Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. DeGaulle

    DeGaulle Powers

    Our Lord being crucified again. At least the Jews had the courage not to conceal their identity.
     
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  2. Dolours

    Dolours Guest

    Who are we to judge? They're on the periphery - the lost sheep in need of accompaniment and dialogue.
     
  3. Lots of pics and video tweets in between at the link.

    People Worldwide Are Standing Up to Communists, Regimes and Insane Elitist Policies – People Just Want to be Free!

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    People around the world are standing up to communists, tyrannical regimes and insane elitist policies. The movement that started with Brexit and the Trump Presidency is expanding to all parts of the globe.

    Iraq

    In Iraq, its citizens are standing up against the brutal Iran regime that took over after Obama pulled US troops from the country.

    After Obama was elected President in 2008, he removed all US troops from Iraq. Iraq was at that time the most peaceful and free it had maybe ever been. The surge resulted in Iraqis supporting the US presence and helping Americans rid the country of terrorists. However, Obama had other plans.

    In short order American troops were removed from Iraq and a vacuum was created. On the west, Iran entered Iraq and on the east ISIS entered the unprotected country. This led to many innocent lives lost and atrocities the world has not seen in centuries.

    After President Trump was elected, ISIS was destroyed. The western portion of Iraq was freed from the devils created by the Obama administration. But the rest of Iraq was still under a the heavy hand of Iran.

    Today the people of Iraq are standing up to the Iranian regime –

    Protests continue in spite of threats from the government and Iran –

    Heros risking their lives for freedom –


    Hong Kong
    In Hong Kong young protesters are standing up to the communist regime in China. China’s efforts to remove individual rights have led to massive protests –

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    November 11th was a bloody day –




    The government put in place a law that prevented Hong Kong protesters from wearing masks which didn’t stop the protesters –




    Lebanon
    In Lebanon the people are standing up against the government’s corruption and recent tax increase with peaceful protests –




    Women led a candlelight march one evening –




    Bolivia
    Marxist tyrant Evo Morales was ousted this week. The Chavista communist ruled the South American country for years.




    Of course, the international far left media calls the opposition a “far right fundamentalist Christian opposition.”






    Spain
    In Spain the people are standing up to the insane policies of the European elites. The VOX party recently won more seats in the government with a nationalist platform that is anti-abortion and anti-illegal immigration.




    The VOX party is the number one party of the young in Spain – it’s their future –




    Human beings were made to be free. We demand it. It is who we are.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...elitist-policies-people-just-want-to-be-free/
     
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  4. DeGaulle

    DeGaulle Powers

    If one wishes to give oneself a good fright, have a look at the Steynonline article on Electro-Magnetic Pulse phenomena, cleverly entitled 'The glass is half-EMP'. Some of the comments beneath are very revealing, describing in detail what a fundamental catastrophe such an event would be. It would be unsurprising if a future Chastisement for our excessively technologised society consisted of an EMP event, either devised by an enemy state, or a consequence of a solar 'burp'.

    Some possibilities:

    Planes falling out of the sky. Cars crashing. All electronic devices melted-down; fridges, freezers, water-pumps, power-stations, pacemakers, generators, tractors, trucks, trains, computers, internet, media, pharmaceutical factories, food-processors all immediately knocked out of action. That's just a tiny sample. Just imagine the consequences...and the panic. The living would really envy the dead.
     
  5. Interesting and rather fascinating. One wonders how many other such similar events have occurred since these years recorded in this video that accompanies the larger article here:

    The Witnesses
    What, exactly, did the Navy encounter 15 years ago off the Southern California coast, when fighter pilots spotted a UFO? These men were there, too⁠—and it's time they tell their side of the story.

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a29771548/navy-ufo-witnesses-tell-truth/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1810&v=-e9NoKp8EnE&feature=emb_title
     
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  6. "Europe Is Dying" - 50,000 Polish 'Patriots' March To Save Country From "Disastrous European Union"


    More than 50,000 Polish nationalists paraded on the streets of Warsaw for this year's Independence March on Monday.

