Woman of Revelation Series: Step by Step – 265 Monthly Messages to the Right Path – Part 1

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This is the Woman of Revelation Series with a Friend of Medjugorje.

 

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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

This message applies to every one of you that’s listening and everybody else across the world that’s not listening, which is 6.5 billion people, to them individually. And that’s the genius of the message.

 

But at the same time, it’s collectively for the world. She says, “This turbulent world without peace.” (November 25, 2008)

 

We have Our Lady saying so much to us in this message and how She’s trying to progress us on this path that She says, “because you’re on the wrong path.” (January 25, 2009)

 

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[COC]

And that was a Friend of Medjugorje from January 26, 2009. He was speaking about Our Lady’s latest 25^th message which She gave the day before.

 

One of the difficulties of these broadcasts that we’ve been sharing with you is that some of them are longer than an hour long.

 

Tonight’s broadcast was actually a two-hour broadcast. And a Friend of Medjugorje has often said that he could speak for hours and hours and hours on one single message of Our Lady, and then come back the next day and cover it from a completely different perspective.

 

So, one of the difficulties has been breaking these up in more bite-size pieces where we can share you in a timeframe that is an hour or less.

 

Today’s broadcast is one such broadcast which we will be doing that with. We’ll be playing for you the first segment tonight, then tomorrow night, we will be sharing with you the second piece of this radio broadcast.

 

Tonight’s broadcast is titled, Step by Step – 265 Monthly Messages to the Right Path. Tonight is Part 1.

 

And here is a Friend of Medjugorje, January 26, 2009.

 

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[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Here we are again.

 

You know, there’s a saying in Medjugorje before the apparitions, that they said, “Can’t wait till the 25^th.”

 

It’s pretty remarkable that this was something that just grew out of their culture that they would say this. And remember, June 25^th is when Our Lady first appeared. Actually, June 24^th. The official day, though, is June 25, 1981.

 

And for decades, they’d been saying, “Can’t wait till the 25^th.” And, of course, this surely evolved from Christmas, but they would say that when they were anticipating something. Even if it was going to be on the 14^th, they’d say, “Can’t wait till the 25^th.”

 

And so, here it is that Our Lady was even inspiring a culture into the culture of Medjugorje, into the village, and the surrounding region, for all those who said that, in a prophetic way of what was coming in the future.

 

“Can’t wait till the 25^th.”

 

And that’s how I feel when we get ready to do our Radio WAVE and in anticipation of the day before the messages come. “Can’t wait till the 25^th.” And we should get this as our verbiage, because God’s marking something in the world today that on this special date—the 25^th of the month—we get these sweet words from the Holy Virgin Mary.

 

[COC]

Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje’s January 25, 2009 monthly message to the world:

 

“Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer. May prayer be for you like the seed that you will put in my heart, which I will give over to my Son Jesus for you, for the salvation of your souls. I desire, little children, for each of you to fall in love with eternal life which is your future, and for all worldly things to be a help for you to draw you closer to God the Creator. I am with you for this long because you are on the wrong path. Only with my help, little children, you will open your eyes. There are many of those who, by living my messages, comprehend that they are on the way of holiness towards eternity. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

This, for me, is one of those “Wow” messages. In other words, when I hear it, and usually, it gets read to me, for the first time I hear it, and sometimes, I just say, “Wow.” And this is one of them.

 

And a lot of circumstances led up to that because of what we put out, what was written a week before, a few days before, actually, put out last week, which many of you read on the site, today, about there’s so much in this message. And because it was January, I look forward to this first message of the year, feeling there was an importance. I think there’s a lot more in this message than we even know right now, even though we’ve been looking at it for two days now and praying about it and thinking about it, and even in anticipation of it.

 

Another message I really look forward to is the February 2^nd, the first message given on the day for nonbelievers, a few days from now, we’ll be experiencing.

 

So, these two messages are an exciting anticipation of what is Our Lady going to say.

 

And this January 25^th message was not a disappointment.

 

We see Our Lady giving words to us that are steps toward where She wants to lead us. And we had a step by step this way.

