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Sleeping With the Serpent… or Sleeping With the Truth? Mark’s Latest Rebrand Says More Than He Thinks
November 27, 2025Commentary on Mark’s Newly Renamed Facebook Page and First Public Post
When Mark renamed his “Victorious Marriage Restoring Love” Facebook page to the melodramatic “The Church’s Affair with Deception – Sleeping with the Enemy,” it wasn’t surprising.
It was predictable.
For years, Mark has cycled through online personas—alienated father, spiritual warrior, persecuted husband, prophet, healer, victim, truth-teller—all of them crafted to shift attention away from the one thing he has never done:
Take responsibility for his own behavior.
His first public post under the new page fits perfectly into this pattern.
He presents his story as a tale of betrayal, deception, covenant-breaking, and spiritual warfare.
He claims he and his ex-wife are “still married.”
He claims she “broke the covenant.”
He claims the Church is asleep.
He claims he’s touring the Northwest to preach “truth.”
And then he delivers the line that unintentionally destroys the credibility of his entire narrative:
“Anyone can verify the truth in public records.”
He’s absolutely right—
you can verify the truth in public records.
And what those records actually show is the very thing he will never post about.
What Public Records Really Reveal
They show:
- Multiple No Contact orders to protect his children
- Years of unpaid or inconsistent child support
- CPS involvement resulting from his conduct
- Documented interference in Liam’s medical and psychiatric treatment
- A long pattern of emotional and psychological manipulation
- Court-documented destabilizing behavior toward providers and caregivers
- His ongoing refusal to complete court-ordered psychological and parenting assessments
And now, an increasingly important detail:
Mark has refused to comply with discovery—especially financial discovery.
Despite repeatedly claiming he has “receipts,” “evidence,” and “proof of everything,” he has:
- Refused to turn over financial records
- Refused to provide the receipts he insists exist
- Refused to produce the documentation required to move the case forward
- Refused to comply with lawful orders regarding disclosure
This isn’t oversight.
It’s obstruction.
He is stonewalling the very process he claims will prove him innocent.
The Divorce Isn’t Delayed Because of “Deception”
It’s delayed because:
- He refuses to complete court-ordered assessments
- He refuses to provide required documentation
- He refuses to comply with financial and legal discovery
He is the one preventing progress.
He is the one withholding information.
He is the one blocking resolution.
Yet in his post, he tells the world he and Tori are “still married” as if she chose to linger in covenant.
In reality, it is his own noncompliance that keeps the case stuck.
No spiritual language changes that fact.
Rebranding Isn’t Redemption
This Facebook transformation isn’t repentance, revelation, or spiritual awakening.
It’s rebranding—
a new stage costume for the same behavior.
- When he couldn’t convince people he was a faithful husband → he became a “marriage restorer.”
- When he couldn’t convince people he was a victim of alienation → he became a prophetic messenger.
- When the last persona collapsed → he adopted a new spiritual warfare narrative.
- And now, when accountability is unavoidable → he becomes a crusader “exposing deception.”
The language changes.
The aesthetics change.
But the underlying pattern never does.
Weaponizing Scripture to Avoid Responsibility
Mark’s post is filled with spiritual jargon—wolves, Jezebel spirits, false prophets, covenant language.
This is not theology.
It’s camouflage.
It reframes his failures as spiritual battles.
It turns his misconduct into cosmic warfare.
It positions the woman who left an abusive marriage as a demonic adversary instead of a survivor.
This is not ministry.
It’s manipulation.
This is not testimony.
It’s misdirection.
This is not truth.
It’s theater.
The Truth He Cannot Escape
Public records are not abstract.
They do not care about spiritual metaphors.
They do not respond to hashtags or prophetic flair.
They show:
- A father who has not seen his son Liam since before 11/17/2023
- A man unwilling to complete even the most basic steps required for safe contact
- A litigant who refuses to comply with mandated discovery
- A pattern of obstruction, instability, and manipulation
- A documented trail of behavior that harmed his children emotionally, medically, and psychologically
- A divorce delayed only because of his own refusal to comply with court orders
No amount of biblical dramatization can erase these facts.
The Final Irony
Mark keeps inviting the world to “verify the truth in public records.”
We encourage it.
Because the truth is not hidden.
It’s not mystical.
It’s not encoded in prophecy.
It’s not found in hashtags or long spiritual monologues.
It is found in:
- Court documents
- CPS reports
- Medical records
- No Contact orders
- Discovery requests he refuses to answer
- And years of his own choices
It wasn’t deception that destroyed his marriage or his relationship with his children.
It was his behavior.
The very behavior he still refuses to face.


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