As the Walls Come Tumbling Down…

By Charlie Johnston

Shawnee, Kansas – As I have been saying for months now, the power of darkness has been broken. You might wonder, if that is so, why is there so much strife and fury sounding across the land? Simple: when sunlight bursts upon a coven of vampires there is a lot of shrieking, wailing, and gnashing of teeth before they are no more. The sounds you hear and the strife you see is the experience of watching the old order fall away like the walls of Jericho. We will not lose any fight we engage in on the side of God, from here on out – if we engage with courage and resolve.

Though demonic forces are now impotent in battle, they still have a very powerful psychological weapon in their arsenal. Like a vulnerable animal that puffs itself up to look bigger in order to intimidate a foe, the devils are masters at making you think you can’t win – so that you won’t engage in battle at all. Though that is the only battle-related power they have now, it is a powerful one that will neuter many, allowing the demons to take battles by default.

I believe that this suits God for now. He intends that the faithful should grow in trust, paying more than pious lip service to it. The whole world has entered into a training period – training on how to be the people of God once again. He has shown us how deep the rot in our cultures, societies, and religious hierarchies run. Already the old order has fallen away. We are now engaged in cleaning up the rubble, even as the acolytes of the old order wail and scream, trying to regain what they have lost. Even if they managed to frighten us away from the task before us, they cannot prevail. What they have lost is lost for good.

The rules have already changed. For several generations, evil men have advanced themselves in a world gone evil by cheating, lying, betrayal, lust, and double-dealing. The satan was given his century to destroy the faith of the world. Though he did much damage, he has not succeeded – and his time is up. For now, the most dangerous power he has is terror. That power was foreshadowed in the 9-11 attacks in America, but now comes to its fullness. He is trying to intimidate us out of engaging in the struggle. But, again, God has recalibrated the rules. Now, the way to get ahead is to do the most right thing you can, simply because it is the right thing to do. Be honorable in all that you do, with kindness (and sometimes pity) for all you engage with.

Many will not. Those who do will discover that God is with them – to the extent that they are with God. You must learn to have no fear of the empty show the devil mounts against you. Prudence is truly a virtue. But for generations it has been twisted into a rank parody to excuse cowardice. It is, even now, being exposed for the rank parody it has become. How do you know the difference between genuine prudence and rank cowardice? Most people do not. The best demand holy boldness from others while defending their own cowardice as prudence. But God has commenced classes, so you can re-learn the instincts and lessons He intends for you. Do the most right thing you can think of, acting both with restraint and with holy boldness. God will reward you for it, that you may be encouraged to go forward. Act forever with timidity before the affrights the devil pesters you with and God will leave you barren, until you learn to act boldly. Those of genuine bad will must either convert or perish. Ah, but there are so many who remain from the century the devil was given! Do not fear them: pity them, but do not cede a single inch to them. The vampires who have fed on the people of faith for so long are screeching as the sunlight bursts forth  upon them. As terrible as their situation is, the Lord is merciful. They can choose to become children, not just creations, of God once more. Sadly, few will. But we do not know which few they will be. So evangelize all, while not submitting to the depredations of any anymore. God is teaching us trust anew. That is the first lesson we must learn before we can seriously begin the lesson on discernment.

Do not be afraid. Do not put your confidence in yourself, but learn to have absolute confidence in Him. And He will use you to cast the mountains of depravity and disorder in front of us into the sea.

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For almost 40 years I have been an advocate of free trade with what I called “mirroring” – that our markets will be as free to any nation as theirs are to ours. It is NOT free trade to leave our markets wide open to nations who mount huge barriers to protect their own. I liken it to playing in a fixed poker game: you can’t win by just playing harder. You must make the rules apply to all and enforce them – or quit the game. We have been playing in a fixed poker game all my life.

In the early years of my life, we justified it because we were helping much of the world recover from the devastation of World War II. That’s fine. But long after that was over (almost certainly by the beginning of the Kennedy administration) other nations throughout the world kept leeching off us, mounting huge trade barriers against us while taking advantage of our relatively open rules.

Finally, Donald Trump has done what I have advocated for most of my life. He calls it reciprocal tariffs rather than mirrored trade. No matter. What matters is that the fixed poker gamer is over – and, oh, how the fixers are squealing! It does not impress me that the very people who have been wrong about economics, foreign policy and almost everything else about our society for a good 50 years are lecturing us what a mistake we are making by no longer doing what they tell us. They are the broken acolytes of a rotten system, trying to protect the system they know. It’s over for them. Ignore their panicked rants.

