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Belem Anderson Costa — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Spiritual Journey of Belem Anderson Costa

Childhood and First Steps in Faith

I was born on October 11, 1981, in Rio de Janeiro. I was raised within the Catholic faith, completed catechism and first communion. During confirmation, however, something broke inside me. I distanced myself from the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church and began a journey of searching — a spiritual and intellectual journey that would take me through many paths before returning to Jesus Christ.

Even while distant, I preserved respect for the traditions of my childhood. I baptized my first two children, Jessica and Nicolas Belem, and I married on my 22nd birthday, October 11, 2003, at the Parish of Sao Roque in Vila Valqueire, West Zone of Rio.

Youth and First Religious Disappointments

As a teenager, I attended a Baptist church in Honorio Gurgel, a suburb of Rio. I sought answers and fellowship, but was disappointed by the exaggerated emphasis on tithes and what I perceived as imitation of Pentecostal manifestations — lots of shouting, supposed angelic tongues without understanding, and songs full of poorly understood biblical citations.

I saw emotion, but little spiritual truth.

Adult Life and a New Search

In adult life, my wife was baptized in a neo-Pentecostal “black wall” church focused on prosperity. We presented our youngest daughter, Antonella Belem, there. However, I was once again disillusioned. I saw more theater than ministry — a religious “show” instead of preaching repentance.

Even so, I recorded some verses mentioned by the pastor, who in practice acted more like a stand-up comedian than a servant of Theos.

The Easter Miracle

During the COVID-19 pandemic, my daughter Antonella was struck by an autoimmune disease, initially without diagnosis. Her condition worsened day after day. She lost weight, could not put her feet on the ground, and became listless. During Holy Week, we reached our limit.

But on Resurrection Sunday, something changed. The diagnosis finally came, the correct medical treatment began, and on that very Sunday, she ate chocolate — with bright eyes, no dark circles, her face renewed. By Wednesday, she was home, playing.

It was a miracle. I understood that day that Christ had called me back. It was as if He said: “I am here, as I have always been.”

Return to Christ

That episode made me look at Jesus again, after three decades immersed in philosophy, gnosticism, mysticism, spiritualism, Kabbalah, Buddhism, and hermeticism. Everything I sought was before me the entire time: the living truth of the Word of Theos.

In the following years, I faced deep depression and received diagnoses of ADHD and High Abilities/Giftedness, both classified as late.

Career and Recognition

I have 15 years in the Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and during my career as a Police Inspector I took leave to dedicate myself to technological entrepreneurship.

Google Campus 2016

In 2016 I went to Sao Paulo to participate in a 5-week bootcamp at the Google Campus, the only one in Latin America and one of five equivalents in the entire world.

In total, 900 startup projects participated, and I received the award for second best project at an event with participation from major names of the Brazilian innovation market at IBM SP.

In that auditorium with more than 200 people, I was probably the only one without a university degree, yet I was being honored and awarded among people with resumes that ranged from the country’s top universities to the leading international ones!

It was a unique moment for me.

In the midst of all this, with much fear, Jesus Christ began to reveal himself and to reveal to me a new understanding of the Scriptures — not new facts about the future, but the correct reading of what had always been written, but which had been distorted by the great deception of the antiChrist and his beasts.

The Transformation of “The Blame is on the Sheep”

I was already writing the book “The Blame is on the Sheep” when the Pneuma Hagion intensified his presence in me. This book was originally conceived as a sociological critique about intellectual laziness, power systems, the manipulation of the vulnerable, the problem of common sense, and mass communication as tools of evil.

Inspired by ideas from Carlos Nepomuceno, whose lecture I attended in 2014, I dove into the study of communication as a civilizational structure. I have been a student for years at the Bimodal Futurist School, where I train day by day as a Competitive Futurist and where I learned that the decentralization of communication is essential for freedom, prosperity, and justice!

However, with time and with the revelations received, I understood something greater:

Human decentralization is not the solution — it is a consequence of it.

The true liberation lies in centralization in Jesus Christ — the only legitimate Center, the only one capable of sustaining Truth, Justice, and Life.

Thus, “The Blame is on the Sheep” ceased to be merely an analysis of human systems and became a spiritual work, where Christ is the focus. The single chapter that would address the Bible and its Sheep became the heart of the entire book — and also the center of my own life.

Baptism by the Pneuma Hagion and Revelations

At a certain point, I noticed that an old worship song had been echoing in my mind for decades: the song “Joao Viu” (John Saw). I played it, and in that instant, I was baptized by the Pneuma Hagion.

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