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Show 254: End of This Present World, Introduction · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The Fish of b Hey y'aul, Welcome this week's show.
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I'm going to take a brief break from our normal format,
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and it's because we're starting a topic here today which
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is incredibly important. It is incredibly i will say weighty.
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It is really going to surprise you a lot. And
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it's very different than what we've been doing. You know.
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We've been working through the follow Sparrago's book on the
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Catechism written in eighteen ninety. We've been working through radio replies.
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We've been talking about a lot of you know, moral issues.
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If you've listened to the last two years worth of shows,
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you should be very well morally instructed right now. So
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I think we can kind of back up from that
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a little bit. I'll get back into radio replies next week,
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and I'll continue to talk about current events and whatever's
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going on. You know, but this is something you're not
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going to find elsewhere. For well, literally the entire history
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of Christianity, people have had been very curious about what
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Protestants generally termed the end times. I mean, we see
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in the Gospels when Jesus says, when he predicts the
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Temple will be destroyed, when he talks about really the
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end of the world they were living in. Then. You know,
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a lot of they misunderstood. They thought he meant it
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was the end of time. Well, no, he meant that
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literally the Crucifixion would begin the end of Israel and
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really Judaism. There will be a new religion, a new church,
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a new Jerusalem, which is the Catholic Church. There would
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be new everything, okay, and it was the end of
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that world. Within the next seventy years, Israel was absolutely destroyed.
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The Temple was destroyed. There were earthquakes, you know, from
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the time of the Crucifixion, there were you know, what's
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the word I'm looking for, But the sun gets blocked out. Yeah,
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I'm sure everybody's screaming in at me right now, but
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it's just not coming to me. Eclipses, there we go,
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eclipses of the sun. There were all kinds of events,
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there were plagues, but eventually Rome just destroyed Israel populated
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it with Israel's arch enemies, the Philistines, which became the
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Palestinians because Rome named it Palestinia. Okay, A lot of
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people get very confused about that. What is Jerusalem? What
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is Palestine? There is no such thing as Palestine. It's
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what Rome named Israel, and it stayed that way for
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nearly two thousand years. The Palestinians, so called, are actually
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Philistines whose homeland is really more Enjoredan. We don't need
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to get into that, and we're not going to get
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into that. That'll be probably the last mention of that
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for a while. But whether you recognize the modern Israeli
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state as the ancient state of Israel or not kind
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of pretty hard to actually. It is a secular nation.
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It's not even a majority of Jewish nation. But anyway,
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that's again that's a discussion for another day. I've veered
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off topic, and I'm going to try to stick to
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the topic. The disciples at the time when Jesus said
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that were very concerned when the end of the world
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was going to be, and for the first few centuries
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of the church, they literally thought the Second Coming was
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going to be any day. They thought Jesus was going
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to come back. We have everything that's described in the
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Book of Revelations, the battle between good and evil. They
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fully had had every real reason to believe emperors like
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Nero were the Antichrist. You know, they believed any day
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that Jesus was coming back. Well, obviously he didn't. And
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the church went on and grew, and Rome's read Christianity
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throughout the entire entirety of Europe and the Asian subcontinent,
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and eventually Christianity spread all around the world, and we're
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still waiting for the Second Coming. Throughout the history of Protestantism,
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without the guidance of the Church saying basically, in my words,
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calm down, y'all, it's not here yet, okay, without the
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guidance of the Church and the various messages that Our
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Lord's given throughout time, and the Blessed Mother and various,
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you know, messages from angels and saints to kind of
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clarify things to say we're not there yet. Protestants have
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believed that any day the world's going to end. I
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mean every single time we've gone from like eighteen hundred
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to nineteen hundred, and nineteen hundred to the year two thousand,
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and you can back it up a few hundred years
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for then every turn of the century, they believe the
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end of the world. Every time Haley's comment comes around,
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they believe it's the end of the world. Every eclipse
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they believe it's the end of the world. World just
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We've had two major eclipses in the last couple of years,
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and both times there have been billboards up on nine
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to ninety five saying the end is near. Turn your
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radio to this Protestant station and listen to this message
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before it's too late. Eighteen ninety nine, going into nineteen hundred,
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Protestants throughout the United States, so much of Europe sold
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everything they had and gave the money the poor and
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anxiously waited on December thirty first for January first, believing
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that was the end of the world. Well, good for them,
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they did a good charitable deed. But the world didn't end.
