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Announcement: I’m very happy to say that on EWTN tomorrow—November 2nd— at 6:30pm Eastern US Time, the first of a 3-part series on what lies ahead—The End Times & Prophecy—that my good friend Fr. Chris Alar and I recorded will air. I hope you can tune in! Here is the full schedule for this episode and the upcoming ones, and here is where you can watch live online. Update: The Episode has now been posted here. Thanks!
While praying my daily prayer after Mass this morning as I knelt before the Tabernacle, I heard the ambulances and fire trucks zipping by just outside. There was a palpable sense of urgency to their maneuvers—beyond the more customary wailing of the sirens that inevitably punctuate each quarter hour spent on a downtown city block in New York’s Capital.
After reciting that prayer and departing from the Church, it was less than a minute into my Divine Will Missionary of Mercy walk that I came upon someone sprawled out on the side of the road in the gentle rain.
There were already plenty of EMTs at work, and it was obvious that material aid from me was not required, so instead of rushing over, I knelt down on the sidewalk opposite them and prayed for the person in need (as pedestrians walked by with eyes glued to their phones as if in a trance). The chest-compressions and the defibrillator, however, had no effect on him or her (from my vantage point, I could not tell if it was a man or a woman), and a blanket was soon brought out by another first responder and placed over what was no longer a person, but only a corpse.
As of my writing this, there are still no news reports of what happened there on the middle of the road in between the Masonic Temple and the Hilton Albany, so I know no details other than that a soul experienced its Particular Judgment on Lodge Street this morning—Jesus came into that person’s life.
“He’s Coming” — That announcement has, for years and years, been the header image of this blog and of my YouTube channel.
Why?
Because I cannot think of a briefer way of summarizing the prophetic call we must now announce to the world.
“My children, I ask you to go through the world’s streets to proclaim the Gospel: tell everyone that Jesus will soon return and that you must be prepared.”
“He’s coming,” so “be prepared.”
There it is. This is what we must tell everyone.
That is also why I made the “Prepare to See Him” website (www.PrepareToSeeHim.org) over a decade ago, with the exhortation at the top of the page being Our Lady’s words at Medjugorje: “Prepare yourself to look at Jesus eye to eye.” (March 17, 1989)
Do not fret over how exactly an individual may interpret that basic exhortation.
It is God’s Will that we announce it, and even if, in the course of a particular encounter with someone, you have no time or opportunity to explain the details of the exhortation’s meaning, you can rest assured that the Holy Spirit will powerfully work with it in that person’s heart.
I emphasized this point so strongly in my October 1st webcast with Mark Mallett because it is so urgent that more of the Faithful issue this simple announcement. A brief clip from that webcast:
“He’s Coming,” so “be prepared,” is, moreover, about the most truthful, honest, and accurate thing you can tell people today:
He’s Coming soon when transpires the only thing you know with certainty your own future holds—your death.
He’s Coming at every single Mass you attend.
He’s Coming soon in the Warning.
He’s Coming in the innumerable “mini-Warnings”—the personal Illuminations of Conscience—being experienced constantly by souls across the world.
He’s Coming in the crosses—and we will all soon have to bear great ones—for His Will is veiled in each cross we receive perhaps more powerfully than any other time.
He’s Coming soon in the utter outpouring of graces, miracles, signs, and wonders that He and His Mother are about to work in the world.
He’s Coming soon in the Particular Judgments (the judgment each soul receives, immediately after death, at which one’s eternal destiny is determined) of the millions (or billions) who will soon die in the long-prophesied Chastisements.
He’s Coming, by virtue of the Universal Reign of His Will on earth as in Heaven, in the Era of Peace—the Triumphant Eucharistic Reign with the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
And of course, He’s Coming again physically—at the end of time, to command the General Resurrection and commence the Last Judgment, and conclude History (although this is nowhere near as imminent as what is written above!), and bring the Church Militant and Church Suffering into the Church Triumphant.
After Fatima, Jesus promised Luisa that the Virgin Mary would soon work "miracles that will shake Heaven and earth" in preparation for the Era https://t.co/4ovdBAYH3W. Fatima's Miracle of the Sun was a preview for what is coming soon. Buckle your seat belts, and grab your Rosary. pic.twitter.com/3CHQlkmAOe
"If men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity … Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity" – Our Lady of Akitahttps://t.co/GxAci2z8cKpic.twitter.com/O7wyaW8emW
Although wishing the past were different is silly, I must confess that I do wish I embarked upon today’s Divine Will Missionary of Mercy walk several minutes earlier than I did. Consider how very timely and perhaps eternity-altering the exhortation then would have been, had I said—to that soul who would have been mere moments away from passing on to the next life—the same thing I have said to countless others during these outings:
“God bless you!
