Chapter 8. 7
Fatima;
Fiction or Fact
Apparitions of Mary – Three Witnesses – Three
Secrets - Visions of Hell
The Great Apostasy - Falling away of the Faith – Alien Invasions - UFO’s
Rome becomes the throne of the Antichrist – The assignation of the Pope
Prophecy of World War I and World
War II – Sun Twisting and Spinning
Supernatural Healings - The Statue
Background
On
May 13, 1917 around noon, three young Shepard children of the
Portuguese hamlet of Fatima
claimed that they had been visited by the supernatural apparition of the Virgin Mary. There
were six Marian Appearances altogether in the middle of each month with the
last appearance six months later on October 13, 1917; this produced The Great Sun
Miracle. The results were Societies, Shrines,
Feasts, Devotions and Pilgrimages to “Our Lady of Fatima”.
First Word
The Virgin Mary should be called blessed by all
generations because she was chosen by God to be the Mother of our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ.[1] I grew up in the Baptist Church and was in charge of the “outside chime system”… My
mother, a Sunday School teacher, loved the song “Ava Maria” and I played it as one of the many
songs on the outdoor loud speaker chime system at church. It was written up in the Atlanta Journal about
a Baptist Church playing
a Catholic song. I took a lot of heat, but even today it’s
still a part of my “IPOD”
music library.
I say this because of what I am about to write may cause you to
think that I disrespect the blessed mother of Jesus. TODAY; God, Jesus, the Bible, and
the Virgin
Mary have
all been Hi-Jacked to be used for causes
that are far from the intent of the Bible.
Definition – Apparition Wikipedia
The appearance of
the Virgin Mary is known as a Marian Apparition. An
apparition is the unexpected or
unusual appearance of a ghostly figure. It is characterized by the apparent
perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being
any material stimulus for such a perception; the person experiencing the
apparition is awake.
Subjects experiencing the apparition are
by no means always frightened by the experience; indeed they may find the
apparition very soothing or reassuring particularly at times of crisis or
ongoing stress in their lives.
BUT, it is unusual for an apparitional “figure” to engage in any verbal interaction with the percipient;
this is consistent with the finding that the majority of such experiences only
involve one sense. (Most commonly the visual.)
The Apparition
The Vision as reported by the three children;
the Lady was enveloped in colored lights accompanied by lightning and the sound
of buzzing.
Jacinta
said that the apparition wore a knee-length skirt, with white socks and when
she “left” she raised her toes up with her heels pointing down and then her
body disappeared.
Lucia
said she was wearing earrings and wore a necklace with a medal on it. She was of medium height and her eyes were
black. Lucia stated that she (Lucia) had a light within herself that
made her understand the Lady; to have sense of her words.
Francisco said that on the first
apparition, he only saw her as she was leaving and she did not move her lips
when she spoke.
The Apparition Description “Of Their Time” sounds like
that of a Prostitute. Scripture says
that women should adorn themselves modestly which is proper for professing
godliness.[2]
Lucia and Jacinta said that the Lady wanted a
chapel to be built and named for herself; “The Lady of the Rosary”.
NOTE: There is a controversy concerning Lucia’s writings;
claiming that the fanciful First Version is authentic and that another
conservative Version, embellished by the Church was released later for
publication; known by Conspiracy
Theorist as Version
II or Lucia
II.
The Children
Lucia
dos Santos (10) was born in 1907; the two cousins Francisco Marto (9)
was born in 1908 and Jacinta
Marto (7) was born in 1910.
Lucia or Lucy being the oldest
appears to be the spokesperson for the three children.
Francisco, according to Lucia, was not allowed by “the Lady” to hear the first & second secrets, but was allowed to
hear the third.
Jacinta the youngest said she forgot things
related to the apparition and needed Lucia to tell her again what happened.
Reports say that the three agreed to keep the FIRST apparition a secret, but Jacinta
the youngest, just could not restrain herself and broke the promise and “let the cat out of the bag” with her overflow of excitement.
Jacinta and Francisco died from influenza and pleurisy before they could be
questioned by the 1922 Investigation Commission of the
Church. Scripture states that in the mouth of two or
three witnesses is a thing established as true. [3] We now only have Lucy; ONE
Cannon Formagao said, “Apparitions are
authenticated NOT by the testimony of witnesses,
but by their popularity among pious people”.
My BS, my Belief System responds; WHAT? Scripture
requires you to have at least two witnesses; NOT
by the popularity of what some righteous people might think.
Lucia
Lucia,
the spokesperson for the three described herself as uneducated,
unintelligent and easily confused.
