UFO and alien deception： a diabolical preparation for the anti-Christ
Summary
In this episode of The John Henry Weston Show, Father Dan Rehill talks with Daniel O'Connor, a Catholic philosopher and author of many books, about the possibility of new religions popping up in the wake of the discovery of proof of alien life.
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the literal mark of the beast itself. And if we look at the signs of the times, I don't know dates
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and I'm not a prophet, so I don't know the future. But it seems to me, just looking at the signs of
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the times by the light of faith, as we're called to as faithful Christians, it seems that it's
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right around the corner. A number of years ago now, I was in the Vatican and the reporters were
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asking then the head spokesman for the Vatican, Father Lombardi, about the existence of intelligent
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life beyond the planet Earth. And well, he took it very seriously. But that's because there is
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intelligent life that's not on Earth. They're called angels and they're real intelligent life.
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However, that's not the discussion that most people are talking about. In fact, when President Obama was
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asked about aliens, he took it very seriously. He talked about how there would perhaps be new
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religions created if such a thing happened. We're going to talk about that with a professor from a
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college of philosophy professor. Some of you might know him. His name is Daniel O'Connor. He's a great
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Catholic author of many books, including one that we're going to feature here. But also, he's a
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professor who has suffered because of VAX mandates. You're going to want to stay tuned for this episode.
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Daniel, welcome to the program. Very good to be here. It's an honor. As I said to you before,
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I've been checking LifeSite News every day for almost 15 years now, so I'm very happy to be with
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you. Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the
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Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. So a very interesting interview with you, yourself, and Father Dan
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Rehill, who's been on the show. Wanted to get your take on this because you mentioned
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a clip of President Obama talking about aliens, but also of this phenomenon being
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sort of increasingly prevalent today and about how this could be a massive deception, which would
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work actually very well. What we'll do is we'll look at the clip first from Obama and get your take
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on it. I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people's
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sense that what we have in common is a little more important, but no doubt there would be
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immediate arguments about like, well, you know, we need to spend a lot more money on weapon systems to
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defend ourselves, which, and, and, you know, those new religions would pop up and who knows what kind
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of arguments we get into. We're, we're, we're good at manufacturing arguments for each other.
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Well, when we have a former US president and not just anyone, but I think he's, uh,
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unfortunately going to still, I don't think he's done. I think he's going to play in very much to
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what's coming. Warning of, uh, not warning, but kind of just being inspired by this possibility of
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new religions popping up with the discovery of proof of aliens. I don't think he said that without
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being given permission to say that by his handlers. And this fits in perfectly with what it seems
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they've been preparing us for. If you look at the, you know, the, the frog in the water example, where
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you have to boil the frog gradually for him to not jump out of the pot. That's what's been happening
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with these UFO deceptions, these alien deceptions, the great, the final trial of the church, the,
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it's mysterious, the details of it, but I think we're living in the initial stages of it now.
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And for that to really reach its climax, they're going to need to present a quote,
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new gospel to us from quote the heavens. And what better way to do that than through a supposed
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revelation of aliens that they've in turn been preparing us for for years now with these UFO reports,
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which just in the last couple of years have suddenly exploded into the mainstream like never before.
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What is it that you foresee and what gives you the sort of hint that this might be coming in a big
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way? When you see the, the new age teachings that surround these alien phenomena and the UFO phenomena,
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and when you look, when you research what people have actually experienced with these alleged UFO
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encounters and alien encounters, it's all demonic. And I have yet to find a single example of a supposed
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UFO encounter, alien encounter that isn't either clearly a hoax or a hallucinator, you know, explainable
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of a natural phenomena, or if it's not, it's in some way diabolical. We read time and time again of
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these supposed aliens fleeing at the name of Jesus and things like that. The exact same reactions we would
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expect from a demonic encounter. So this notion of aliens, we should be guarded against this by
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the faith. And I've, I've even like, I've got a quote from the catechism. I've got,
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keep your catechism handy, submit to what it says. That's going to be one of the clearest ways,
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the easiest ways of averting what's coming in the times ahead. And the catechism says very clearly,
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I'm looking now at paragraph 356. And it says right there, of all visible creatures,
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only man is able to know and love his creator. In other words, human beings are the only incarnate
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creatures that exist, that are capable of knowing and loving God. In other words, are capable of
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have this faculty of reason, this free, rational will. So we can rule out right from the onset from
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our faith. And there's so many other ways. I'm not building it all on just that verse in the
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catechism. That's our starting point. But we should know as faithful Christians and as faithful Catholics,
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that human beings are the only incarnate intelligent life that exists in the universe.