 

Our Lady has given 265 monthly messages. Each one of those is a step.

 

She said in this message today,

 

“…you are on the wrong path…”

 

A path is what? A place you walk.

 

And so, She’s backtracking us. She’s getting us on another path. Every single message is a new step.

 

On August 25, 2001, Our Lady says,

 

“…In this way, you will also put it into practice; little by little, step by step, prayer and a decision for holiness will enter into [the] family…”

 

Our Lady’s walking with us in these steps.

 

On September 2, 2006, Our Lady says,

 

“…Do not deceive yourselves that you can do anything without Him, not even to take a single step…”

 

And of course, She’s talking about God the Father. She’s telling us, don’t dare take a step without Him.

 

November 10, 1981

“Do not give in. Keep your faith. I will accompany you at every step.”

 

This strength that Our Lady desires us to have, we can’t go to the top of the staircase of where She’s leading us. She’d choke you. St. Paul said that. We’ve talked about that before. He says, “I want to give you solid food, but I have to give you baby’s milk.”

 

November 16, 1981

“…I will be with you at every step…”

 

And preceding that, Our Lady says,

 

“The devil is trying to conquer us. Do not permit him. Keep the faith, fast…pray. I will be with you at every step.”

 

Every single monthly message is a step.

 

First, the Thursday messages. There were 147 steps there. These were steps Our Lady was showing the village how to live, how to walk, how to be with Her, how to listen with Her, so that all the rest of the world coming there, they’d be able to accept.

 

She once told the village, She says, “I want you to love each other in the family and those around you, and then you’ll be able to love all those who come here.” (December 13, 1984) That was before they had even the concept that the whole world would be at their footsteps, or follow their footsteps down the paths of Medjugorje to get on the path that they’re supposed to be on.

 

We’ve traveled so far down a path of wrong that here it is, 27 years later, Our Lady’s still saying,

 

“…I am with you for this long because you are on the wrong path…”

 

So, 27 years we’re on the wrong path. We’re still walking on the wrong path. But every single message you should see as a step getting higher to the staircase where God can lead us.

 

If we follow this, we worship God in the right way, seek Him in the morning, we learn to walk his ways, step by step. And ask Him, “Lead me. I will follow You all of my days, my God. Lead me. Show me the way.”

 

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Oh God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.

 

Oh God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.

 

I will seek You in the morning, and I will learn to walk in Your ways.

 

And step by step, You’ll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.

 

Oh God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.

 

Oh God, You are my God, and I will ever praise You.

 

I will seek You in the morning, and I will learn to walk in Your ways.

 

And step by step, You’ll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.

 

And step by step, You’ll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, we see Our Lady’s messages, 265 steps.

 

I was thinking earlier about that, that each step is about three feet.

 

I know my wife and I, years ago, were in Jerusalem, and I was real curious about, how far did Jesus really walk down Via Dolorosa to the Crucifixion once He left where Pontius Pilate had Him scourged?

 

And I counted about a thousand feet. And according to that, we’re somewhere around 775 steps.

 

Is Our Lady going to lead us all the way down through this like Calvary?

 

Sometimes I like to play with the message this way just to see what it opens up into my heart or how it inspires, or what it shows.

 

But I was always amazed because I thought Via Dolorosa and the path and all the Stations of the Cross, it may be a half a mile or a mile. But it wasn’t that much at all. It’s one fifth of a mile, or less than a quarter, which is not that far.

 

Now, the pain and the agony of Christ walking that way, of course, was excruciating, something we’ll never comprehend. The price He paid is at a height we can’t measure. And that’s why it’s prideful to think you can’t be forgiven for your sins.

 

But physically, one thing we learned over there, somebody told us, that the fifth Gospel is the Holy Lands, and you really see this. You’re able to walk step by step with Jesus. And the smallness of everything is really shocking. It’s really surprising.

 

But we went out before we…Our first trip there, we backtracked and walked these steps because I really, literally, wanted to measure it. And it’s approximately a thousand feet. And that surprised me.