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And why should it? I mean, who do you honestly
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believe that God works on our calendar and schedule? I mean,
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you know the Bible sayst that to God, a year
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is one thousand days, and one thousand days is as
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a year. God exists outside of time. Now, if we
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were to extrapolate and many people, we could look at
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the world having been created in so many days, and
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we would say, okay, if there's seven days of a
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week and maybe seven thousand years from the resurrection of Christ,
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the world may come to an end. That's actually a
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pretty good supposition. I don't know. I'm not gonna say
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one way or the other. I do know it's not
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going to end tomorrow, because especially our Lady the Blessed
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Mother has said that the end's not gonna come before
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she converts all Muslims to Christianity, and they will be
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converted through her. We're nowhere near there yet. I mean,
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we got Muslims burning churches and stabbing people all over
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Western Europe. We're nowhere near there yet. We're also told
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that before the very end, all the Jews will convert
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to Christianity. Now this is where we start getting into
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a little bit of controversy. I want to state clearly
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and specifically from the beginning, I am not anti Semitic
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in any way, shape or form. I've always gotten along
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well with Jewish people. They Jewish girls almost married two
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of them. I have issues with the modern state of Israel,
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and I don't in any way believe that modern Israel
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is the Israel the Bible. I know many Protestants, do
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you know, your Mike Cockabi types, really really really do,
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and they're the ones thinking the world's going to end
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in any day, But they don't understand when the antichrist.
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And there, of course there are many antichrists throughout history.
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Martin Luther was an antichrist. The emperors like Nero and
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such were an antichrist. Hitler was an antichrist. Anyone who
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opposes Christ and his church is an antichrist. But we're
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talking the big dude, the one that's going to do
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miracles that appear to be like the miracles that Jesus did.
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By necessity, he will have to be of Jewish heritage. Okay,
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why is that by necessity? In no way, shape or form.
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Is this some kind of like anti Jewish bigotry. No,
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it's not. It's because the religious Jews of that time
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will say that he's the Messiah, and he couldn't be
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the Messiah unless he was Jewish and a practitioner of
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the Jewish religion as well as being hereditarily Jewish. That's
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just logical. Jesus was Jewish. The Antichrist will be Jewish.
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A lot of people today would say, oh, that's George Soros. No, no,
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we're not there yet, not unless all the Muslims are
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gonna suddenly convert to Christianity tomorrow. And then maybe you
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know who knows, But no, there will be a false
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Messiah that rises, and he would do miracles that appear
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to be just like those that Jesus did in the Bible.
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He will also be a very powerful indi visual in politics.
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A lot of people believe that that he will sort
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of be like the leader of a one world government,
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sort of under the United Nations, and most likely very
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likely a Freemason are there are a lot of evidence
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putting toward that. But he will of necessity be Jewish.
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That is not a slur against Jewish people or Judaism,
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or a condemnation of anybody's race or ethnicity. It's just
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a logical outcome, because if the Antichrist is not Jewish,
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the Jewish people would not accept him as Messiah. Okay, Protestants,
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you like again the mic Hockabye types, the ones that say,
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Israel's our greatest ally. Okay, Israel's an ally. Sometimes sometimes
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they're on the other team, I mean during the Cold War,
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sometimes they were with us, sometimes they were with the Soviets.
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What makes in their greatest ally? Why not Poland? Poland's
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had our back in everything we've ever done. I mean
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literally from the American Revolution. We had Poland generals coming
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over here helping us fight the British. Poland along, I mean,
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was our key ally in defeating the Soviet Union. Why
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doesn't Mike Cokabee say that Poland's our greatest ally, well,
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because Polish is Poland is a Catholic nation. Mike Kuokabe
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does not recognize Catholicism. Mike Kokabe does not like Catholics.
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He essentially worships Judaism. So then most Protestants are of
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his mindset of probably ninety percent. When that Antichrist arises,
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he will be Jewish and he will be embraced both
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by the Jewish people and by most Protestants. That's why
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we're going to have and all secularists. I mean, you know,
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he'll probably be a socialist or communist. He'll probably be
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very high up in world government, I mean obviously the
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leader of basically a world government. And that's why the
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Church is going to be so heavily prosecuted and prosecuted.