[When asked about my Divine Mercy Image pin:] He’s coming soon, but He wants us to trust Him first. Can I give you this card? [Hand over a Divine Mercy holy card] Please venerate that image and keep it close. It will change your life.”
Consider how well that would have prepared this person for the conversation that Jesus reveals to St. Faustina He has with a dying soul:
As I incessantly repeat: The entire purpose of apocalyptic, end-times related considerations pertaining to the Chastisements that are soon coming upon the world is that these considerations inspire us to be more zealous in undertaking the mission that we, as Christians, should already be devoted to anyway.
And that mission is to do your part to get as many souls as possible as ready as possible for the coming of Christ.
This will prepare souls to be more likely to accept the Divine Mercy when Christ comes into their lives—through their own deaths, through the Warning, through some great cross, or however else.
But as it is none other than death itself which entails one’s supreme meeting with Christ, we must acknowledge that it is quite likely that many, many people are about to die.
Let us fast and pray to avert this, but let us also not stick our heads in the sand and deny that nuclear war is appearing more likely by the day. Global leaders have now categorically rejected even attempting diplomacy to end the Russian/Ukrainian War, while the implicit—subtle but no less real—nuclear saber rattling increases. Regardless of how one views the credibility of Russian mainstream media, the nature of its reporting is nevertheless indicative of the peril of the times:
It is not, however, only about Russia. Tensions with North Korea have reached yet another high—and whatever Putin’s vices may be, they pale in comparison to Kim Jong-Un’s.
Our Lady’s most recent message at Medjugorje was more stark than any I can remember:
“Mankind has decided for death.”
Note the past tense, “has decided.” This, in contrast to earlier messages such as “Choose life and not death” (3/25/1996), “souls are sick and heading towards spiritual death” (12/25/2019), “I desire for the darkness, and the shadow of death which wants to encompass and mislead you, to be driven away.” (3/18/2014).
But it now seems we have crossed some sort of a threshold. Do not misunderstand: until a Chastisement has happened, it is always possible to mitigate it through prayer; but the Chastisements cannot now be entirely averted. It is far too late in the game for that, and man has spurned God too much. And whatever that threshold we have now passed forebodes, it likely includes innumerable souls soon meeting their maker.
And we should order our own lives in accordance with that likelihood.
Moving forward, I will not waste any more time lamenting I wasn’t on Lodge Street in Albany this morning several minutes earlier than I was.
Instead, I will take all such temptations to rue the past, and redirect them towards redoubling my resolve to more courageously, lovingly, and frequently proclaim the Divine Mercy to souls while there are still just a few moments left with the Door of Mercy open.
Please join me in stirring up that resolve in your heart.
Everywhere we look, the signs of the imminence of the Great Events are multiplying.
[Announcements at bottom of post]
Many will today be hearing news of the Bishop of Santander (the diocese of the Garabandal Apparitions), Manuel Sánchez Monge, stating—regarding the apparitions— “my position, like that of my predecessors, is that Rome’s assessment remains valid: ‘There are no signs of supernaturality.’”
This is not a condemnation of Garabandal.
The Church has three basic responses to alleged apparitions:
1) Constat de supernaturalitate (It is supernatural)
2) Constat de non supernaturalitate (It is not supernatural)
3) Non constat de supernaturalitate (It is not determined to be supernatural)
The single biggest misunderstanding among Catholics regarding the Church’s rulings on apparitions is that many seem to think that a “non constat” (3) is a condemnation. But that notion is absolutely false. Only a “constat de non” (2) is a condemnation.
“Non Constats” merely indicate that the Bishop (and/or the commission report submitted to him), in his own undertaken discernment/investigative efforts (which are known to vary wildly in their diligence from one Bishop to the next), was not able to find find enough objective evidence to give him sufficient moral certitude for a public declaration that the phenomenon in question is indeed Heaven-sent. He, therefore, with a non-constat decree, indicates that he “cannot determine” that it is supernatural in origin. That is all.
In fact, I wager that a “non constat” decision—in some cases, at least—favors the likelihood of the authentically supernatural nature of the apparition in question. For what such a decision shows us is that the Church did indeed undertake an investigation, yet still found no grounds for condemning the apparition. This, despite the fact that we live amid an epidemic of rationalism, skepticism, and atheism (both in the world and in the Church), and many Churchmen wouldn’t know the supernatural if it smacked them in the face. Moreover, as each Bishop knows, apparitions occurring within his diocese would cause him many headaches, therefore there is a great temptation among the episcopacy to find any reason to condemn any alleged apparition. A “non constat” shows us that, despite strenuous attempts to seek out such an excuse, none could be found.
