Catholics break through the walls between us and “The City of God”.
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Question 1: “How could Catholics think The Vatican in Rome is ‘The New Jerusalem’?”
Answer: “The Prophet Zechariah! Zec 8:1-8 makes us ask if The Vatican is ‘The New Jerusalem’?
‘This word of The Lord of hosts came: Thus says The Lord of hosts: ‘I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her.’
Thus says The Lord: ‘I will return to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.’
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women, each with staff in hand because of old age, shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem. The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even if this should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people, shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also, says the LORD of hosts?
Thus says The Lord of hosts: Lo, I will rescue my people from the land of the rising sun, and from the land of the setting sun. I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem. They shall be my people, and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice.'”
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Question 2: “It is hard to argue with what ‘The Lord of Hosts’ told Zechariah five times! But, wasn’t Jerusalem destroyed when groups of Jewish people went to war with each other and with Rome?”
Answer: “Jesus predicted what would happen to the ‘old Jerusalem’ in Matthew 24:2: ‘Do you see all these things (huge walls and buildings)? ‘He asked. ‘Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’”
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Question 3: “Did that happen?”
Answer: “Groups of Jewish people in Jerusalem encouraged their brethren to fight each other and Rome. Vespasian was sent to bring all of Israel back under Rome’s complete control. By the year 70 AD, the Temple, walls, and City of Jerusalem were utterly destroyed. There was nothing left of what had been one of the largest and richest cities in the world.”
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Question 4: “Everyone knows That Prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled! Did Zechariah’s Prophecy that God would ‘rescue His people’ come true when ‘the faithful city’, The House of God in Rome, replaced Jerusalem?”
Answer: “For 2,000 years, only The Catholic Church has provided This Unchanging Word of God that can ‘rescue all His people’ on earth: ‘Life must be protected from conception until natural death.’”
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Question 5: “Do The Psalms say that both those Prophecies came true?”
Psalm 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23 include ‘The nations shall revere Your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory, When The Lord has rebuilt Zion and appeared in His glory . . .’”
The Catholic response to that reading: ‘The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all His glory.’
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Catholics understand: “The Lord did ‘build up Zion’ in Rome, after He led Peter to move The Church He Spoke Into Being with This Word to Rome!
‘And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys of The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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May God bless us all.
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