As an example of the supernatural process, Irenaeus reported to the group during 2016 that he was having a recurrent dream about Vladimer Putin invading the Ukraine. In the dream, Irenaeus was helping a group of individuals, including a pregnant woman, a gay man, and a group of orphaned children, escape across the border in a military jeep. The really perplexing thing about the dream was that the terrified escapees told Irenaeus that Putin said that he was attempting to “restore Holy Rus.” At the time of the dream, Irenaeus had never heard of “Holy Rus,” but would learn through a quick “google search” that this “word from a dream” was an actual historical movement in ancient Russia.
We were even more amazed in 2022 when Putin did indeed invade the Ukraine, and, we were all fully astonished in the fall of 2022 when Patriarch Kirill, the archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, announced that he had named Mr. Putin the chief exorcist of the Russian Orthodox Church, as they were moving upon Satan in a movement to reestablish “Holy Rus.” Irenaeus had also shared this dream with some of his agnostic and atheistic scientific colleagues in the academy. One of them decided that Irenaeus is a “psychic” with access to the “acacic record” of the “cosmic mind.” In other words, the scholar is saying that Irenaeus is tapping into the broader universal knowledge alleged by the “New Age” thinkers (e.g., Jung, Blavatsky) through some psychic means.
If there is a universal source of knowledge, we of the Way believe that this is within God Himself, and not something that one taps into through their own human devices. The Bible clearly instructs believers to avoid the occult, sorcery, and witchcraft. We know that Irenaeus is a fallen sinner saved by grace, who is imperfectly submitting himself to the one true Holy God who established the foundations of the world, and who is in no way bound by the seeming limits of the dimensions of time and space. God can deliver any information He desires to any of His followers, and does so at times for a variety of reasons. The fact that the Russians invaded the Ukraine could be seen as simply a coincidence (as they have certainly invaded neighboring countries before), but the concept of Holy Rus being used by this military force, a historical religious movement unknown to Irenaeus previously, is particularly striking. These types of dreams have occurred multiple times for Irenaeus, and appear to be pointing to places in the world where dark things have been arising. They seem to be building the picture of the rise of a totalitarian, global world system, and perhaps those who would rise against it. To Irenaeus, the indication seems to be that neither group, either the globalists or the anti-globalists, are on “God’s side,” and that perhaps both groups are being misguided by the supernatural entities of the heavenly realm (See the Apostle Paul’s description of spiritual forces of wickedness working in heavenly places).