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Since
going on line for the first time in
1998, the Radio New Jerusalem web site
has gone through many phases,
incarnations and reincarnations.
We began life on the web as
"seriousradio.com" for the purpose of
promoting our antique radio rebuilding
business of the same name. This
proved to be short lived as the then
fledgling Sirius Radio approached our
web master, Andy McFarlane, with the
proverbial "offer we couldn't refuse" if
we would agree to stop using this name
so as to not create confusion and
conflict with their business
enterprise. We agreed, and
profited sufficiently to take our
business to the next level with the idea
in mind that we would fulfill our dream
of developing and broadcasting our own
radio program on one or more of the
Christian shortwave broadcasting
services.
For various reasons summed up best as
"life happens" the radio
program itself never became a reality.
The name of the new web site,
radionewjerusalem.com, was registered
with the hope that it would eventually
come to represent the web presence of a
daily news program, or perhaps even an
entire broadcast service. Towards
this end, we began linking news sites
and featuring items daily that we
thought might make interesting topics
for discussion, and I have also used the
site as a means of publishing articles I
have written, as well as producing a
journal of my own writings going back
over 40 years. When our domain was
allowed to expire, we decided to
temporarily move to
radionewjerusalem.net, and, at least so
far, it is here we remain.
As the overall Catholic web presence has
grown, so RNJ has evolved more and more
towards a role as a legitimate and
comprehensive daily news portal and
digest. And as recent events in
the United States, particularly the
presidential election in 2016, brought
to light the widespread reality of "fake
news," and the emergence of the
mainstream media as a leftist propaganda
tool promulgating an anti-Christian
globalist agenda, a conscious decision
was made to counter this by drawing upon
a combination of Catholic, select and
sympathetic non-Catholic Christian, and
known (and usually reliable) secular
alternative online news sources, in an
attempt to provide a more accurate (and
truthful) faith based view of current
affairs. In addition to this
objective, the greater goal was to
promote a Christian worldview, from a
prophetic perspective, that is lacking
in the major media outlets, and which is
desperately needed if believing
Christians of all stripe are to
understand, participate, and have their
voices heard, in the antagonistic public
square of 21st century America and the
world.
Adding to this sense of urgency
concerning the current state of world
affairs is the evermore apparent, and
increasingly bold, counter-Catholic
leadership the Church is experiencing
under the pontificate of Pope Francis
-- a leadership that seems bent
upon the suppression of two thousand
years of the true Catholic faith, and
which does so in favor of the same
leftist, secular and diabolic agenda
that is plunging the nations into sin,
ruin and moral turpitude. It is a
leadership descended from the Apostles
of Christ, and commissioned by Jesus
Himself, to "go and make disciples of
all nations." It has instead been
infiltrated by Luciferian Freemasonry,
perverted and co-opted by the false
religion of scientism, and has led the
masses astray through the malformation
of liberalism. In doing so, it has
led the Church, and the world, ever
deeper down the rabbit hole of neo-pagan
modernism, and so ever closer to a
looming, and horrific, divine
chastisement directly resulting from
this fall into heresy, nihilism, and
apostasy.
These are the very times in which we
live, as foretold in Scripture, and of
which we have been warned by the seers,
saints and mystics of the Church: those
who have served faithfully in relaying
the message of Almighty God as revealed
in the ancient prophets, as fulfilled in
Christ at the Cross, and as transmitted
to us through history by the mandate
given the Catholic Church at
Pentecost. These warnings have
been provided through time, and by
supernatural means, through the holiest
of persons, and through such
unimpeachable sources as the Blessed
Virgin Mary, and even Christ
Himself. The importance of these
voices from heaven being heard and
heeded in these last days cannot be
overstated, for the hope of our beloved
Catholic Church, the temporal world, and
the eternal salvation of souls, depends
upon precisely this. Because the
holy and ancient Church has fallen into
error and decline, and has ceased to
proclaim the true Gospel of Christ and
the revealed truth of God to the world,
these voices must be heard now, and
their deeper truths related reliably,
realistically and accurately to the flow
and interpretation of current
affairs. It is a divine
imperative, and it is with this in mind,
that this humble effort is dedicated
towards this end. And it is our
hope and prayer that in doing so we may,
in our own small way, help to inspire
and sustain many others more qualified
in doing likewise.
The name Radio New Jerusalem was
originally chosen as a play on the
common practice of international
broadcasters to name stations in this
way: Radio Free Europe, Radio Moscow,
Radio Bulgaria, Radio Canada
International, Radio Havana Cuba, and so
on and so forth. It hearkens back to a
simpler time in which the night time
shortwave meter bands teamed with
broadcasters dedicated to proclaiming,
and promoting, the various nationalist
and political agendas of the day, and
this was endlessly commented upon and
enlightened by Christian religious
broadcasters, independent broadcasters
selling cheap airtime to all comers, and
amateurs ("hams") expressing their God
given right to freedom of speech over
American airwaves that belonged freely
to the public, and which existed in an
atmosphere without fear of repercussion.