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I mean, the Bible tells us that things are really, really,
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really bad, Okay, And that's because not only well secular
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governments and Jewish folks and all that, but also Protestants
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and probably many Catholics as well, will believe this is
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the Second Coming when it's actually the Antichrist. That is
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the controversial part of this book. The reason this book
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has been essentially withheld from you, and I mean it
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is actually purposeful. After World War Two, in the Holocaust,
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this book was stripped from shells, taken out of libraries.
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It was very hard for me to find an English
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translation that was good and reliable. But here's the deal.
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So a couple of years ago, I'm reading St. Teresa
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Ilissou's biography and she says there's a book that her
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father loved, found it very influential, that she thought was
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one of the greatest Christian books of all time. And
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it was written by a French priest named Father Armijean.
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I guess that's why you pronounced it A R M
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I N J O N. So I'm gonna go with
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Armigan Eman. Probably I'm gonna say Armigan because I'm American.
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But anyway, it's called The End of the Present World
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and the Mysteries of the Future Life my father C M. A. Armagnon.
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I guess I don't even know what they all stands for.
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To the best of my knowledge. When this book was
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published in France in its original form, it did have
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the impromoter. It was sanctioned as official Catholic teaching. The
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copy I have in English does not bear an impromoter. Okay,
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it does not say the Catholic Church recognizes this as
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absolutely true. Doctor, So I'm not going to make that claim,
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even though I believe it once was and probably still is.
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I'm not going to say that every word of this
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book is absolutely true. I'm going to say that I
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believe every word of this book is absolutely true. It
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is so backed up with history and theology and doctrine,
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and is so solid. Is such a solid work. I
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don't think anything in here could be denied. But because
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of that tricky little thing about the Antichrist being of
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Jewish heritage, the book disappeared after World War Two, And
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that's understandable. I mean, our Church has done so much
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to discourage anti Semitism in the last you know, one
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hundred years now, not quite un getting close anyway, in
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the last several decades. But that's why you haven't seen
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this book. Now. I expect this series to be somewhat
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kind of troversial, some episodes may go up, they get
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taken down in certain places. I know that. Okay, it's
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going to be more important than ever for you to
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listen to the show, download it and save it if
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you can, and share it with friends and just say,
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you know, the copy I am reading from is on
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archive dot org, so you can read it. That's where
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I finally found it because none of the libraries I
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could find I mean, it wasn't anywhere, it was any bookstores,
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it wasn't available for sale. It was you know, I
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found one on archive, which is pretty cool. It's a
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translation I think from the done in the nineteen eighties
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when it was essentially a lost book. So I'm going
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to kind of go briefly through the introduction. It fit
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like many Catholic books, it has a ridiculously long introduction,
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But this is going to set the table for what's
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really really important. I mean, when you Jehovah's witnesses come
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to your door, I tell you the end is near,
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well you'll be able to say, well, you know, probably not.
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And by the way, you don't recognize the divinity of Christ.
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So I am a Christian and I really don't want
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to have anything to do with your cult, please leave
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my door. But when a Protestant says, you know the
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end's near, We're in the end times, it's the end times,
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you can calmly and rationally go through with them and
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with Bible verses and scripture in hand and show them
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that it's not the end will come. The world is
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not ending tomorrow. For better or worse. Things are going
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to get a whole lot worse before they get better.
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In fact, that's last time the Jehovah's Witness came to
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my door. They said, what do you think about the
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end times? And I said, well, things are going to
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get a whole lot worse and then they're going to
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get better. And they're like, yeah, that's right. I'm like, thanks, okay,
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go away, now I close the door. That was actually
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very There were a couple of sweet old ladies, so
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I did actually chat with him for a few minutes.
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I wasn't rude or anything, but I took their literature
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and shredded it immediately because it's heretical. It's a blasphemous
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it's you know, the Jehoah's Witnesses are a religious cult. Okay,
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they're not a Christian group because they deny the divinity
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of Christ, same with the larity Saints lds. Okay, and
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we could get into some other ones too, but we
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don't need to do that right now. So starting with
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the beginning, as of this publication of the book, the
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authors say, this book was written ever a century ago,
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yet was surely designed by the divine providence, especially for
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our day. It was immediately and explosively influential when first
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published in France in eighteen eighty one. It was acknowledged
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by Saint Teresa Lusseaux in her writings as possibly the
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single most important inspiration for the dedication of her life
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to the path, which led to becoming, in the words
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of Saint Pius the tenth, the greatest saint of modern times.
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Now you have to wonder why don't you have a
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copy of this book. It was purposefully with help from you,
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and I think it's, you know, very important to remember this.
