When I skimmed over the message this morning it kind of reminded me of the plague described by Marie-Julie Jahenny.....boils and such......
Well one good thing about precise predictions is that they either happen or don't so we will know soon enough. John seems to have a whole range of precise prophetic predictions. All easily tested by whether or not they occur or not. In a prophetic sense then he has put his money were his mouth is, so to speak.
I read an incident in the life of the Prophet Elijah which I never came across before. An evil King instructed an officer to take 50 men and kill the Prophet. Elijah prayed and fire came down and burnt them all up. The King sent another officer and 50 men and they were burnt up to (notice fire from heaven as Akita warned). The bad king sent another officer and 50 soldiers but this time the poor officer fell on his face at Elijahs feet and begged for mercy on them all. This was granted. Reading Scriptures like this reminds us so much that God is not a sugar daddy. God hasn't changed, He is still the very same God who sent down fire from heaven.
I was reflecting last night on Moses and Pharoah and the ten plagues God sent to the Egyptians. Those plagues were horrible but i learned they were connected with each deity the Egyptians worshipped. God scourged them with their own pagan false worship. And the final plague was a replay of the horror Pharoah committed by killing all the Hebrew babies. The pride of Pharoah was diabolic. He thought he himself was divine. Hard not to draw comparisons to our own times. People don't change. Our culture " hardens our hearts" in the face of God's signs and wonders. No one is exempt from this sin. The Jews hardened their hearts toward Jesus--" one greater than Moses is here." I am every day more convinced that the Remnant that makes it through what's coming without succumbing to this pride and hardness of heart will be Our Lady's children consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. Her heart will guard us. If we let her.
Dr. Zelenko, an orthodox(??) Jewish doctor who became well know for covid treatments, said that only 30% of the Jewish people left Egypt to follow Moses. The rest were likely too comfortable and not following their faith much. Just something to ponder.
There was a time when it was relatively easy being a Catholic especially in Catholic countries. In fact it was often a great advantage. But now the currents go so strongly against us, even within the Church.
Weird, the person who checked out in front of me in the cafeteria at the hospital this morning had their bill come to exactly $6.66 after tax, she and the cashier lady were both laughing nervously about it. I then noticed a scuff on a wall at work that looked exactly, I mean exactly, like a Vav, the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Then this comment...traditionally, six hundred thousand Jewish men left with Moses (and Adam and Eve were created on the 6th day). Synchronicity, I guess, but I also sorta feel like someone is trying to tell me something...
Both my grandmother's lived in a house that was number 55, I was born in 1955 and the house I grew up in was 55. Everytime I see 55 I sit up straighter and smile
Although it wasn't a message from God, this reminded me of something that happened to St. Faustina: One day, I began to doubt as to how it was possible to feel this continual decaying of the body and at the same time to be able to walk and work. Perhaps this was some kind of an illusion. Yet it cannot be an illusion, because it causes me such terrible pains. As I was thinking about this, one of the sisters came to converse with me. After a minute or two, she made a terribly wry face and said, "Sister, I smell a corpse here, as though it were decaying. O how dreadful it is!" I said to her, "Do not be frightened, Sister, that smell of a corpse comes from me." She was very surprised and said she could not stand it any longer. After she had gone, I understood that God had allowed her to sense this so that I would have no doubt, but that He was no less than miraculously keeping the knowledge of this suffering from the whole community. O my Jesus, only You know the full depth of this sacrifice. 1430 DIARY V (1322-1589) - Divine Mercy in my SOUL
You certainly know your diary to have found this!! Years ago someone gave me the most gorgeous little Diary of St Faustina bound in black leather with gold I still miss it , were did it go? There are one or two excellent movies of her life on utube
Thanks for this, Sam. It dovetails with something I've been pondering of late. This one I certainly accept. Imo, it's different from J. Martinez's.
I just remembered another bad smell right out of the blue! St Rita of Casia the wound on her head. I believe it sometimes emitted a smell so bad that folks sometimes nearly fell over in a faint when they smelt it. The wound was a stigmata of a single thorn from the crown of thorns. I will have to check, I read this many, many years ago. This wound was also always maggot infested, just imagine. The smell was so bad it drove the other nununs nuts. https://www.ctsbooks.org/st-rita-cascia-wound-wouldnt-heal/
Last night at my Carmelite community we were all talking about the eclipse. Where we meet was in the path of totality. The subject of signs and wonders came up and how many coincidences there were with the eclipse. How the moon could not stop all the light from the sun because of the corona. We were wondering what the significance was with Mary as she stands on the moon and it happened on Annunciation Day. And the day before was Divine Mercy. During our meeting there was a bad thunderstorm going on with torrential downpours and lightning. We were talking about how many people don’t ever think about God even amongst these signs and wonders. We also all of us renewed our promises in our professed names. It was a beautiful evening. We always chant Divine Office in the Chapel, our meetings are in a previous monastery. I felt like part of the remnant surrounded by many saints.