For a very long time, all the aggressively atheistic left has known about how to hold the economy together has involved gimmicks. They have held it together with paper clips and rubber bands while building it of spun sugar. It cannot hold.

There will be some disruption for while, just as there is when you reboot your computer. But Trump is determined to end the smoke and mirrors approach Democrats so love and replace it with something solid, fruit that will last.

For me, when Trump announced this policy on “Liberation Day,” I did not panic. Rather, I felt the first, distant hope that, if pursued with vigor and resolve, this can be the first step to preventing the catastrophic global economic collapse that all the gimmicks had made inevitable. It’s just the first step but, boy, it is a good one! Trump seems to understand that the only thing that has real, enduring, value is what we produce and create – the goods and services of our own hands and minds. If he is truly embarked on a great crusade to make our economic policy reflect that reality, we have got a real shot at avoiding disaster. Of course, the faux intellectual fraudsters and midwits will be swept away as their gimmicks and games are reduced to confederate currency. But they brought that on themselves. Choose or perish.

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Registration for our CORAC National Conference, to be held July 11, 12, and 13th in Atchison, Kansas, is now live at the CORAC website. I hope to see a whole bunch of you there. I will talk more about it later this week. I toured much of Atchison and our venue site last Saturday.

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At the end of this tour, I am going to finally retire my old Subaru. With 350,000 miles on a four-cylinder engine, old Bessie has truly gone above and beyond in her service. I appeal now to CORAC members: if you have a reliable, old car that you would sell at a reasonable price, I want to hear from you at charliecar339@gmail.com. I don’t care if it has over a hundred thousand miles or is over a decade old. I’m a plain fellow, consumed with the mission – and making sure our donors’ money is spent to advance that mission. I would prefer it have at least a six-cylinder engine and it must be well maintained. I would look to make the switch in May or June sometime. So if you have something you would like to sell and it has been well-maintained, help me put old Bessie out to pasture. She’s earned her retirement.

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I have been very sluggish about putting up articles for a while. That is largely because I have been re-organizing everything and establishing a new rhythm. I am convinced this is a pivotal year, a year upon which the rest of our pilgrim journey to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will turn. I will not be so bold as to say the re-organization is complete, but it is complete enough to establish a consistent rhythm again. We have a lot of opportunities we can take now – and a lot of showy dangers to surmount. I intend to take advantage of all of them to advance the mission of CORAC, which is the re-evangelization of the world through living ordinary things with extraordinary faith, honor, and boldness. Let the work re-double!

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36 thoughts on “As the Walls Come Tumbling Down…

  1. Wow, Charlie! This piece is laden with gold, all signs of hope. I’ll be keeping a copy of these quotes near my contemplation chair: 

    “We will not lose any fight we engage in on the side of God, from here on out – if we engage with courage and resolve.”

    “… the devils are masters at making you think you can’t win – so that you won’t engage in battle at all. Though that is the only battle-related power they have now, it is a powerful one that will neuter many, allowing the demons to take battles by default.”

    “The whole world has entered into a training period – training on how to be the people of God once again.”

    “He (the satan) is trying to intimidate us out of engaging in the struggle. But, again, God has recalibrated the rules. Now, the way to get ahead is to do the most right thing you can, simply because it is the right thing to do. Be honorable in all that you do, with kindness (and sometimes pity) for all you engage with.”

    “The best demand holy boldness from others while defending their own cowardice as prudence. But God has commenced classes, so you can re-learn the instincts and lessons He intends for you. Do the most right thing you can think of, acting both with restraint and with holy boldness. God will reward you for it, that you may be encouraged to go forward. Act forever with timidity before the affrights the devil pesters you with and God will leave you barren, until you learn to act boldly. Those of genuine bad will must either convert or perish. Ah, but there are so many who remain from the century the devil was given! Do not fear them: pity them, but do not cede a single inch to them. The vampires who have fed on the people of faith for so long are screeching as the sunlight bursts forth  upon them. As terrible as their situation is, the Lord is merciful. They can choose to become children, not just creations, of God once more. Sadly, few will. But we do not know which few they will be. So evangelize all, while not submitting to the depredations of any anymore. God is teaching us trust anew. That is the first lesson we must learn before we can seriously begin the lesson on discernment.

    Do not be afraid. Do not put your confidence in yourself, but learn to have absolute confidence in Him. And He will use you to cast the mountains of depravity and disorder in front of us into the sea.”

