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With the Mayan
apocalypse "prediction" predictably failing (actually, it was an interpretation
of the Mayan calendar cycles) comes relief -- not over the fact that fireballs
didn't strike, but that such diversions stop diverting from what may be
legitimate prophetic indications.
It is the devil's ruse: to use hype and falsity (along with
hyper-skepticism) to dilute legitimate intuitions and even "words of knowledge"
concerning the future, which -- Mayans or no Mayans -- portends to be
remarkable.
It will also be challenging.
"When the prophetic secrets of the Blessed Mother are revealed in
Medjugorje, the Catholic Church will find itself in a great ordeal, as much for
the world as for the faithful, and a little of this suffering has already
started," said Ivan Dragicevic, a seer from that alleged site, which the
Vatican has studied and in coming months may make a statement about, perhaps
granting it shrine status without validating or invalidating the apparitions
(and prophecies) themselves.
In our discernment (which is just that: an opinion), and is based not
on any single set of apparitions (but the general current of prophetic
utterance), we believe the world does face huge events; actually, "huge, huge,
huge" ones. (We'll use that as a means of trying to depict the extent of what we
believe will be future change.)
In his statement, which was aired by Father Livio Fangaza of Radio
Maria-Italy, Dragicevic mentioned that "a little" of what is in the secrets (at
least, his secrets) already has begun, which fits with what we have observed
during the past couple of decades: that regional events (various storms, weather
swerves, quakes, societal upsets, tsunamis, and other events) are part of a
build-up -- and preview -- of what in the next few years and decades will
come.
Look at how hurricanes built up to "Katrina." Look at how
"northeasters" (starting perhaps around the time of the "perfect storm" in the
early 1990s) built up to "Sandy." Look at how little economic tremors built to
the financial crisis of 2008. Look at how hurricanes and quakes have at times
taken place within days of each other. Look at how little rampages have
graduated into large ones.
One thing builds into something larger and that builds into something
larger still. It is (again our discernment) the gradual nature of
transformation. It is also God's patience and Mercy (the way He evolves
matters).
If we face a "huge" event or series of events, such adjectives are a
means of perspective. Perhaps one might say that events such as "Sandy" and
"Sandy Hook" could be categorized as "large"; events like September 11 and
"Katrina" and Fukushima as "very large"; and that we have not yet encountered
something truly "huge."
Perhaps this gives us a way of beginning to get our minds around
coming situations that may be bigger than just one "huge." Something truly huge
would perhaps be destruction of a portion of a major country.
We have not seen anything like that as yet, although the Asian
tsunami on Christmas night eight years ago came close (call that also "very
large"). Ivan said we have experienced "a little" of what will occur. He says he
has been given nine secrets by the Blessed Mother. Several visionaries there
have been granted ten. They do not know what is in each other's secrets. Most
recently, another visionary said that for the first time in thirty-one years,
the Infant Jesus spoke a public message there. (What does that
portend?) When Ivan said we have already seen a little, one then wonders
-- if it has to do with the Church -- what more may be coming as far as
scandals, falling away of the faithful, or (most likely) persecution. If
"little" refers to recent events in the world, it gets back to the size
analogies: Few are those who stop to consider how big things could be.
But end of the world?
No. We don't and never did believe that. As we often have said:
transformation. Simplification. Purification.
When we look around at what man has created, and how far we
have strayed from what God created (not to mention His standards of good
morals), we see how huge the events by definition must be.
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