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This is really fascinating because that conversation that I experienced in the Vatican
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with Father Lombardi at the time, that never figured into the discussion at all. It seemed like
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he was totally leaving open the possibility of literally finding
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physical beings on other planets with intelligence. The Pope actually recently remarked on this,
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saying that if there were aliens or whatever, he would baptize them. But there's even problem with
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that, isn't there? And the Pope is saying he'd baptize, I think, Martians was the quote he used,
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that he would baptize Martians. Well, that's not our divine mandate from Christ. And if you can open
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up the Magisterium, Canon Law, we are called to baptize human beings, which are indeed the only
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rational incarnate creatures. There's no other mandate. And there was a, I think it was the Vatican
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astronomer also last year. He talked about how this discovery of aliens would compel us to re-read our
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faith. And if that doesn't raise huge red flags for you, I don't know what would. This, this call to re-read
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our faith, which is the opposite of what we need to do as Catholics, which is accept our faith as it is
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handed on to us by sacred tradition, by 2,000 years now of sacred tradition. The, the foundation in
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scripture, we will never need to re-read it. We will keep growing, of course, in, in, in sanctity and, and
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knowledge, but we will never re-read our faith. That is always a huge red flag. And it should warn us
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that something diabolical is going on. One of the things that's truly remarkable is that you'd expect
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the world, especially the Antichrist world, those powers that seek to destroy truth, the ultimate
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truth, would want to force some kind of deception like this. But coming or aided and abetted in it
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by the Vatican, that's truly disturbing. But we've already seen that same scenario go on,
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the shutting down of the churches. It was heralded by the Vatican. It was sort of started with the
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Pope. Um, then we had the vax mandates and surely we thought, well, this is a pro-abortion vaccine.
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It's made off the backs of aborted babies. It's very, very clear that no one really says that that's
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not true anymore because the evidence is all out there. Surely the Vatican will fight such
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vax mandates. Nope. Actually the Pope insisted on it in the Vatican for the Vatican employees,
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truly unbelievable. And we're seeing that happen right now as well with the alien thing. It's truly
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disturbing. It really is disturbing. And it's a sign of the times, the great apostasy that we're in.
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We can't even trust the men in, in pink hats or red hats in the Vatican or other hats. Maybe we'll get
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to that later. But, um, to, to keep us in the faith, firm in the faith and more faith and morals.
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Instead, we have to stick with what the seers are saying, the true magisterium. You open up the
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actual magisterial texts that are just as valid today as they were 50 years ago or a hundred years
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ago or a thousand years ago. Everything that the, the true magisterium has given us is set in stone.
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And we need to understand that as Catholics, this doesn't change until the end of time. It will never
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change. So when you see these men in the Vatican trying to abuse their authority to present a new
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gospel to you, it doesn't matter that their, that their residential address happens to be a certain
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city state within the boundaries of Rome. You need to reject that. You need to stick with what the
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magisterium says and thanks be to God. It really is clear. And yes, we live in times of great confusion.