 

But at the same time, Our Lady, you know, is telling us, “…I will accompany you at every step.” (November 10, 1981)

 

So, She’s got a plan. It’s too big for us to be at the top all instantly. We have to walk little by little.

 

And so, this causes a lot of anguish, a lot of pain, a lot of difficulty, a lot of crosses for a lot of people. And for Her to change the direction of the world is not an easy thing to do.

 

We have the magnitude of being so erred and on such a wrong path that, if She had told us this 20 years ago, we’d say, “What’s She talking about?”

 

Why? Because we didn’t have enough prayer in our life to even comprehend what She wanted to say to us.

 

So, the first steps were to get us to pray, to be on our knees, to fast, to sacrifice, and then She gave that one message that was incredible. “Pray to have the strength to listen to my words.” (January 25, 1995)

 

That literally amazed me because She didn’t say, “Pray to have the strength to put into action my words.” She said just to listen to Her, we need strength! Why? Because it chokes us.

 

When we start hearing in our own hearts…It’s too much to put out a mandate. “Okay, today I want you to do this,” etc. etc. in the message.

 

We have to each be accompanying these messages, according to the steps of our conversion, where we may be just somebody that’s just gotten ten steps, somebody’s gotten 200 steps. But in our walk, wherever our conversion was, somebody may not be where I was, or I may not be where somebody else was.

 

So, it takes this step, wherever you are in the process of your conversion, that then, Our Lady reveals into your heart, or into that that, you need to change this in your life.

 

In other words, in the beginning of my conversion, I remember getting to a platitude and say, “Oh, man. I finally made it here. I’ve conquered this.” And then, when I get on this playing field, this wide open plain, spiritual plain, I realize something I didn’t even think was wrong in my spiritual life suddenly was wrong!

 

And so, step by step, Our Lady led us. She led us away from television. We threw away cell phones. We changed our life. We changed our occupations. We became missionaries. We changed into a community. We opened our House up. We began to do many, many things that, if She said the first I went to Medjugorje, or you, likely the same way, what you’ve been doing now, if you’ve been doing this for ten years, you’d say, “No way.”

 

If I knew now, what I would have to go through and do the first time I went to Medjugorje, I would have choked. I would have just said, “Uh-uh.” I wasn’t ready for that.

 

And so, we’ve got to realize, Our Lady’s leading us, little by little, that we’ll fall in love with Eternal Life, which is our future. And instead of us using these worldly things and walking these steps toward the message, each step, and putting in and say, “Well, I’m going to use this,” or “I’m going to have this attachment.”

 

She wants us to understand that temporal goods should be used only for the purpose of learning to love eternity. That’s our future.

 

And this message is beautiful. It’s beautiful because all, everybody wants to apply, “Well, we don’t have to worry about this world. We don’t have to worry about changing things in this world. We don’t have to be worried about things of the world,” and here it is, Our Lady, for the first time I saw, qualify…Which, I’ve always felt, I’ve always felt in my heart and maintained that things of the earth are good. These temporal things are good, if they’re used for the purpose to advance the Kingdom of God and people’s walk toward their steps into Eternal Life.

 

So, when Our Lady said,

 

“…I desire, little children, for each of you to fall in love with eternal life which is your future, and for all worldly things to be a help for you to draw you closer to God the Creator…”

 

So, things are to be used for God the Creator.

 

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In looking at the worldly things, they are a help to us, I can’t help but think of, because of so much of our conversations these days, about Sustainable Development and all of the agendas that are moving forward in the world and wondering what’s going to happen around the corner.

 

But so much of what they profess is that these worldly things are not for our good, or we shouldn’t be using God’s creation for our benefit because we’re stealing from nature, or we’re taking resources that aren’t ours, or his whole philosophy that we’re using up the world, and it’s causing crises around the whole world.

 

And yet, here Our Lady is, again, showing that creation is to be used. Worldly things are to be used for the good.

 

Perhaps you might want to comment on that a little bit?

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Before I wrote a lot about it in Look What Happened While You Were Sleeping about shortage ecology.