    Tens of thousands of people, waving Polish flags, were young and old, of all walks of life, with whole families took to the streets.

    The people participating in the march branded themselves as patriots (the word which in Poland still has positive overtones) paying tribute to the fallen heroes.

    Thousands sang "Take care of the whole nation," which are lyrics from a Polish Catholic song, asking the Virgin Mary to defend the country.


    Others waved patriotic flags and chanted "No to the European Union" and "God, honor, homeland!"

    To the western media, these are Nazis, racists, anti-semites, and islamophobes. An abomination for the European Union.


    About 50,000 people attended the annual march said local government officials, but the Independence March Association said the figures were likely 150,000.

    The march began on Monday afternoon in central Warsaw with lead organizer Robert Bakiewicz telling attendees that "We have to return to our roots. Our world has abandoned God and Christianity. We will die as the nations of western Europe are dying."

    Poland shifted towards nationalism when Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015.

    PiS has asked citizens to abandon Western liberalism for patriotism and Roman Catholic values.


    Attendees lit flares and marched through the streets chanting more slogans: "Not Islamic or secular, but Catholic Poland," "No to abortion," and "Great Poland is our goal."

    A thirty-eight million nation in the heart of Europe (i.e., with a population approximately the size of Spain's) has been revolting against the EU establishment and its view of European unity based on cultural and religious indifference and anti-nationalism.

    Polish President Andrzej Duda asked citizens to unite under "one common homeland, beyond all divisions," but acknowledged that "different ideologies and beliefs" are permitted in Poland.

    While millions of radical Muslim refugees have poured into France, Germany, Sweden, UK, Italy, and Spain, creating social-economic chaos on the streets of those countries, Poles are attempting to revive their nation through patriotism and traditional Catholic values.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political...-march-save-country-disastrous-european-union
     
  7. Jo M

    Jo M Powers

    Wow! More evidence to suggest that they are hiding information from the public. I know that many UFO sightings are a hoax, but this encounter is very believable.
     
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  8. AED

    AED Powers

    God bless the Polish people!!!
     
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  9. DeGaulle

    DeGaulle Powers

    I'd fear it's demonic.
     
  10. AED

    AED Powers

    I believe they are demonic as well. A delusion so subtle and so convincing... and yet these descriptions have much in common with demonic encounters from earlier ages and they react/stop/vanish at the Holy Name of Jesus.
     
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  11. Sam

    Sam Powers



    From an article from Spirit Daily:

    it’s very exotic stuff, quite popular in movies and on TV, and the accounts are surprisingly consistent. Some say the government is covering up the truth. The problem, says Jordan — now Christian, previously agnostic, an official investigator for an international UFO monitoring and reporting program called MUFON — is that the “ETs” are actually demons.

    Joe came to that belief back in 1993, when, as a secular researcher he listened to an abduction testimony in which the “abductee” recounted how the aliens had disappeared — stopped the abduction — when he invoked the Name of Jesus.

    Why — if they are simply from another planet, or dimension, wondered Jordan — would they flee at the mention of a religious figure?

    “The more I dug deeply,” says Jordan, who had believed it such cases were extraterrestrial, “the more my view changed.”

    It was supposed to be the case that abductees could not resist the aliens: once an abduction started, the victim was powerless.

    But suddenly Jordan was seeing the opposite when the Name of Jesus was invoked.

    The UFO investigator began collecting other examples of aliens dispelled in this manner and at last count had five hundred of them.

    from
    Joe Jordan: Exposing ‘Aliens’

    Alien Resistance.
     
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  12. DeGaulle

    DeGaulle Powers

    This view of extra-terrestrials also corresponds with the little-publicised demolition of Darwinian evolution. Evolutionists would have us believe that life would inevitably develop given sufficient time as a consequence of mutations, implying that, given the likelihood of suitable planets in a universe with so many stars, other intelligent life-forms would be quite likely. More recent biological, mathematical and paleontological evidence points to the extreme unlikelihood of life.
     