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And, but if you want to know the truth, it's not that difficult to discover. You open up the magisterium
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and you'll find it in there. So with the Vax mandates, and that's, that's yet another thing we've got
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the Vatican really cooperating with what I would say is the laying down of the infrastructure of the
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Antichrist. And I'm not saying the vaccine is literally the mark of a beast or anything like
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that, but it seems to be a preparation for those times where I think that we've been in boot camp
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for the last couple of years, the faithful. I think that what's been going on has been a training for us,
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for what is coming next. And if you've been giving in to that, to these mandates and these diabolical
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directives, you better be really careful because tomorrow you might just succumb to something even
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graver, even more diabolical, maybe the mark of the beast itself. So with the vaccine, you know,
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that's like so many people out there today, I, it was mandated for me, for, for me to continue my
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studies. I've been working on my PhD in philosophy for four years now at the State University of New York
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in Albany and they mandated it for all students. And I've been able, I was able to avert that for
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a while by studying online, but now there's no more online courses available. So it's just
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the vaccine or I'm kicked out. So obviously I refuse to get the vaccine. I will not be vaccinated with
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something that used aborted fetal cells in its development and not to mention many other issues
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with the vaccine, which are by the day become coming into light more and more. I submitted my
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application for religious exemption. It was denied outright, no opportunity for appeal.
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And they, you know, they said this decision is final. You have the option of either going fully
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online. There were no, there are no online courses option offered from my PhD or of withdrawing from
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the university basically, or getting the vaccine, which I had already explained was not an option for
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me. So this is just another way of saying that they kicked me out after four years of working my PhD,
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they kicked me out. But I say God's will be done. That's the, it wasn't God's will for me to continue
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there at this point. And I would encourage everyone to react accordingly when their conscience tells them
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one thing. And when all the external pressures tell you something else, always, always, always side
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with your conscience, no matter what the cost. In that sense, it is a perfect preparation
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for the mark of the beast. Just like you said, it's a bootcamp. Because in the scriptures we're told,
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without it, you won't be able to buy or sell. If you do accept it, however, it's very clear in the
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scriptures that you don't attain eternal life. Somehow the scriptures are very, very clear on this,
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that basically all those who receive it will also receive hellfire. So that's a strange thing all by
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itself. But the preparation factor is so clear. We were barred from stores without masking. And then
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came the vax mandates. You were going to be fired from your job. Your children are going to be withheld
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from school. You're withheld from travel. If you do manage to travel, you, unlike those who are vaxed,
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have to quarantine for 14 days. It's jail sentences. It's unreal what's happened. And so
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your analogy of a bootcamp or a perfect prep for the coming of the mark of the beast, it's uncanny.
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And that's clearly what's happening. And God's permissive will, of course, is operative here
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in giving us this training for what's coming next. But on the devil's side of things,
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you see him preparing. You know, the devil's not, he's not omnipotent. He has to lay foundations and
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prepare and get ready. And I never would have imagined, and I've been keeping an eye on prophecy for a very
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long time now. But even I wouldn't have imagined how quickly they could have laid down this
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infrastructure for the Antichrist as COVID enabled. Combine the vax mandates with the health passports
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and the upcoming central bank digital currencies. You have everything right there that they only need
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to tweak that slightly to make it become, along with maybe a chip in the right hand or forehead,
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the literal mark of the beast itself. And if we look at the signs of the times, I don't know dates,
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and I don't, and I'm not a prophet, so I don't know the future. But it seems to me, just looking
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at the signs of the times by the light of faith, as we're called to as faithful Christians,
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it seems that it's right around the corner. I have an interesting question for you.
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Because one of the things that I've pondered about this mark of the beast idea, because the
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scripture is so emphatic that those who receive it will lose eternal salvation.
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Doesn't there sort of have to be some kind of agreeing to mortal sin somewhere in there,
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like irrevocably so? And yes, you know, maybe you have to swear to be a good citizen. And by that,
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they mean that you uphold women's rights. Of course, what that means is pro-abortion.
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And you uphold rights of families, or same-sex marriage, or love, or whatever they want to call it.