 

All the environmentalists are shortage ecologists. “We’re going to run out.” “The world’s in pain.” “You’re cutting it just like you cut your knee.” “It don’t heal,” like if you’ve got diabetes. And the world’s incapable of restoring itself.

 

We live in an abundant world, a world that’s very much filled with self-correction. And we’ve got to understand that when we do this, and we have this mentality, we end up with a shortage ecology, a shortage that we can’t replace what the earth gives us.

 

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[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, going back to this shortage ecology mindset, the steps Our Lady’s showing us where She wants to lead us to glorify God the Creator. She said this in this message. You know, “…draw you closer to God the Creator…”

 

By what?

 

By “…worldly things to be a help…”

 

You know, it’s not, you’ve got to go out and sell everything. Use your worldly things to draw you closer to God the Creator.

 

How do you do that?

 

Well, of course, Our Lady mentions earlier, “…like the seed that you will put in my heart…”

 

Now, She’s talking about something supernatural, spiritually, that we, our conversion is placed in Her Heart. She grows it. She presents it to Jesus.

 

But you can’t discount the parallel that She’s also talking about the earth. You know, what did God create? He created plants.

 

And so, you see this parallel that She says, “…eternal life…” which is the seed in Her Heart that parallels that. It’s a different meaning.

 

But with this message about eternal life, She says, it’s your future, “…and for all worldly things to be a help…”

 

So, it’s not just spiritual when you put something in the heart when She’s saying “seed,” because what brings you closer to the earth, what brings you closer to God the Creator, is what God ordained Adam to be. “By the sweat of your brow shall you eat.”

 

So, Our Lady said,

 

September 8, 2006, She says,

 

“Dear children, this year how much seed I have sown. I desire that you, dear children, be my flower from that seed…Live my message…”

 

February 25, 2006, She says,

 

“…As in springtime the earth opens to the seed and yields a hundredfold, so also your Heavenly Father will give to you in abundance…”

 

The earth is abundant. One seed, and here it is, Our Lady gives the dynamics of one plant growing with a hundredfold. And of course, that’s just a figure of speech. You get a thousandfold from seeds.

 

And so, that’s paralleling something spiritually too, that the grace and how it manifests a hundredfold for our soul, but also, things of the earth.

 

And that’s one reason I love this message so much is because, She tied in our future life because, again, we get this mentality that all we’re to think about is eternal life and that everything in this world is really not of any value, or we’re supposed to be detached from it.

 

Yes, we are to be detached from it, but our attachment should be only for the use of not a possession or possessive attachment, but something, “Can I use this to further the Kingdom of God?” “Can I use this to create an environment of peace that I can live the messages and a spiritual life?” Just like what we’ve done here in the Community. You know, we see God the Creator everywhere we go, everywhere we walk, today at the Rosary. It’s a beautiful thing just being out in the Field, being with the animals around, going outside throughout the conditions, throughout the seasons. And how many people get to do this?

 

On October 10, 1985, Our Lady says,

 

“…Dear children, if you live [my] messages, you are living the seed of holiness. I, as [your] Mother, wish to call you…to holiness so that you can bestow it on others…”

 

So, Our Lady’s saying something about this “seed,” and then tying into this 25^th message saying, “God the Creator.”

 

What is She trying to convey to us?

 

What is She speaking about?

 

And of course, this message applies to every one of you that’s listening and everybody else across the world that’s not listening, which is 6.5 billion people, to them individually! And that’s the genius of the message. And of course, we’ve talked about that many, many times.

 

But at the same time, it’s collectively for the world. She says, “This turbulent world without peace.” (November 25, 2008) January 2^nd, the last message.

 

So, we have Our Lady saying so much to us in this message and how She’s trying to progress us on this path that She says, “because you’re on the wrong path,” and that, “…I am with you for this long…” (January 25, 2009)

 

And so, we’ve underestimated the sickness and disease of the world and how far it is from the Creator. And never in the history of the world have we been this far from the soil. Never. Ever.

 

So, a lot of people out there are lonely. A lot of people out there feel by themselves. And because they feel this by themselves, they’re becoming afraid. We’re hearing from people every day about this.

