Ralph Martin - Another Prophecy From Fr. Scanlan

[Music] you know your brothers and sisters my name is Ralph Martin president regional ministries and I teach at Sacred Heart Seminary in less than two weeks ago I recorded a video commenting on a prophecy that father Michael Scanlon who is president of Franciscan University for like 25 years or so and who really leaded into being the premier in some ways the Catholic University in the country right now and there's just a tremendous response to the video as I record this which is a few days before you'll actually see it it's been less than two weeks and there's a hundred and fifty four thousand people that are already viewed it it's been translated into five languages so far Japanese French Spanish Italian Portuguese and German and it's literally going around the world helping people to understand what they're feeling what they're experiencing what they're seeing and understand the response that were being called to make an understanding also that the Lord has his hand on this he foreknew this and he's got a plan to bring good out of it but we need to get into the kind of relationship with him and with each other that he's calling us to and that's what I emphasize in the video if you haven't seen it please go back and take a look at it I'm not going to repeat a lot of what I've already said and it's important for you to hear that now I'd like to at the end of this message ask a special favor from you so I hope that you watch this to the end and listen to what I'm going to say there well I've had some questions come up from people about things I said a couple weeks ago one question I had is what is prophecy what do you mean that father Mike has a prophetic gift well in the new there's the Old Testament prophets that were very familiar with Jeremiah Ezekiel you know you know Isaiah you know the lesser prophets you know that really have their messages have now become part of sacred scripture a lot of people don't realize that there are also New Testament prophets like for example in Ephesians chapter 4 we read Paul saying that the Ascended Christ who's gone back to the Father it's now bestowing leadership gifts on the church apostles and prophets and pastors and teachers and evangelists not to do the whole work of the church themselves but to quote equip the Saints for the work of ministry to help us the baptized that's what they call Christians in the early days the Saints the Holy Ones because we've been made holy by the waters of baptism and the Lord Himself is the welling in us and we're one spirit and one body with Christ we're temples of the Holy Spirit so yes there's a basic holiness that all of us have it but these leadership gifts are supposed to function in the church in a really significant way but we haven't paid that much attention to some of them you know the Apostles the prophets there's the official apostles that the hierarchy the bishops there's the official teachers and pastors and evangelists which are the pastors of parishes but one of the most neglected charisms charismatic gifts ministry gifts is that of the Prophet and the main way in which Jesus actually self-identified and the main way in which he was thought of by other people during his earthly ministry was a prophet I can't go into all this right now I've just written a book I called the prophetic what do I call it anyway Jesus the Prophet you know and our conformity to to Jesus and it's really a major thing in his life that's available in renewal ministries done that if you're interested well priest is prophet yeah it was particularly geared towards priests and and the priestly role is prophet isn't just kind of giving short good Orthodox homilies there's something more to it aspire to it so anyway there's New Testament prophets you know it says in the church at Antioch there were prophets there talked about Barnabas and Paul and various others a teachers and prophets and then there's a prophetic word that came to them when they were praying and fasting saying set aside Barnabas and Paul send them on a mission so there were people in the New Testament in the early church who had the prophetic gift then the prophetic gift isn't primarily about telling the future most of time it's primarily about giving insight into God's plan into God's Word calling us back to what's been revealed to us in public revelation and one of the ways we have to test prophecy like this is is it in a court with what the revealed Word of God is as it comes to us in Scripture tradition and the Catechism the Catholic Church and follow Mike's prophecy that I quoted in the last video is nothing less than what Jesus asked of us all the time that's in the scripture Jesus says unless you renounce all you have you can't be my disciple he said unless the grantor wheat falls into the ground and dies it just remains just a special grain now I'm gonna talk about something else that came up in a question about my last video people said what do you mean by house churches what I basically said is because one of Michael's prophecy said we may not be able to rely on these structures like we have been that parishes and schools we know are closing and who would ever thought that our churches themselves would close for maybe three months you know all over the world and what if that comes back again what are we going to do and I just reminded people that for the first 300 years of the early church's existence they didn't have church buildings they