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I think about this a lot, because God is so good. He wouldn't allow us to lose
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our salvation without deliberately choosing that in some way. So the mark of the beast itself,
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it's going to have to be concomitant with some sort of diabolical oath, contrary to the faith,
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explicitly. And as wrong as I, as much as I've encouraged people to avoid the COVID vaccines,
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you know, it didn't come with an explicit rejection of the faith, admittedly.
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So this is why it's a preparation. It's like the frog in the water, as I said before, the gradual
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preparation for this ultimate test. So what exactly the mark of the beast itself will involve?
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It will be something even more flatly contrary to the faith, which is why I'm always asking people,
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and I repeat this line all the time, to set your face like flint, to not violate a single precept of
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faith or morals, because we tend to forget today. We tend to ignore today that both are dogmatic.
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Both are absolutely infallible. The teachings of the Magisterium on faith and morals. We can never
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reject a single tenet of either, even if it costs us our lives. And it's more than worth it. If you
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have to sacrifice your very life to avoid making some sort of a, giving some sort of a proverbial pinch
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of incense before the pagan idols, the emperors we know from the early Roman times, that's immediate
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entry into heaven if you get to die as a martyr. That's one of the greatest gifts you could possibly
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have. So be excited for that possibility. But don't even dialogue. And that's, you know,
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coming back to the alien issue, that's why if we even start dialoguing with what we should know from
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the onset is not an option. It's ruled out. Yes, that's where it's easiest to resist temptation,
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is when you're farthest away from it. Because it's like two magnets. The closer you get to temptation,
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the stronger the pull, and the harder it is to resist. So if you just reject dialogue with evil
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from the very onset, everything is going to go much better for you. But if you start to second
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guessing yourself, second guessing your conscience and thinking, oh, well, maybe it's,
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maybe it's fine. I'm being pressured. You know, my personal life will get difficult if I stick with
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my conscience on this. That's when you really are getting into unbelievably dangerous territory
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with your very salvation itself. Now, I think that's why the message on aliens, UFOs, and the like
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needs to hit home with folks. Because before they come to you with this kind of a deception,
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you know that this is not a possibility of being real. Sure, there is intelligent life out there.
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They're angels. There's also devils. And they are intelligent life force. But they are not physical
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creations. It can get confusing, though, because they can manifest as physical creations as well.
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So there is that. And that's what I think they're going to be doing increasingly in the coming days is
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there's technological aspects of this as well, because I'm sure the elite will want to leverage
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this for their agenda, maybe with holograms or all sorts of other things that might make it seem
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like there's aliens. And they've clearly been behind this, this UFO push in the last couple of years,
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subtly. But even when the demons themselves start manifesting, there are various ways that we,
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the same spiritual warfare tactics we've always used as faithful, use them here. But the,
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before you even use those, you must know to not dialogue. And that's why I, it's unpopular,
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I suppose, but that's why I insist upon this so much where that there are no aliens, because if
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you even start that dialogue, you're starting to get sucked in. So don't dialogue with these supposed
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aliens when they're presented by the elite by the mainstream media. Instead, rebuke them in the name
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of Jesus and see what happens. So you see what you experience when you, when you immediately resort to
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prayer. There's going, even if you yourself experience something like that, they'll react
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like the demons would because it's exactly what they are. Daniel, I wanted to talk to you as well
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about the first time I actually saw you. It was a video you did about your book. I want you to just
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tell us about your book, but I just want to describe the video first because I found it fascinating.
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I've obviously studied Louisa Picoretta and I'll let you explain who she is for a long, long time.
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You've distilled her teachings, but you sort of offered them all in a very short video,
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being very respectful of people's time and encouraged them to capture the nutshell,
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not so much even read your book, but capture the nutshell and practice it because for you,
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that's much more important. There's a beautiful example of charity in action from an academic.
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You know, I just had a friend of mine who just released his first book and not first book,
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excuse me, second book, but it was an academic book. And he did this too. He sort of distilled all his
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hard fought knowledge down to the common man to just give it away for free, to present it. And it was
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more important for him to share that truth than it was to sell books or look smart or anything else.
