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Show 255: The end of the world - The signs which will precede and the circumstances which will accompany it. · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: To f of B. Hey, y'all welcome this week's show.
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As promise, we are going to get started on the
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book The End of this Present World and the Mysteries
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of the Life to come. You're going to find this
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absolutely fascinating. Before we do, we'll do a little bit
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from radio replies, picking up where we left off. But
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I did want to make mention of one thing. A
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listener got in touch with me and said, this book
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has been reprinted and you can buy it through Sophia
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Institute Press, which is fantastic because a few years ago
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when I was looking for it, I could not find
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it on their site. I'm not saying it wasn't there.
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I'm just saying I didn't find it on their site.
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I didn't find it on Amazon. I didn't find it
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in what Abe Books or eBay or any of the
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used book sources. Couldn't find it on Tan Books, couldn't
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find it anywhere, and I'd found a copy on Archive,
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which is the one I'm using. What this means is
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you can buy a copy of it, and you can
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buy it from Sophia Institute Press, which is particularly special
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to me because they just published my new book Herbs
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that Heill Catholic homb Remedies, the book that Steve Cunningham
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and I co authored. So go get this book from
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Sophia and buy my book while you're there. And this
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is I'm really pleased by this. So each one of
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these shows, I'm going to be giving a little promo
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for go buy the book from Sophia Press. Because it's
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a controversial book. They took a risk in republishing this book,
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and I think we need to show them appreciation without
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a doubt. And they published my book, which I'm very
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happy about. It's a beautiful book. They sent me some
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author copies just a well sometime last week, and I've
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been handing them out to people, you know, and it's
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just flip through the book like this is a gorgeous book.
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It really is. They did a fantastic job. But anyway,
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let's get started with the questioner asks the priests, or
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actually states and then it's interesting where this person put it.
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He says, these seven sacraments of the Catholic Church are
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to assist us in the sanctification of our souls and
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to prepare us for happy eternity. Very true, they says,
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but will you maintain that You're Catholic. Dogmas concerning the
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future state in no way violate reason, and they said, yes,
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I am quite prepared to maintain that. The person says,
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no one on earth knows anything about life beyond, and
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they answer, you are very dogmatic. However, I prefer to
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accept the authority of the God who made me, and
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who must certainly know what is awaiting me. It is
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your word against the word of God, and I prefer
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the latter. He asks, will the future differ from this life?
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And they answer yes. This life is adapted more to
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our material nature, the soul conforming its sectivities to the
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body it animates, and the next life, the body will
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be adapted rather to our spiritual nature, the soul dominating.
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Whether the new conditions will be pleasant or unpleasant depends
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upon our conduct here on earth. Person says, you're pleasant
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or unpleasant conditions? Suppose the dogmas of heaven and hell
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dogma which reason cannot accept. And the answer the dogmas
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of heaven and hell are guarantee the dogmas of heaven
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and hell guarantee the conditions? Or is there anything in
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those dogmas which conflicts with the same reason person says,
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is a man definitely judged to death. In the answer, yes,
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it is a point of once and the men to die,
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and after that, after this the judgment Hebrews nine twenty seven.
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Retribution follows immediately after death, soldier judged individually at once,
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so that probation comes to an end with this life.
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Person says, I believe that all men will get a
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second chance. Christ said, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be
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done on earth as is in heaven. At some future
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time on earth there will be a kingdom in which
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God's will must prevail. And the priest's answer, the Kingdom
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of Christ is already in this world. They're not of it.
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That kingdom is twofold, perfect in heaven, imperfect on earth.
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We pray that God's cand Kingdom of grace may be
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extended to the souls of men, and that they may
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so fulfill the will of God that they may attain
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that final happiness of the Kingdom of heaven. But the
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words you quote in no way refer to another temporary
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state or to any second chance. When Christ comes again, well,
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I should say. The person then asked, when Christ comes again,
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will he not teach and rule us? And they answer,
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when Christ comes again, it would be a judge mankind
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not to teach and rule us in this world. He
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has put his church on earth to do the teaching,
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and if men will not listen to it, it's their
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own fault. Now is the time of our probation, when
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we must make good use of this present life instead
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of relying upon future opportunities and preparation. Well, what better
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or intro could we have to our topic today from
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the end of this present world and the mysteries of
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the life to come. Let's get started, gonna We're really
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gonna dive in the deep end here. There's no other
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way to put it. This is just such a really
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interesting book. And like I said, you need to bookmark
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this one, you need to download it if you can
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share it on social media. There is so much confusion
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about the so called end times, the end of the world, armageddon, eschatology,
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whatever you want to say. The Catholic teaching is so
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very different, so very very different than the Protestant teaching
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which dominates the media. I mean, like the Left Behind
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series and all these movies and all kinds of stuff
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that they've made are so heretical and so off base.