 

[COC]

This was a mejfax from Teresa. She sent this a couple of days ago and says,

 

“Dear friends,

 

“I write as a person who has, over the last several weeks, been feeling very much afraid. I know fear is from the enemy, yet I feel so alone.

 

“For almost a decade, I was involved with several wonderful Catholic things, such as being an associate of the Grey Friars and attending various events which gave me strength and hope.

 

“As time went on, however, those things started to dwindle because of family responsibilities and work.

 

“During this past Advent, I felt almost spiritually numb, and after the New Year, I read some disturbing stuff on the net.

 

“Anyway, I’m just trying to reach out to my brothers and sisters who also are called by Our Lady in hopes that I can correct what seems to be an insurmountable dread that I have offended Our Lord and His Mother, and that now, I am alone.”

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

You know, it’s a sadness to hear this from so many people out there. They feel this.

 

In fact, I told the Community when we did our retreat this past January 1^st, that I think people, it’s going to hit everybody, that there are going to be a lot of people become fearful and feel like they’re all alone. And indeed, that’s exactly what we’re hearing. People that are in prayer groups that no longer have them or people who have died off or people have lost interest in being in a prayer group.

 

And we’re coming into a new world. Everybody knows it. Everybody sees it. You don’t have to be very bright to understand that we’re in a dire situation.

 

And we interpret these things on a certain level, but it’s Our Lady Who says a “turbulent world.” (November 25, 2008) She’s not exaggerating. And we don’t understand the magnitude of that, those words, as She does.

 

And so, here it is, we have back in ’95 that She actually mentioned turbulent world in ’95. And at that time, we thought, “Boy, that’s turbulent.” We had no idea, from ’95 to 2009, we had no idea, in those fourteen years, how radically the world would change.

 

And just since the last three months, or actually, since the consecration in the Field July 4^th, we’ve had a radical change in the world from August, when everything started falling apart, just right after the consecration, till now. The rapidity of the way things are crashing and deteriorating is scary for a lot of people. It’s frightening.

 

And so, one thing we need to have is that we need to realize that the prayer for each other is a comfort.

 

I know, right after 1988, when Marija was here, I had a nun come to me, and she says, “I want to offer up my Communions every single day for one year for you.”

 

And I can tell you, I felt this nun’s prayers, and I felt it because she looked at me…And I didn’t have any conversation with her. She went in the Bedroom, had an apparition. She said, “I felt Our Lady said this to me.”

 

And I can say that I felt she was praying for me. I felt her prayers. I felt, when we had something really important in the mission, when people were praying, I could feel the weight of their prayer.

 

The pilot who was shot down in Croatia, Scott O’Grady, his book, he said, that as he laid there for two or three days in one spot, that he heard thousands and thousands of people praying. His mother had been to Medjugorje. People knew about him, and people were praying for him. All the Medjugorje movement was praying for him. He felt those prayers.

 

And so, we need to realize that you can ask people to pray for you.

 

This nun, I knew she was praying for me. And I felt such strength knowing that, and through what I began to do in my mission and so many times the persecutions, I could tell when people were doing their prayers. I could tell, when people knew we were in a persecution, I could feel the strength of those prayers. And somebody’s praying for you.

 

And so, it’s important that we hold up everybody. You know, we always say pray for the visionaries. It’s important they feel our prayers, because it’s your protection. I felt this nun protecting me how she did this. That brings forth the angels, and this whole movement Our Lady’s asking for, I felt when She was praying. I felt in the apparitions when She’s prayed for me. And Marija said afterwards, She put Her hands over us and prayed. I could feel that.

 

And so, we’ve got to realize that this is a real thing, and that we should be active in having prayers said for others and prayers requesting for yourself.

 

[SONG]

Somebody’s prayin’. I can feel it. Somebody’s prayin’ for me. Mighty hands are guiding me, to protect me from what I can’t see. Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe. Somebody’s prayin’ for me.