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    1. My favorite was “when sunlight bursts upon a coven of vampires there is a lot of shrieking, wailing, and gnashing of teeth before they are no more. The sounds you hear and the strife you see is the experience of watching the old order fall away like the walls of Jericho.” It was my tag line as I posted the whole kit ‘n kaboodle to my fb page, credits and all! After all, who says it better than Charlie!

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  2. I love it, Charlie! “Do the Next Right Thing” 2.0 = “Do the MOST right thing you can think of, acting both with restraint and with holy boldness.” Prioritizing prudent action is more effective and efficient.

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  3. Charlie thank you for this piece!!! I – like Beckita – am going to print this out and keep very close to my recliner as well!!!

    I’m going through a rough patch. I ask for prayers. As many of you know, I’ve been babysitting A LOT these past four years, Jaxy poo! I’ve just been told that I’ve done a terrible job of it, and for that reason, they’re putting him in, “school,” aka daycare 😬. This poor kid we’ve co-parented for 4 years is in for a terrible shift and I’m worried to death for him about this transition! So if you all could say a little prayer for Jax and me I’d really appreciate it cuz I’m mad as hell😂😂😂.

    I’ve been praying to God to help me accept all this and TO TRUST GOD in this situation I knew would eventually come and 3 times now, Charlie showed up first on my frameo, secondly on my Alexa and thirdly a squirrel ran past my 😂😂😂

    THIS IS THE TIME TO TRUST GOD

    THANK YOU CHARLIE!!! I hope you get your car soon! I’ll be making a donation soon, my friend!

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    1. Linda, It seems the enemy is shaking the very foundations of every person in the world right now. COVID started it and it’s been a slow-motion landslide ever since. Charlies assurance that “this is not the end” is being echoed by many a person and for good reason….it isn’t! But as Crewdog says “at our age this IS the End Times!” So we need to focus and do the good we can while the sun shines and to remember God is ultimately in charge. He cannot be outdone and our little mustard seed of faith is not waisted but is transformed into a tree by His power not ours. We just agree to be His vehicle not the power driving it. Does a knife brag when a man carves a roast or the ax when the lumberjack cuts down a tree? Luke 17:10 reminds us “when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.”

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      1. Dearest Phillip G Frank Jr thank you and all that made perfect perfect sense to me this morning!!! I was so mad yesterday I felt like I was in hell! 😬. I didn’t like it at all so I offered it up and today I’m at total peace and I believe that you all praying for me got me out of that slump so thank you thank you thank you!!! HM F0L for you today!!! Ha! God bless you Phillip

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      1. Thanks so much nance Shaw!!! Feeling so better today and trusting Jesus as Charlie is telling us to do!!! I took this one pretty badly we’ve had Jax here with us half the time including overnights so you get really attached to a little one like that!!! But in reality we aren’t the parents and at this point we can only pray!!! I remember my grandfather being worried about me when he caught me smoking 🚬 in hs! lol 😂 he told me he never wanted to see me do that again! I’m old now but I’ll never forget how worried and upset he was at the trajectory I was on! So we pray and we trust God like Charlie says to do! lol 😂 thanks again nance!!! I’ll post a hm for you today too!!!🥰😘😘😘⛪️🥳

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    2. Linda, your pain brings tears to my eyes for you. Things eventually heal where our kids are involved, but it stings for a while.

      Charlie, I felt like cheering as I read your lines about all the hope! Love all those quotes Beckita picked out, and the whole thing!!

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      1. Awwwww Annie w, you saying what you just said brought tears to my eyes too! Thank you for your prayers I’m much better today and more trusting of what Charlie tells us to do! It’s so hard to watch your loved ones headed towards suffering and trauma. I know God will work this situation for the good…somehow! Prayers for you today Annie for your heavenly kindness shown to me!!!

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          1. Thank you so much jay Kay!!! It’s amazing the power of prayer especially from all of you!!! Ha!!! This is the place I go when I’m in the desert!!! 🏜️ 🙏🥰😘🥳

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      1. Katey thank you I feel so much better today!!! Felt like I was in hell yesterday I was so mad😂😂😂. I didn’t like that feeling just kept offering it up 😂. I’m at peace today thanks to you good folk here!!