met in homes they met in courtyards and bigger homes they met in smaller homes and that's where the life of the church was nourished fed taught and that's where the Eucharist took place too so and also in various times in like places like Japan and Korea where priests were expelled and horrible persecution broke out for 200 years sometimes no priest was able to come though Lucas was able to be celebrated but the lay faithful because of the relationship with each other because they're faithful to this to Christ because of them holding on that what they were taught kept the church alive until missionaries were able to return I hope it doesn't come to that but we've just been through maybe a little warning that it could come to that and that we got to be prepared we got to know that our relationship with the Lord doesn't depend on a building and as important as the Eucharist is even if we're deprived of the Eucharist we're not deprived of Jesus he's dwelling in us that he's coming to us in his word now I'd like to say just one more thing about the first prophecy that I shared with you about father Michael going to share a second one today remember how the questions came are you willing to see your money worthless are you willing to see the country that you love no longer be a country are you willing to see your churches closed and I want to tell you what my answer is no I'm not willing I like financial prosperity that we have here in the United States of America I like our churches I love our parishes here in Ann Arbor Michigan I love the church buildings I love the frequent and easy access to the sacraments I love that we have a stable City here I love that when people call nine-one-one the police show up I love when crime breaks out somebody's there to kind of protect innocent citizens and their businesses and I don't want to see lawlessness break out I don't want to see the police be afraid to answer calls because they're not going to be supported but a political powers that be I don't want any of those things I'm not willing for any of those things but just like Jesus and the agony in the garden he said lord if this father if this could pass by if this cup that it looks like I need the drink could could pass by if there could be some other way I'd like it but then he said well not as I will but as your will so that's where I end up I hope these things don't happen I'm not willing for them to happen but if they need to happen for the sake of the purification of the church if they need to happen for the sake for the world being given a shock and saying wake up but turn away from your ideology and turn away from all the things that you're attached to there aren't the Lord turn away from your unbelief I'm willing because it's about the salvation of souls and no measure is too extreme to save one soul no measures too extreme for the church to be the church of Jesus Christ like the Lord wants it to be but I've discovered another prophecy from father Mike Scanlon that I think is really important that we also need to pay attention to it's longer and certain parts of it are addressed to specific groups but there's a lot of it that's really relevant so I'd like to kind of take some time right now to talk about this other prophecy from father Mike we'll post it on our website at renewal ministries dotnet you just go to Reno nurseries dotnet we'll have the whole prophecy posted there it's rather long I'm not going to go through every part of it but the certain parts of it that are really relevant here's how it goes the Lord God he gave this in 1980 by the way four years after he gave the prophecy I talked about a few weeks ago the Lord God says hear my word the time that has been marked by my blessings and gifts is being replaced now by the period to be marked by my judgment of purification what I have not accomplished by blessings and gifts I will accomplish by judgment and purification my people my church is desperately in need of this judgment they've continued an adulterous relationship with the Spirit of the world now quite honestly those of us who live in developed countries those of us live in North America and Europe particularly no generation in the history of the world has been so blessed with so many things like we have we've had basically a time of peace since the end of World War two we've had tremendous advances of medical technology we have tremendous advances in all kinds of technology we've had price Berni we've had peace we've had stabilities by-and-large in our countries we have been so blessed we have abundant food we've been blessed beyond measure but it's really strange to say and this is true that the more education that Catholics have had in our countries the less they believe the more prosperity Catholic countries like Ireland have had the less they believe and the less they follow Jesus our prosperity has been a tremendous blessing from the Lord but many of us have responded to prosperity by saying we got things under control we got what we need we don't need God and rather than thanking him for the blessings rather thanking him for the time of peace in order thanking him for good food and good medical technology and all those other things that were basic stability in our countries we've kind of taken them for granted and many of us unfortunately have drifted away into lukewarmness and to compromise with the world just like the prophecy says here an adulterous relationship with the Spirit of the world then it