The END OF THE WORLD Will Be Like This... w/ Ralph Martin

we've talked about the persecution that's coming and is here we've talked about uh the bishops being divided um what can we say about the end of the world obviously the caveat is you know the son of man doesn't know the day of the hour but often that's all that said you're like okay but can we have any idea because this is getting is this getting bad or is it or are we are we too influenced by by say our own situation within the united states that just makes it seem like it's bad you know remembering that saint augustine died while rome was collapsing and it may have seemed to him and his fellow christians that this in the year 1000 and y2k exactly i mean i mean and there's been innumerable books by fundamentalist protestants you know trying to name the day or counting the weeks of daniel and adding it all up to a date that proved not to be the time excuse me there are some specific signs that scripture teaches us and the catechism also teaches us that need to happen before the lord returns so one of them is the time of the gentiles coming to an end and the lord returning his attention to israel and a significant number of jews coming to faith in christ and then jesus jesus himself talks about until tell jerusalem is no longer trampled down by the gentiles so we know that jerusalem has been trampled by the gentiles for thousands of years you know and for the first time in modern first time in thousands of years in 1947 48 when the jewish state came into existence and then the six-day war in 1967 i guess jerusalem was taken back under jewish control and is under jewish control today so uh the jews as a nation have come back into existence in our lifetime the uh jerusalem has been liberated from a gentile trampling down so something's new on the scene that wasn't there before that could match up with this the second sign is jesus saying it directly again in matthew 24 i think where he says the end will not come until the gospel is preached to all nations but again this is a little hard to you know discern when if that's the case or when that would be the case and you know i would say that we're in a situation now where whole cultures are no longer no longer so sealed off from the gospel because of youtube the global which the global vigil the internet yeah satellites uh and there are significant evangelization efforts being used uh directed to people in many languages and many cultures particularly protestants i mean some of the some of the protestant bible societies the wycliffe bible translators are they devote their whole lives to uh putting first of all the new testament into languages that maybe only two or three hundred people speak you know trying to give every single ethnic group the ethnos uh every every single ethnic group a chance to hear the gospel so tremendous efforts are being made you know some of them are saying that by 2030 they'll have accomplished that type of thing i remember mother angelica when she founded ewtn thought that she was founding it in light of the last days uh and the the name of the network eternal word television network comes from the book of revelation where there's an angel flying in heaven saying fear god and give him glory you know and his eternal word going forth so whether she's right or not whether she was hearing the lord right or not it's so easy to get a sense of urgency or special time and and attribute it to the final time we don't know uh we do know now she has satellites all over the world well not her personally anymore but the network and they they're covering the world you know with with their programming but the two signs that i think are most interesting right now are from second thessalonians chapter two where paul says don't be upset by supposed prophecies that say that the lord has already returned because the lord will not return until these two things happen so the first thing is the great apostasy that's coming up a lot today as it is and as you know apostasy isn't something that pagans do it's something that christians do and we're seeing a massive turning away from christ on the part of traditionally catholic and christian cultures like massive and and there's just a couple left hanging on by their their teeth so to speak and uh you know so so we're just seeing a tragic turning away from christ on the part of many many many people the statistics of church decline in all the traditionally christian and catholic countries it's just going down down down except maybe in africa uh africa still seems to be a bright spot for the church but the cultures the culture is coming for them i was just in uganda a couple of years ago and saw big billboards for contraception and also being influenced by protestants and uh diluting the faith yeah and the uh the cultures coming for them uh you know this administration and previous administrations have tied foreign aid to accepting the lgbtq agenda accepting abortion pretty wicked pretty wicked what the united states is doing yeah pretty evil what the united states is doing sometimes in its governmental power you know and uh so we're seeing a great apostasies no question about it whether it's the final apostasy or not whether it's great enough or not only time will tell we'll only know whether the lord returns or not but then the next thing is also very significant paul says at a certain point a restrainer on evil is going to be removed a restrainer on lawlessness will be removed and then we're going to see unrestrained lawlessness and evil i think clearly we're nearing an end stage where all kinds of restraints on evil have been removed all kinds of protections of the unborn of the elderly of the handicapped all kinds of protections against the sacredness of male and female identity and openness to life and children and all kinds of protections on children have been removed you know and so we're just seeing we're seeing we're