Bob:
Thanks for the post, and I know this must be difficult for you.
I would think that your father would be comforted in some way,(if it were possible) that his predictions
did not come true, which gives me another possible.
Consider.
Suppose he gets permission to deliver a message that outwardly has the intent of discouragement, since anyone there can’t do anything unless allowed by a higher demon in the command structure(Aquinas). There would be a limit on how he can get a message across in this way.
He uses a bit of “Brare Rabbit” or reverse psychology, assuming mind reading is not done or doing so would be irrelevant. The demons can’t resist the offer and let him go. The result is where you are now in your Faith and the exact opposite of what the demons expected. You now* know* there is a God.
All things considered, I would make an exception. Seems to me he is worthy of an appeal and devotional prayer even though it dogmatically seems futile to do so. But you are allowed all the same. The Rosary is the answer to counter anything demonic and to make first rate contact with Christ.
Remember though that you are never to invoke his presence(St. John of the Cross,
Ascent of Mount Carmel), as that would be disastrous for you.
I think all this is good fortune.
But I also think that this private revelation is a heads up and you will held more accountable on how you direct your life from now on.
Andy
I suppose I can make an appeal. I go to a Catholic psychiatrist a couple of times a year (only psychotherapy now, or jaw-boning to put it simply). He’s pretty switches on spiritually, and made the point that if people are in purgatory, there’s usually some sort of spiritual reminder to somebody. If someone is in hell however, all contact seems to be cut off, and it’s final. No one shes any tears for Adolf Hitler for example, or feels they ought to pray for him, although the Mormons have their absurd belief he can be saved.
On the other hand I think Mary indicated a lot of people are in hell because they’ve got nobody to pray for them. But how do you pray for people you don’t even know, and who could have been dead for 500 years?
Obviously I’ve thought a fair bit about the whole proceedings, and one of the first questions that occurred is whether it was a demonic counterfeit, or demonically inspired. Bear in mind however that truth can be discouraging. If God turned up tomorrow and said that in a week’s time He was going to cause massive destruction from one end of the earth to the other as a judgment, His statement would be both truthful and discouraging.
I cannot see anything encouraging about Mary’s comment at Akita that if we didn’t repent and turn around, we “have no idea what is being prepared for you”, or her warning at Fatima that a “worse war” would break out if we didn’t change (and it did).
I think it was my father who appeared. Hard on the heels of the his appearance there was however a second “appearance” and I think that one was demonic.
Since two of his predictions have turned out correctly so far ie. my meeting the discouraging pastor (around October 1982), and the Moslems flying a couple of planes into a couple of buildings (9/11), then what are the odds of the others happening? Will they not happen, or is it simply the case they haven’t happened**
yet?**
The old pastor whom he predicted I’d meet was also prophetic. He predicted the second Gulf War; the massacre at Port Arthur (Australian massacre in 1996); that I’d be doing a cleaning job, wouldn’t do it for long, but that the Lord “would just want me to hear about a ghost” (despite the strangeness, that happened in 2006, when I was being shown a building in Ipswich west of Brisbane which had to be cleaned. There’d been a suicide there in the 1960’s.); the future prime ministership of a certain Australian politician; that I’d become a Catholic (1996 or 97); a conspiracy against me that would cost me my job in a certain government department, partly involving a certain Presbyterian person; his own eldest son would have a serious health issue (he had a stroke in 1996 or 97 and hasn’t worked since) and that my own sister would not live very long (she died of leukaemia in 2005).
Yet he himself died in 1992. It was his wisdom and prophetic insights that made me admire him so much (“you’ll think he’s great” was the term my father used).
He also felt Catholics tended to soft-pedal judgment, and I’ve had a number of people on this site try to tell me there’s hope for my father. Maybe there is, but the scream I witnessed on the night he died seems to indicate otherwise.
I think the main thrust is that there’s a lot of trouble coming. I think God might be getting fed up with us.
The pastor also thought God was “doing something to the sun”. If He is, it won’t be for our benefit.
