Very Interesting

I read several Jewish newspapers or websites and recently have noticed that even some of the more orthodox authors have referred to the End Times. A feeling that their Messiah is coming soon seems to be growing in some quarters.

This "feeling" or sense has to do with reading the signs of the times. Of course, Catholics know that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Promised One. Some Catholics also believe that time is short for the Second Coming.

I do not believe the time is short, but that the tribulation will last longer than most people think. I have always believed that it is the Millennials which will see the great age of the martyrs, and have shared this since that group has been in high school.

But, to know that our brothers and sisters of the Old Testament may be sensing something makes me reflect that at the end, the Jewish People will look on Christ and convert.

The more orthodox Jews believe in the personal Messiah, but many of the liberal ones only believe in a Messianic Age of progress and peace. That is a dangerous idea, of course, as only the AntiChrist will bring peace without Christ.

There is no real age of unity or peace unless that peace comes from coherence to the Gospel, to Christ Himself.

Pray for our brothers and sisters of the past Old Covenant. Perhaps some of them are being led to get ready for the Second Coming, although they believe it will be a first coming.

Sins Which Cry Out to God for Vengeance

These sins may even be found in the CCC, as noted here before. What many Catholics do not understand is the Justice, Righteousness, Innocence of God, Who is not "hurt", as we sometimes are by sins against us, but "offended" because He is All Good. See my other posts on this.

Today, I am reminded of these sins, as I have been witnessing PDAs (public displays of affection), right here in suburbia, between lesbians, several who live in this neighborhood.

God will not be mocked. He created us and gave us natural law, which is being spurned by those who accept such lifestyles.

I repeat the CCC on these sins:

1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,¹³⁹ the sin of the Sodomites,¹⁴⁰ the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,¹⁴¹ the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,¹⁴² injustice to the wage earner.<sup>14

These are considered the sins which will bring down God's vengeance on all of us.</sup> 

Those people who are violent---look at the news; those people who are sodomites--look in your own areas; those people who are abandoned to poverty, loneliness, even penury--look here; those who receive unjust wages to we can buy cheap goods--look at most of the stores and name brands and what they pay for goods, as opposed to what they charge; slavery, such as sexual abuse of children, (as in Great Britain), sexual slavery of women, slavery of those who are under tyrannies--look at the news.

God will not ignored these sins much longer. Reparation is needed. 

We cannot lose the virtue of being shocked by sin. Complacency deadens the soul. We should be intolerant of our own sin, first, and then not tolerate sin in a society. But, as Fulton J. Sheen stated, intolerance is the only sin most Americans believe in. And, he said and wrote about this two generations ago. God will not be mocked.

http://www.northamericanmartyrs.org/pdf/Plea-for-Intolerance.pdf

Not Cultural Wars, War Against Christ

Let us stop using this lame phrase of culture war and call the war which is raging against the Church for what it is-an out-and-out assault of the Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church.

Period.

Satan and his minions want to destroy us and Christ's Church.

This is the real war, not a culture war.

What we are seeing is the War Against Christ.

Revelation 13 

13 1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads; and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of its heads seemed to have received a death-blow, but its mortal wound[a] had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast. 4 They worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them.[b] It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.[c]

9 Let anyone who has an ear listen:

10 If you are to be taken captive,
    into captivity you go;
if you kill with the sword,
    with the sword you must be killed.

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.