“Alas, Alas for the Great City!” An Urgent Plea for Prayer at the New Year!(Catholic Prophecy)

We are very close to the new year, 2015 AD. And most of us at the new year have it in mind to pray for the future year not only for ourselves, but also for our family, country, and culture. With that in mind, there is something of an admonition to us all that I would share from Scripture. For while we look to the new year with hope, we do well to soberly assess the warnings of God that are seemingly more applicable than ever. Above all we must pray so as to avoid the otherwise necessary chastisements of God and the inevitability of ruin at our own hand if we do not soon repent.

We have good reason to have concern for what we have come to call Western culture. Our last century was nothing less than a blood bath of world wars, cold wars, killing fields, mass starvations, abortion, and euthanasia. It is conservatively estimated that 100 million were put to death for ideological purposes (e.g., in Hitler’s camps, Stalin’s mass starvations, Pol Pot’s killing fields, Mao’s camps, Rwanda’s genocide, the Balkan genocides). Add to this the war dead and the victims of abortion and the number easily reaches 200 million.

In the middle of that period in the West, we threw in many social revolutions: the sexual revolution, the revolution against authority, the widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs, radical feminism, abortion on demand, contraception, and no-fault divorce. The solitary boast of the tainted 1960s was the civil rights movement, largely granted to it by the 1950s.

It is no surprise then that Americans, still reeling from these selfish and egotistical revolutions, find that most baby boomers are now in various combinations of drug rehab, AA, SA, Overeaters Anonymous, or even jail. Add to this situation vast amounts of psychotherapy, psychotropic drugs, and a self-esteem-driven culture with endless distractions to keep the revolutionaries and their children sane. Then throw in large amounts of antibiotics to treat the sexually transmitted diseases … would someone please call in the exorcist?

We have sown the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind. Enter now the desperate confusion of the “rainbow,” a once beautiful sign of hope that now only bespeaks sexual confusion of a colossal degree. And let no heterosexual gloat until he ponders rampant fornication, easy divorce, abortion, and the disgraceful lack of self-control that has helped usher in the sex-is-just-about-pleasure-and-means-whatever-I-say-it-means culture. Confusion, from top to bottom!

Catholic prophecy differs considerably from Protestant Prophecy. However, there are current protestant prophets who agree significantly with current Catholic prophecy at this time.Moreover, the bulk of what Catholic prophecy has to say about this time was written by Catholic saints, mystics and prophets hundreds of years ago, whom agree symphonically as to a sequence of events for this time.

Within Catholic prophecy(Eschatology: The study of the end times) we are entering the edge or beginning of the end times. The "end times" being a long period of time punctuated by two eras. This beginning period is known as the "little chastistement" where man suffers punishment primarily as a result of his sin(our heinous sins) and lack of faith in God. The lack of faith in God causes us to be no longer blessed nor protected by God. Earth and nature groans and a certain portion of what is in the Book of Revelation will be fulfilled soon. Namely the 7 seals and it will be worldwide.

In Catholic Eschatology(Catholic Prophecy) "little chastistement" is followed by the "big chastisement" some time later(not our lifetimes) which could properly be called the "Apocolypse".

Like a spiral, the book of Revelation sweeps through every generation, every century, being fulfilled on one level or another, in one region or another, until it will finally be fulfilled on a global level. Hence, Pope Benedict said recently in an interview:

The Book of Revelation is a mysterious text and has many dimensions… the striking aspect of Revelation is precisely that it is just when one thinks the end is truly now upon us that the whole things starts again from the beginning. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Light of the World, The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Time-An Interview with Peter Seewald, P. 182

If you are interested this book covers what I am talking about very well: "Trial, Tribulation & Triumph: Before, During, and After Antichrist" by Desmond A. Birch

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882972732/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk

Fears that NYC may turn into a jungle without the thin blue line of the NYPD on guard are over wrought. NYC is already a jungle. Maybe this NYC mayor's office + anti-police activists/thug alliance vs. the NYPD is a good thing. Maybe the NYC liberal scum will start getting the message that elections have consequences. Mayor Bill de Blasio is a gut wrenching disaster and this dumb cluck keeps on scewing the pooch and digging the hole deeper. He's a man with a plan and he's thrown the NYPD under the bus.

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