Paul wrote to the Catholics in Corinth to help them deal with those who did not believe that Jesus, or anyone, could be “raised from the dead”! 1 Corinthians 15: 12-20 is a “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” predicting 2,000 years of disagreements with Catholic Teaching. Their arguments are still the same!
“Brothers and sisters: ‘If Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you (the early Protestants) say there is no resurrection from the dead?”
Then, Paul reminds them, and all Christians for the following 2,000 years, of Catholic Facts!
(Catholic Fact #1.) “If there is no resurrection from the dead, then neither has Christ been raised.”
(Catholic Fact #2.) “And, if Christ has not been raised, then empty too is our preaching: empty too, your faith.”
(Catholic Fact #3.) “Then, we (Christ’s Catholic priests, religious, and followers) are also false witnesses to God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise if, in fact, the dead are not raised.”
(Catholic Fact #4.) “For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.” That is a “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” telling us that anti-Catholics are “still in their sins” because they reject The Specific Promise of Jesus to His Catholic priests in John 20:23: “Those whose sins you forgive on earth are forgiven in Heaven”!
(Catholic Fact #5.) “Then, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiful people of all.” What a sad fact that is about the eternal fate of those who choose to be anti-Catholic!
Then, Paul predicts what lost souls would ignore for the next 2,000 years!
(Catholic Fact #6.) “But now, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
(Catholic Fact #7.) Today’s Catholic Psalm 17:15 is a “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” that tells us why to “Be Catholic!”: “Lord, when Your Glory appears, my joy will be full.”
(Catholic Fact #8.) Catholics are grateful to be living fulfillments of Matthew 11:25, Today’s “Alleluia!”: “Blessed are You, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.”
Catholic Fact #9.) For 2,000 years, Catholics are the only “little ones” on earth with enough humility to connect that “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” to The Church-Creating Word that He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies Spoke to His First Catholic Pope!
(Catholic Fact #10.) Matthew 16:18-20: “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.”
(Catholic Fact #11.) Only God’s Catholic “little ones” are blessed to overcome the vanity of believing: “We know more than Jesus about that!”
Catholic Fact #12.) Every Catholic “little one” is a living fulfillment of those described in this “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” from Luke 8:1-3. “Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of The Kingdom of God. Accompanying Him were the Twelve (The First Catholic Pope and his Bishops) and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities.”
(Catholic Fact #14.) Those early Catholic “women” included “Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out.” That “Hidden Catholic Prophecy” describes the seven tribes of demons: pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth. They are summed up in the New Catholic Word, “peggalas”, and devour the souls of those they keep from “Being as Catholic as we can!”
Catholic Fact #15.) Intelligent, wealthy, powerful women left the positions of worldly authority they spent their lives gaining to follow Jesus as His First Holy Sisters! “Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chusa, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.”
Catholic Fact #16.) “Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward, Chusa”, was one of the most influential people in Herod’s Kingdom. A more powerful woman in that Court was Herod’s wife, Herodias. That personification of every anti-Catholic woman had John the Baptist’s head cut off and given to her on a platter when he threatened her authority! Everyone was afraid of her!
(Catholic Fact #17.) Catholic women see how incredibly blessed they are:
“Joanna could ‘Be Catholic!’, and I can, too!”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “God’s Love / comes from Above.”
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