This is the world of radio I grew up in,
and I spent many a late night, into the
wee morning hours, listening to the free
flow of information and opinion on the
international shortwave and domestic
medium wave bands, and, over several
decades, and into these latter days, I
have followed this flow of information
as it has moved to a large extent from
the airwaves and onto the
internet. As the shortwave bands
grew increasingly silent, and as the
medium wave band became increasingly
inane and commercial, the internet
emerged as the last mass media bastion
of true freedom of expression --
including and especially religious
freedom of expression. In response
to the age of President Donald Trump,
the content monitoring, censorship and
biases of social media, and the
increasing reach of Big Brother
surveillance government, has resulted in
a world wide web that is quickly
morphing into merely another wing of the
"Mockingbird"
media. In response to this, I have
returned to my roots as a shortwave
listener, and now, finally, as a
shortwave broadcaster. Twenty
years ago it was my intention to present
the story of these times on the radio,
and so as the age darkens and time grows
short, the question I posed to myself
was, "If not now, when?" The
answer is shortwave radio programming
now in production, filtered through a
lens shaped by many years of following a
deeper flow of information and ideas
over the road of a free media less
traveled. I pray it is
informative.
Many years ago, when late night radio
was obsessed with the "Planet X"
theory, and Zecharia Sitchin
was at the peak of his popularity as the
Erich
von Daniken of the Sumerian Empire,
it occurred to me that a "Planet X"
would be more likely to be the
descending New Jerusalem of Revelation
20 than the NIbiru of Sitchin bringing
back the gods of ancient Sumer. It
would certainly be the best option of
the two for planet Earth. Anyway,
it occurred to me that Radio New
Jerusalem is what the Celestial City's
shortwave radio service would obviously
be called, and the message would be
announcing the soon and triumphant
return to earth of Jesus Christ.
The approach of the New Jerusalem would
signal the time of the end as recorded
in the Book of Revelation, and so the
message would be prophetic, and the
prophecy apocalyptic. Given the
crisis in the Catholic Church, and a
lesser publicized crisis of faith
engulfing the other churches, publicly
proclaiming the True Gospel of Salvation
through the shed blood of Jesus Christ
at the Cross is now considered
counter-cultural in a post-Christian
society, and the silence in the
mainstream media is deafening.
The message of Radio New Jerusalem is
the Gospel, and is, therefore, also
counter-cultural. It is pirate
radio. And since it contains much
lost spiritual knowledge contained only
in the ancient Catholic Faith, and
necessary for all Christians in these
last days, it is catholic in the greater
sense, and its message universal to
all. It is Catholic Pirate Radio,
and its time has come. Beyond this
time is that time in which God will make
all things new, so take heart and
continue in the peace of Christ: take
strength and comfort in His words in
John 14:27, "Let not your hearts be
troubled, neither let them be
afraid." The message of the New
Jerusalem, at the end of the Book of
Revelation, is simply, "we win."
We do!
While these days of sin upon the earth
may lead us through times of sorrow,
darkness and tribulation in this world,
we would do well to always remember that
it is this same world that crucified our
Lord. Through Lucifer's deceits,
the multitudes are led astray into the
belief that this fallen planet is our
final home and destiny, and it is those
of this world and worldview who believe
it is we, the believing disciples of
Jesus, who are delusional, and who must
be converted to their inverted and
perverted way of thinking -- or perish
as did the Master. This is the
Great Deception, and, like the martyrs
of old, we must hold fast and know in
our hearts that though they may put us
to death, they cannot kill us, and we
must hold true to Christ and know that
as so our Master, so our kingdom is not
of this world!
As we wait in joyful anticipation of His
impending return and victory, we should
be sustained in knowing that a Catholic
Church turned secular, and lost, and
embracing the worldly ways of her false
sons, cannot and will not triumph -- but
our Lord can and will. There is no
greater witness to this truth than
Christ Himself, who remains with us,
"Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity" in the
Holy Eucharist, and Who does so, as He
promised, until the end of this age of
apostasy. It is at this rapidly
approaching time that He will remove all
imposters from the See of St. Peter, and
take His rightful place upon the throne
of His Church. And, at the head of
His people, as King of Kings, and Lord
of Lords, He will reign in glory upon
the earth as He does in heaven.
It is in the light of this greater good
news that the lesser bad news should be
viewed. Jesus is coming!
He's here already!
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