Lied; Lucia stated that she was
imprisoned by the local administrator at Ourem in August of 1917 and was threatened to be boiled in Oil if
they did not recant their testimonies, but her own family denies her story as well as the Cook that worked in that Prison.
Contradicted: Lucia and Francisco contradicted each other over how
the apparition was dressed. Lucia contradicted herself first saying the Virgin
had on earrings then she didn’t.
Hallucinations: Mario de Oliveria, a Friar who
knew Lucia
very well stated that she suffered from religious hallucinations and false
memories.
Lucia’s Mother allegedly said that Lucia earlier
on three occasion, had visions of a person wrapped up in a bed sheet that approached
her and then went away. She went on to
say that Lucia
had a flair for inventing religious stories and had the ability to manipulate
people.
Since the Fatima incident, Lucia had been kept in
the Vatican living in a convent where revealing the Third Secret was hampered by a “language communication barrier”.
It was reported that some of the Nuns came under her magnetic
influence and began to copy her.
She was sent to a nunnery at the age of
14. Reports say she was kept in solitary
confinement to make sure she did not reveal the Third Secret. She was not allowed to return to Fatima
without permission and nobody was allowed to write to her directly.
Lucia proclaimed that
upon her death or at least by 1960, the Third Secret must be revealed to the world. This
did not happen; Conspiracy Theorist had a field day with this one.
The Secrets
On the Second or Third appearance, the apparition of the Virgin Mary gave THREE
SECRETS to the children. They were precise
predictions, warnings, request, and promises concerning the Catholic Faith.
Lucia herself said that The Third Secret contained
apocalyptic content. Those inside the Vatican who have seen the
original; claim that it contained predictions of a great apostasy where Rome
will lose the Faith and become the throne of the Anti-Christ. If this was true, I can see why this secret
would be withheld. At this writing we have no proof of this.
In 1941 two of the three secrets were revealed in a letter written by
Lucia at the request of Jose Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of
Leiria.
In 1943 Lucia fell ill with influenza and pleurisy and was thought to
soon die. The bishop ordered her to
write down the Third Secret which she did and sealed it in an envelope not to be opened
until her death, but no later than 1960 when the secret will be “more clearly understood” and because
the Blessed Virgin wished
it so.
In 2000 Pope John Paul II officially released the third secret, some 83 years after the first apparition. Some insist to this day that this was not the
entire secret.
The Three Secrets
1) Visions of Hell and its contents
2) Prophecy of World War I and World War II
3) Prophecy; the Assassination of Pope John
Paul II.
The Controversy: There is much controversy
about Lucia’s letter concerning the secrets.
She states herself that she is uneducated and wrote only on a small
piece of paper; yet the release version is on four sheets of paper leading Conspiracy Theorist to
speculate that this is not the real secret or at least it’s not the full
secret.
The Vatican Press
Release of 1960 announced that the Third Letter would probably never be
opened. I would like to say here that
there are other publications that say that the Vatican did know what was in the letter and what they were actually saying is that the contents would probably
never be made known to the world.
First Secret
The First
Secret was a vision of Hell and the DEATH of Lucia’s cousins who were the only
other two witness’s to the Vision.
SECRET: Our
Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human
form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised
into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with
great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge
fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and
despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.
The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive
likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent.
This vision lasted but an
instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who
had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven.
Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.
Note: My BS could
not help but notice that there was no mention of repentance that went along
with the salvation of the children.[4] I
thought the description of Hell was awesome! Lucia to be ten years old and uneducated, sure
does write well.
Second Secret
The Second
Secret was not revealed to
the Vatican by Lucia until July of 1941
some Twenty-Four years later; this was when the Nazi’s invaded the Soviet
Union. The message was that IF Russia converted to
Christianity, many years of war and persecution could be avoided. Since the war continued and they did not
convert to Christianity, this prophecy was considered to be TRUE.
SECRET: You have seen hell where the souls of poor
sinners go. To save them, God wishes to
establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will
be saved and there will be peace. “The war” is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God,
“a worse one” will break out during the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown
light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to
punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of
the Church and of the Holy Father.
Sidebar: World War I was the war that would end
in 1917, the “Worse One” would be World War II
Continuing on: To prevent
this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and
there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world,
causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father
will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.
In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy
Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period
of peace will be granted to the world.
The Virgin Mary says, “If what I say to you is done, many SOULS will be saved and there will be peace.
The Book says that the
only way SOULS
are saved is through God’s Son Jesus Christ. No one comes to the Father except through Him.[5]
No amount of devotion to the Virgin Mary can save anyone from Hell.
