The past few years have seen a distinct uptick in religious persecution and attacks against believers. It became very apparent during the scamdemic. Remember Pastor Tony Spell?
I have personally talked to women who have lost custody of their children and faced serious restrictions on what they can tell and teach their children regarding religion. This is particularly true of believers who choose to step away from the worldly holidays and observe the Holy Days, the Feast Days of Yehovah, as described in Leviticus 23.
A press release by Liberty Counsel and an article dated November 29, 2025, show the depths that darkness will go to and how desperately hell works to get a grip on our children.
The Maine Supreme Court recently ruled that a mother is forbidden to take her 12-year-old daughter to church.
Yes, you heard that right. This mother cannot take her daughter to church.
The order also “allows prohibiting the daughter from reading the Bible,”
In this order, the non-custodial father was given the “sole right to decide about whether his daughter” could attend the church services at Calvary Chapel Church (the church the mother attends). It also gives the non-custodial father the sole right to decide if she can watch church videos, read any church literature, and communicate with any of the church members.
And, in case you are wondering, no, the order is not confined to just Calvary Chapel Church. It includes “any other church or religious organization, or exposure to the teachings of any religious philosophy or of the Bible in general.”
How could this possibly happen? You’re gonna love this.
The non-custodial father, Matthew Bradeen, hired a left-wing California sociology professor, Dr. Janja Lalich, to testify as an “expert on cults” to sway the judge (or bewitch her?). Lalich claimed that Calvary Chapel is a cult because, this is rich, it teaches on spiritual warfare, demons, and hell – oh! And that it promises some sort of salvation.
But there’s more.
It also <<gasp!>> has the audacity to, get this, PRAY in front of minors!
Well, imagine that! A church that teaches biblical concepts AND encourages prayer in front of minors! Oh, the horror! What a travesty that they actually teach the Bible! My goodness! What is the world coming to?
It gets better though. This crackpot of a “cult expert” asserted that because of these things, you know, them teaching the Bible and all, the girl could experience psychological harm if she attends the church – any church.
You can’t make this stuff up!
I don’t know what is worse, whether this liberal came up with this stuff or that the judge bought it! What kind of witchcraft was going on in that courtroom?
It’s also worth noting that in her order, Nofsinger (the judge) did not write God (capital G), but instead wrote “god (lowercase G).” Matthew Bradeen’s complaint has the same lack of capitalization.
This indicates a lack of belief in Yehovah (God), or at the very least, a blatant lack of reverence for Him.
On December 13, 2024, Maine District Judge Jennifer Nofsinger found Emily Bickford, the girl’s mother and Bradeen’s ex) to be a fit parent except for the fact that she is a Christian – she believes in and obeys the Word of God and that somehow makes her a bad mother.
Let’s count the agents of hell here. We have the father, his legal counsel, the “cult expert,” and the judge. All fully and willingly given over to evil.
This is nothing short of judicial tyranny.
Let’s take a closer look at a couple of the players here. Understand, these are just my opinions, and unless they’ve decided to take away my right to free speech, I can provide my opinion on this situation.
So, here’s how I really feel about it.
Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Church
Now, before we go further with this, the doctrine that Pastor Hibbs teaches does NOT line up with ours. We are whole Bible believers, and based on his church website, he is more inclined to the doctrine that is popular in churchianity.
We do not support his teachings. However, we do recognize that any church and congregation that comes under fire by rabid leftists for believing in Yehovah is not isolated.
And it’s just a matter of time until those attacks reach us.
With that said, he has caused quite a ruckus and ruffled a bunch of Democrat feathers. In February 2024, he was invited to give the invocation in the House of Representatives as the guest chaplain. He did, praying that God “hear my cry in this hour of great need that we might be humbly blessed before You in repentance of our national sins.”
Well, apparently his cry was heard loud and clear by the several Democrats and sent them into a tizzy.
It took a couple of weeks, but I guess someone looked up what exactly he meant, and the storm began. Twenty-six House Democrats signed a two-and-a-half-page letter that was then sent to the speaker of the House. This letter called Hibbs “an ill-qualified hate preacher.” They accused him of pushing a “Christian nationalist agenda.”
As I said, they were a tad upset. Seems they didn’t appreciate being called out for their sin. And they spun it from there. Boy, did they spin it.
Is it bad that I giggle at the fact that it took them two solid weeks to figure it out and pull it all together?