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This is, you know, like on King of the Hill.
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You remember Dale Gribble, He was into all the conspiracy theories.
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He said, they don't want you to know. This is
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actually what they don't want you to know. I mean,
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if you want to think about this, this is actually
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what they don't want you to know who is they
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the people that control the media and what you're going
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to find in bookstores and such. So I'm I'm just
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going to tell you up front some of these podcasts
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may be taken down. I'm going to trust y'all my
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audience to download them, repost them, and share them everywhere.
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This is probably, I mean, next to the Bible and
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the Catechism, the most important thing you're going to read
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long time, and I'm going to go through it and
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we're going to discuss it. So she says, yeah, sat Yeah,
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we did that. Saint Teresa so loved it, and I
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was pushed into oblivion, scarcely heard from again in the
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nineteen sixties. They go into a lot of Attican two stuff.
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I'm not going to get into all that now translated
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and it's back, so let's see the end of the
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present world of the Mysteries of the Future. Life is
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a compendium of Catholic doctrine and tradition on the subject
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of eschatology. I hate that word eschatology escatlog I mean,
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I don't think you're supposed to when you say scatological,
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but you say escat I hate words like that you know.
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If I have one plea for Catholic writers and podcasters,
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stop using words people don't understand. You cannot expect your
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your audience to run to the bookshelf and gravity dictioneering
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and no, not everybody went to at a theology degree
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from a Catholic university. Use words, people understand. It's fine
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to use a big word, but define it. If you
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do a weird word like concupiscence, Catholics just toss that
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around like everybody knows what concupiscence is. No, they don't.
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Nine percent of the world's population doesn't know what concupiscence means.
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The tendency to do wrong rather than right because of
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original sin. Just define it. But anyway, Eschatology means the
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end times. Essentially, notice the science of the Last Things.
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Eschatology falls into two halves. The last things as they
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concern the world, the great apostasy from the Church, the
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Antichrist persecutions, the return of the two witnesses Enoch and Elias.
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That's another thing. They haven't returned yet, have they. So
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next time someone tells you the ends, here asking where
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Enoch and Elias are. The conversion of the Jews and
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coming of our Lord, the Resurrection from the dead, and
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general judgment, and the Last Things as they concern individual's death, judgment,
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heaven and hell, to quote the Penny Catechism, and Father
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Armagnng deals comprehensively with both halves. We do not hesitate
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to assert that no subject is more important or more
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enthralling than that of the Last Things, and we are
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scarcely less confident in asserting that never has there been
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written a treatment of the subject that is more thorough
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more penetrating, more inspiring, or more securely founded on the
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authority of the Pope's father, saints and acclaim the elogions
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of the Catholic Church than this work by Father Armijohn.
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It is difficult to know how best to give an
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indication of the book's extraordinary qualities, for although we must
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clearly highlight its salient features, this could be off putting
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to some readers, frightening them into thinking that the author's
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erudition and exhausts of attention to detail must make the
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book heavy and perhaps difficult to understand. Well, it's not.
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It's actually remarkably easy to read. Uh. It was. It's
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a collection of a series of lectures. He gave. So
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it's it's very much spoken, it's very conversational, and it
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actually quite good. All right, I'm going to try to
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wrap up the introduction. Like I said, They go on
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for quite a bit, they say, Father Armagnong overlooks nothing
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examining a subject. As each relevant point is presented for analysis.
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He begins with considering in the light of the Holy Scripture,
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then quotes from Catholic authorities, then carefully explains the correct
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interpretation of the scriptural passage. You can see how this
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is going to be so useful when you're debating with
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your Protestant friends. I mean, you start with a scripture,
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then you go to historic sources, then you work it
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through with logic, and it's really actually extremely well done.
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His father Armagnand follows on the footsteps of the doctors
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and other great writers of the Church and his truly
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Catholic handling of authorities. As scripture is uninambiguous, he allows
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it to speak for itself. Where its meaning is doubtful,
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he gives the understanding of the fathers. If a matter
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is uncertain, he tells us that we are free to
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choose whichever interpretation we prefer. But if the answer is definite,
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he tells us so and confirms what he says with
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the words of the Pope or the unanimos teaching of
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the Father. Can't ask for more than that, all right,
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so I'm miss skip ahead Skip ahead Summary the contents.