This establishes
the fact that this apparition was not really the Virgin Mary because she would
not call her Son a Liar. Her words do
not harmonize with the fence post planted by the rest of
the Gospel message. Jesus says to Search
the Scriptures because it bears witness of HIM.[6]
Third Secret
The Letter of the Third
Secret was composed much
later in 1944 leaving the Conspiracy Theorist to believe that it had been edited or altered to fit the facts. The Third Secret was kept secret by the Vatican for 58 years causing much
speculation as to what it included; subjects such as: Deep Rifts in the
Catholic Church, Satanic Infiltration of the Church, Extra-Terrestrial Life,
Doomsday Predictions, and the Apocalypse of Revelation with Worldwide Nuclear
Annihilation.
Note: (Lucia DID SAY in an interview that the third secret held
apocalyptic prophecy.)
SECRET:
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and
a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand;
flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on
fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated
towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the
Angel cried out in a loud voice: “Penance,
Penance, Penance!”. And we saw
in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop
dressed in White “we had the impression that it was the Holy Father”.
It continues concerning the
Pope; Other Bishops, Priests, men and women,
Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross
of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; “before reaching there the Holy Father
passed through a big city half in ruins; and half trembling with halting step,
afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met
on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of
the big Cross, he was KILLED by a group of soldiers who fired BULLETS and
arrows at him, and in the same way there DIED one after another the other; Bishops,
Priests, men and women, religious and various lay people of different ranks and
positions.”
Note: An
Assignation Attempt was made on the Pope
on May 13, 1981. He contributed the fact
that he did not die to the intervention of the Virgin Mary changing the course of
history. In effect she stopped her own
prophecy. It is also noteworthy that May
13th is the same day of the month as the first apparition appeared
to the three children. In the year 2000,
the Pope decided to release the third Prophecy which would include his assignation.
After the assignation attempt the Bullet
had remained in the Pope’s Jeep. The Pope gave the bullet to the Bishop so that
it might be kept as a shrine; it was placed in the crown of the statue of “The Lady of Fatima”.
SCRIPTURE
SAYS that if a thing prophesized does not come to pass, the prophet
is a FALSE PROPHET.[7]
We are to test prophecy with the
scriptures, does it bear witness about Jesus Christ? Does the prophecy harmonize with other
scriptures; do all the fence post line up in a straight line?
Note: God’s
attributes and His nature does not vary or change.[8]
The Prophecy concludes: Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each
with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up
the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their
way to God.
Conspiracy
Theorist say the prophecy concerning Bishops, Priests, the Religious and Lay People and Men and
Women dying did not happen and THE SECRET IS
STILL HIDDEN
NOTE: You may not consider
these children as PROPHETS,
with visions, but that is what they
were.
In my BS, I
DO NOT DOUBT that
the three children saw something; the question is; what was it that they saw? The Witch of Endor brought
up “something”[9]
that was supposed to be Samuel; but King Saul never did see it, but he believed
it to be Samuel. The Bible says
the Dead know nothing and cannot speak, see or plan. I believe that the children saw a “familiar Sprit”
a demon
who would point to the Blessed
Virgin Mary instead of Jesus
Christ for redemption; deceiving the multitudes. In my BS, they have become FALSE PROPHETS, willing or not.
This
is Satanic; even Satan
can transform himself into an angel of light.[10]
I’m not talking about the Blessed Virgin
Mary being Satanic, I’m talking about a FAKE apparition;
a familiar demonic spirit.
The Dead know nothing,
no planning, no working, no wisdom, no knowledge, no praises and no words; they
are silent.[11]
Note: Satan knows scripture too; if we reject the
knowledge that God has given us, He will reject us. The
Book says we are destroyed for lack of knowledge;[12]
God Himself says that His nature and attributes
do not change. It’s in the Book… READ IT.
The Great Sun Miracle
The Great Sun Miracle of October 13, 1917 was the
event that more than 70,000 people witnessed, that was said to validate the
story of the three shepherd children.
Lucia said the Lady identified
herself as “The
Lady of the Rosary” and she let the children see Jesus, Joseph and
herself
in the Sun. Lucia shouted
to LOOK AT THE SUN. The
Virgin supposedly made people to have a vision of the sun spinning. It was
reported in newspapers around the world including the New York Times. With all the photographers present; there were
no pictures taken. Many saw something,
some did not; Lucia
herself said she did not witness the
miracle of the sun. When the Lady disappeared some heard the sound of a Rocket
roar which gave support to the UFO Alien theorist who
were present.
