Iran War started. Pray for Peace. And for Victory.

This is, as I said, the behavior and speech of an escaped psychiatric patient. Imagine you “older” ones who grew up in a somewhat more moral era, with at least some standard of conduct even for politicians—if someone had told you about 40 years ago that this would be an official statement of a U.S. president carrying out aggression against another country, and such a statement made on Easter no less, where ironically or not—it mocks another faith, and thereby also blasphemes our Christian faith if we take into account all the previous reasons he mentioned: prayers during attacks, announcements about the Third Temple, and other nonsense...

In my opinion, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are just two mentally lost old men who have no real power in decision-making; Trump just has a big mouth. The real decisions are made by people in the shadows, we are watching caricatures in front.

 

The word “Chosen” now means one who has received the grace from God to be a participant in the Catholic Church and who has responded to that call by believing in Christ, in the Catholic Church, and by living the Word of God; this is the fullness of revelation, and there is nothing beyond it.

The meaning of the word “Chosen” has developed over time; we cannot look at it only through the lens of the Old Testament, because revelation there is partial and incomplete in its knowledge of God, and therefore it does not contain the fullness of truth. The chosen were the Jews through Abraham and his righteousness and their ancestors, so that Christ might be born there, and that they might accept this Truth and spread it for the salvation of the whole world.

Later, with the establishment of the Church, the chosen became those who possessed the fullness of truth after the Resurrection, who accepted faith in Christ, lived according to the principles of the Catholic Church, and received the sacraments.

Can we say that branches are cut off and that “pride” is the cause of this often the sin of arrogance in Christianity? Certainly... First, there were various groups of heretics over the centuries who altered the faith and separated into different groups. Then there was the Great Church Schism in 1054, dividing into the Eastern (today Orthodox) Church, where today there are hundreds of millions of Orthodox believers, often under the influence of national churches. Later, in the 16th century, we had the separation of Protestants, who today number around 40,000 different denominations, hundreds of millions of protenstant believers.

All of them are still “chosen,” but they do not have the fullness, because they do not have the holy sacraments and the Eucharist, where Christ is the fullness; they do not have the full sacrificial Mass, they do not have the Pope as the successor of Christ, and they do not have the unity of faith that Catholics have—wherever I am on the globe, I celebrate the same liturgy.

All these are branches that have separated, but we sincerely believe that, like the Jews, all will one day return.
In the end, what is today Turkey was once the Byzantine Empire; Persia accepted Christ, as did North Africa, from where we have many saints, bishops, and martyrs in the early centuries, and so on. Later, those regions as well as parts of Europe were overrun by Islam through conquests, and they “fell away,” often not through their own fault; sometimes this is part of God’s plan of salvation.

Today, many countries that were for centuries the foundation of Christian civilization have fallen away from the faith due to atheism. Many are called, but few respond to that call. God’s promise and invitation still stand for everyone, yet we choose for ourselves. We can be grateful that we are chosen to be born as Catholics and we must persevere in responding to that call until the end, because the path is slippery.

 

Saint Paul says that, with regard to us, the Jews are enemies because of the Gospel; however, they are beloved on account of the election. This constitutes a clear distinction between the election in the covenant made with Abraham and the election in the covenant of Calvary: the first is an irrevocable calling; the second is also irrevocable in its fullness, but individually it can be rejected by each Christian who abandons the true faith and fails to observe the commandments of Christ. The branches are cut off because of their unbelief from the very beginning of the covenant of Calvary, while the covenant with Abraham remains even after the coming of the new one.

 

Just one more thing and I'm out

As confirmation of this, I would add the encounter between the Samaritan woman and Jesus. Why is this important in interpreting today’s conflicts among various denominations, and ultimately between Judaism and Christianity, that is, the Catholic Church?

The Samaritans were descendants of the Jews in the northern part of Israel; that is, they were Jews who had mixed with other peoples brought in by the Assyrians after the conquest in the 8th century. They believed in the same God as the Jews, accepted the Torah, and had similar commandments and laws. However, they did not accept the other Jewish scriptures, their place of worship was Mount Gerizim rather than Jerusalem, and for the Jews they were considered unclean and heretical.

In the Bible, there was one central place of worship of God, namely the Temple in Jerusalem. Later, the Jewish ruler Hyrcanus conquered Samaria and destroyed the Samaritan place of worship. In other words, the Jews did not like the Samaritans, did not associate with them, and considered them inferior and impure.

Then we have that encounter between the Samaritan woman and Christ. Without going into deeper meaning, I will mention only the basics. What does Jesus say to her? “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation comes from the Jews.”

