Catholics see God’s Punishments for Disobeying Him in the Past. We know that He “Judges” what He “Sees”. That’s why we are Catholic!
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Question 1: “What ‘Frightening Prophecy’ of Ezekiel came true in 60 AD?”
Answer: “Catholics call The Prophecy in Ezekiel 9:1-11 ‘The Slaughter of the Idolaters’ because it described what God would do to Jerusalem 700 years later when Vespasian and Titus destroyed it:
‘Then he (God’s Avenging Angel) cried aloud for me to hear: Come, you scourges of the city! And there were six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with a weapon of destruction in his hand. In their midst was a man dressed in linen, with a scribe’s case at his waist.’ God’s Word in the ‘scrolls’ of Yesterday’s Reading was about to be ‘erased’ in The City of Jerusalem!”
Question 2: “Who was ‘the man in linen’ with the ‘scribe’s case at his waist’?”
Answer: “He was the avenging angel who led six others. On a human level, ‘the scribe’ is the brilliant historian, Josephus. He wrote one of the greatest books in History, ‘The Jewish Wars’, about groups of self-serving ‘idolaters’ who fought against God, each other, and Rome. History records that millions of ‘idolaters’ were ‘slaughtered’.”
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Question 3: “What did God’s avenging angels do to the ‘idolaters’?”
Answer: “‘Then the glory of the God of Israel moved off the cherub and went up to the threshold of The Temple. He called to the man dressed in linen with the scribe’s case at his waist and The Lord said to him: ‘Pass through the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and mark an X on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the abominations practiced within it.’
Some would be saved. All others would be destroyed. ‘To the others, He said in my hearing: ‘Pass through the city after him and strike! Do not let your eyes spare; do not take pity. Old and young, male and female, women and children—wipe them out! But do not touch anyone marked with the X. Begin at My Sanctuary. So they began with the elders who were in front of The Temple.’”
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Question 4: “Did Ezekiel’s God-Given Vision come true, 700 years later?”
Answer: “God’s seven avenging angels destroyed those who let themselves be overcome by demons in the seven tribes of pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth.”
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Question 5: “Was The Temple destroyed as Ezekiel prophesied?”
Answer: “9:7 is clear! ‘Defile the temple, he said to them, fill its courts with the slain. Then go out and strike in the city.’ The Temple was destroyed. The entire City of Jerusalem was “flattened”. Jesus had predicted that with His Prophecy 30 years earlier in Mt. 24:2, ‘Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.”
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Question 6: “What did Ezekiel say to God as he watched what would happen to Jerusalem in seven hundred years?”
Answer: “‘As they were striking, I was left alone. I fell on my face, crying out, ‘Alas, Lord God! Will you destroy all that is left of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?’”
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Question 7: “How did God reply to Ezekiel?”
Answer: “‘He answered me: The guilt of the house of Israel and the house of Judah is too great to measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that The Lord has abandoned the land and that He does not see them.’
In His Next Word, God let us see the validity of Ezekiel’s Prophecy about The Destruction of Jerusalem and The Temple: ‘My eye, however, will not spare, nor shall I take pity, but I will bring their conduct down upon their heads.’”
Verse 11 confirms the destruction that would take place seven centuries later: ‘Just then the man dressed in linen with the scribe’s case at his waist made his report: ‘I have done as you commanded!’”
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Question 8: “What do Catholics learn from The Prophecy of Ezekiel and The Prophecy of Jesus?”
Answer: “We know The Lord does ‘see us’ and that our sins will be punished. We know there is not one good reason to disobey The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope:
‘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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