From Freemasonry to Freedom: One Man’s Journey to Jesus

 

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(00:00) one night during a a lodge meeting the president of the club was telling us that during the lodge meetings you know we’re just here to distract you so that your spiritual pit crew can work on you unbeknownst to me that meant that they were inviting demons to come in and it felt in my spirit almost like something dark I didn’t make that connection that these things were evil I was a very unhappy child there was uh there was a lot of abuse in my family verbal abuse emotional abuse physical abuse and uh yeah I I was a

(00:43) very angry child and I can even remember one time in high school I think it was secondary 2 or secondary 3 I was sitting at my desk and a fellow student came up and said hello to me and I just ignored him like I usually did and he went to speak to somebody else not too far away and I overheard their conversation and he said he’s always in a bad mood that guy and he was absolutely right that was the uh the defining characteristic of my childhood even into early adult I was just very um I was just angry my parents attended

(01:23) church once a week though sometimes not even that and they professed to be Catholic and so when I would go to church and I would hear these wonderful sermons um about virtue and patience and kindness and then when the service was over we wouldn’t stay around to you know chitchat with other people we would go right back home and everything that had been taught in that service just evaporated it so I I realized early on or at least this was my perception that uh these virtues were just for show this is what you showed to the people on the

(02:09) outside and yeah once the cameras were turned off once the doors were closed they were just not very happy people very aggressive very nasty and I grew up in that environment and I even remember one time I had gone into my room room and I’d grabbed some empty cereal boxes and I started packing my clothes into those boxes and telling my parents I’m leaving you guys are just awful I’m I’m unhappy here and I want to leave and they would just laugh at me and that stayed with me my entire life and realize I must have

(02:51) been four maybe 5 years old at the oldest we had been taught catechism at school so I knew who Jesus was um but to me all those things were just a fairy tale for grown-ups because I didn’t really see any of that working out in my daily life I told myself that uh this stuff is just fantasy I was very materially oriented because of that in that I didn’t believe that there was an absolute good to me good and bad were just perspectives and if you could do something without getting caught that was good enough that’s how I lived my

(03:40) life and it was a it was a horrible way to live how old are you at that time uh when you’re starting to starting to develop those sorts of ideas about the world probably 12 13 14 years old and of course this comes from you know talking with people at school and seeing the kind of degenerate Behavior that was going on there so that obviously didn’t influence me in a positive way and as you grow up going into high school um and into your early 20s uh how does how does that develop for you I was uh I would dare to say I was an atheist

(04:19) mostly because I’d never been confronted with any arguments that could defeat what I thought the world was about so as far as I was concerned when you died you just went into the ground and turned into compost like every other living being I had no conceptual framework for the spirit for God going back to my childhood and what I had experienced uh led me to think at that time that God was just a Superstition uh something that adults made up to made themselves make themselves feel better it was it was a complete mismatch and that drove you

(05:02) away completely it did other than Church those those values were never brought up in our home life we were never encouraged to read the Bible or to pray um and God was only something to be called upon when you were in trouble uh I didn’t really have a direction and I think that’s that’s something that contributed to to my delinquency I I knew that I I was called to be an artist but you know that was something that was not really cultivated in school at least at that time until I got to college all the uh all the

(05:42) artistic creative stuff that I would do was heavily frowned upon talk to me about this move out of atheism and into new age that we spoke of uh over the phone um how did that happen how did you go from there is no God to sort of seeking spirituality right well at about this time I’m in my late 20s and YouTube is starting to become a thing and so as much as I wanted to believe everything was material things just didn’t add up there were situations there were testimonies from people who seemed very credible um who would relate

(06:23) to having uh near-death experiences and so it got me to thinking that you know there’s got to be something more to this than just the physical there’s got to be more than what we see and so I started digging into that and uh I found it interesting but at this point I I really didn’t uh I didn’t pursue it seriously it was more of a a distraction my sister came to me one day and she brought me a book called Buddha’s brain and I read that and and uh it all sounded very good to me it gave me um an explanation of why things were the

