Two days after the horrendous terrorist attacks, Pope Francis preached about the “end times,” encouraging his hearers to be vigilant and ready at any moment to meet God face to face.
Ten thousand pilgrims were gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to the pope and think about death. The pope expressed his “deep sorrow for the terrorist attacks that bloodied France late on Friday, causing many casualties.” He also condemned the massacre as an “unspeakable affront to human dignity.”
He denounced as “blasphemy,” the use of God’s name to justify the brutal attacks. “Such barbarity leaves us shocked and we wonder how the human heart can conceive and carry out such horrible events, which have shaken not only France but the whole world,” he said.
Sounding like an evangelical preacher, the pope said that Jesus preached about the end of the world and spoke of “apocalyptic elements, like war, famine and cosmic catastrophes.” He said “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.”
“We are called to live the present,” Francis said, but always ready to meet God whenever he may call.
The pope also warned against an unhealthy curiosity to know details of the future, with recourse to psychics and horoscopes, saying they distract us from what is really important in the present.
The pope neglected to mention that many of the details are in the Bible and give a rather clear picture of what to expect in the last days.
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margaret Robinson
Friday November 20th, 2015 at 06:14 AMOf course the man of sin would know how to make the world wander after the beast
Sean Taylor
Friday November 20th, 2015 at 08:56 PMIf I was him, I would be more worried than anybody, about meeting God face to face!!
Taliyah Aviles
Monday November 23rd, 2015 at 03:26 AM“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly…”
Matthew 23:27-39; Luke 11:42-54 “Woe to you Pharisees…” Reference: Desire of Ages, pg. 461-469.
Timesandlaws.com
Monday November 23rd, 2015 at 11:28 AMAnd to think the Papacy and the Jesuits have infiltrated the governments by their Jesuit universities, and ALL the churches and still the People think it is somewhere in the future. Yet the very doctrines they teach are espoused such as Spiritual Formation, The Eucharist etc…. all these doctrines from the Papacy have come in and these wolves in sheeps clothing will not let the sheep talk about it. They use censorship.These Jesuits through the churches are telling people to accept abominations and the abomination that maketh desolate. We must study to show ourselves approved.
Nancy Bellman
Sunday November 29th, 2015 at 02:26 PMToo bad he failed to mention that the Great Dark Day already happened May 19, 1780; the Moon apppeared to have turned to blood that same night; and the Great Star Shower already happened November 12-13, 1833. Lisbon quake occurred in 1755.
Thomas C. Brazie
Wednesday December 2nd, 2015 at 05:00 PMMost important is to keep our faith in Jesus strong now in the days we are living in for if we wait until when things really get worse and probation closes it will be too late.
Carolyn Martinez
Wednesday March 23rd, 2016 at 09:51 AMGod Be All Of Us True Faithful Christians World Wide. I like Keep The Faith News Reports Ministy
Carolyn Martinez
Wednesday March 23rd, 2016 at 09:53 AMAll The World Shall Wider After The Beast.