If you are basing your claim that we are in end times on Medjugorie then obviously your claim is fraudulent just like the visionaries at Medjugorie are fraudulent.
No it is not
based on that - that is one aspect, one piece of the puzzle.
Everything revolves around Fatima - Fatima is the definitive apparition that reveals we are in the end times (Medjugorje is a part of Fatima in many people’s opinions).
And then there is the Divine Mercy apparitions to St. Faustina in the 1930s where Jesus said Faustina, through her diary, would prepare the world for His final coming. And Blessed Mary appeared to St. Faustina too and said the day of the Second Coming has been determined, meaning it must be close:
You have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the
world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but
as a just Judge. Oh how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice,
the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this
great mercy while it is still the time for granting mercy.(Diary 635).
From website:
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/coming.htm
And then there is the great apostasy we are witnessing. (If you are less than 30, perhaps you think the way we are living, with metal detectors in schools for example - is ‘normal’, but it was not like that 40 years ago. Homosexual marriage was not even on anybody’s radar screen, nor legalized abortion, Ireland was the rock of faith but now in just a few years seems to be turning to sand before our eyes, Christian denominations are allowing gay marriage and even allowing priests and bishops to be openly gay and living with their partner - heck one Episcopalian priest divorced his wife to live with a man and was still promoted to ‘bishop’, the UN is pushing for reproductive ‘rights’ that will allow women everywhere to get abortions, the US executive branch which is supposed to support the Constitution including the Bill of Rights is supporting a case before the Supreme Court that could weaken if not remove religious freedom in this country, and rampant divorce, pre-marital sex taken as a norm, people living together and raising their children w/o bothering to get married, sexting, people walking around in nothing but body paint on our streets, fornication, pornography, and on and on. All this is happening in the Christian nations and peoples that should know better; a near complete break down of the moral social fabric. )
And then there are the physical signs including yes, larger earthquakes in odd places like the San Antonio area (4.7), Oklahoma (5.6), and Washington DC (5.9), Japan (9.0).
The Miracle of the Sun is a sign in the cosmos - a sign in the sun (there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, according to Jesus) as is the halo of the sun at Fatima on May 13, 2011.
The aurora borealis of January 25, 1938 is another sign.
Then there are the tetrad of total lunar eclipses in 1949-1950 and 1967-1968 that
occurred on Passover, Sukkot, then Passover and Sukkot - four blood moons IN A ROW occurring on those two key feast days (Passover is associated with the first coming and many believe Sukkot - the Feast of the harvest or Ingathering - is associated with the Second Coming.) Israel was born again as a nation (another sign of the end times) in 1948, and in 1967 in the Six-Day War the city of Jerusalem was completely in the hands of the Jewish people for the first time in some 2300 years (another sign of the end times).
In 2014-2015, we have the next tetrad of total lunar eclipses, occurring once again on Passover, Sukkot, Passover, Sukkot:
April 15, 2014 - Passover
October 8, 2014 - Sukkot
April 4, 2015 - Passover
September 28, 2015 - Sukkot
Note that
April 15, 2014 is almost exactly, to the day, 3 1/2 years (3 years, 5 months 29 days) before October 13, 2017, the centenary of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun.
Note that a few weeks before that date is the thirtieth anniversary of the March 25, 1984 Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary requested through the Fatima apparition.
Reflect on what Our Lady might have meant when she deliberately said, “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph”, especially the phrase
in the end.
In May, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said, “He would be mistaken who thinks Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete.”
May 13, 2010, part of the prayer by Pope Benedict at Fatima:
“May the seven years which separate us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.”
This and much more are covered by that book
A While Longer, including the meaning behind the Miracle of the Sun, the Great Tribulation and how it gets cut short, the Apostasy, the 'time. times. and a half time", Elijah, Queen Esther, plus an explanation of typology as a key tool used to understand many things in the Bible.
Now, that book, nor I, say 2017 is the end, of course, but based on all that is happening - the falling away of Christians, the persecutions of the twentieth century that continue into our times, the signs in the sun and the moon, the odd earthquakes (OK. and DC) and megaquakes (Japan, Chile), the approach of the centenary of the Fatima anniversary as we await the long-anticipated Triumph, what was said to St. Faustina about preparing the world for the final coming, and that the day is determined for the Second Coming - surely we are in the end times.
And we are called to convert - to return to God - and we are told to do so now, that it is urgent that we do it now. Why the urgency?
God bless you.
…We in Christ…have nothing to fear!