 

Angels are watchin’. I can feel it. Angels are watchin’ over me. There’s many miles ahead ‘til I get home. Still, I’m safely kept before Your throne. ‘Cause Lord, I believe Lord, I believe. Your angels are watchin’ over me

 

Well, I’ve walked the barren wilderness, where my pillow was a stone. And I’ve been through the darkest caverns, where no light had ever shone. Still I went on ‘cause there was someone who was down on their knees. And Lord, I thank you for those people prayin’ all this time for me.

 

Somebody’s prayin’. I can feel it. Somebody’s prayin’ for me. Mighty hands are guiding me, to protect me from what I can’t see. Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe. Somebody’s prayin’ for me.

 

Somebody’s prayin’ for me.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We have to have the prayer for each other. Paul would write in this letters that, you know, “I’m praying for you. You’re in my prayers.”

 

And we pray for our bishop at every Mass and the Pope. I’m sure John Paul felt the prayers. I was at a talk once with George W. Bush, and he says, “I feel your prayers. I want you to know I feel people praying for me.” Reagan said the same thing.

 

And so, this is a reality. And so, you need to be giving, especially those who have Our Lady’s Special Blessing, especially those who were here in July when Our Lady gave the Special Blessing for all present, that this means something. And we are to be active throughout our day. The Special Blessing has some power to it. And you can feel when people are praying for you, when you go into your prayer, you’re deeper in prayer.

 

Often people say, “Well, you know, my husband won’t pray,” and then, so, they say, “We’re praying for him.”

 

I said, “Literally, you’re doing the prayers…” When you pray for somebody, you’re doing the prayers for them. God can look down and just as well see that that’s Jim praying there, even though the wife, Betty’s, praying them. You can do this for a spouse or for a family member or somebody who needs conversion or a boss or whoever that may be. You can do the prayers for them.

 

Now, for us, as believers, we want people praying for us too.

 

So, we’ve got to realize we need to be active in the Body of Christ. This is an important element of Our Lady drawing us into community. In fact, Our Lady said one of the most important prayers is community prayer. (December 26, 1982) And why? Because we see everything coming down unglued.

 

We see, you know, just the headlines just of the last month or so, you know, they were trying to create an international court for the environment, to punish the states that failed to protect the way of life and prevent climate change. And we know climate change is a lie, a total, demonic lie.

 

Look What Happened While You Were Sleeping, it’s in there. I won’t go into that.

 

But here it is, we’ve got a court, similar to what the Hague Court is in Brussels, where they’re going to put you like on war crimes.

 

Another headline, “Court Decides Whether Campus Evangelization is a Crime.”

 

Another, “Minnesota Professor Undermines Creation Museum Promotion.”

 

You have another, “Death By Mail: Montana’s Newest System Outside the Law.” They’re going to do it by mail, mail you prescription.

 

“Military: No Place for Christianity, Lawsuit Claims.”

 

“Website Urges Teachers to Undermine Creationism Being Taught.”

 

“Pro-life Trucks Ready to Roll Legally”

 

This is in regards to some truckers who had pictures on the side of their trucks, and they were stopped by the police, threatening to arrest. Everybody else can do what they want to do for the atheism and negative things, but pro-life, you can’t do that.

 

“ACLU Targets Minister Over City Council Prayer”

 

“Assisted Suicide Lawyer Appointed to Justice Department”

 

And this goes on and on and on and on, unending.

 

And so, we’re coming into a dark time, a very dark time. It’s a little bit surprising to people.

 

So, when January 1^st came around and Christmas ended and the season of joy was over, we have this darkness of a cold winter staring us in the face. And Our Lady comes and gives us hope.

 

She gave a message that was pretty incredible, on June 25, 1995. Actually, my wife and kids and I had walked with Marija, and Paolo her husband had gone to…She was going to have that particular 25^th message, I remember, in the adoration chapel there at the Church of St. James at the parish, outside the church, but it’s off to the left of the church.

So, we walked out together, and we went and sat on the lawn when Marija in there. And then she came out a little while later after the apparition, and I said, “Tell me what the message was about.” And I remember distinctly her telling me this, and I could not believe that Our Lady said this. I didn’t know this existed in Heaven. I was a little bit taken aback by this. I had never seen Our Lady say this, and it was an emotion that Our Lady said how She felt that I didn’t even think was a virtuous thing, actually.