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The Catholic teaching is by no means less terrifying. Actually,
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in many ways it's more so. But it's also valid
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because it's revealed to us, excuse me, through the Church
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that God gave to which God gave his authority to
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whom I guess I should say, because we refer to
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the church as a she or a you know, so
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to whom God gave his authority. The Holy Apostles were
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given all authority by Jesus to speak in his name,
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teach his name, the powers to bind and loose, and
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the power of apostolic succession to choose priests and bishops
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who would continue in their stead. There is no other
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authority on earth that has any right to claim that, certainly,
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no Protestant, no other religion. We have a revealed religion.
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It's very different than most religions, all right. So father Armagnong,
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starting with his first chapter, the End of the World,
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the signs which were seed, and the circumstances which will
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accompany it. Well, he starts with Latin, but I think okay,
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then gives a verse in English. But the day of
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the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the
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heaven shall pass away with great violence Verse Peter three. Ten.
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Saint Paul teaches us that the present war world is
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an immense laboratory where all nature is inferment and labor,
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until the day, when freed from all bondage and corruption,
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it will blossom out into a radiant and renewed order.
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Man himself, in his course here below, is no more
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than a traveler sailing across the fluctuating, tempestuous sea of
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time and the earth which bears him as but the
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boat destined to guide him towards the land of immortal
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and unending life. Nations, too, like individuals, are destined one
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day to disappear. The story of mankind would be no
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more than an inexplicable drama, a series of confused, aimless,
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isolated facts. If sooner or later it not have It's
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a point in time and climax. In the present natural order,
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everything with the beginning is destined to end. A continuous
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chain must have a link at both ends, not just one.
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This present world, precisely because it was created, necessarily tends
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toward its conclusion and end. How will the great transformation
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be affected? What will be the conditions and the new
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form of our earth when after it has been destroyed
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and completely transfigured by fire, it will no longer be
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watered by the sweat of man, and has ceased to
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be the troubled, bloodstained arena of our strife and passion.
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We shall speak of this presently in this first talk,
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and remember this book came from a series of lectures
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he prepared to actually transcript for those lectures, he says,
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in this first talk, our aim will be to recall
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the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and particularly that of
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Today's Gospel, which assures us that after a longish period
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of centuries, the visible order of things on earth will
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give way to a new and permanent order, and the
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changing era of time will be replaced by the era
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of stability and repose. As we broach this delicate and
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difficult subject, one of the most important that can be
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treated in Christian preaching, since it touches upon the present
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and the future circumstances of our country and our destinies,
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it seems right to us to point out that we
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shall steer clear of every perilous opinion, relying neither upon
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dubious revelations nor apocryphal prophecies, and making no assertion which
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is not justified by the doctrine of sacred books or
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permitted by the authentic teaching of the followers and a tradition.
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In the first four conferences, we shall recall in turn, first,
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what the premonitory signs and indications of the end times
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are to be. Secondly, what will be the marks and
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nature of the prosecute of the persecutions? The persecutions by
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this man of sin finished that sentence, Yes, the Antichrist,
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the man of sin, announced by the apostles, as the
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precursor of the final coming of the Son of God. Thirdly,
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that will be the circumstances of the resurrection? What will
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be the circumstances of the resurrection and judgment? And finally,
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what will be the place of immortal life the state
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of the world after the resurrection. Today, in our commentary
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on Sacred Scripture, and particularly on the twenty fourth chapter
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of Saint Matthew, we shall seek to resolve these three
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fundamental questions. First, is the doctrine of the end of
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times an indubitable doctrine founded on reason and harmony with
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the facts of the present day science. Secondly, may we
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deduce from the words of Christ whether the end of
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times is near or remote? And thirdly, by what means
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will this final cataclysm, this great crowning change come about?