seeing the world's population becoming very vulnerable to this new totalitarian effort to recreate the human race apart from god apart from christ apart from the natural law apart from divine revelation but then it seems just when things seem to couldn't get any worse the lord appears so this is sobering because it doesn't look like things are gradually going to be getting better as we approach the return of the lord but it looks like it's going to get worse much worse great apostasy that's a really great point because i i sometimes think you know we are just going to have another swing from this chaos and maybe things will get better but your point seems to be in the biblical point seems to even if they do they will then get worse again yes and and where to put in uh you know mary's promise of a time of peace i don't know where you put that in and you know but when did you talk about that a time of peace well she says you know russia will be converted and there'll be a time of peace my immaculate heart will triumph type of thing and we don't know what counts as the trinity for immaculate heart is putin raising the alarm of the apostasy of the west you know part of the truth that was the time of peace we've done that yeah there's two minutes you know you know we don't we don't know how to interpret some of these things they're just going to see they fall but we know for sure what the bible says and the catechism quotes it exactly it says the church is going to have to have to pass through a final trial where the antichrist is really at work and we're going to have to pass the test you know the church is going to have to pass the test now i'm very concerned that the church large parts of the church aren't ready to pass the test you know large parts of the church don't have an idea that there's a test going on yeah large parts of the world large parts of the church don't even know there's such a thing as spiritual warfare large large parts of the church think the devil's a joke you know large parts of the church the jesuit order and that said was it last year the year before yeah yeah father sosa less yeah yeah even worse than that he said uh you know when when the debate on divorce and marriage was going on um he said how do we know what jesus really said shame on him yeah yeah exactly uh you know chapter two in the book yeah i want to point that out one more time a church in crisis we've got a link to in the description below i want to beg everybody watching this right now if you can rub a couple of dollars together to buy this book because one thing you did so well in this book is document everything yeah so often we hear bits and pieces but your footnotes are really excellent in there yeah well chapter two it's just is there a solid place to stand how can we keep our bearings in a time of confusion and division and the first thing i say is we need to recover our confidence in the inspiration and mercy of sacred scripture and i quote father sosa's remarks it's really evil to undermine people's confidence in sacred scripture yes you know what vatican ii says about sacred scripture this is another one of his contributions is on the constitution of sacred revelation section 11 it says everything asserted by the sacred authors should be considered to be asserted by the holy spirit yeah that's god by the way you know and to teach yeah really that's god you know and to teach faithfully firmly and without error those truths that god wished to consign to the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation so this is the word of god is precious you know the bible is precious you know like i feel so grateful every day i have a i have an icon of jesus in my office where i pray and i don't know just the last couple of years this icon is really becoming really helpful it just brings out the person of jesus like jesus is as a person you know and it just helps me relate to him but then i just feel like so blessed to be living in a time where the messiah has come to living in a time where the words become flesh and we can actually know who god is we can know what he's like and not only that we can know exactly what his mind and heart is about what he wills for human beings and so how precious it is that we have the sacred scriptures you know like you know every day in the liturgical readings i mean this stuff there that's really useful is really helpful that is reliable that is without error it's inspired by god you know helping us to uh to accomplish the purpose which we were created you know type of thing of course the the authentic interpretation of it we have in the tradition of the church and most of the most the traditional church didn't see a need to interpret the scripture very much you know every now and then on contrary points it did but it took it as as the saints and the doctors of the church have taken it and and then we have vac we have the catechism of the catholic church so a lot of times you know i'll read a footnote and i'll say yeah i think that this is what scripture is taking it's taking or saying and then i look at the footnote and says yeah that's what scripture's saying was it chesterton who said it's not the confusing parts of scripture that worry me it's the parts of scripture that i understand full well yeah i think that's what's terrifying yeah i think it was mark twain you know mark twain yeah yeah so basically yeah there are there are hard parts to understand but so much of it is so clear and um yeah we don't treasure it we don't realize that this is an incredible gift that we live in a time where god is revealing himself to us and revealing the path to salvation revealing the purpose of us being human beings you know thank you so much for watching that clip if you enjoyed it do us a favor by clicking like and subscribe and if you really liked it consider sharing thanks

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Published: Fri Nov 26 2021