Signs

Thank you for this post. I just read the first article and will read the second as well as watch the video. It's a very frustrating subject; the problem is right there in your face but how to explain it without getting a good thrashing for being "racist" is the question. Racism has nothing to do with it, but it's a woke world......

 

I'd never followed Candace Owens but when she converted I took note, and of course was happy for her ~ then it seemed like she was suddenly "out of favour", if you will. She's obviously hit a nerve, God love her ~

 

I had a dream the other night that while sleeping that it seemed to be happening at the end of October (near Halloween) as some (not all) were dressed up in what seemed to be costumes but they didn’t look like regular costumes- they looked evil (just this side of demons). Some people around me suddenly seemed to be almost thrown up in the air. I then realized Oh my I’m watching the end of all things as I know them - I also realized that this was a dream but I had better pay attention to what was actually happening so I could be prepared and know more - the dream seemed to dissipate and I seemed to have a feeling that I wasn’t to know specifics.

When young, I used to always have very vivid dreams almost like whole novels. I haven’t had very many as I’ve gotten older. This dream felt so real. It’s had me on edge since.

 

Many people are having these kinds of dreams currently. The evil people in your dream seem like they have been given over to the reprobate mind. Maybe the wheat is being separated from the chaff currently, everyone has to make a strong choice which side of the fence they stand on.

I just read the readings for today, very powerful. They speak a lot to your dream IMO.
https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading

 

I used to have dreams for family births and deaths, but I was young, before the world got hold of me.
Now I remember nothing. I don't dream it seems.

 

I started to dream again when the Lord renewed my mind. I didn't even know what was going on until I read about it in scripture. Recently I had a dream that certain family members I haven't seen since I was a child, all started pulling out rosaries from their pockets and started praying together. I hope this means they are saved, because before they had no religion or faith.

 

I managed to read the first article. It wasn't as long as I feared and the text is a good size. I'd be interested in your opinion (and that of anyone else who reads it) on the part where he quotes St. John of the Cross, specifically paragraph no. 7. It deals with man's tendency to misunderstand what God actually means in a prophecy. That brought to mind the prophecy from Our Lady of Fatima about a period of peace for the world. Do you think it possible that what we mean by a period of peace might not be what Heaven means? Maybe I'm going off in a tangent but it set me wondering about it.

Another memory that came to me out of the blue was a Roy Schoeman video that I watched ages ago. I hope I'm not misrepresenting him but I got the impression that Roy believes that Barabbas was the person Jesus meant when He told the Jews that He had come in His Father's name and they rejected Him but that they would accept one who came in his own name. As far as I can remember, this is how Roy explained it:

in Hebrew, bar means son of and Abba means father. For example, Simon bar Jonah (St. Peter) means Simon son of Jonah but Barabbas is a kind of made-up name for someone with no known father.
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I always assumed that Jesus was referring to the AC but Roy's interpretation makes sense. I'll have to do a search to see if the Church Fathers had anything to say about the one who would come in his own name.

 

While I read it very quickly, my plan is to go back when there is more time to really concentrate (family visiting at the moment) because the part quoting St. John of the Cross was absolutely fascinating; a thousand thoughts went through my head at the time. After all, His ways are not our ways.....

Maybe it's not an "either or" thing at all. Jesus was there with Barabbas, and they chose Barabbas. It seems like many are primed now to make that same choice all over again in our own time, with many of our own religious leaders paving the way ~

Adding: Maybe, as we see the choice laid out before the people between Jesus and Barabbas, we are seeing a glimpse of our "final choice" - God or evil/hell. Then later we see Christ on the Cross between the two thieves. They each, in their sinfulness and suffering hanging on their own crosses, made their choice. One for Christ. One for "barabbas". One saw Goodness, one had no sight for anything Good. It's obvious to see this choice while reading the Gospels, but here and now, on the ground in our time? There's been so much of a haze, smoke pouring out, if you will. May we all keep our own eyes fixed on the Light, and our hands clasped tightly to our Good Mother's hand ~

 

I think every generation faces the choice between Jesus and Barabbas. I think Barabbas is a type of Antichrist. The present generation will also make a choice and is making it.