  13. Jo M

    Jo M Powers

    Dear God, it never occurred to me that these sightings could be demonic! Frightening!
     
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  14. Sam

    Sam Powers

    Prayers are needed!


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    BREAKING: Baby Tinslee Lewis wins more time through court action
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    By Texas Right to Life on November 10, 2019 News
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    A court temporarily granted more time for Tinslee Lewis before her hospital could legally pull the plug on the 9-month-old against her mother’s will. Lawyers provided by Texas Right to Life filed a temporary restraining order on Sunday, which will allow our patient advocacy team to work with the hospital and family until a court hearing on November 22.

    Thank you to everyone who called, emailed, and prayed for Tinslee! Her mother, Trinity, is grateful for this reprieve, but the countdown under the Texas 10-Day Rule still forces everyday Texans like the Lewis family to race against the clock to save their loved ones.

    Now, Pro-Life Texans must call on Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Legislature to convene a special session to end the deadly 10-Day Rule. Use the below form to contact your legislators.

    BREAKING: Baby Tinslee Lewis wins more time through court action | Texas Right to Life

     
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  15. Tanker

    Tanker Powers

    I have always wondered about ET's. It is intriguing to think about life elsewhere. I believed for most of my life about life on other planets and visitors from other planets. It always seemed so logical to me. If God created us He surely created other beings.

    I just don't know. However, it is quite compelling that the "beings" disappear at the name of Jesus. That's a sure sign of a demon link IMO.

    Like all the side shows going on now across the world, it wouldn't surprise me if govts used this ET thing as a form of control over us. War of the Worlds kind of thing.

    Can the world get any weird-er.
     
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  16. https://www.breakingchristiannews.c...2PsDw3q3o1NjDmhkeWdUAB_oO4Ht2MXqm8mG55evx9Fw#

    Jesus Appears to Entire Group of 72 Christians About to be Killed: The Incredible Miracle That Followed is Right Out of the Acts of the Apostles
    [​IMG](McLean, VA) — [ASSISTNews.net] Northern Nigeria is a dangerous place for Christians—especially for those who have left Islam to follow Christ. (Image: Displaced Nigerian Christians /via Aid to the Church in Need-Canada)

    But BarnabasAid says God intervened in power to save 72 converts and their children from Boko Haram militants.

    According to BarnabasAid, these Believers excel in courageous faith, they have met Christ face-to-face and heard Him speak, they have experienced His miraculous deliverance.

    They cannot build themselves up by daily study of His Word—because they cannot read. Or they do not have a New Testament.

    Christ appears

    Their story begins with a group of 500 Nigerian Christian converts from Islam and their children.

    It is not normal for this tribe to gather in such large numbers, but all of them had already been attacked by Boko Haram Islamist militants and they hoped that a larger group would give them a measure of security.

    Boko Haram were not deterred. They attacked the group and captured 76, taking them back to their camp.

    At the Boko Haram camp, the Christians were tortured, and their four male leaders were told they must deny Christ and return to Islam or they would be shot.

    The four refused and were duly shot dead, in full view of the rest of the group.

    A week later the four widows of the dead men were told they must renounce their Christian faith or their children would be shot. They were given time to think over this dreadful choice.

    As they agonized together that evening, their excited children came running in, telling their mothers that Jesus had appeared to them and told them all would be well.

    Jesus then appeared to the whole group of 72, and told them not to fear for He would protect them. He said they should not renounce Him but should stay strong, and that He was the Way, the Truth and the Life.

    Deliverance from evil

    The next day, the four mothers gave their decision to the militants—they would not deny Christ.

    The militants prepared to shoot the children, who were already lined up against a wall. The youngest was a little girl of four. Suddenly the militants began screaming and clawing at their own heads. Shouting "Snakes!" they fled the scene, and some of them dropped dead.

    One of the Christian men reached for the gun of a dead militant but the four-year-old put her hand on his arm to stop him. "You don't need to do that," she said, "Can't you see the men in white fighting for us?"
     
