A Time of War

There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every thing under the heavens.
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to tear down, and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance…
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.

(Today’s First Reading)

IT may seem that the author of Ecclesiastes is saying that tearing down, killing, war, death and mourning are simply inevitable, if not “appointed” moments throughout history. Rather, what is described in this famous biblical poem is the state of fallen man and the inevitability of reaping what has been sown. 

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. (Galatians 6:7)

The roots of “Progress”

In the post-Enlightenment period, human “progress” has become the driving ideology rather than human sanctification through a deepening relationship with the Divine. As such, God — and any human structure that claims divine authority from Him (ie. the Church) — must be eliminated in order that nothing stand in the way of human progress.

Hannah Arendt summed up the “nihilistic credo of the 19th century” with Dostoevsky’s saying: “Everything is permitted,” namely when man does not believe in God as his Creator and his Judge.  —Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, “The “New World Order”: Conspiracy theory or political vision after all?”, September 21st, 2022; catholiworldreport.com

At the heart of this ideology is the first temptation to Eve:

You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of [the fruit] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. (Gen 3:4-5)

There you have in a nutshell the philosophical foundations of the so-called “secret societies” that were thought to be conceived at the base of Mount Sinai whilst Moses was receiving the Ten Commandments on its summit.^[1]cf. The New Paganism – Part V 

Lucifer, the father of lies, whose work for the destruction of souls began in the Garden of Eden, now put his insidous and most grandiose plan to date into action—a plan that would lead countless souls to perdition. The cornerstone of this plan was laid with the birth of the Kabbala. —Stephen Mahowald, She Shall Crush Thy Head, p .23

From this “ancient and secret oral tradition among a small and elite group of Israelites”,^[2]Ibid. p. 23 who formed the sect of the Sandhedrin and certain Pharisees, have come various societies such as the Illuminati and Freemasons. They, too, have fallen into that same temptation to “be like God, knowing good and evil” and seeking esoteric knowledge through occultism.^[3]cf. The New Paganism – Part V 

How important is the threat posed by speculative Freemasonry? Well, eight popes in seventeen official documents condemned it… over two hundred Papal condemnations issued by the Church either formally or informally… in less than three hundred years. —Ibid. p. 73

Secular Messianism

In them lies the kernel of a messianic deception: that they are the saviours of the world, if not the genetically preferred progeny of their forefathers. They are the chosen ones to sift the global population and bring the elite to a state of being like a god: immortalized (omnipotent), masters of all knowledge (omniscient), and through transhumanism, connected globally (omnipresent). Today, having seen a window of opportunity, they are quickly mobilizing their end game through their “philanthropy”:

The problem is that the super-billionaires, through their “charitable” foundations and their influence in the international organizations, make the national governments, which – at least in one third of the states – are democratically elected, dependent on them. They are received like great statesmen or celebrities and VIP’s and flattered by local rulers in the vain hope of getting some of their glitz and glamour. An economically successful entrepreneur, even if he has become rich quite legally and morally unobjectionably, is far from being a philosopher, let alone the Messiah. —Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, “The “New World Order”: Conspiracy theory or political vision after all?”, September 21st, 2022; catholiworldreport.com

…your merchants were the great men of the earth, all nations were led astray by your sorcery. (Rev 18:23; The Greek word for “sorcery” or “magic potions” is φαρμακείᾳ (pharmakeia) — “the use of medicine, drugs or spells.” The word we use today for “medicines” comes from this: pharmaceuticals.)

We have heard these financial wizards surmise, quite openly, that the world is too populated;^[4]cf. The Pandemic of Control we (ie. you and I, the unenlightened) enjoy too much space, too much meat, too much… freedom. As such, a “Great Reset” is needed. Here is one “intellect” telling us the “plan” long before most of us heard of the World Economic Forum:

Society globally has to collectively decide that we need to drastically lower our population very quickly. More of us need to move to optimal areas at higher density and let parts of the planet recover. Folks like us have to be forced to be materially poorer, at least in the short term. We also need to invest a lot more in creating technologies to produce and distribute food without eating up more land and wild species. It’s a very tall order. —Arne Mooers, a Simon Fraser University biodiversity professor and a co-author of the study: Approaching a state-shift in Earth’s biosphere; TerraDaily, June 11th, 2012

But how few understand what is meant here, and what this entails! 

