The Twelve Tribes of Israel were blessed by This Prophecy from God to Moses in Deuteronomy 26:16-19:
“Moses spoke to the people, saying: ‘This day the LORD, your God, commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then, to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you are making this agreement with the LORD: He is to be your God, and you are to walk in His ways and observe His statutes, commandments, and decrees and to hearken to His voice.”
Then, the rewards for obeying God are predicted! “And today the LORD is making this agreement with you: you are to be a people peculiarly His own, as He promised you; and provided you keep His comandments, He will then raise you high…”
“His commandments” include “Thou shalt not kill.” Today’s “Chosen People” are those who were Prophesied to believe “Life must be protected from conception until natural death.”
Today, Psalm 119:1-8 reinforces the importance of obeying God: “Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord… Blessed are they who observe His Decrees, who seek Him with all their heart… firm in the ways of keeping Your statutes.”
For 2,000 years, those who realize that God Prophesied salvation for all people through His Son, the Prophesied Messiah, have been His “Chosen People”. 2 Cor. 6:2 is clear: “Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation.” On that day, the saved will know: “Life is to be protected from conception until natural death.”
He Who Fulilled the Messianic Prophecies made that clear in Mt 5:43-48 when “Jesus said to His disciples, ‘You have heard that it was said ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'”
Suddenly, a New Prophecy in the New Testament predicted those whose souls could get into Heaven! “‘But, I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Heavenly Father, for He makes His sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.'”
This Prophecy of Jesus is clear: “For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not tax collectors do the same?”
Then, He asks a question that guides every Catholic on earth: “And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not pagans do the same?”
The only Church-Creating Prophecy of Jesus took living form on earth. The Catholic Church gives all a way to avoid going to God’s Judgment among “tax collectors” and “pagans” and be forever among His “chosen people”:
“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.”
May all be blessed to receive the Seven Catholic Sacraments, Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, and Healing from Catholic priests and religious who are blessed to obey God’s “Holy Orders” that take human form in them.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Jesus calls all, but only a few / are blessed to do what He tells us to.”
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