The church is in Chino Hills and looks to be rather large. As I said, Hibbs does not teach what we teach, but I believe that he is sincere.
I also pray that Yehovah get a hold of him and lead him to the full truth of scripture and an Acts 2:38 experience. Salvation is vital, and you won’t get there with baptism in titles.
But as I said, when Christians are being attacked, it’s just a matter of time before it’s us – or you.
Scripture tells us that the people of Yehovah will be hated because of what we believe.
Who is Janja Lalich?
According to her Amazon author bio, Janja Lalich is a sociology professor at California State University, Chico. She claims to be involved in the “study” of “the social psychology of controversial groups and exploitative and abusive relationships” for more than thirty years.
She has made several alarming statements against the preaching of the gospel – and that would encompass pretty much all churches. She refers to them as “Moses Model” cults. She isn’t even tried to hide her aversion to all things holy. She simply lumps them all into one category, making all Christian churches bad and harmful.
That kind of bias would certainly serve to diminish her credibility, leading one to wonder just what does she have against religion?
Granted, there are some kooks out there, but to attack the gospel? And she does it without sufficient data to substantiate her wild and obviously highly emotionally charged claims.
It really comes down to this. Either she is inherently evil and hates Yehovah or she is drunk on emotion and lost in her “feels.” Only someone deeply unstable either, spiritually or mentally, would make such a wide, irrational sweeping judgment.
She doesn’t even try to hide that she has a vendetta against religion in general.
This seemingly innocuous action hints strongly at bias.
Perhaps it comes from her own beliefs. According to her social media, she is a supporter of “gay rights,” while scripture is staunchly opposed to homosexuality. She strongly supports the Democratic Party, which has a platform that is diametrically opposed to everything that scripture teaches: abortion, family, marriage, and the list goes on.
Several of her social media posts seem to indicate a strong bent toward socialist ideologies. She never comes right out and says the words – but she doesn’t say anything to refute it either.
Her Wikipedia page cites her as an “expert” on cults and similar systems, but if she is deliberately targeting religious organizations and naming them as cults because they teach scripture, and she obviously despises scripture, is that really an expert? Isn’t an expert someone who is objective and without bias?
Is it possible that she has an agenda to create “cult trauma” where there really isn’t any? Is it possible that she has an agenda to label all religious organizations as cults – and to what end?
That would certainly seem to be the case, though. Sure, she is careful to use language, like “some” or “many” to avoid generalizations. Still, she then follows with an abundance of “cult characteristics” that she twists to include ALL religious organizations – even those she did not specifically name.
THAT, my friends, is mind manipulation.
In “Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships,” Lalich lists several “methods” that cults use to “advance their indoctrination process or thought reform program: which includes
- The biblical practice of speaking in other tongues and lumps it into the SAME category as torture and sexual abuse.
- “Control of information going in and out of the group environment” – also biblical. The assembly leader protects the group from unbiblical teachings, false doctrine, and heresy.
- “Isolation from family and friends” – also biblical. For one, we are not to be unequally yoked with nonbelievers, but also, I have personally known people whose families have pulled away from them because of what they believe. Are they supposed to just abandon their beliefs to follow those family members who turned away from them? Doesn’t that in itself make the family a cult?
- “Food deprivation” – Fasting is biblical and not forced, but it is taught in Bible believing congregations. We teach on fasting and its benefits. But many fitness programs also promote fasting, so I guess they are cults too.
- “Intensive indoctrination sessions> These “indoctrination sessions” are apparently achieved through Bible lessons and preaching, teaching, and writing by the leader. So, I guess Jesus was a cult leader. Imagine that.
And she just goes on and on.
If you follow her philosophy, pretty much EVERYTHING is a cult.
She claims that she doesn’t define cults by belief alone, that it’s the way they control people by using coercion and manipulation. Yet she repeatedly cites religion as a cult. She discusses the evils of religion and church throughout several of her books (the ones I read anyway) and social media posts – it is quite obvious she has a problem with it, with Yehovah.
From what I have seen in her books, writings, and social media, she comes across as deeply troubled.
And she is obviously very adversarial to anything relating to Yehovah, the Bible, family, and any conservative ideologies. One might even say hostile. After all, the video cover for her YouTube Channel “Why do People Join Cults?” has a picture of a preacher in the pulpit, holding a Bible.
Can you get any more obvious?
So, what’s my point?
