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Are the following arguments valid ?
• Conversion of the whole world must happen before the end of time. Now China and Israel have not converted yet. China is still persecuting Christians and Israel is still waiting for her messiah.
• The coming of the "Reign of Mary" was prophesied by Mother Mary in Fatima in 1917 and also by Saint Louis de Montfort of France. It didn't happen yet.
• Anti-Christ didn't appear yet.
• Saint John Bosco prophesied that Europe will return to the Church after her apostasy. This didn't happen yet.
• Christian civilizations should appear throughout the whole world to glorify God - before the end of time. This didn't happen yet.
Personally, I don't have any problem with these items. We sure do have
what appears to be a great big apostasy going on, worldwide.
But for a remnant of faithful Catholics, the faith is very obscure today.
It somehow does not seem to be quite as bad as Matt. 24 seems to say
it will become, however. And as such, the part about these days shall
be shortened for the sake of the elect does not quite seem to be literally
happening, yet.
Ask me again after December 22nd! HAHAHAHAHAHA
As for the Protestants, they're all over the map. The one thing they
seem to have in common is the desire to think they know what they're
talking about. But as brainglitch so aptly pointed out, does the Holy
Ghost therefore contradict Himself?
The key point, it seems to me, is that Protestants categorically have
accepted the false doctrine that the effect of the Holy Ghost on a person
is something that can be
physically felt. And that is a big problem.
So too, the Novus Ordo false ecuмenism and Freemasonic "fraternity"
teaches that Catholics are all right in accepting this heresy.
Protestants believe, universally in my experience, that the Holy Ghost
(they most usually say Holy Spirit) is discernible by a tingling in your
fingertips, a bit of an electric shock in your nerves, an increase in
blood pressure or temperature of your body, a quickening of your
heart rate or some vague turning of your stomach (they wouldn't use
that term, though!). Not only that, they go so far as to conclude that
therefore, if you do not feel these things, you probably don't "have the
spirit in you," really.
In regards to the end of time, Prots I've known are skeptical that there
have always been fringe groups that have believed the end of the world
is imminent. Even the contemporaries of the Apostles thought that the
world did not have long to endure, 2,000 years ago.
At the same time, there are some who think that either we've only got
a few more years, or, that Jesus is going to return and be King of the
World for 1,000 years first, and THEN the end will come. But in either
case, there will be a great tribulation that occurs, probably soon, and
all faithful Christians (those who are 'saved' that is) will be caught up
into the air (St. Paul's Epistle I Thes. iv. 16), and thereby would escape
the discomfort of the tribulation. That is, Protestants all believe that
God would not have them suffer if they are 'saved' and therefore, it
seems that to them being 'saved' means no suffering for them, whether
it is here on earth or in eternity. And that includes Purgatory. But most
curiously, the same Saint Paul did not escape the tribulation himself,
but rather met it "head on" by means of a heavy sword to his personal
neck.
So it would seem that there are two categories of consistency with all
Protestants: A) They believe they each are their own pope, for they
are personally infallible, and B) They believe that once they have been
'saved' they are therefore spared any suffering, for to suffer is an
evil thing, and they are 'saved' from all such evil.
Regarding the first one, I like to quote the infallible definition of Pope
Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam A.D. 1303: "Furthermore, we declare,
we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation
that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
And regarding the second one, it's a bit more simple:
"You're
not saved until you're
dead."