The Loving Programmer wrote and downloaded His Creation Program over 13 trillion light-years ago. Microscopes and telescopes let us see how complicated it is!
The complexity is there to let each person, one of God’s “Replicating Free-Will Programs”, choose to obey God or something less. Romans 2:1-11 tells us what sends souls to hell: “By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, Who will repay everyone according to his works .”
Catholics know our “works” will provide one of two “repayments” that echo from Psalm 62:13: “Lord, You give back to everyone according to his works.”
(Repayment #1) “eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but (Repayment # 2) wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon everyone who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.” Jewish people are held to a higher standard after having been blessed by 2,000 years of God’s Guidance from Abraham, Moses, and The Prophets.
How do we know we should be Catholic?
He Who Fulfilled over 300 Messianic Prophecies is clear in John 10:27 about Catholic souls being saved! “My sheep hear My voice, says The Lord; I know them and they follow Me.”
Catholics are among His “sheep” because we “hear and follow the voice” of The Prophesied Messiah’s Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope echoing for 2,000 years around the world: “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.”
Did Jesus tell us which souls are not allowed into Heaven but must suffer four “woes”?
Many hate the “voice” of Jesus in Luke 11:42-46: “Woe (#1) to you Pharisees! You pay tithes with (tiny flowerpots of) mint, rue, and garden herbs, but you pay no attention to Judgment and to love for God. Woe (#2) to you, Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces. Woe (#3) to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.” (All who remain “Pharisees” in every group on earth still hate Jesus for saying that!)
Who else is condemned to eternal suffering?
“Then one of the scholars of the law said to Him in reply, ‘Teacher, by saying this, You are insulting us too.'” (That shows that some “scholars of the law” are smart enough to be saved, if they want!) The “voice” of Jesus then described more people on earth who send their souls to hell! “And He said, ‘Woe (#4) also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.”
In every nation, Catholics pray that those who use self-serving environmental, medical, business, education, divorce, and other “laws” to enrich themselves while hurting their neighbors will be blessed to get rid of “burdens hard to carry” so their souls may get “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” from the only place Jesus left them.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Pray for those too vain to labor / for God and to help their neighbors.”
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