Scripture
warns that we are to not try to seek to establish our own righteousness;[13]
it says offerings to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN provokes God to anger.[14]
The Report said that the sun began to throw off colors,
twist and dance in the sky defying cosmic laws and then it descended to the
earth. BUT; this phenomena does not defy cosmic law; a CME or Coronal Mass Ejection
occurs every eleven years as recorded in history when the sun goes through a
period of solar storms. Solar flares
radiate out emitting particles that cause the Northern Lights (COLORS) or what’s known as Aurora Borealis.
It causes severe weather conditions on earth including volcano eruptions and
earthquakes. Satellites, communication
and electricity is affected and medical conditions such as headaches have been
reported.
Sidebar
For over a month before The Great Sun
Miracle, there had been activity of the sun throwing off solar
flares with changing colors. Many people
were claiming that they had spotted signs in the sun. This had attracted the curious as well as the Alien Society and UFO watchers who
had visions of alien
messengers and spaceships; mostly unbelievers. There
is something within us that believes that God has other worlds. Jesus said he had sheep in “other pastures”
[15]
that the Disciples knew nothing about. If
I had been alive, I too would probably have been there in 1917 to see it all
unfold; Just saying.
Some devoted Catholics who were there on
their knees praying saw nothing unusual, others standing beside them saw the
sun spin; some even said the sun fell to the earth. Some
saw UFO’s
and some just messed up their eyes by looking directly into the sun. This is all to say that there was a number of
personal experiences that were not shared by all.
More Confusion; some reports
said the sun DID NOT really move, that the
people only had a vision that it moved. Another report said the sun DID MOVE and that the rest of the world had a
vision that the sun remaining still.
Other Miracles
People reported miracles of healing performed by God
during this time, further validating the Fatima incident, BUT it is noteworthy to report that Miracles, Healings and Cures
have always occurred which cannot be explained by natural means.
In fact to be so bold, scripture says
Satan can also perform Miracles and Signs to deceive those who dwell on earth.[16]
In
the days of Moses the Sorcerers,
Magicians as well as Wise Men could duplicate the miracles[17]
that God performed through Moses.
God
says; why do you still submit to the Regulations and TRADITIONS
that have been passed down.[18]
The Believer walks
by his FAITH
not by his SIGHT.[19]
Watch out for people who try to dazzle you
with big words and intellectual double-talk.
They spread their ideas through the empty TRADITIONS of human beings
and the empty
SUPERSTITIONS of SPIRIT BEINGS. That's not the way of Christ. It’s in the Book.
The Validation
Several Popes
have visited Fatima including Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II validating the Fatima
incident as authentic.
The Pope is
believed to be God’s VICAR on earth; God’s representative, BUT scripture does not support that God has a Vicar; a single representative on earth. All Believers are Ambassadors for Christ
endued with the Holy Spirit that is within us; it’s in the Book. [20]
The Statue
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart;
since 1838 and by 1850 there were over 12.000 brotherhoods in honor of “The Immaculate Heart”. I must note here that the first fanciful
descriptions of the
Lady given to the sculpture
McGlynn by Lucia
is different from the current modest statue.
A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is passed around throughout
the year from house to house for a week to the different homes like a good luck
charm. It’s adorned and placed as the center piece of
their living room and homage is paid to it or to say it another way; it is
worshipped.
The Vatican teaches that adoration of statues is similar to feeling love and
admiration for a picture of someone in your own family. God has an
opinion on this when in the Ten Commandments,
He said that we should not have any graven images;[21]
He also said that those that have graven images show they HATE GOD.[22]
God is a spirit and those who worship
Him must worship in Spirit and in truth.[23]
The
Catholic Bible omits the Second Commandment;
the part about graven images and splits up the 9th remaining commandment into two, to
make it Ten
again. Here we have the rejection of
God’s commandment in order to establish a TRADITION.[24]
Tradition
can nullify and make void the Word of God[25]…
It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.[26] It’s in the Book.
Proselytizing
I feel compelled to say this…. About 30 years ago, my
son called me and said that there was a Revelation Prophecy Seminar going
on SATURDAY
and would I like to attend. Believers
have always had a fascination with prophecy and the end times. Our whole extended family went and the very
first night we realized that and this was a recruitment tool for the Seventh Day Adventist and
this was their SABBATH DAY which they continued to point
out over and over. To this very day they
are still using this same tool to recruit membership for their Denomination.
With that said; in my BS, my Belief System, I believe the Catholic Church is using the apparitions
of the Blessed Virgin Mary as
a recruitment tool,
not only for new recruits, but to slow down the exodus of members from the
Church. Note; you must get this, the Pope’s authentication of the apparitions
do not make them true.
