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Many Catholics believe that the world is about to experience the real events of the fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophesies. The Catholic perspective of the end-times prophesies is discussed in a new book by Catholic theologian, Dr. Kelly Bowring.
According to his book, “The Secrets, Chastisement, and Triumph of the Two Hearts of Jesus & Mary”, (http://www.TwoHeartsPress.com) which has received official Church recognition with an Imprimatur from a Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop Ricardo Vidal, the Catholic Church has regarded end-times prophecies as authentic and many Catholics acknowledge that we are likely now living in the times of their fulfillment.
The Catholic Church bases its apocalyptic prophesies not on mere guessing and speculation, but, instead, on claims from a heavenly source, that is, from various recent apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In these heavenly messages given to various visionaries, which include places like at Fatima (1917), La Salette (1840s) and reportedly today at Medjugorje (in former Yugoslavia) and recently at Garabandal (Spain), Catholics believe Mary (see Revelation 12:1) has been sent by God to warn us that humanity is about to suffer an increase in natural disasters, a great apostasy, a period of Satan’s reign, and God’s justice and divine chastising, all due to the increase of sin in the world today.
Like those doomsday predictions in the Mayan prophecies and portrayed recently in the movie, ‘2012’, the divine warnings that Catholics believe they are receiving from the Blessed Mother are related to the Book of Revelation, and thus are on the level of the Apocalypse and Armageddon. To a Catholic nun at Akita, Japan, in the 1970s, the Blessed Virgin stated, in a Catholic Church-approved apparition: “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 (Noah’s Flood), 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.” Mary has indicated that God is about to fulfill this prophecy, and immanently, as the cup is now today flowing over, she says.
According to Dr. Bowring, Catholics believe that the Blessed Mother has been sent by God today from Heaven to pre-warn all humanity and also to offer us hope and mercy. In reported Marian apparitions from Garabandal, Spain in the 1960s, the Blessed Mother said that before the time of the divine chastisement, God will first send two great signs of His mercy to help humanity. The first will be a world-wide Warning. In it, every person on earth will find themselves all alone in the world no matter where they are at the time, alone with their conscience right before God. They will then see all their sins and what their sins have caused. The purpose of the Warning will be to wake us up and call us to repent of our sins. Second, and within a year of the Warning, God will send a Great Miracle that will include a permanent Sign of His presence and mercy. The purpose of the Miracle is to show us the love God has for us and to convert the whole world. Then, the apocalyptic events will follow soon afterward, according to Catholic prophecy.
Whether these apocalyptic events will occur in 2012 or not, the Catholic perspective, based on these Marian prophecies, is that they will occur in this generation and soon. Perhaps God is trying to warn us in every way He can: this may include through other religions like the Mayans, through Hollywood movies like “2012″, and possibly even more directly through His own Mother sent from Heaven as many Catholics believe.
One thing is for certain, according to Dr. Bowring in his new book: As our heavenly Mother is warning, the events of the apocalypse are upon us — events which will not cause the end of the world as some think; but instead, are intended to purify and prepare us for a new era dawning for humanity — one that Catholic prophecy states will entail three aspects: the divine granting of the New Era of Peace, the coming Triumph and Reign of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and the establishing of the universal Kingdom of the Divine Will on earth.
All of these events, Our heavenly Mother states, are part of God’s Providence. And the apocalyptic events themselves are conditional, she says; they depend upon how humanity responds in these merciful times before they begin. Prayer and conversion are means to diminish the apocalyptic events and quicken the new era to come. So, for Catholics, 2012 and the time that follows, is a time of prayer, hope and renewal!
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