As noted by the prolific theologian Fr. Rene Laurentin—likely the 20th century’s greatest expert on Marian Apparitions, and named by Pope Benedict XVI as a “Prelate of His Holiness” in 2009:
“In today’s climate, not even the apparitions at Lourdes would be approved by the Church”
Therefore, while some will doubtless insist on pretending to be scandalized by my assertions here, I am in good company in this assessment of the present situation.
Do not misunderstand: we must indeed obey legitimate authority in the Church, even if and when this authority’s decrees are ill-advised. If Garabandal (or any other apparition I’ve promoted) were to be given a “constat de non” in a formal and public decree, then I would immediately cease promoting it. But that, of course, is not what we are dealing with here.
Recall that Bishops are extremely adept at making it abundantly clear—superabundantly clear, rather—when exactly it is that they are outright condemning an alleged apparition. See, for example, the decree on Bayside (Veronica Luken).
There is never any cause for a Catholic to play the “more obedient than thou” game here by pretending that condemnations of apparitions exist even when there is no clear “constat de non supernaturalitate” decree. (Hasn’t the current Pontificate taught us just how foolish that game is, anyway?)
Garabandal is far from alone in the array of apparitions which, though in my opinion are authentic, have received “non constats.” Most noteworthy, as this was also recent news, are the apparitions of Our Lady of America. I feel quite confident in asserting that these are indeed from Heaven, yet some Bishops in 2020 proclaimed that they could not be said to be supernatural. (Note: As often happens in these cases, certain media outlets falsely reported on this, claiming it was given a “constat de non” when in fact it was very clearly only a “non constat.”)
Some prophecies have even indicated that Garabandal’s messages would have to be essentially placed in the tomb before the fulfillment of the events foretold therein; which is why this announcement from the Bishop strikes me as yet another indication of the imminence of the events spoken of at Garabandal: above all, the Warning.
It will be a “mini Judgment Day,” wherein each soul on the planet will, at the same moment, be miraculously shown the state of his soul as it stands before God Himself. It is most likely what is referred to by the Sixth Seal of Revelation, in the Sixth Book of the Apocalypse — wherein we are told of what at first appears to be the End of the World (Judgment Day), with even the “stars in the sky falling to earth,” the sky “divided like a torn scroll” and all men on earth crying out for the very mountains to fall upon them to “hide them from the wrath of the Lamb.”
Yes, this appears to be Judgment Day itself. But it is not. Quite the opposite: it is only the first major event of the Apocalypse.
For most, The Warning will be the most painful event in their lives. The heinousness of their sins will become manifest. Some may even die of shock. The purpose of the event, however, is not to punish, much less kill, but rather to serve as the greatest act of Divine Mercy in history. It will be given to overwhelm everyone on earth with Divine Grace such that they are given an absolutely undeniable chance to choose the right side and save their souls before the Great Persecution of the Antichrist commences thereafter.
There will be torrents of souls coming back to God’s Grace after this event–and we must help this by, right now, evangelizing as never before in history leading up to the Warning, and especially in the few weeks immediately after it– but, sadly, most will likely reject even that grace (just as they are already rejecting the many graces God is showering us with), and become even more evil. The line in the sand will have been drawn, and the sides will be chosen.
There will be surprises.
The Synod
We can conclude that this event is likely extremely imminent due to a number of signs. I discussed many of them earlier this year, as I speculated that it might be possible that The Warning could even transpire in 2022. While that is still possible, it is now seeming like it may be a bit longer until the Warning happens. As is often the case with prophecy, the gist of the outlined events does indeed transpire, but things sometimes take a bit longer to “brew” than it initially appeared they would need. (I hasten to add, however, that everything could change, quite literally, overnight–particularly if the first nuke flies, or the Pope suddenly goes to Moscow. We shouldn’t yet rule out the possibility of the Warning being this year.)
Along with the situation regarding Russia, World War III, and the use of Nuclear Weapons, the current “Synod on Synodality” is among the clearest signs of the imminence of the Warning. As I’ve posted before:
If there was ever an “important Synod”—”important” in a very bad way—that would be the present “Synod on Synodality.”