(07:10) way they were and on the surface without digging too far it sounded good so I started to meditate and I gravitated towards more of that spiritual aspect without necessarily looking for Jesus and uh one day uh she introduced me to a shaman and that was quite a a bizarre encounter because I was sitting in his living room having tea with him and out of nowhere his face just turns completely red like he’s been sunburnt and he tells me a Spirit came to him and told him that he had to initiate me into a shamanic

(07:54) Journey so we went through the whole smudging with sage and the rhythmic drumming and I had what at that time was perhaps the most Lucid Vision dream that I’d ever had up to that point and it reinforced my belief that there was something spiritual and I wanted to understand it as much as I could I started out with Shamanism but I I realized that uh that wasn’t providing all the answers that I was looking for fundamentally I wanted to understand understand why the world was so screwed up why I was screwed up

(08:35) and so I kept digging and digging and I found the new age and I started doing yoga and it’s at this point that I can say that I really started experiencing bizarre Paranormal Activity and the thing is this didn’t scare me it was actually quite fascinating because this was almost um proof to me that there was something beyond the physical that I was getting to see this manifestation of the spirit and uh I wanted to know more although there were times that it did become a little bit creepy uh I would start

(09:23) experiencing Points of Light I don’t know if you’ve ever seen anything like this like you’re just minding your own business and out of the corner of your eye you’ll see a bright point of light that lasts for a fraction of a second and I started seeing these more and more often and um I would also experience occasional sleep paralysis night terrors and at that time I didn’t think any of these things were related I thought that uh sleep paralysis was just some physical phenomenon um but then other weird things started

(10:02) happening uh objects in the house started disappearing and some things that I had left on the counter were damaged and I was the only one living there and there were other situations where uh appliances would turn themselves on and off without a remote control without any input from me uh tell televisions would turn on and off VCRs I didn’t connect all this to Paranormal Activity I thought it was just electrical phenomenon but I found it fascinating and so I was I was drawn in I was not scared by the stuff that I was

(10:46) experiencing so you were you were sort of in inviting this because you were you were curious right and if I knew then what I know now I would have gone running like my pants were on fire but it didn’t turn out that way how long do you spend in in uh New Age practices I think that started roundabouts 2002 2003 and is that what brought you to you know I think we’ll get into Freemasonry now uh this is this is a you know a really interesting part of your testimony is this whole time you spend as a Freemason

(11:22) so there’s so much that goes around this topic and and you know the mystery and the you know secret society aspect of Freemasonry so did New Age bring you to Freemasonry or were they two opposite things for you no it it it was a natural progression and believe it or not in hindsight I think this was God’s doing now hear me out I don’t think he wanted me to become a Freemason necessarily but I think he was using this phenomenon to pull me out of my staunch atheism and slowly introducing me to spirituality and allowing me to see the

(12:04) dark aspect before he would eventually bring me into the light it seems like such a long convoluted road but God knows what he’s doing yeah he turns everything for good right so talk to me about Freemasonry what is it Freemasonry is probably still to this day the world’s most famous or inFAMOUS secret society uh as it is told to those on the inside Freemasonry is a cult that taught the first men to render homage to Divinity now on the surface maybe that doesn’t sound too bad but why not just say uh to honor God why Divinity why

(12:46) that generalization and um you see because I had been doing some research and I found a lot of dare I call them such conspiracy theorist videos on on Freemasonry and a lot of them thought it was you know something very negative and very satanic um and so initially that was my that was my Approach but I told myself okay you know what I’m going to go this I’m going to go into this with my eyes open and if I see something that really jars my conscience I’ll leave but it uh it wasn’t quite that simple what I got

(13:28) out of it was something that I never got with my family which was a sense of belonging you see because when they bring you into the craft which is another term for Freemasonry they love bomb you and that’s by Design they make you feel special they make you feel like you’re called like you’re beyond the norm and there’s also that secret aspect I think that appeals to people and that they’re doing things behind closed doors and you get to be part of the quote unquote Elite of society even though I was at the uh the

