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When I reach the appointed time,<\/span><\/strong>
\nthen I will judge with justice.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThough the earth and <\/span><\/strong>
\nall who dwell in it may rock,<\/span><\/strong>
\nit is I who uphold its pillars.<\/span><\/strong>
\n(Psalm 75:2-3)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nS<\/span>ome time ago, as I pondered why the sun was seemingly darting about the sky at Fatima, the insight came to me that it was not a vision of the sun moving per se<\/i>, but the\u00a0earth.\u00a0That’s when I pondered\u00a0the connection between the “great shaking” of the earth foretold by many credible prophets, and the “miracle of the sun.” However, with the recent release of Sr. Lucia’s memoirs, a new insight into the Third Secret of Fatima was revealed in her writings. Up till this point, what we knew of a postponed chastisement of the earth (that has given us this “time of mercy”) was described on the Vatican’s website:<\/p>\n
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…at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand…<\/strong> \u2014Message of Fatima, vatican.va<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But in recent disclosures from the Carmelite nuns where Sr. Lucia lived, the seer had privately recorded\u00a0further “enlightenment” regarding this event:<\/p>\n

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The tip of the spear as a flame unlatches and touches the axis of the earth. It shudders. Mountains, cities, towns, and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, the rivers, and the clouds emerge from their limits, overflowing and bringing with them in a whirlwind houses and people in numbers that are not possible to count. It is the purification of the world as it plunges into sin. Hatred and ambition cause the destructive war!<\/strong> \u2014reported on SpiritDaily.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

What causes this shift in the earth’s axis? That is what I discuss below in this writing from September 11th, 2014. But let me conclude this little prologue with the hopeful words\u00a0of Pope Benedict XVI:<\/p>\n

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The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of Revelation. This represents the threat of judgement which looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword. The vision then shows the power which stands opposed to the force of destruction\u2014the splendour of the Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to penance. In this way, the importance of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set….<\/strong> \u2014Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (BENEDICT XVI), from the\u00a0Theological Commentary\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0The\u00a0Message of Fatima, vatican.va<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It depends on our personal response to conversion…<\/p>\n

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THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN<\/p>\n

As many as a hundred thousand people saw it: the sun began to spin, pulsate, and radiate a multitude of colors. But then something happened that defied any explanation, even by the atheists gathered that October afternoon in 1917 at Fatima, Portugal:<\/p>\n

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Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bare-headed, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws\u2014the sun \u2018danced\u2019 according to the typical expression of the people.<\/strong> \u2014Avelino de Almeida,writing for O S\u00e9culo <\/em>(Portugal\u2019s most widely circulated and influential newspaper, which was pro-government and anti-clerical at the time. Almeida\u2019s previous articles had been to satirize the previously reported events at F\u00e1tima). www.answers.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In my article, Debunking the Sun Miracle Skeptics<\/a>, <\/em>I examined all the natural explanations that have failed to explain away the supernatural event that took place that day. But an atheist recently wrote saying that what people saw was “a physical impossibility” since the sun cannot dart about the sky. Of course not\u2014what the people saw, obviously, was a vision of sorts. I mean, the sun can’t move about the sky… or can it?<\/p>\n

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A MIRACLE OR A WARNING?<\/p>\n

Before I attempt to answer that question, I want to note that the so-called “miracle of the sun” has not been an isolated event\u00a0since that day. Thousands of people have since witnessed this miracle, including Pope Pius XII who saw the phenomenon from the Vatican Gardens in 1950. [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. . The Sun Danced at F\u00e1tima<\/em>. Joseph Pelletier, Doubleday, New York, 1983, p. 147\u2013151<\/span><\/span>