 

But then, I guess Her wants, and we know She makes no errors, and there’s no errors in Heaven, She gives it the right sense and how we understand it, that it’s okay.

 

But listen to these words. “Dear children…” This is June 25, 1995.

 

“…Today I am happy to see you in such great numbers, that you have responded and have come to live my messages. I invite you, little children, to be my joyful carriers of peace in this troubled world…”

 

There it is right there. “troubled world.” That’s not what I’m looking for.

 

“…Pray for peace so that as soon as possible a time of peace, which my heart waits impatiently for, may reign…”

 

I went, “Wow.” Our Lady’s in Heaven, and She’s impatient.

 

I can picture myself standing there, hearing Marija telling me that, saying, “She said, ‘impatient’?”

 

“Yes,” Marija said.

 

Our Lady goes on and says,

 

“…I am near…you, little children, and I intercede for every one of you before the Most High. I bless you with my Motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

 

But can you imagine, Our Lady says, “…which my heart waits impatiently for…” What? For peace, a time of peace.

 

So, this is why…Was it Teresa, who wrote this letter, that she’s lonely, and she’s not supposed to be in fear of the future, this is Her words. The Holy Virgin, the Queen of Peace, Who’s the Dispenser of peace because Jesus is putting Her in that position as King of Peace, to distribute this peace, in which She says, “…my heart waits impatiently for, may reign…”

 

That’s hope!

 

We know, through all this darkness, all these headlines, everything coming down, that we’re coming into a time of peace. It’s a given because She said it, and we look forward to it.

 

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We have the freedom to choose, but it is here where the division lies within our nation.

 

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A wider and deeper abyss grows to separate the two.

 

It is evident everywhere.

 

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We have studied what it means when a revival happens, and looking a the coming of the chastisements, how that’s all going to play out and looking in history, and one of the things that has been apparent is that this consciousness of our sin.

 

So, would you expect that in reading Teresa’s comments, she says that she has this “insurmountable dread that she has offended Our Lord and His Mother.”

 

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Well, it’s important for us to always remember that the first step to revival is repentance. And when you begin to pray and you begin to reflect, you begin to see where you are and what you’ve done in your life and all those you’ve helped and brought down, it’s a natural thing that you become repentant, if you’re sincere.

 

Our Lady says, “…be real with yourselves…” Well, actually, just August 25, where She says, 2001, She says,

 

“…In this way, you will also put it into practice; little by little, step by step, prayer and a decision for holiness will enter into your family. Be real with yourselves and do not bind yourselves to material things but to God…”

 

I just glanced at this and saw, “…be real with yourselves…” She’s said this on other occasions, and actually this “…step by step…[the] decision for holiness will enter into [you]…” You know, your family, yes, but that’s step by step.

 

So, what Teresa writes about is step by step, as she’s prayed, she’s come to this crossroads where she begins to see that she’s greatly offended God. And she’ accurate. She’s right, because we all have. We shouldn’t take a delight that the Virgin Mary’s having to come to the world because we merit something. It’s because we’re very, very sick. It’s not a good sign.

 

In fact, Our Lady’s with us 27 years is not a good sign.

 

So, when She says, to us, “the signs of the times,” the fact that She’s coming, the fact that that’s happening is satan has completely seduced us and taken over our thoughts.

 

What you read on mej.com about self-extermination, you being to realize, you know, how much we have fallen, how much we’ve lost ourselves.

 

And so, the danger of what Teresa’s talking about, though, is this, is that, you cannot, in anyway, think that your offenses against God can’t be forgiven. That’s the danger that’s good to know you have offended God. And in fact, some of the thought is with these admonitions that’s going to come through Medjugorje, when the Secrets are released, is some kind of mini judgment. We’ll be able to see all of our sins, and the consequences of our sins, and the consequence of that sin has done this. I think people will be very surprised how much they’ve contributed to abortion.

 

How?

 

By going to a restaurant and paying somebody to work for them on Sunday.

 

What?!

