Dear Saints,
Perhaps it is a sign of the times we are now in, and an indication of how important Joseph Herrin’s teachings truly are in the eyes of the Enemy. For the ministry is under a sustained hacking attack right now, which is why you may be experiencing issues with viewing the Parables Homepage correctly.
This hacking campaign against the ministry has been ongoing for some months now. It is largely focused upon the Parables website, and in gaining access to the log-ins to the site. Though there have been many other ‘mysterious’ issues too. I have been downplaying this matter with other saints, even with Joseph, but in truth this skirmishing has required a great deal of my time and effort and patience.
It appears to be an attack on multiple fronts. The Parables website is also being deluged by Spam to a degree which seems entirely out of proportion to what is normal. Last weekend alone it received over 150 spam comments, some of them offering hacking services.
My ministry email address, created new only a handful of months ago, and used only for personal ministry emails between individuals, is also being flagged as ‘spammy’ by other email providers. I believe this is the reason I have not received certain emails from fellow saints. Someone recently had to write to Joseph asking how they could get in touch with me, as I had not responded to their emails. I had never received their emails. Perhaps they had gone straight into my spam folder. I am not confident that all of my own emails are being sent out correctly either.
Now my wife is experiencing similar problems with her own email address, for the very first time. Emails disappearing into the spam folder. It is interesting that the only emails flagged as spam in this way have been those few that are connected to the ministry in some way.
Hopefully, with the Parables website at least, we can sort the issues swiftly.
I cannot yet say for certain from where or exactly why this cyberwarfare is ongoing against the ministry. For now, I can only report that it is occurring.
I would ask that you remain patient as we work through these matters. We are also presently in the process of rebuilding Heart4God on the Parables website itself as an archive, so that all of Joseph’s works may be available from the same location. But of course, these cyber-attacks do not help.
Even more than your patience, I would ask for your fervent prayers at this hour. For this is certainly warfare, and we are in need of spiritual aid.
Also let us pray for the souls of those who are responsible for these attacks, for they know not what they truly do.
I pray you are well.
Colin Buchanan
Parables.blog — Heart4God — Truthvine.net
P.S. The last blog posting, The Remnant Bride, was not intended to be emailed out to readers. I do apologise for any confusion this may have caused.
My wife has been writing personal writings using Microsoft word on her windows based laptop. Nothing was published, yet her documents were continually having scriptural references scribbled and grayed out, unable to be edited. We purchased a Linux based laptop with Libre Office and she has not had that problem anymore
Yes I experienced many ‘strange’ issues like that some years back, after I had been involved in some ‘anti-banker protests’ (a lifetime ago!). Many odd deletions and problems on my laptop all of a sudden. It became so bad that I also changed from Windows to Linux (Libre Office is great) and the problems did cease … In terms of turning the bad to the good, the experience did introduce me to ‘open source’ software’ and the freedoms and added security which come with open source.