(14:03) absolute bottom of the basket it made me feel special it made me feel like I was part of something bigger than myself when I was initiated to the rank of Entered Apprentice um after the initiation they give you all the uh the sacred grips and the um the codes and they also gave us a little yellow prayer cardboard and they told us to do this prayer specifically on Saturday night and so you know everything I’d seen to that point was kind of weird but I was just going with it so when that first Saturday night came and I did that

(14:47) prayer I saw something out of the corner of my eye like a distortion similar to what you’d see uh on a really hot day on asphalt and it just moved across the room so without really realizing what I’d done I seemed to have opened a portal though there there may have been demonic activity before that I was just bringing this to a whole new level and I notic almost immediately that there were effects that I hadn’t connected right away see because the situation with my father was already strained as far back as I can

(15:28) remember and ever since I was in the craft they didn’t oppose it they thought it was interesting they never made any comments to the fact that you know this is evil you need to stay away from this but my father just became more aggressive I noticed more um immediate bursts of anger and that these were happening more often and as much as they would tell you there were things in freemasony that could help you help build your mind uh I found myself very distraught I was still an angry person and I still had a lot of sadness and depression and

(16:11) I thought while Freemasonry was supposed to deal with this it really wasn’t doing it for me did you know at the time that what you were doing was participating in in you know quote unquote demonic activity or was it just like spiritual stuff to you it was just spiritual stuff to me but there are things that were said in private conversations that in retrospect I can see they were basically telling me that they were operating with demons one night during a lodge meeting the uh the worshipful master of Lodge who was like

(16:48) the president of the club so to speak was telling us that during the lodge meetings you know we’re just here to distract you so that your spiritual pit crew can work on you unb announced to me that meant that they were inviting demons to come in I wasn’t getting any better and if anything I was experiencing a strange feeling of dread because uh I and about I think two other people were marked as rising stars in The Craft in that we really took to the program and we were advancing faster than most of the other people and they

(17:26) really wanted me to become a lodge officer and it felt in my spirit almost like something dark was sinking its quaw into me and for a time I gave in and I did do some uh some work in the lodge as a as an officer for the opening and closing rituals and it’s such a bizarre feeling you know how when you go to church some people say that they can really feel the presence of God well there was something similar here but it wasn’t was n peaceful it was almost like you drank one too many red bulls and you were really wired whenever I

(18:07) would serve in the lodge as an officer that night I wouldn’t be able to sleep I would just toss and turn all night like a switch was turned on and again I I didn’t make that connection that these things were evil to me it was just spiritual I think it appeals to two types of people one are people who are spiritually seeking so to speak people like me who are not intending to do wrong they just want to learn they just want to grow spiritually and they think that Freemasonry is the way to go and the other category of people who are drawn

(18:51) to this are people who crave power because most Masonic lodges whether you realize it or not are only only only have about 28 to 30 members that’s the average across the city and so it’s really easy to move up into the ranks and get a position as an officer of the lodge and even as a worshipful master so those people who crave power um have the perfect setup for them when I was initiated to the fellowcraft degree the second degree I was also taking weekend workshops with the grandmas because he was offering these workshops

(19:32) not only to Freemasons but to anyone who felt called spiritually so to speak and I only found out much later that The Grandmaster was charging people for weekend workshops and he was divulging secrets of the higher degrees during these workshops one of the workshops that I did uh was called the night’s Templar and it was held out for five weekends I think 1 month apart and the last one was the initiation and without going into too much graphic detail it was an extremely stressful event and this was by Design you see because what they do is

(20:25) they love bombu initially they make you think that everything is wonderful that you’re perfect that you’re progressing marvelously and then when your defenses are down uh they attack you they’ll attack you verbally and the entire weekend of the initiation was people being attacked and verbally abused by the um by The Grandmaster and he would have people perform degrading acts during these ceremonies uh there was low level torture going on and for me it uh it struck a nerve because that really hit

