I Take Off The MASK! » apocalypse http://itakeoffthemask.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:47:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 What is the first and second resurrection? http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/what-is-the-first-and-second-resurrection/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/what-is-the-first-and-second-resurrection/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 00:51:59 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/what-is-the-first-and-second-resurrection/ [...]]]> After that He adds the words, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.”1334 As yet He does not speak of the second resurrection, that is, the resurrection of the body, which shall be in the end, but of the first, which now is. It is for the sake of making this distinction that He says, “The hour is coming, and now is.” Now this resurrection regards not the body, but the soul. For souls, too, have a death of their own in wickedness and sins, whereby they are the dead of whom the same lips say, “Suffer the dead to bury their dead,”1335—that is, let those who are dead in soul bury them that are
dead in body. It is of these dead, then—the dead in ungodliness and wickedness—that He says, “The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.” “They that hear,” that is, they who obey, believe, and persevere to the end. Here no difference is made between the good and the bad. For it is good for all men to hear His voice and live, by passing to the life of godliness from the death of ungodliness. Of this death the Apostle Paul says, “Therefore all are dead, and He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and rose again.”1336 Thus all, without one exception, were dead in sins, whether original or voluntary sins, sins of ignorance, or sins committed against knowledge; and for all the dead there died the one only person who lived, that is, who had no sin whatever, in order that they who live by the remission of their sins should
live, not to themselves, but to Him who died for all, for our sins, and rose again for our justification, that we, believing in Him who justifies the ungodly, and being justified from ungodliness or quickened from death, may be able to attain to the first resurrection which now is. For in this first resurrection none have a part save those who shall be eternally blessed; but in the second, of which He goes on to speak, all, as we shall learn, have a part, both the blessed and the wretched. The one is the resurrection of mercy, the other of judgment. And therefore it is written in the psalm, “I will sing of mercy and of judgment: unto Thee, O Lord, will I sing.”1337 And of this judgment He went on to say, “And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man.” Here He shows that He will come to judge in that flesh in which He had come to be judged. For it is to show this He says, “because He is the Son of man.” And then follow the words for our purpose: “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.”1338
This judgment He uses here in the same sense as a little before, when He says, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death to life;” i.e., by having a part in the first resurrection, by which a transition from death to life is made in this present time, he shall not come into damnation, which He mentions by the name of judgment, as also in the place where He says, “but they that have done evil unto the resurrection of judgment,” i.e., of damnation. He, therefore, who would not be damned in the second resurrection, let him rise in the first. For “the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live,” i.e., shall not come into
damnation, which is called the second death; into which death, after the second or bodily resurrection, 426 they shall be hurled who do not rise in the first or spiritual resurrection. For “the hour is coming” (but here He does not say, “and now is,” because it shall come in the end of the world in the last and greatest judgment of God) “when all that are in the graves shall hear His voice and shall come forth.” He does not say, as in the first resurrection, “And they that Hear shall live.” For all shall not live, at least with such life as ought alone to be called life because it alone is blessed. For some kind of life they must have in order to hear, and come forth from the graves in their rising bodies.
And why all shall not live He teaches in the words that follow: “They that have done good, to the resurrection of life,”—these are they who shall live; “but they that have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment,”—these are they who shall not live, for they shall die in the second death. They have done evil because their life has been evil; and their life has been evil because it has not been renewed in the first or spiritual resurrection which now is, or because they have not persevered to the end in their renewed life. As, then, there are two regenerations, of which I have already made mention,—the one according to faith, and which takes place in the present life by means of baptism; the other according to the flesh, and which shall be accomplished in its incorruption and immortality by means of the great and final judgment,—so are there also two resurrections,—the one the first and spiritual resurrection, which has place in this life, and preserves us from coming into the second death; the other the second, which does not occur now, but in the end of the world, and which is of the body, not of the soul, and which by the last judgment shall dismiss some into the second death, others into that life which has no death.

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]]> http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/what-is-the-first-and-second-resurrection/feed/ 2 The Great Tribulation – three days of darkness http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/the-great-tribulation-three-days-of-darkness/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/the-great-tribulation-three-days-of-darkness/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 06:40:22 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/the-great-tribulation-three-days-of-darkness/ [...]]]> The asteroid
called Apophis could hit the Earth in 28 years (year 2036).

Apophis, in Egptian myth, was the
ancient spirit of evil and destruction that was determined to plunge the world
into eternal darkness.

If it hits the earth and lands in
the Atlantic with a force almost equal to 100,000 Hiroshima bombs,
the effects would be catastrophic ranging from kilometre-high waves that would
destroy coastlines, vaporised seawater that falls as rain destroying
world crops, and a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies
indefinitely.

Current reports calculate
an estimate of 1 in 45,000 chance of it hitting the earth

Additional observations provided
improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or
the Moon in 2029. However there remained a possibility that during the 2029
close encounter with Earth, Apophis would pass through a gravitational keyhole,
a precise region in space no more than about 400 meters across, that would
set up a future impact on April 13, 2036.

Notice then, the similarity of the above impact to the following prophecies:

    
“Fire and smoke will fall from heaven, and the waters of the ocean
will turn to steam, throwing their foam to the very sky. Whatever is
standing will be overturned. Millions of people will die. Those surviving will
envy the dead. Distress, misery and desolation will be found the world over.
(Neues Europa, Our Lady’s message at Fatima)

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the
sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those
days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's
sake those days shall be shortened. –Matthew 24:20-22

[“Be not in the winter”, for if the skies would darken indefinitely,
would it not be very cold indeed?]

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from
heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken… -Matthew 24:29

This asteroid orbits the sun once every 323 days and has about one or
two of the 16 crossover points (with Earth) every 7 Earth years that
deserves recurrent monitoring.  Who can
avert its path if it crosses ours?  The
day the angels dread may well be on its way, and man speaks of peace, wealth
and power as though his time would never come to an end.

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]]> http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/the-great-tribulation-three-days-of-darkness/feed/ 0 To Seal the Door where Evil Dwells http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/to-seal-the-door-where-evil-dwells/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/to-seal-the-door-where-evil-dwells/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 03:44:38 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/uncategorized/to-seal-the-door-where-evil-dwells/ [...]]]> An excerpt from the "great invocation" prayer of Lucis Trust reads:

"Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells"

Would it not be better however
that before such door is sealed,
the evil that dwells therein be cast away
or better yet, vanquished
before the door is sealed?

For if it is here where evil dwells
right here among us, where we ourselves abode,
and if the door is sealed to seal such evil
such evil is trapped amongst us
and we have no way of escape as well
to escape from the evil that herein dwells

"And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent,
he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world;
 he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him."

"Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down
unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time."

-Revelations 12:9,12

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-BOOK OF ENOCH

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]]> http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/books-that-pervert-the-truth/feed/ 0 Perversion of Nature and Heavenly Bodies http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/perversion-of-nature-and-heavenly-bodies/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/perversion-of-nature-and-heavenly-bodies/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 05:12:59 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/apocalypse/perversion-of-nature-and-heavenly-bodies/ [...]]]> 2. And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter, p. 107
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3. And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4. And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5. [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening †on the extremity of the great chariot† in the west]
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6. And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed).
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7. And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
[And they shall be altered from all their ways],
Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8. And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'
-BOOK OF ENOCH

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