WHY SHOULD CATHOLICS PAY ATTENTION TO END TIMES PROPHECIES?

WHY SHOULD CATHOLICS PAY ATTENTION TO END TIMES PROPHECIES?

Our Lord founded His Church when he gave to St. Peter the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and grant him the power to bind and loose upon earth whatever he and his successors saw necessary for the preservation of the Faith. To this general Apostasy of the Faith, it is attributed a decline of the Catholic population. This decline happened right after the Vatican II Council when many, including clerics and laity, decided to leave either to create their own sects, to become part of other religions, or to try to preserve the faith as it was handed to us right until 1958.

Catholics cannot deny we all have been warned about the Apostasy of the Faith, the Abomination of Desolation, the Cease of the Eternal Sacrifice, and the Son of Perdition who will claim to be God and requests to be worshipped as God and who according to Sacred Scriptures will seat in the Temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. All these can be corroborated by reading 2 Thessalonians 2, St. Matthew 24, St. Jude's Epistle, St. John 15:20, the Book of Daniel and the Book of Apocalypse.

To cite the Church we consider important to talk about a series of lectures delivered by Cardinal Manning under the title “The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy.” He divided his lectures into four fundamental teachings of the Church: The “Revolt” against the True Church, The Manifestation of “the Wicked One” —the Antichrist, a Restraining Force that “withholdeth” for a while, and the Period of Power during which the Antichrist persecutes the Faithful.

Cardinal Manning asserts that, "The apostasy of the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts very new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians of greatest repute. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarez, Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall apostatize from the Faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ and return to its ancient paganism. ...Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible; hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early Church.”- Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See, 1861, London: Burns and Lambert, pp. 88-90)
 

In his Encyclical, E Supremi Apostolatus, “On the Restoration of All Things in Christ,” October 4, 1903, Pope St. Pius X, interpreted Scriptural Prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, by stating the following:

“When all this is considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and PERHAPS THE BEGINNING of those Evils which are reserved for the Last Days; and that there MAY be already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle speaks (II. Thess. ii., 3). Such, in truth, is the audacity and the wrath employed everywhere in persecuting religion, in combating the dogmas of the faith, in brazen effort to uproot and destroy all relations between man and the Divinity! While, on the other hand, and this, according to the same Apostle, is the distinguishing mark of the Antichrist: with infinite temerity man has USURPED the place of God, raising himself above all that is called God; in such wise that although he cannot utterly extinguish in himself all knowledge of God, he has shaken off the yoke of God's majesty and made of the world a temple where he pretends to receive the adoration of his fellow men. He sitteth IN the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God. (II Thess. ii, 4).” 

Our Lord Jesus Christ, clearly recorded in St. Matthew 24: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places... And then shall many be scandalized: and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved."

In a time of many such "false prophets," it is also important to note we were warned repeatedly about the coming Divine Chastisement by the Blessed Virgin when She appeared in Quito, Ecuador, La Salette, France, and at Fatima, Portugal, prior to the 1958 Papal Conclave and the Vatican II Usurper Council. These words may be hard to accept when you first hear them because many of us have been raised in what we were led to believe was the "Catholic" religion, when in reality, it was a counterfeit. It is undeniable that The Vatican 2 New Religion, which now occupies the Catholic Church structures, is responsible for the Eclipse of the Catholic Church and the decay of Christendom. 

According to St. Louis de Montfort: "The formation and the education of the great saints who will come at the end of the world are reserved to her, for only this singular and wondrous virgin can produce in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things.

...all the rich among the people will look pleadingly upon her countenance throughout all ages and particularly as the world draws to its end. This means that the greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.

These great souls filled with grace and zeal will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the Blessed Virgin. Illumined by her light, strengthened by her food, guided by her spirit, supported by her arm, sheltered under her protection, they will fight with one hand and build with the other. With one hand they will give battle, overthrowing and crushing heretics and their heresies, schismatics and their schisms, idolaters and their idolatries, sinners and their wickedness. With the other hand they will build the temple of the true Solomon and the mystical city of God, namely, the Blessed Virgin, who is called by the Fathers of the Church the Temple of Solomon and the City of God. By word and example they will draw all men to a true devotion to her and though this will make many enemies, it will also bring about many victories and much glory to God alone." True Devotion, 35, 46, 48  

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