tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post3782212251838069392..comments2024-03-27T09:30:39.371+00:00Comments on Unveiling the Apocalypse: St Malachy's Prophecy of the Glory of the OlivesEmmett O'Reganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043723932377194248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-86224678880667556442015-03-23T07:42:25.035+00:002015-03-23T07:42:25.035+00:00Blogger Evangelartist said...
Having been awa...Blogger Evangelartist said...<br /><br /> Having been aware of the various prophecies about the so-called "Great Monarch" for over thirty years, it has dawned on me that the only "Great Monarch" we need to be anticipating and preparing for is Jesus Christ, Our King, Who is our "great minister" inasmuch as He has already earned that title of His service to us through His life, death and resurrection, that is, God meeting us on our common ground as a human and by living by His Own criteria for defining "great". Matthew 20:26,27.<br /><br />Secondly, I have a sense that when Elijah or whoever returns to "restore all things" he will do so employing the criteria of the Holy Scriptures and not the traditions of the clergy, i.e. it will not be a return to the Latin Mass and other such matters which really achieve little more than providing nostalgic effects and not truly spiritually edifying benefits.<br /><br />The forgotten "mystery of God and Christ" which entails the means to restore all things to the will, plan and teachings of God/Christ (that is, man's originally intended dominion of the earth with God) will "likely" be a key to such restoration, for thereof all things are used and employed in accord with and manifesting God's will.<br /><br />This warrants that men will be met with God's plan on their ground of cultural commonality, such as through the vernacular and not through Latin, which was a long-lasting mistake on the part of the clergy and missionaries who unrealistically expected Indians and other natives of pagan nations to relate to the worship of God. <br /><br />(Contrary to Catholic belief, clergy/men in error ONLY when they are molesting children, but there are other areas in which they have blundered and continue to do so. But we are all sinners.)<br /><br />Jesuit missionary Mateo Ricci was one of the few of history who recognized and employed this tactical strategy of God and Christ and tried to evangelize the Chinese through their interests in the sciences as well as meeting them on their religious grounds with the commonality of praying to saints on parallel to their ancestor "worship", which is a misnomer or misapplied term:<br /><br />However, the "holy Shepherd" at that time, lacking the vision of the "mystery of God and Christ" (that is, simply put, he did not know or value the tactical strategy of employing cultural and human experiential expressions to meet men on their ground of need for God and His will,) completely, VERY unwisely, permanently and irreparably undermined Ricci's efforts:<br /><br />The successor Shepherd attempted to make what proved to be a futile effort to back-peddle to save face for the papacy: It all resulted in the catastrophic, centuries long loss of the nation of China to continuing paganism and then communism to this day now devolving into "unbridled capitalistic materialism."<br /><br />So that of the tactical strategy of meeting people where they are (with God's Word and rule concerning the Kingdom of God toward restoration), IN their cultural terms (as did St. Patrick, and consider his success) but not ON their lack of moral terms, we should see the Scripture-based Protestants receptive to a return to the Catholic Church when we obey Jesus Who taught "Call no man Father; One in heaven is your Father".<br /><br />That is, they will see Catholics finally being universally obedient to Jesus and the Word, and then they will realize again the benefit of the Sacraments which yield the pattern of the mystery of God and Christ as well to the laity; so that we will recognize how it is that we are all spiritual rulers of the earth (of our right motives), that is, that we all comprise Jehovah-God's "kingdom of priests" which Catholic clergy have for too long monopolized to themselves, giving but lip service to "the priesthood of the laity".<br /><br />It would not hurt us to consider pursuing these things toward at least preparing for future events. Preparation is what it is all about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-86409404793666736082015-03-23T07:20:28.090+00:002015-03-23T07:20:28.090+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com