I have some lengthier thoughts on this matter, which I feel are important to share, and they are coming soon. I had written most of them months ago but wasn’t sure if I would publish them. Seeing what the Cardinals below have said, however, has convinced me to soon publish them.
For now, I simply want to relay what they — some of the greatest Shepherds in the Church — are warning, regarding what is happening in this Synod. Great detail isn’t needed here, as most of my readers will have likely already seen this, but the prefect emeritus for the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, just gave about the most doctrinally apocalyptic warning one could imagine about this Synod:
The Cardinal said that
“This has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, with the Triune God, and they think doctrine is only like a program of a political party who can change it according to their voters… if they will succeed… that will be the end of the Catholic Church.“
These are precisely the types of warnings that I and others have been giving for many years about the apocalyptic and long-prophesied Great Apostasy. We have been repeatedly mocked and denounced for doing so. Perhaps that mockery will decrease now that these same warnings are being boldly given by the single most qualified person the face of the planet.
Now, obviously, Muller knows the Catholic Church will not end—he knows this is contrary to Christ’s promise in the Gospel. His point is simply that the logical conclusion of the present Synod, as it is being undertaken, is the total destruction of the Faith.
Two facts, then, must be considered:
Cardinal Muller is clearly correct. The Synod’s trajectory is the destruction of the Catholic Church. (And I will explain this more thoroughly in a future post)
The Catholic Church will not be destroyed.
We are then left to ponder:
What will stop the madness?
There is no indication that anyone running the Synod will stop the madness. They are, on the contrary, unanimously cheering it on.
But no one else has the power to stop the madness.
Therefore, God will stop the madness. And I propose that He will do so through the Warning.
In other fronts as well, everything continues as the prophecies have indicated they would—even if the culmination of these processes is taking slightly longer than it would have initially seemed:
The Total Economic Collapse continues gaining momentum; most mainstream economists are admitting that severe recession is either at hand or about to begin. More honest economists are acknowledging that severe depression is at hand. Who could be surprised by this? We created trillions of dollars out of thin air—thus guaranteeing the destruction of the global reserve currency, the US Dollar—and now the feds are pretending they can sneak their way out of the logical result of that by continually raising interest rates. By printing trillions of dollars, they watered down the soup. Inflation results, once the watered-down soup has been consumed and people realize their hunger remains. Now, they are simply restricting access to new soup in hopes of fooling people into thinking that watered down soup is valuable. The analogy may be imperfect, but the result cannot be avoided: global economic collapse. This, too, is part of their plan for “The Great Rest.”
The warning signs of imminent global famine continue to surge.
International Relations (particularly regarding Russia/Ukraine) continue their steady march towards the increasing likelihood of World War III and/or Nuclear War breaking out. All of the most competent commentators on these matters are admitting that each day of this year has brought us closer to the “previously unthinkable” possibility of nuclear war.
The “Infrastructure of the Antichrist” is nearing completion, and there is every warning sign that the way for the Mark of the Beast is being prepared (most alarmingly now, through Central Bank Digital Currencies)
Society continues growing more insane by the day through “wokeness,” particularly the continuing domination of the “LGBT” agenda. It is not even possible to imagine a more complete rejection of the Divine and Natural Law than this movement entails, nor is it possible for Divine Justice to continue to allow this situation to persist once it reaches a (doubtless imminent) critical mass.
The Next Tyranny (post-Covid-tyranny, that is)—a global “zero carbon” initiative—is promising to completely destroy economic life and much of social life. Humanity is intrinsically tied to carbon emissions — that is how God set things up, we need them, and the notion that we need to be rid of them is nothing but a backdoor for Globalist Dictatorship.
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To initiate the Fall, the Devil possessed an irrational serpent and used it to dialogue with humanity. Eve’s wrongheaded openness to conversation with that animal is the prototype for the Devil’s current plans to dialogue with all humanity through the modern world’s lies. These are lies which, in a modified relativistic nihilism similar to the serpent’s own, “Did God really say…?” (though bedecked in the scientific verbiage one expects for a news story 6,000 years later), seek to beguile the faithful into supposing they cannot really know various truths just because these truths aren’t explicitly stated dogmas. But acknowledging that certain sci-fi deceptions are either theologically, philosophically, or scientifically impossible is supremely important, so that when these impossible things seem to happen (and the time is soon coming when they will indeed seem to have), we will recognize that something demonic is afoot, and shut the door to dialogue, lest we suffer a fate similar to Eve’s.
I discussed this post with Fr. Dan Reehil on Radio Maria. Video here:
Well, dialogue is not all the Devil wants. Ultimately, he wants your soul damned to hell for all eternity. But for starters, he’s more than content with a little dialogue.