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In the face of these formidable problems in which defy
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the light and grasp of human understanding. Our voice is
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hesitant and can only stammer. May your blessing, my Lord Bishop,
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strengthen it. May the Spirit of God enlighten our mind
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and place on our lips words of truth, strength, wisdom,
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and discretion on. The materialistic, atheistic science of our century,
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the sort which is propagated in magazines, taught from most
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official rostrums, and given credence by the mainstream of present
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day anti Christian opinion, persists in regarding the order of
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perfection of the universe merely as a result of chance.
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It affirms that matter is eternal, denying creation. It could
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not logically admit that the world can have an end.
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According to this false science, the present universe will always subsist, or,
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if it becomes progressively better, will be solely through the
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effects of man's genius, the increasing impulse given to the
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arts and industrial achievements, the very combination and plays of
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fluids and elements, decomposing and reconstituting themselves to give birth
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to new forms. In short by the application and activation
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of the innumerable and still unknown forces which nature conceals
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in her bosom, forces which themselves are capable of surging
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forward into limitless and indefinite growth. And just as the
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warm and pect perfecting itself turned into a quadruped from
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quadruped to two footed creature, from two footed creature to man,
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in the same way, man with aid of science will
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one day attain the pinnacle of his sovereignty. Yes, is
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that true to this day? That's the promise of transhumanism.
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Very little has changed since the eighteen nineties when father
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Armagnon wrote this, Very little except the horrors of the
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twentieth century. Two hundred million people slaughtered by their own
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nations run by atheistic socialist communists, people who said science
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is the new religion. We have a much better argument
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now than they actually did, and then before they knew
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what was going to come of modernism, of modernity. All right,
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So he will conquer time and space, make himself wings
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in order to propel himself toward the stars. And this
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long before space travel, by the way, and explore the
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wonders of the constellations. In the eyes of atheistic science,
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paradise and eternal life as conceived by Christians are an
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allegory and a myth. Progress is the last end at
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the law and foundation of the life of man, the
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final point and aim where all his thoughts and aspirations
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suit converge. Let man courageously cast aside the bonds of darkness,
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of superstition, and of oppressive, outdated beliefs. Let him have
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faith in himself alone, and in a more or less
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approximate future he will be invested with an unlimited, understrained
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kingship over the elements in creation. Yes, this is the
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eighteen nineties. This is really very much leading up to
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Hitler and eugenics and all that and everything we're still
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dealing with today. Nature completely subdued. It was the brave
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New World. Look about as Huxley's Brave New World. His
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brother was a eugenicist. He's a little bit of an
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He's an interesting guy anyway. Nature, completely subdued by his genius,
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will then open like the horn of plenty upon a
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new humanity, pouring forth the fullness of desirable goods. And
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if this present generation fail to attain this ideal of bliss,
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they may take comfort for the prospect that it would
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be the attribute of some more distant descendants, and all
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the more glorious for these, and that they will have
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acquired them independently, without the assistance of God, and will
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be solely the result of their own perseverance, efforts and ingenuity.
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Another reason I like Father Armagnon. He wrote like William Faulkner,
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and being Southern. You know, the man was not big
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on short sentences. Yeah, he was. I guess a Frenchman
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that wrote like a Southerner. Very interesting to me, very different.
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You know, we've been going through Father Sparaco's explanation for
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the Catechism. That's your Germanic terse short sentences. These are
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much more poetical. Need excuse me, it's sip water here,
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all right. Need I say that these fantasies, these crass,
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nonsensical theories, are contradicted by reason and the commons assent
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of all nation. They are contradicted by Christian reason. If,
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in fact, as our Christian faith and conviction tells us,
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temporal life had its principle at the beginning in God,
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it must also have in God its consummation and destiny.
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Man was created to know love and serve God, and
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if he did not succeed one day in possessing him
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and being irrevocably united with him, the Creator's plan, devoid
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of any rational en, would be no more than a
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strange aberration. Mankind toward it, in its love, its tendencies
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and aspirations, would become like another Sisyphus or sort of
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Roulette ball, dancing in the air, and condemned to spend
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forever on a will of fate's blind necessity. What place
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would they be for justice, morality, the security of families,
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and the public authority in a system where everything was
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in a state of disorder and contradiction, where the ideal
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never became reality, good was never separated from evil, and
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no standard existed by which to decide the importance of
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moral living and true sanctification, true sanction of human acts. History,
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a skeptical author of our times, has said, is a
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judge of people, and her judgment, which continues throughout the ages,
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renders the last judgment pointless and superfluous. Our reply would
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be that the judgment of history is not a public judgment,
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whereas the evil is public and rises up with an arrogance,
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which is the scandal to men and constant outrage against God.
