The Bike Trip

I received my Confirmation from the CC and I remember feeling very proud. I was standing in my room and felt like I had accomplished a part of my Mission that I believe God Himself wanted me to accomplish. I was very God minded even from a very little child. When I was three I claimed Jesus appeared to me.

So there I was standing in my room feeling proud and I said out loud. "There's no devil. There's only God"

That summer I went on a bicycle tour through Boston Massachusetts. I remember we were on the train talking and getting to know one another. It was a co-ed trip. Suddenly this girl Marcy says, "Me and my friends are Satan worshipers. We greet each other like this:" And she makes the goat horn sign with her hand.

I immediately rebuke her in front of everyone saying, "There is no devil, there's only God who created all things!" And from that moment on I was repulsed by her. But she began to have a crush on me. The bike trip continued uneventful until one night. We were all on the beach at Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod. One of the boys began trying to convince me to go talk to Marcy (The devil worshiping girl). And I refused saying how i love God and that she worships the devil and I want nothing to do with her but he continued to press me. He then says, "Just go over there and kiss her" But I became more insistently against it.

Suddenly I began to get chills starting at my feet and the worked their way up my body to the top of my head. Every hair on my body stood on end. I began to go into a trance and I no longer saw the boy standing in front of me. I saw the ocean (even though my back was to the water) and I saw a man standing in a gondola and he had a lamp hanging from the front and he was standing in the gondola and had a pole he was using to push his way through the water. He wore a cloak with a large hood over his head. What snapped me out of the vision was the sound of a girl screaming down the beach. Everyone around me began running down to where the screams were coming from. I turned towards the screams astonished at what had just happened to me.

I walked towards the screams and when I got over there I saw the girl, Marcy, in a fetal position on the sand shaking like a leaf and sobbing. The bike tour leader was stroking her hair and trying to sooth her. Everyone began asking "What happened?" She sat up and pointed toward the ocean and said, "Satan came to me!" Everyone began mocking her and laughing but I didn't. Later I thought, "There IS a devil".

Was this experience given to me from God as a counter to what I had spoken out loud in my room after I was confirmed a Roman Catholic and said, "There's no such thing as the devil...."?

I think it was. Because from that night at the beach forward I DID believe there was a devil. There's no way I could even make anything like this up. What snapped me out of the vision was the girl screaming saying she saw what I saw! May God strike me down if I'm lying to you. This is 100% true.

The Dream

So I'm praying all the time and losing the beads and one night I pray for a dream of Jesus. Not knowing who Jesus really was. The first night I didn't have the dream. The second night I pray more urgently for the dream of Jesus. The second night I went to sleep and no dream. The third night I pray even more urgently in my heart for the dream. It was like God was putting the desire in my heart for the dream and I was acting on it.

That third night of praying for the dream of Jesus I fall asleep and I start to dream. The dream starts with me walking into a building and the doors close behind me. I walk in and suddenly I realize Jesus was all the way in the front of the building or church. He was glowing brightly in a white light and was facing the left side of the building so the left side of His profile is facing me. I looked at Him and there was something about him that reminded me of the Ultra Orthodox Jews who i would see walking to the Synagogue on the Sabbath. And It hit me full strength for the first time in my life. Jesus is Jewish. That hit me as a fact even in my dream and it remained in my conscience as a fact from that point of my life.

Suddenly, the Lord begins to slowly turn His head towards me and I realize that He knows everything I ever did. There was a real thing I did that was wrong in my life that was the most shameful thing I ever did and I realized He knew and I was so ashamed that I turned to leave.

As soon as I turned to leave a light flashed in my eyes and I was blinded by it when I opened my eyes again I was flat on my face at the Lord's feet. I was in shock in my dream and I slowly looked up until I was looking right up at the Lords face and He looked down upon me with so much mercy as if He was saying with His expression that the shameful feeling I had when I tried to leave was what He died on the cross for. It was the sin that caused me shame in my dream. Then my dream ended.

