The question of timing is a notoriously difficult one when it comes to 'private revelation' for the reason that human behaviour can clearly modify the timeline of prophetic fulfilment (as is obvious when you consider the Biblical precedent of Jonah's prophecy to Nineveh that the city would be destroyed in 40 days). For what it's worth, a number of prophetic sources across the world have spoken quite explicitly about a delay in the unfolding of events during recent years - an example being the period of grace granted by Heaven in response to Pope Francis's day of public prayer in 2013 at the stage when America was about to bomb Syria. If this interpretation is correct, then it would contextualize Charlie's statement about Christmas 2013 being the last during a time of relative normality. It is nonetheless sobering (and/or galvanizing, depending on your point of view) to know that the same prophetic sources are insistent that the time of delay is now over and that we are now more than ever operating on borrowed time.
Be headings, crucifixations, rampant homosexuality, worshipping things instead of God. People treating each other horribly. It's not just media allowing us to see these things. The state of the world and people's morals as a whole are far far worse than any time in my 52 years on Gods earth. My biggest question is why God hasn't hit the reset button yet.
was it Billy Graham that said, If God doesn't come down in His infinite justice soon, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology...or was it his wife?
I have read this in many places also. On this subject, I also wanted to add an excerpt from Sulema's 3rd volume, which I recently finished reading, because it is an important prayer intention that we should all have, not just for ourselves but for those already living great distress. (Sulema's messages are in French and are specific to preparation for the Warning. Peter has written positively about those messages in another thread.) In a message of October 31st, 2013, Mary says that we must also pray so that Jesus-Love, the Only Son of the three-times Holy Father, may shorten as much as possible the period of distress that will make way for the New Era of Peace.
It's hard to out my finger on it, but it did feel different this year. It's not that there was any different physical aspects to Christmas- we did more or less the same, but there was a different "sense" about this year for us. It was sort of subdued, a sense of waiting, a sense that we are on the cusp of a change. It's hard to describe it in words, but more like I said thus sense. Our conversations and "plans" for 2015, were more around the spiritual preparations we want to focus on. Even when talking about physical or worldly, my wife and I have been drawn toward "simplifying" and I'm considering a job search that hopefully leads to finding a job that is less stressful and allows me to be home more often. But in any case, definitely something in the air.
Hi andree, I don't think we've met yet, so a belated welcome to you! The shortening of the Storm is a great mercy; it is also crucial that we see the Storm as the last Mercy before the rescue. As the Letter of Hebrews instructs: 12:. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits , and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. 12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. That is why the Kyrie is a threefold prayer: Lord have Mercy, Christ have Mercy, Lord have Mercy! Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy One who pours out Mercy in abundance! Luke 1:78 In the tender compassion of our God, the dawn shall break upon us, 79 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Charlie J, Would you care to enlighten us bewildered catholics about this trend? Thanks for your consideration. Obama and Pope Francis Teaming Up to Push Liberal Agendas in 2015 December 31, 2014 By Greg Campbell Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has emerged as a somewhat controversial figure. While maintaining semblances of the Catholic stance on social issues, Pope Francis seems to be more-malleable on these issues than any other Pope in history. The Pope has struck a liberal tone on certain key issues and has even agreed to address the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on the importance of combating climate change- a catch-all term favored by liberals to encompass any slight variance in weather. The Pope is expected to address the United Nations in 2015 on the issue and call for a summit of world religious leaders from many different faiths to discuss the issue. Further, the Pope was reportedly involved in the recent thawing of relations with Cuba, a nation that has been on-the-outs with the U.S. for a half-century due to the Communist dictatorship that infests the imprisoned island. The Pontiff has also spoken-out against trickle-down economics, the economic policy that serves as a generator of economic growth and is aimed more at providing opportunities for the poor rather than mere handouts and government dependency. As Pope Francis crusades for liberal political issues, it seems clear that Obama, who has served as arguably the most-hostile president to religion in history, has found a true ally and a way to help mend fences with Catholics who have taken issue with his extreme secular agenda. The Washington Times reports: President Obama increasingly is finding a key policy ally in the Vatican, with Pope Francis standing virtually shoulder to shoulder with the White House on income inequality and a historic diplomatic reboot with communist Cuba. The pontiff next year also appears poised to offer greater support to the president on climate change initiatives and reportedly wants to be a leading voice at a U.N. global warming summit next year, where the American president will make perhaps his greatest pitch to date for more dramatic action on the environment. But in the long term, analysts say, Democrats may pay something of a political price. To soothe American Catholics, who may have grown suspicious of the church’s partnership with a liberal White House, the pope in the coming months and years is likely to zero in on fundamental disagreements with the Democratic Party on issues such as abortion and religious liberty, said Joseph Prud’homme, a political science professor and the director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Politics, and Culture at Washington College. “I believe Francis will remind the faithful in his position as supreme pastor about what he has consistently said about life and religious liberty. I hope, and I expect, that he will, after these initiatives [on Cuba and climate change], remind the faithful of the unending position of the church with respect to the sanctity of human life, the importance of religious liberty,” Mr. Prud’homme said He added that Francis