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The judgment of history remains incomplete because every good or
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bad act is the mainspring of good or evil, a
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seed of life or death, all the fruits and results
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of which its author could neither feel nor foresee. That
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is why, if the Universal Judgment had not been foretold
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to us, it would be our duty to demand it,
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to insist upon it as a necessary consequence, as the
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final exact, the final enactment of that divine providence which
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guides the movement of history throughout the ages, and as
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a final measure to complete his work and place his
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seal on it. This Universal Judgment is but the last
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scene of the universal drama, the general fulfillment of all
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the partial judgments emanating from God's justice. It is only
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on this understanding that history becomes clear and comprehensible, that
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we shall see it, not as the confused mind and
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eyes of a man imagined to be, but as it
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really is, like a book open to every eye. A
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great orator of our time is said, history is not over.
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It will begin in the valley of josephat j O
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s A p h a t not jehasaphat Josephat anyway,
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Christian reason and common assent of all nations thus bear
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witness that the world must end and that there will
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be a new order. This truth is also in conformity
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with the science and observed facts. It is a recognizable
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principle in general law of nature that everything which is
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subject to movement or decomposition, everything consumed by time or
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limited in extent, is liable to wear out as an age,
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and in the end disappears imperisis. Science teaches that there
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is no vital force or creative agent that has the
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power to deploy its energy beyond a limited duration, and that,
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by virtue of the creative law, the field of its
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activity is restricted within a given sphere, the boundary of
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which cannot be crossed. The most perfect and soundly built
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organism could not be made to function definitely indefinitely. Not
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only living beings such as animals and plants, but even minerals,
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are subject to opposing forces of affinity or repulsion, and
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tend continuously to separate in order to form new groupings. Thus,
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the hardest rocks and granite undergo corrosion and weathering, which
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sooner or later will bring them tumbling down. Stars are
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seeing to extinguish and vanish in the firmament. Every movement,
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even that of the heavens, tends to become slower. Imminent
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astronomers have detected in the sun and in the stars
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losses of heat and light, admittedly imperceptible, which nevertheless will
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not fail, after the passage of many centuries, to have
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a disastrous effect on our climate and seasons. Be that
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as it may, it is certain that our earth no
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longer possesses the same fecondy, fertility, or vegetative strength with
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which it had in the first ages of the human race.
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Just as the world had its youth, so there will
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become a time when the world will have its twilight,
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when it will hasten towards its evening and decline. Yes,
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the sun will eventually go out, and life would be
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impossible on Earth. It would be sub zero. I mean,
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it's impossible, There'll be nothing living. Thus, these truths are
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observation and common sense, which reason grasps easily. But Christianity
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alone has succeeded in demonstrating their certainty and their excellence.
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It is in this respect a Protestant thinker said the
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Christian doctrine is quite distinct from philosophical doctrines. It affirms
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that a new existence awaits man after this life. An
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absolute requirement for the fulfillment of that existence is the nature.
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Is that nature, which has become obscure and impenetrable to man,
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should be explained and clarified in some future state, which
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will prove the harmony between visible and invisible things, the
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transient and everlasting matter and spirit. Only in that future.