(21:08) me hard and the people that I thought I could trust were ready to betray me at the drop of a hat and so at this point I was starting to become dissolution with the Freemasons I actually wrote out a um a resignation letter and I was ready to give it in but at the last minute I uh I chickened out and when you when you talk about like uh torture and verbal abuse and um all these things you mentioned why would they do that oh boy this is a this goes deep so uh this is all by Design because they are trying to attach demons to you

(21:52) and one of the ways that you can bring demons in is by having someone experience sustained stressful traumatic events and especially if you can do that repeatedly it’s almost like it creates fissures in your spirit that allow other things to come in to take root in you and you don’t see that immediately although I started experiencing more paranormal activity at that point those points of light that I I saw previously during One Nights Templar weekend Workshop uh those things were all over the place it was like

(22:40) fireflies so demonic activity was on the rise and some of these things had gotten a hold of me because I came from an abusive background I had normalized this kind of behavior and they even told us that this was for our greater good that the um the abuse or at least what we termed abuse what we were experiencing was a way to bring us to spiritual elevation so I saw that as part of the process I never I never saw it straight ahead as as full out abuse and I think that that’s also the result of demonic activity demons can bring a Veil Down

(23:28) Over You so that even when the truth is right in front of you you don’t see it so you didn’t see it as evil what they were doing no I saw it as a means to an end because what Freemasonry teaches among other things is that uh you can condense this life so that in the next life you move up to a different level the abuse the the stress all the bad things that you experience will fall away and eventually you just become more and more spiritual when you see the next life do you mean like a spiritual life

(24:06) or do you mean like reincarnation it depends on who you talk to that’s a really bizarre subject and my impression was that you graduated spiritually and you eventually did away with your body whereby you became pure spirit and eventually you would return to the source whatever that meant in my research later on uh I found the writings of a rosicrucian whose Name Escapes Me and part of the minutes of that meeting which was held in the early 20th century uh he quite literally said that all the secret societies are linked they all

(24:49) have a common core so no matter what you see if you see um a Freemason or a martinist or a rosac crucian fundamentally the teach teachings are all the same in terms of the teachings they you know from what I understand is there’s varying degrees of Freemasonry and you’re divulged more and more occult information as you uh go up in the ranks um why why is that why do they have this sort of slow process and is the top of the food chain actually just Satanism um okay so the reason why they have multiple degrees and different rights

(25:32) it’s a little bit like a denomination in Christianity they have um different degrees so let’s say the right of Memphis MIM will have 90 degrees York right will have seven and the ancient and accepted Scottish right which I was a part of had 33 public degrees and the reason why they don’t take you to the top immediately is they know that if they show you what ultimately is behind Freemasonry you’ll bolt and you’ll get out of there faster than anything you can imagine people will just run away so

(26:12) the idea is to boil people gradually immerse them and as those evil spirits take root in that person and sufficiently blind them then by the time they get to the top it’s too late they’re invested and and so when you say what’s behind Freemasonry what is what is behind that door Freemasons worship a god um a demon we should say who we see in the Old Testament um he was often referred to as moak and I think the Philistines worshiped him as deeon so this is an entity that goes way back that ancient Israel had lots of problems

(27:06) with and this is also the god of child sacrifice which is why when you get up higher into the GRE which I didn’t go one of the things you were asked to do is pledge your future Offspring to them so that’s a form of child sacrifice so not necessarily having to sacrifice them but pledge them so that if uh if the time comes and they need to be sacrificed that that you’re already in agreement absolutely tell me about why you left one of the members of The Lodge had a business and he had brought in a partner

(27:49) who was also a Freemason he had recently joined and this new member had a really pretty girlfriend and what I later found out happened was The Grandmaster had made a move on this guy’s girlfriend and that freaked him out to the point where he cursed the lodge he left that business and he took most of the capital with him so the member of the lodge who had this business was in a serious cash flow situation so what he ended up doing was he en listed a whole bunch of Lodge members and non- Lodge members to pay

(28:35) him something around $5,000 to follow a course on how to do credit analysis and on the surface this seemed like a really really interesting way to go and so I was on the fence about that but at this time also my health was not the best because of what I’d been experiencing in the lodge I was experiencing a burnout and so I was going through a lot of my savings I was already disenchanted with these people and planning to leave and I think the demons knew that and so they concoct it away to bring me back and this is just absolutely crazy