Today, many misunderstand this, but as I said, the Samaritans were mixed Jews, they believed in the same God and had the same book, but at that time they did not have the fullness of the Old Testament revelation, lacking the other books, having an incorrect holy place, and so on. And here Jesus says that the Jews had the fullness of faith UP TO THAT POINT.

However, what does Christ then say? The time is coming when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. In other words, Christ, who destroys the old temple and through His resurrection builds a new temple—that is, Himself—and establishes the Catholic Church.

In other words, Christ is saying that salvation comes from the Catholic Church, which is the new covenant between God and humanity; in it, all truth is embodied. We can apply these words of Christ addressed to the Samaritan woman to other Christians as well: “you worship what you do not know, but we worship what we know, for salvation comes from Christ through the Catholic Church.”

 

The Old Covenant is fulfilled; there cannot be two covenants, not even with the Jews. God fulfilled the covenant with Abraham in Christ, and Christ stands so that this covenant also stands, now built upon. Therefore, there is no longer Jew, nor Greek, etc. The Old Covenant is meaningless if not seen through Christ; that is, it has no significance, because we are Abraham’s descendants by faith and spirit. We are as numerous as the stars in the sky, and all nations are blessed through Abraham’s offspring, who is Christ…

The Old Covenant only rests fulfilled in Christ, in no other way. If it were otherwise, the only way for the salvation of even the Jews would be acceptance of Christ.

 

The Samaritans preserved the worship of the true God, although they did not have perfect unity with the Jews. Jesus makes a distinction between the children and the dogs in the analogy involving the Canaanite woman. This indicates that the fullness of the Jewish faith, centered in Jerusalem, was still in effect at that time. For this very reason, He teaches that we should obey the authorities of the Jewish law in that period, but not follow their example. All the prerogatives of Jerusalem as the mother of salvation are re-signified in the death and resurrection of Jesus, and on the day of Pentecost—events that all took place in that city.

Expressions such as “beloved with respect to election” and “for the sake of the patriarchs,” and “enemies with respect to the Gospel,” apply only to a people who once had the fullness of the truth but fell away. And if Saint Paul tells us not to become arrogant toward them, this does not mean we should refrain from criticizing their rejection of the Gospel—since that would contradict his own ministry—but rather that we should respect their role in the Old Covenant without trying to overshadow their future role at the end of history.

Once again, I reiterate that there is a clear distinction between the irrevocable covenant made with Abraham and the covenant of Calvary, into which the people of Israel did not enter, and from which the Gentile peoples can be cut off because of unbelief. Moreover, as I mentioned before, when the two martyred witnesses are killed, we will be in a very dire situation—perhaps even worse than that of the Jews in the year 70. Notice that their resurrection three and a half days after their martyrdom seems analogous to Christ’s resurrection after three days in the tomb, and the great earthquake that follows is analogous to the earthquake and darkness that came after the Crucifixion.

If the punishment for the Jews’ unfaithfulness was the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, then the punishment for the apostasy of the Gentile peoples united with the Antichrist will encompass the entire world—likely on a much greater scale. Our Lord asks, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” This seems alarming for the future of the Church, but I assume it has to do with the Antichrist having nearly eradicated all true Christians on earth through martyrdom, so that the Church triumphant in heaven emerges as a representative body of the new and eternal covenant, while God prepares to bring about the final miracle and revival that will lead to the full conversion of the Jewish people.

 

Saint Paul speaks of an irrevocable calling. There is a covenant that endures with the Jews because of Abraham, and there is a covenant that comes from Calvary, which inaugurated the time of the Gentiles. There is a clear distinction between the two when he speaks of branches being cut off due to unbelief and affirms that God has by no means rejected His people.

 

Abraham wasn't a Jew he was a Hebrew.

Do you agree that Jews need to be baptised to be saved?

 

People now worship God in spirit and truth because we have free access to the Father through Christ and the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. We no longer need a temple in Jerusalem or blood sacrifices. However, it is worth remembering that there is a focal point in Rome for our salvation, which lies in communion with the Pope, and that God honored Jerusalem once again when He established it as the first apostolic see of the Church.

Christ promised the Holy Spirit to the apostles, and the controversies surrounding the separation between the early Church and ancient Judaism were resolved in a local and ecumenical council in Jerusalem. This was not something abrupt or immediate. It is as if the apostles wished to affirm that the holy city, as the center of the ancient faith, would uniquely represent the legitimate image of a transition willed by God Himself.