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You did that as well. It was a beautiful presentation, but do tell us about your book
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and about Louisa Picoretta. Yeah. And I do that because, well,
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Jesus did it first with Louisa. He gives, this is, she's an extraordinary mystic and she died 70 or so
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years ago. But with, with her, he had thousands, he gave her thousands of pages of mystical revelations.
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And yet towards the end of them, even he says to her, all of this, all these thousands of pages,
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they're contained in 11 words. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. You could call her whole
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set of revelations or all mysticism or all decades and decades of receiving these messages. You could call
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it just a commentary on Matthew 6, 10. And Jesus is reminding us, this is new in one sense, but really
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it's as traditional as you can possibly get in a deeper sense. I love how Jesus puts it in his message
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to Louisa. So I try to just get that nutshell out as much as I can. These messages in a nutshell are that
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the, our father means exactly what it says. That if, if Jesus ever, and Jesus of course meant everything
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he said, but if Jesus ever meant anything, he said absolutely seriously, it would be the climax of
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the one and only prayer he taught and commanded us to pray, the, our father. And the climax has always
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been indisputably regarded as I will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's what whole, that's
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what sacred tradition is aiming towards this whole time, the accomplishment of God's will. That's what
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we're fighting for in every noble mission we undertake. We're fighting for the accomplishment of God's will.
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Now we do so confident that victory is ours in Jesus Christ. And of course, above all,
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we're aiming for heaven, the beatific vision, and that can never happen on earth.
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Because that would be the heresy of millenarianism, but we, but his will can be accomplished on earth.
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Even though we can't see him on earth, his will can be accomplished. That's the,
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that is the essential promise. Jesus tells Louisa that gives that, that charts out the whole course
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of sacred tradition. And I love what he tells her about how there are two promises
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that chart out all of history. Salvation history leading up to the incarnation redemption
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can be summarized as the promise right after sin. I've got a quote from it somewhere here. I don't
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know if I could find it quickly enough, but Jesus says that right after sinning, he delayed not,
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not even one moment. And he said to the serpent that the, that a woman would come who would crush
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your head. And he says, those words burned the, the infernal serpent, the devil more than hell
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itself. And centuries passed. And the devil was always prowling about seeking this woman who would
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destroy, who would crush his head, trying to destroy her. But the promise did not fail.
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4,000 years later, our lady came, her seed crushed the head of the serpent. But Jesus tells Louisa,
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then I made another promise when I came to earth, even more solemn, that my will would triumph on
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earth. That must happen. Every Our Father that is said prepares for that, waters the seed. So what I'm
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begging everyone to do now, and yes, to dive into Louisa, she's image, her revelations are largely my
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life's mission now. But above all, to take the Our Father absolutely seriously, to pray it with more
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fervency and vigor and frequency than ever before. And to trust absolutely that Jesus meant exactly
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what is, what he said, that his will would triumph. And how will it triumph? Through Our Lady, through
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the triumph of her immaculate heart, which we of course know from Fatima will happen. Jesus also
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promised Louisa that she will soon work miracles that will shake heaven and earth. And he said this in
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like the 30s or something, even after Fatima. So what I always say, and I believe this is absolutely true,
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the miracle of the Son of Fatima, that was a preview for what is coming soon, through Our Lady's triumph.
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She is going to work miracles that will shake heaven and earth in order to bring this about. We need to
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trust that and we need to fight with the confidence that we have in being children of the Queen of Heaven
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and Earth. It's a beautiful thing to think about, because obviously, there's a coalescing here with the
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promise of Our Lady of Fatima. In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph. There will be a period of peace
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given to the world. And I presume that seems to fit together with what Louisa had from our Lord,
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that this time where thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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There's so many ways of referring to this time that's coming. And we, of course, just look at what
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we were talking about earlier, just the chastisements that are coming with this, the infrastructure of
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the Antichrist, the mark of the beast and the persecutions and this, the great apostasy, which is
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unfolding before our eyes in the Vatican itself of all places, which as disconcerting as that is,
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should not really surprise us, knowing the prophecies either. So this is, that's all coming,
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but Our Lady will crush that. That was the promise. So that she would triumph over that.