  17. DeGaulle

    DeGaulle Powers

    There are many reports of visions and miracles in the struggles between Christians and Mohammedan terrorists. Some tell of terrorists who are converting. Yet, this one is perhaps the most inspiring I have encountered. It might even lead to conversion of some of the surviving terrorists from the incident itself. Its effect on the morale of the common-garden Boko Haram terrorists who come to hear of it should be devastating, fatal though it might be for them to openly admit it.
     
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  18. Mario

    Mario Powers

    I will pray for your son, Byron. I am thankful that God has provided a faithful sponsor. All the practical steps you mentioned are both concrete and necessary, but ultimately we need what evangelicals call revival. It is only by grace that these practical steps can be implemented, but more importantly the Gospel must be preached, and hearts turned back to God. I believe that the Warning will be the instrument used by God to win many fence-sitters back to Him. May it come soon.:notworthy:

    O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
     
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  19. Backs up and reminds one of what our Lady in the Luz de Maria messages has mentioned about the coming natural disasters.....about how things, speaking of fault lines, are interconnected so that they spill over into larger and larger areas, eventually to cover spots everywhere in the world. And of course involves the ruptures of all the volcanoes, even to causing those not as yet known to come into activity.

    Biggest California earthquake in decades ruptured on at least 24 faults

    When an earthquake strikes, the instinct of many Californians is to ask: Which fault ruptured — the Newport-Inglewood, the Hayward, the mighty San Andreas?

    But scientists are increasingly saying it’s not that simple.

    New research shows that the Ridgecrest earthquakes that began in July ruptured at least two dozen faults. It’s the latest evidence of how small faults can join together to produce a large earthquake, and how those quakes can cover a wider area than expected.

    The findings are important in helping understand how earthquakes can grow in the seconds after a fault ruptures, when two blocks of earth move away from each other. In areas blanketed by a crisscross pattern of faults, an earthquake on a smaller fault can destabilize bigger ones, beginning a process that leads to a much stronger earthquake.

    In the case of Ridgecrest, some follow-up earthquakes came seconds after; the largest one came some 34 hours later.

    It has only been in recent decades that earthquake scientists have understood how smaller faults in California join together to create a more powerful earthquake.

    After the 1992 Landers earthquake, scientists were astonished to find that the magnitude 7.3 temblor in the Mojave Desert had ruptured on five separate faults.

    As the years have gone by, more evidence has accumulated that earthquakes can and do happen on multiple faults — such as the magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake,about 20 miles east of the Landers quake, and the magnitude 7.2 quake on Easter Sunday 2010 near Mexicali.

    Detailed observations, outlined recently in the journal Science by experts at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, underscore how scientists’ understanding of earthquake fault ruptures has evolved.

    Researchers discovered the Fourth of July Ridgecrest temblor was actually three distinct earthquakes — magnitudes 6.1, 6.2 and 6.2 — on a trio of faults. Added together, they produced enough energy to create a magnitude 6.4 temblor, said Zachary Ross, Caltech assistant professor of geophysics, the lead author of the paper. The first two quakes ruptured at right angles to each other, forming the shape of the capital letter L: the first to the northwest and southeast, the second to the southwest. The third quake also ruptured to the southwest. The faults ruptured over 12 seconds.

    “That’s something we haven’t seen before, and it’s detailed on such a small scale,” said Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson, a coauthor and expert on Southern California seismology.

    The second large quake, on July 5, was actually made up of four smaller events that ruptured over 22 seconds, producing a magnitude 7.1 event, the most powerful in California in the last 20 years. In that same event, at least 20 smaller faults that intersected the main faults also ruptured, according to the study, making the zone of land atop moving faults wider than might be expected.

    “The geometry of this fault network is just incredibly complicated,” Ross said. “These faults are unmapped ... many of them are at right angles to each other; they’re cross-cutting each other. In the central portion of it, they are spaced a few kilometers apart, like dominoes. There’s 20 of them in a row. This 7.1 ripped through all of these.”