could create a deeper, almost irreparable rift between the church and the Democratic Party and create further headaches for liberal Catholics in electoral politics unless the Democratic Party “changes and recalibrates its center of gravity away from these issues which, from the position of the church, represent grave and serious moral error.” While abortion and other moral issues represent a philosophical chasm between the Catholic Church and the Democratic Party, the past several years have proved the two can work together. The White House praised the pope this month for playing a critical role in a landmark deal with Cuba, one in which the U.S. will re-establish formal diplomatic ties and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than five decades. Francis invited administration officials and representatives of Cuban President Raul Castro’s government to the Vatican for a series of meetings this fall. The first Latin American pope also sent letters to Mr. Obama and Mr. Castro, urging the two leaders to change course and end the isolation of the past 50 years. “He played a very important role,” Mr. Obama said of the pontiff in an interview with ABC News this month. “The pope doesn’t wield armies. He can’t impose sanctions. But he can speak with great moral authority, and it makes a difference. And it certainly made a difference in this case.”… The pope also has become one of the Democrats’ biggest allies on income inequality, which Mr. Obama has cast as perhaps the biggest challenge facing the U.S. economy today. Last year, Francis offered a clear rejection of “trickle-down economics,” seemingly embracing Democratic policies of greater redistribution of wealth to struggling Americans. “Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories, which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” he said. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” High-profile Democrats, such as Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, cited the pope’s words when arguing for more government spending on programs to aid low-income Americans and to shrink the wage gap between the rich and the poor. “Those of us in America should pay heed” to the pontiff’s words, he said after Francis’ comments on income inequality. Of course, helping the poor is a very Christian message; however, the kind of policies pushed by Obama and other leftist zealots only bind the poor to government dependency and President Obama’s radically-secular agenda and war on religion should be enough to spook the Pope from associating too-closely with a man who serves as one of the most-hostile leaders to religious freedom in the civilized world. 8.6K SHARESFacebookMore
Yes, my husband and I have just been reflecting on this. We gathered, as usual, with un-churched relatives and ate the same food. But I was struck with their low-key manner - no biting comments, no noticeable gossip. Subdued. And these were people who are clueless about the storm we've entered.
I don't know- I went through a bit of personal purgation last year due to events in my family life and the death of a dear friend unexpectedly and I feel like on a personal perspective on this side of 2015 that I have come through. I also know that there was not a moment Jesus was not with me- not one second! The Blessed Mother also has had my back. I believe we are in the storm, don't get me wrong, but I do believe that prayer works and even if there are just a few of us the Lord hears us! We need to keep keeping on I think and not give up. I told Donna in a private message but I took the K Love Challenge to listen to nothing but Christian music for 30 days and feel the Lord is leading me to praise and gratitude- maybe I am hiding in a bubble or maybe the time is now for believers to be ready and encouraged. Let us not weary of doing good and trust Jesus!
"So on Ebola, ISIS, the fragile economy, the rumblings of war throughout the globe, the collapse of defensible borders, the emergence of nuclear capacity in rogue regimes, some crises may yet be eased –but only so the arrogant can deceive themselves that they are in control again. But all will come crashing down as the process of collapse concludes." Continued below
"There may be no more significant false dawns except the one I will describe later in this article. The cycle of crises and false dawns were intended for the period of rumblings. That period ran from early fall of 2000 until late spring of 2009, when ever so silently, the first deceptively gentle rains of the Storm were felt." C.J.
"When final crash comes (and as I said, it is imminent. Do not be deceived even if things smooth out for a month. It is here), there will be a period of utter chaos for, I believe, about four to six months. I know very little of the detail of what happens in this period. Just that it is entirely chaotic, all the props are pulled out from under us." C.J.
"I have said gently, but firmly, before that you need to keep to your post faithfully. I will tell you bluntly now that if you cannot help yourself from primarily correcting the errors of others and meddling in business that is not within your purview, you will probably not physically survive the Storm. That is not to say your soul will be lost. Rather, where possible, God will work to put you in a final state of grace and then pluck you to save you for eternity. I say this not to scare you, but as a simple truth. Things are going to be perilous enough without angry or hysterical people bringing others down." C.J.
" While I sympathize with curiosity and will answer some things I can, that is not where my duty lies. It is to prepare us with each step for what lies ahead so that you do not lose heart, that we all go forward with resolve. That mainly involves laying out what is just ahead, so no one is caught off guard and suddenly disheartened." C.J.
"After the defeat and conversion of Islam, we will busily congratulate ourselves on our triumph…that we have endured and prevailed. That will be a false dawn. Even as we celebrate, the great challenge which is China will rise before us, revealing Islam to have been merely a cub of a challenge. That is when things get really rough. My apologies. I have repeated it so often privately that I assume everyone knows that the defeat and conversion of Islam is a false dawn." C.J.
"I am trying to prepare people gently for the reality that it is not only spiritual battle we are talking about. It is physical, temporal battle that will rage throughout this Storm. That will be the case with Islam. And there is a way to fight both physically and spiritually. Would that everyone, when war must come, would religiously say the Rosary, for it is the single most powerful tool in the spiritual arsenal –and it can reduce the amount of physical battle we must do. But now, battle must come and we had best gird our loins." C.J.