IT ALL COMES TOGETHER

So I had two very supernatural experiences and neither of them had anything to do with the CC. God doesn't work through that “church” to talk to anyone. And God especially doesn't need a priest or Mary to talk to you.

So fast forward another 7 years and I'm 27 at this point and I have a supernatural salvation experience. God showed me through this Bible that I had that it is the very end of times and that Jesus is going to be coming back to judge the living and the dead.

The particular Bible that I had had footnotes in the New Testament showing what Old Testament prophecy had been fulfilled. It filled me with faith in God's Word as the absolute Truth and Word of the Mighty God who created all things.

The only reason why I had the Bible is because I told my mother about my ship and who it was named after. It was named after Elmer Montgomery who was a marine and risked his life to save his platoon and he was known to carry around a little white leather Bible. So my mother bought me a white leather Bible and I had it around more or less as some kind of good luck charm not knowing what it said. I remember trying to read it before and I couldn't even understand one sentence. It was like reading Chinese. But when I was 27 and I had this experience I was lead to the Bible I had very supernaturally and I opened it and God spoke to me with Judgment and power and I knew God was speaking to my soul saying I better turn at His reproof. (Proverbs 1:22-33) (Click to read longer version of my testimony.) Or CLICK to expand.

At this moment I realize even more assuredly that the experiences I had in my life were real and that there is a very active spiritual realm all around us that we don't necessarily see. We often see the results of it but not the direct actual activity.

What Happens Next?

So being that I was raised in the Catholic Church and my eyes are being opened to the reality of God's Word and the reality of His wrath upon those living in sin who do you think I call first? That's right. The CC. I call the church I went to basically my whole life and told them what was happening. It was a nun and she hung up on me. I called back trying to explain to her that my eyes are being opened to truth of the Bible and sin and she hung up on me again. I call back and this time she threatens to call the police on me.

I call back a fourth time and this time a different nun answers and tells me to call the rectory. So I call and I speak with a priest and I'm telling him that I know that God is real and that He is talking to me through the Bible and he tells me to go to the local church in the area.

I go there and the man tells me to pray to Mary for my mother because Mary is "the Mother of mothers". I went back to that priest several times asking him where in the Bible does it say to do the things I have been taught my whole life and he at one time responded, "The Romans wrote the Bible" I said "no they didn't it was the Jews!". Another time he asked me, "How would you feel if I punched you in the nose?" Finally another time he asked me to pray for him and of course I did.

It began to dawn on me that the religion I grew up in was not the lifestyle God commands us to follow.

Another Brick in the Wall

So I'm reading the word of God like eight hours a day for a few weeks now. And I'm praying unceasingly for souls and for guidance on what to do next.

I was watching some religious channels on TV and Radio but I realize that something is very wrong. Nobody is talking to me the way God does in His Word and I'm very puzzled over this. But again God answers this question through His word in His many warning regarding there will be many false prophets in the last days.

But I continue to watch these stations looking for someone who is saved and can maybe give me some direction. After all, the Bible does say, "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Proverbs 11:4

So I'm watching this religious channel on TV one day and this really dramatic organ music begins to play and they show Pope JP II walking up some steps and he's carrying a bunch of flowers. The camera focuses on the crowd behind him and I see there is no end to the crowd in site! The camera focuses on the front where the fence is and I see older women clutching rosary beads and weeping from being overcome with emotion during this thing.

The Pope continues up the stairs and the music continues. Finally he reaches a big statue of Mary at the top of the stairs and he places the flowers at it's feet and begins worshiping this statute of Mary and in shock my thoughts exclaimed, "That's Idolatry!"

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" Exodus 2:4, 5

The Foundation is Laid

As you can see the conclusions I have regarding the CC are basic in their foundation. I simply compared them to the Word of God and saw that they are an entity that it not defined in God's Word as a church of the Messiah. God broke through all doctrines, philosophies and ideas with His word of Truth and nothing else can stand next to it.

After the foundation was laid there was much material to build with to put together a more complete picture of what the Roman CC is. My site is the result of this.