Today’s “Hidden Prophecies” use words in the past, present, and future tense in Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9: “Moses spoke (past tense) to the people and said: ‘Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching (present tense!) you to observe, that you may (future tense) live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.'”
The word “may” is a “Hidden Prophecy” of the Catholic Teaching of Free Will, and is repeated! “Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy.”
Obeying God’s “statutes and decrees” measures how we are doing in “God’s IQ Test” on earth: “Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, ‘This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.'” (The “Hidden Prophecy”: People become “dumb” and “stupid” when they disbey any Teaching of God!)
Today’s Verse Before the Gospel helps us pass “God’s IQ Test” from Moses with this awareness of The Living Word of God Who Fulfilled the Prophecies! John:6, 68: “Your Words, Lord, are Spirit and life; You have the words of everlasting life.”
The word “life” tells us that Moses and Jesus teach us to obey The 6th Commandment: “Thou shall not kill.” The “Hidden Prophecy”? All who allow or encourage death between conception and natural death have rejected “the words of everlasting life” that came from Moses and He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies. He replaced the Ten Commandments with Two: “Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.”
That is a “Hidden Prophecy” which is reinforced by another in Mt. 5:17-10, when “Jesus said to His disciples, ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill… Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in The Kingdom of Heaven.”
The farthest reaches of “The Kingdom of Heaven” include the circles of hell. Jesus went there between His Death and Resurrection to release some souls within. Disobedient souls still suffer there, according to the sins for which they failed to repent meaningfully.
May all be blessed to understand That Simple Fact well enough to gratefully pass “God’s IQ Test” by respecting The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope and being as Catholic as we can! “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.”
May all be blessed to realize: “The souls of God’s Holy Catholic Saints get A+++++ (not enough space here to put their proper number of +s!) on “God’s IQ Test”!
Catholics pray: “May every soul be blessed to leave with ‘The Last Rites’, or at least be properly repentant for not having them, and pass ‘God’s IQ Test’ at our Judgment!”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May I let God bless me / with Heaven for eternity.”
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