(29:21) because this member who had the business uh had a party at his place and he invited a whole bunch of us and The Grandmaster of the lodge was there and while everybody else was you know chitchatting and drinking and having a good time he calls me aside and he says I want to talk to you so I said all right and we start walking down a country road and he looks at me and he tells me I’m going to channel an entity now and he’s going to speak to you and so his voice changes and he looks me straight into the the eye and he tells

(30:00) me that I am failing my life Incarnation that I went down a bad road I was supposed to take certain opportunities which I didn’t and if I didn’t take this opportunity that was presented to me I was going to experience years of suffering and because I was already in a bad state of mind that completely broke me and the only solution I could see was to take that credit analysts course for $5,000 and so I take this course and at the end we were promised that we wouldn’t have to go hunting for clients they would uh they would bring us the

(30:50) clients and all we had to do was credit analysis except that that wasn’t true and so most of us were out $5,000 um I still had Lodge dues I still had a rent to pay for and a whole bunch of us uh were really angry with the lodge members who did this and we found out later that we had been used that they were just using us to prop up the cash flow in their business that they had no real intention of following us through on this new career they just wanted money so I was just absolutely livid at this point that

(31:38) large members large officers would be involved in this kind of a scheme and so at this point my mind was made up I said I’m leaving and I’m not just leaving I’m going to write these guys a letter to let them know that I know who they are so that’s what I did I wrote up a resignation letter that I sent to All The Lodge officers and to their face I called them demons I said you guys are vampires you are praying on your own members for your own self-gratification and you guys really need to examine yourselves because this

(32:17) can’t go on and I left the lodge um but I wasn’t out of the woods because all those demons that come with the Oaths that we take were still very much attached to me how are you feeling at this point depressed alone angrier than I’ve ever been and my finances are starting to dry up because I’m in such a bad state that I can’t do any work so I’m slowly eating my savings and watching them being depleted and getting stressed out because also at about this time um the apartment where I was living

(33:02) uh that building was owned by my father and there was a big situation that needed to be rectified there was a broken pipe under my kitchen floor so they the contractors literally had to tear apart half my apartment to get to this thing to repair it so at this point my life is in absolute chaos I have no more friends I have almost no more money I’m constantly depressed I’m binging on junk food and at this point my father uh we’d always had a strange relationship but now that there was construction going on it just

(33:50) brought everything to a whole different level and he comes to me and starts talking to me about something that I didn’t want to hear about I was just in a bad state of mind and I may have made a careless comment and he just blows up and we have this massive massive fight and at the end he tells me you know what I don’t even want you here get out so on top of everything else that was going on in my life I was about to be evicted I was about to be thrown out onto the street and I think it was at this point that

(34:27) the spirit of death entered me because I’ve been through bad situations and even in those depths you can still feel hope somewhere down the road and it was completely gone I was empty I had nothing left to live for I was going to kill myself I knew exactly how I was going to do it and I didn’t tell anybody where did you go after after your dad kicked you out so at this point I’m so distraught that I call my sister who lives in Sutton some 2 hours away and she’s known me my whole life and she knows something really bad happened I’m

(35:18) at the breaking point she’s so distraught that she drives 2 hours one way from Sutton to pick me up to bring me back to her place cuz she was afraid I was going to kill myself and she was right so she brings me back to her place and it’s a really nice little place in the country it was a warm sunny day and I should have felt better on the trip and when I got there and I was still completely empty I had no hope nothing was left in me whatsoever all I could think about was ending my life to the point that it even

(36:02) freaked my sister out and she was so distraught at seeing me in the state she said you know what I’m sorry this is this is sensory overload for me I need to take a nap so she goes into her room and I lie down on her sofa and at this point I’m at the end and in my despair not even out loud but in my head I reach out to God and I say God if you’re real I’m at the end of my rope show me the way show me the way and within maybe a 20 minute period the heaviness the depression the anger that was over me completely but