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Only with such an end human existence can the consequence
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of man fine repose. For this hope, we are indebted
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to Christ, whose promise permits us to expect, after the
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final crisis, a new Earth and new heavens. So the
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world will have an end. But the is this end
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remote or near? That is a serious exciting question, no
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less worthy of reflection by Christian souls. Holy scripture on
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this point does not leave us completely in the dark. Certainly,
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speaking of the exact date, Jesus Christ said, but of
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that day and hour no one knoweth, no, not the
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angels of heaven, but the Father alone. On the other hand,
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he consented to give definite signs and indications intended to
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let us know that the fulfillment of the prophecies is close,
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and that the world is nearing its end. Jesus Christ
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has proceeded in respect of mankind considered as a whole,
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in the same way as with individuals. Thus our death
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is certain, but the hour is unknown to us. None
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can say whether we will be living a week or
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a day from now, And I, who am speaking to you,
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do not know whether I shall complete this talk which
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I have begun. But if we can be taken by
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surprise at any time, there are nevertheless signs which attests
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for our final hour. That our final hour is imminent,
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and that we should be laboring under Crass's illusion if
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we imagine that we had a long stretch of life
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still awaited. Here below, our Lord tells us from the
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fig tree, learn the parable. When the branch thereof is
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now tender, and the leaves come forth, you shall know
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that summer is not so you also, when you shall
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see these things worse famines, earthquakes, know ye that it
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is nigh even at the doors. As a matter of fact,
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these public calamities and disturbances, and the alterations and the elements,
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and in the normal course of the seasons, which will
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mark the final coming of the Son of God are
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vague in definite signs. They have appeared with greater or
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lesser intensity in every ill fated period of human history,
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and in all periods of crisis and religious disorder. At
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the time of Maccabees, signs were already seen in the sky.
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For forty days, the whole city of Jerusalem observed men
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on horseback in the air, clad in gold brocade and
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armed with lances like calvary units. The horses, drawn up
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in squadrons, charged one another. The men seen to be
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armed with javelins and drawn swords. Their weapons were made
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of gold, and their helmets and breastplates were dazzling the terrorI.
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Stricken people prayed fervently to God in order that these
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omens might turn to their deliverance and not to their
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confusion or Ruin siege of Jerusalem or Titus, the holy
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holies and the Temple were shaken by mysterious movements. Strange
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noises were heard coming from them, and voices from invisible
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beings cried out, let us depart, hints, let us depart, hints.
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A grand Rabbi, dumbfounded by these terrifying supernatural manifestations, exclaimed
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Old temple. Why are you troubled? And why are you
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why do you frighten yourself? Accordingly? In order not to
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give rise to a misunderstanding or a false interpretation, Christ
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tells us that the afflictions and prodigies of nature which
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will mark the latter the latter ages of mankind are
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only the prelude, the prelude and beginning of still greater sorrows.
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Hank autumn Omnia initiat de laurum. You know what, My
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Latin is not good enough to translate. Just off the
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top of my head. This, uh, yes, uh is the
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well initia beginning of the sorrow. So there you go.
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Omnia would be all sorrows anyway. I'm not going to
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try to translate as I go. Yeah, I might say
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something wrong, and I'm afraid to say something wrong in
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the book of this magnitude. So if you want to
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take that, Heke autumn Omnia initius so dolorum I believe
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I said it right. If you want to run it
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through Google or something and your own definition, go for it. Thus,
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no firm conclusion can be drawn from present disasters and revolutions,
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or great religious or social cataclysms, of which Europe and
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the world are currently the scene regarding the end of times.
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The signs today are the same science which occurred in
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ancient times, and the experience shows that they are insufficient
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to prove the proximity of the judgment. Nevertheless, it is
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worth bearing in mind that Christ and his prophecy Matthew
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twenty four mingles together in a single scene the signs
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related to the end of the world and those relating
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to the structure Jerusalem. He does so first because of
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the analogy between to events. Second because in God there
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is no distinction or succession of time. The impending events
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and those more remote are clearly present to his mind,
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and he sees them as if they occurred at the
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same moment. Moreover, our Lord Jesus Christ knew that the Apostles,
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before they were enlightened by the Holy Ghosts, were imbued
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with illusions, and were imbued with illusions and all the
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Jewish prejudices. In their eyes, Jerusalem was the whole universe,
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and it's ruin meant for them the collapse of the world.
