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ON<\/strong> the verge of a global pandemic<\/a>? A massive locust plague<\/a> and food crisis<\/a> in the Horn of Africa and\u00a0Pakistan<\/a>? A global economy on the precipice of collapse<\/a>? Plummeting insect numbers<\/a> threatening the ‘collapse of nature’? Nations on the verge of another terrible war<\/a>? Socialist parties rising<\/a> in once democratic countries? Totalitarian laws continuing to crush freedom of speech and religion<\/a>? The Church, reeling from scandal and encroaching heresies<\/a>, on the verge of schism?<\/p>\n To be honest, these headlines aren’t what disturbs me. It’s that our generation cannot interpret the “signs of the times.”<\/em> It’s like those news stories we’ve heard of large women who did not realize they were pregnant, did not feel or comprehend the baby’s kicks, and thus, did not recognize what the labor pains were… until, like “a thief in the night,” they unexpectedly gave birth in a public bathroom stall. So too, our generation has slowly progressed to the point of the hard labor pains. <\/em>Yet, we are almost completely oblivious to key markers<\/a>, signposts<\/a>, and symptoms<\/a>; we are stuck in denial and apathy, lulled to sleep<\/a> by a false sense of security, comfort, easy credit and banal entertainments. We continue to ignore the prophetic voices<\/a> that tell the truth of our reality, that seek to prepare us for the inevitable. But in our stubbornness and pride, we cry out: “I’m not pregnant! I’m just gaining weight like everyone else! Mind your own business. Stop fear-mongering. Stop making me anxious. My life is not going to change. Go away!”\u00a0<\/p>\n Within just two generations, the world has experienced the most heart-wrenching and obvious signs: two world wars, genocides, an explosion of diseases, skyrocketing suicide rates, broken families and marriages, an epidemic For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It would indeed be a cause for depression and despair if<\/em> God did not exist. The hopeless wails of the Greta Thunberg’s<\/a> of the world would be justified. The deliberate introduction of biological weapons<\/a>, harmful pharmaceuticals, destructive vaccines, deliberate poisoning of the food supply, and the primary tools of eugenics: abortion, contraception and forced sterilization\u2014all in order to reduce the world’s population\u2014would sound reasonable to the one who follows through the “logic” of Darwinism and Evolution. If there are no moral absolutes, why wouldn’t the strong eliminate the weak? <\/em><\/p>\n There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least\u2026 some scientists in their laboratories [are] trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves<\/strong>. \u2014Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen, April 28, 1997, 8:45 AM EDT, Department of Defense; see www.defense.gov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If there is no God, then the international network of “secret societies<\/a>” (Freemasonry), the so-called “deep state” behind these seemingly nefarious instruments of death, would seem like brilliant strategists as they seek to bring humanity to a higher consciousness and the planet to a point of “sustainable development.” Then, according to their agenda<\/a>, the genderless enlightened survivors could inaugurate an Age of Aquarius<\/a>, a world of “true” peace and harmony. If we are merely advanced random particles of matter; if humans are but meaningless molecules on top of the food chain, then why shouldn’t the “law of the strong” prevail?<\/p>\n But if God exists<\/em>, then these acts are intrinsically evil. If God exists, then that means He created us. And if He created us, then He established an order. And if we humans wish to survive\u2014no,\u00a0thrive\u2014<\/em>then we must return to that order. And that is why God has sent us thousands of unmistakable signs, miracles, and souls to testify that indeed “God exists.”<\/em> That is why God has sent the Virgin Mary in over 2000 reported apparitions all over the world in the past two centuries: to call us back to Jesus, the Savior of mankind. That is why God has put my career and dreams on hold and called me, among others, to be watchmen who announce\u2014not so much the inevitable destruction that man has prepared for himself\u2014but\u00a0the new birth<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that follows.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dear young people, it is up to you to be the watchmen<\/em> of the morning who announce the coming of the sun who is the Risen Christ!<\/strong> \u2014ST. JOHN PAUL II, Message of the Holy Father to the Youth of the World<\/em>, XVII World Youth Day, n. 3; (cf. Is 21:11-12)<\/span><\/p>\n For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, \u201cPeace and security,\u201d then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1 Thess 5:2-3)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Jesus spoke of a future period where the world, nations, and peoples would be torn apart by intense divisions; that there would be unusual earthquake activity, large famines, and plagues from place to place that would thrust the planet into unparalleled tribulation. These would be “the beginning of the labor pains.”<\/em> [1]<\/sup><\/a>Matt 24:8<\/span><\/span>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lee-junda.jpg\")
of sexually transmitted diseases, an unspeakable death toll from abortion, and now, the complete overturning of natural law and the moral order. The more science and technology “advance”, the less civilized we are becoming. This generation is not on a trajectory of order and peace, but disorder<\/a> and death<\/a>. Just as labor pains are the natural end of pregnancy, so too,\u00a0the kind of destruction we are seeing in nature<\/a> and society<\/a> are the natural end of mortal sin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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