One of the greatest errors of our time is that of over population. With little or no logic, or information to support this belief everyone knows it's "true" and this is ubiquitous.
Once after coaching a soccer game I over hear a seven year old celebrating a mass death event in a distant place. She said "good, we're over populated anyway".
In many ancient cultures where sex was pervasive in all things we see the common practice of child exposure and also child sacrifice. Modern professors say "well yes, if they didn't their religious practices would have created an entire underclass of bastards". I've also heard in a blasé fashion "well it was simply birth control" with regard to Moloch worship.
One of Our Lords last prophecies is from Luke 23 as Our Lord is carrying the cross: "But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck."
[I feel there should be some comment on baby formula and "blessed are the...paps that have not given suck" but I feel that this correlation and that of bread riots in pre-revolutionary France is it's own posting.]
In 70 AD we see the end of the Jewish way of life and a type of the end of the world. With Romans sieging your city if you didn't have kids you'd be grateful. If you read the accounts and if you know about that infamous mother driven mad by anxiety and hunger you might think how in a similar circumstance you'd be grateful not to have kids. But we live in a time where people throw away their fertility, where they think the primary, or worse, only purpose of sex is gratification. We live in a time where women believe we are over populated, where women don't know that within them is an amazing gift, and where women are so overly sexualized that they think sex is about pleasure and not at all about babies. (It's not just women who are overly sexualized and of course it's two edges of the same sword).
But the belief in over population didn't happen first, sex did. Sex is such a powerful force in our society and so perverting that first it came in and then we saw the worst violence that can plague a people; a willingness to kill children.
A friend recently said of Judge Roberts that whatever "they" had on him must be big. I said this is an example of sin being slavery. But it really is. It corrupts the mind, and it changes neural pathways. It will lead a society down a very dark path.
When a society embraces certain evils there comes a point where nothing isn't on the table. God in his goodness has to intervene for the sake of both the good and bad alike. The following examples are "types" of the end. In both society had already taken a very bad turn for the worse. And in both sexual perversion lead to destruction.
In the Talmud biblical commentators says:
The generation of the Flood were kings, and were only wiped off the earth because they were soaked in sexual sin...
Rabbi Huna in the name of Rabbi Yosef (said): The generation of the Flood was not wiped out until they wrote gemamasi’ot for (the union of a man to) a male or to an animal.
It is interesting that the LGBT movement would use a 6 color rainbow flag to represent it's cause, for the rainbow is a weapon hung with care in the sky as both a promise to the children of Israel of but also as a warning. Like putting a paddle where your child can see it and all dad has to do is glance at it for any toddler to know.
Another foreshadowing of the true End is
From Josephus a first century historian:
“while they decked their hair, and put on women's garments, and were besmeared over with ointments; and that they might appear very comely, they had paints under their eyes, and imitated not only the ornaments, but also the lusts of women
And thus did they roll themselves up and down the city, as in a brothel-house, and defiled it entirely with their impure actions; nay, while their faces looked like the faces of women, they killed with their right hands; and when their gait was effeminate, they presently attacked men, and became warriors, and drew their swords from under their finely dyed cloaks, and ran every body through whom they alighted upon.”
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
A person who is willing to mutilate themselves may very well be willing to mutilate others. Certainly we see evidence that they will mutilate the minds of children with grooming. I'll say no more. Today is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. The true message of Fatima is not the amazing miracle witnessed by 70 thousand people, or the hostile witnesses who reported it (anti-Catholic masonic reporters who were not there to give positive testimony but did). It wasn't the prediction of WWII, or the very interesting hint at two popes. It was the warning that "would fill churches with people on their knees begging for mercy". It was the warning of "so many souls falling into Hell". Today is a good day to practice fasting and mastering our appetites, we do it first with food and then we have the power to deny sexual appetite ("some demons are only driven out with prayer and fasting"). Offer up your hunger today for babies, especially babies hungry for lack of baby formula. or for babies who never had the chance to nurse. Our Lady will participate in the crushing out evil in this world it is what a good mother does.
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