Today’s Catholic Reading is a Prophecy about what happens to those who ignore God’s Prophets!
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Question 1: “Did God order the Prophet Malachi to tell us about John The Baptist and Jesus in Mal 3:1-4 and 23-24?”
Answer: “‘Thus says The Lord God: Lo, I am sending My messenger to prepare the way before Me; And suddenly there will come to the temple The Lord whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire.'”
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Question 2: “Did John The Baptist fulfill Malachi’s Prophecy and ‘prepare the way’ for Jesus?”
Answer: “When Malachi gave us This Word of God, ‘Lo, I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the day of The Lord comes’ He was telling us to get ready for Jesus ‘Before the day of The Lord comes, the great and terrible day’”
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Question 3: “Why did God send John The Baptist to ‘turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers’?”
Answer: “God knew what would happen in Jerusalem when those ‘children’ got older! In 70 AD, Roman Legions of Vespasian and Titus would surround, conquer, and destroy the city! A million Jewish people would be killed, more would be sold into slavery. The entire Temple and City of Jerusalem would be literally ‘flattened’ if their leaders would not listen to Jesus.”
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Question 4: “Do those who choose to reject God’s Prophets always end up destroying themselves?”
Answer: “They do something worse! They end up sending their immortal souls to suffer the agonies of hell forever.”
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Question 5: “Is that why Catholics are Catholic?”
Answer: “Yes! We are blessed to obey The Church-Creating Word to The FIrst Catholic Pope from He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies! ‘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 happens to the immortal souls of those who willfully and knowingly reject the ‘keys’ that He Who was born in Bethlehem died to leave on earth?”
Answer: “Catholics realize that rejecting those ‘keys’ sends many souls to the worst pain we have ever suffered and know that suffering has no end.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Those who live in God’s Great Love / Follow Him to Heaven above.”
