For Catholics, the choice is clear!
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Question 1: “How does Today’s Reading let Catholics see that some Protestants may be saved?”
Answer: “Numbers 11:25-29 tells us: ‘The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of The Spirit that was on Moses, The Lord bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as The Spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied.’”
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Question 2: “Did ‘The Spirit’ come down upon any who were not ‘in the gathering’?
Answer: “‘Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp.’”
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Question 3: “Did some who were ‘in the gathering’ complain to Moses?”
Answer: “‘Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said: ‘Moses, my lord, stop them.’”
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Question 4: “What did Moses, from whom ‘The Spirit’ had been taken to be spread among the 70, say about those who had not been ‘in the gathering’?”
Answer: “‘But Moses answered him, saying ‘Are you jealous for my sake?’ warning Joshua that he may be ‘jealous’ for his own ‘sake’. Then, Moses shared a good wish for all non-Catholic believers: ‘Would that all people of The Lord were prophets! Would that The Lord might bestow His Spirit on them all!’”
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Question 5: “Do saved Protestants understand John 17:17? ‘Your Word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in The Truth.’“?
Answer: “It is hard for many to make the ‘leap’ from 500 years of Protestant Confusion to understand, obey, and ‘be consecrated in’ The Church-Creating Word of Jesus when they first hear: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 6: “What makes it hard for good people ‘outside the gathering’ to be within ‘the gathering’?”
Answer: “Once Protestants seize control of any ‘gathering’, the economic structures under their control are quickly captured by the greediest among them. Their fate is clear in James 5:1-6: ‘Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days.’”
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Question 7: “What did Jesus say about believers who are not in His Catholic ‘gathering’?”
Answer: “Mark 9:38-48 includes This Teaching about Protestants who may be saved: ‘At that time, John said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your Name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.’
Jesus replied, ‘Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in My Name who can at the same time speak ill of Me.’”
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Question 8: “Does Jesus tell us how to tell the ‘saved Protestants’ from the ‘lost’?”
Answer: “Jesus was clear! ‘For whoever is not against us (virulent anti-Catholics) is for us.
Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.'”
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Question 9: “What do the ‘unsaved Protestants’ do?”
Answer: “‘Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.’”
Then, Jesus tells us how to deal with sins and errors in our mind that lead us out of His ‘gathering’: ‘If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.’
Jesus continues to tell us what to do with the other parts of our mind that have been corrupted by earthly desires: ‘And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.’ Every thought in our mind that keeps us from obeying Any Word of God must be removed while we have time on earth to do so!”
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Question 10: “What happens to those who value the earthly things we see?”
Answer: “Everyone is smart enough to understand: ‘Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”
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May all be blessed to do what is necessary to get ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’, which include The Seven Catholic Sacraments, and save our precious, immortal soul from being forever in the place where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’”
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