Do you ever wonder what the end of the world will be like? I've seen the armageddon movies - and read Revelations, but I wonder. A good friend of mine used to read a lot about teh mystics in the Church - and St. Malachy predictions about how things would end. One of those included a supposed list, kept in the Vatican, which listed the names of all the popes. The story goes that this list ends with the extreme persecution that the pope after this current pope will lead the flock through- that he is the last of the line of St. Peter as vicar of Rome. I don't know if I believe all that, but the current scuffle between what was said and how the peaceloving faith of Islam has responded, got me thinking this morning.
There were other predictions, historically speaking. The children at Fatima were given three secrets which would be an indication that the end times were upon us. The last of which was a disturbing vision of the pope walking over the bodies of priests. The book I read about these secrets theorized that this was the sex scandal that rocked the Church not so many years ago. Of course, reading that a nun was murdered because of the Pope's remarks and Islamic terrorists taking out theri fury on her - makes me wonder if there is not more tragedy ahead.
There were repetitious messages - that the visions of Mary in Medjugoria, Fatima, Lourdes, and Guadelupe were an indication of urgency - that people needed to perk up and take notice. Some of the messages even say - I come to you more urgently than ever and ask you to pray.
Last night at CCD, we had a group discussion about how different the Christian view is from other views - how we see our world differently. The kids are amazing - talking about Buddhism, Mesopotamians, Egyptian gods, athiests - just amazingly deep for 15 year old kids. When we talked about there being present day martyrs - people who are killed because they will not renouce being Christian, they were astounded that such a thing still went on. If you are interested, you can pick up DC Talk's book Jesus Freaks. (Definitely worth the read.) The comment was made by a brown haired girl with braces who said being Catholic was pretty easy, and she didn't know what she'd do if she had to renounce her faith or die.
And I hope we never have to find out.
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Unfortunately, all you have to do then is wait patiently. Allah supposedly told Mohammed that there were only three things to be done with unbelievers: subjugation, conversion, or annihilation. If we sit on our collective butts long enough, the choice WILL be put to us.
One other thing to keep eyes open for: the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. It is built upon the site of the temple of Solomon. According to scripture, the Temple being rebuilt is one of the things that brings about the end days. The Dome of the Rock is Islamic. The Temple of Solomon is not. Soooo, we have another holy war to look forward to.
You know, I just don't have time for the end of the world. Can we reschedule?
Boom. Boom today, boom tomorrow. Just - BOOM!
What is really scary is that only in the USA and certain parts of Europe can Christians freely worship. All over the world..they are being KILLED...thousands of them. Yet...the American media won't broadcast it.
If the end of the world comes...I hope I'm not here to live through it. But I have a feeling my children and I will be. Crap.
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