 

You mean, you’re telling me…

 

You might be saying out there,

 

“You’re telling me that I’ve contributed to abortion because I go to a restaurant and pay somebody to work for me on Sunday?”

 

That’s exactly what I’m saying.

 

You’re guilty.

 

You’re guilty.

 

Because that’s not my words. That’s Biblical. That’s James’ words. In the Book of James, it says that when you violate one commandment, you violate all the commandments.

 

So, how are we out there blasting people about abortion, when we ourselves see it’s no big sin?

 

We think we can go to hell for all the Commandments: thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal. We cannot do that, but we can’t go to hell for violating the Sabbath.

 

It’s not nine commandments. It’s ten. And that commandment is a keystone. The first things the Russians and the Communists tried to do away with was Sunday. They had to kill Sunday. They went to an eight-day week. Actually, they went to a six-day week, I think it was…I may have these numbers wrong, but it’s something like this. The communists went to a six-day week, and then started over.

 

Well, that didn’t work, so they tried, I think it was, a ten-day week.

 

That didn’t work. And then, I think they bumped it up to like thirteen-day week.

 

That didn’t work, so they dropped down to eight-day week, and that didn’t work.

 

Why?

 

Because it’s programmed in creation. You can’t do it.

 

And they actually ended up coming back to a seven-day week, but they still wanted to negate Sundays, and they had people work through Sundays.

 

But that’s where civilization fell apart. That’s where their society fell apart.

 

The Commandment that, seemingly, you can do away with or alter or change is the whole fabric, the main Commandment that holds everything else together. You break that commandment, you’ll have people killing each other in the womb.

 

And so, yes, you have contributed to abortion. If you’re not living Sundays, and what I mean by that is, you can only do on Sunday what is essential to life. It’s not essential to life that you’ve got to go get gas in your car on Sunday, because you didn’t get it on Saturday because you’ve got to make it to Mass.

 

“Oh, well, I’ve got to make it to Mass.”

 

Don’t commit the heresy of rationalization. The greatest heresy in the Church today is rationalization.

 

And so, we have many people saying, “Well, what do you expect? I’ve got to go get some bread,” or the wife says, “I’ve got to go to the grocery store and get milk for the baby.”

 

You had six days to do that. Don’t sponge on God.

 

Be real with yourself.

 

You had six chances.

 

Six chances to get that. And one chance you take that, “Oh, can I do it and violate God?” Because when you pay somebody, exchanging money, you’re paying somebody to have to be at work for you.

 

You say, “Well, if don’t do that, they’re going to be there working anyway.”

 

Well, then you won’t be guilty of being judged for contributing to it. You know, by association, then you’re guilty! You’re committing a crime against the Commandment, and we have forgotten this.

 

So, getting back to the point I’m making is that, we see this offense to God, that we’ve all offended God. And I think you’re going to be shocked at what you are guilty of, if we get this mini judgment, which I wouldn’t be surprised that Our Lady’s trying to win this for us, that all these years of prayer is that God allow a five-minute or ten-minute mini-judgment, what it would be like, some supernatural thing that we can see, because satan is so clever. he is so masterful in the way he has snowed us, that we no longer see we’re at fault, that everybody else is at fault, because there are sins of magnitude that are unthinkable today, from abomination to abortion to what I wrote about with the seed companies that you see on the site today. All these things seem so big, and ours seem so small.

 

But, we’re God’s children. And you can’t go to God, “Well, I kept nine of them, but the tenth one…C’mon, God. What’s the big deal?”

 

It’s a big deal.

 

It’s fabric-ed into the necessity of us living the spiritual life, and if you fail that, you begin to fail everything else.

 

So, when James says this, in the Book of James, that you violate one, you violated all the Commandments, that’s what it means.

 

You want to rationalize that and change it and alter it and not accept it and reject it?

 

So be it. Eat your cake, because it’s not going to be good.

 

The cake we eat, is we honor Sunday first. We honor the Sabbath, and it’s been very fruitful for us, fruitful for us and for our life and for our future. We have future. We believe. We feel that. And we feel secure as secure could be for the darkness that we’re in.

 

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