    The results provide even more evidence to support the idea that California faults once thought to be limited by their individual length can actually link together in a much more massive earthquake.

    For instance, as cited in a 1993 study in the journal Science coauthored by Hauksson, previous estimates had suggested only earthquakes of magnitude 6.9 or less would be expected in the Landers area. The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit produced quadruple the shaking energy of what had been expected.


    “The point is that the Landers earthquake and this earthquake are daisy-chaining up faults that previously were thought to rupture only by themselves, and that’s an important observation,” Hauksson said. “These earthquakes have connected together segments that were thought to be independent before but now have been shown to actually connect in one big earthquake.”

    So instead of earthquake strain being relieved by many magnitude 6 temblors over a number of faults, “you could just do it in one magnitude 7 by having the rupture travel up and jump from one fault to the next,” Hauksson said.

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    A modest fault that begins to move in a quake can make it easier for a neighboring fault to rupture, Hauksson said. In Ridgecrest, the Fourth of July earthquakes probably kept on hammering strong spots along seismically strained faults until the larger magnitude 7.1 ruptured on July 5, Hauksson said.

    The study raises the possibility that past earthquakes actually may have been bigger than previously thought. A prehistoric earthquake currently identified by a rupture of a fault at one site might have produced even more power if scientists haven’t yet discovered other fault segments that ruptured in the same event, the study said.

    That may sound ominous. But there’s a silver lining, according to seismologist Lucy Jones, who was not involved in the study.

    If supersized earthquakes are more likely, that means there would be fewer damaging temblors over any given time period. “You won’t need to have another earthquake for a much longer time,” Jones said.

    “What’s worse, one 8, or six 7.5s?” Jones asked. “It’s not clear that one 8 is worse than six 7.5s. There’s a lot of damage that happens in each individual event.”

    And at high magnitudes, there’s only so much the ground can shake before the rocks break; so the worst shaking caused by a magnitude 7 quake and a magnitude 8 is not that much different. A magnitude 8 quake, however, would bring destructive shaking to a much larger area of California, and its duration would be longer.


    The Ridgecrest study and information gleaned from other recent quakes also has highlighted the importance of understanding how ruptures along multiple faults may affect a broader area.

    In New Zealand, scientists were stunned at the bizarre map of the faults ruptured in the magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake of 2016, resembling an upside-down trident aimed at the silhouette of an eagle.


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    “In the Kaikoura earthquake, there were multiple ruptures over a wide area ... and that’s kind of mind-boggling,” Hauksson said. “And it’s important because that means a lot more people are affected — the surface rupture and the surface ground shaking are spread over a much wider area.”

    On a practical level, the research underscores the potential limitations of state earthquake zones designated to prevent new construction directly on top of faults, Hauksson said. If a single major fault can be crossed by many shorter perpendicular faults, and officials want to avoid new construction on top of active faults, the zones might need to be larger than they are now, he said.

    Further analysis needs to be done to determine whether the 20 cross faults identified in the Ridgecrest study using computer analysis of shaking records actually broke the ground at the surface, according to Tim Dawson, a senior engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey.

    The Ridgecrest quakes occurred in a region already known to be profoundly complex, where there are many structurally immature, baby faults that criss-cross one another, said USC earth sciences professor James Dolan.

    “It’s just very, very interesting to see one of these fault meshes all breaking at the same time in a big earthquake,” Dolan said.

    A significant achievement of this study, Dolan said, was being able to image what faults look like deep underground, at a depth where earthquakes begin. The old conventional wisdom was that the structurally complex nature of faults at the surface becomes simplified the deeper you go; what this study proves is that the structural complexity continues deep underground where earthquakes begin, Dolan said.

    That’s important, Dolan said, because it may help scientists determine where future earthquakes are likely to stop, which tends to happen where faults become structurally complicated.


    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-13/ridgecrest-earthquake-ruptured-dozens-of-faults
     
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