        How did your tests come out??? I couldn’t remember your name myownbackyard I called you plow to the earth on national discussion 😂😂😂. I’ll just call you katey in Oregon! lol 😂 🥰😘. Please let me know how you’re doing🙏🙏🙏

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        1. ongoing prayers, katey in OR✝️🙏🏽💜🌦️

          Linda ~ I have settled. I was tearful 😢 and discouraged but after reading the biopsy results over again I saw that the damage to my kidneys had halted and not resumed. I am doing so much better! I thank everyone here for praying for me. I’m certainly praying for everyone here. God is good.
          Thank-you, Charlie for your encouraging words. I can only pray and so I do! Praying for everyone here ~ katey in OR ✝️🙏🏽💜

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          1. Oh thanks be to God, katey!!! It’s not easy going through all these things we are all going through!!! I thank God today your situation is not getting worse!!! Are you feeling ok? 🙏🙏🙏

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    3. Oh, Linda, I’m so sorry. You have probably instilled more faith in that child than his parents. Don’t they realize that a daycare or school will instill their morals and values (or lack thereof) into their precious child? Poor Jax. I will pray that his four years with you will hold him in good stead. And for you to indeed trust and entrust Jax to God. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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      1. Thank you so much jewelsworld13! His parents unfortunately lost the faith and one never had it🙏😂 I’m feeling better today and thank you for helping me! I told katey I was so spitting mad I felt like I was in hell! 😬. I didn’t like that feeling and don’t you know there’s a fly in our house! 😬 I took that as a bad sign 😂😂😂. It’s 36 degrees out and possible snow😂. Anyhow I kept offering it up and today I’m at peace and am going to do what Charlie said to do! Trust God! I keep talking to my kids about just what you mentioned here about bad company! They may find out I’m right. Time will tell. I told my son I wish I had never put him in school for he got a stutter after starting kindergarten where it really traumatized him. We began homeschooling a few years later and today he’s an np at the Cleveland clinic pediatric heart unit! He’s just amazing what he’s accomplished! But anyways thank you for your prayers and please keep praying for Jaxy poo and I’ll pray for all your loved ones too!!!🥰🙏😘

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    1. CD, my friend, the article/interview with the Navy Seal was right on and very interesting. With the line about endless wars, I immediately remembered Eisenhower’s quote to beware of the military industrial complex. We know more now about who it is that desires those endless wars. Being part of the military all my life, we have lost friends, two close ones who were shot down during Vietnam. As the retired Seal says, those who are part of the decisions to keep wars going have never buried a buddy in war.

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      1. Yes, Annie! It will be 35 years, this August, that my unit was ordered to Saudi Arabia with 30 hours’ notice to support Desert Shield that became the Storm in January. I certainly can’t justify all the Blood/Treasure that has been expended Over-There! Just yesterday, I learned of the death of Todd. A 37 year old Army Veteran Friend who had just been released on a Medical Retirement. Three Combat Tours Over-There and Used-Up by The System and fighting personal demons from it all …. Like countless other Comrades in Arms of mine! RIP, Todd.

        GOD SAVE TODD & ALL HERE!

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  4. Not all but a LOT of the equity market carnage can be attributed to momentum-chasing algorithmic trading. Think about how a Slinky walks down stairs. Initiate it on the first step and off it goes.

    Most of us can remember scenes from the trading floor of the NYSE. Floor traders crowded in the pit shouting and flashing hand signals to their guy who executes the trades. It all looked so chaotic but there was a certain order to it. There was also a human element to it. Look at a live shot from the floor now. A few people milling around but most stand at a terminal with their chin resting on a hand watching a screen. The algos are executing most of the trades. And btw, these same algos scan for and read headlines of various news outlets and trade accordingly. No joke!

    Make People Great Again.

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  5. In this excellent essay, one line stands out for me just now:

    “He intends that the faithful should grow in trust, paying more than pious lip service to it. The whole world has entered into a training period – training on how to be the people of God once again.”

    Implied here is that the faithful are called to be both trained and also gentle trainers, beginning with prayer.

    God bless,

    Sister Bear

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    1. I appreciate that, Sr. Bear. I implied and foreshadowed a LOT of things in this piece. There is a reason for that. Far too many serious Christians are way too eager to jump to unsupported conclusions that mesh with their preconceived notions. This will make them terribly vulnerable to the last and most deadly deception the satan will use to take down the seemingly most faithful. The mental and reflective operations necessary to discern my implications and foreshadowings will serve to help inoculate the faithful from these deceptions.

      One of the things the Lord taught me with brutal rigor from my adolescence was that if you do not ruthlessly attack your own predispositions and logic, you are little more than roadkill to the satan, no matter how smart you think you are.

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  6. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

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    https://onepeterfive.com/miracles-worked-by-the-saints-throughout-the-centuries/

    https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/should-ramadan-replace-lent

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    https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/cherry-blossoms-and-the-festival-of-life/

    https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/have-we-forgotten-what-christ-did-cross

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    https://www.newoxfordreview.org/

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    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!

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  7. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! .. Happy Day!!  😉

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