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Now more than ever it is crucial that you be \u201cwatchers of the dawn\u201d, <\/p>\n A letter from a reader:<\/p>\n When you read through all the messages from visionaries, all of them have an urgency in them. Many are also saying that that there will be floods, earthquakes, etc. even back to 2008 and longer. These things have been happening for years. What makes those times different to now in terms of the Warning, etc.? We are told in the Bible that we don\u2019t know the hour but to be prepared. Apart from a sense of urgency in my being, it seems the messages are no different than say 10 or 20 years ago. I know Fr. Michel Rodrigue has made a comment that we \u201cwill see great things this Fall\u201d but what if he is wrong? I realize we have to discern private revelation and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I know people are getting “excited” about what is happening in the world in terms of eschatology. I am just querying it all as the messages have been saying similar things for many many years. Could we still be hearing these messages in 50 year\u2019s time and still waiting? The disciples thought Christ was going to return not long after He ascended into heaven… We are still waiting.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
\nthe lookouts who announce the light of dawn and the new springtime of the Gospel
\nof which the buds can already be seen.<\/strong> <\/span>
\n\u2014POPE JOHN PAUL II, 18th World Youth Day, April 13th, 2003;<\/span> vatican.va<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n
These are great questions. Certainly, some of the messages we are hearing today go back several decades. But is this problematic? For me, I think of where I was at the turn of the millennium… and where I am today, and all I can say is thank God that He has given us more time!<\/em> And hasn’t it flown by? Is a few decades, relative to salvation history, really that long? God is never late in speaking to His people nor in acting, but how hard of heart and slow we are to respond!<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nWHY DOES GOD DELAY?<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThe book of Amos says,<\/div>\n\n
The Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. (Amos 3:7)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nBut then, the Lord doesn’t tell His prophets what He is going to do\u2014and then immediately do it; He tells them precisely so that they will tell others. There has to be time, then, for that word to be spread, heard, and heeded. How much time? As much as needed.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThe sense of urgency in many messages has a twofold purpose. One is to impel the prophet to speak; the second is to impel the listener toward conversion. God is patient with both.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medjugorjestatu.jpg\")
I can remember sitting around the table with my parents discussing the times we are now passing through. That was forty years ago. Those conversations formed and prepared me for my mission today. Likewise, I hear from people all over the world who say, \u201cMy grandmother told me about these times and I remember her saying that this was coming.\u201d Those grandchildren are now pretty attentive as they see these things begin to unfold! In God\u2019s mercy, He not only warns but gives us time to repent and prepare. We should consider this a grace, not a prophetic failure.<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\nThat… and many people do not understand that we are not going through just another little speed bump in salvation history. We are at the end of an era and a coming purification of the world. As Jesus allegedly said to Pedro Regis recently:<\/div>\n\n
You are living in a time worse than the time of the Flood and the moment has come for your return. Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. God is making haste. <\/strong>\u2014<\/em>June 20th, 2020<\/a><\/span>
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