BUT OF course, the world would have ended when Jesus Christ still walked on earth, when some of His followers heard Him say “the time is at hand.” Jesus later died on the cross but some of his followers continued to think that the “time at hand” was something like the end of the world in their times.
This was followed by many other estimates of the end of the world whose occurrence, Jesus had said, “only the Father knows.” It is argued, however, that while only the Father knows, Jesus never said no hint would be given. Nay, he even advised us humans to know how to read “the signs of the times.”
And so followed a long litany of when the world would end, some even citing a precise space in the calendar.
Baptist preacher William Miller had told believing followers the world would end in 1843. When all remained normal, he said his prophecy would happen the next year, 1844. After this, he lost his thousands of followers, many of whom became Seventh Day Adventists, while others became Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In 1865, Edward Bishop Elliott, a Victorian biblical scholar, said the world was about to end. He changed prophecy and cited 1941.
In 1862, the book on the prophecies of Mother Shipton, said the good nun had prophesied the world would end in 1881.
In 1910 when Halley’s comet crossed the earth, people thought it was time for the end of the world.
Of course, the Jehovah’s Witnesses would be hard to beat. Historically, they had preached the end of the world would happen in 1914, and then changed this later to 1915, 1918, 1920, 1923, 1925.
And so why should we be more serious about apocalyptic prophecies unfolding in our times? Notice I did not say “end of the world.”
Present prophetic pulse in our days is different. The prophecies are coming directly from Heaven and, gladly, they are not yet zeroing in on the end of the world, but the end of our times, the end of an era in the Church.
This time, too, there are scientists, including atheists, telling us in scientific terms that there is something wrong with and in the world. Some call it climate change, but there are phenomena beyond just climate such as the preponderance of UFO experiences and even diabolical possessions which compel even psychiatrists to admit ignorance.
End of our times, yes, but biblically apocalyptic if we are to take the word of the Blessed Mother herself in her recent and current apparitions in various parts of the world.
In our times, hundreds of Marian apparitions have been reported. Some have been scientifically studied with the use of the most modern instruments and led to conclusions that compel admission of the supernatural. Some were caught in videos. Almost all of them warned of a pending apocalypse, to a point conditional, yet inevitable as the world continues to spin wildly at the tip of a diabolical finger.
The apocalyptic messages were not meant only for the visionaries. They were meant for all people in the world. The Blessed Mother said so. And this is why I have devoted many articles spreading the Marian messages. Not to strike fear and terror, but to inspire consideration of the supernatural and thus, moral transformation which all of us, including myself, are in need of continually, daily.