(36:59) completely melted away and I saw my father as a young child and the abuse that was forced upon him and the things that he had to deal with and while before at this point I was angry at my father I had even fantasized killing him it was to that point all that melted away all that anger was gone and the only thing that was left in my heart was compassion and a peace like I had never felt it before and this happens in a really short period of time and so I get up from off the couch and my sister hears me stirring about so she comes out of

(37:48) her room and she looks at me and her jaw hits the floor She says my God what happened to you your face is completely different and what I didn’t know at that time was that the Holy Spirit had come upon me and evicted all those demons that were tormenting me and left me with such a sense of peace and also a sense of purpose because up until that time if you had asked me could you ever conceive of forgiving your father for what he did that would have been the absolute last thing I would have thought of and yet

(38:33) here I was and this was first and foremost in my mind I had to return to Montreal and I had to forgive my father for all the things he did and that’s exactly what I did I picked up my stuff I got into a bus and I headed back to Montreal and I went to see my dad and I said Dad I’m sorry for everything I did all the part I played I forgive you and he cried I cried and he said you know what I don’t want you to leave I was just I was just really mad and while all the problems that had been there before didn’t cease to

(39:20) exist they were no longer insurmountable I just felt an incredible peace and Joy inside me and people started to notice it and it really created a shift in my life because up until that time I was constantly depressed I was constantly angry that was gone I was at that time I think about 50 lbs heavier than I am now and I was just compelled to fast so this is in Spring 2017 I didn’t know what fasting was I just knew that I had to do it and I wasn’t going to do some sort of a Daniel Fast where you have vegetables or you

(40:09) eat once a day I went all in I went on water and liquids for 22 days and it was just a phenomenal experience for me so I dropped about 50 lbs it changed how I view VI food it changed my relationship with food I was no longer binge eating I was getting into shape my life had been completely transformed everything that the devil had been working for decades to sabotage my life had been undone in a period of about 20 minutes that’s incredible and you know when we talk about deliverance we often think about you know people
(40:56) kicking and screaming and shouting and and you know coughing things up and whatnot it doesn’t seem like that’s what happened uh to you not at all and I was I was curious about that for the longest time so I I did my own research and I found that in a lot of cases of Deliverance or exorcism if you prefer to call it that um you don’t get those kind of manifestations those are actually rather rare in most cases uh the demons will come out in the form of crying tears uh some are merely exhaled so in a lot of cases uh

(41:37) deliverance from demons can be much more gentle than we’ve been led to believe when you when you called out to God like you said God but who are you thinking of was it the god like Yahweh the god of the Bible uh was it Jesus uh like what what God were you referring to well at this point I still had a new age mindset that I had uh carried through from Freemasonry so Freemasonry does believe that there is a God just not the god of the Bible but at the same time I knew someone was out there that there was a Consciousness and though I didn’t

(42:23) understand exactly who he was in pure faith and in desperation I cried out to him once I had done this fast um I also developed a yearning to read the Bible and that was an interesting story all on its own because we had a new King James Bible in the family which I borrowed and I started reading and I started beginning in Genesis and I realized very quickly that I was in over my head so I said God I need some help here because I don’t understand this stuff and lo and behold the Holy Spirit pointed me to various

(43:05) YouTube channels and Bible scholars to help me understand so whenever I had a question Whenever there was something I wasn’t sure about I went down a rabbit Trail and explored it and got the understanding and the more I read the Bible the more I understood the horror of what I had in what I had been involved in and I understood why the ancient Israelites had been forbidden from contacting sooth seers and necromancers and all these people who have contact with the dead it all made sense to me and I started

(43:43) to flesh out uh a diagram in my head of what was going on but I I still had some new age beliefs and what transformed that for me in a rather permanent way was believe it or not a horror movie um in 2017 there was a movie released called hereditary which I don’t recommend you watch uh but long story short that movie scared me straight it showed me exactly what I had been involved in with the new age with Shamanism with Freemasonry and it utterly terrified me and from that moment on I stopped all those rituals I stopped doing yoga and