He knows from six thousand years of experience just how successful that approach is; hence, one of the most axiomatic and wise admonitions in spiritual combat is simple: “Never dialogue with the Devil.”
Indeed, The Fall never would have happened in the first place if only Eve refused to so much as dialogue with a speaking serpent.
Have you ever considered that we tend to overlook one of the most noteworthy and in-your-face facts about the Fall? Namely, that it was brought about by a human being talking with an animal.
Ponder how ridiculous it was for Eve to speak to a serpent. She knew full well that she and Adam alone were made in the Image of God – that she and he alone had reason, and that therefore she and he alone could engage in rational communication. Why, then, did she converse with an animal? Adam never did that. Eve should have known—and, doubtless, did know—that something was deeply wrong when an irrational creature started talking.* And she never should have spoken a word to it. She should have immediately left its presence; and if she said anything at all, it should have been just, “Begone Satan!”
Perhaps few will glean this clear lesson from Genesis simply because Christians have long been lied to by modernist “scholars” who insist that the first several Chapters of the Bible’s first book are mere myths. In fact, every page of the Bible—from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22—means what it says. The Serpent was not merely a symbol. It was, quite truly, a serpent—one possessed by the devil, but a serpent no less.
But the first sin; the very sin that caused Mankind’s Fall from Grace, is – in a symmetry which, though breathtaking, should not surprise us – the prototype for some types of sins that will precipitate the Apocalypse itself.
The devil is going to attempt dialogue with humanity as never before; not merely with one woman, but with billions of people across the planet. And if you do not have your feet placed firmly on the foundation of Faith and Reason, you will succumb to his tactics.
I know that some may wonder about my zeal for what might appear to be an eclectic batch of convictions. Not only the non-existence of aliens, but also, for example: the impossibility of time travel [Point XI], the impossibility of technology directly accessing the human mind itself, the impossibility of sentient “AI” [Point XVI], the impossibility of animal-personhood [Point XXII], the impossibility of multiple universes/ ”dimensions”/ creations/ incarnations [Point XIII]
(Henceforth, I will collectively refer to these items I encourage rejecting the possibility of as “Aliens Etc.”)
What do all of these apparently disparate exhortations have in common?
This, I wager: the likelihood that the devil (perhaps operating through the Antichrist) will soon use each item above as a means to dialogue directly with the world, as never before in history.
Aliens Etc. are fictions–fantasies that never have existed and never will exist. But modern man, now several generations deep into the Dictatorship of Relativism, bored by the promises of Christ, tired by the “shackles” of reason, and only capable of being roused by sci-fi delusions, has only grown so insane that, for the first time in history, almost everyone is now open to at least one of these fictions.
"God is so big, therefore ___" is the format of many heresies & deceptions.
In fact, those who speak that way are the ones limiting the Almighty; claiming—as they implicitly do—that He was too stupid or shortsighted to mean *exactly* what He said in Divine Revelation.
That means I’m facing an uphill battle with my argument here!
So, let’s consider a matter uncontroversial among the devout: the evil nature of “Ouija Boards.” Indeed, no one should ever engage in that occult practice of playing Ouija, and most devout souls realize this. Many people have become to some degree demonically possessed due to their use of Ouija boards (or, similarly, Tarot Cards, Seances, Psychic Mediums, Fortune Tellers, and other new age/occult practices.).
But consider the justification one might try to give for using Ouija:
“I don’t know how or why it works. I’m just being humble and open. I put my hands on this piece of plastic, I ask the question I need answered, and it leads me to answers that I need on the board. Why be closed minded here? Why be so dogmatic in opposition to this? It’s not as if there’s any Encyclicals that specifically condemn Ouija!”
Yes, it is possible to be so open minded that one’s brains fall out. Replace “Ouija” with any of the other Aliens Etc. delusions in this article and you open yourself up to similar risks.
So if indeed it is nonsense to assert that a silly piece of cardboard and plastic can give you meaningful answers to questions, then why such zeal in opposing it?
Why not allow this practice to continue unopposed, under the “humble” openness to the “possibility” that cardboard does have some hitherto undiscovered scientific capacity of reason, counsel, wisdom, and understanding? Am I being arrogant by claiming we can be certain that cardboard and plastic lack this capacity?
The answer is clear: although it is nonsense, it is nevertheless a type of nonsense that gives the devil a means of directly communicating with you. By doing Ouija, one has chosen to not only wander outside of the realms of spiritual safety afforded by abiding in Faith and Reason, but further, has chosen to open up a potential channel of communication with demons.