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A triumph implies a triumph over something. So we see this promise at Fatima. We see it,
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of course, in the Our Father itself, in the revelations given to Louisa, but so many other
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mystics also were given this promise that the kingdom would come on earth, that his will would
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reign on earth as in heaven, and that the serpent would be crushed, a period of peace, an era of
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peace, a Eucharistic reign, it's been referred to in some places, because of course, only in heaven
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do we get the visible personal reign of Jesus, but for the sacraments to triumph on earth, for the
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church to triumph on earth, so many prophecies. And I remember I was reading an article in the
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Old Catholic Encyclopedia about prophecy in general, and it said, I'll go by memory here,
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but that all the seers agree. So this article summarizing 2,000 years of private revelation
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prophecy about what's coming on earth, all the seers agree that a triumph more splendid than has
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ever been seen on earth is coming before the end, that this will be a renovation of the world.
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And if you think about it, even logically, it kind of has to be that way. How did the world begin?
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Perfect. The Garden of Eden. Now, we'll never exactly go back to that in all the details, of course,
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but if you look at the general scope of things, the original harmony, it has to be restored before
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the ultimate end comes, before the last judgment and all that. God has to win. He's not, the last words
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he ever speaks are not going to be, I'll quote my friend Mark Mellott, his last words are not going to be,
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Oh, well, I tried. He's going to win before the end. His mother, the Immaculate Heart of Mary is
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going to triumph. And knowing that that's coming, that gives us the boldness we need to fight now.
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I always think also of one of my favorite quotes from St. Faustina's revelation. She, by the way,
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said that the divine mercy would triumph on earth, and it will be worshiped by all souls. That's coming.
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But Jesus told her, Go, my child fortified by my grace, and fight for my kingdom and human souls.
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Fight as a king's child would, he tells her. How would a king's child fight? With absolute confidence
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that his father is the king, that his father is in absolute control. Now, our father in heaven is the
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king of everything. And the few, the relative few people hearing, I don't know how many people will
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hear this, but compared to the almost 8 billion people on earth, it's a tiny proportion. I can
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say that fairly confidently. You're part of this tiny faithful remnant that's called to proclaim
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this kingdom. And if you do that, you can build up enormous treasures in heaven while fighting for
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this kingdom on earth, which I'd beg you to do. We know that in the end, the earth will be consumed
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by fire. So how do we get to that point from having a triumph on earth?
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I've speculated about this. The prophecies don't make it absolutely clear how the absolute end of
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time transpires. What I speculate, and I take a clear reading of Revelation 20, I know there's a lot
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of symbolic readings, and those have their value as well. But when you look at Revelation, I think
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it's chapter 20, I hope I'm remembering correctly. You see this, you first of all, you see earlier in
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Revelation, the mark of the beast, the Antichrist, the false prophet, this drawn-out persecution and
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apostasy, which I think we're in the beginnings of right now. But then you see this symbolic
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thousand years of the reign of saints, this reign of peace. But then at the end of that,
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it says that Satan is briefly released from his prison. So what I see, this triumph of the
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Immaculate Heart of Mary, this reign of the divine will on earth, I see it as a time on earth, we don't
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know how long, because we, of course, Jesus said we know not the day or the hour of his final coming
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in the flesh. So we don't know how long this triumph of the Immaculate Heart will be. But at the very
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end, I would speculate that there's a very brief unleashing of Satan, as Revelation 20 says, from his
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prison, hell, to just kind of consume it all. And my theory on that is Jesus doesn't want to be God.
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Jesus, of course, doesn't want to be the immediate instrument of the dissolution of all things and fire.