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As a result of this narrow, exaggerated patriotism which dominated them,
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the Apostles continued in their vigilant and unceasing anticipation until
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the ruin of Jerusalem. Such were the dispositions which Christ
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endeavored to arouse, seeking to instruct them and lead them
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away from gross earthly hopes, rather than excite their curiosity
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by disclosing to them hidden secrets to the future. Hence,
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in his prophecy he shows them as it were, two
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perspectives and two horizons, having analogous features and alike in relief,
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pattern and coloring. In Saint Matthew and Saint Mark, the
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two events, the destruction of Jerusalem the end of the world,
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seem rather to be merged. In Saint Luke, two occurrences
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are very clearly distinguished. They are features which refer solely
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to the end of the world, such as ease, and
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there shall be stars, and there should be signs in
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the sun and the moon, and in the stars, and
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upon the earth, distress of nations by reasons of confusion,
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and of the roaring of the sea and of waves,
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men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall
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come upon the whole world, for the powers of Heaven
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should be moved, and when they shall see the Son
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of Man coming in a cloud with great power and Majesty,
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will the world? Will the world last another one hundred years?
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Will it end with our present millennium? Will mankind and
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the Christian law of grace go through a span of
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years responding to the period pastor in the law of
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nature or the Mosaic law? These questions upon which no
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hypothesis or conjecture may be ventured. All the calculations and
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inquiries in which learned interpreters have indulged or idle guesses,
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lacking any purpose other than the satisfaction of vain curiosity,
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Providence has ordained that this day should not be known,
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and that nobody shall succeed in discovering it until it
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actually arrives. No, and let no one object that if
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we cannot assign the day, we can at least determine
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the period of the year or the year. No. For
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Saint Augustine remarks that the word day in Holy Scripture
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is to be understood in the same sense of any
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length of time. The testimony of the Holy Doctor concurs
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with that of the prophet Malachi. Let's see, well, he
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gets a long passage in Latin. So I've already said
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I'm not going to do the Latin Okay, have to
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look it up if you want to do that. Because
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I'm a fram am Ms now something, I'm afraid I'm
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going to do something that could cause error in someone's mind,
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so I'm going to stick with the English parts. The
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reason is that the end of the world will not
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simply be the effect of some natural calls, but it
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depends a puff above all, in the will of God
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which has not been revealed to us. It is of
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faith that human destinies will be brought to a close
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when the measure of saints shall have been filled up
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and the number of the elect consummated. Now, no man,
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whether from reasons which are certain, or even on the
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strength of a probable conjecture, can know the number of
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the predestinates, still less the time which will elapse before
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this number is complete. Who, for example, would dare assert
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whether more or fewer men will be saved in the
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centuries to come than we're saved in the preceding centuries.
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And irrespective of whether the number of future saints is
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greater or less than the number of past saints, how
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is it possible to predict the length of time in
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which their number will be consummated? Is it not an
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established fact in the life of the Church, that there
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are periods of sterility where saints rare, and periods of
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there's that word again, facundity, in which they abound. That
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is why, considering the original cause of the world, which
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is none other than a hidden mystery of predestination, no
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one can conclude whether the end of the world is
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near or distant. However, if Christ teaches us that this
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final great day is a secret which God himself and
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the designs of his sovereignty, has kept to himself, and
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which will defy all our calculation till the very hour
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of its fulfillment. Nevertheless, in order to fore arm us
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against negligence and a fault sense of security, he unceasingly
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reminds men first that the end of the world is certain.
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Secondly that this relative proc that it is relatively proximate
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soon to come relatively Thirdly, that it will not occur
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until until they have come to pass. Not ordinary habitual signs,
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such as have happened at all times, but the particular
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distinctive signs which He has clearly indicated us. These signs
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are not just calamities and revolutions in the stars, but
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events of a public character pertaining to both the religious
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and social order, which mankind cannot fail to perceive. All right, there,
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we will will stop there. That was the beginning of
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section one, Chapter one. The book's only going to pick
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up momentum from here, and it is really profound, amazing.
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Like I said, you're gonna want to share this one.
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You're going to want to listen to it a few times.
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Get the book, take notes, be sure to spread it
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on social media. Downloaded, save copies. Because there's a lot
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of opposition to this book. As I've said before, I
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believe the Masonic Order, the Freemasons are very much against
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this book. There are some so called Zionists and such
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that are also against this book, even though it's not
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anti Jewish in anyway. That's that's a myth. It's going
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to get just really intense. So y'all have a great week,
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and remember those who persevere until the end shall be saved.
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That's so, what are the promise our Lord gave us,
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And that's an individual's choice for each of us. We
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have to persevere in charity, faith and virtue until the
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end and then we don't have to worry about anything else. Okay,
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So it's really that simple. See y'all have a going
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I'll talk to you next time.