Paul shares the most important facts of Catholic History in Acts 13:13-25! He reminds “Children of Israel and God-fearing people” that God blessed Terah and Abraham with God’s “DNA Upgrade” around 2,000 BC. God led Abraham’s family to Egypt until it was time for Moses to “lead them out” around 1,446 BC.
After The Loving Programmer, Who had Written and Downloaded The Creation Program over 13 trillion light-years earlier, “put up with them in the desert” for forty years, He “destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan” and gave Abraham’s Family “their land as an inheritance.”
They grew and multiplied in those lands over the next “450 years”. Millions of those twenty generations of Abraham’s descendants, all blessed with God’s “DNA Upgrade”, moved out of their overcrowded land. They still inhabit vast areas between the Philippines, Africa, India, Europe, and the Americas. Today’s Reading comes from St. Paul speaking to a tiny group of those who settled in “Antioch in Pisidia”, near the center of Turkey.
How did the Israelis keep spreading around the world so quickly? 3,000 years ago, those left in Israel were threatened by nations with efficient, centralized governments. So, “they asked for a King” to replace the Prophets and Judges who had been leading decentralized governments. Saul was their first King. About 1,000 BC. God replaced him with David because:
“I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after My own heart; he will carry out My every wish (1 Sm 13:14; 16:12–13; Ps 89:20–21)… From this man’s descendants God, according to His Promise, has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.”
David and Solomon were two Kings whose successes allowed them to establish connections with the world beyond Israel. More overcrowding problems were solved in Israel when those Kings provided their people with opportunities beyond. Millions returned for centuries to Passovers in Jerusalem!
Only Catholics are blessed to know! Historical facts are “Hidden Prophecies” guiding us to “carry out” God’s will by obeying The Church-Creating Word of His Son, Jesus Christ, descended from God and the “DNA Upgrades” of Abraham and David that were blessed to become The Perfect Purity of Mary!
The Angel Gabriel helps us Catholics, who are blessed to trust God and His Angelic Messengers, realize some of The Miracle of Mary! Mary is so “Full of Grace” (Luke 1:26-28) that every electron in every atom in every molecule in every cell of Her Blessed Being must be for ever in Perfect Alignment with God’s Perfection!
We see more clearly than anyone on earth that Her Son, Jesus, had fulfilled over 300 Prophecies, including “Being born of a Virgin of the House of David” (Isaiah 7:14), in the “tiny village of Bethlehem” (Micah 5:2)!
The Church-Creating Word Spoken By He Who Fulfilled The Messianic Prophecies to His First Catholic Pope was spoken about 33 AD: “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 Kiingdom of Heaven.”
Today’s Psalm 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27 has a “Hidden Prophecy” of what our Mother Mary, and every Catholic in the world, would be blessed to do for the last 1,666 years: “For ever I will sing the goodness of The Lord.”!
Today, the Truth of Jesus is revealed in the “Hidden Prophecy” from Revelation 1:5, “Jesus Christ, You are the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, You have loved us and freed us from our sins by Your Blood.” That IS Christ’s Call to Catholic Communion!
Then! Another “Hidden Prophecy” about the Joy of Being Catholic from John 13:16-20 repeats God’s blessings that are specifically given to those who are blessed to receive Catholic Communion! “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives The One I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives The One Who sent Me.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May all be blessed to plea: / ‘O God, please let me be / as Catholic as I can!'”
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