(44:34) all the Paranormal Activity that I had been experiencing to that point just dropped off a cliff instantly that’s really interesting so you started to find parallels between what you were learning in the Bible uh and the different stories uh I guess you know specifically in the Old Testament too right and and what what was sort of going on in freem and sort of the the gods that they uh or The God that they were worshiping was actually demonic entities from the biblical perspective is that fair to say that is a very fair assessment and I can

(45:11) go even further because during one of the kns Templar Workshop weekends as I mentioned previously The Grandmaster was divulging these secrets from the higher degrees to the the the people who are taking this Workshop and most of the time they would actually allow us to record the workshop for our own purposes to take notes and whatnot but there were times rather specifically when they were about to divulge certain Secrets they asked us to stop recording and yet I was a meticulous notetaker and one of the things that

(45:48) they revealed early on was that the Knights Templar are not from Earth they crashed on this planet from somewhere else that they have an appearance that is almost identical to humans except that their skin has an almost luminous texture and these Templars taught the humans all the technology that we have now everything that we have in our civilization originated with these Templars who came from up there and that made me think as I was reading the Bible Genesis 6 the incursion of the Watchers who took human wives and had hybrid

(46:38) children they were basically telling us that they all of their knowledge all of their teachings came from Fallen Angels this is something that’s really prominent now too right with everybody talking about aliens and and UFOs and this Fascination and interest of uh what’s out there in the universe and in potentially even other dimensions so to speak so it’s interesting you make that parallel with the Bible cuz myself included when I was looking at those at those parts of the Bible I was I starting to understand that the Bible

(47:13) actually explains a lot of the things that people are are questioning in the world so it’s interesting you bring that point about the uh about Genesis 64 and the Watchers I think we could do a whole video just on that but just to keep it to your testimony um at this point you’ve started reading the Bible you’re starting to get interested when do you start to plug into a church ah well you see I started reading my Bible sometime in 2018 and I kept reading and I finished it and so I started again and right now

(47:53) let’s say we would be about when covid started so early 2020 and God had put it on my heart to come out of my solitude and find a church he said okay now you’ve been studying by yourself you’re reasonably proficient now you need to find a church family and so that’s what I did I went out and I looked on the internet to try to find a church that was Spirit-filled and uh I met with a tremendous amount of resistance most churches were closed they would not answer their emails they would not pick up their

(48:34) phones and so spring 2020 I happened upon a video of Tiff Shuttlesworth and I found that it was a really good teaching so I subscribed to his channel and at the end of the video he did something that I I’d never known was a thing which was the sinner’s prayer so now that I I understood who God was and how he sent his son to save us from our sins um I decided Well I need to do the sinner’s prayer I’ve never done this before so I did it by myself in my living room and uh I think I did it about 22 other times after that just to

(49:15) make sure that God heard me and so I kept trying to find churches that were open and lo and behold I find a uh a video of Pastor Steve teaching and I watch this and I’m thinking to myself who is this guy he is more Brazen than any Pastor any man of God I’ve ever seen in Canada I have to find this church so I keep digging and I find the website for good news chapel and I look at their mission statement this is correct this is correct this is correct this is correct I have to go to this place where is it so I look up the

(49:56) address and I Furrow my brow and I think to myself that’s not possible that’s right near my house that’s literally a 10minute walk from my house and that my friends is God’s sense of humor how was it to get into this church family were you a bit apprehensive were you how are you feeling I was very apprehensive because this was my first time in a church in probably about 20 years and understand that I come from a Catholic background where people pray in their heads and they don’t really Express

(50:33) themselves verbally or physically and so I walk into good news chapel and I’m thinking to myself wow this place is absolutely huge and one of the ushers brings me into the room uh where they’re worshiping and this is my first time seeing people Praise Jesus and hands raised and yelling Hallelujah so I was a little bit taken aback at first um and I guess they were they were cautious of me as they should be I just came in off the street uh and it took a while but I what I felt there was pretty much what I felt

