Powerful telescopes let us see that The Loving Programmer Downloaded The Creation Program when He said “Let there be light. And there was light.”, over 13 trillion light years ago.
St. Paul’s letter to The Romans, 4:20-20, lets Catholics see the connection between the earliest people to use stone tools two million years ago and how countless Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons were replaced when our ancestors left the dozens of peaceful cities built and buried by those who followed Melchizedek. He is described in Psalm 110:4 as “a priest forever in the Order of Melchizedek.” Melchizedek’s Teaching became obvious 12,000 years ago in cities like Göbekli Tepe:
Every year, more of those peaceful cities of our ancestors are uncovered and studied in the area not far from the upper Euphrates River, where Abraham’s family would live. Dozens of similar cities were all buried and abandoned when Melchizedek told their inhabitants, “It is time for you to leave here and move to Egypt, Assyria, India, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, or wherever God wants you to build the civilizations He wrote and downloaded your programs to provide on earth.” Growing groups of these new, Melchizedekian People built everything from tens of thousands of hilltop forts to Pyramids of stone and earth to great walls of China.
Then, The Loving Programmer wrote and downloaded The Abraham Program. He was the only person on earth who did “not doubt God’s promise in unbelief; rather he was empowered by Faith and gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do.”
14 generations led from Abraham to David. 14 more connected to the exile in Babylon before 14 more led the Children of Abraham to give birth to the Prophesied Messiah, born of a Virgin of David’s House in the tiny village of Bethlehem.
We who see The Catholic Connection between the ancient cities around Göbekli-Tepe and ourselves understand Today’s Reading better than anyone in History: “That is why it was credited to him (Abraham) as righteousness. But, it was not for him alone that it was written that it was credited to him; it was also for us, to whom it will be credited, who believe in The One Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Who was handed over for our transgressions and was raised for our justification.”
Catholics are the living connections between God, Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Peter, and today because we are blessed to obey The Church-Creating Word of 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.”
That connection is confirmed by Today’s Responsorial Psalm from Luke 1:69-75!
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; He has come to His people.
He has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty Savior,
born of the house of His servant David.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; He has come to His people.
Through His holy prophets He promised of old
that He would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember His holy covenant.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; He has come to His people.
This was the oath He swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship Him without fear,
holy and righteous in His sight all the days of our life.
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; He has come to His people.
Catholics can see the 12,000 years of recent Human History between the carefully buried cities around Göbekli Tepe and us in Today’s Alleluia, “Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is The Kingdom of Heaven.”
He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies lets Catholics best understand what happens to those who love themselves more than God in Luke 12:13-21, where the fate of every self-centered person in Human History is described:
“Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.’ He replied to him, ‘Friend, who appointed Me as your judge and arbitrator?’ Then He said to the crowd, ‘Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.'”
Just as Melchizedek led his people to bury their wealthy cities and move to the areas God directed Melchizedek to lead them, Jesus tells us what happens to the souls of those consumed by “greed”!
“Then He told them a parable. ‘There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’
And He said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, ‘Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!’
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your life will be demanded of you, and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’
Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”
Just as Melchizedek’s followers buried and left what were the richest, most prosperous cities on earth to follow his God-given directions, Catholics today strive to love and honor The Only Church Spoken Into Being by The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope.
Our priests and religious still take the vows of Celibacy, Obedience, and Poverty that let them love God and their neighbors more meaningfully than anyone else on earth.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “For 13 trillion light-years, all of Time and Space / Was Spoken Into Being for God’s beloved Catholic Race.”
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