The new messianists, in seeking to transform mankind into a collective being disconnected from his Creator, will unknowingly bring about the destruction of the greater portion of mankind. They will unleash unprecedented horrors: famines, plagues, wars, and ultimately Divine Justice. In the beginning they will use coercion to further reduce population, and then if that fails they will use force. —Michael D. O’Brien, Globalization and the New World Order, March 17th, 2009

Indeed, in the often moving and alarming visions of the coming chastisements that were conveyed to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, Jesus reveals the horrific man-made travails that would assail the earth. 

He showed secret meetings, in which they were plotting how to assail the Church — some, how to cause new wars, and some, new revolutions. —Luisa, May 9th, 1924, Volume 16

Humanity is heading for the abyss of self-destruction that men have prepared by their own hands. —Our Lady to Pedro Regis, September 22nd, 2022

But as Our Lord reminds us through the Costa Rican stigmatist, 

Our Sacred Hearts are a refuge for My people, where faith, hope, charity, steadfastness, and love are multiplied, so that My people might continue in the midst of intense and surprising events for humanity during the time of the Great Tribulation. —Our Lord Jesus to Luz de Maria, September 15th, 2022

They are surprising, and yet, in many respects, predicted events…

The Father of Lies… and the end game

It was, again, Our Lord Jesus who spoke of these times in a Scriptural passage that could be viewed as a prophecy. Here, Our Lord describes the intrinsic character of the fallen angel in the Garden of Eden:

He was a murderer from the beginning… he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)

Satan plants a lie so as to ensnare and hopefully kill, above all, the soul. And here is the key to understanding how the enemy plants these lies:

By the envy of the devil, death came into the world: and they follow him that are of his side. (Wis 2:24-25; Douay-Rheims)

Few want to believe today that there are men capable of such evil, much less capable of the resources of carrying it out. But we have just witnessed nearly three years now of extraordinary lies that have led to a veritable genocide in our midst.^[5]cf. The Tolls So convincing have been the lies, so pervasive the propaganda, that many still cannot face the undeniable facts found in plain sight in government data, new studies, and testified to by hundreds of thousands of citizens^[6]A Facebook group “Died Suddenly News”, now open by invite only, has exploded to 290k members where tens of thousands of testimonies of what happened to them or their loved ones after the jab are being told. crying out — only to be ignored by nearly the entire mainstream corporative media, who yes, are in the pockets of these “philanthropists”.^[7]cf. The Case Against Gates; The Pandemic of Control As Dr. Naomi Wolfe flatly stated:

The worst that can happen to the human species, is happening… a group of medical and scientific experts who have selflessly stepped up to analyze the tens of thousands of formerly internal Pfizer documents released under court order subsequent to a lawsuit by Aaron Siri’s firm, Siri & Glimstad, and a FOIA by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency — have now fully demonstrated that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines target human reproduction in comprehensive, likely irreversible ways. Our 3,250 research volunteers, in 39 fully cited reports to date, have documented evidence of what I’ve been calling “360 degrees of harm” to reproduction. —“Destroying Women, Poisoning Breast Milk, Murdering Babies; and Hiding the Truth”, September 18th, 2022

Here, the prescient words of St. John Paul II come to mind, who warned of a true “conspiracy” bringing us to these moments through which we are now living. 

This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency. Looking at the situation from this point of view, it is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak… A person who, because of illness, handicap or, more simply, just by existing, compromises the well-being or life-style of those who are more favoured tends to be looked upon as an enemy to be resisted or eliminated. In this way a kind of “conspiracy against life” is unleashed. —Evangelium Vitae,  n. 12

The reduction of the global population is essential to the new messianists, not only to “purify” the human race, but to simply better control it. Hence, we are now being lied to every day on a colossal scale: from the facts about these so-called “vaccines”, to “global warming”,^[8]cf. Climate Change and the Great Delusion, and Climate Confusion to the nature of the unborn, to the reality of our biological sexes, and so forth. We are living through one of the most pervasive, planned, and yes, orchestrated satanic propaganda campaigns in human history. 

The propaganda that works is the propaganda that doesn’t seem to be propaganda. —Dr. Mark Crispin Miller, PhD, professor of studies in propaganda; America Freedom Alliance conference, August 3rd, 2022

Here again, the weak-minded in our society will simply dismiss this as “conspiracy theory” (including those with PhDs, for by “weakness” is meant lacking in wisdom and discernment). But as Pius XI so strongly warned in his Encyclical on Atheistic Communism, the spread of this “progressive” ideology, now in our day under the guise of a “green” neo-communistic vision,^[9]cf. The New Paganism – Part III has only been possible with the help of the media. 