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The book is divided into nine conferences, which were originally
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delivered orally in the presence of the Archbishop of Chambery
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and Thrill the Congregation. Okay. First conference opens by refuting
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those self confident individual braggarts no infidel braggarts as foreseen
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by Saint Peter in second Peter three one through four,
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who as certain that the world will never end, and
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proves that when wickedness is at its height, God will
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wreak his vengeance and vindicate the just. Yeah. Second Conference
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describes the persecution of the Antichrist and other momentous events
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such as the return of Enoch and Elias, and draws
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on and examines the horrifying detail account of these faithful
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events for the constellations of those who remain faithful during
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the time which our Lord has told us. Unless those
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days have been shortened, no flesh could be saved Matthew
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twenty four to twenty two. Yeah. The third conference concerns
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the resurrection of the dead and the general judgment, when
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all men who have lived will be assembled for judgment,
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the dead rising from their tombs, their long corrupted bodies
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being miraculously restored to them. There, every action, good and
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bad of every man will be seen and judged publicly,
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prior to the dispatch of the wicked to damnation and
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the entry of the just into heaven. Yeah, it's pretty intense. Actually, yeah,
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he talked about purgatory. There's a lot that's the fifth
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conference a really great explanation of purgatory and you're gonna
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really want to hear that. One the six conferences about Hell,
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the location of is identify and its pains and torments
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are analyzed using it says, not with the imagination of
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a poet or artist, but with the exactitude of a
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true theologian. We can assure that anyway. The seventh Conference
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describes the bliss of heaven. This is also a really
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great chapter. Let's see eighth and Night Conference discuss Christian sacrifice,
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the special attention to give him to the mass. And finally, oh,
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well we will probably I don't know if we'll get
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to that or not. But the biography of the priest
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who wrote the book. I thought I would get through
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the preface of further I mean actually written by the
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feather Armagnone himself. There's a lot of notes here by
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the publisher. And you know how that goes with old
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Catholic books, talking about the translation and all this and
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all that, and stuff that really doesn't matter to anyone
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outside of the academy. Yes, word, this is a long introduction,
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all right, Ford, my father Armagnon, sixteen pages in we
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get to his one page. Ford, isn't that a typical
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Catholic book, dear reader? It it seemed to us that
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one of the most melancholy fruits of rationalism, the fatal
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error and great plague of this century, the pestilential source
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wins our revolutions and social disasters arise is the absence
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of the sense of the supernatural and the profound neglect
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of the great truths of the future life with desolations.
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How the earth be laid to waste because the majority
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of men, fascinated by the lure of fleeting pleasure and
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absorbed in their worldly interests and the care of their
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material affairs and the world the affairs no longer fix
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their thoughts on the great principles of faith, stubbornly refused
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to retire within themselves. It may be said of our
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present generation what the prophet Daniel in his time of
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the Two said of the of the two old men
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of Babylon. They perverted their old mind and turned their eyes,
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that they may not look unto heaven nor remember just judgments.
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The two causes of this terrifying indifference and profound universal
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lethargy are obviously ignorance and darkening of the interior eye
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of the human soul, and the unrestrained love of central pleasures.
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They bring all its aspiration down to the narrow level
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of the present life, and cut off from and cut
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it off from the vision of the beauties and rewards
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to come. Now, since wise men have found at all
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times that for extreme illness, extreme treatments or most fitting,
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it seemed to us that the most efficacious remedy with
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which to fight confidently against the inveterate evil of naturalism
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was elucid, clear and exactly exposition without diminushed d I
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M d I M I n u t io in diminution.
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There we go the essential truths dealing with the future
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life and the inevitable termination of human destiny. Perhaps we
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shall be accused of expressing this or that ascertation of
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ours too crudely and starkly, and approaching the most serious
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and formidable points of Christian doctrine, without at the same
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time modifying and softening them. So it was to adapt
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them to the prejudices or apathy of certain souls unacquainted
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with such grave considerations, like a physician who carefully allows
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only a limited amount of light to a sick friend
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in order not to hurt his painful eyes by excessive claire. However,
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in the religious and supernatural order of the phenomena and
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effect wrought upon the soul are often the reverse of
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those which would occur in the physical material order. In
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the visible world, the excessive amount of light dazzles, it
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leads to the dimness of vision and causes blindness. On
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the other hand, as soon as the mind enters the
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intellectual realm and is transported into the vast sphere of
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invisible and uncreated matter, excess is no longer to be feared.
