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Hatred of the brethren makes room next for Antichrist;
\nfor the devil prepares beforehand the divisions among the people,
\nthat he who is to come may be acceptable to them.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u2014St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Church Doctor, (c. 315-386)<\/span>
\nCatechetical Lectures<\/em>, Lecture XV, n.9<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\nS<\/span>eismic world events are unfolding at an incredible pace, even though in parts of the world, life seems “normal.” As I have said so many times, the closer we get to the Eye of the Storm<\/a>, the faster the winds of change<\/a> will blow, the more quickly events will follow one upon the other “like boxcars<\/a>\u201d, and the more rapidly chaos<\/a> will ensue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have been sitting on this “now word” for several days, but felt earlier this week that it needed the preamble of The Judgment of the West<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and Russia – Instrument of Purification?<\/em><\/a> These are admittedly heavy topics. So I appealed to Our Blessed Mother before writing this because she, more than anyone, has the most tender and loving heart of all God’s creatures… and yet she has had to speak some very challenging things to this wayward generation, often with tears<\/a>. I am also prodded by the Scripture the Lord pressed upon my heart two decades ago when He called me to be a watchman through St. John Paul II<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any one of them; that man is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman\u2019s hand.<\/strong> (Ezekiel 33:6)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Agitators<\/h5>\n

The Agitators <\/em>(see Part I<\/a> and Part II<\/a>) has been constantly on the back of my mind. It examined two of the most controversial figures in our times \u2014 Pope Francis and President Donald Trump (and here is not the time to discuss the real problems and concerns with either man, which I did in The Agitators<\/em>) \u2014 and how they presently represent both the spiritual and political stop-gap<\/em> of the total collapse of the West, or rather, what remains of the Roman Empire, that is, Christendom<\/em>. What are they standing in the way of? What St. Paul called a revolt or apostasy \u2014 “<\/em>the total repudiation of the Christian faith”[1]<\/sup><\/a>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, n. 2089<\/span><\/span>