(51:13) when God delivered me that fateful day in 2017 and I just knew in my heart this is it this is home this is where I belong and it’s just gotten so much better S if you had told a younger me that I would end up in a church being a prominent worshipper that I would be involved uh in the church Community I’d have thought you were crazy my life has been flipped 180° I have a church family that is closer and more dear to me than my own fles blood family God really transformed my life in ways I never thought were possible God

(52:05) took what the enemy meant for evil and he turned it for good you mentioned your family again are they supportive of you being part of the church I know that they were sort of loosely Catholic but not really practicing right are they supportive of your decision do they do they think that the the sort of Evangelical Church is acceptable to them or or are they not not really a fan they’re not really fans and in hindsight I think that that makes a certain amount of sense because there was still some weird stuff

(52:42) happening in my family that goes all the way back to my childhood and God revealed to me in a dream that my family had demons and so when I came to a Holy Spirit-filled church um they were somewhat hostile to the whole idea uh they never questioned anything I did in Freemasonry they never worried that was that I was part of a cult And yet when I when I go to this church they freak out and a lot of times they would refer to Good News Chapel as that church with much contempt in their voice voice yeah so unfortunately they’re they’re

(53:29) still not saved okay are are you still in contact with them I am not you’re not okay so you did you did forgive them but because of the because of your your participation in the church it’s not really possible to be uh with them at the at the moment this is a this is a very peculiar situation because while I had been saved I was starting to re-experience some I hesitate to call it Paranormal Activity but I was having nightmares and things I couldn’t quite explain and in January of 2023 I was really getting this feeling

(54:15) that God wanted me to part company with my biological family and I was watching evangelist TJ malangi uh preach and he brought up a Bible verse and it hit me like a brick and it basically let me know that yes you can pray for your family it’s you must love them of course but you can’t be around them you really have to separate from them and ever since I did that my life has just gotten exponentially better that Paranormal Activity stopped and so what I understand now is that I was being disobedient God had

(54:57) wanted me to part company with them for some time but because they’re your family and because you’re used to having them around you’ve normalized the abuse and everything that they bring with them and God said that has to stop and so I had to part company with them I even wrote them a letter told them why I was doing what I did and so my conscience is clear and my sincere hope is that they will find Jesus they will receive him as Lord and Savior and repent of their sins yeah thank you for sharing that that’s not it’s not an easy

(55:39) realization to make but um sometimes I think we got to leave some space for Holy Spirit to work in in people’s lives that being said do you you’ve had you had so many interesting experiences John what would you say to somebody struggling um or somebody going through something similar as as you went through in your life uh what sort of advice would you give them I think I could condense it down to two points the first being no matter how much you think you’ve screwed up your life no matter how bad you think you are no matter how

(56:16) unforgivable you think your crimes are God will welcome you with open arms if you sincerely repent if you come to him not only will he welcome you he will run to greet you that he can transform the worst situation and secondly uh this would be a warning for anyone who dabbles in the new age in the occult in Freemasonry or any of the other initiatory orders that this stuff is extremely dangerous God is real and demons are real and this stuff is absolute poison that will bring you to hell I’ve experienced that

(57:04) myself and I don’t want that for you in all of that John did you have once you started getting into the Bible has has any Bible verse stuck out to you that has really kept you and helped you uh in your journey of of Deliverance I think what I’m I’m meditating on most these days is Isaiah 5417 which reads no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue which Rises against you in judgment you shall condemn this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their righteousness is from me says the

(57:45) Lord what does that mean to you that means that no matter what kind of opposition you find yourself facing in your life God will bring you through it just be patient that this in this life we are guaranteed persecution that there are obstacles to overcome but if we trust in God he will absolutely bring us through all of them thank you for your testimony John can you do me one last favor and just end this off in prayer Heavenly Father we come to you in the wonderful and mighty name of Jesus father I thank you for

(58:28) giving me the words to speak I thank you Father God that this video will reach far and wide and touch the people who need to hear this father God thank you for your patience thank you for your longsuffering nature thank you for the privilege of using my life as an example of your goodness of your faithfulness we love you Lord I Thank you and I pray all these things in the name of Jesus Amen