Not good.
And this is the same type of nonsense that exists within belief in Aliens Etc.—each belief opens one up to the communications of demons.
My concerns are not theoretical. There is nothing strictly “academic” about the exhortations I present here.
Demonic oppression has already damaged the souls of many through each item above. For example, “Animal mediums” are becoming increasingly popular. People around the world are getting diabolical directives–orders straight from hell–when they visit these seemingly innocuous “mediums” in order to “learn what their cats are saying.”
But one who realizes that it is absolutely impossible for a cat to employ reason, and therefore impossible for it to have any rational guidance to give, would never be tempted to seek out an “animal medium.”
So-called “alien abductions” are also fairly common; those who relay such experiences sometimes share “insights” they learned from their time with the “aliens”; when, in fact, all they thereby do is give credence to the dictates of demons that they received during some diabolically orchestrated delusion.
My concern, therefore, is that what is already a means of demonic oppression in a relative few will, in the days ahead–once our overlords among the global elite issue a news release claiming that they have made contact with aliens, and soon thereafter proceed to share with us the teachings of these “aliens”–become a means of demonic oppression for the entire world.
They’ve been steadily working their way up to this for years now. It is beginning to reach a fever pitch, what with official US Congressional Hearings on “UFOs,” with even Congressmen using these hearings as an opportunity to subtly foment alien expectation. Over the coming times, the present subtlety will get less and less subtle (in accordance with the proverbial “boil the frog slowly” approach).
NASA is also preparing to go full-tilt UFO-centric; and I have no doubt they may be the ones to announce that “we’ve now made First Contact with Extraterrestrials.”
Imagine, if you will, a society wherein there is not merely the (who knows how many) thousands or millions suffering from some degree of Demonic possession/oppression/obsession – but billions.
This is precisely what is enabled when these means of Demonic communication become institutionalized; which is what will happen when (not, sadly, “if”) our elite tell us something along the lines of:
That they’ve finally made “contact with an extraterrestrial intelligent life form,” and then proceed to share these “communications” with us.
Or when they tell us they’ve “finally unlocked the key to the rational language of dolphins and bonobos and dogs,” and proceed to share these animals’ “great wisdom” with us.
Or when they’ve “finally made an AI Robot that is truly sentient, free, and intelligent,” and present its software to us to share its “wisdom for our existential crises.”
Or when they’ve “finally mastered the mystery of time and can now communicate with men from the future” or even “beings from another dimension/string that just intersected with our own”
Each one of these lies (and there will be others like them) will provide the perfect cover for the Devil to directly instruct billions of people on earth in a way that, in all ages past, he could only succeed in with those who most foolishly strayed into his domain through explicitly engaging in the occult.
And what the devil could not achieve through the New Age movement, due to too many of the Faithful being willing to see the evil in it and therefore avoid it, he will accomplish through “Science.”
Pride comes before the Fall, and too many modern believers– terrified above all else of being seen as insufficiently in line with “The Science”™– will at all costs avoid opposing what “The Scientists” say. If “The Scientists” say that there’s aliens, or sentient AI, or inter-temporal communication/travel, or another universe/dimension/reality, or some new technology that can directly access the mind itself, then too many will gobble these claims up readily. (And we’ll have plenty of bureaucrats in the Vatican’s various dicasteries instructing us to do just that.)
To all those Catholic journalists, authors, clergymen, scholars, and apologists out there now promoting belief in Aliens Etc., I admonish: you have no idea what you are getting into. You are playing with hellfire, and you are going to lead many souls to the source of that fire. Come to your senses, before it is too late.****
Of all the issues noted here, however, I focus most on Mankind’s uniqueness in the cosmos—i.e., the nonexistence of aliens/extraterrestrial incarnate intelligent life—because I think that, of all the deceptions I’ve listed in this post, the “alien” one is the most likely to be used most heavily by the Antichrist, the most potentially catastrophic, the most in line with expectations generated in the minds of the masses by decades of Sci-Fi movies, and the most heavily prepared for with a steadily increasing drumbeat of news stories to prime the people.
Moreover, I have long suspected that belief in aliens may be a “gateway drug” of sorts; one that compels its user to steadily succumb to graver and graver errors. Recently, my suspicions were confirmed, as I will explain below.
From being “agnostic” on the question of aliens (as most seem to be), it is easy to become open to aliens. From “openness” to aliens, it is easy to—particularly with increasing media hype about “UFOs”—next become excited about their “possibility” (particularly for those whose youth was saturated in Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel movies, etc.)****. From excitement about them it is easy to become a believer in aliens.