A third powerful factor in the diffusion of Communism is the conspiracy of silence on the part of a large section of the non-Catholic press of the world. We say conspiracy, because it is impossible otherwise to explain how a press usually so eager to exploit even the little daily incidents of life has been able to remain silent for so long about the horrors [being] perpetrated… POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris: On Atheistic Communism, Encyclical Letter, March 19th, 1937; n. 18

Said Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina:

“We are not talking about isolated incidents”… but rather a series of simultaneous events that bear the “markings of a conspiracy.” —Catholic News Agency, Apr. 12, 2006

…few people are aware how deep the roots of this sect actually reach. Freemasonry is perhaps the single greatest secular organized power on earth today and battles head to head with the things of God on a daily basis. It is a controlling power in the world, operating behind the scenes in banking and politics, and it has effectively infiltrated all religions. Masonry is a worldwide secret sect undermining the authority of the Catholic Church with a hidden agenda at the upper levels to destroy the papacy. —Ted Flynn, Hope of the Wicked: The Master Plan to Rule the World, p. 154

This does not mean that every politician, every doctor, every news reporter, etc. is “in on it”, so to speak. What it means is that we are witnessing a mass deception taking place throughout the entire world where educated people, including if not especially in the Church, are utterly asleep. 

…‘the sleepiness’ is ours, of those of us who do not want to see the full force of evil and do not want to enter into his Passion. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, Catholic News Agency, Vatican City, Apr 20, 2011, General Audience

Those of us who do not want to see that we have entered this Gethsemane, “a time of war.”

The Great Deception

I wish this were not true, brothers and sisters. I wish that the entire world would, rather, turn to Jesus and repent. But to the messianists of our time, drunken on the wine of hubris, who seek to sweep the world into the Fourth Industrial Revolution through “Warp Speed, Shock and Awe”, the reduction of the population is mere “collateral damage.” This mindset is also the fruit of a philosophical error of the Enlightenment — Darwinism and evolutionism in which man is viewed as merely a highly evolving particle among many particles in the cosmos. There is no reason, then, why “evolution” should not be hurried along so that the chosen ones may progress uninhibited into a “higher cosmic consciousness.”^[10]cf. The New Paganism – Part VI

This leads, ultimately, to the deception of the Antichrist who will arrive on a war-torn and devastated human horizon to become its sole saviour, with the promise of bringing mankind to the ultimate reality of human progress — a transhumanist utpoia.^[11]cf. Antichrist in Our Times

The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment.  —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 675-676 (see Millenarianism – What it is and is Not)

Transhumanism is the ultimate avatar of this movement. Because it is a gift from God, human nature itself becomes unbearable for western man. This revolt is spiritual at root. —Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Herald, April 5th, 2019; cf. The African Now Word

Hence, the entire zeitgeist of this hour is leading toward the deification of man — without God — the epitome of lawlessness.^[12]“…that Antichrist is one individual man, not a power—not a mere ethical spirit, or a political system, not a dynasty, or succession of rulers—was the universal tradition of the early Church.” —St. John Henry Newman, “The Times of Antichrist”, Lecture 1

..the man of lawlessness… the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thess 2:3-4)

For the messianists, now is “a time of war”, and the enemy is that creature made “in the image of God.”

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself. —The Club of Rome, Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider. The First Global Revolution, p. 75, 1993

As St. John Paul II said, “Whoever attacks human life, in some way attacks God himself.”^[13]Evangelium Vitae; n. 10 Thus, God will allow this “time of war” insofar as it serves a divine purpose: to give birth to “a time of peace.” 

….so, the evils, the destructions, will serve to fulfill what I have told you — that my Will come to reign upon earth. But It wants to find the earth purified, and in order to purify it, destructions are needed. Therefore, patience, my daughter, and never go out of my Will… —Jesus to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, May 9th, 1924, Volume 16

Two-thirds of the world is lost and the other part must pray and make reparation for the Lord to take pity. The devil wants to have full domination over the earth. He wants to destroy. The earth is in great danger… At these moments all humanity is hanging by a thread. If the thread breaks, many will be those who do not reach salvation… Hurry because time is running out; there will be no room for those who delay in coming!… The weapon that has the greatest influence on evil is to say the Rosary… —Our Lady to Gladys Herminia Quiroga of Argentina, approved on May 22nd, 2016 by Bishop Hector Sabatino Cardelli

Related Reading

The Progression of Man

The Progression of Totalitarianism

The Caduceus Key

The Great Culling

Fake News, Real Revolution

Preparing for the Era of Peace

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