WARNINGS FROM the various apparitions of the Blessed Mother have been a long time coming. Almost the entire world anticipated something like apocalypse by the year 2000, but nothing happened.
Some prophecies, such as those given to the late Fr. Estafano Gobbi, warned of unfolding by the end of the 20th century, yet despite the increasing number of environmental unusuals, the world seems intact. Only those who keep tabs on video footages of extraordinary happenings on YouTube (not only unusual weather, but mystifying observations such as UFOs in endless varieties, ghostly apparitions, various animals in mass deaths, etc.) have not yet shed vigilance over foretold “end times.”
But God is Divine Mercy.
To St. Faustina Kowalska, Jesus said: “I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation.”
In the Blessed Mother’s messages to Fr. Gobbi, she stated “Many times have I intervened in order to set back further and further in time the beginning of the great trial, for the purification of this poor humanity, now possessed and dominated by the Spirits of Evil.”
At another time, the Blessed Mother again told Fr. Gobbi: “… thus I have again succeeded in postponing the time of the chastisement decreed by Divine Justice for a humanity which has become worse than at the time of the flood.”
To think that the dire prophecies have been shelved altogether it to err against the worsening indications of our times. In the US, God is being erased officially in the name of inclusivity. So many things that the world used to regard as morally unacceptable have become standards. Evil has so triumphed that the innocent has to suffer (as when your bag is inspected before entry is allowed under suspicion that anyone, including you, could be criminal).
While a Medjugorje visionary has said that the events of the prophesied “last times” have started, our days so far seem generally still under the scope of Divine Mercy.
Indeed, last May 25 in Medjugorje, the Blessed Mother conveyed the following message:
“Dear children! God permitted me, out of His mercy, to be with you, to instruct and lead you towards the way of conversion. Little children, you are all called to pray with all your heart for the plan of salvation to be realized for you and through you. Be aware, little children, that life is short and eternal life waits for you according to your merit. Therefore, pray, pray, pray to be worthy instruments in God’s hands. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Let me single out the following important phrase in this message: “…life is short and eternal life waits for you according to your merit.”
That’s dedicated to people who are wont to repeat the phrase “life is short,” but with the implication that one should thus seek as much pleasure in this world as if there is only blank and black after earthly life.
The end times may have began to roll, but Divine Mercy has yet to be lifted, it seems. From Heaven, there call for action to save each other from nonstop damnation in the afterlife.
And then, as the prophecies warn, Divine Justice.
Here, I quote, again and again, the warnings of the Blessed Mother in words so explicitly shocking in her apparition to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita, Japan. If the Queen of the Universe herself can be so candid, I find no reason to censor. Nothing after all can be more important as one’s eternity.
In 1973, the Blessed Mother told the Japanese nun: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests.”