And once one becomes a “true believer” in aliens, the floodgates have opened.
Suddenly everything in the Faith—all those realities which deserve our most wholehearted, overwhelming, and exclusive fundamental-life-devotion—become just “one of many” superlatively, existentially demanding matters.
The alien-believer begins to wonder (at least interiorly, even if he is still – rightly – too ashamed to voice these questions in his Catholic podcast or website or whatever else):
“What might these aliens know about God? Maybe there are far more than three persons in the God! Maybe God is thousands of persons! I can’t wait to learn about the 4th Person of the “Quadrinity”, much less the 4,000th!”
“What might God’s incarnation look like in other planets, or galaxies, or other dimensions? Perhaps Jesus Christ is just the most minor of God’s many incarnations!”
“What if I get all sorts of other chances at life in other parallel realities in other dimensions with all sorts of different fundamental laws, different Divine Revelations, etc.!?”
“What if this universe is just one iteration of a whole series of universes? How minor that would make our salvation history!”
“Imagine; entire planets full of unfallen rational beings! Perhaps the Virgin Mary isn’t unique after all—imagine trillions of other Immaculate Conceptions! Even if she is the “Queen of the Universe” (though that’s not one of the Marian Dogmas, so maybe she isn’t!), what if there are all sorts of other Universes with even greater Queens than she?!”
“Sure, Jesus is the ‘only’ begotten Son of God. But ‘only’, by definition, restricts merely what is referred to in THIS universe. What about all the OTHER dimensions out there?! What about THEIR Divine Incarnations, Revelations, etc.?!”
These types of wild imaginings go on, and on, and on.
Suddenly, the entire Christian Faith – “things into which angels longed to look” (1 Peter 1:12), things which “prophets and kings longed to see but did not see” (Luke 10:24)—starts feeling, to these alien believers, like a boring day job he must deal with so that he can get to his weekend, where the “really interesting and fun things happen.”
God’s Creation, Christ’s Incarnation and Redemption, our journey of Sanctification, and our awaiting of His Second Coming and Eternity–become just “some of many” things of infinite magnitude–instead of the be-all-end-all of our lives, as they must be.
What a horrible tragedy for a believer to succumb to.
Even while it may seem to these people that they have not expressly rejected a single explicit Dogma (they’ll still nod, though with boredom, to each item in the Creed), it nevertheless remains so that their Supernatural Faith has been castrated, emasculated, withered, and decayed.
The form – the trappings — of the Christian Religion is maintained, but the power of it – the life-devouring-fire that Faith should and must be –has been extinguished, as St. Paul prophesied of the last days – these times (2 Timothy 3).
Does this slippery slope I have described appear far-fetched? Exaggerated?
Unfortunately, it is neither.
I present to you here what was just argued by an extremely popular Catholic Scholar (one who has long been regarded as totally “orthodox minded”). It was just published (June 2022) in a new book he wrote. This new book was published by one of the most popular “strictly orthodox” Catholic publishers. Below is a quote from that book. This quote was recently wholeheartedly and enthusiastically promoted by a certain Catholic journalist on his extremely popular Catholic news aggregator website:
“Ultraterrestrials…interdimensional beings… dimensions intersected with our own … time-traveling humans from the future” ??!!
The scholar who wrote the words above will not be the last to succumb to–and promote–these delusions. Like dominoes, many others will fall; including plenty of individuals whom I myself have promoted in the past–not excepting some who have hitherto been regarded as shining lights, even among the Faithful Remnant.
Therefore, idolize no one. God alone is God. Fallible men will, in the days ahead, manifest their fallibility for all to see
“Put not your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save” Psalm 146
Make no mistake about it, these are the times of which Our Lord said,
“And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.” Matthew 24:22
You will see Christians and Catholics–individuals you thought you could trust to figure it all out for you–nevertheless drop like flies in the coming times–falling for the imminent Diabolical Deceptions like moths to the flame–but you must not allow that sorry sight to shake your own Faith.
For these days are destined to be the “rise and fall of many in Israel,” (Luke 2:34); that is, in the Church.
Read your Bible, read your Catechism, submit to all the contents thereof – strive to become a saint, strive to Live in the Divine Will, and you will remain safe.
I would say “I give you my word,” but that would be silly, as you have something infinitely better: You have God’s Word. Several verses before the verse above, Our Lord taught:
-Matthew 24
The Abomination of Desolation is coming.
