Prophetic Words & Scripture Readings at Live Stream November 27, 2024

The following are words given by participants at the streamed meeting.  1 Corinthians 14:29 says that "Two or three prophets should speak, and the others weigh carefully what is said."  1 Thess 5:19-21 tells us not to despise prophecies, but to test everything and retain what is good.

Scripture Reading Acts 3:19-21 - "Reform your lives.  Turn to God that your sins may be wiped away.  Thus may a season of refreshment be granted you by the Lord when he sends you Jesus already designated as your Messiah.  Jesus must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration which God spoke of long ago through his holy prophets." 

Scripture Reading Psalm 67:1-7 - "God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us - that your way may be known on the earth, your salvation among all nations.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy; for you will judge the peoples with uprightness and guide the nations on the earth.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you.  The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, blesses us.  God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear him."

Scripture Reading Isaiah 43:1-3 - "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.  When you pass through the water, I will be with you; in the rivers, you shall not drown; when you walk through the fire you shall not burn, the flames shall not consume you.  For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior."

Scripture Reading Amos 3:6-8 - "Is a trumpet blown in the city, ands the people are not afraid?  Does disaster befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?  Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.  The lion has roared; who will not fear?  The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?"

Prophecy - "My children, I have given you all the tools necessary for you to be saved.  I have given you my Church, the leaders of my Church, passed down from the apostles down to today's generation.  Many of you don't recognize my presence because you fail to see the mercy that I have for you.  Tonight, my children, I desire to reveal to you my mercy in a more deeper and fuller way.  And I want you to know that I have never abandoned you.  I want you to recognize me, especially in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, for I exist in that sacrifice.  I am alive and I am able to redeem you through that sacrifice.  And every time you surrender your life to me; all your cares, worries, concerns, my glory penetrates all that brokenness and woundedness and continues to make you more whole and holy as time goes by.  Surrender, my children, your lives to me that I may redeem you more fully.  Come to know me in the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice every weekend for it is through that celebration of thanksgiving and worship that my presence is the most manifested.  And I will feed you both in the Word and in the Eucharist.  Believe in me, my children."

Vision - I kept seeing lots of water, just this fresh stream of water, and then I heard "living water".  And there was so much of it.

Prophecy - When you said that you were surrendering to the Lord, he immediately said, "Thank-you, my son."  And he continues to say, "And my children, all of you, all of you must surrender your lives.  Give me everything.  The times are coming, they will be difficult.  You will be challenged in your faith.  I'm asking you to stay close, closer and closer, all the time.  Turn to me for everything.  Before you seek a word, ask me first.  I'm asking you, my little ones, to be diligent, to read my word.  Allow me to lead you, to guide you.  Let me fill you with my Spirit in abundance, in overflowing because, yes, the times are coming you will need all the gifts, all the graces that I have.  Surrender.  Stay ever closer to me.  I love you, my children, and I will keep you.  You are mine now and forever.  I bless you, my little ones.  I love you."

Prophecy - "I have known you from the beginning and I will know you to the end.  I am with you always and I love you."

Teaching

Msgr. Charles Pope spoke on "The World Is Passing Away".  Mark 13 - This is not just a gospel about the end of the world or the second coming of Christ.  It begins with them admiring the beauty and glory of the temple.  And Jesus says, "I've got new for you.  It's just a building and it's going to fall."  The disciples asked him, "What are the signs that proceed it?"  That's when Jesus starts to talk about these signs.  These are signs of the destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple.

Msgr. Pope said that he would like to look at the gospel in three ways:  what it meant then, what it means now and what it means for us.

It was the end of the world as the Jewish people knew it.  Jesus says to his disciples that in those days after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, etc.  That tribulation:  wars, rumors of wars, etc.  The context here is a war that the Jewish people would go into and it would end very badly for them. 

In Jesus' time, he was the Messiah but he resisted the title.  At that time, a lot of people wanted to claim that they were the Messiah, a political notion: they would destroy the Romans and restore the kingdom of David.  It's about power, economy, worldliness.  And Jesus said, "I come to save you from your sins, a far more serious issue. 

The Jewish people of that time were carried away by this need to destroy the Romans.  There were these terrible insurrections.  It was a very tumultuous time.  Lots of expectations about the Messiah and when he comes he will destroy the Romans.  And Jesus resisted all this.  He said that there would be wars and rumors of wars, famine, signs in the sky, earthquakes, but it's not the end yet.  

Prophetic language uses imagery.  The moon will not give us light, the sun will be darkened, the stars will fall.  All of these are prophetic expressions that don't need to be taken literally, but taken seriously.  What the Lord is saying here is that all the bearings, all the things that locate us are being taken away.  

They will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud.  That's a symbol of judgement.  He's coming to punish or to judge and then punish ancient Israel for its lack of faith.  He will come with great power and glory.  He will establish his kingdom.  His kingdom on earth now is the Church.  It's not the temple that was destroyed and was never rebuilt. 

It says he will send out his angels to gather the elect from the four winds (from every nation).  That's the age of the Church.  That's what we're doing now.  We're going out preaching the gospel, trying to bring people to Christ.  Jesus said, "I am the Christ.  I am the temple now.  I am the altar.  I am the lamb of sacrifice.  I'm the priest.  All that stuff was pointing to me."  It took them 40 years to figure all this out.

We don't offer animal sacrifices anymore.  Once the temple was destroyed, neither did the Jews.  There were many attempts to rebuild it but they couldn't.  Something would go wrong like an earthquake or lightning strike.  What the Lord was saying here was that temple worship is over.  

The Lord was saying that you need to understand these things are going to take place and even the most precious things religious in your life are going to go away because they were pointing to me.  I am here and they are rejecting me.  And this will bring a judgment upon them.

In 67-68 AD, a 3 1/2 year war where the Jewish people kept picking fights with the Romans.  Titus came and ran a ramrod right from Galilee all the way into the South.  The final battle was the Battle of Jerusalem.  3 1/2 months they were besieged and finally they went over the wall and the whole city was set on fire.  Everything came down.  That was what Jesus was talking about, the destruction of Jerusalem.

That's what was meant for them.  What does it mean for us?  We have to experience and accept that all the things we most depend on, all the things we think are going to be here forever are not going to be.  They are not the answer.  They're not the salvation.  They're not the source or supply of what we need to be saved.  

The kingdom of God will never pass away and Jesus, his Father and the Holy Spirit is the only thing that won't pass away.  What it means for us today is a reminder that all things must pass in this world.  The only things that don't pass are those things related to God and his kingdom.

What does that mean for you and me?  We've got to set our sights on the kingdom of God that remains forever and to stay close to the teachings of Jesus.  Only we remain to tell the story.  Only what we do for Christ will last.  Only his kingdom remains forever.  Only he is the stability for us in a changing world.  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.