 

I did the search on Barabbas. Haydock had him as a kind of AC or False Prophet. All the results from theologians pretty much agreed with LMF (which I think is a fleshed out version of what you and Haydock say) even down to the comparison between the obvious choice while reading the Gospels but how often we make the wrong choice in our own lives.

The only article in my search result that mentioned the early Church Fathers was one that referred to Pope Benedict's book "Jesus of Nazareth". Pope Benedict said in that book that Origen maintained that many manuscripts of the Gospels identified Barabbas as "Jesus-Barabbas" until the third century. Bar-Abbas, meaning Son of the Father would have been a messianic type figure back then. Pope Benedict said that not only were Jesus and Barabbas charged with the same civil crime, they may have shared the same first name and been assigned the same title.

Nothing Pope Benedict said contradicted any of the other interpretations in terms of the message. He just gives some more context for the choice between the two Sons of the Father at that time. Better for me to link to the article rather than make a hash of trying to summarise it: https://themiscellany.org/barabbas

Pope Benedict really should be named a Doctor of the Church. I'd really like to read his Jesus of Nazareth book. Think I'll treat myself to it for Christmas.

 

I bought them a couple weeks ago. Still reading the first one. It’s small but not a lot of time in my life right now to sit and read. I read a little bit at a time. So far I’m really enjoying it! While I’m not to far into it, I would recommend it!

 

Yes I have Pope Benedict's first book. I used to be a great reader but nowadays struggle to complete a book. I will get back to the other books in the series later. Currently I have 3 books in my reading queue.
Yes Benedict is very good and he gives great clarity to his subject matter.

 

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I have read about this in the past. What I understood is that that moment was the replay of Yom Kippur, where there are two identical goats presented, one sacrificial to atone for the sins of the peopll and one who is set free. The priest somehow makes a choice between the two. Jesus' life being perfect, It replays the old and new and that moment, which no one understood then least of all the priests in the audience, was the time to choose which one was to be sacrificed and saved. Of course, we know the Sanhedrin manipulated the people to choose Barrabas so the choice was made by the people and the priest.

Since there is no man who can be identical to Jesus, Jesus Barrabas shared his name something that Origen could not stand they say, to see a criminal bear the Holy Name of Christ and he removed it from scripture. Even Origen did not see the meaning with the old testament and that part of the fullfilment of the OT was lost....

I'm surprised that Pope Benedict would not get into this dimension in his book.

 

Candace Owens before her conversion was a member of a very powerful Conservative platform called, 'The Blaze', run by a Conservative homosexual Jew called Dave Reuben. As soon as she asked questions about what is going on invthe Holy Land she got fired.

Dave Reuben is, 'Married', to another Jewish homosexual and as they sometimes do they bought children to take as their own.

I sent a message to Dave advising him that his lifestyle was deeply immoral and wrong and he sent me a message back that I was pure evil.

So that was that

I notice that when Candace Owens broadcasts now she has a crucifix behind her. She knows that being a broadcaster and now a devout Catholic will bring her great persecution Still she persevere. Bless her

 

Forgot to include the part about Barrabas representing the AC, which we should not forget is also a prophetic thing for us too since it speaks to the people of God, not only those of the first covenant who will choose the criminal over the Holy One.

 

In at least one aspect, Barabbas bears a direct resemblance to the first Beast of the Apocalypse: the fact that he carries a blasphemous name or title. Something similar occurred with Antiochus Epiphanes, whose name in Greek meant "god manifest." The latter was a more evident precursor of the Antichrist, as he profaned the Jewish temple, which, in the New Covenant, is transformed into the Church and the cessation of the perpetual sacrifice of the Holy Mass.

 

Yes, the scapegoat!!! That never occurred to me.

Without reading Pope Benedict's book, we can't be sure that he omitted mention of the scapegoat. I only know what was quoted in the piece I linked to so it is possible that the author didn't include it because he didn't consider it important for the message of his article.

Yes, now that you've brought to my attention the significance of the scapegoat prefiguring the choice between Jesus and Barabbas, I would be surprised if Pope Benedict missed it or chose not to include it in his book.

 

Haydock also believed something along those lines of the one who comes in his own name being false prophets or even the AC.
Conversion is an ongoing process that doesn't end at Confirmation. We all face daily choices between what God asks of us and what feels comfortable to us.