goes on to say Satan goes where he wills and infects who He wills he has free access throughout my people I will not stand for this I have to tell you I've been aware of this for a long time when I read Ephesians chapter 6 and I read about the spiritual battle that were in repulse as our battle is not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities in the dark places then he talks about in order to counter the spiritual darkness and the spiritual warfare the spiritual attack we need to put on the whole armor of God the helmet of salvation the breastplate of holiness and righteousness and then he talks particularly about the the shield of faith which extinguishes the fiery darts of the evil one brothers and sisters the evil one is firing fiery darts that every single person on the face of the earth today and if we don't have the shield of faith where ducks for deception Satan's gonna run rapture ramshackle unrestrained over our lives our minds our souls our emotions and our actions if we're not firmly grounded in the shield of faith what's the shield of faith Jesus himself had trust in him but also trust in and knowledge of his word what Jesus actually tells us to do you know in Hebrews it says Jesus is the source of salvation for those who believe him if we don't know his word we don't know what to do what to act what to believe in and a lot of people today say they're following Jesus but they don't pay attention to what Jesus is saying you know Peter Krave wrote a book called Jesus shot and it's really shocking to hear what Jesus says you know the last prophecy of father Mike I talked about it says you know are you willing to let go of all these things are you willing to not have them and it sounds so radical but it's it's it's the same thing that Jesus says in the gospel to everybody he says unless you renounce all you have you are not worthy to be my disciples unless the granite falls into the ground and dies it won't bear fruit he says unless you love me more than your closest relationships mother and father brother and sister son and daughter you're not worthy to be my disciple radical shocking he's trying to shock us into reality he's trying to shock us into health he's trying to shock us into holiness he's trying to shock us into holiness love and eternal life and if we don't pay attention to his word if I don't believe his word we're not following the real Jesus and what prophecy does is remind us of the gospel it reminds us of the heart of Christianity it's always a call to repentance to return to our first love to return to faithfulness to the Covenant these prophecies don't add anything else that's other than to say right now is a critical time and we need to pay attention to Jesus right now because things are hanging in the balance okay the prophecy goes on is this from father Mike scam in 1980 they are more determined with fear for what others will think of them fears of failure and rejection in the world loss of respect by neighbors and superior those around them then they are determined by fear of me and fear of infidelity to my word because of this you're a very weak situation your power is so limited you can't be considered at this point to be in the center of the battle and the conflict that's going on I have to tell you brothers and sisters if you don't know that there's a war going on if you don't have your spiritual armor on proudly you've been captured by the enemy and you may already have been enlisted in his campaign of deception lies and deceit and rebellion and not even know it so it's time to wake up and really examine our life according to the Word of God and be delivered from the kingdom of darkness if we drift it into the kingdom of darkness and come back into the kingdom of his beloved son it's called repentance so if then it goes on to say this time has now come upon all of you and it's a time of judgment and purification sin will be called sin Satan will be unmasked fidelity will be held up for what it is it should be my faithful servants will be seen and will come together they will not be many in number it will be a difficult necessary time let me let me talk about numbers here God's always worked through a relatively small number of people who have awakened to his call remember Gideon the Lord said Gideon I want you to really defeat the enemy and Gideon says on the lowest clan the lowest family and the lowest clan of Israel and the Lord says well I'm calling you to do this and then getting got together an army Lord says the army is too big you're gonna think you did it if it's gonna stay this big so let's kind of send a lot of people home but I want to see what I'm gonna do so that the glory goes to me so hey sometimes people said like Elisha said Lord I'm trying so hard to follow your command trying so hard to call Israel back but I'm the only voice left and the Lord said hey hey Elisha guess what there's actually seven thousand people right now who along with you having / titles haven't bowed the needs about bail so sometimes we could feel like it's just a few of us but it's not really just a few of us maybe on the big picture it's a few but it's more than enough for the Lord to work through more than enough for the Lord to work through so don't worry about numbers worry about being in tune with the Lord worry about putting on the spiritual armor it will be a difficult time they'll be collapse difficulties around the world there'll be purification and persecution among my people