How may our “Jesus Receiver” let our soul escape “the cages of Babylon”?
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Question 1: “What does St. John warn us about in Today’s ‘Revelation’ from The Book of Revelation 18:1-23 and 19:1-3?”
Answer: “We learn what God sent His Angel to ‘Cry out in a mighty voice, ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, a cage for every unclean and disgusting beast.’”
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Question 2: “How do we keep from being among the ‘unclean spirits, birds, and disgusting beasts’ held captive in ‘the cages of Babylon’?”
Answer: “Every Babylon begins with families seeking safety in a ‘fort’. Some, like Sparta, Athens, Alexandria, Damascus, and Sidon become great cities. A few, like Babylon, become ‘Empires’. As a ‘fort’ grows into a City or Empire, ‘unclean spirits’ of pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth swarm in and put as many as they can into ‘cages of sin’ from which they attack God’s good and decent people.”
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Question 3: “Is there any ‘cure’ for those who are ‘caged’ in sin?”
Answer: “The only way to escape any ‘cages of Babylon’ is to get these ‘keys’ that Jesus gave His Life to leave 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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Question 4: “Can every person in one of Babylon’s ‘cages’ get those ‘keys’ and escape from any ‘cage’ in Babylon?”
Answer: “Up to the last moments of our life, we may cry out, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’, get ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’, and escape whatever ‘cage’ we are in.”
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Question 5: “Why doesn’t everyone become Catholic and get the ‘keys’ to escape from ‘the cages of Babylon’?”
Answer: “Many will not let their ‘Jesus Receiver’ see that The Second Person of The Holy Trinity is The God Whose First Commandment should forever echo in every heart: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’”
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Question 6: “Does Jesus tell us about the dangers of being ‘surrounded’ by ‘uncaged demons’ who ruled Jerusalem and caused Roman Legions to capture and destroy that City?”
Answer: “Today’s Gospel from Luke 21:20-28 gives His Prophecy about ‘When you see Jerusalem (or, yourself) surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is at hand.‘
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Question 7: “Does Jesus tell us what to do when that happens?”
Answer: “He tells us to ‘Be Catholic’ by saying: ‘When these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.’
Catholics know that our ‘redemption is at hand’ because we have held onto ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ that Jesus gave His Life to leave 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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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Good things happen in the lands / That hold Christ’s “keys” in their hands.”