 

To worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth brings to mind the Trinity, doesn’t it? The Father; Christ who is the Way, the Truth and the Life; and the Holy Spirit.

 

He was a Chaldean, but the irrevocable calling he received marks the beginning of the covenant with the Jewish people. Then came Moses, the great lawgiver, and the knowledge of the true faith grew in a process analogous to the development of doctrine in the early Church and throughout all ages. This knowledge of the faith developed alongside various moments in which the Jewish people strayed from it, as in the examples I mentioned earlier, and were punished by God for each of these, yet without ever completely perishing—while the entire world remained enveloped in the darkness of paganism.

As for your question, yes, Jews need to be baptized in order to be saved; this is precisely why many of them came to constitute the branches that were cut off in the New Covenant.

 

I think we differ here in thinking and interpretation. The covenant with Abraham no longer operates separately; it is fulfilled and transformed in Christ. That is its end. You and I, as Christians, have a claim to the Old Covenant in Abraham and are descendants of that agreement, even though we are not Jews, through Christ. The covenant with Abraham is irrevocable in the sense that God remains faithful to His promises promises of offspring, of a people, and of blessings—and does not break His plan of salvation because God gave the Messiah(Jesus) to the Jews.

However, the Old Covenant by itself is not full of salvation without Christ; its fullness is realized in Christ and in the Church. The New Covenant in Christ comes from Calvary and brings the fullness of salvation to all nations. When Paul speaks of branches being “cut off due to unbelief,” he shows that an individual or a people who reject Christ lose the personal benefit of the New Covenant, but this does not mean that God has ceased to be faithful to His promise to Abraham, which is realized only in the Catholic Church.

In other words, God has fulfilled the covenant and the promise and said: here it is for you in Christ, who is the eternal sacrifice and reconciliation between God and man; everything I promised I give you in fullness in the Catholic Church, better and transformed. By rejecting Christ, they also reject the promises of the Old Covenant with God, and this is what Christ tells the Pharisees and the scribes: you appeal to Moses, Abraham, and the prophets, but they were speaking about me—I am that promise…

In other words, God has fulfilled the promise from the Old Convent, which continues to stand until the end of time through acceptance of Christ and the Catholic Church. They have rejected Christ and do not uphold the covenant God made with Abraham because they have not recognized Christ and have not fulfilled their part of the promise given to God.

 

I wonder does this tie in with a tsunami the covers Ireland, when it mentions Manhattan will disappear.

 

From Catholic News Agency:

Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday that he will lead a prayer vigil for peace on April 11 at St. Peter’s Basilica, using his first Easter Urbi et Orbi message to make a forceful appeal for an end to war and a renewed embrace of dialogue.

In a departure from the traditional Easter survey of major international flashpoints, Leo focused his message on the spiritual roots of peace, presenting Christ’s Resurrection as the answer to a world wounded by violence, hatred, and indifference.

“Easter is the victory of life over death, of light over darkness, of love over hatred,” the pope said. Yet it is also “a victory that came at a very high price”: Christ “had to die — and die on a cross — after suffering an unjust condemnation, being mocked and tortured, and shedding all his blood.”

 

No, by the way, I've been here for a very long time (before AI ).

 

I take a nuanced view of the matter and recognize that evil fights evil in order to cause as much harm as possible. This is a hallmark of our times and, indeed, of the end times.
More and more people are being brainwashed and are no longer able to recognize the truth. Furthermore, they are very reluctant to acknowledge and admit that they made a mistake when they supported a demonic President Trump. In this way, they are also harming their own souls, instead of repenting and asking the Lord for mercy for their blindness.

 

The Jews are God’s people, and Jesus was a Jew, even though betrayal came from among them. Mary was in the Jewish temple, and Jesus underwent all the customs—from circumcision to the presentation in the temple—and taught as a rabbi in the temples. Jesus said that the Old Testament was not abolished but fulfilled. God willed it this way and no other, and it pleased Him. To deny this is a grave sin against the Holy Spirit, because it is the truth.

 

These are not just two mentally deranged old men; demons are at work around them. They must be held accountable, as must those who share their ideology. Their rhetoric is not merely nonsense, but a malicious, demonic, and extremely dangerous ideology. Here we see the precursors of the Antichrist, and the demons will strive to cause as much damage as possible. This is not a harmless game played by senile old men—that would be an understatement. May God have mercy on us and stand by us. We urgently need it.

 

How did you get to Ireland when we're talking about Manhattan? I don't get it.

 

Yes, English isn't my first language, so I use translation tools and AI to make sure the text is easy to read.