here's a very key line you will have to choose what word you will follow and who you will respect the prophet Elijah said one time to the Israel people stop straddling the issue it's time for you to decide who are you going to follow the Lord or Bale who are you going to follow and the Lord asked us the same question who are you going to follow we're gonna believe who are gonna respect is that people who are communicating the true Word of God as it comes to us as taught by us to us by the Catholic Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Church or not are you going to pick and choose from what the Church teaches are you gonna pick and choose from what Jesus says in the scripture I only pick those parts that you like that's rebellion that's infidelity that's creating your own religion that's creating a God in your own image you know one day I was talking about some of the things that Jesus says to our challenger brothers I'm challenged as much as you are I don't want these terrible things that happen but if they need to happen to purify us and get us to be who were supposed to be and enable more souls to be saved I'm willing I remember one day talking about some of the things jesus said about the division of the human race between the saved and the lost and then the good fish the bad fish you know the grain and the chaff you know and all that kind of stuff you know heaven in hell and a lady came up to me afterwards and she said my Jesus would never say that well Kaali it was really hard to hear that because she was creating a Jesus in her own image she was creating an idol mein aana less create idols made all of us bow down before the one true God the one true Jesus repent of any picky and choosey we've done amongst his teachings and embrace it what we don't understand let's ask God to give us understanding well we don't think we can live ask God give us the power to live it you will have to choose what word you will follow on who you'll respect and in that choice what has not been accomplished by the time of blessing gifts will be accomplished what has not been accomplished by my time a blessing will be accomplished by fire the fire will move among you and I'll burn out what is chaff this is the gospel this is what John the Baptist says when he introduces Jesus Matthew chapter 3 verse 12 his winnowing Fork is in his hand I am not worried to carry his sandals he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire his winnowing Fork is in his hand he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the granary but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire the fire of God's love the fire is a judgment the fire is purification all for the good he's trying to draw us to himself but honestly it's tough love and he needs to use tough love in order to get our attention in order to save us I will not tolerate this mixture this adulterous mixing of gifts and graces along with infidelity sin my time is among you what you need to do is come before me a total submission to my word this is the hour to do it they'll be casualties it will not be easy but it's necessary it's necessary for the salvation of souls it's necessary for the purification of the church it's necessary for us to be delivered from deception and bondage and set into that glorious tree of our sons of God God loves us so much he's speaking words like this to us God loves us so much it's reminding us of what Jesus said in description what the Church teaches of the Catechism of the Catholic Church let's respond to it let's ask God to help us here's a little message I wanted to give you at the end you know we're celebrating our 40th anniversary as regional ministries this year for four years we've been trying to communicate this message the message of the gospel with the longest-running Catholic television program right now on EWTN 35 years we have two daily Catholic radio programs we're doing mission work of more than 40 countries we've published countless booklets books DVDs CDs mp3s mp4s we've really beefed up our YouTube channel in the last couple of months of the Lord is using it an amazing way we have a Facebook presence we're trying to be a clear voice a faithful voice a voice that just mirrors what Jesus is speaking to us not original speakers passing on what Jesus is saying but passing it on with the anointing of the Holy Spirit that we believe he's offering to all of us during this time of economic kind of shake up and shutdown on all that some of our donors haven't been able to support us like they have so I know that many of you are facing economic uncertainty I know many of you are supporting tremendously worthwhile ministries in your parishes and we don't want to take away anything from what you're doing but if you've got any extra crumbs that you could pass on to us if the Lord has blessed you with any kind of abundance right now and you'd like to share it with us so we could continue doing what the Lord has called us to do I'd really appreciate it so you can go to renewal ministries net or website or en AWA lmin is trrs not net and click on donate whatever you could do would help us to kind of keep doing what we're doing and even do it better and even do it more thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for following Jesus thank you very much for passing on this word [Music]

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Length: 24min 21sec (1461 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 23 2020