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Jesus Christ is the great luminary of our intellects, the
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food and life of our hearts. He is never better
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understood or more loved than when he manifests himself liberally
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in the integrity of his doctrine and the super imminent
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splendors of his divine personality. The example of the Apostles
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announcing the Gospel amidst the twilight of paganism and boldly
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preaching Jesus Christ crucified before the Roman Senate and amidst
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the philosophers of the Aeroptagus, is enough to tell us
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that the truth is attractive of souls naturally Christian, and
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that it enlightens and convicts them only in so far
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as it is presented to them in all its strength
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and all its clarity. Trial is limited in its duration
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to the period of the present life. If, as the
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rationalists maintain this life, is there only a link in
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the chain of our destiny. And if the course of
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time wherein man is subject to strife, temptation, and blandishments
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of the senses, the creatures should continue and definitely, then
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Jesus Christ will never be king. Virtue brings no hope,
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and evil will remain eternally triumphant. Thus, it is quite
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certain that the scene which is being played here below
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will sooner or later reach its climax and end, mankind
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will enter upon a new phase of existence, and all
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that we cherish, all that we search after in this
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present life, will be less than a shadow sheer inanity.
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This is a certain fact which all our discoveries and
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the marvels of our genius will not be able to
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set aside. Now that the moral value of life is
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determined by the end to which it tends, just as
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the utility of a road is estimated by the traveler
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only in so far as it helps to bring him
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more surely directly to the final point of the journey
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he has undertaken. Accordingly to deal with the future life
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and the last is really to expound the science and
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philosophy of human life, setting out the fundamental principles on
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which the whole of perfection and morality is based. This
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volume of our Conferences which we are publishing is contingent,
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is a continuation of the one which we brought out
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three years ago on the reign of God. The reign
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of God is inaugarea, grows and comes to its completion
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in the course of time. It will not be perfect
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and consummated until the age to come. So Instead of
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giving our book the title into the present world and
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the mysteries of the future Life, we could, with equal
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justice have called it the triumph of Jesus Christ and
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his Church in the Future Life. Our argument and maxims
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on the vanity of the figure of this passing world,
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the futility of all the undertakings conceived outside the perspective
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of faith and not having the final end as their aim,
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the irremediable misfortune reserve for the wicked and our other subjects,
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the advent and reign of the Antichrist, and the temple
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of immorality, the reward destined for the just, the restoration
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of the fallen man through the law of sacrifice and
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the purifying crucible of suffering, seems useful to us in
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order to shed this solve of it const in order
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to shed this solve of consolation upon wounded and embittered hearts,
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to lift up disheartened and dejected souls, and in the
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calamitous and troubled days through which we are living, to
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help Christians become men of cir some by inspiring them
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with resignation and patience. Some s U R. S U M.
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I would have to look that up I don't have
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an exact definition right there. I think it's like surety
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of strengths anyway, by inspiring them with resignation and patience,
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in order furthermore to strengthen them amidst the present sorrows,
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by raising up their hopes and desires toward a better fatherland,
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by drawing upon pure founts of tradition and the Fathers,
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and instructing ourselves in the light of Holy Scripture. We
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have sought to satisfy the anxious and troubled souls of
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our time, and to offer them the true solution to
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the mysteries of life. And oh, mysteries of life has
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taught to us by Christianity. May we contribute to making
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Jesus Christ and his Church loved, and to inculcating more
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and more in those who read our works as cardinal truth,
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to serve God and keep His commandments as the whole
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of man. So hopefully that says fast of the apparition
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of Saint Michael, the Archangel. Eighth of May eighteen eighty
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one was when that was written. So yes, the language
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is a bit formal sometimes, you know, you have to
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remember books written in the eighteen eighties people didn't use
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as much slang in you know, common terms as we
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use now. Well, I will define as we go as
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we try to get through this one. This is such
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a powerful book. I mean, you were going you might
34:12
want to take notes. Really in this next series, we'll
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probably spend at least six months on this. I'm going
34:19
to take it in in bite sized pieces. It's not
34:21
a long book. It's not a long book at all.
34:22
It's only two hundred and nine pages and we're twenty
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pages into it. I'm certainly not going to do more
34:28
than a chapter at a time. Probably break him into two
34:31
or three parts. You're gonna probably want to take notes
34:35
on this one, and do try to download if you can,
34:38
save it and share it. This one is really really important,
34:45
really really super important. The good news is the world's
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not gonna end tomorrow. The bad news is that things
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you're gonna get a whole lot worse before it does end.