Come, let’s reason together;[27]
it is said that there
are MANY PATHS that lead to God. In my BS, it seems to me that there must be one
path that may be truer than the others; that’s the path that I want to
follow. We are told that there are many gods,
but in my BS,
it seems to me that there must be one
God that is higher than all the other gods; that’s the God that I choose to
seek. Everyone must work out their own
salvation with fear and trembling;[28]
this is a serious thing. What if you
follow the wrong path and worship the wrong god?
Marian Apparition (David
Hughes; the Great Marian-Catholic Apostasy)
Today through
false apparitions, the Devil has succeeded in catastrophically damaging the
Church by creating a very real spiritual
schism joined by countless numbers of Marian
Catholics. He (Satan) has effectively blocked the
spiritual power of the Church in the world, by destroying the perfect union of
the faithful with the Mystical
Body of Christ. The “perceived” fruit of
an apparition
is NO
measure of its orthodox validity. How could
anyone be deceived if there seemed to be NO fruit?
The Take Away
I
have read many, many papers on “Fatima”,
some genuinely studying the incident according
to
scripture,
others that were just downright hateful toward
the Catholic Church.
That
is certainly not my intention here. What
I have gleamed in my BS, is
that
Satan is at work trying to
destroy ALL Christians anyway
he can,
especially
through the dissemination of disinformation;
LIES
My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will
reject you from being priest for Me; (Ambassadors
for Christ)[29]
because you
have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget (to bless) your children.[30]
IT’S
IN THE BOOK
[2] 1 Timothy 2:9-10 – Women should adorn themselves modestly
professing godliness
[3] Deuteronomy 19:15 – Two or Three Witnesses to make a case -- Matthew
18:16 – Two or three witnesses is a thing established
[4]
Acts 2:38 - Each of you must repent of your sins
[5] John 14:6 – Jesus said; No one comes to the Father except through me
[6] John 5:39 – The scriptures bear witness about Jesus Christ
[7] 1 John 4:1 - Do not believe every spirit; TEST THE SPIRITS -- Deuteronomy 13:1-3 – God will test
you using FALSE Prophets --
Matthew 24:11 - Many False Prophets will
rise up and deceive many -- Matthew 7:15 - Beware
of False Prophets -- Mark
13:22 - False Prophets will perform signs and
wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
--
2 Peter 2:1 – There are False
Prophets among
the people secretly introducing DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES -- Matthew 7:16 -
You
will know them by their fruits
[8] Malachi 3:6 - I the LORD do not change
[9] 1 Samuel 28:12-14 - Scared the Tater Tots out of the WITCH
[10] 2 Corinthians 11:14 - Satan disguises as an angel of light
[11] Ecclesiastes 9:5 – The Dead know nothing and have no reward, -- Ecclesiastes 9:10 – Dead; there is no
working no planning no knowledge nor wisdom -- Psalm 115:17 – Dead cannot praise God; THEY ARE SILENT
[12] Hosea 4:6 - You have rejected My
knowledge and I reject you
[13] Romans 10:3 – Seeking to establish their own righteousness
[14] Jeremiah 7:18 - Offerings to Queen of Heaven provokes
God
[15] John 10:16 - I have other sheep which are
not of this fold
[16] Revelation 13:13-14 – Satan performs great signs & miracles,
even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,
[17] Exodus 7:10-12 – Magicians turned their staff in snakes by their incantations:
[18] Colossians 2:20 – Why do you submit to old TRADITIONS & REGULATIONS -- Colossians 2:8 – Empty TRADITIONS and empty SUPERSTITIONS
of Spirit Beings
[19] 2 Corinthians 5:7 - For we walk by faith, not by sight -- John 20:29 - Blessed are those who have not seen Jesus yet believed
[20] 2 Corinthians 5:20 – We are ALL Ambassadors for Christ.
[21] Exodus 20:4 – You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or
any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth
[22] Exodus 20:5 - Those that have graven images HATE God.
[23] John 4:24 - God is Spirit and must be
worshiped in Spirit.
[24] Mark 7:9 – God’s Commandments are rejected over the Tradition of men
[25] Mark 7:13 - Your
traditions make void the word of God
[26] Hebrews 10:30-31 – It’s fearful thing to fall into hands of God
[27] Isaiah 1:18 - Come now, and let us
reason together
[28] Phil 2:12 - Work out your salvation with fear and trembling
[29] 2 Corinthians 5:20 – We are ALL Ambassadors
for Christ.
[30] Hosea 4:6 - Because you have forgotten
THE LAW of your God, I also will forget (to
bless) your children
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