of feathers^[16]—that is, the headdress of a chief. This gives added significance to the counterfeit headdress that Pope Francis wore while visiting a native American tribe in Canada.^[17] Even some of their own recognized that it was an act of usurpation.^[18] 

As we head into the final battle with Satan to fight the peaceful war for the honor of God, we urge you to enlist yourself wholeheartedly in His service. What holds you back now? If it is material things, they will soon perish. If it is people, they will soon turn against you. If it is convenience, life will only get harder.

God has shown that He has a place on this earth that He has prepared for the purpose of nourishing all those who belong to Him, who have kept themselves pure and undefiled. He has shown that He has an appointed “chief” whom He has given the crown of feathers, a special anointing of the Holy Spirit, to provide spiritual food that will sustain you until the battle is won.

We invite you to consider the “Mission: Impossible” that God has for you (but with God, all things are possible). Consider where the crown with the feathers of the “great eagle” may be found, in contrast to that worn by Pope Francis? Do you drink deeply of the waters of Christ’s baptism? As the storm begins to rage and the sea begins to toss, are you already abiding safely in the belly of the whale? Will you be saved by the One who swallowed the poisoned water of Satan for you, taking the death in your stead? Don’t wait! Commit (or re-commit) your life to the King and redouble your efforts to labor to reach every last soul with the saving blood of Jesus Christ.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. (Mark 8:35)

Turn every eye upward to behold the sign of the Son of man in heaven and let the glory of His countenance fill you with the assurance of His love.