34:57
And as Christians, we're the one, especially as faithful Catholics,
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we're the ones that are gonna be suffering. And we
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need to know what to expect, we need to know
35:08
what to prepare for. I mean, this is not a
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feeld theoretical concept. You know, a lot of my work
35:17
as an herbalist and such, I work with preppers. What
35:19
are they prepping for? People always ask me, Well, it
35:21
could be for a hurricane, it could be for the
35:25
next World war, it could be for a financial collapse.
35:28
I mean, if you went through the financial collapse of
35:30
two thousand and eight and went through the stuff I did,
35:34
almost lost everything, you know the importance of prepping. If
35:37
you've been through hurricanes and ice storms like I do,
35:39
you know the importance of prepping when it comes to
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the end times, the final days. We need to be
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prepping for that every minute spiritually, because we don't know
35:53
when our personal final day is going to come. But
35:56
there's an actual physical reality that especially will be persecuted,
36:03
will suffer great horrible things, horrific I mean, very comparable
36:09
to what Jesus was describing and what the early Christians
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went through, you know, in the colosseums of Rome, the martyrdoms,
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I mean, torn apart by beasts, crucified upside down, burned
36:19
to death. This, you know, this is serious stuff. And
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this whole like Protestant idea of oh gosh, the rapture,
36:28
it's totally false. Anytime someone says to you anything about
36:32
the rapture, just know that they're talking just pure bs.
36:36
That's a made up concept. It's not even one hundred
36:38
years old. Jesus is not going to come take us
36:41
away while the world goes into chaos. Okay, We're going
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to be here and suffer. Jesus said, those who endure
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into the end will be saved. Once you hear this book,
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you will absolutely be able to refute anything rapture. You
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know that kind of crap in idios. Gosh, what was
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that series of novels that they did. They even turned
37:02
some of them into like television movies and such, all
37:06
about the rapture, and it's so it's such a heresy.
37:10
I mean, every Catholic should have been outraged by those
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But anyway, you have to know before you know what
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they're telling you is a lie. You have to know
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what the truth is. And through this book by Father Armagnon,
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you're going to learn really important, uncomfortable truths that will
37:30
also inspire you in ways you can't imagine. This is
37:36
if you really absorb this book, you know, like Saint
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Teresa also said it was her inspiration to become a
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nun and a great saint. This book could have that
37:46
effect on your life if you embrace it and let
37:49
it so. I mean, for so many reasons. It was
37:52
the Left Behind series. Yes, the Left Behind Series is
37:55
absolutely heretical, really should never I mean if we still,
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if we live in a Catholic country, it would not
38:03
have it would have been burned. I mean, it's so
38:06
wrong and heretical and just not write Christian doctrine. It's yeah,
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really bad stuff actually, But I mean so much of
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what's in our popular culture, especially those you know, so
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called Christian television networks that do all those sappy movies.
38:26
You know that's very Protestant, and sometimes as Catholics we
38:30
watch that we think, oh, this is wholesome, this is good.
38:33
Not when they get into doctrine and morals and theology.
38:37
That's where we really have to draw a lot and
38:39
say no, as a Catholic, I'm not going to read
38:42
this book. I mean, I'm not going to prevent somebody
38:44
else from reading it. Not in free country. I got that,
38:46
but I'm not. In my family. We're not going to
38:49
do this. We're not going to watch that movie, We're
38:51
not going to read that book. We're going to stick
38:53
with the truth that Jesus gave us through his church.
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We don't need the lives of the devil, even if
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you know Mike Huckaby's the one out promoting it, even
39:03
if you know Franklin Graham's the one out promoting it. Now,
39:08
just because they're big name in pros and circles does
39:10
not then make them any more right than the Jehovah's
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Witnesses that come to your door. They're both in heretical sex,
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in a false church, a false counterfeit church that has
39:23
false doctrine. Go through this series with me over the
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next few months, and you're going to learn the truth
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about the end of time, about the apocalypse, about the
39:33
end of the world. And on the one hand, it's
39:35
gonna be very reassuring, because, like I said, it's not
39:37
gonna happen tomorrow. On the other hand, it will change
39:40
your life if you let it, and it's gonna give
39:43
you a lot of hope, a lot of hope. So anyway, y'all,
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this was the introduction. We get started on chapter one
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next week. Mark your calendars and get ready because this
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is going to be a real roller coaster, all right.
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Have a going cloudy next step