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It would almost be unbecoming, wouldn't it, of a reign of his will on earth, and suddenly he just
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comes and wipes it out. He's going to, with his permissive will, and one final act of his permissive
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will, allow Satan to burst forth through Gog and Magog, as Revelation says, briefly. And maybe this
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will be that final apocalyptic battle between the encampment of the saints and the devil. But I think
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it will be very brief. There's nothing in the book of Revelation that implies that there's this
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drawn-out great apostasy and falling away and Mark of the Beast leading up to it, as we see today.
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Today, we're certainly in those times where the people are primed for this apostasy, and the
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faithful remnant that's resisting it is very small. But at the very end, yes, I think that it will be
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just this final unleashing of evil, that he will triumph over how with his second coming in the flesh,
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which can only happen at the very end of time, to commence the general resurrection and the last
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judgment. It's fascinating. You know, never thought of the Our Father in quite that way before.
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Thought of it in terms of, thy will be done, sort of a prayer that the will of God has done
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on earth, meaning in me as well. I know in society too, in our country and so on.
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But more thought of it as a prayer that thy will will be done, as a prayer, but not as a certainty,
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as a prophecy, as a promise. So that's a truly fascinating way to look at it.
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Yeah. And it just makes perfect sense to me that diving to the very essence of our Lord's teachings
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in the flesh when he was on earth would also be the key to understanding what's coming towards the end.
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That this means exactly what it says. And of course, on Judgment Day, we answer only for ourselves. Of course,
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we need to be most concerned with the accomplishment of God's will in our own life, but also fighting for
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the accomplishment of his will across the whole earth. And that's the most inspiring thing I can
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It's amazing. It's fighting toward victory when you know victory is coming. And it's not only
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victory is coming in heaven. There's also a victory here. That's a beautiful concept.
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Even were you to die in the fight, you'd know what there is a fight for, for your children
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That gives you the strength you need. And Louisa, you know, Jesus told her, you're not going to live
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to see this on earth, by the way. That's one of the exact words used, but that didn't inhibit her
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zeal at all. And she was bedridden, so she couldn't do much out in the world, but she was always
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acting as a victim soul, praying and sacrificing to avert the chastisements and hasten his triumph and
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all that. That didn't inhibit her zeal at all. So I always tell people, don't worry at all. Don't think
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at all about whether you'll live to see it on earth. That doesn't matter. What matters is that
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you're fighting for this. You're fighting for it directly, but you're also fighting for it in all
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of the things that we know his will holds. And for example, above all, fighting for life. Jesus tells
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Louisa, I don't have the quote in front of me at the moment, but that abortion is the sin that most
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cries out to heaven for vengeance. And by fighting for life, that's one of the most powerful ways we can
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possibly fight for his will on earth. And also for the sanctity of marriage. There are a ton of
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examples from the earlier parts of the diary. I think this is the beginning of the 1900s, where
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Jesus is asking Louisa to pray and suffer and sacrifice against this effort to legalize divorce.
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And I did a bunch of research in the background of this. This was at the Hague Convention on
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international law when they first tried to legalize divorce. Jesus told her, this will fail,
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this effort to legalize divorce will fail because of your sacrifices. But after you die,
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no promises. And she died in 1947, and it did get legalized not long after that. But he said,
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that was the ultimate affront to his church, he said, divorce. So by fighting for life and family
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and marriage, we are really fighting for some of the most important goods that will flourish during
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the reign of his will. Beautiful. Well, Daniel, thank you so much. Where can people learn more about
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your work? Can they get your book and be in touch? Oh, thank you. Yes. So my book, I would recommend,
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I've got a few, but I'd recommend Thy Will Be Done. That's my most recent one. And that's what kind
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of puts it in the nutshell the best. You can Google Daniel O'Connor blog, Thy Will Be Done,
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or you can go directly to dsdoconnor.com, where you can find links to my books and everything else.
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Daniel, thank you for all of what you're doing and for being with us on the show.
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Thank you for all that you're doing as well. God bless you. Thank you for having me.
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Thank you. And God bless all of you. We'll see you next time.