Full Circle Faith, now titled “When the Prodigal Doesn’t Return” represented my greatest public risk and became the greatest public shame on my ministry. I posted the video absolutely confident that my 2nd spouse would return from her apostasy and abandonment of the marriage. In my persevering love for her, and in my faithful zeal against all those telling me to give up on her, I went so far as to state that if she did not return, I should be considered a false prophet.  I had publicly prophesied that God had given me two dates (Feb 11 & 12, 2021), one of which I believed she would return on.  When she didn’t return, I shut down my ministry because I believed I was no longer hearing correctly from God.  Then God did what only He could do, and breaking the US Government Immigration Law and Requirements, I received her Visa Acceptance letter on Feb 11, 2021 and her greencard was printed on Feb 12, 2021.  This was vindication of my prophesing that God had given me these two dates, and showed me that I was still hearing from Him, even though my expectations were wrong.  I put the ministry back up, and eventually the Lord led me to Jeremiah 3:7, showing that He too thought for sure Israel would return to Him, but she did not.  Nonetheless the damage had been done by my spouses’s apostasy and all the online rumors and evil suspicions from those who hated me, and most of my followers turned away from me after this.  Then as a final blow, came the Youtube video from 21 year old Taylor Meitzner, “Why I stopped following Michael Chriswell” video, which finally resulted in a lynch mob mentality against me, where I had to literally flee my home and state on November 18, 2022.  Then suddenly, without any warning, the Lord had me pull most of my 500 teaching messages off of YouTube on Jan 25, 2023 (777 days later) and put my teachings back up exclusively on my website.  

After removing nearly 500 teaching videos off of my first YouTube channel, God gave us a wonderful and much needed season of REST! Then, once my main enemies had been put to shame and silenced by God, He called me to return to YouTube on June 25, 2025, with “The Old Lost Trail”, following the same type of “Go Back” pattern as He did with Moses and Joseph and Mary. Praise the Lord!