It will have much to do with the various tenets of the Diabolical Quantum Leap. Despite how tempting succumbing to its promises will be, I know—because Christ has promised—that he who endures to the end will be saved. To succumb to the Antichrist, you’ll have to consciously choose to do so.
“Aliens” were, previously, not a topic I ever wanted to have to focus much on addressing. But now I see it’s something I’m going to have to address much more moving forward.
I am working on a new piece, and if my post last year failed to convince you that there are no aliens, then this upcoming one will not fail.
Stay tuned.
In the meantime, I leave you with a simple presentation of Pascal’s Wager, modified for this matter:
Leaving aside the many reasons we have to conclude there are no aliens—what do you stand to gain, or lose, from this belief?
To gain?
Nothing.
You already have everything you need for your salvation in Public Revelation.
Salvation and sanctification are all you need, and neither stands to gain anything by believing in aliens.
Moreover, you have no need for the scientific, technological, or other temporally oriented learning that “aliens” would have. Technology doesn’t solve problems; it creates new (and worse) ones.
And what do you have to lose by believing in aliens?
Everything.
An utterly incalculable amount. What I’ve described here today. What I described here. What I described here. You gravely risk your salvation, your sanctification. You risk wandering into heresy. You risk your sanity. You risk a personal existential crisis. You risk succumbing to the Antichrist’s deceptions. You risk entertaining demons. You risk so much.
Under what strange argument are these risks worth it?
Footnotes:
*There are of course a few examples from Scripture and Tradition of animals talking by a miracle. For example, Balaam had to be rebuked through an animal — “he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.” 2 Peter 2:16. But these cases in no way imply rationality on the part of the animal. They were extraordinary examples of God Himself speaking to someone and deciding to use an animal as the instrument (just as He could equally well use a cloud, or a bush on fire, or anything else.) On the flip side, exorcists have plenty of true stories to tell of what animals have done under demonic influence. In neither case is it the animal’s own volition that causes these phenomena. There are also cases like St. Francis admonishing the wolf, or St. Anthony “preaching” to the birds and the fish. But none of those examples or others like them consisted in a human being actually engaging in attempted rational discourse with an animal. They were each extraordinary cases (which should not be considered paradigmatic of our own approach to things) of a brief one-way communication. Obviously, humans can command animals via voice (ever told a dog to “sit!”?). This does not imply rational discourse either, even if quite a few words are involved. A horse trainer may calm down an unruly horse with a lengthy speech; not because the horse does, or even possibly could, understand the reasoning in the talk, but only because it is easier for the human to speak according to the manner with which he is acquainted when undertaking consoling efforts; it is the tone, the body language, etc., that does the calming.
**Here’s a clue that some theological proposition is way-off: those who proffer it have to spend years of research, mining all of the writings and sayings (alleged or actual) of all the thousands upon thousands of saints to find so much as a few of these sayings that supposedly support their proposition. For what they are thereby revealing–even if the quotes they find are genuine and not merely apocryphal (usually they are not genuine)– is how Sacred Tradition is nearly unanimous in opposition to that very proposition. (Such it is with, for example, aliens. Every saint who has ever lived; minus, perhaps, three or four–took it as an absolutely certain given that man alone, in all physical creation, is rational.)
***Technology can only access the mind through the senses. The devil, on the other hand – although even he cannot directly access the mind itself (i.e., read it perfectly or completely control the mind) – he can suggest things to it without needing to use your senses the normal way, and he can of course subject us to temptations. I have no idea how exactly this works. But technology certainly cannot come remotely close to doing what even the devil struggles to accomplish. When they claim they’ve achieved “mind-accessing tech,” they haven’t done that at all, and any apparent operations of such technology is nothing but a ruse for the initiatives of demons.
**** I don’t wish to be a curmudgeon here – there’s nothing wrong with enjoying certain works of fiction, even if their content is counterfactual! I’m certainly not rebuking anyone merely for doing so. I myself number among those ranks: I loved reading C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, I enjoyed the movie “Signs,” (both of which include aliens), and there are plenty of other examples. The point is merely that we mustn’t allow counterfactual fictional themes to become the lens through which we entertain what is actually possible or plausible in reality. I will say, though, that I dislike all “time travel” fiction, since that theme is not only counterfactual, but logically meaningless. Asserting that objective acts of the past can change [which Aquinas rightly teaches not even God can do] is contrary to the First Principles of Reason, it entails the incoherent assertion that the effect of a cause can itself be the cause of that cause, and from this causality-rejecting-absurdity, no logically meaningful story can be written (yet any good story must at least be logically coherent).
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