That woman walked into the courtroom with a very strong bias AGAINST anything to do with Yehovah, church, and biblical teachings. The court allowed her to insert her personal bias into the case, posing as an “expert witness” when she was really an agent of hell with zero objectivity.
And the court, the judge, bought it hook, line, and sinker.
It sure does look like Janja Lalich drew them into HER cult.
Final Thoughts and a Battle Plan
Who am I? Nobody, really. I’m just a girl who loves Yehovah and has a passion to teach those who are hungry for Him, help them form a deeper, more meaningful relationship with Him.
I’m just a truth teller, and I’m sounding the alarm.
Now is the time to be sober. Now is the time to be ready.
Hell is coming for your faith, your fellowship, for you.
So now is the time to draw closer to Him. He said to trust in Him for our provision, especially in these days of growing persecution.
He said He would never leave or forsake those who are faithful to Him. And He meant it.
Do I believe that cults exist? Of course I do! I know they exist. However, I think it is irrational and irresponsible to allow someone with extremely evident biases against Yehovah, the Bible, and scriptural teaching to be allowed to insert their bias into the conversation and proclaim them as cults – especially when it results in denying a mother the right to train up her child the way she should go by teaching her the Word of Yehovah.
I have heard for years the accusations that Pentecostal Apostolics are a cult. People who did not understand scripture or who had encountered a pastor or teacher who was not biblical and carelessly threw the label on ALL Pentecostal Apostolics.
That is wrong.
I have also heard and even been accused of being in a cult because I believe in scripture and keep the Sabbath and Feast Days.
That is absolutely absurd and comes from sheer ignorance. It shows a blatant lack of biblical literacy and spiritual immaturity. All it takes is a earnest heart that loves Yehovah and wants to please Him to search it out. It’s all right there in the book. You only miss it if you don’t want to know it.
So, let’s break it down.
- I believe in the scripture. I have read the scripture and had personal experiences with Yehovah. I KNOW He is real. And I know for a fact that scripture is truth.
- I think for myself. No one told me what to believe. I studied. I searched the scriptures and worked out my own salvation – which is exactly what scripture tells us to do.
- We don’t teach that you have to believe what we believe. If we did that, then you would be obeying US and not Yehovah. We teach scripture and tell people to let Yehovah work in their lives. We tell them to study scripture and pray. HE will transform them if they are sincere and humble.
- People can come and go as they please. No one is held captive. We still talk to people who leave. For pity’s sake, we’re not a gang!
- We do restrict who can teach. We don’t allow teaching that is not biblical or that is carnal. Teachers in a secular classroom do the same thing because if they let someone come in teaching “new math” that says 3+3=7, that will cause confusion.
- We have put people out of our assembly because they were disruptive or presented a threat to the body. If you had a bad guy break into your home and threaten your family, you would do the same.
This is not rocket science.
It is deeply disturbing that people in worldly “power” are so given over to their carnal tendencies that they can open doors to allow demonic influence in, then allow those demons to play those people like fine-tuned fiddles.
And turn them into active agents of hell.
Well, they have power in the world, but WE have the authority in the spirit. Those of us who are baptized in the name of Yeshua, who walk in HIS authority, have the authority to tread on those serpents..
Nope, those devils BOW to us!
And here’s the battle plan.
Pray.
Lift up this child and her mother. Yeshua, I ask you to put people in her path who LOVE her enough to teach her Biblical truth.
Send her friends who love Yehovah and who will share the scripture with her – give her a Bible of her own. And ask Him to conceal it so that those who have no regard for her soul cannot see it.
Put questions in her mind and send her seeking after you. Put truth teaching material before her in the form of print or electronic in a way that is readily accessible so that she can learn and grow.
Yeshua, walk with her as you did with the three Hebrew boys in the furnace. Protect her so that not even her clothes smell like smoke.
Yeshua, I know that you have big plans for her. You knew her before you even formed her. Teach her and grow her despite what the world tries to stop. Show her your love and let her grow in grace.
Draw her to you daily.
Strengthen that mother, lead her to scripture that strengthens her faith. Bring her to a deeper truth and a more intimate relationship with you
And finally, have mercy on those who are trying to keep the child from you. They are sure to face your wrath if they do not repent and change their ways. I know it is your will for ALL to be saved, so do whatever it takes to bring them in line with you so that they will not perish and their souls may be saved.
In Yeshua’s name, amen.
Let the war begin.
“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Yeshua
Matthew 19:13-15
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